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Over the weekend there was a poll released that said only seven percent of Americans have a high opinion of the Democratic Party. It also said that the party is enjoying its lowest approval rating ever recorded. The events of last week suggest that the party is a disorganized mess at the moment. This is due in large part to the fact that what we call the left has collapsed into chaos. They no longer can explain what they oppose, much less what they claim to offer.
This is due to the transformation of the left over the last thirty years into a grab bag of conspiracy theories and grievances. The American left has always been a conspiracy theory, of sorts, owing to its roots in American Protestantism, but it had a positive agenda through most of the twentieth century. The long list of things it opposed stood in the way of the things it desired. Over the last thirty years, those desires have largely faded, leaving just a list of enemies.
The most obvious example is the antifascist conspiracy theory that was dominant with self-identified leftists for the last decade. The fact that there are no fascists in this age has been used as an opportunity to create them. The same thing happened with conspiracy theories around race. Instead of Hitler hiding behind every bush, it is men in white hoods ready to pounce. The dominant subcultures of the left over the last few decades are all conspiracy theories of some sort.
Another defining feature is that the progressive coalition is all driven by something called ressentiment. This is a sense of hostility towards something or someone that is viewed as a cause of one’s diminished condition. It is frustration at the sense of inferiority and hatred at a perceived external cause. This blend of envy and hatred results in a moral code which delegitimizes the cause of the person’s failure and elevates the status of the alleged victim.
This is what lies behind tabloid news of the rich and famous. The primary appeal is to people who feel they should be rich and famous. The failings of the actual rich and famous allow these people to feel as if they are living better lives or are better people, despite the fact they do not have what they desire. On the one hand they envy the people they follow, but on the other hand they relish their suffering as it allows them to feel morally superior to them.
What we call the left operates the same way. They often target people who are living good lives but hold opinions that the left does not like, and this is what triggers their envy and resentment toward that person. On the one hand, the person “exposing” the bad person is a loser in the conventional sense, while the person they are harassing is successful by conventional measures. Doxing is a formalization of a process by which the loser flings her poo at the winner.
The recent spate of vandalism directed at Tesla automobiles is a good example of how this blend of righteousness and anger works. These people are attacking cars because on the one hand, they envy Elon Musk and what he is doing. He is the man of action they wish they could be, but they are losers, so they hate him for his success as a way to justify their low status. The attacks on the cars themselves are like a child throwing a tantrum when frustrated by a toy.
This is not a surprising development as what we call the left in America is a manifestation of certain aspects of American Protestantism. The progressive ideology is popular Christianity stripped of its Scriptural foundation. What was supposed to console the weak and downtrodden with a promise of everlasting life now seeks to comfort losers with the claim that their betters are not really better. They are bad people because the believers have declared them to be bad people.
The trouble for the people we call the left is that Christianity is a life-denying religion in that what matters is what comes after this life. The faithful navigate this world of sin to reach everlasting life after death. For those who care only about this life, this cannot work, so those Christian ethics at the core of what we call the left quickly curdled into a bundle of resentments and hatreds. The American left is a workshop of resentment staffed by the ugly who live to oppose beauty.
The genius of Christianity is that it offers an image of beauty, the perfectly beautiful, that allows the faithful to catch glimpses of it in the fallen world. Resent and envy toward these glimpses of beauty are sins. Instead of cultivating these qualities among the lower classes, it celebrated those glimpses of beauty to motivate the faithful toward a Christian life with the promise of eternal life after death. Failure in this world was turned into a motivation to strive for success in the next.
The modern left lacks all of this. Instead, it offers the faithful nothing but a sty in which they can wallow in their own crapulence. As a social and political force, it is nothing more than a bundle of incoherent hatreds. While those hatreds provided a rally point for a period, no movement can exist only on hatred. This is why what we call the left is falling to pieces and taking its party with it. The last ideology, American Progressivism, is sinking into the mire of its own hatreds.
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Sigh. Demographics is destiny. Way back in 2018 (i.e. before Biden’s handlers ushered in 5-9 million legal and illegal aliens), 50% of the US population was age 37 or younger. Millenials, GenZ, etc. And back then, the average age of US Whites was 58. Of that young 50% of AINO, only 43% was White. Now add 8 years of non-White births and immigration (of any kind) and 8 years of White deaths. The face of the ‘left’ to oldsters here is Pelosi or Schumer. But look at city councils and state legislative bodies. Look at who’s running for school boards.… Read more »
That’s more true. “The left,” the white people who run it, doesn’t resent anything. It’s triumphalist—narcissistically so, so any contradiction to it comes as a near-fatal shock, a wound to be trebly avenged, not a lesson to be incorporated in its plans (which have now achieved autopilot). That’s why it became censorious decades ago. Non-whites in the West are hateful, not resentful. They consider whites losers because we’ve been defeated. Check the spreadsheet: Loser pays. The universal politics of America, “left” and “right,” isn’t grounded in envy but in sadism. The already beaten must be beaten to death. The loser… Read more »
True, but the alternative is to say little and have more “pity parties”. Makes for poor comment sections. Let’s ignore the “elephant” and delve into “what if” discussions. As long as we don’t assume that which is not in evidence.
3g, as a non-believing fan of historic Christianity, I’m curious what is a “mischaracterization of Christianity?” Is this mischaracterization in our host’s post today? Or is it the belief that the blacks and hispanics can be turned into white people by Christianity?
The “it’s all so tiresome” tone of your post reminds me of two great poems, written by Christians.
Kipling in “Gods”:
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more
Eliot from “Burnt Norton” in “Four Quartets”:
human kind cannot bear very much reality
Line – I don’t want to go into too much theology and hijack the thread. I am a baptized and believing Christian, and obviously much depends on which verses one chooses to focus on, but the Bible I read says a godly man takes care of his own family first. He helps others, but with his own money and not the public purse – and not at the expense of his family or people. Many ‘nations’ may share the faith, but ‘brothers’ in faith does not automatically equate to ‘brothers’ in blood. God created the different races. He scattered those… Read more »
That is a great, and cogent post. When I come across various and sundry people that might want to discuss, or ‘debate’ the issue of faith, similar to when anxious soy men find out my joy of riding on 2 wheels and ‘share’ that they know someone who knows someone that died… … “well, not everyone is meant to ride.” If in the company of an ‘intellectual’ regarding faith I might use a big word: Praxeology. For me, monogamy, loyalty, frugalness, discernment … etc. etc. Biblical values are a perfect approach to life even if you do not share my… Read more »
“They want to BE the predators.”
This x10,000. Yes, they love it when white rule of law protects them and their property, but they hate it when white rule of law protects others and the property of others from them. The latter instinct always wins out in the end.
“The slave does not want to be free. He wants to hold he whip.”
The savage is either at your feet or at your throat.
The Left transformed into the Hate White Men (and women, to a degree) Party. It was a decent rallying cry but left them with no real game plan for the country. The Left’s younger politicians – AOC, towel head lady, etc. – were, of course, ridiculous, but even the party establishment had no clue what they wanted to do while in power other than cry about racists and fascists.
