One of the great things about the Internet Age is the opportunity to discover the words and ideas of people who don’t have publishing contracts or university tenures.  Usually written anonymously or under online handles, there is genius lurking everywhere (even in the comment sections of these articles).

One such jewel caught my eye recently: “Imagine a government operated so poorly they had to import an entire nation of new voters because they lost the citizen vote.”  Another argued, “If your country has enough money to give to other countries, your taxes are too high.”  If our celebrity intellectuals were as pithy as some of the unknown writers who drop pearls across the Internet, critical thinking skills would return to America in no time.

Both those observations above masterfully capture our predicament, don’t they?  Now that the USAID scandal has pierced the public’s consciousness, people from all walks of life are admitting that the U.S. government is little more than a money laundering operation for political and financial elites.  Congress creates spending bills that award trillions of dollars to bureaucratic agencies, “non-governmental” organizations, and foreign governments.  Agency employees take their cut, promise fidelity to the federal Leviathan, and allocate the rest to well-connected private businesses and third parties.  The NGOs take their cut, bribe voters and special interest groups, and advocate on behalf of the government and wealthy political donors.  Foreign governments take their cut, hand over their countries’ natural resources to multinational conglomerates, and start or manage wars that benefit the military-industrial complex.  

Spending bills include funds for NPR, PBS, and countless other state-funded propaganda organs — both inside and outside of the U.S. — so that an army of liars exists to parrot the federal government’s preferred “narratives.”  These “narratives” are monetized to enrich corporate firms and further empower central banks.  Endless stories about “climate change” justify new carbon taxes, central bank digital currencies, and the nationalization of entire industries.  Endless stories about why Americans should fight and die for a........

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