America today, compared to the America I grew up in 
Paul Craig Roberts

My America no longer exists. What has taken its place?

Judges, prosecutors, and law professors who define justice in terms of ideological agendas and who are hostile to the US Constitution because it gets in the way of their agendas.

Jurors so brainwashed, indoctrinated, and compliant with authorities that only 3% of defendants will risk a jury trial. It is safer to self-incriminate. No one trusts a trial by their peers, who in fact are operatives for the authorities.

A population so insouciant that it has no idea that nuclear war could break out at any moment and no idea that “their government” is pushing for such an outcome.

Public schools, financed by parents, that are determined to take away the parents’ children. In effect the parents are financing their own causes of grief, such as their kids being taught transgenderism and critical race theory.

Public officials, House, Senate, President, Governors, regulators, state legislators, city councils that are so compromised by campaign contributions that they cannot represent the people and the public interest, only the interests of the political campaign contributors. A US Supreme Court legalized the purchase of the US government by private interests.

An establishment attack with universities, media, and Hollywood involved on American heroes, such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee as “racists.”

A country in which students must be protected from the literature and art of their civilization because it is “racist.” Today in America it is possible to have a handful of Ph.D. degrees and to know nothing of your country’s past except that it is racist, evil, and exploitative. Shakespeare is demonized as racist and anti-semitic. No one dare read him and learn from his use of the English language, another racist creation.

A formerly merit-based society is being reconstructed because it prevents “equity.” Kurt Vonnegut predicted that it would be 2081 before we were all made equal by imposed implements to suppress above average capabilities, but this result has already been achieved by law. All whites are weighted down by their skin color in competition for university admission, employment, and promotion including the military, where they have been sidelined while “equity” is pursued. https://genius.com/Kurt-vonnegut-harrison-bergeron-annotated 

Christian evangelicals who reject Christ, worship Israel, and support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. 

The feminist destruction of the relations between men and women. Husbands can no longer trust wives who have been trained by feminists to see men as questionable.

The chastity of women has given way to women boasting of their 150 sexual partners and confessing that their 12 year old daughters are on birth control pills.

The inability to express truth because truth is “offensive.”

The inability to see Satan’s grasp because they are too sophisticated to believe in good and evil. 

Readers can add to this list on their own.

The obvious conclusion is that there is nothing left of America. As Western civilization has been exterminated, I wonder why I continue to defend what no longer exists.

It only takes one more dumbshit decision from Washington, and none of us will exist.

And in Superpower America there is no awareness of this danger.

Hon. Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. A former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service, he is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles and a columnist for Investor's Business Daily. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists.

He was Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During 1981-82 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy.

In 1987 the French government recognized him as "the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism" and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.

Dr. Roberts' latest books are The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with IPE Fellow Lawrence Stratton, and published by Prima Publishing in May 2000, and Chile: Two Visions - The Allende-Pinochet Era, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen Araujo, and published in Spanish by Universidad Nacional Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, in November 2000. The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen LaFollette Araujo, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. A Spanish language edition was published by Oxford in 1999. The New Colorline: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, was published by Regnery in 1995. A paperback edition was published in 1997. Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, co-authored with Karen LaFollette, was published by the Cato Institute in 1990. Harvard University Press published his book, The Supply-Side Revolution, in 1984. Widely reviewed and favorably received, the book was praised by Forbes as "a timely masterpiece that will have real impact on economic thinking in the years ahead." Dr. Roberts is the author of Alienation and the Soviet Economy, published in 1971 and republished in 1990. He is the author of Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis, published in 1973 and republished in 1983. A Spanish language edition was published in 1974.

Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments. He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Finance Quarterly, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Harper's, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.

Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College.

He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The Dictionary of International Biography, Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, and 1000 Leaders of World Influence. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached at: [email protected]

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