Other than policies to hurt whites, what else did the Left want to actually accomplish? I really can’t think of anything.
The Left’s shrieking about racists, fascists and Nazis will increase as White consciousness and advocacy emerges. A sign of what’s coming is Tucker and Joe Rogan dipping their toe in the water with questions of why only Whites aren’t allowed a homeland. The Left aren’t going to like what’s coming.
The discussions of all people having the right to a homeland and the openness that people now talk about The Lobby have been monumental changes. Once those are made normal, tough to go back.
Never mind The Lobby.
The young have already moved on to the “Right to Exist”.
The Left will become more and more blatantly violent and will turn to terrorism. It’s problem is that will be countered now and like so many bullies, leftists curl into a fetal position and moan when actually challenged. Con, Inc., and censorship were needed to prevent pushback.
Even more encouraging, lately Trevor Noah is questioning the value of diversity
I predict that blacks are going to increase their desire for separation. On the one hand they are torn because they need the gibs to maintain any semblance of a middle class. On the other hand, the non-whites don’t give two craps about slavery and California is already showing their future. There will be no reparations coming from Latheeeennnnossss, subcontinentals and Hans. Moreover, they have no guilt about slavery and their cultures are not deracinated and demoralized. Cries of racism when Asians get sick and tired of black dysfunction and crime will not just fall on deaf ears, they will… Read more »
Unfortunately, by the time this is all ”normalized”, we (USA) will be similar to a typical 3rd world country. Basically the elite, or rich, vs everyone else. It can be no other way in a multiracial society. We may indeed leave the Blacks and Hispanics behind, only to squabble with the Hans and Subcontinentals for top place.
Now if you are one of those lucky few, this is perhaps not so bad. But for the majority of us, it is a future we never grew up in nor raised our children to thrive in.
Spot on, and this is the likeliest scenario. Separation is quite possible in the United States, though, and is happening already. The Subcons and Han, unlike all other groups save whites, can establish polities that work, though, and will be prone to make war with white/whiter enclaves.
You are correct. I left that part out. I am not one of the lucky few. For us, and by that I mean you and me and the American remnant of the Historic American Nation’s former middle class, it is hard to see things. If the alien elite do not rule as an Asian satrap, but some post-American continental empire it looks as follows to me: I think a major percentage will give up and mongrelize. My guess is about 70%. They will give in to despair and take the temporarily easy path. I think about 30% will refuse to… Read more »
And what is their own way? That implies a direction. American blacks have a negative identity. Meaning what they fight to push off against is their identity. Not a positive sense of direction and cultural goals. In water treatment, I worked with a man from Nigeria, oddly enough he came from a wealthy family, educated through the Sorbonne, was in the process of developing his own tele-com company, which he accomplished. A very, very super smart man, a wonderful man to work with, endlessly helpful to me and a great sense of humor. No victim here. He really disliked American… Read more »
That is a good point – a very good point. I guess they won’t be choosing much. Perhaps, the most realistic scenario is an endogamic elite that intermarries across the races and forms their own ethno-genesis within class.
You have me here. I give up on predictions.
What a mess.
That’s like questioning the value of the bubonic plague. The fact that this is a taboo question just shows the extent of the derangement.
Imagine the intense stoner moments Rogan is having as he is awakening to White Genocide. The dude loves his pot and the awakening trips he is taking are probably very intense. I would love to be a fly on the wall of the inside of his mind as he cruises Odysee for White Rabbit TV clips and tumbles down the rabbit hole of reality.
I bet his closest buds get late night calls, “Dude! You won’t f’in believe this thing I am watching and looking at the demographic information for NY schools is just crazy!”
Jews have a homeland. Japanese, Africans, Chinese, Russians, Hispanics, Pygmys, Eskimos have homelands. White Europeans do not. Why? Jealousy and envy. Predators are destroying the most successful homeland ever built without even much of a fight.
The predators are destroying western homelands thanks to western leadership not only allowing it, but aiding and abetting the predation.
To paraphrase Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s give ’em something to shriek about…”
..and a little mystery to figure out
Agree. The fight is ahead.
Too bad Tucker’s a radical feminist, albeit not at all acknowledged as such, not even in the slightest. Yet he is, full stop. Worse is that he has lots of company. There are way too many on the “right” who share this trait. There are certain types on the “right” for whom this really seems a central, core defining feature. Many if not most are very likely not dishonest, not at all. Rather, it’s absolute lack of both outer awareness and self-awareness within certain areas, a so called blind spot, here a total and serious blind spot. Tucker would see… Read more »
Cucker Tarlson is a feminist. The Brett Kavanaugh of the media. The usual kind one finds on the Right. They don’t WANT to face the truth about female nature and collective female power. For various reasons, they are AFRAID. And should be.
Feminism and its rule over America is the true third rail of politics and culture. Nobody, and I mean nobody, on the Right with a public forum dares to address it, and that tells me who really rules over the land.
P.S. upvoted your comment but it didn’t change anything. Kinda like my efforts against the Fempire. :O)
Whiteness was the Left’s devil and that proposition required total information control given the greatness of whites. That control is gone and reality did not change during the Age of Censorship.
The internet killed that control. It took a while but slowly people started to wake up. There’s also the fact that the Left was simply wrong.
The internet killed the business model, but it didn’t have to kill the control. They could have saved themselves (somewhat) if they didn’t lie constantly. They were still getting funding from the regime so the old business model didn’t have to be successful. But when you’ve got a regime that wants to replace the people (among other nefarious goals), and the regime owns the media, well, I guess they can’t really tell you the truth about all that, can they? Is it possible that the death of MSM’s independence (as much as it ever had any, debatable, another discussion) was… Read more »
The Left has always been more about the process than the mundane necessities of running a country from day to day. “The Revolution is continuous.”
I’m not a big fan of Steve Sailer but his Coalition of the Fringes framing is dead-on. The modern Left is a circular firing squad aimed at White people. But it only really works when not just every single member of the coalition is aimed at Whites, but Whites aren’t firing back. The problem is, post-2020, both tenets of this started to fall apart. The transgender thing led to an internecine war with hardcore feminists, the progressive stack started to crumble as certain groups (like White gay men) were deemed not marginalized enough, and of course Whites started to question… Read more »
Don’t underestimate the reaction to Oct. 7. The Jews discovered that they were on Team Whitey whether they liked it or not. They’ve pulled back a lot of their support for the Left.
Sure. Things are rocky these days for Israel. But as long as Israel exists, they will continue to be a 5th column in this country. One can not serve two masters.
Oh, I have no illusions about Jews’ view toward white gentiles. I’m simply saying that they’re re-evaluating their flood the West with browns strategy.
There’s no evidence of that.
I don’t see them fighting the Pajeet turdal wave, for example.
8 years ago we couldn’t have imagined them backing and reinstalling Trump. If the trend holds, they could in time become the greatest champions of mass deportation.
Yeah, and the Jeets run the Small Hats out of various diamond markets; not a small feat. What do Jeets have to do to get the Small Hats’ attention? Take over Hollywood?
I’d recommend against believing this. The attitudes of the imported replacement professional class—”foreign students” et al.—aren’t exactly the desired ones. But they are very, very close. And replacement itself is the inalterable goal, regardless of secondary effects. How many are being thrown out for “supporting terrorism” or whatever? I’ve seen two names, a Chinese girl (nobody cared) and some Arab (or approximate Arab) that of course the girls of the left and fags of the right are all lubed up for, since his name sounds like it came off a MOST WANTED poster. That’s it. I’d expect some more, but… Read more »
The apparatus is being dismantled, mostly inadvertently, despite the kabuki aspects of maintaining it to relentlessly hunt anti-Semites. The Jewish Century has come and Died Suddenly despite the best efforts of well-paid Goy Hearsts to keep it alive. Anti-whiteness still will be a thing for the immediate future but its operation manual is in different hands. Those hands do not recognize any distinction at all between Hebrews and Gentiles and if anything will go harder against the former. I very much recommend realizing October 7, but even more so its genocidal aftermath, has changed everything. The goal remains the same… Read more »
Lots of MAGA people believe that Trump won because normal people finally had enough of the left’s policies. They want to believe that their grumbling was finally too loud to ignore.
I tend to agree with you. Trump got momentum and won because the elites decided not to back the left for the first time because of Oct. 7. Before Oct. 7, the j3ws thought that flooding the West with non-whites was best for them. The non-white response to Oct. 7 caused them to reconsider
Unfortunately, I don’t know of a decisive argument to establish this. It’s all speculation.
That’s exactly my take. America is a woman being gangraped for decades. The gangrapists all love money and all hate us. This Trump guy comes along and tells the gangrapists that they need to stop. He squeaks his way into authority, but they reorganize, counterattack and boot him out, but in the confusion of their desperate attempt to keep him from a second term the worst of the gang rapists comes to power, the one who hates America more than they love the money they are raping out of America. We’ll come him ‘Chuckie’. The other rapists are distraught. They… Read more »
They aren’t on your team, you’re on theirs.
For now.
“The Jews discovered that they were on Team Whitey whether they liked it or not”
They also discovered that the automatic support they expected from all the 20s and 30s who went on school trips to the Holocaust Museums wasn’t there, that TikTok Palestinians were telling a powerful story, and that “descendant of a holocaust survivor” wasn’t even worth a venti latte at Starbucks.
The shock of this discovery still hasn’t worn off.
They seem to have altered their circular formation to the point where whites are out of the line of fire and their rifles are redirected inward. Even a Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight is bound to inflict serious casualties amongst itself. Hey, Feu Volonte’!
The Left is full of people with a death wish, both personally and for America…The brutality of transsexualism and the desire of male transsexuals to hurt women in sports is just one manifestation…Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a cure, with Christianity having been perverted into a feminist theocracy, not a process of spiritual uplift…
The Leftist ressentiment stems from democratizing society to include blacks and women. When blacks and women are not merely given “equal opportunity,” but in fact preferential treatment, and they still cannot measure up to white men, they become resentful and hateful toward their white male betters and invent conspiracy theories about “institutional racism” and “sexual harassment” and “hostile work environment.” This is particularly evident in colleges and universities — the very places where “racism” and “sexism” are objectively non-existent are the places where you see the most complaints, the most hysteria, and the most hoaxes — like the “Klan” at… Read more »
The problem they face from a national perspective is that they do not believe the 2020 election was stolen, which means that there is no inhibiting factor as, to them, the worst people with the worst ideas can easily win an election (and yes, many clowns on X claiming Harris lost for being too far *right*).
The Sam Hyde quote was spot on.
“When we win, do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it’s funny”
The left is openly advocating murderers, rapists, Mafiosos, and ultra-violent gang bangers be allowed to stay here because of “due process”.
30 million illegals in the land; due process is a literally impossibility, they know it, and they’re greatly vexed that some on the right have finally figured this out.
The left are both nihilists and incredibly evil.
Did the Left stop wanting Scandi-style Socialism?
What did the Bill Clinton era Left want to accomplish?
The Scandinavians gave up on it. It only worked in homogeneous white societies. Now they are waking up to the horrors of multiculturalism.
It’s amusing watching them try to appeal to working-class whites, as with the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez tour. They’ve lost the vocabulary that came naturally to guys like Tip O’Neill and Bill Clinton, and could be faked by Obama.
“…faked by Obama…”
Ah yes, the great public speaker:
‘the, uh, ah, common, uh, sense gun control. Who, um, uh, could be, um, against, uh, it?’
Actually, the one and really only thing democrats/ the left oppose is Trump. He is their evil incarnate. Anything he is for, they are against – even if the American electorate is 100% for it. Further, the only reason the psychos are trashing their beloved Gaia blessed Teslas is because of Musk’s alliance with Trump, period. As the man said himself, he could cure cancer and the libtards would still hate him.
Yes. But before that it was poverty. The cause of poverty is wealth and thus the rich. So they hate the rich. They hate oppression. Howard Zinn and other perfidious subversives told them whites and The West were oppressing everyone. So they hate whites and The West. It isn’t just that they must hate these things, they must destroy them in order to destroy oppression. Before that it was success. For one person’s success is the cause of another person’s failure. So the great evil of success and the successful must be destroyed. They hate beauty because if there are… Read more »
Indeed, it’s the same-old, same-old with Leftists. Your problem is caused by somebody else and, can also be fixed with somebody else’s money.
Bitterness, resentment, anger, a lack of curiosity and a most definite lack of love: both for herself and her fellows, characterize Today’s Leftist.
Poverty reduction actually gave the Left a positive image for a period long ago. Bashing innocent whites as devils thereafter gave them a negative image. There is an attempt to return to the old playbook but the dusky psychopaths put into place will not have it. In the States, look for Whites to be thoroughly purged from the Democrat Party, to give one example, wherever that is possible for the Left. And mark my word: the Left will get violent here, possibly very violent, until it gets countered (which will happen now). They do tend to curl into the fetal… Read more »
Definitely. I view all these things is terms of “transition” or phases. The outcome being quite predictable in hindsight. The early years of the process saw results in ameliorating poverty by tweaking opportunities for those impoverished. LBJ’s “Great Society” efforts for example.
However, all these efforts were, in the end, doomed to failure because they lacked a fundamental understanding of the human condition—“we are not all equal”. In the end, we differ in condition not because of external factors, but because of internal factors.
Reality can not be denied for long.
Hence the saying: they cry out in pain as they strike you
‘They hate beauty because if there are the beautiful then there are also the ugly. Thus beauty must be uglified and eradicated’
And this is a very modern thing, this desire to accentuate and celebrate ugliness, a la tats and piercings, head shavings and purple hair. In the Fifties and Sixties, people strove towards the beautiful. Now everyone wants to be cool and live on the dark side of the moon.
It’s a very postmodern thing.
Indeed, Prog moralizing was always key for the Left. But this picture is incomplete without looking at the old “class struggle” Left. The Labor vs. Capital issues were just as prominent as the moralizing. Of course, Capital crushed Labor and NAFTA/WTO were the daggers through the heart of the class-struggle American Left. The tech oligarchs, banks and sick-care cartels, with nothing to fear from the Left, co-opted both parties. The goal was to crush the remnants of middle-class nationalism with the “racism/gender war” tropes and permanently entrench themselves. Had they not bankrupted the country and inundated us with third-world savages,… Read more »
The Khazarian cult has worn out the Democrat skin-suit and is shedding it to hopefully jump into a Chinese host like the satanic virus it is.
The Left isn’t going away. Progressivism is a religion, not a pastiche Marxist ideology. It’s backed by the global/ist elite. . . . an ancient and popular religion, no matter whether worship of the feminine is Great Mother, Eleusinian Mysteries, Near East temple-prostitute systems, New Age neo-goddess jive, or mother-son cults stretching back to Babylon and beyond. This isn’t some cobbled-together, modernist ideology. The heart of the Left is feminism, collective female power, and women are organized — and funded — to the teeth. They rule the institutions and bureaucratic government. Hundreds of thousands of feminist sub-organizations are loyal to… Read more »
In this, we differ; you seem to say that women spontaneously organize such religio-political movements by themselves, something they are prone not do beyond local charity. I say look to the pimps. Pimps “get” women; the worst pimps think like them as well. In Rome, possibly one eighth of the Empire’s population were adherents of this or that “Oriental” mystery cult- by oriental, I mean judaic. Kabbalism is naught but the same frenzied occultism. As far back as “Abraham’s” cult of the bride stealers -(that is, the original state religion of Semitic “Adam” [“true human”] over Aryan “Eve”)- who was… Read more »
This is a sense of hostility towards something or someone that is viewed as a cause of one’s diminished condition. It is frustration at the sense of inferiority and hatred at a perceived external cause. Yes. Leftism, at all times and in all places is basically the upset, easily-riled and bitter portion of society looking to blame their ills on, mostly, fictional causes. They exhibit neither the Christian ability to accept their position and suffer (although, most Leftist suffering in this modern age is actually “suffering”; a fact that makes their position even more ridiculous), nor the enterprising ability of… Read more »
Many women really DO feel inferior to men. And from the spiritual standpoint of God’s pneuma or imago, they are inferior. Instead of being content and grateful at their creation and life, they resent the male that God placed over them.
And of-coloreds often DO feel inferior to whites. As for homos, they damn well know they are effed-up.
Progressivism is the mass politicization of these raging, chaotic, pre-mammalian impulses. It is hubris and rebellion against the good order of God’s provision.
“They are bad people because the believers have declared them to be bad people.” To the extent I know these people are, they are bad people. The rich and famous that I know of are mostly evil people. Can anyone think of a single celebrity you would hire to watch your kids? Every one of them are weirdos at best. It would be hard to come up with a worse class of people than our business class of rich people. These are the very same people who sold out their country for coin! They are the people who turned the… Read more »
They also write, or pay their flunkies in the striver class to write, all those LinkedIn articles about the importance of “company culture”. Let’s see, you people systematically destroyed anything resembling loyalty or a social contract in the workplace and now that you’ve cut the average tenure of a typical employee to like 2 years, you want us to all hold hands around the campfire and sing the fucking company jingle together. Of course, except for the dumbest ones, they understand the contradictions and tensions they’ve created. In fact, they get off on humiliating us by forcing us to play… Read more »
Superb article. As Zman seemingly indicates in different words, much of the problem with so-called progressives boils down to the following equation: Christianity minus God equals embittered interlopers continuously causing needless headaches for regular folks. Once you remove theism, which ideally provides a basis for humility and the development of personal virtue, the secularized religion devolves into people indicting anyone but themselves for their own feelings of inferiority, coupled with the urge to proselytize and reorder the natural hierarchy in ways that are rarely specified. The true believers attempt to refashion their self-perceptions of inferiority into a bizarre form of… Read more »
I think what you say here about Christianity is too facile. It may have become bureaucratised by the Roman Empire but its founder’s message was one of love, forgiveness and reconciliation here and now.
I take much of what Jesus said applies to our personal relationships however I take it that Christianity believed in the power of the collective state to punish evil doers and this was taught in the epistles.
If I represent the state I have no requirement to love and forgive the evil doer or law breaker.
My duty is to uphold God’s order.
On a personal level I am to forgive and love my enemy but not to the point of self destruction.
“..forgive and love my enemy…”
I practice this as I don’t let them take up residence in my head. I am glad to hear news of their death. But in the meantime, I let them be a tree that falls in the forest, among others of their ilk… once I retract them from my (business) life.
I like my Roman bureaucracy, just not its current head.
Yes but when sweet reason fails, even Jesus turned over the tables-
“The recent spate of vandalism directed at Tesla automobiles is a good example of how this blend of righteousness and anger works.” This. Two of the dumber, hard-left lefties I know — at one point notably, solemnly declared to me, “I am going to buy a Tesla.” When I asked “why”, each answered along the lines of, “what, you don’t care about the environment…?” One was the last dork to buy, instead, an electric F-150. Brags about how ‘scary fast it is’ … blah blah. I have not informed this super noble, affluenza-inflicted liberal of a book by Henry Ford.… Read more »
Brags about how ‘scary fast it is’ … blah blah.
0-60 MPH in 2 seconds, 30 minutes to recharge to 80% full.
I have not informed this super noble, affluenza-inflicted liberal of a book by Henry Ford. Maybe I will have a copy mailed to him.
Dunno man, with all the protests on college campuses Ol’ Hank Ford might be A-OK.
Musk should be in prison. His stupid EVs suck. I certainly don’t dislike elon for the same reasons the lunatics hate him for, and I suppose hate is a strong word, but he has put millions of vehicles on our public roads with non-functioning cheating software euphemistically named “full self driving” I have heard with my own ears St Musk say “A Tesla can self drive from LA to NYC without a single intervention TODAY!” This was in like 2017. His shitty “Full Self Driving” package will turn itself off milliseconds before a collision and then Tesla (sometimes Musk himself)… Read more »
These stupid cars appealed to shitlibs for a reason.
Resentments are only thing that unites the modern left, and after October 7th, they turned them on each other. They will now go underground and fester, occasionally emerging from their holes in bouts of spasmodic violence.
However, they will return as a (semi) organized force in a decade or so, unless prevailing demographics are addressed with more than just the deportation of criminal aliens. The passing of the boomers, for all their faults, will see the end of consensus politics, and herald the advent of a nihilistic free for all, unless and until a dominant occidental majority is restored.
The trouble for the people we call the left is that Christianity is a life-denying religion in that what matters is what comes after this life. The faithful navigate this world of sin to reach everlasting life after death. For those who care only about this life, this cannot work, so those Christian ethics at the core of what we call the left quickly curdled into a bundle of resentments and hatreds. There’s a succinct name for this phenomenon. It’s called Satanism. It’s the anti-religion that strips God from the picture, elevates man into his place, and inverts all moral… Read more »
“The American left is a workshop of resentment staffed by the ugly who live to oppose beauty.”
That is a marvelous encapsulation. Simply marvelous.
As for the article, in general, it will psychologically scar any Leftist unfortunate enough to read it. Chances are good he will go slash the tires of the nearest Tesla or scrawl a grafitto on the local cathedral.
you beat me to it
You see this with the “left’s” fascination with status. A stratification of society that you would presume would violate their foundational principals. They always feel they deserve more, whether it’s money or respect. That’s why they claim that they are the “educated” party, and also why, at universities, the more worthless the area of concentration the more likely they will demand the honorific of “Dr.”.
I basically agree with the article, but there us always some truth in the contrary. For example, I am NOT ok with talentless whores like Kardashians bring worth a billion dollars. Nor am I fully edified by a promise of life while I am stinking, rotting corpse in the ground.
When a party figures it must fight to allow deranged boys to access girls bathrooms and locker rooms and “compete” against the girls in sports, then it pretty much stands for nothing but madness and hysteria. It is an arm of Satan.
“Hate white man” is the manifestation of hate Jesus Christ. The later is what they have at the back of their mind, but they cannot always say it openly. (I am not saying that Jesus Christ was a white man, but merely describing the picture the leftists have in their mind.) Once you see the developments through the anti-Christianity angle, everything else falls into place. Modern left adapted Progressive religion of early 1900s, but turned it into an anti-Christian cult. So, the language of helping the downtrodden remains, but downtrodden is redefined to include anything and anyone unapproved by Christianity.… Read more »
Agreed. The Left, essentially a feminine phenomenon or cult, hates God the Father above all. Even when they live amidst a veritable gynocracy, they wail and moan about Teh Patriarchy, by which they mean the Christian God and no other.
Likewise, this is why their Left’s financial and enforcement support comes from luciferian elites, principally of the West. For example, the Rockefellers funded and shepherded feminism from the Fifties to present.
It’s a spiritual war.
“a post about why deporting anti-Israel protestors is a good start”
No it isn’t. If they have a green card/visa and they aren’t breaking any laws, deporting them for expressing political opinions is very un-American.
I can’t say this enough: FVCK ISRAEL.
FVCK Israel – yes, agreed. But if somone has a green card/visa they are not yet even magic paper citizens, and they have no magic constitutional protections. I didn’t get involved in politics when I lived in England, or the USSR. I was a GUEST. Not my place to get involved or protest. If you are a guest, you should keep your political opinions private. And ‘free speech’ is wildly over-rated. If there is ever a White polity, why ought it allow ‘free speech’ in favor of diversity? The reality of the world is not ‘muh rights,’ it is WHO/WHOM.
I can’t say I disagree completely. I do believe in being a POLITE guest. However, I was listening to Napolitano the other day and he says as long as they aren’t breaking any laws, the government is way off base deporting people for political activity involving their homeland which has been fairly common throughout history.
I can’t help but think that small hats in our government are behind this which makes this even more offensive to me. The US shouldn’t be in the business of policing opinions that go against the small hats.
Nap is a gay libertarian prone to flights of fancy, and more to the point, wrong here. There are no constraints–NONE–in expelling a Green Card holder who violates certain resident rules. I’m not saying this will be a 9-0 ruling–there is a Jewess and other undesirables on the Court–but it will be close to it.
Yeah, but doesn’t it upset you that these people are getting ejected only because they are expressing opinions contrary to the interests of our greatest ally? I mean, if they were protesting something like deforestation, nobody would bother them. If these people being deported were at a protest demanding more school funding would anybody bother them?
It’s only because they protest against the interest of the small hats that they are getting kicked out of this country.
Just another example of that 1% controlling the system and manipulating it for their own interests.
Anything the normalizes deportation is to be applauded. You are correct that the only reason this cat is being deported is due to who/whom but it will increase public acceptance of throwing out non-whites even if it is not framed that way. It also is helpful that people are being forced to realize who is, or at least was, largely in charge of everything. And, again, this actually is “lawful,” as if that matters. Also, in the long term, this makes people even madder at the Tribe. Again, win/win.
Good points.
Ho no, Temponick, the small hats are doing our work for us with such glaring examples as this.
You can’t just tell people something, you have to let them see it for themselves. And what is seen cannot be unseen.
It also enrages me toward the ziocon Uncle Tom element in the Republican Party.
Correct. I would also add that the person in question was intricately involved in a group that *was* involved in illegal activities within the laws of the US. This is guilt by association, however that gets into conspiracy which is recognized as a legitimate crime in the US.
Criticizing the tribe in America is analogous to insulting The King in Thailand.
An educational link.
“Ressentiment: jealousy, fear and hatred”. A perfect definition of anti-semite.
No wonder all left movements always slide into hatred of Jews. And always get destroyed, both antisemitic countries and parties. Democrats and Ukraine are only the latest examples in our 3500 history.
Well, I’m not against the Jews as people, but the same could be said about them. It seems like the same pattern repeats throughout history: They get too big for their britches, start abusing their position and then people start singling them out. That’s what’s happening right now in this country, I believe.
That’s exactly what they accused Jews of in ancient Egypt (c.1500BC), Germany (1930s), the Soviet Union (starting in 1950s), Iraq (1940s) and on and on. Do you remember what eventually happened to all these countries?
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Love this girl
Aaaand that’s what happens when you let them in
is it antisemitic to criticize Israel’s behavior in Gaza?
Not if you criticized the bombing of Germany in 1944-45. And don’t forget: according to Hamas everyone killed by Israelis in Gaza is either a child or a journalist.
According to the IDF everybody killed by the IDF is either a terrorist or a human shield, what’s your point?
Please remember that Hamas does not wear uniforms, so they all pretend to be “civilians”.
Please remember that the IDF always investigates itself, declares it did nothing wrong, and the American media and government dutifully report it.
Heck the IDF soldiers can even rape POWs at will with no punishment.
(SHHH! Don’t nobody tell her.)
