Any opportunity to disestablish tyrannical American government is now long past. Most Americans today have made it clear that they are perfectly comfortable with a tyrannical government so long as it papers over its tyranny with enough do-gooder slogans including the word “help” and does not deprive them of their toys and amusements (TV, rock music, movies, porn, sports, alcohol, and loud cars).    

ALAN writes:

It is remarkable to consider how seldom over the span of my life I have seen or heard any mention in the mass communications industry of Fabianism or Fabian change agents.  People who imagine themselves to be the best-informed people in the world remain astoundingly ignorant of those who have been working quietly for more than a hundred years to convert the USA into a Communist nation. In the 1940s, journalist John T. Flynn named the Fabians as more dangerous than the Communists to Americans’ liberty and rights.

In 1966, Rose Martin wrote:

“….Fabian Socialism has now adapted itself comfortably to a high speed age and attempts to lead the Free World with unprecedented velocity towards a financial, military, and moral breakdown, of which World Communism is the only logical beneficiary.  …. the parent Fabian Society of London is today what it has always been: a revolutionary secret society, behind a beguiling false front of benevolence and learning….

“…the goals of the Fabian Society parallel those of the Communists….

“Just as a majority of citizens in the later Roman Empire never realized the Empire had fallen, because the outward forms of imperial government persisted several centuries longer; so the peoples of the so-called Free World are not to be made aware that their world is becoming progressively less free….”

(Rose Martin, Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A., 1884-1966, Heritage Foundation, 1966, pp. ix, 92, 445)

That part about “a financial, military, and moral breakdown” should ring a bell with anyone who has been paying attention in recent years.

The last part of her last sentence is notable today because Americans are now aware that “their world is becoming progressively less free” but for the most part remain silent about that or agree to accommodate themselves to it, as if it were a circumstance imposed by Mother Nature instead of the consequence of diabolical choices made by many evil men.

When speaking at a dinner of the YMCA in St. Louis in 1976, Dr. Max Rafferty said:

“Today, I am measurably less free than I was 50 years ago as a child.  I have watched a number of my freedoms go down the drain, and with them certain basic rights which every generation of Americans up to that time had always taken for granted.  ….The underlying rationale behind all those encroachments on my personal freedom is that someone — usually in Washington — is all-wise and all-knowledgeable and knows what’s good for me better than I do. I deny this. More, I think the mere idea of such a thing is sheer jackassery.  …. We must stop asking our government to protect our future, find us jobs, entertain us, feed us, or do anything at all except enforce the laws and keep the peace ….”

(Quoted in Robert Koenig, “Rafferty assails government,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 24, 1976, p. 5A.)

Thirty-four years later, Lawrence Auster wrote:

“For the first time in my life, I feel that I am not a free person, and that we are not a free people.  When I say that we are not free, I obviously do not mean that we cannot (at least for the moment) say what we want and do what we want and go where we want.  I mean that we are no longer living under a constitutional representative government, flawed and overreaching and swollen to gargantuan size though it may be; we are living under a lawless regime of power holders who are hostile to us and ruthlessly seek greater and greater control over us…..”

(Lawrence Auster, “What Has Happened To Us?,” View from the Right, March 27, 2010.)

Those men did not live to see the full flowering of The Welfare State, The Feminist State, and The Therapeutic State.  Nor did they see the rise to power of unelected and unaccountable apparatchiks like Fauci and Walensky or tyrants like Schwab and Gates, or the worldwide coup d’état of all traditional limitations on government power and the simultaneous erasing of individual rights and political liberty.

Only ten years after Mr. Auster wrote the words quoted above, Americans could no longer say what they want (“hate speech” laws often prohibit such) or do what they want (must close down their businesses on COVID pretext) or go where they want (travel restricted on COVID pretext).  These are only a few examples of the handiwork of that “lawless regime of power holders” that he identified with pinpoint precision but that now has expanded to include a large number of tyrannical governments that make Napoleon look like small potatoes.

What Dr. Rafferty described in the last sentence of his remarks quoted above is essentially The Night Watchman State, whose powers are severely limited to the few proper functions of government. Americans pay lip service to words like “freedom” and “rights” but they prove by default that they are more comfortable by far with Government-qua-Do-Gooder than with Government-qua-Night Watchman.

It is remarkable to note how few of them over the past fifty years did or said anything to oppose the growth and expansion of Mommy and Daddy Government, accomplished incrementally by the Fabians (among others), the very antithesis of The Night Watchman State.

Any opportunity to disestablish tyrannical American government is now long past. Most Americans today have made it clear that they are perfectly comfortable with a tyrannical government so long as it papers over its tyranny with enough do-gooder slogans including the word “help” and does not deprive them of their toys and amusements (TV, rock music, movies, porn, sports, alcohol, and loud cars).

Power works only two ways:  (A) Citizens may control their government, or (B) they may permit their government to control them.  Modern Americans overwhelmingly have chosen (B), which means that they will be tyrannized and infantilized alternately for as far as we can see into the future.  It is, I suggest, a fate most of them richly deserve.

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