The Great Divide – an updated review (updated 20jul21)

George Rebane

This piece on the Great Divide is a continuation of the thread I started with ‘America the Unnatural’.  The July issue of Chronicles from the Charlemagne Institute features a series of articles under the heading ‘Divided America’.  I bring these to your attention because they contain excellent reports and analyses of the socio-political state of our country.  And also because these three essays appropriately summarize my own views over the years under the rubric of Rebane Doctrine.  I believe them to successfully make the case that Rebane Doctrine has widespread support among a sizeable cohort of rightwing thinkers and writers.

The first is ‘A Tale of Two Americas’ by Bruce Frohnen.  Its main proposition is that “The United States has split into two peoples with two fundamentally different characters”, and as a result “we are a nation and people at war with itself”, or as I have maintained that we are two nations struggling in and enclosed by a common border.  Frohnen goes on to point out that “this division is more than a political divide; it represents a fundamental shift in the character of our people or, rather, our splitting into two separate peoples with two fundamentally different characters. Worse, only one of these characters is capable of self-government in a free, constitutional republic.”

Next, Larry Schweikart, in his ‘The Collape of the US Constitutional System’, makes the case that “the Founders’ vision has been thoroughly corrupted from within.”  In this discourse he presents the history of how, under Martin Van Buren, our governments developed a methodology to avoid focusing on matters most germane to the nation – at that time, slavery.  The method was the now well-ensconced system of federal pork.  The ante-bellum national attention was successfully diverted, allowing pressures among the states to build, until one morning the entire country found itself rendered and at war.

“Van Buren initiated a spoils system, known then as the Albany Regency, in which government would grow larger with every election.  To get elected, a candidate had to promise jobs.  The newly formed Democratic Party under Andrew Jackson, operated a similar system.  Once a competitor party, the Whigs, appeared, they had no choice but to climb on the patronage bandwagon.”

That made it very difficult to defeat incumbents.  The system went from providing loyal individuals with government jobs, to providing “interest groups” with jobs.  Everyone joined in – “farmers, teachers, autoworkers, and retirees all started to lobby for government goodies in the form of subsidies, government-permitted price controls, minimum-wage laws, …”  The result of it all was that “short of radical change, there can never be a concentrated effort to ‘reduce the debt’ or ‘control the budget’ because the very nature of American legislative politics demands just the opposite.”

Finally, we have arrived at a national state of affairs in which our ascendant Left, that has always needed a political bogeyman in which to wrap its narrative, had to dredge up a post-Trump raison d’etre for their public policy notions, potions, and lotions.  The one at hand had already been introduced as the irredeemable deplorables who had voted for Trump, and who were still very much in evidence on America’s political scene.  As Christopher Roach describes in his ‘Diagnosing the Right as Pathological’, it was time to up the ante.  “The Left’s internal need for a common enemy, more than the facts, explains their campaign to categorize Trump voters, and the Right in general, as extreme.  Countering extremism is the new unifying principle of the Left.”

Roach goes on to cite chapter and verse of today’s ongoings in/by Democrat-controlled government, academe, media, and corporatists to marshal the country on the well-trod path to authoritarianism.  “The ruling party displays an unusual concern regarding private beliefs.  It’s not enough for citizens to obey the government out of fear, prudence, or habit.  One must publicly affirm the legitimacy of Biden’s election in 2020.”  Else the expression of such unapproved beliefs become prima facie evidence of ‘radicalization’.

“Right-leaning views generally do not arise from exclusive contact with official news, much of which consists of ‘fake news.’ Those on the right tend to seek out alternative sources, not least because the official stories contradict what their own eyes and ears show them to be true. Thus, the Right has a higher proportion of autodidacts and skeptics. Such people are more confident, curious, and independent and, therefore, prone to ‘radicalization’.”

And how will the Left handle these radicalized and proto-domestic terrorists?  Again, that path is well defined for socialist cum communist governments.  It begins with public denigration and shunning, what we now call cancelling, and soon proceeds to the psychoanalysis and pathologizing political opponents.  Institutionalizing the more serious cases will not be far behind.  “In the Soviet Union, the use of psychological diagnoses and treatment avoided publicity and the minimal requirements of Soviet law. The same advantages prevail today. Doctors are in better graces with the public than politicians or law enforcement. Labeling someone as sick gives the patina of medical science and charity to coercion.”

