Category: Political philosophy

ALWAYS hate free speech. Moral, informed agency strikes at the very core of Leftism! Free speech is anathema to them.

YOU VILL SAY VAT VEE VANT!

their is great power in humor and funny ridicule.

Plus, the Left can’t meme. They are FAR too stodgy, hidebound, and narcissistically unable to endure any sort of ridicule (no matter how mild) to be able to laugh at themselves, let alone create humor! A dour bunch, that’s for sure…

There IS no humor in Leftism, comrade!

the law, eh?

What makes that mendacious exercise infuriating as well as amusing, of course, is the fact that many, many people are “above the law,” such names as Hunter Biden, Sam Bankman-Fried, Hillary Clinton, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, Peter Strzok, and Kevin Clinesmith remind us.  

Well, here’s the lesson: Make a joke, go to jail.

Look, the Socialist Left have never been a funny bunch. NAZIs, Pol Pot, The STASI, The USSR, East Germany (funny how often Germans make this list, eh?). Humor depends on skewering sacred cows, and Leftists are FAR too rigid to tolerate that–humor requires some cognitive flexibility, and Leftists are characteristically weak in that area.

There’s not much great German humor, now is there?

“There’s nothing funny about the Left, comrade!”

Look, I’m of German descent myself. But I can see what often happens, here!

Creativity and humor are NOT German strong suits! Now demanding manufacturing within very small tolerances? Following rules? Doing things exactly right? Yeah, Germans (and their descendants) tend to be really good at that sort of stuff.

But humor and flexibility? Eh, not so much…

Look, I want my heart surgeon to be of German descent. But not my comedians!

political philosophy!

be fooled…

is likely true. There really are two types of Democrats, and I think the “shotgun wedding” of the two is inherently unstable in even the medium-term.

Yes, they have been able to “patch things up” so far, but I wonder how long those patches will hold. A little rough terrain may well jar those two sides apart.

The Democratic merger between the corporate Left and traditional Leftism is clearly unnatural. The old Leftists like Sanders, and publications like The Nation, have become alarmed by the growing power of the oligarchic elites within the party as well as the accelerating movement of working class voters to the GOP. Given that all ten of the nation’s wealthiest congressional districts are now solidly Democratic, they have a point. As the radical publication Jacobin complained: “The Democratic base is getting richer and whiter.” 

In fact, we are already seeing instances of “super-woke” (mainly younger) people attack entrenched Democrats. Manchin is having a dickens of a time holding things together and Sinema has declared as an Independent (though she still caucuses with Democrats).

Because if one is neither hot nor cold, one gets spit out of the mouth. A politician can’t just “ride the fence” for much longer. One must eventually stand for something.

But if one is wise, one sees obvious fissures.

Although Joe Biden is likely to hold much of this coalition together, particularly against Trump, the radicalisation of younger voters cannot bode well for Schultz, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and similar corporate lords. Issues like January 6th, gender, race and climate may not be enough to hold the gentry Left and the progressives together but, soon enough, this alliance will not withstand the rising issues of class and labour that will define the future of politics throughout the West.  

utterly fascinating that Mike Mansfield was a BIG TIME Democrat. Huge. He was the Democrat Senator from MONTANA, and the Senate Majority Leader from 1961 clear to 1977. Pretty much as mainstream a Democrat as you can get.

Today he would not only NOT be a Democrat, he would be far too conservative to even be a RINO.

The Democrat party has changed immensely. You didn’t leave them, they left you!

So I sometimes hear modern Democrats give some 90-year-old decent guy who was always a Democrat as proof that even these days one can be both a Democrat and a moral human being.

Nonsense! Yes, you could 50 years ago, but no longer! Back in 1988 an older Democrat gentleman was a mentor to me. He had been a Democrat congressman and an Ambassador for the Carter administration.

But even then, sitting around his kitchen table, he told me that while it was still possible to be both moral and a Democrat, one has to choose very carefully what planks of the Democrat agenda one accepts.

That was about 34 years ago. There is NO doubt in my mind that if he were still alive and doing politics he would NOT call himself a Democrat anymore!

You didn’t leave them, they left you…