You people always love to brag about how your enemies get destroyed, yet the Romans (Italians) are still here, the Germans are still here, The Russians are still here, The Poles are still here and the Spanish are still here and that’s just off the top of my head. You’re like locust, you move to wherever the Gentiles are prosperous and then begin the parasitic process that human tapeworms like you are so universally reviled for. I couldn’t imagine the inferiority complex I would have knowing that I need leech off of other’s to survive as a people. No one’s… Read more »
The freak show that emerged after 2020 surely woke up a lot of grillers. It wasn’t just the BLM people, or the Antifa degenerates, but the actual people in government. There was no way someone with a job and a kid could look at Sam Brinton or Rachel Levine and think that these are the people they should throw their lot in. Joe Biden was by far the most normal person in that administration and the fact that he was a doddering senile old man said everything about the future of this party. I suspect this is a large driver… Read more »
As I said at Founding Questions this weekend: IF the Dems have learned their lesson, they are going to go with, brace yourselves, a White Guy. And a Straight White Guy. Who can mouth the moderate platitudes, looks telegenic, and has more than a base level of charisma. Identity politics at this point is going to lose fringe / swing voters. I followed that with: Of course, as David Thompson would say at his blog, IF is doing an enormous amount of lifting there. Because they are The Dems. As our esteemed host says: “Imagine the stupidest thing The Dems could do. They’ll… Read more »
Well, the Dems are a top-down organization that hasn’t run a legitimate primary since 2008. Newsom is obviously trying to turn into the “common sense” Democrat but the party is already trying to “discourage” him by running articles about how it is hurting him with the party, with the clear implication being that this will hurt him in the primary if he keeps doing it. I think it would be very tough for Gavin Newsom to emerge from the DNC primaries and he would have to take a lot of criticism and attacks he is not used to getting, being… Read more »
Some lessons the Ds may be incapable of learning. For instance, the electability of women presidential candidates. It’s entirely plausible that the emergence of Trump is primarily due to AINO being unwilling to elect a woman to that office, especially a D woman (I’ve long said that the first woman president will have to be an R, but that’s another discussion). But the problem for the Ds is that they aren’t even allowed, in this context or any other, to question whether or not they should be nominating women. Not even in their own personal internal monologues. And you can’t… Read more »
Over the last half century or so, the people known as the left made too much money to be leftists anymore (at least in the traditional economic sense). This led to a lot of contradictions, which they have attempted to paper over with ridiculous boutique beliefs, to disguise the fact that they became what they were supposed to oppose. What was historically called leftism hardly exists today, and probably can’t exist in a globalized economy. Oddly enough, leftism (as traditionally understood) needs nationalism in order to exist. Otherwise, it is either erased or transmogrifried by globalism into something else. As… Read more »
This led to a lot of contradictions, which they have attempted to paper over with ridiculous boutique beliefs, to disguise the fact that they became what they were supposed to oppose.
Reminds me of a term John D. mentioned in his weekend piece: “Luxury beliefs.”
Per wiki:
“ideas or opinions that confer status on the upper class at very little cost, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes.”
There is some seemingly innate need, with a certain segment, to self identify as “left” or “progressive,” in spite of all material and hierarchical circumstances to the contrary. Their hatred of normal christian whites is just that intense. They have to contort bizarrely lest they be mistaken for one (we’ve been over before how a cloud’s greatest fear is being mistaken for a dirt)
As john michael greer says, leftism is christianity without salvation. That makes them tormented forever, and their ideology appears nihilistic to normal people.
My personal experience has been that lefties are losers, full of envy and bitter rage. Which is what you’ve already said. But in addition there’s no solidarity among them, which might be a saving grace. If any of them were to win the lottery, his or her stance would be, “Bye-bye, losers.” The only solidarity among them is what we call “negative solidarity” — that since I have to suffer, so should everyone else.
What Z wrote is largely true but irrelevant. All that matters in a democracy are the wishes of the 1 percent. The most powerful block in the 1 percent are the Jews. As I keep pointing out Trump was only allowed to win because he made a convincing case that he was best for Israel which was the central issue for the 1 percent in 2024. We don’t know yet what will be the top issue in the midterms or 2028: Israel or destroying white countries. It simply doesn’t matter what percentage of the population has a good view of… Read more »
If it hasn’t already by noted the commentariat–> “The American left is a workshop of resentment staffed by the ugly who live to oppose beauty”. A direct hit upon nail head
Rush Limbaugh famously said:
“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.”
I used to daydream when I was a kid about being Elvis. There was a movie where he was riding around in a convertible, a Chrysler I think, car full of women, singing. I wanted to be Elvis. Now not only couldn’t you pay me enough to be famous, I realize how empty fame is. First of all, unless you are Jennifer Aniston or some other superstar, they don’t really make a lot of money. Second of all, you’ve got no privacy. And finally, you don’t work and rub elbows with the best class of people. I’ve started looking down… Read more »
In a word, they are carnies. They are the worst sorts of people.
Carnies is a good way of putting it. Just some low life working at a traveling circus in a shopping center parking lot.
It’s not hard to understand why a guy would want to be Elvis. Why a woman would want to be Jennifer Aniston seems less obvious. Something to do with status, I know, but why should that be so important?
She has an average face, a contemporary mop haircut that covers up most of her weird face and still has great legs, so I will say that for her!
TempoNick: “Why anybody would want to be famous or worships these celebrities is beyond me.“
Bro, apparently Cluster B is one helluva drug.
Me, personally, I’ve spent muh entire life trying to FLEE from Cluster B.
But wherever I go, Cluster B just keeps finding me.
When I dream about being Elvis I wake up with 45 Cal holes in my TV.
While those hatreds provided a rally point for a period, no movement can exist only on hatred. On the other hand: Not all religions have a God, but they all have a devil. The Left thrived for almost a century with an almost exclusive focus on the devil, so its collapse (and that is what is happening to it) is due to other, far more mundane reasons. I would suggest loss of a carefully curated and monopolized media is playing a key role. The previous definition of “devil,” was “white” or “whiteness” or whatever, and could not withstand much if… Read more »
I’ve only ever seen the term ressentiment one other place – Nietzsche. Z man has the right of it yet with one omission: The class feeling ressentiment knows (or at least believes) they are powerless to improve their condition. This all ties in with Nietzsche’s concepts of master vs. slave morality; it is the peons who suffer ressentiment. Grammatical note: “Ressentiment” is only a distant cousin to the more common “resentment.” Feel free to peruse the distinct definitions at your leisure. — Z: “The trouble for the people we call the left is that Christianity is a life-denying… Read more »
Well, those noble masters were figments of Nietzsche’s fevered imagination. They never existed.
Pity— too much conscience. The next life to the point of denying this one. Becoming a doormat. Nietzsche understood the problems of taking the Christian ethic too far. Maybe he was just being polemical, but I suspect he overreacted. Not sure I’d call him neopagan, but he obviously looked back to pagan Europe for the whole blonde beast thing. Maybe I’m wrong, idk, I think I remember reading somewhere the pagan ethic was about embracing life and fate— but also doing good things for your people. The glory of Rome, all those temples and baths erected by this or that… Read more »
As usual well said. I find interesting parallels between your description of the left and the alcoholic personality. Both are based on the inability of the entity to get its own way and misbehaving like a 2 year old having a temper tantrum when it fails to get its way.
Thanks.
When A.A. was quite young, a number of eminent psychologists and doctors made an exhaustive study of a good-sized group of so-called problem drinkers. The doctors weren’t trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common. They finally came up with a conclusion that shocked the A.A. members of that time. These distinguished men had the nerve to say that most of the alcoholics under investigation were still childish, emotionally sensitive, and grandiose.
— From AA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (1952)
Ben the Layabout: “These distinguished men had the nerve to say that most of the alcoholics under investigation were still childish, emotionally sensitive, and grandiose.”
^^^That right there is Cluster B in a nutshell.
God knows our society is DROWNING in Cluster B.
And now the alcoholics have access to SSRIs, ritalin, adderall, benzodiazipines, fentanyl, extremely potent marijuana, etc etc etc…
And I’m not crazy about these kooks drinking gallons of caffeine every day.