To make it all possible, the state needs millions of compliant and loyal eyes and ears.  “One can expect that every psychologist, family doctor, school counselor, and neighbor will soon be on the lookout for signs of ‘radicalization.’ A wayward comment, a bumper sticker, reading the wrong kinds of books, or making the wrong kinds of jokes may unleash the full panoply of tools in the arsenals of the state and its corporate and health system allies. One thing we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that there is a large cohort of eager snitches with a deformed moral sense walking among us.”  (For early examples-in-training, take a look at Rightwing Watch and its commenting acolytes already keeping an eye on these pages.)

[20jul21 update]  The Great Divide dialogue/debate has witnessed a sea change.  Its approach, long-sensed by conservative thinkers and even distinctly left of center intellectuals, is today hard to ignore save by the most sheltered and/or mentally deprived in our land.  Our commenters and my correspondents have brought two significant essays on the Great Divide to my attention.  I deem them important enough to make them available as an update to this post.

The first is by Victor Davis Hanson, the nationally prominent, indominable conservative Stanford historian and observer of all things in today’s America.  In his ‘The American Descent Into Madness’ VDH cuts to the chase and spells out the details of our country that has crossed the line of insanity, and now stands on the threshold of a dysfunctional state.  We are truly a ‘house divided’ and at the crossroads where we will soon (hopefully) be asked to decide which way we are to resolve what has become an irredeemable ideological standoff between two sides convinced the other is both ignorant and evil.

The second essay, ‘Americans Hate Each Other’ is a major contribution by political scientist B. Duncan Moench who currently lectures at Arizona State University. Dr Moench is a man of the Left – he hails FDR’s New Deal as a pinnacle of America’s cohesion – yet, nevertheless, he has a clear vision that “it’s time to embrace what (hating each other) means for the country’s future.”

Moench opens with “In the late 1990s, Michael Lind wrote about different “republican” epochs in American history: the Anglo-American republic (from the Founding to the 1920s), the Euro-American republic (1920-1965), and the multicultural American republic (1965 to the present). Lind hoped the fourth American republic would be a transracial one based on the idea of what he called “liberal nationhood”—classically liberal in respect to human rights, individual property, free speech and markets, but also liberal in the more statist, New Deal-like economic sense. ... If the United States is to survive as a unified state under its present configuration, something like Lind’s idea of liberal nationhood will have to coalesce. But there’s one big problem with constructing a new concept of American-ness centered around liberal ideals, no matter how one defines them: Americans hate each other.”

To the extent that you consider the Great Divide a likely event in America’s future, these essays outline important milestones that we are passing on our way to one of several possible futures.  As we have said for some years, we are beyond the tipping point and there is no turning back.

Comments

[The Estonian Fox]

Courtesy of James Kunstler - a website with several papers written on the 'vote irregularities' with the 2020 election.
https://election-integrity.info/

There are a few more papers on votes, and another 6 written about voting machines and their peculiarities.

[Bill Tozer]

I am posting this for the graph shown in the article. Picture says a thousand words.

LIBERALISM’S ENDLESS AGGRESSION AGAINST AMERICA
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/liberalisms-endless-aggression-against-america.php

[George Rebane]

BillT 844am - my own version of this was posted here.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2019/04/two-americas-a-national-emergency-on-steroids.html

[Bill Tozer]

Dr. Rebane @ 9:21 am.

Thanks for fixing link . Of course you have been a leading voice on the topic for years. I am but a mere late comer. It is always good to refresh the topic from time to time. I remember well your post from 4/2019. And I miss Russ’s imput.

‘The Great Divide-an updated review’ is a great name and topic. It wasn’t that long ago that you were decried as a nutjob for even mentioning the Great Divide, which the Lefties said was non-existiant, a Right Wing fallacy made up out of thin air. Not so anymore. If nothing else, the Great Divide has been proven to exist....albeit those on the right are now considered the existential threat to our democracy, lol. It’s all our fault for not going along to get along.

It’s beginning to be my belief that Trump’s victory in 2016 was not because he was a “economic nationalist” or “it’s the economy, stupid.” Nay, I am beginning to subscribe to the theory that Trump won because of cultural issues. It just took one man to stand up and say what we all have been thinking and believing and witnessing for years before Trump.

During Biden’s ‘bi-partisan agreement’ on the infrastructure bill, it became apparent to this poster (moi) that the way the RINOS folded like a cheap suit and became instant wet noodles in a paper bag is the reason we had a President Trump. Trump did not create the Great Divide by any stretch of the imagination. He merely exposed it. And boy, did he ever expose Ali Baba and his den of 40 thieves. And Trump exposed it on purpose every chance he got.

In these ‘dark and gloomy’ times, I am heartened that there are more citizens with a vertebrate than I knew. Revolutionaries have always been unable to deal with counterrevolutionaries in the arena of ideas.

