{"id":179698,"date":"2025-04-10T03:57:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/doug-casey-on-the-bipartisan-assault-on-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T03:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:57:47","slug":"doug-casey-on-the-bipartisan-assault-on-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=179698","title":{"rendered":"Doug Casey on the Bipartisan Assault on Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n<br><div>\n\n                                        \n\n\n<p><strong>International Man:<\/strong>\u00a0Under the previous administration, we saw an aggressive push against so-called \u201cdisinformation\u201d\u2014fact-checkers, censorship, and suppression of views outside the mainstream narrative. At the same time, there was a strong focus on social justice, gender ideology, and migrant protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s your perspective on that era and its impact on free speech?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Casey:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s no longer okay to have a difference of opinion in politics and academia. Not so long ago, it was possible to have a polite discussion and ask Socratic questions to determine what\u2019s right or wrong. Not anymore.<\/p><div class=\"g g-1\"><div class=\"g-single a-16\"><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTYsMSwxLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.livefree.academy\/a\/2147989502\/NoWDgfiB\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trinity-Banner-850-x-500-Button-min-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Free speech is one of Western Civilization\u2019s most important contributions to the world. Throughout history, of all the world\u2019s cultures and civilizations, only the West made free speech and free thought into cultural icons. Free speech is a major reason why the West\u2014with all its flaws\u2014has always been not only different from but objectively better than any other. Incidentally, just saying that can now get you canceled or even prosecuted in some places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without free speech, it\u2019s very hard to have free thought because if you\u2019re forced to keep concepts within the confines of your own mind, it\u2019s very hard to explicate, expand, and concretize them. What\u2019s going on now is extremely dangerous. It amounts to putting tariffs on others\u2019 ideas so they can\u2019t enter your brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe and the Anglophone world\u2014Australia, New Zealand, England, the US, and Canada\u2014are turning into police states where thought crime is a real thing that can be prosecuted. It\u2019s not 1984 yet, but things are rapidly moving in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most perverse aspects of the trend is that universities have become the center of this anti-freedom groupthink. They once were\u2014 and should be\u2014centers of discussion, debate, and free thought. That\u2019s no longer true. They\u2019ve become institutionally corrupt. They\u2019re no longer even places to hang out, party, and pick up a few idle facts while delaying the onset of maturity. They\u2019ve mutated into something destructive and dangerous, as illustrated by the recent scandals at Colombia, Harvard, and Penn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>95% of American universities have become indoctrination centers. It\u2019s quite amazing. Most of the teachers and administrators are Woke or Marxist and actively destructive to young minds. The schools are scams, losing money even with tuitions crowding $100,000 per nine-month year. They\u2019ve become self-licking ice cream cones mainly benefitting the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Man:\u00a0<\/strong>Now, under the new Trump administration, those left-leaning agendas seem to have fallen out of favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Has the pendulum swung the other way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Casey:\u00a0<\/strong>I can only say that as bad as things look today, they would have been much, much worse if Kamala Harris had been installed as the US President. But we should take a moment to comment on Trump, who currently bestrides the world like a colossus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I\u2019ve been saying for years, Trump has no philosophical center. He doesn\u2019t have any core beliefs. The good thing about him, and the reason why he\u2019s popular, is that he\u2019s a cultural conservative who wants to preserve many aspects of what was good in America. But he doesn\u2019t have any consistent view of the world. He just does whatever seems like a good idea at the time, flying by the seat of his pants. I fear that he suffers from megalomania. Things could get out of control because he lacks a philosophical core. His military threats and his using tariffs as weapons could lead to a genuine catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, what Elon Musk is doing with DOGE is absolutely great. As is Trump\u2019s anti-Wokeism. Wokeism has become an ideological force. It\u2019s a set of memes, beliefs, and feelings\u2014psychological aberrations, really\u2014that have captured the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wokism is defined by things like LGBTQ, DEI, intersectionality, safe spaces, trigger warnings, irrational pandering to minorities, identity politics, guilt about being white, abolishing traditional norms and culture, and disavowing Western values in particular. It\u2019s actually a spiritual illness. Throughout history, there have been lots of similar episodes\u2014the Inquisition, witch hunts, Jacobinism, Leninism, Hitlerism, Maoism, and many, many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s fine that Trump reacts against what amounts to a mass psychosis. But you can\u2019t win a battle of ideas just by reacting against them. It\u2019s good to destroy the foundations of Woke. They\u2019re evil\u2014a word rarely used since it was inadvertently discredited by religious fanatics. The problem is that, at best, Trump will just create a vacuum, and that vacuum can be filled by almost anything in today\u2019s world. It seems unlikely, in the resulting chaos, that it will be filled by the things which actually made America great\u2014free speech, free thought, free markets, individualism, rationality, the rule of law, and a half dozen other things I outlined in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/doug-casey-on-the-rapid-cultural-decline-and-what-comes-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Man:\u00a0<\/strong>Beyond cultural issues, we\u2019re also seeing the political right suppress certain kinds of speech. The Trump administration has cracked down on campus protests and issued an executive order targeting anti-Semitism, stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s new Order takes forceful and unprecedented steps to marshal all Federal resources to combat the explosion of anti-Semitism on our campuses and in our streets since October 7, 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you view this development?