Category: Political philosophy

It’s not just South America!

But now, let’s widen the lens to include Europe, because there’s the real tell. 

What’s happening there confirms the thought Sarah puts forward. Populist-right parties have topped the polls in Britain, France, and Germany at the same time for the first time. …

I’ve said often in these spaces that the biggest force pushing voters away from the left is the left in power and the results of their policies. It has always been so.

Here it is, gang: I would call what we’re seeing a worldwide gag reflex. A gag reflex is triggered by whatever you’re choking on, and gagging is nature’s way of solving the problem. It isn’t a philosophy. It’s an immune response. Trump and the end of USAID didn’t cause this one. Voters are reacting to what the worldwide Left has tried to force down their throats.

And I think that is true. People are sick of Leftism. They are tired of the despotism, and Leftism itself just doesn’t work. It never has! Its main product is human suffering.

why am I voting Republican? Apart from the historical empiricism, that is. Well…

Those you who are NOT hardened Democrat cult members, maybe you could take moment and consider what your values are and who YOU are…

is NEVER going to switch parties. He votes with Democrats something like 95% of the time. He is NOT a Republican! But he is willing to take a few principled stands against his party. So he is “the world’s tallest midget.” And it’s fun to see the Democrats squirm.

As Sting sang, “at night a candle’s brighter than the sun.” And that is absolutely the case with Fetterman. He’s not changing parties, but he IS standing up for his principles. And THAT makes him a candle in the night of Democrat wackiness.

And it is VERY clear that the Democrat establishment won’t tolerate him running as a Democrat again. But that doesn’t in any way make him a Republican. I really don’t at all think that he would ever run as a Republican. Maybe as an Independent? Or maybe he just won’t run at all!

Republican. But I am Post-Progressive. The stodgy old Lefty crap is just SO intellectually passé and indefensible! MANY of us have outgrown them…

“Post-Progressives” tend to be historical empiricists. They are all about what has been shown to work, not just what trendy wind of politics there happens to be right now or a naïve, hubristic belief in people being able to change into “new men,” as with the reality-denying hidebound Left.

“far right?”

just the facts!

Between 1994 and 2017: The Democrats shifted more drastically to the Left than The Republicans shifted to the right. pic.twitter.com/bKm1u8RyS8

— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) July 30, 2026

I’d love to see even newer data. I am willing to bet that the Left has gone even further left since 2017. Anyone want to take that bet?

And it shows that those who are in the “mushy middle”are actually quite a bit further to the Left than they used to be. And that was really not much of a surprise to me.

We also see a peak of Conservativism at around number eight in the furthest left distribution. Also on that graph, the left “shoulder” of Conservativism has shifted from being considered in the middle, to being on the right. And there are more “consistently conservative” but who are in the exact same place as “moderate” voters previously were. Again, that doesn’t really surprise me at all. I strongly suspect that both things are a reaction to the Left getting even more extreme.

pretty much the agenda. Though Vance Derangement Syndrome will be here this December!

This sums it up pic.twitter.com/wbDEkG3yfr

— Beau Landry (@BeauLandry_) July 11, 2026

facts are pretty dang obvious. Once people have been forced to drink from the bitter cup of socialism/communism, they are not eager to again stain their lips.

Unfortunately, many people are just not very familiar with the long history of Lefty failure. Always. NEVER ONCE has it worked for regular people.