[Wayne Hullett]

There may be some parallels here to the times leading up to the Spanish Civil War, in which Republicans and Nationalists were intermingled, lived next door to each other, with no clear cut geographic separation, at least not initially.

[Barry Pruett]

https://www.theunion.com/opinion/letters/nancy-gillespie-just-regurgitation-of-ideology/?__vfz=medium%3Dconversations_top_pages

And this. Free speech requires that we must be able to speak our minds freely. Free speech does not mean that we can only say that with which others may agree. That is censorship. Period. This issue helps define the great divide. Those who support true free speech oppose those who seek censorship.

[Don Bessee]

The divider in chief is actually bringing America together on one thing that the socialist dems hate-

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/08/poll-77-percent-of-americans-want-additional-police-amid-crime-surge/

;-)

[scenes]

Worth a look-see.

https://letter.wiki/conversation/930

One thing they bring up, drawn from Islam, strikes me as a really apt concept for describing the highly-reasoned missives by Paul Emery and Ms. Cross. Submission.

That really is the underlying tone of the outrage, that any other poster here would not cast out the Devil and give in. You need to recognize the authority of the new religion and put no other idols before it. The Message needs to be conformed to and don't pay any attention to the source (17 intelligence agencies, FAANG, The Squad, the teachers' unions). Justifying the Message is a waste of time as it is self-evident.

Submission.

[Bill Tozer]

Well, the group has an apt name for their organization: Indecline. Not a misnomer for the Great Divide.

Activists Deface Christ Of The Ozarks Statue In Arkansas With ‘God Bless Abortions’ Banner

https://www.dailywire.com/news/activists-deface-christ-of-the-ozarks-statue-in-arkansas-with-god-bless-abortions-banner

[scenes]

Just to throw an idea out there, I was considering a general rule of thumb, let's call it

Scenes' Rules For Bureaucracy #7:

As a polity becomes more authoritarian, it's power centers tend to spawn off armed forces.

It's inarguable that the US has become more authoritarian from 1800 to 1900 to 2000, and there are certainly plenty of examples of this (state police in addition to sheriffs, KGB border troops, Division Hermann Göring).

This new 'national' DC police is an interesting variant. It's mostly been played up as an example of AOC's (who is more ambitious than consistent) willingness to play along with DNC demands, but the mere fact of it is the more interesting part. Basically, Congress wants an army.

Of course, the corollary for Rule #7 is that a power center's army will eventually become it's own power center, but that's for the future.

[George Rebane]

Scenes 917am - sounds like Rule #7 anticipates a congressional praetorian guard as the Capitol Police expand units beyond 'the hill'. For such a force to endure as political parties change control, it will be forced to become more than less autonomous so that its command structure doesn't succumb to the winds of politicization. And then we have to consider how the Executive will expand its existing praetorians (Secret Service). Does SCOTUS then need one for itself to keep the branches 'separate but equal'?

[scenes]

" Does SCOTUS then need one for itself?"

I was thinking about that. Their inability to fund force projection jamborees makes it a difficult nut to track.

There is likely another Rule for Bureaucracy hidden there, that in the long run, power centers require the ability to steer resources and funding.

My guess would be that in the medium run, you simply see the Supreme Court becoming more a vestigial part of government. Congress and the Executive branch increasingly acquire powers of each other with a merger between the two groups at some point.

[George Rebane]

scenes 949am - Interesting prognostication about the pre-GD trajectory of governance. The hidden bureaucracy rule you seek is already ensconced as part of Rebane Doctrine (and several other places as Golden Rule #2) - 'Them that's got the gold makes the rules.' There is never a separation between agents of force and agents of the purse, they both come hand-in-glove as agents of power.

[Bill Tozer]

While waiting for fresh litter in the Sandbox, I will put this here.

FYI, the video shown at the expensive private school teaching 2nd graders how to touch and self-pleasure themselves has been approved by the WHO. Us against the world.

“Pornography literacy classes”

https://www.facebook.com/165954670142060/posts/5617477978323008/?substory_index=0

Follow the science and wake up feeling yourself.

[Don Bessee]

Looks like his crt class took hold -

https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-child-american-flag-rips-ground

;-(

[scenes]

re: DonB@1:00PM

The video minus the news site with a million ads and pop up thingies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q_zPF8sxvQ

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

[Roberta]

Conservatives seem to be equally divided as well. The conservative organization Value In Electing Women Political Action Committee recently labeled goofball Marjorie Green and Buffoon Lauren Boebert as "shameless promoters and carnival barkers.

