Are American Elites Killing Democracy?
I have often written about Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom as the most likely route America might travel to tyranny. Yet, there is another mechanism, the killing of a democracy … Read More
Tag: Fascism
Related to the socialist ideology of fascism, particularly as found in the modern world.
Are Fascists and Communists Really Different?
Occasionally, I am challenged over the reality of a fact I assert quite often: Namely, that fascism and communism are essentially the same. Whether they are or not is a … Read More
Progressives Resemble the Nazis of Fascist Germany
For the past four years, progressive Democrats have been accusing President Trump and the Republicans of being fascists and racists. Yet, both by their behavior and in how they want … Read More
What America’s Jacobins Would like to Do
The picture above epitomizes what the American Left would like to do to American society. Their antipathy to President Trump and the Republicans was generated by their overweening desire to … Read More
Is China’s Imperialist Threat to the West Growing or Weakening?
NOTE: This post was updated on April 16, 2020. The explosion of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the international scene emphasizes yet again that China has no intention of merely coexisting … Read More
What Is at Stake in the 2018 Midterm Elections
In the coming 2018 midterm elections, we will have an opportunity to see if the same old dysfunctional political patterns observed in recent decades continue. With a cold civil war … Read More
Good Intentions and the Seduction of Power
Sen. Susan Collins’ full speech explaining why she would vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. YouTube / CNN One of the major lessons to take … Read More
Taming Putin’s Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin talking to Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in May 2001. In the center between them is another Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman. Wikimedia Commons / Kremlin.ru Russia represents … Read More
Progressives Incite Hatred and Violence
Riot by progressive students at the University of California, Berkeley against right-winger, Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos Screen shot of ABC news report The Democratic hysteria and that of their mainstream media allies … Read More
Arguments Between the American Left and Right
Considerations (c) Can Stock Photo / radiantskies Today we are probably experiencing some of the most important clashes of ideas since the Age of Enlightenment. If … Read More
Concerning Ethics, Economics, and Social Reality
Come now, and let us reason together … Isaiah 1:18 (c) Can Stock Photo / photography33 Following my post Will Automation Require Progressive Unemployment Solutions?, a reader called Cai left a comment … Read More
Will Progressives’ Expectation of Fascism Be Frustrated?
Trump’s nominees for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson (Wikimedia Commons / Office of the President-elect), and for the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions (Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Senate) American progressives are … Read More
Russia Stable in the Short Term; The Long Term Is Something Else
Russia and its western “Near Abroad” Map courtesy of Google Maps Russia is becoming a major danger to the rest of the world on a par with ISIS because of their “Russian … Read More
Is the U.S. Becoming a Banana Republic?
Screen Shot of James Comey swearing-in at House Judiciary Committee meeting on why he did not recommend seeking an indictment for Hillary Clinton on July 7, 2016. James Comey has sullied … Read More
Is Putin Secure?
The headquarters for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) at Lubyanka Square in Moscow in the same building that used to be the HQ of the KGB. Wikimedia Commons/NVO There … Read More