White liberals have succeeded in brainwashing Americans into ignorance. White liberals have been so successful that schools are dedicated to erasing history instead of teaching it. For example, South Orange New Jersey has ridded itself of association with Thomas Jefferson by renaming Jefferson Elementary school Delia Bolden Elementary School in honor of the first black woman from that area to graduate from high school. According to the school, both the students and faculty led the fight to disassociate from Thomas Jefferson. School board member Qawi Telesford said the reason is that Jefferson owned slaves.

Jefferson owned slaves because slaves comprised the agricultural labor force of his time. Slavery was an inherited institution. It was established in territory that later became the United States long before Jefferson was born and long before the United States existed or was even a thought in someone’s mind.

There was nothing Thomas Jefferson or anyone else could have done about it. Turn them loose, you say. Examine what you are saying. 18th century slave owners, such as Jefferson, were not responsible for slavery. It was the existing labor institution into which they were born. Economists will tell you that the price of a slave was the present value of his lifetime wages. Having paid these wages in the slave’s price, how were agricultural producers to pay it a second time by freeing slaves and then hiring them back as workers?

If the US then had the high revenues or money creating capability of today, the government could have compensated owners for the value of the slaves, thus providing a bucket of money for wages with which to reemploy the slaves. Without compensation, the plantations would be confiscated of a work force and without a work force would have to close down. The freed slaves would have no means of subsistence. It is likely that the cost of what is called incorrectly a “civil war” greatly exceeded the cost of compensating slave owners. But, of course, the war was not about slavery. It was about forcing the South to pay the tariff on which the development of Northern industry depended. As President Lincoln said, the South can have slavery forever if they consent to staying in the Union and paying the tariff.

As a result of the takeover of education by ideologues, the level of ignorance in the US is so high that people actually believe that slave owners enslaved the blacks. That is not the case. The blacks arrived in what later became the US already enslaved. They were enslaved by the black king of Dahomey, whose successful slave wars fed captured blacks into the slave trade.

White people did not enslave blacks. They purchased blacks already enslaved by other blacks. They purchased blacks, because that was the available labor force, not because white people were racist. There were just as many white slaves, if not more, held by Muslims at the time.

Paul Craig Roberts

It’s not a “Justice Department.” It’s a bunch of mobsters, tyrants and politicized police forces (think Gestapo, KGB) run amok; and the whole outcome involving Trump is rigged. The broader issue here: America is an occupied country. We are IN a civil war. The DemComs know it. Their victims — you and I — do not WANT to know it. The truth seems too awful to face, and the psyches of good people must absorb the horrifying truth incrementally. When they arrest Trump — and it’s GOING to happen — perhaps more patriots will wake up.

America, in all its history, was never occupied by its enemies, such as the Nazis, the imperial Japanese, or the Soviets. We always defeated them first. For the first time, our military and government apparatus is under the control of people openly hostile to our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our system of capitalism, and they stand ready to crush ALL of our freedom. Prayer and sentimental wishes will not save us. We are in a war and have been attacked as decisively as a 9/11 or a Pearl Harbor. The leftists who operate as “Democrats” are at least as bad and may ultimately prove worse than any of America’s prior enemies. Watch and judge this for yourself.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Gorbachev was not a freedom-lover; he was a Communist. Yet even he would be too right wing for today’s “Democrats.”

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

If you support “Democrats” you support hate, intolerance, envy, injustice, censorship, barbarism, stagnation and even starvation.

If you support these people, something is wrong with you. Not just in your thinking — but in your character. If you are part of the 35 percent or so (based on polls) of those who supposedly still support Biden, then either you’re on the government dole and feel like you’re set for life; or you have tons of money — perhaps earned, perhaps not — and you feel like you’re buffered against inflation, IRS agents, FBI raids and all the rest.

Either way, I consider you something akin to scum if you support not just Biden, but any of these people.

You don’t have to love Trump, and you don’t have to love Republicans.

But if you hate freedom then something is wrong with you. Capitalism refers to economic freedom. If you don’t support economic freedom, something is wrong with you. If you made money off of economic freedom, but now you don’t want others to have the same right, something is deeply wrong with you. If you are OK with censorship of people whose views you dislike, while you still expect freedom of thought and speech for yourself, something is deeply wrong with you. Morally.

You cannot support the out-in-the-open destruction of the greatest economy, the greatest republic and the greatest implementation of individual rights in the history of man … and still get to think of yourself as even a minimally decent person. I don’t buy it. You have access to alternate ideas. You have WAY more access to alternate forms of thinking than the people who supported Nazi Germany in its early days did. Yet you choose the obvious bad guys. That’s on you.

You cannot pretend it isn’t happening because it doesn’t affect you directly (yet), but hold yourself out as morally superior because you’re a “Democrat” which, in both theory and practice, now means a Communist-fascist hybrid.

You cannot stand by and not only watch this destruction — much less applaud it — without having reasonable people think of you as exactly what you are: moral scum.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Medicalizing mental health was a tragic error.

It falsely taught people that emotions are solely the result of physical factors — i.e., brain chemistry.

With regard to your psyche, your character and your soul, the psychiatric industry turns you into a ward of the pharmaceutical industry — or a ward of the State. In the post-COVID world, most of us can now see that’s pretty much the same thing.

In reality, emotions are the result of a long accumulation of choices, ideas, assumptions, hidden premises, values and so many other things.

Yes, we are brain chemistry. But we are so much more. And to date, science has refused to investigate how our choices and ideas determine our brain chemistry. Instead, “science” assumes that brain chemistry determines all thoughts, choices and behavior. This premise is never questioned, never explored, never investigated. In psychiatry, “follow the science” means “follow the drug companies.” And also follow the government, who funds most of the research, is beholden to drug comanies, who now controls most of medical care (through Medicare and Medicaid), and therefore now controls most of the doctors who administer it.

If you’re looking for a reason not to have to work for your mental health, then the psychiatric industry is there, waiting for you. Nobody challenges or questions them, even though most of the time their solutions are (at best) insufficient and (at worst) harmful. But when nobody questions you, nothing will ever change. And to many, the alternative is unspeakable: “I shape myself? I have the power, but also the responsibility, for reshaping my emotions, my values, my character?”

Not a chance, is how many people feel. So the band plays on.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason