by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

Americans have become so accustomed to living under tyranny that they are probably incapable of recognizing tyranny. Once upon a time, April 15 was the annual day of infamy. It was the day you had to pay your income taxes.
Americans have been subjected to a tax on their working lives for less than half of their existence as a free people, or, to correct myself, as a former free people. With the gradual long-term demise of American education, helped along by the US Department of Education, the content of what Americans know has dramatically changed. Once they knew who they are and the principles on which their liberty rested. Today they know how to play video games, write software for programs that regulate their lives from instructions their cars give them to how the NSA and businesses spy on them. They know movie trivia, the affairs of celebrities, the standings of their college football teams, their golf scores, and the expense of their wives’ remodeling of kitchens and baths.