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Casey:<\/strong>\u00a0The real question, the important question, is: What\u2019s the government doing on campuses in the first place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State and its minions have absolutely no place on campuses. Injecting force and politics into academia is poisonous. Entirely apart from that, the US university system has outlived its usefulness. Almost all of them are intellectually dead. They\u2019re essentially indoctrination centers attached to hedge funds. They\u2019re no longer centers of free thought and critical thinking to help you find a direction in life, determine what\u2019s right or wrong, and build your character. If you take STEM courses, you\u2019ll pick up some facts at best. But that\u2019s not what education is about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse, looking at Trump\u2019s statement, he\u2019s looking to defend one group, the Jews, and particularly Israel. It\u2019s none of the government\u2019s business. And it\u2019s not about promoting freedom. It\u2019s about taking sides in a dispute between two antagonistic groups\u2014the Muslims against the Jews, or the Palestinians against the Israelis. Trump isn\u2019t solving the problem. He\u2019s making it worse by choosing sides. Local police and the University itself are responsible for preventing violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Man:\u00a0<\/strong>From the left and now the right, it seems like free speech is increasingly conditional\u2014depending on who\u2019s in power and what views are deemed acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you believe the First Amendment is being eroded from both ends of the political spectrum?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Casey:<\/strong>\u00a0Unfortunately, the political spectrum is only divided into left and right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically, the Left has always talked about free speech and social freedom. They never really believed in them, but they were overt about hating economic freedom. The Right always pretended to defend economic freedom but traditionally hated freedom of speech and social freedom. They\u2019re really two sides of the same coin and should both be thrown out. Only libertarians believe in both free minds and free markets as a matter of principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Constitution was intended to defend citizens from government. But unfortunately, the Constitution is now a dead letter. It\u2019s been completely interpreted out of existence. It\u2019s become a meaningless sham. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s likely to change because the people it governs no longer have any philosophical or moral grounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent elections, particularly the last, half of the population voted for actual communists\u2014although they always avoid that word. The only way this can be solved, if it can be solved, is by returning to a government which exists only to prevent violence and allow people to pursue free minds and free markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, government has become the source of all solutions, funding, and everything else. As I\u2019ve explained before, since government is pure force, it should do nothing but protect you from force. Force from abroad with the military, and force inside the country with the police and a court system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, those three extremely important elements of a civil society can be easily corrupted by the type of people who are inevitably drawn to government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Man:\u00a0<\/strong>Given these trends, from disinformation crackdowns to culture wars to campus speech battles, where do you see this headed? What does the future of free speech look like in the US?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Casey:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ve said numerous times over the last decade that the US is headed towards a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a while, with the defeat of the Democrats\u2014who have mutated into thinly disguised communists, Marxists, and socialists\u2014it looked like we might have a \u201cMorning in America.\u201d But it turns out that morning only lasts six hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we\u2019re headed towards something like a civil war, though nothing resembling the unpleasantness of 1861 to 1865.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is that when you have 350 million people compressed into a political aggregation that no longer shares a common culture, religious values, economic interests, or political beliefs and no longer has any internal cohesion, it can only be held together by force. And that\u2019s the way the US is headed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a real pity because the concept of America was unique in the world; it was the only country that was overtly founded on the principles of free minds and free markets. But it\u2019s completely lost the plot and has transformed from a guiding light to an active danger, both to itself and the world at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: The months and years ahead will be politically, economically, and socially volatile. What you do to prepare could mean the difference between suffering crippling losses and coming out ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s precisely why, legendary investor and NY Times best-selling author Doug Casey just released this urgent report on how to survive and thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/special-report\/guide-to-surviving-and-thriving-during-an-economic-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to download the PDF now.<\/a><\/p>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\r\n<br>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Man:\u00a0Under the previous administration, we saw an aggressive push against so-called \u201cdisinformation\u201d\u2014fact-checkers, censorship, and suppression of views outside the mainstream narrative. At the same time, there was a strong focus on social justice, gender ideology, and migrant protection. What\u2019s your perspective on that era and its impact on free speech? 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