“Because they can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality, they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it.” —Sasha Stone on the Democratic Party
Kunstler is a master wordsmith and is able to condense a complex issue into just several logical and incisive sentences:
"The MAGA movement has largely been an effort to reconstruct an American common culture, a consensus of values and behaviors we can all agree on. The Democratic Party opted to oppose that — a poor choice. In fact, they apparently viewed that effort as an existential threat to the hustles and rackets that were sustaining the party. For instance, the jobs program for otherwise unemployable college grads who styled themselves as “activists” working for NGOs under the umbrella of USAID."
""Kunstler is a master wordsmith and is able to condense a complex issue into just several logical and incisive sentences.."
Well, he is a pretty fair writer but I don't get weak at the knees over his stuff; it's OK.
But if Mr. Kunstler is so good, why does he need to recruit qualified people to flog his new book? Surely there are enough adorers on this blog to make it an instant success? Sounds like a bit of a hustle to me.
Yeah, but what a stupid "Common Culture." Would a "common culture be acceptable if it was Say killing unauthoraized persons who tried to immigrate? These persons are monsters Yeah right so now they will create common culture. I am really not sure about this one
You're right. Killing invaders would indicate a desire to survive. American common culture consists of clueless Whites in the process of losing everything. Why on Earth would any of the invaders want to assimilate to that? Or any of the legal immigrants for that matter.
Good, Jeffy. Survival is the first morality as Jefferson said. We share this in common with the animals. Baboons protecting their territory, females, and young is an excellent example.
What common culture would let in people who hate us? One controlled by people who hate us - like you. At least you had the dignity to say "persons" and not the usual, Be kind to the "stranger" - as if millions of strange people are "the stranger". Of course persons doesn't quite cut it either. A horde of locusts is more like it.
Great synopsis of the Democrats. That party has to die. It's evil.
I like the ideas for a second party to balance MAGA. It will be a tough haul, as Bessent/Powell are creating the groundwork for a return to a community banking domestic economy. 99% of policy ideas with real solutions are flowing out of Trump's team. His EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, is lifting the burden off of farmers and now auto manufacturers by killing green boondoggles and CAFE standards.
For sure. A party that espouses support for small business, american manufacturing and reduction in regulations, combined with an america-first foreign policy that doesn't involve bombing other countries and endless manufacturing of bombs would be something special.
Sure. A fine idea. Lest we forget, we had this not so long ago. It was vernacularly known as the “Tea Party”. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich birthed it with optimism. The swamp infiltrated and rendered it impotent within a couple of years. The idea is great; how and who and with what is the problem.
The Tea Party didn't appear to have the stamp of approval from the Uniparty puppet masters. It made too much sense, and undermined the authoritarian goals of the Uber-Wealthy and the neoFascist arrangement they've created.
I'm not so sure the suicide of the crazy Democratic Party was organic. Propped up via shady balloting in a long series of "selections", it appears to have served a purpose of driving many in the center and right further to the right. The vast majority of Americans never supported the far left planks in the platform. If the Democratic Party folds, the Uniparty will probably split the remaining pieces into semi-authoritarian and full-on dictatorship, depending on the mood of the majority, the success/failure of future psyops, and the state of the Long Emergency.
The Tea Party destruction was led by Obama and Mitch McConnell. That weaponization of the government using the Patriot Act to target not just political opponents, but American citizens, is when the scales fell from my eyes.
"the “Tea Party”. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich birthed it with optimism. The swamp infiltrated and rendered it impotent within a couple of years. "
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The Tea Party was not lead by Trump. and love him or hate him he is a genuine force of nature. A disruptor of epic proportions that come along in politics once every few hundred years. He is relentless (like the T-1000 terminator unit) and he views himself as on a mission from G-d.
Movements (like the Tea Party) need leaders who can lead, who can connect w the people and inspire them both by his actions and words. Neither Paul nor Kucinich had any charisma.
Do you know any Democrats today who would vote for a Republican candidate? The Democrats I know hate the Republican party more than they like the Democrats. Their vote is driven by hate, and that fact alone will keep the party alive.
The hate infused “Divide and Conquer” modus of the Dems has been their source of power ever since the Lincoln “A divided house will never stand” debate with Douglas.
My in-laws are still staunch Democrats even though my father in-law is pro gun rights and anti-abortion. Go figure. It's tribalism and people can't betray their tribe even if their tribe is against what they believe in.
Think about what you are saying, the Dems are enemies of Constitutional America. MAGA stands for the Common Culture as it tries to undo the socialistic damage that has been done.
I voted Dem from 92 to 08 and then Obama changed my tune. I call Dems communists now. The Whig party died over slavery divisions and the Dem party will likely die over divisions about illegal immigration, transexuals and "minor attracted people" aka pedophiles.
All political parties have to die. They are totally unnecessary. George Washington advised we avoid them and I think we should. A party causes people to think party first and Country next. We should all be thinking Country first, not Democrat or Republican. I resigned my political affiliations a long time ago. If anyone asks me what party I belong to I simply say "American." I wish more would do the same.
The deep state is the 13 families of the black 'nobility'. Everything south of that is an expendable minion. We, as a nation, have managed to produced the minion nation. The 'people' became anything looking to advance themselves at the expense of anyone else. Spiritually hollow, intellectually vacant, tribal followers on both sides of the political divide became the 'We the People". "We", if not the ignition, are most certainly the engine of the collapse.
Morning Jim - excellent as always, one of your best maybe, in depth and breadth. Thanks as always for your work. You continue to be a beacon of sanity.
It will be interesting to see how thing play out in NYC if Mandami is elected Mayor in November. There will be tremendous pressure from his constituency to do the things he campaigns on i.e. deconstruct the NYPD, free bus service, city run grocery stores etc. When the city begins to crumble, as it most certainly wil, I could see him blaming failure on greedy whites, Jewish New Yorkers, and MAGA ... and DOUBLE DOWN! I for one am looking forward to public displays of Islam and the Call to Prayer emanating out of City Hall 8x daily. Also plenty of Red Flags on Mayday. Radical Islam, Marxism, + the LBGQT crowd makes for a strange coalition, but in NYC it may prove to be a winner.
As long as politicians like Mandami and the destructive policies he advocates for, are able to entrance such a large population as exists in New York City, the policies of the Left and the Democrats are not dead. They may try to rebrand themselves as something else, but a pile of shit by any other name is still a pile of shit. Society’s temptation to get something for nothing will always exist ergo, so will the Democrat Party, if not by that name but certainly by their ideology.
Between the post & the comments & all specific issue/s aside, I was struck by the fact that we are experiencing history real time vs. in hindsight. The takeover of the dem party is the foot in the door that the left has crazed forever & they will never relinquish it until the whole thing is destroyed.
It could be debatable if NYC is the world’s foremost city.
“The quest is for power and control …” rings quite true. Currently: NYC; long term: it’s the whole world.
Satisfaction will always be elusive for these people. They are always angry, never satisfied. Whatever they ‘achieve’ is never enough. Eventually they land in oblivion. It is the way these groups always go. There will be another group waiting in the wings to take ‘the fight’ to the next level. This group is already on scene, just not presently apparent.
Such is the way of life on this planet. Maintaining something resembling sanity (a bit of an elusive term in itself) is what I think most want in this land. A part of it is the desire to be left alone, to lead individual lives encompassing ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’ while taking care not to step on others seeking the same in their individual lives.
