"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Descriptions of world-views, systems of ideas and their interactions with other ideologies,
In my last post, I discussed how Democratic Party policies were destroying the United States. In this post, I want to concentrate on how these polices are alienating the American … Read More
The institutions and traditions of Western civilization are almost entirely the products of the Age of Enlightenment (AKA the Enlightenment, the Modern Age, or the Age of Reason). For the … Read More
The portrait above is of the famous eighteenth-century social contract philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His romanticism seems to motivate much of the secular “woke” religion of present day progressive Democrats. Thinking … Read More
The elites of the United States have gone rogue. As with the elites of the rest of the West, America’s elites seek to impose a kind of neo-feudalism on its … Read More
The plot above shows a deeply divided nation. What it displays are the red states dominated by Republicans, the blue states led by Democrats, and the purple states ruled by … Read More
Many people, especially progressive Democrats, confuse crony capitalism with free-market capitalism. This confusion is part of the religious faith of the woke. Capitalist corporate officers are viewed as among the … Read More
Material added on February 23, 2023 In 1633, the Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei was brought to trial for heresy before the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Galileo’s crime … Read More
Recently, I wrote about how progressive Democrats were pervasively gaslighting the American people. By gaslighting, I mean the manipulation of people by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. Since … Read More
After almost two years of controlling the executive branch and both houses of Congress, the Democrats’ have broken American society. Through their war on fossil fuels, their culture wars, their … Read More
Recently, the Biden administration has announced the formation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” under the Department of Homeland Security. According to testimony by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to Congress, the … Read More
At a time when Russia is conquering Ukraine, and threatening the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and Poland), despair for our own security is all too easy. This is … Read More
Recently, a friend of mine asked me how I felt about our descent into the hell of our ideological warfare. What animated her interest was the kinds of emotions generated … Read More
It seems as if the “woke” in the U.S. are taking over the Democratic Party. In the process, they want to fundamentally transform American cultural, social, economic, and political institutions. … Read More
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
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
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
I was reading an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine recently entitled The Broken Bargain. It was about the multifarious populist and nationalist revolts among Western electorates over the last few … Read More
A growing divide has been building for at least a decade between Western dirigiste elites and the peoples they purport to rule. This breach has become large enough to inspire … Read More
I have just read a thought-provoking article on The American Interest website entitled National Conservatism: A Guide for the Perplexed. The post, written by Aaron Sibarium, notes how political and ideological … Read More
What should the social contract between the rulers and the ruled be? Responses to this single question are the sources of our growing political conflict. As the image above suggests, … Read More
Every now and then, I read something reminding me a great many believe our political dysfunction is rooted in simple partisanship. I have just done that again, reading The Serve … Read More
Violence between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters on March 2, 2017 Screen capture from Fox News Youtube post Over the past nine years the offenses progressives have made against … Read More
Hitler and Hermann Göring saluting at a 1928 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. This is the current progressive view of present day Republicans and “Conservatives”. Source: National Archives Collection of … Read More
The United States Senate in session in their chamber in the U.S. Capitol building. Image Credit: CDM.me Every now and then, President Donald Trump urges the U.S. Senate to get … Read More
Antifa combatants fighting with Trump supporters at Berkeley, California on August 27, 2017. Youtube screenshot / The Red Elephants The United States of America is unraveling as a society, in … Read More
The U.S. Senate voting NO on repeal of Obamacare on July 27, 2017. Screenshot of ABC News coverage. Everywhere the leaders of the two major American political parties look, insuperable … Read More
Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump … Read More
Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O’Sullivan Wikimedia Commons / T. H. O’Sullivan Essays speculating on the imminent beginning … Read More
Fight between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters. Screenshot of Fox News report. Yesterday, as a nation we suffered through a horrific reminder of just how bad the relations between … Read More
Anti-Trump Resistance protest Screenshot of Youtube video from the Next News Network American progressives are becoming increasingly unhinged as they push ever further toward the political Left. Their hysterical reaction to … Read More
