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The Government Also Taught Us to Lie

Paul Craig Roberts

Yesterday I wrote about how the government taught us to steal.

Today the lesson is the government taught us to lie.

Can any reader identify one issue of consequence about which the government told us the truth?

World War I?  World War II?  The Korean War?  The Vietnam War?  The assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Senator Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King?  9/11?  The war in Afghanistan?  The Iraq War?  The destruction of Libya?  Assad’s use of chemical weapons?  Covid?  The Covid “vaccines”?  Ukraine?

Readers will find it easier to add to this list than to find one instance of the government telling the truth.

Yet, despite government’s 100% lie record, people always fall for the next lie, and by the time they catch on that they again have been played for suckers, the government has moved on.

It is very difficult to correct the lies.  History books, historical novels, and movies preserve them.  Professors protect their human capital by holding on to them.  It is much easier to give the same lectures every year than to prepare new ones.  And the human mind protects the lies.  What people were taught many still regard as truth and they defend the “truth” as taught to them from the real truth that usually takes a generation or several to become established.  By the time the real truth is known, most everyone involved at the time is dead, and the newer generations don’t understand its relevance.

American democracy itself has become a lie.  Democracy is based on self-rule via elected representatives.  But the representatives are not only dependent on votes but also on campaign contributions, and these mainly come from organized interest groups who purchase the representative’s election for him by paying the advertising bills and various fixes.  The representative  owes his position to the few who financed it, and his loyalty is to them.  He does what he can for his constituents, but never at the expense of the interests of the groups that finance him.

Not long ago the Supreme Court ruled that campaign contributions are a First Amendment right and that interest groups have the constitutional right to purchase the government which ends up serving their interest rather than the people’s.  As long as this system remains in place, it is impossible for American democracy to represent the people.  .......more........