by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

Occasionally, I am asked why I am so down on Americans, calling them insouciant and dumbshits.  The answer is that they do nothing about the erosion of their liberty and the erosion of the Constitution that protects their liberty.   Less than 1 percent of the American population acts in defense of our liberty, and they are punished for it.

“Our” government, acting not for us but for the ruling elite, conducts an operation against us–9/11 for example, or the “Covid pandemic,” and blames it on a few Saudi Arabians who somehow outwitted the entire American National Security State and brought the greatest humiliation to a superpower in world history, or on the sale of bat meat in a Chinese market, and the American population buys such obviously false stories.