And then there are those who would use other people’s money to gain power and control over the individuals who really just want to be left alone.
The ignorance is literally breathtaking. Major grocery chains have less than 2% profit margins. They make money with a huge turnover of inventory week after week. This idiot who has never had a job says he will lower grocery prices by "buying wholesale." I bet Sam Walton wishes he had thought of that. I would love to see an AI generated Strother Martin soliloquy responding to Manama's platform.
A nation is one people and one culture. That's it. The idea of Black Americans or Muslim Americans is grotesque. Ditto Chinese or Indians Americans. Etc, etc.
Agree 100%, Lugh. What is missing is that these groups do not assimilate, and as JHK says, tear apart the American common culture. Their goal, think NAACP or CAIR, is to tear America apart. BTW, Trump is trying to take away tax free status from CAIR, Yay!
Their “holy book” forbids them to assimilate unless it promotes the “word of Allah”. Even then, there are restrictions on how long they can coexist in peace with infidels.
When JHK captures so eloquently, as he so often does, the salient points of an issue, I sooo wish I could memorize his diction. When dealing with family and friends that are wallowing in, or tainted by, various leftish ideaologies, I would love to be able to respond with his thoughts/words. So clear and concise, fact-based, undeniable.
"They also had the accumulated political capital of race advocacy, starting with the civil rights crusades of the 1960s."
This is a REAL hoot. That the party of Jim Crow and the Klan managed such a switcheroo. Only exceeded by being clearly the Red party and somehow co-opting blue.
Dems/leftists could not have achieved this obvious narrative switch without their coconspirators in the media and academia. Now that these Marxist-captured institutions are being exposed and (hopefully) torn down, common sense and patriotism have a chance to bring us back to sanity, at least, if not greatness.
Back in the eighties, dems were red and reps blue on the political map, look it up, why the change? Dems being red was too revealing what they really were commies, marxists, and socialists?
It's still too early to proclaim the death of the Democrats and their schemes. Don't hold your breath...you will know we have reached the safety of the future when the past seems quaint and old-fashioned. We are still living the horrors of the 60's, and will be for some time. Even if all the Boomers were dead and gone, the 60's will not be over until something different and possibly better replaces it. It may take the Boomers great-grandchildren to bring forth that better world.
The Democrats are not done. Not by a long shot. They are re-grouping and licking their wounds but they'll be back. Besides the Republicans are still doing pretty much the same thing. Spending money we don't have. Waging war in foreign lands that pose no threat to America. At least they've stopped the invasion from the borders for a couple of years, I will give them that much.
It appears they are improving the migration infrastructure during this momentary lull.
If it goes according to their plan, the Darien Gap will be less formidable with the addition of a couple of bridges. There's another bridge over the Canal in progress. Panama appears to be a battleground sort of sitting on the back burner for now. There are similar situations at other choke points around the world.
He is, and presents the information through his on-scene journalism approach which includes drone-acquired videos. A take on the 'picture worth a thousand words' concept.
Since you've noted Michael Yon's contributions to this knowledge base, I'll offer to readers his work is worth a look. Obviously you're already there.
Regarding Panama, Grant crossed the Isthmus on his way to assignment in California. The rail line was not yet complete in any sections, they used boats and mules for transport. The importance of transportation developments for people and goods in the area since the mid-1850's cannot be overemphasized.
The Gap area also has a rich history dating back centuries.
Michael Yon's work in this one area presents a view which barely makes it to people in the US except a couple of alternative media sites, at times accomplished by other journalists making similar ventures into what I think remains a poorly understood yet vitally important piece of territory.
The 60s were less formidable than is multiculturalism, a certain attempt to destroy the common culture of true Americanism. It is truly facing a setback now with MAGA. I wish this kind of return to true nationalism were possible for every country again. That always sticks in my craw, as they say.
We hit rock bottom ignoring what might be called an American Three No's. While the Chinese Three No's refer to material things they lack, ours are ignored warnings from great leaders. Washington warning against foreign entanglements. Jefferson warning against a National Bank, today's Federal Reserve, "the bank and the corporations which will grow up around it." Eisenhower's warning against the "Military Industrial Complex." I believe ignoring these are the three greatest errors which have led to almost everything which has gone wrong.
Jefferson had another: The Blacks are to be sent out of America, the further the better; beyond all danger of mixture. He met White survivors from the genocide in Haiti. He knew what he was talking about.
John Adams believed in preparing militarily to secure the nation, reinforcing that prudent strength deters conflict and protects peace. Unfortunately, this idea devolves into Eisenhower's warning.
Jefferson warned against maintaining a standing army, and also the judiciary becoming tyrannical.
There is much to be learned from those who have gone before us.
TJ and Alexander Hamilton were diametrically opposed in their ideas about the role of the federal government, today’s parties probably started with them. The Federalists, Hamilton, the Adams, Madison, Monroe believed that the government should be, in today’s terms, socialistic, with power centered in DC. Jefferson up to Jackson believed that the people should control the government, they were Republicans at the time. Note that we are still fighting about the same things today.
Paraphrasing Newton:
For every position, there will be an equal and opposite position. The US is facing another crisis to see “if any nation so conceived and dedicated can long endure”.
George Washington never foresaw a world where in one day of travel a person could be in almost any country in the world instead of months of often very dangerous travel.
Entanglement is simply a matter of modernity.
To adhere to George Washingtons words we would need to slam borders shut and cut off almost all access in and out.
Isolationism led to two world wars and the next world war will lead to nuclear war and another stone age something many believe has already happened.
I'm not so sure isolationism can be blamed for world wars. I do believe another stone age has already happened, and will again. The fact remains that the most successful societies are racially homogeneous. The swamp has Trump on board with their foreign warmongering.
Future anthropologists, probably Chinese, will wonder how the primitives who squat in the ruins of NYC ever built such a place. The locals will deny it, speaking of White gods. They will be ignored just as Indians of South America were ignored when they talked about White gods.
As he tries to stop both the war in gaza and Ukraine as well as a measured response to Iran and its forty-year undeclared war with the US and its proxy Israel.
From the talking points "A lie is not a lie if you truly believe it. " -George Castanza
Reality does not really line up with what you have said.
I think you are right. Without the US entering the war, the European powers would probably have beaten themselves to a pulp and eventually reached a ceasefire. US entry pushed the scales down in favor of England and France.
No had they been more fair about the reparations there might not have been another war.
You can't prove one way or the other what would have happened that war would have gone on for decades and eventually come to the US one way or another.
Or, had the Germans and Russians allied, they probably would have been able to destroy Britain (and the Jews who run it) and saved the world a whole lot of trouble.
Length of the trip didn't stop Europe from traveling to and colonizing the world did it? In Washington's time European powers had fought Queen Anne's War and the French and Indian War in North America. Holland was in Southern Africa. France and England among others were in India. Spain had long colonized Mexico and was fighting Portugal for South America. The American colonies were involved in getting help from foreigners who were entangling themselves in our revolution. During Washington's first term, France, which had bankrupted itself aiding OUR revolution was overthrown and the reign of terror was under way. This was a stark example of what the price of meddling could be. Not getting involved in other people's wars and conflicts does not preclude trade or friendly relations with the world at large.
With that paragraph of response, it still does not discount the simple fact minding your own business in 1776 was far easier to do than now.