Caffeine turns mildly prickly personalities into outright thermonukular personalities.
NN-
I feel like Cluster B has been propagate and weaponized by the usual suspects with the end goal of destroying relations between Western men and women.
In this, they have largely succeeded.
Absolutely Cluster B has been weaponized.
When the Mesopotamian Conmen ripped the lid off of Pandora’s Box, via their “Feminism” Psy-Op, Cluster B was unleashed to destroy all of Creation.
Looks a bit like ole Zechariah’s ephah, at that.
Needs a lead lid tho.
What they might have left out is how many ‘alcoholics’ were Type A achievers, driven, that needed alcohol to turn off the mind and relax. Before long, MADD allowed the same impulses that drove women to want any and all un-masked to be sent to camps … to weaponize the issue from an unassailable moral high ground. tl;dr before Covid Karen was MADD Karen, who would have you thrown in a Gulag for driving “drunk” while lobbying to have the ‘legal limits’ driven ever lower until LEO types had total discretion to serve up anyone that hade the equivalent of… Read more »
Yes. The stated goal of ending substance abuse never was the actual goal. The actual goal was redemption. Also note the original Temperance Union leaders often were women. All radical politics and movements at their core are feminine, which is why it always was recognized that women are highly unsuited to participate in areas of life where they can dominate through fanaticism. The ruins of Western Civilization testify.
There are posters from 100+ years ago that feature women that says, “Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours. As always, women are the vanguard of any radical movement, and they always use access to sex to gain support from men. Nothing ever changes. They said the same thing as they made up a good 80% of marchers during BLM. In a way, even this dynamic has been neutered, as young men are falling so far behind women and are so disenfranchised by the system that they simply do not expect to live the normal trappings of a griller… Read more »
Hmm, how many of those white BLM marchers were “red diaper” babies?
Never found these fugly women threatening to ‘cut off’ secks as much of a threat…..
Still funniest Charlie Sheen joke, “didn’t pay hookers for sex, paid them to leave.’
Well said. Changing America from a pagan, gynocentric nation to an androcentric, Christian one is requisite to survival. But the U.S. just keeps on kicking its own men, disenfranchising them and laughing.
Feminism is very popular, because it puts a lot of rice in a lot of bowls. Including the bowls of Christian and ‘conservative’ people. It is a heavily incentivized, heavily underwritten operation.
A-men.
MADD turned into a Prohibitionist organization long ago. Its founder, Candace Lightner long ago left the organization after recognizing this (unwanted) development. As with many such organizations, when it achieved its initial objectives, it simply morphed into what Eric Hoffer sagely called “a racket”. In short, MADD had too good a thing going for it, so typical “mission creep” set in. For example, MADD has promoted blood alcohol levels as low an .05%, and a prohibition on all alcohol advertisement, This short sightedness misses what is now the greatest problem of drink drivers currently arrested, the “problem” drinker. Here is… Read more »
Thank gosh somebody finally pointed out MADD’s origin. The founder (I think) had a young relative killed by a severe problem drinker recidivist who had been let off the hook time after time.
It used to be drinking and driving was legal; however, if you truly effed up, say, killed someone in an accident, the penalty was 8 years in prison for manslaughter.
I’m sure this will create a thriving new industry for tech savvy guys to start a nice side hustle disabling this stuff in newer cars. All of us unemployed White tech guys need something besides Uber and Doordash to replace the income we lost when our jobs went to Indians.
I remember being repeatedly being beaten over the head with the MADD moral cudgel as I grew up in the 80s and 90s.
Since MADD has been mentioned, I always balked at the assertion that alcoholism is a disease. Is there any rational justification for this? Maybe this is semantic fussiness, but the assertion that “X is a disease” has always bothered me.
I accept that alcoholics may have a genetic predisposition to drink, but how is that a disease?
The disease aspect (not choosing sides here) I’ve always categorized under the heading of “refusal to accept accountability” for one’s actions. Who cannot forgive an individual for contracting a disease? That why AA has always attracted me. One tenant is that *you* accept complete and total responsibility for your condition.
tenant? Oh, tenet. Is everyone here using voice-to-text to post? I’ve seen other typos here that could only be the result of sound-alikes. I must be behind the times.
I feel that what is being said here is self serving to some degree. Sure, you have the bioleninist freaks – but that belies the fact that a lot of high income areas vote for the democrats in the us.
places like Edina, MN; Greenwich, CT; the shoreline communities north of Chicago – all voted for Harris I think.
Every notable bloc except the usual whites (married, poorer, etc.), the funny-hat Jews, and injun men voted for Harris. In post-America, presidential voting patterns display nearness to, identification with, and the favor of power. The winner party gets “the rich,” of course. Trannies and the rest of the sexual marketplace clearance rack—the people the term “bioleninism” brings to mind—are traditionally courtiers, spies, enforcers, etc. (The tranny jannie is an eternal archetype.) Since the Democrats became explicitly the regime party, fully dedicated to domestic repression, such “marginal” categories have become loyal partisans. The slight—and it is slight—recent shift of minority men… Read more »
Resentment is a normal human feeling. A normal sin, if you want it. It has existed in all ages.
What makes resentment extremely powerful in our age is equality. If every man is equal and group X has more than group Y, the only possible explanation is that group X oppresses group Y. So resentment is masked as search for justice, as a fight against the injustice. A sin is masked as a virtue.
Exactly. Equality is the rocket fuel of resentment. That’s why Barry O constantly shilled for Equality in his speeches.
As far as the world was concerned Mary was a poor nobody from the edge of the Roman Empire, but The Father made her the Queen of Heaven. This is a good lesson for all of us.
There is no Queen of Heaven. This is idolatry.
Nah, It’s just us Catholic Christians honoring the mother of our God, Jesus Christ.
‘The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.’ (Jeremiah 7:18)
But you will do your will anyway.
Proof texting is just that. You are Protestant and I am Catholic and I’ll leave you with another title in English that while not precisely from the N.I.V., I think we can agree on: Christ is King!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! (My Orange Order friend and I could share that and Christus Rex)
The Left’s last great cause was universal government run healthcare. They fell quite a bit short with Obamacare, which is basically just subsidized catastrophic health insurance for the poor. In a sense, we dodged a bullet. This last great issue has been taken off the table, in exchange for a system that is not much different than we had before.
Every other civilized country has health care for the masses, so I don’t see what the problem is. Even my very right wing conservative doctor is sick of the system and once government healthcare. All the current system does is make insurance companies rich.
I agree, but every other system devolves into rationing health care in some manner as that which is “free” has no limitation on demand. Of course, the elite of any such country has access to all the health care that they can afford. In short, the same “two tier” system you decry. The difference is that I would like to avail myself of whatever I can afford and not be restricted to the “dirt people’s” health care. In there lies the rub.
