Dr. Tom Woods has provided us with another valuable insight into the current madness that engulfs the “democratically-elected” governments in the Western world. Tom’s vehicle for enlightening us includes Christine Anderson, an outspoken member of the European Union Parliament and Jack McManus, a former president of the John Burch Society.
Dr. Woods:
Every once in a while someone comes along and says what needs to be said — and then the question is whether people are listening, or indeed whether they’re ready to hear.
I wonder how many people who read what I write are familiar with Christine Anderson, a member of the European Parliament.
You should be, because here’s what she just said:
For God’s sake, stop giving your democratically elected governments the benefit of the doubt. They are not deserving of that. They are not. Stop rationalizing whatever your government is doing. Stop rationalizing and coming up with some good intentions. They have no good intentions. Never.
As I said before, in the entire history of mankind, there has never been a political elite concerned about the well-being of regular people. And it isn’t any different now. Why should it? Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt? Because I can tell you, you cannot comply your way out of a tyranny. It is impossible trying to do so. You will only feed a gigantic alligator in the hopes of being eaten last. But guess what? Your turn will come. And then you will be the one swallowed up.
I also have to ask the people about your silence. Speak up. For God’s sake, stop complying. Start rebelling. They’re out to get you. If you do not resist, I would also urge you to stop voting for those who inflict this psychological abuse on you, who mock you for their own good.
In order to deal with this unfree world, to defy this unfree world, I have decided to become so absolutely free that my very existence is an act of rebellion. And that’s what we all need to do.
Even I, dear reader, skeptical as I am of officialdom, would have found this hard to hear at one point in my life. I thought I was dealing with people who for some reason just didn’t understand economics, and whose policies had “unintended consequences” that “hurt the very people they were intended to help.”
It’s just not possible to defend that naive view anymore.
For many years I’ve been friends with John (“Jack”) McManus, who is now 88 years old but who used to be president of the John Birch Society (JBS). (I remind my readers that Ludwig von Mises sat on the editorial board of the Society’s magazine.)
I like Jack personally and he is an extremely decent person, but I’ve always told him I just can’t follow the JBS in some of its conclusions.
His response to me was along these lines:
Tom, if it weren’t a conspiracy to do evil, wouldn’t they occasionally do the right thing, at least by accident? If they were really a bunch of dolts, wouldn’t they accidentally stumble upon the right thing to do once in a while?
But they don’t. It’s one awful thing after another. What does that tell you?
These days I find myself with more questions than answers, to tell you the truth.
But here’s one thing I know:
There is zero chance that people like this will educate children in anything other than pro-regime propaganda.
We need to take the education of our children back from the communists who would enslave us. There is no better time than right now.