FYI France bankrupted itself fighting England across the planet NOT just helping the colonies throw off the English yoke of tyranny and from the then King and Queen spending like drunken sailors on extravagant lifestyles and palaces.
Now trying to ignore the power plays across the planet only brings more and larger wars.
Would the world be better served with China as the worlds police force?
How about some nice Muslim overlords?
Maybe Putin and Russia pulling the global strings?
How about reverting back to England as the hyper power running everything?
It was not France that was overthrown, but its monarchy. Louis XVI and wife were both guillotined in 1793. The US has paid a heavy price for its meddling since the end of WWII.
We need to keep our nose out of others business. There never was a stone age. The people in biblical times especially before the flood were very "advaced". We are seeing prophecy fulfilled. We have been warned. We have been told how to heal our lands. Up to us to decide.
Both parties are guilty of meddling in other countries' business. We cannot afford to be the policeman of the world. The big unknown is how bad do economic conditions get for today's young people?
Trump wants to build an Iron Shield for America even though it won't be able to stop Russia's Oreshnik missiles. But it will make lots of money for the few and that's what matters.
Thanks Jim. Yes, there's always a need for an opposition party, or parties, as the wresting matches in the USA and in increasingly totalitarian Germany (among other countries) have amply shown. While the GOP certainly has its share of corruption and dirty dealing, the Democrat party is collapsing in a heap of unmasked fraud (more revelations daily) -- yet still remains propped up in public by complicit and dishonest "mainstream media."
In the individual person, the Great Frauds (of any stripe, of any time and place) remain propped up by herd mentality, cognitive dissonance, and the terrible pain of having to admit that one has been suckered and used & abused so badly for so long.
Much diehard "true believers" are like sports fans who gallantly tattoo their faces with the logos of sports teams whose multi-millionaire owners and players take them utterly for granted; move cities and teams to chase more money; grossly overcharge for tickets, "merch," and beer--and who most certainly do not emotionally collapse upon losing a big game. Such meltdowns afflict only fanatical fans and followers, whose joys and sorrows are largely vicarious.
But the vicarious life is a precarious life. Nothing comes from nothing. Increased personal responsibility, self-reliance, common sense, local communities, small government--when have these ever been unhealthy? Reality is a great leveler, a fine and sobering thing. All the best to you and thanks for reading.
When you really ponder and consider the reason for a political party you come to the conclusion that we don't need political parties in any shape or form. They are completely unnecessary. The Constitution doesn't say anything about political parties. George Washington himself in his fare well address said to stay away from them. I would love to live in an America where we are all just Americans. No "Ds" and no "Rs". Political parties become a tribe to most people and it is hard to get people to change their tribes.
Let us not forget that the Republican Party doesn't do much different from the Democrats when in positions of power. The wars continue. The taxes continue. The spending continues.
It should be "down with all political parties" not just down with the Democrats.
There are no do-overs. However, if the focus returns to the local level, which it might out of necessity, those 'D & R' labels could disappear as they won't have as much relevance at the local level.
Democrats are lucky their Party Leaders aren’t adherents to the Jim Jones Commitment of allegiance to the Party.
But they are also going to be very angry when they realize they have been caught up in a dead end Party that have stolen their passion and were just using them for their own Political Power.
Due to the lack of free speech European Leftists are now faced with their own actual Replacements.
Our Democrat Leftists “Progressives” are still in the denial and utter delusional stage.
Regardless are these Democrats going to be able to build a new Competing Party?
William, I wonder about the future. IMHO, the old parties are gone. The Dem party is now a ruthless bunch of socialists that cannot stand opposition. The GOP is split in half over a snit by the Bush crowd that Trump would dare take away Jeb’s presidency. The 1900s parties are kaput.
So what will replace them. Again, IMO, the Dem party will continue toward the Left, becoming the party of the losers to the capitalistic system that is not going away. They will continue to fight the common culture JHK talks about, especially in city elections. They will continue to sell their constituency on the lie that they are for taking care of the economic fallout, total BS. They are for power, period and it is going to be more violent as they feel their power ebbing. The GOP will be interesting. The Bushies, being Deep Staters first and foremost, will slide way over to the Left joining the Dems to battle Trump’s legacy. MAGA will attract, again, IMO, the moderate Dems that are currently looking for a home. Some have already joined up. So two parties, Ult-Left and Moderate Right. The circle of the political spectrum has rotated 90 degrees CW.
How about these names? MAGA merges into Musk’s American Party and the Ult-Leftists becoming the Socialist Party. Not the Democratic Socialist Party because they are anti-Democratic. Dreaming?
It’s going to be interesting, wonder too what our Two Party System is going to transform into. Thinking there will be multiple iterations to come and then who knows what will eventually happen and how it will last for the years to come.
We still are living in a 19th - 20th century political world and our 21st century world has crashed ashore and dealing with the transition is still ebbing and flowing with our past and the direction we are heading to.
I wouldn't discount some members of the upcoming generations taking the lead in forming organizations at the local level. They're sort of screwed by the current system, thus there is a need by them to replace what is not working. My observation is they are figuring this out and taking those steps to build from the bottom up.
I, for one, do not want a bunch of racist children making any decisions for this country, period. They know nothing and have no wisdom, no experience to back up their viewpoints.
A really good example showed up yesterday. 77% of Generation Z bring their parents to their job interviews.
Too bad the entire DC Swamp is so corrupt it can never be saved. The RINOs, liberals, retardicans and others are enjoying the supreme thieving and grifting operations the leftists have put into place. No way they are ever going to give that up.
Remember the Communist Manifesto from 1963. The goal was to take over one or both of the political parties in the United States. Mission was accomplished
Don't forget LBJ and the Great Society which ushered in the welfare class and totally nuked the atomic family. The resultant chaos has persisted to this day, with teenage gangs controlling what's left of the great progressive cities. Cheap energy and the Interstate System enabled both the white flight to the suburbs as well as the drugs which followed.
Were all these consequences unintended? One wonders.
Civil Rights reinstituted aristocratic class privileges, that is, privileges accorded merely on the basis of one's birth, which the Constitution had abolished as 'equality under the law.'
An aside of that is the exploitation of women - if one wants to eliminate policies based on performative empathy, voting should be limited to married men with no criminal convictions.
Law should simply address damages, rather than Federal permissions; for voting (democracy) to work, the unrepresented will be incentivised to support the majority culture and mores, and work through its traditional institutions, that is, adhere to the standards of a common culture.
Only the power-hungry seek to expand the franchise, to create their own parallel private armies (which is what corporate personhood and NGOs are, I add.) What Kunstler is calling for is a Grange, the alliance of common middle class and 10th Amendment that went head-to-head with the oligarchs of the Gilded Age. There are still a few ancient Grange halls left as museums, but it was the MAGA of its time.
Only time will tell as today's college graduates going back 10 years have been indoctrinated to hate Capitalism and the American Dream...the irony is that the billionaires who accumulated their wealth through the very system they now exploit are the leaders of the marxist movement...It's almost like a guilt trip for the billionaires...as though they have learned from their evil capitalistic ways and want to pay it back to those way less fortunate...All the while holding on to their ill gotten gains...If you want to learn more about this transformation of appearing to do good for humanity (while holding on to your wealth) you should read the book Controligarchs by Semus Bruner...and you will see the trail of corruption going way back to the 1800's and starting in large part with John Rockefeller....and continuing today through the likes of Bill Gates, Marc Zuckerberg, and George Soros...These people fear no one and until they do it will continue...The Wealth disparity has not yet seen it's reckoning as of yet...Who will be our Willaim Wallace?
