Category: Political philosophy

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Political philosophy Wisdom

It really IS a new

strategy. In the past, “regime change” meant that the US destroyed the formal leaders of country and then had a “you break it, you bought it” approach. So the US was on the hook for making the country run.

Trump’s approach is quite different. In a nutshell, he will cut the head off the snake, but then it is up to the country to then direct itself. They might succeed, or they might fail. But it is them.

That’s a fairly a new approach. And I think it is one that most Americans can easily get behind. It also maximizes the other country’s self-directing. It draws very bright lines as to where each party’s responsibility lies.

And also, of course, it is a severe warning to despots everywhere. Because of the United States may well not run the country and commit to a long-term project, but they will cut the head off the snake.

So don’t be a snake…

As the old saying goes, pigs get raised, but hogs get slaughtered. So world leaders, go ahead be a pig–George Washingtons have never been thick on the ground, and world leaders virtually never get to that level. But don’t be a hog!

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Political philosophy

See, the problem

for the Left is that for them, politics is everything. You are either all in are you are a pariah. We can contrast that with the view on the Right, which is that you don’t have to be perfectly conservative in every way–you might have some very laudable characteristics, and we don’t have to agree on every little thing. That is really a big difference!

We are not the same…

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Political philosophy

It really has been

pretty much impossible to avoid realizing that the Democrats have become much more extreme over the last two decades. I don’t think that is even controversial.

I know that in the past, some Democrats have claimed that that is not true. But of course it is, and even they know it. And now I don’t even hear them denying it. I mean, there are no “blue dog” Democrats anymore, and now there are virtually no moderate Democrats, either. They are all pretty much extreme. That, or they left and joined the Republican party. Because anyone who has even so much as a conservative thought is no longer welcome in the Democrat party.

And now even CNN admits it.

CNN’s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, laid out the sobering reality for Democrats on Thursday morning, revealing how the party’s dramatic leftward shift is alienating mainstream voters. [emphasis added]

“The far left is significantly more powerful than they once were,” Enten explained, pointing to polling data that shows the transformation of the Democratic Party’s ideological makeup.

…. Combined with somewhat liberal Democrats, three in five Democrats now identify as liberal, with the very liberal faction representing “a much larger portion of the party.” According to Enten, “the far left, which used to just be a smidgen within the Democratic Party, has gained considerable power.”

Honestly, how could anyone denied this shift? It is blatantly true and no one can, with any honesty, deny it.

When CNN is admitting that the Democratic Party has become too liberal and too extreme for mainstream America and that there “could be some electoral repercussions,” Democrats should take that seriously. The party has moved so far to the left that they are alienating the middle.

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Political philosophy

Radical Muslims don’t

just kill Christians. They kill anyone who thinks differently than they do. And especially Muslims who do not think just like they do. They are a whole lot like Radical Democrats in that way…

The part that gets quietly skipped over is that Islamists very often persecute Muslims first. The first targets are usually the people who most clearly expose the lie that “we speak for all Muslims”: peaceful Muslims who just want to practice their faith privately; secular Muslims who insist citizenship comes before clerical authority; reformists; women who won’t submit to compulsory codes; religious minorities within Islam; artists, journalists, students, trade unionists—anyone who refuses to accept a brutal and militant form of religion ruling them.

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Deeply disturbing Political philosophy

The mark of a

tin-pot dictator is an assault on free expression. Looking at YOU, Starmer!

Look, this is what despots do. Whenever you see something like this, you know it is the work of coercive despots. And the fact that this happened in a country that was once the cradle of freedom and human rights is both dismaying and scary.

But in general, Lefties simply cannot abide free speech. It destroys their craft. And trying to destroy free speech is a sure sign of an evil despot. 

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Political philosophy

How the Left

understands the political spectrum:

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Political philosophy

It was always a

bit of a “marriage” of convenience.

Yes, he is right many things, but I think that Rand Paul is just wrong about several issues, here. Many people were fooled into thinking he was a Conservative when he hammered the Left. But he never was. He is the classic “frenemy.” I’ll take him when we agree, but understand that sometimes we just won’t.

He’s more reliable on domestic policy. On foreign policy? Not so much…

I have not been really happy with Rand Paul lately. And he is just totally wrong on this. He is such an isolationist that he does not see that it is even important to defend our borders.

This was a swing and a miss, Rand.

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Political philosophy

I think calling AfD

and it’s ilk “Far Right” and “Neo-NAZIs” is lazy thinking in the extreme. These people are NOT “Far Right,” they are just disgusted by the current political pablum spewed by the Lefty parties. And they DON’T want to be overrun by and lose their culture to Muslim immigrants.

Is that so wrong or hard to understand? People are starting to recognize that “NAZI” is just a cudgel with which to beat down any opposition.

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Political philosophy

You gotta understand

how Socialism works. How it ALWAYS works:

Yeah, I know there is a lot of talk about how cool Socialism is, and of fairies and unicorns and all that. But that’s not how it actually works out, ever. Maybe you need to wise up a little bit, here. Just look at history, for heaven’s sake!

You need to be a little bit of a historical empiricist…

Hey, NYC rubes, you got swindled! And strap in, because it has really not even begun in earnest, yet…

Again, and let this sink in!

Welcome to the Pleasure Done, you naïve, ignorant dolts! Public education has failed you…

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Political philosophy Religion

I think that

any historical or empirical review of Socialism/Communism comes to the same place: It just don’t work. And I have to admit that it is really quite surprising to me that people are still fooled by this (See: NYC).

By every empirical measure, the socialist hypothesis has been falsified. And yet, socialism is catching fresh wind in its sails – not in Moscow, Havana, or Hanoi, but in New York City, capitalism’s capital.

… The incoming mayor’s policies have been tried and tested many times, and robust evidence shows they don’t work, putting their continued advance in the same category as flat Earth theory, Moon-landing denial, and chemtrail conspiracies.

Yes, the comparison to flat-earthers is apt, but there is also a “tang” of religiosity, a “culty” undercurrent in the far Left. And it works to prevent ANY debate or discussion with “the unwashed” unbelievers.