They say Switzerland has the best mix. Healthcare for everyone, and if you want something over and above that, i.e. non-rationed care, you can have a private insurance add on. I wonder if somebody has done a calculation as to what all of the overhead in the system is costing us. Paper shufflers, computer programmers, CEOs, etc. We have great medical care, but it has gotten to the point where the cost is unsustainable, not to mention that the nicest office buildings going up in any City these days tend to be medical buildings.
Not sure about the cost remark. I’ve used “Medicare”. They send me a statement—not a bill. The statement is what hey’ve been billed by the medical provider and what they’ve paid. Medicare pays—as I read the statement—typically something like 10% of what’s billed. No, I don’t get billed for the other 90% as that is against the law and why they send me the statement. Bold letter at the bottom not to pay any other bills related to this medical expense. So the whole thing is some sort of Kabuki dance from what I see. Something is indeed wrong, but… Read more »
^^^ The Swiss example may not be the best since it involves an insurance mandate and is not particularly cheap, however, there are other countries that have the dual model of government health care with private insurance add-ons.
Something will eventually happen, but imagine the health system run by the hippos at the DMV. That’s what we’ll get. As bad as things are we’ll make it worse. Anyway, I doubt Americans will voluntarily swallow the overt rationing such as system would require. Or the cost-driven necessity of cutting off old people. That last would be bitterly opposed by the system itself – too profitable.
I wouldn’t say that. The Affordable Care Act is pretty much textbook fascism.
The Left has become little more than a modern day Cargo Cult, trying desperately to conjure John Frum. Albeit, a mortally dangerous cult.
I think it’s even worse than what you and Z-Man are positing. My gut instinct is that the core of 21st Century “Leftism” is [or was, until Trump II] a combination of massive financial chicanery at the High End, and deeply horrifyingly cynical manipulation of outright Mental Illness at the Low End. Basically it amounted to Mesopotamian Financialists controlling the flow of money out of the Federal Reserve, combined with Mesopotamian sooth-sayers controlling the edumakashunal institutions, where they recruited and SELECTED the very most impressionable & mesmerizable & hypnotizable personalities as their rank & file street thugs. It’s very very… Read more »
BTW, the most fascinating piece of news today is that Trump has declared every executive order signed by Joe Biden’s “Auto Pen” to be null and void; effectively declaring that all of Joe Biden’s “Auto Signatures” were counterfeits [signed by the various Mesopotamian conmen which manned his presidency].
Is this Peak Clownworld yet?
If not, then I’m getting mildly terrified as to what Peak Clownworld is gonna ackshually look like, once it finally arrives.
I’m not looking forward to that day.
I’m sure an Obama appointed judge has already written a decision upholding the pardons that will be released as soon as the court case appears.
You miss the point. These EO’s and the continuing of enforcement of such despite a lower court injunction is precisely to drive the final decision to the SCOTUS before time runs out. The more of these that occur, the more the heat is turned up on SCOTUS to come to some resolution. SCOTUS like all courts, is loath to involve itself in political matters. Always has been. Ignoring these matters has been their forte—but no longer. You can run, but you can’t hide. When SCOTUS decides against Trump and Trump says screw you, then get nervous. On the other hand,… Read more »
The facts of this seem obvious – Biden was non compos mentis, he signed these pardons with a fake signature device that anyone could use, which means we don’t know WHO signed these, and without evidence that Biden actually signed them, they are invalid. Nobody questions that Biden has pardon power but it has to be Biden doing the pardoning. This is especially obvious considering many of the pardons issued whichw ere so out of step of Biden’s entire career… but totally in step with the lunatics running the WH. However, I really do not see, even if this went… Read more »
The aspect of the auto pen is not ipso facto evidence of the document being invalid. Two aspects must be proved (IIRC): That Biden did not authorize autosigning and that Biden did not know what was in the documents being autosigned.
Seems that both of these aspects become harder and harder to prove as time passes and Biden sinks into complete incompetence, which seems to have been already been stated after the DOJ interviewed him on his sequestered secret documents investigation a year or so ago.
The villain character in Training Day had the best succinct explanation for this:
“It’s not what you know, Jake…it’s what you can prove!”
What made the Anglosphere susceptible to manipulation is that from 1500 on, it has always been primarily a mercantile concern. Probably all thalassocracies are. The pursuit of money, and the elevation of moneyed elites creates vulnerabilities. Protestantism, with its emphasis on material prosperity and collective salvation, exacerbated this trend.
”Mesopotamians”, lol. Akkadians, more specifically, but, alas, not everyone is a nerd.
Durned Mesopotamians. Can’t take ’em anywhere.
In twenty years will they be denouncing Trump as Hitler and wondering why anyone would ever vote for him?
Leftist are losers because leftism, in and of itself, is not an ideology based on production. Rather, it is based on parasitism (redistributionism) and thus attractive to losers.
I was driving up to the mountains over the weekend and passed a white Tesla 3 with what looked like a home-printed bumper sticker that read, “I bought this before Elon went crazy.” That struck me as humorous because it betrays to complete narcissism of the people we call the left. On one hand, they clearly bought the Tesla because doing so made them one of the chosen people. On the other hand, they need the bumper sticker to say to everyone, “I’m still on the team, don’t blame me!”. On the other hand, they acknowledge the violence of their… Read more »
Attacking Tesla dealerships and Tesla electric cars; for once, the left is doing something useful, even though, it’s for the wrong reasons. If anything is going to destroy western civilisation; then, it’s the ideology symbolised by the electric car.
One needs to separate symbolism from concept. EV’s are here to stay and I predict will continue to expand. Talk to any engineer, I have one in the family, they will tell you the engineering/maintenance/cost advantages in EV’s. The problem is in not allowing the infrastructure and technology to mature at its own pace. A typical problem with government selecting winners and losers in the free market. The problem is one of government regulation and ideology, not one of technology. WRT to passenger cars—not trucks or delivery vehicles—last year was the largest sales year for EV’s (even with reduced incentives)… Read more »
People knew White America is dead, problem is where’s reward? I mean brown hordes expected they get paid when they did the part, the destroying White which they did But Jews are greedy, Jew thinks us citizenship is rewarded, the voting rights include Reaction was simple, brown hordes didn’t come out to vote, they are smart enough to figure out citizenship is worthless in infinite immigration Next stop is a brutally aggressive racial riot you have never seen in your lifetime, Brown hordes will destroy not only white, but also economically And That’s how Jewish centuries end, Frankenstein kills Dr… Read more »
I found the last few paragraphs especially substantial and well expressed today.
The Democratic Party, a “big tent” of geeks, minorities, and bishes, has always been a party of losers and weaklings. Whereas the fascist admires strength, the liberal admires compassion, a womanly attribute that turns the beholder into a dainty little saint marching in protests. The suffocating moralism of the left, which the right sees as degeneracy, is a sledgehammer wielded to break up society into tinier and tinier pieces. The only antidote for liberalism remains, as always, a brisk sense of realism.
— Greg (my blog: http://www.dark.sport.blog)
“The Democratic Party […] has always been a party of losers and weaklings.”
No, not always. You are just too young to remember.
“You are just too young to remember.”
Or just an AI troll bot?