"Capitalism" and "socialism" is a false canard, two hollow constructs I have come to hate.
It ain't your pappy's capitalism, anymore, not simple supply-and-demand, a better mousetrap, nor accounting of widgets in inventory or cost-of-goods sold.
This is what the Left understands, what the Right was too befuddled to remember: the purpose of power is to get what you want, not to fix the dictionary so everyone agrees.
Yes, competition is a sin. The discipline of competition and individualism is something to foist on the dummies. Smart people don't believe in things like that and never have.
Democracy? As Erdogan said, It's a bus. You get off at your stop. You don't worship the fucking bus.
I can't disagree with Jim's analysis of the history of increasing progressivism in American politics...how we ended up where we are today...I would just add that a number of events over the last 10-20 years accelerated at least one-half of the country's fateful (fatal?) attraction to proto-Marxism. I think one of the most important accelerants was the events which occurred during the supposedly conservative Bush Administration: first the very unsettling 9/11 attack, followed by the innocent-sounding Patriot Act, followed by the inflation of a dangerous housing investment bubble, followed by the utterly dishonest and disingenuous Iraq and Afghanistan wars, followed by a crash and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. This Financial Crisis, which was 100% the result of Bush policies, destroyed the American Dream for tens of millions of Americans who suffered life-changing job losses and firings, rental evictions, mortgage defaults, unemployment, home losses, bankruptcies, and devastating stock market losses. It is no wonder enough Americans voted for Obama's duplicitous hope-and-changey thing in 2008...and the rest is history.
Agreed. Except it could be argued that it all started with the Clinton admin with passing NAFTA, repealing Glass-Steagell, and that hedge fund friendly derivatives legislation whose name escapes me right now. But talk about a pivot to capital! That started with Slick Willie. At any rate: when people can't see (or change if they do) the rigged financial system they're living in and can't make headway in it by themselves, they look to Big Mommy Gov to make it better. We've kinda hit peak there.
I have to add in the LBOs, leveraged buyouts, that began under Reagan in '81 and led to the merger-and-aquisitions craze, with all the loose money from Reagan's explosion of the debt.
Some physicists did a heat map about 15 years ago and found that 147 umbrella corporations controlled the other 89,000 listed big-cap corporations on the planet at that time- this, before Satan's own NGOs kicked off as the "public-private partnerships" that haunt our nightmares today.
Same in Canada however we are really late to the party. In fact having an idiot like Charlie Angus attempting to circumvent what's left of our trade with the US by backdooring trade with the Mexico really shows how short the escape ladder is relative to hole we've dug for ourselves.
Conservatism needs a revamp and quickly. There is no place for socialism in this neck of the woods.
Won't happen in Canada until we repatriate millions of "temporary" workers and refugees from the Indian subcontinent and Middle East. Just look at Brampton, Ontario, a shit hole of 600,000 rascist assholes from India.
The dumbest thing Canadians did over the last 50 years was vote Maggie and Pierre's idiot child to lead the country. His hatred of "old stock" (i.e white, English-speaking Christians/Jews) led him to import a huge chunk of the third world and make the "old stock" second class citizens in their own country, not unlike Great Britain.
Conservatism only conserved the ideas of its enemies, running along behind them hoping for a pat on the head.
What modern "conservatism" preserved was multiculturalism - the nation as an idea, that anyone could be a member, that "melting pot" theory was good and "racisms" were bad - rather than defending the peoples that made up the body of the nation and the culture they generate.
We became a foreign market bazaar filled with noise and pickpockets, where the only standard of value was the coins in one's pocket.
Tribe up or die, white man, not by desire, but by necessity - because that is what the others do.
Kunstler is a master wordsmith and is able to condense a complex issue into just several logical and incisive sentences:
"The MAGA movement has largely been an effort to reconstruct an American common culture, a consensus of values and behaviors we can all agree on. The Democratic Party opted to oppose that — a poor choice. In fact, they apparently viewed that effort as an existential threat to the hustles and rackets that were sustaining the party. For instance, the jobs program for otherwise unemployable college grads who styled themselves as “activists” working for NGOs under the umbrella of USAID."
Absolutely. He gives me my Monday and Friday morning FIX. I can't stay away from his writings.
If you haven't, check out his "World Made By Hand" series. It is wonderful storytelling.
Oh, so you are addicted (directed at Cankerpuss text messge)
""Kunstler is a master wordsmith and is able to condense a complex issue into just several logical and incisive sentences.."
Well, he is a pretty fair writer but I don't get weak at the knees over his stuff; it's OK.
But if Mr. Kunstler is so good, why does he need to recruit qualified people to flog his new book? Surely there are enough adorers on this blog to make it an instant success? Sounds like a bit of a hustle to me.
You are too cool for school
He probably doesn't want to be flooded with unsolicited reviews at this stage of the book's development.
Have you read any of his novels?
Jeff, if the book is due out November it's already at the printers, or close at final proof stage.
And Mr. Kunstler certainly doesn't want 'unsolicited' reviews, he wants rave reviews from ardent fans, hence the 'recruitment' notice.
Sadly, I don't qualify for recruitment but if I did - and judging by the quality of his on-line writing - I'd probably say.. "It's OK".
Cross platform marketing works. Say what you want, Jim ain't no dummy.
Thanks for your participation.
Yeah, but what a stupid "Common Culture." Would a "common culture be acceptable if it was Say killing unauthoraized persons who tried to immigrate? These persons are monsters Yeah right so now they will create common culture. I am really not sure about this one
That's not American common culture.
You're right. Killing invaders would indicate a desire to survive. American common culture consists of clueless Whites in the process of losing everything. Why on Earth would any of the invaders want to assimilate to that? Or any of the legal immigrants for that matter.
More likely it indicates a pathology that is incompatible with civil society and more suitable for baboons or zombies.
Good, Jeffy. Survival is the first morality as Jefferson said. We share this in common with the animals. Baboons protecting their territory, females, and young is an excellent example.
maybe it is simpler. A guy who could not get work?
What common culture would let in people who hate us? One controlled by people who hate us - like you. At least you had the dignity to say "persons" and not the usual, Be kind to the "stranger" - as if millions of strange people are "the stranger". Of course persons doesn't quite cut it either. A horde of locusts is more like it.
So you hate me?
Great synopsis of the Democrats. That party has to die. It's evil.
I like the ideas for a second party to balance MAGA. It will be a tough haul, as Bessent/Powell are creating the groundwork for a return to a community banking domestic economy. 99% of policy ideas with real solutions are flowing out of Trump's team. His EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, is lifting the burden off of farmers and now auto manufacturers by killing green boondoggles and CAFE standards.
For sure. A party that espouses support for small business, american manufacturing and reduction in regulations, combined with an america-first foreign policy that doesn't involve bombing other countries and endless manufacturing of bombs would be something special.
Sure. A fine idea. Lest we forget, we had this not so long ago. It was vernacularly known as the “Tea Party”. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich birthed it with optimism. The swamp infiltrated and rendered it impotent within a couple of years. The idea is great; how and who and with what is the problem.