[Jose Peyote]

'Garbage politicians' Boebert and Taylor Greene slammed by GOP colleague for trying to 'get Americans killed'

https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-marjorie-taylor-greene/

[Bill Tozer]

Guess this goes here. Could fit nicely under Equity Denies Reality (Addended) as well. It’s all the Great Divide.

Heather MacDonald:
‘Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures’

https://quillette.com/2021/07/12/almost-four-decades-after-its-birth-the-diversity-industry-thrives-on-its-own-failures/

[Walt]

Here we go again with lie'n Biden.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2021/07/13/fact-check-biden-falsely-claims-supreme-court-heard-2020-election-challenges/

No,,,, the Sups. DIDN'T hear the cases....

"CLAIM: The Supreme Court, among other courts, heard the challenges to the 2020 presidential election results, twice.

VERDICT: FALSE. The Supreme Court declined to hear the election challenges, and never considered the evidence."

"President Joe Biden gave a speech Tuesday in support of Democrats’ controversial voting reform bill, H.R. 1/S. 1, the “For the People Act.” As Breitbart News has previously explained, the legislation “would radically change American democracy, nationalizing elections and making permanent changes to voting rules that would virtually ensure Democrats never lose another election.”"

[Bill Tozer]

How can we ever exist when such hogwash as Biden's fiery speech is believed by half the people?

Biden's handlers must have freaked out to learn most normal folks, including the majority of Black Americans and Hispanics, and all sane people approve of Voter ID. Time to bring out ole Sleepy Joe, shoot him up adrenalin, and shove the old fellow out there to show Americs he is fighting the truth.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-rages-confederates-during-civil-war-never-breached-the-capitol-like-insurrections-voter-integrity-laws-are-21st-century-jim-crow

And AOC said the Conferate States were not ever part of the United States, not then not now.

When all else fails, pull out the Race card. One trick pony show.

[George Rebane]

BillT 505pm - "How can we ever exist when such hogwash as Biden's fiery speech is believed by half the people?"

Mr Tozer, your hanging question demonstrates that I have failed miserably with my readers in explaining over the years that we no longer can "exist" as a unified nation. That epoch has ended, and which way we go from here is undecided, but we are not going back to a unified constitutional nation.

[Don Bessee]

Keep it up creepy gampa joe and your socialists -

https://www.foxnews.com/media/gutfeld-rips-biden-as-pathological-liar-injecting-race-into-election-law-speech-amid-texas-law-battle

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Dr. Rebane @ 5:05 pm

My ‘exist’ was meant to be “how can we co-exist”, but it does not take away from your point or mine. Yes, you have failed miserably teaching your readers like moi, albeit I imagine some of your readers are real doozies. Myself included. Don’t be to hard on yourself, Dr. Rebane. Look what you have to work with. :)

The question posed answers itself, be it exist or co-exist; which is we cannot.

[Don Bessee]

They let the antifa new red guard carry their flag and run amok, riot and now defund the police and anarchy are up in everyone's face. The real people know all they need to know for next year!

This ones for you good ol' pony tail of ignorance -

"We are more than a year out from the midterms and Democrats are already facing an uphill climb," Ruhle began a segment on Tuesday. "President Biden just met with Eric Adams, New York City's Democratic nominee for mayor after he ran a tough-on-crime campaign. It comes as cities across the country are grappling with a serious surge in violent crime."

She continued, "Now Republicans, like former President Trump are seizing on that and trying to tie Democrats and their ‘defund the police’ messaging to heading into next claiming that messaging is the reason for the spike in crime. It's very bad news for Democrats with a razor-thin House majority and a tie in the Senate."

Ruhle invited on political scientist Rachel Bitecofer, who she noted correctly predicted a "blue wave" in 2018 and is now "sounding the alarm" about a red one next year.

what are the odds of a red wave?" Ruhle asked.

"They're excellent," Bitecofer responded.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-stephanie-ruhle-red-wave-2022

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Dr. Rebane @ 5:30 pm

“That epoch has ended, and which way we go from here is undecided, but we are not going back to a unified constitutional nation.”

As the late pollster Pat Cadell understood all too well there is a growing deeply concerned sentiment among voters that while there will always be an America, it may not be the United States of America.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/walmart-fourth-of-july-viral-video-b1878905.html

[scenes]

But will you be allowed to have a Great Divide? There's serious dosh to be made in pasting together a Nouveau Regime.

