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Most of the news stories and much of my Twitter feed is focused on informing me about conditions in Afghanistan.
That's all well and good. It's a major news story. I discussed it on episode 1952 of the Tom Woods Show.
But in terms of my day-to-day commentary, I guess I'm alone in this: Biden's urging companies to fire Americans for being unvaccinated no matter what the reason and entertaining the idea of making interstate travel dependent on vaccination status seems far more sinister than whatever happens on the other side of the world.
Evidently Rebecca Lau, chair of the Manhattan Libertarian Party and executive assistant to John Stossel, has said, "My opinion is that the unvaccinated should die":
That this kind of thing is being routinely said in our own country is of vastly more long-term significance than anything else right now.
Sometimes the problem isn't what's being said, but what's going unsaid.
For example: remember the American Civil Liberties Union? I had a little fun with them on Twitter by posting the following:
"Hey, ACLU, your string of outraged Tweets about the encroachments on American liberty occurring via vaccine passport systems must have been deleted by mistake, because I can't see a single word about it in your feed."
They're not completely inactive on COVID-related things: they are taking action to try to get mask mandates brought back in South Carolina. That, apparently, is a "civil liberty."
It's all too much to take sometimes.
But we have to keep on.
Remember what Solzhenitsyn said:
"I understand, I sense that you're tired. But you have not yet really suffered the terrible trials of the 20th century which have rained down on the old continent.... You're tired, but the Communists who want to destroy your system are not; they're not tired at all."
On episode #1960 of the Tom Woods Show, coming out later today, we talk about ways to resist.
And I remind my audience about the instructive example of homeschooling. We didn't have to destroy the public education system. We just went around it.
Yes, massive institutions oppose us. And it seems hopeless to shut them down. But we don't always have to. We can make end runs around them.
For instance, there's nothing I can do about the fact that the history and economics departments at major universities teach destructive nonsense.
But I can create my own dashboard university that teaches the truth. Before there was a K-12 Ron Paul Curriculum for homeschoolers, I created Liberty Classroom for adult enrichment, for anyone who (like most of us) had been victims of educational malpractice.
All is not lost, folks. We can build around them.
Enjoy:
http://www.LibertyClassroom.com
Tom Woods