The Tea Party didn't appear to have the stamp of approval from the Uniparty puppet masters. It made too much sense, and undermined the authoritarian goals of the Uber-Wealthy and the neoFascist arrangement they've created.
I'm not so sure the suicide of the crazy Democratic Party was organic. Propped up via shady balloting in a long series of "selections", it appears to have served a purpose of driving many in the center and right further to the right. The vast majority of Americans never supported the far left planks in the platform. If the Democratic Party folds, the Uniparty will probably split the remaining pieces into semi-authoritarian and full-on dictatorship, depending on the mood of the majority, the success/failure of future psyops, and the state of the Long Emergency.
The Tea Party destruction was led by Obama and Mitch McConnell. That weaponization of the government using the Patriot Act to target not just political opponents, but American citizens, is when the scales fell from my eyes.
"the “Tea Party”. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich birthed it with optimism. The swamp infiltrated and rendered it impotent within a couple of years. "
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The Tea Party was not lead by Trump. and love him or hate him he is a genuine force of nature. A disruptor of epic proportions that come along in politics once every few hundred years. He is relentless (like the T-1000 terminator unit) and he views himself as on a mission from G-d.
Movements (like the Tea Party) need leaders who can lead, who can connect w the people and inspire them both by his actions and words. Neither Paul nor Kucinich had any charisma.
But the Democrat party won't die.
Do you know any Democrats today who would vote for a Republican candidate? The Democrats I know hate the Republican party more than they like the Democrats. Their vote is driven by hate, and that fact alone will keep the party alive.
"Bush Derangement Syndrome"
"Trump Derangement Syndrome"
"Musk Derangement Syndrome"
....and so on.
The Democrats thrive on hate
The hate infused “Divide and Conquer” modus of the Dems has been their source of power ever since the Lincoln “A divided house will never stand” debate with Douglas.
Uhhh ... the Democrats are merely one side of TPTB's divide-and-conquer strategy, John.
FYI - "Divide and Conquer" means that both sides are in on it.
My in-laws are still staunch Democrats even though my father in-law is pro gun rights and anti-abortion. Go figure. It's tribalism and people can't betray their tribe even if their tribe is against what they believe in.
Think about what you are saying, the Dems are enemies of Constitutional America. MAGA stands for the Common Culture as it tries to undo the socialistic damage that has been done.
I voted Dem from 92 to 08 and then Obama changed my tune. I call Dems communists now. The Whig party died over slavery divisions and the Dem party will likely die over divisions about illegal immigration, transexuals and "minor attracted people" aka pedophiles.
Welcome to the party.
Brethren in the satanic cult transcending party affiliation. The foundational alignment is the thing. Outward perceptions is cover for operation.
almost unbelievable!!😱
All political parties have to die. They are totally unnecessary. George Washington advised we avoid them and I think we should. A party causes people to think party first and Country next. We should all be thinking Country first, not Democrat or Republican. I resigned my political affiliations a long time ago. If anyone asks me what party I belong to I simply say "American." I wish more would do the same.
It is worse than that. It is Deep State first, party second and country third. The people come in last.
The deep state is the 13 families of the black 'nobility'. Everything south of that is an expendable minion. We, as a nation, have managed to produced the minion nation. The 'people' became anything looking to advance themselves at the expense of anyone else. Spiritually hollow, intellectually vacant, tribal followers on both sides of the political divide became the 'We the People". "We", if not the ignition, are most certainly the engine of the collapse.
"The deep state is the 13 families of the black 'nobility'. Everything south of that is an expendable minion." - CM
"Exactamundo." - Arthur Fonzarelli
Yeah, right here:
https://constitutionparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-PLATFORM-ONLINE-PDF.3.pdf
It can "balance out" the Republicans. Or hopefully, bury them.
Someday soon!
This "PIP Rating Game" pokes fun at 20 Democrat "leaders," in two rounds.
https://skennethn.substack.com/p/pip-rating-game
https://skennethn.substack.com/p/pip-rating-game-round-2
Anyone who uses Curly as his avatar is friend of mine! Hilarious.
Hey Republicans-this is YOUR legacy. If you don’t like it, there is a remedy- IMPEACH and CONVICT!
REPUBLICANS:
Rotten
Epstein-loving
Pedophile protecting
Unholy
Bastards
Lily-livered
Indecent
Corruption Cult members
Attacking Democracy
Nefariously and
Shamelessly
Morning Jim - excellent as always, one of your best maybe, in depth and breadth. Thanks as always for your work. You continue to be a beacon of sanity.
It will be interesting to see how thing play out in NYC if Mandami is elected Mayor in November. There will be tremendous pressure from his constituency to do the things he campaigns on i.e. deconstruct the NYPD, free bus service, city run grocery stores etc. When the city begins to crumble, as it most certainly wil, I could see him blaming failure on greedy whites, Jewish New Yorkers, and MAGA ... and DOUBLE DOWN! I for one am looking forward to public displays of Islam and the Call to Prayer emanating out of City Hall 8x daily. Also plenty of Red Flags on Mayday. Radical Islam, Marxism, + the LBGQT crowd makes for a strange coalition, but in NYC it may prove to be a winner.
But they don’t give a rats ass if he should win that his policies result in misery. Just THAT HE WON!
They’ve never been interested in “good results” to their policies, just the power to enact them, and all the money that comes with it.
Should he win, they’ll ALL be Mamdani’s - the consequences be damned.
Exactly. The present day embodiment of the golden calf.
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As long as politicians like Mandami and the destructive policies he advocates for, are able to entrance such a large population as exists in New York City, the policies of the Left and the Democrats are not dead. They may try to rebrand themselves as something else, but a pile of shit by any other name is still a pile of shit. Society’s temptation to get something for nothing will always exist ergo, so will the Democrat Party, if not by that name but certainly by their ideology.
Between the post & the comments & all specific issue/s aside, I was struck by the fact that we are experiencing history real time vs. in hindsight. The takeover of the dem party is the foot in the door that the left has crazed forever & they will never relinquish it until the whole thing is destroyed.
“History doesn’t always repeat itself but it often rhymes.” - Mark Twain
They won’t relinquish it, but they may rebrand it and hide their true intentions. Obama tried this, but admitted that he didn’t go far left enough.
Well said!
The quest isn't marxism, socialism, etc.
The quest is for power and control of the world's foremost city.
Human greed is the reason.
It could be debatable if NYC is the world’s foremost city.
“The quest is for power and control …” rings quite true. Currently: NYC; long term: it’s the whole world.
Satisfaction will always be elusive for these people. They are always angry, never satisfied. Whatever they ‘achieve’ is never enough. Eventually they land in oblivion. It is the way these groups always go. There will be another group waiting in the wings to take ‘the fight’ to the next level. This group is already on scene, just not presently apparent.
Such is the way of life on this planet. Maintaining something resembling sanity (a bit of an elusive term in itself) is what I think most want in this land. A part of it is the desire to be left alone, to lead individual lives encompassing ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’ while taking care not to step on others seeking the same in their individual lives.
And then there are those who would use other people’s money to gain power and control over the individuals who really just want to be left alone.
Marxism and Socialism are the tools used for divide and conquer.
It's sad and many will be hurt, but until the left feels pain personally and until the apathetic ones feel pain,, nothing will change. So, Mamdami.
Don't know, Fred. Lots of people are feeling pain right now. Doesn't seem like too much is changing.
