by Paul Craig Roberts
October 15, 2025 - In the 20th Century, the difference between Republicans and Democrats was between a Party that wants citizens rewarded on merit and a Party that wants citizens rewarded based on needs. It was Democrats who gave the needy property rights, sometimes called entitlements, via taxation, rent control, and other redistributive methods in the incomes of taxpayers.
The needy and their needs expanded rapidly, necessitating further violations of constitutionally protected property rights. Today an Amerikan making $300,000 annually pays one-third of his income in federal income taxes on top of which are added state income taxes, sales and excise taxes, taxes on services such as electricity and telephone, and property taxes to pay for the education of other peoples’ children. Today a middle class Amerikan, the few who still remain, faces a larger claim on his income than Feudal lords had on the labor of serfs. Until the Reagan tax rate reduction, rich Amerikans had a smaller claim to the products of their labor than 19th Century slaves on a cotton plantation. On many occasions I have pointed out in an April 15 column that Amerikans think of themselves as free, but in fact have no more claim to their labor than Feudal serfs and 19th Century slaves. As the historical definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor, free people no longer exist in any country with an income tax.
The consequence of coercively redistributing property rights to the needy is that every “free democratic” Western society is a “welfare” society, a curious term as Western societies are not very well. Indeed, the rights of the needy now include the rights of illegal invaders to enter a Western society and be maintained at the expense of the taxpaying citizens. Oregon, for example, spends more of taxpayers’ money providing free health care to (illegal) invaders who are not citizens than it spends on the state police. (Illegal) invaders have acquired the de facto right to rape ethnic British and Swedish girls and to have charges against them for rape dismissed as race-based hate crimes. Currently, in the (Fascist Police States of Amerika), Democrat mayors and governors are in active insurrection against the government of the (FPSA) by blocking the deportation of illegal invaders, but the policy of not distinguishing between citizens and illegal invaders is now so entrenched that the Democrats are not arrested for insurrection.
There is no prospect of Amerika or any Western country having a political Party committed to resurrecting a free people as historically defined. At any given time, our property rights are restricted to what has not yet been assigned to others. Our residual rights to our own labor will continue to diminish until the needy’s needs exceed in amount the incomes of the productive.
When I say Amerikans need a political Party that serves them, I mean only in a limited sense. Let’s begin by asking who Democrats and Republicans serve. Both Parties serve the donors of their political campaign funds. The (FPSA) Supreme Court has given permission to organized lobbies to purchase the (FPSA) government via campaign contributions. There are a large number of these lobbies: Big Pharma, the military/security complex, and so forth. It is not unusual for the lobbies to purchase members of both Parties. Once in office, “our” elected representatives serve Big Pharma, the military/security complex and the rest. Nothing can be done about this until the Supreme Court ruling is overturned and money is taken out of politics.
So far, I have been dealing with material interests. There are other kinds of interests, such as philosophical interests. For example, the differing views Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had of government and its role. There are ideological/religious interests.
Today the Democrat Party, once a Party that represented the working class against the Republican Party that represented business, has become an ideological Party whose agenda is a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel. The Democrats have been convinced by critical race theory and aversive racism that white ethnicities are racist against people of color and historically have subjected them to exploitation and abuse. The New York Time’s 1619 Project exemplifies the belief that Amerika was founded on racism, not on freedom.
To make amends to people who never were slaves at the expense of people who never owned slaves, for the last 60 years white Amerikans, especially heterosexual males, in violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection of law, have been subjected to discrimination in university admissions, employment and promotion. This blatant violation of the (FPSA) Constitution is termed euphemistically “Affirmative Action,” a federal policy created not by legislation but by one man, a Jew named Alfred Blumrosen at the EEOC. That is all it took to override the (FPSA) Constitution’s requirement of equal protection and the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition of racial quotas.
The illegal racial privileges created by Blumrosen expanded into the DEI ideology that characterizes a merit-based system and merit-based education as racist. One consequence has been that the STEM-based special high schools, whose graduates were better prepared in math and science than university graduates, had to reduce their standards in order to enroll unqualified candidates. In other words, the Democrats destroyed the schools in the name of DEI.
The purpose of the Democrats’ Sodom and Gomorrah policy is to legalize all forms of sexual perversion on the grounds that all sexual preferences are equal. The only remaining sexual perversion is pedophilia, and it, also, is being normalized. Pedophile is no longer a politically correct term. It has been replaced by “minor-directed person.” Democrat school boards are grooming pre-puberty children for sexual intercourse. Parents who protest are evicted from school board meetings. AI porn websites present voluptuous female bodies with children’s faces. As sexual morality has been displaced by Sodom and Gomorrah, the case against pedophilia has crumbled.
So, can we expect better or worse from Republicans? Other than the organized material interests, who do Republicans represent? The obvious answer is Israel.
The Zionist neoconservatives in the top echelons of the George W. Bush regime succeed in using their attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon to take the Amerikan people to war against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, and later to fund Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and Trump’s attack on Iran, with another Amerikan attack on Iran for Israel on its way.
President Donald J. Trump is so deeply in the pocket of Israel that he does not see any difference between America’s interest and Israel’s interest. As far as Trump is concerned, Amerika and Israel are the same country.
Trump, of course, is trapped by the thorough brainwashing and indoctrination of his conservative and evangelical supporters. Amerikan conservatives have been Israel supporters since the Cold War began. Evangelicals have been taught that the worship of God is the worship of Israel. Lately, reports have emerged of the money Israel pays to evangelical churches for their support.
So, what can Trump do? If Trump acts against Israel, seeing their chances the Democrats would bring impeachment charges, and the Republicans would support the impeachment.
My conclusion? Although Amerikans deserve a government that represents them, there is no possibility of such a government. The war on whiteness is the Democrats’ policy, and the war for Israel is the Republicans’ policy.