On October 1st, with little fanfare, Politico published an extraordinary opinion piece that may be the most important thing I’ve read all year. Titled “Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins,” the essay was penned by three “senior fellows” at the Hoover Institution, New America, and the Hudson Institute, as well as a professor of “political communication” at Louisiana State University and a professor of government at the University of Maryland (that’s five authors, in case you lost count). The major takeaway is presented in the graph that appears below: Way back in November of 2017 (my, how long ago that seems . . . ) a mere 8% of both Democrats and Republicans held that it is legitimate to use violence to advance their political goals. Actually, there’s nothing “mere” about it. It ought to surprise us that such a sizeable percentage of both parties…
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FeaturedIndependence, Again.
A Straightforward Path to a Peaceful and Lawful Dissolution. On this 4th of July, it is imperative for historical Americans to not only recall the Independence Days of years gone by, once one of the most joyful and exuberant days of the summer calendar, but to also reflect upon the terrible sacrifices willingly made by those who fought for a free and independent country. And even more fittingly, as we look out upon the desolation of a bereft nation, we historical Americans need to meaningfully engage for the orderly dissolution of this post-American USA, with at least one historical American republic established from its remnants. That is, on this Independence Day, it is incumbent upon us to begin with resolute steps toward a new independence from an increasingly despotic order. There are many received truths when it comes to formal constitutional amendment. We have all learned that it is extraordinarily…
The Old America Is Dead. Where Do We Go From Here?
“Then who do we shoot?” Like Muley Graves the sharecropper, John Steinbeck’s evocative Okie everyman in John Ford’s 1940 film, many Americans are bewildered by a tidal wave of forces that seem beyond their control. The answer is not easy. But increasingly it seems likely to involve geographical partition. Facing eviction from his dust-bowl farm, Muley confronts a man on a bulldozer who has come to demolish the shack Muley and his family live in. The sharecropper is determined not to give in and threatens the bulldozer operator with a shotgun—only to discover he is a local man, one of Muley’s own people. The bulldozer driver explains it’s not his fault, it’s just a job that he was hired to do. If Muley shoots him, then someone else will come to do the job and Muley will land in jail. “Then who do we shoot?” asks Muley. The banker? The people back East who own the bank? Morally disarmed and demoralized, Muley can…
Flag Day
Thirty-one years ago, two weeks before Independence Day, the Supreme Court issued an opinion that unsettled a nation still largely recognizable as America. By a 5-4 vote, the Court held in the case Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), that the First Amendment protects “expressive conduct” in the form of burning the U.S. flag. The decision mandated the repeal of laws of 48 states protecting the flag – and the response was volcanic. In the immediate aftermath of the Court’s decision, there was general disbelief and outrage across the land, along with puzzlement that the mere destruction of a revered national symbol, an act with no greater communicative value that insulting and antagonizing others, could be imbued by the Court with such lofty meaning. Moreover, even as the public fumed, a kind of arms race of depravity developed in the following months, with all-so-clever artists conjuring up ever more…
“Diversity is Our Greatest Strength”
The USA has a unique and troubling capacity to be seduced by illogical and transparently false platitudes taken as gospel truth, then using those sophistries to create elaborate collective social fantasies. Few of these deceits is as insidious as the delusional catch-phrase “Diversity is Our Greatest Strength.” Among all sentient creatures, the race riots over the past few days should lay this slogan to rest once and for all. The fires of racial resentment stoked by “progressive” politicians, a racialist media, a pedagogical cadre, and various and sundry “community organizers” cannot be controlled. Never in the Dissolutionist’s lifetime has there been such an outpouring of unabashed loathing and vitriol openly directed toward a particular ethnic group – and it is directed at whites. That is not a paranoid delusion; it is as plain as day. In Minneapolis, Dallas, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, San Jose, Atlanta, and scores of other…