The ignorance is literally breathtaking. Major grocery chains have less than 2% profit margins. They make money with a huge turnover of inventory week after week. This idiot who has never had a job says he will lower grocery prices by "buying wholesale." I bet Sam Walton wishes he had thought of that. I would love to see an AI generated Strother Martin soliloquy responding to Manama's platform.
Autocorrect or "autoscrewup" changed Mandami to Manama.
I prefer the term “autocorrupt” for the constant fighting when writing on my tablet.
Please, system makers: suggest words, but don’t replace things unasked.
For a list of ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, press 1 now…
Just over the horizon, coming up behind autocorrupt, is "auto communicate".
Our phones will be having conversations, commenting on blogs, and ordering stuff without us having to get anywhere near them.
The future's so bright, I gotta wear a welding mask.
Ditto on dating sites. Your droids talk to their droids. What need for any actual meeting - even cyber - between the two "people"?
A nation is one people and one culture. That's it. The idea of Black Americans or Muslim Americans is grotesque. Ditto Chinese or Indians Americans. Etc, etc.
Agree 100%, Lugh. What is missing is that these groups do not assimilate, and as JHK says, tear apart the American common culture. Their goal, think NAACP or CAIR, is to tear America apart. BTW, Trump is trying to take away tax free status from CAIR, Yay!
Their “holy book” forbids them to assimilate unless it promotes the “word of Allah”. Even then, there are restrictions on how long they can coexist in peace with infidels.
10%
Some blacks do a real muslim never will.
Oh, Heaven forbid.
When JHK captures so eloquently, as he so often does, the salient points of an issue, I sooo wish I could memorize his diction. When dealing with family and friends that are wallowing in, or tainted by, various leftish ideaologies, I would love to be able to respond with his thoughts/words. So clear and concise, fact-based, undeniable.
"They also had the accumulated political capital of race advocacy, starting with the civil rights crusades of the 1960s."
This is a REAL hoot. That the party of Jim Crow and the Klan managed such a switcheroo. Only exceeded by being clearly the Red party and somehow co-opting blue.
Dems/leftists could not have achieved this obvious narrative switch without their coconspirators in the media and academia. Now that these Marxist-captured institutions are being exposed and (hopefully) torn down, common sense and patriotism have a chance to bring us back to sanity, at least, if not greatness.
Quite so. The Neo-Cons, originally Russian (Jewish) Communists switched to Republicanism, enabled by their brothers in Media.
Back in the eighties, dems were red and reps blue on the political map, look it up, why the change? Dems being red was too revealing what they really were commies, marxists, and socialists?
The KKK was a valuable asset in its time. It protected whites! We need another group that will protect us.
It's still too early to proclaim the death of the Democrats and their schemes. Don't hold your breath...you will know we have reached the safety of the future when the past seems quaint and old-fashioned. We are still living the horrors of the 60's, and will be for some time. Even if all the Boomers were dead and gone, the 60's will not be over until something different and possibly better replaces it. It may take the Boomers great-grandchildren to bring forth that better world.
The Democrats are not done. Not by a long shot. They are re-grouping and licking their wounds but they'll be back. Besides the Republicans are still doing pretty much the same thing. Spending money we don't have. Waging war in foreign lands that pose no threat to America. At least they've stopped the invasion from the borders for a couple of years, I will give them that much.
It appears they are improving the migration infrastructure during this momentary lull.
If it goes according to their plan, the Darien Gap will be less formidable with the addition of a couple of bridges. There's another bridge over the Canal in progress. Panama appears to be a battleground sort of sitting on the back burner for now. There are similar situations at other choke points around the world.
Michael Yon is on this topic daily.
He is, and presents the information through his on-scene journalism approach which includes drone-acquired videos. A take on the 'picture worth a thousand words' concept.
Since you've noted Michael Yon's contributions to this knowledge base, I'll offer to readers his work is worth a look. Obviously you're already there.
Regarding Panama, Grant crossed the Isthmus on his way to assignment in California. The rail line was not yet complete in any sections, they used boats and mules for transport. The importance of transportation developments for people and goods in the area since the mid-1850's cannot be overemphasized.
The Gap area also has a rich history dating back centuries.
Michael Yon's work in this one area presents a view which barely makes it to people in the US except a couple of alternative media sites, at times accomplished by other journalists making similar ventures into what I think remains a poorly understood yet vitally important piece of territory.
The 60s were less formidable than is multiculturalism, a certain attempt to destroy the common culture of true Americanism. It is truly facing a setback now with MAGA. I wish this kind of return to true nationalism were possible for every country again. That always sticks in my craw, as they say.
Yeah, one can easily see Muslims enjoying hot dogs and beer on the Fourth of July. They do love fireworks though - shooting them at people that is.
Pork hot dogs??? CAIR wants the Constitution abolished.
We hit rock bottom ignoring what might be called an American Three No's. While the Chinese Three No's refer to material things they lack, ours are ignored warnings from great leaders. Washington warning against foreign entanglements. Jefferson warning against a National Bank, today's Federal Reserve, "the bank and the corporations which will grow up around it." Eisenhower's warning against the "Military Industrial Complex." I believe ignoring these are the three greatest errors which have led to almost everything which has gone wrong.
Jefferson had another: The Blacks are to be sent out of America, the further the better; beyond all danger of mixture. He met White survivors from the genocide in Haiti. He knew what he was talking about.
A good beginning for a list of ignored warnings.
John Adams believed in preparing militarily to secure the nation, reinforcing that prudent strength deters conflict and protects peace. Unfortunately, this idea devolves into Eisenhower's warning.
Jefferson warned against maintaining a standing army, and also the judiciary becoming tyrannical.
There is much to be learned from those who have gone before us.
TJ and Alexander Hamilton were diametrically opposed in their ideas about the role of the federal government, today’s parties probably started with them. The Federalists, Hamilton, the Adams, Madison, Monroe believed that the government should be, in today’s terms, socialistic, with power centered in DC. Jefferson up to Jackson believed that the people should control the government, they were Republicans at the time. Note that we are still fighting about the same things today.
Paraphrasing Newton:
For every position, there will be an equal and opposite position. The US is facing another crisis to see “if any nation so conceived and dedicated can long endure”.
George Washington never foresaw a world where in one day of travel a person could be in almost any country in the world instead of months of often very dangerous travel.
Entanglement is simply a matter of modernity.
To adhere to George Washingtons words we would need to slam borders shut and cut off almost all access in and out.
Isolationism led to two world wars and the next world war will lead to nuclear war and another stone age something many believe has already happened.
I'm not so sure isolationism can be blamed for world wars. I do believe another stone age has already happened, and will again. The fact remains that the most successful societies are racially homogeneous. The swamp has Trump on board with their foreign warmongering.
Future anthropologists, probably Chinese, will wonder how the primitives who squat in the ruins of NYC ever built such a place. The locals will deny it, speaking of White gods. They will be ignored just as Indians of South America were ignored when they talked about White gods.
As he tries to stop both the war in gaza and Ukraine as well as a measured response to Iran and its forty-year undeclared war with the US and its proxy Israel.
From the talking points "A lie is not a lie if you truly believe it. " -George Castanza
Reality does not really line up with what you have said.
Often a bully gets up and isn't finished. Has to get knocked down again. If Israel wants more, it can get more. Plenty more where that came from.
Trump has given the go ahead to continue the blood bath in both the Ukraine and Gaza.
