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The Frustration of Ingrained Lies in Historical Explanations

Paul Craig Roberts

From time to time readers ask what it is like trying to communicate with people in an era of mass disinformation.  There are a few individual voices, as often as not censored and under attack, against which the TV and print media and the establishment’s Internet sites are arrayed. It is frustrating, especially as so many people are content with a few minutes of managed news headlines.  The insouciance in the population is massive.

Perhaps an even greater frustration is how ingrained falsehood is in people’s consciousness, including that of conservatives.  Consider, for example, Imprimis, a monthly newsletter usually featuring one article published by Hillsdale College, a conservative educational institution where it is still possible to acquire an education.  

Imprimis claims 6,200,000 readers and usually presents a reasoned and informed article that encourages thought.  But often even these articles sometimes contain historical lies.

For example, Harmeet Dhillon, CEO of the Center for American Liberty writes about “The Politicization of the Department of Justice” in the August 2022 issue of Imprimis. She makes her case and leaves us with the frightening fact that the US Department of Justice is a powerful force misusing law to destroy the civil liberty guaranteed by the US Constitution.

She makes the important point that 9/11 was used “to attack ourselves” with the Patriot Act that inaugurated an era of government spying, illegally and unconstitutionally, on citizens and weaponizing information against those Americans regarded as “political enemies. ”......more...........