Dr. Tom Woods has taken the time to talk about unpopular thoughts and ideas.
If I censored myself instead of saying something that might be unpopular, I wouldn’t be worth a whole lot.
So, here goes.
“I stand with Ukraine,” everyone said in unison in February 2022.
It was simply stunning to see such a great percentage of Americans adopting this position. Ukraine was and still is one of the most corrupt governments on the planet. The Maiden coup, engineered by the US to remove the democratically elected President of Ukraine, happened less than 8 years before. Joe Biden boasted about controlling the internal justice system in Ukraine after that. However, the public had to be all in against the evil Russian empire.
They hadn’t said, “I stand with Yemen,” where the greatest humanitarian disaster in the world had been taking place, because the people who form their opinions for them hadn’t particularly wanted them to, and they themselves didn’t bother to find out about it.
But when all the powerful people demand they say something? Doggone it, whatever it is, they’ll say it!
Polling data shows a close correlation between people’s opinions on Ukraine and their opinions on Covid, even though the two issues have nothing to do with each other.
Except one thing.
In both cases, the official opinion molders took one side, and dissident voices were portrayed as evil.
And human beings are readily tempted into going along with whatever the influential and powerful say and do. (If you went to high school, you will recognize this phenomenon.)
In short, there are tens of millions of Americans who, whatever they’ve been told to say when confronted with dissident arguments, will say it.
The result is that we live in an unserious society, in which it is impossible to discuss anything important. Challenge any aspect of the CIA’s perspective on Russia and Ukraine and you’re a “Putin lover” or you’re repeating “Russian talking points” – or, worse still, the dreaded “Russian disinformation.”
Of course, these emotional responses are designed to shut down discussion about the facts involved. It is the standard approach of the narrative spinners when confronted with the truth. The fact that Russia was clearly winning the confrontation in Ukraine could not be allowed to seep out into the public consciousness. The fact that Zelenskyy is a corrupt dictator controlled by the US and Western Europe is also another truth that had to be suppressed.
On the Tom Woods Show I spoke in 2022 to Pierre Kory, a physician who was aghast at the official Covid response – which, as you know, was almost defiantly unscientific and self-contradictory. He couldn’t believe the utter lack of curiosity among his colleagues.
Well, that episode in history did something to him. He realized: if the New York Times publishes scientific nonsense in a subject area where I’m an expert and I can recognize it, in what other areas, where I am not an expert, has it been misleading me?
So he further concluded: I’m not changing my social media avatar to whatever the symbol of The Current Thing is ever again, unless I see overwhelming evidence that The Current Thing is legitimate. I refuse to be a lemming. I have too much self-respect for that.
I think a lot of us have reached that point.
I agree with Dr. Woods. Looking at the Trump “indictment” leads one to understand that more and more people are waking up. Instead of reducing Trump’s support, it has caused it to surge as people recognize that the narrative being spun out of whole cloth is just that. False.
It’s, of course, not metaphysically impossible that the American establishment – a group of profoundly unimpressive people – could get something right. It’s just highly, highly unlikely. And I’m likewise not saying that no one could have an honorable disagreement with me on this issue.
What I am saying is, the treatment of the issue has been cartoonish, and Americans could stand to hear a bit more context.
It’s as if everything said by every official outlet is distorted, mistaken, or simply made up. Russia was depicted as a backwards country still depending on WW II weaponry. That fantasy has been destroyed on the ground in Ukraine. But it is still downright astonishing the outright falsehoods that so many so-called educated people believe.
Progressivism has been wrong in every single particular in every area of importance to the well-being of free people, and yet it dominates every major institution. History did not begin five minutes ago although the leftist extremists would like you to believe so.
It is time to push back and say “Enough!”