The go ahead to finish mopping up Hamas and I support it...fuck hamas.
If we had stayed out of WW1, there would have been no WW2. So you're wrong.
I think you are right. Without the US entering the war, the European powers would probably have beaten themselves to a pulp and eventually reached a ceasefire. US entry pushed the scales down in favor of England and France.
No had they been more fair about the reparations there might not have been another war.
You can't prove one way or the other what would have happened that war would have gone on for decades and eventually come to the US one way or another.
Or, had the Germans and Russians allied, they probably would have been able to destroy Britain (and the Jews who run it) and saved the world a whole lot of trouble.
Doubtful deep seeded animosity exists even to this day.
Germans HATE Russians and have for centuries and interesting that the Royal family are Jewish could you show your work to prove such a claim.
The "British Royal family" for lack of a better word are more German than British.
William and Mary came from Hanover. The British idiots could not stop fighting each other so Parliament through them out.
BTW, Outlander fans, George the first or second was the king that the Highlanders fought against, the second and third Hanoverians.
Length of the trip didn't stop Europe from traveling to and colonizing the world did it? In Washington's time European powers had fought Queen Anne's War and the French and Indian War in North America. Holland was in Southern Africa. France and England among others were in India. Spain had long colonized Mexico and was fighting Portugal for South America. The American colonies were involved in getting help from foreigners who were entangling themselves in our revolution. During Washington's first term, France, which had bankrupted itself aiding OUR revolution was overthrown and the reign of terror was under way. This was a stark example of what the price of meddling could be. Not getting involved in other people's wars and conflicts does not preclude trade or friendly relations with the world at large.
With that paragraph of response, it still does not discount the simple fact minding your own business in 1776 was far easier to do than now.
FYI France bankrupted itself fighting England across the planet NOT just helping the colonies throw off the English yoke of tyranny and from the then King and Queen spending like drunken sailors on extravagant lifestyles and palaces.
Now trying to ignore the power plays across the planet only brings more and larger wars.
Would the world be better served with China as the worlds police force?
How about some nice Muslim overlords?
Maybe Putin and Russia pulling the global strings?
How about reverting back to England as the hyper power running everything?
It was not France that was overthrown, but its monarchy. Louis XVI and wife were both guillotined in 1793. The US has paid a heavy price for its meddling since the end of WWII.
We need to keep our nose out of others business. There never was a stone age. The people in biblical times especially before the flood were very "advaced". We are seeing prophecy fulfilled. We have been warned. We have been told how to heal our lands. Up to us to decide.
Advanced civilizations in some places, stone age in others. Just as it was now up to very recently.
Dennis Merwood, if you're still out there, I'm still apologising.
Well if "stone age" doesn't work for you, we'll say bombed back to "biblical times" but it has happened before.
Both parties are guilty of meddling in other countries' business. We cannot afford to be the policeman of the world. The big unknown is how bad do economic conditions get for today's young people?
Trump wants to build an Iron Shield for America even though it won't be able to stop Russia's Oreshnik missiles. But it will make lots of money for the few and that's what matters.
Consider: eradicating the welfare state 100% would pretty much solve most of the border problem.
No small feat under current conditions in the fading Constitutional Republic.
Yes, and put countless Americans out on the streets too. It's only going to get worse. AI will take tens of millions of jobs.
Amen
Thanks Jim. Yes, there's always a need for an opposition party, or parties, as the wresting matches in the USA and in increasingly totalitarian Germany (among other countries) have amply shown. While the GOP certainly has its share of corruption and dirty dealing, the Democrat party is collapsing in a heap of unmasked fraud (more revelations daily) -- yet still remains propped up in public by complicit and dishonest "mainstream media."
In the individual person, the Great Frauds (of any stripe, of any time and place) remain propped up by herd mentality, cognitive dissonance, and the terrible pain of having to admit that one has been suckered and used & abused so badly for so long.
Much diehard "true believers" are like sports fans who gallantly tattoo their faces with the logos of sports teams whose multi-millionaire owners and players take them utterly for granted; move cities and teams to chase more money; grossly overcharge for tickets, "merch," and beer--and who most certainly do not emotionally collapse upon losing a big game. Such meltdowns afflict only fanatical fans and followers, whose joys and sorrows are largely vicarious.
But the vicarious life is a precarious life. Nothing comes from nothing. Increased personal responsibility, self-reliance, common sense, local communities, small government--when have these ever been unhealthy? Reality is a great leveler, a fine and sobering thing. All the best to you and thanks for reading.
When you really ponder and consider the reason for a political party you come to the conclusion that we don't need political parties in any shape or form. They are completely unnecessary. The Constitution doesn't say anything about political parties. George Washington himself in his fare well address said to stay away from them. I would love to live in an America where we are all just Americans. No "Ds" and no "Rs". Political parties become a tribe to most people and it is hard to get people to change their tribes.
Let us not forget that the Republican Party doesn't do much different from the Democrats when in positions of power. The wars continue. The taxes continue. The spending continues.
It should be "down with all political parties" not just down with the Democrats.
Mass immigration and replacement of the founding race continues as well. As Trump has said repeatedly, The Clintons are great people.
There are no do-overs. However, if the focus returns to the local level, which it might out of necessity, those 'D & R' labels could disappear as they won't have as much relevance at the local level.
Democrats are lucky their Party Leaders aren’t adherents to the Jim Jones Commitment of allegiance to the Party.
But they are also going to be very angry when they realize they have been caught up in a dead end Party that have stolen their passion and were just using them for their own Political Power.
Due to the lack of free speech European Leftists are now faced with their own actual Replacements.
Our Democrat Leftists “Progressives” are still in the denial and utter delusional stage.
Regardless are these Democrats going to be able to build a new Competing Party?
The times they are a changing as the song goes!
William, I wonder about the future. IMHO, the old parties are gone. The Dem party is now a ruthless bunch of socialists that cannot stand opposition. The GOP is split in half over a snit by the Bush crowd that Trump would dare take away Jeb’s presidency. The 1900s parties are kaput.
So what will replace them. Again, IMO, the Dem party will continue toward the Left, becoming the party of the losers to the capitalistic system that is not going away. They will continue to fight the common culture JHK talks about, especially in city elections. They will continue to sell their constituency on the lie that they are for taking care of the economic fallout, total BS. They are for power, period and it is going to be more violent as they feel their power ebbing. The GOP will be interesting. The Bushies, being Deep Staters first and foremost, will slide way over to the Left joining the Dems to battle Trump’s legacy. MAGA will attract, again, IMO, the moderate Dems that are currently looking for a home. Some have already joined up. So two parties, Ult-Left and Moderate Right. The circle of the political spectrum has rotated 90 degrees CW.
How about these names? MAGA merges into Musk’s American Party and the Ult-Leftists becoming the Socialist Party. Not the Democratic Socialist Party because they are anti-Democratic. Dreaming?
It’s going to be interesting, wonder too what our Two Party System is going to transform into. Thinking there will be multiple iterations to come and then who knows what will eventually happen and how it will last for the years to come.
We still are living in a 19th - 20th century political world and our 21st century world has crashed ashore and dealing with the transition is still ebbing and flowing with our past and the direction we are heading to.
All ashore who is going ashore! 😊
I wouldn't discount some members of the upcoming generations taking the lead in forming organizations at the local level. They're sort of screwed by the current system, thus there is a need by them to replace what is not working. My observation is they are figuring this out and taking those steps to build from the bottom up.
