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April 15 Provides A Wonderful Lesson On How Government Conditioned Americans To Tyranny

Paul Craig Roberts

Americans have become so accustomed to living under tyranny that they are probably incapable of recognizing tyranny.  Once upon a time, April 15 was the annual day of infamy.  It was the day you had to pay your income taxes. 

Americans have been subjected to a tax on their working lives for less than half of their existence as a free people, or, to correct myself, as a former free people.  With the gradual long-term demise of American education, helped along by the US Department of Education, the content of what Americans know has dramatically changed.  Once they knew who they are and the principles on which their liberty rested.  Today they know how to play video games, write software for programs that regulate their lives from instructions their cars give them to how the NSA and businesses spy on them. They know movie trivia, the affairs of celebrities, the standings of their college football teams, their golf scores, and the expense of their wives’ remodeling of kitchens and baths.  

But they don’t know much else, except the Democrats know that Trump is evil. And America and white people are racist and evil. And there are many genders.  And illegal immigrant-invaders have the same, or greater, rights as American citizens.  Just ask any Democrat federal district judge.  And still  Americans vote for Democrats.  In other words, the question is:  Are the American people capable of self-government?

The historical definition of a free person was a person who owned his own labor.  Historically most people were not free.  They were either slaves of serfs.........more..........