I, for one, do not want a bunch of racist children making any decisions for this country, period. They know nothing and have no wisdom, no experience to back up their viewpoints.
A really good example showed up yesterday. 77% of Generation Z bring their parents to their job interviews.
Too bad the entire DC Swamp is so corrupt it can never be saved. The RINOs, liberals, retardicans and others are enjoying the supreme thieving and grifting operations the leftists have put into place. No way they are ever going to give that up.
Remember the Communist Manifesto from 1963. The goal was to take over one or both of the political parties in the United States. Mission was accomplished
Don't forget LBJ and the Great Society which ushered in the welfare class and totally nuked the atomic family. The resultant chaos has persisted to this day, with teenage gangs controlling what's left of the great progressive cities. Cheap energy and the Interstate System enabled both the white flight to the suburbs as well as the drugs which followed.
Were all these consequences unintended? One wonders.
There are no coincidences.
Civil Rights reinstituted aristocratic class privileges, that is, privileges accorded merely on the basis of one's birth, which the Constitution had abolished as 'equality under the law.'
An aside of that is the exploitation of women - if one wants to eliminate policies based on performative empathy, voting should be limited to married men with no criminal convictions.
Law should simply address damages, rather than Federal permissions; for voting (democracy) to work, the unrepresented will be incentivised to support the majority culture and mores, and work through its traditional institutions, that is, adhere to the standards of a common culture.
Only the power-hungry seek to expand the franchise, to create their own parallel private armies (which is what corporate personhood and NGOs are, I add.) What Kunstler is calling for is a Grange, the alliance of common middle class and 10th Amendment that went head-to-head with the oligarchs of the Gilded Age. There are still a few ancient Grange halls left as museums, but it was the MAGA of its time.
Well said. Thank you.
Healthy, organic non-Marxist socialism intertwined healthy, organic non-Libertarian capitalism.
Only time will tell as today's college graduates going back 10 years have been indoctrinated to hate Capitalism and the American Dream...the irony is that the billionaires who accumulated their wealth through the very system they now exploit are the leaders of the marxist movement...It's almost like a guilt trip for the billionaires...as though they have learned from their evil capitalistic ways and want to pay it back to those way less fortunate...All the while holding on to their ill gotten gains...If you want to learn more about this transformation of appearing to do good for humanity (while holding on to your wealth) you should read the book Controligarchs by Semus Bruner...and you will see the trail of corruption going way back to the 1800's and starting in large part with John Rockefeller....and continuing today through the likes of Bill Gates, Marc Zuckerberg, and George Soros...These people fear no one and until they do it will continue...The Wealth disparity has not yet seen it's reckoning as of yet...Who will be our Willaim Wallace?
"Capitalism" and "socialism" is a false canard, two hollow constructs I have come to hate.
It ain't your pappy's capitalism, anymore, not simple supply-and-demand, a better mousetrap, nor accounting of widgets in inventory or cost-of-goods sold.
This is what the Left understands, what the Right was too befuddled to remember: the purpose of power is to get what you want, not to fix the dictionary so everyone agrees.
Yes, competition is a sin. The discipline of competition and individualism is something to foist on the dummies. Smart people don't believe in things like that and never have.
Democracy? As Erdogan said, It's a bus. You get off at your stop. You don't worship the fucking bus.
I can't disagree with Jim's analysis of the history of increasing progressivism in American politics...how we ended up where we are today...I would just add that a number of events over the last 10-20 years accelerated at least one-half of the country's fateful (fatal?) attraction to proto-Marxism. I think one of the most important accelerants was the events which occurred during the supposedly conservative Bush Administration: first the very unsettling 9/11 attack, followed by the innocent-sounding Patriot Act, followed by the inflation of a dangerous housing investment bubble, followed by the utterly dishonest and disingenuous Iraq and Afghanistan wars, followed by a crash and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. This Financial Crisis, which was 100% the result of Bush policies, destroyed the American Dream for tens of millions of Americans who suffered life-changing job losses and firings, rental evictions, mortgage defaults, unemployment, home losses, bankruptcies, and devastating stock market losses. It is no wonder enough Americans voted for Obama's duplicitous hope-and-changey thing in 2008...and the rest is history.
Agreed. Except it could be argued that it all started with the Clinton admin with passing NAFTA, repealing Glass-Steagell, and that hedge fund friendly derivatives legislation whose name escapes me right now. But talk about a pivot to capital! That started with Slick Willie. At any rate: when people can't see (or change if they do) the rigged financial system they're living in and can't make headway in it by themselves, they look to Big Mommy Gov to make it better. We've kinda hit peak there.
I have to add in the LBOs, leveraged buyouts, that began under Reagan in '81 and led to the merger-and-aquisitions craze, with all the loose money from Reagan's explosion of the debt.
Some physicists did a heat map about 15 years ago and found that 147 umbrella corporations controlled the other 89,000 listed big-cap corporations on the planet at that time- this, before Satan's own NGOs kicked off as the "public-private partnerships" that haunt our nightmares today.
Very precise summary of the disgusting demo rat party and politics! Bravo!
Same in Canada however we are really late to the party. In fact having an idiot like Charlie Angus attempting to circumvent what's left of our trade with the US by backdooring trade with the Mexico really shows how short the escape ladder is relative to hole we've dug for ourselves.
Conservatism needs a revamp and quickly. There is no place for socialism in this neck of the woods.
Won't happen in Canada until we repatriate millions of "temporary" workers and refugees from the Indian subcontinent and Middle East. Just look at Brampton, Ontario, a shit hole of 600,000 rascist assholes from India.
Yup! My home town....BUT I got out of there in '76. Writing was on the wall then!
I would not hold your breath waiting for "repatriation".
One of the smartest things Canada has done in the past 50 years was to stay out of US military adventures in Vietnam and Iraq.
The dumbest thing Canadians did over the last 50 years was vote Maggie and Pierre's idiot child to lead the country. His hatred of "old stock" (i.e white, English-speaking Christians/Jews) led him to import a huge chunk of the third world and make the "old stock" second class citizens in their own country, not unlike Great Britain.
Still a member of that relic called NATO though!
A chihuahua, like the Baltic's, nipping and yapping their way to irrelevancy.
Total waste of money and stature on the political stage
This is killing me. Everybody on the damn planet loved Canadians, once, for the best of reasons.
Conservatism only conserved the ideas of its enemies, running along behind them hoping for a pat on the head.
What modern "conservatism" preserved was multiculturalism - the nation as an idea, that anyone could be a member, that "melting pot" theory was good and "racisms" were bad - rather than defending the peoples that made up the body of the nation and the culture they generate.
We became a foreign market bazaar filled with noise and pickpockets, where the only standard of value was the coins in one's pocket.
Tribe up or die, white man, not by desire, but by necessity - because that is what the others do.
Another reason why Friday’s and Monday’s are the best days of the week.
Now to enjoy the comments and take in the thoughts and feedback from the fellowship members in our very interesting peanut gallery.
Have a Great Weekend Everyone!
I love the peanut gallery. Never ending entertainment and education.
Segregation today. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever!
Written by Asa Earl Carter who also wrote The Education of Little Tree and The Outlaw Josey Wales
A versatile fellow. I assumed anyone who wrote Little Tree would be a drooling libral.
I second this!