"Our Endless Dinner With Robin DiAngelo
Suburban America's self-proclaimed racial oracle returns with a monumentally oblivious sequel to "White Fragility""

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/our-endless-dinner-with-robin-diangelo

"...Is this because DiAngelo is a demented racist, a Spencer of the suburbs, or because she’s a dunce? It feels like both. Her books are chock full of overt threats, using the language of the inquisitor. When she goes through the list of arguments people make in favor of the idea that they can or should exist beyond race, she concludes ominously, “None of these factors provides immunity.” The idea that “continually” availing oneself of DiAngeloid antiracist training is a requirement to remain above suspicion is an explicit warning. No other strategy is admissible; as she puts it, “Niceness is not antiracism.” Don’t be fooled by her Westminster Kennel Club show-Barbet hair. She writes like a cult leader or an NKVD Commissar, and if mass beheadings are in our future, expect her to hold a clipboard somewhere. ... "

[Bill Tozer]

Wow. Sold 3,500 copies the first week.

‘White Fragility’ Author Robin DiAngelo’s New Book Flops, Still Makes New York Times’ Best Seller List

https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-fragility-author-robin-diangelos-new-book-flops-still-makes-new-york-times-best-seller-list

[Don Bessee]

The crazy socialists will make it easier in the midterms -

James Carville blames 'noisy' Democrats for not winning elections: Too interested in people's 'pronouns'
Carville: The overwhelming number of Democrats are not into defunding the police

https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-carville-noisy-democrats-winning-elections-interested-people-pronouns

Biden nominee claims Trump-era Title IX regs protecting due process allow students to 'rape with impunity'

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-catherine-lhamon-title-ix-rape-impunity

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Now imagine if the shoe was on the other foot. Khashoggi!

Playing nice with the devil and expecting this time will be different. More Iranian oil sanctions rolled back, btw.

White House will continue pursuing Iran deal despite Iranian plot to kidnap US journalist in NYC

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house-continue-pursuing-iran-deal-despite-plot-kidnap-journalist-new-york

[Don Bessee]

The new world order brought to you by the new red guard/antifa/blm -

https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-shows-doordash-driver-contaminating-brooklyn-cops-chipotle-order

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The stealth invasion -

We know this is happening there because a man called Lt. Col. Matthew Burrows sent his subordinates an email spelling it out very clearly.

"Over the next few days, weeks or months," the note began, "you may see passenger aircraft on our ramp transporting undocumented non-citizens. Please review the attached public affairs guidance on the issue." Burrows’ email then instructed uniformed military personnel to hide what was happening on the base from the country they're sworn to serve.

"Do not take photographs and refrain from posting anything on social media." Lt. Col. Burrows offered no national security justification for keeping any of this secret because there is none. He just told the people who work for him not to talk.

We got this email from a whistleblower. At first, we doubted it could be real. During the last administration, the Pentagon firmly refused to protect America’s southern border. "That’s not our job," they said. "Too political, send us to Syria." And yet, according to this document, here was the very same U.S. military leadership at the Pentagon helping the Biden administration — with maximum, enforced stealth, with secrecy — to subvert the country’s core immigration laws.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-pentagon-leaders-hide-truth-illegal-immigration

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Team 0's revisionist history recasting the bill of rights -

https://news.yahoo.com/forget-critical-race-theory-don-180634321.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The socialist dems are jealous -

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2021/07/14/cuba-video-shows-police-shoot-protester-front-toddlers/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The socialist dems love their prototype utopia in cuba 0

Biden's Cuba policy

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

‘Why must everything — from ‘Real Housewives’ to the NFL to yoga — be about race. It is toxic for America’

Remember when McDonald’s taught us, “You deserve a break today”?

Catchy jingle. Made you want to go out for a Big Mac. Today the tune American culture is singing is, “You deserve some ache today,” and it makes me want to go out for a Quarter Pounder with Hemlock.

“The Real Housewives of New York” has turned into a tiresome ongoing race spat, and has predictably been rewarded with record-low ratings. The National Football League is playing the “black national anthem.” That effort effectively rebrands “The Star-Spangled Banner” as a white national anthem and further divides America in what is supposed to be a unifying ceremony.

Even yoga is now white supremacy, according to the new book “Yoke” (yoga meets woke, I guess).

Celebrity yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley told People, “I think that when you bring up cultural appropriation in yoga, everyone’s butthole clenches because everybody’s like, ‘Oh s—, I think I might be guilty of this,’ or, ‘I could be apart of this and that doesn’t feel good.’ ”

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/why-must-everything-from-real-housewives-to-the-nfl-to-yoga-be-about-race-it-is-toxic-for-america/

[Bill Tozer]

The Great Divide laid out from another angle. A very crucial angle. This could go here or under Equity Denies Reality just as easily.

‘Calling Natural Law ‘White Nationalism’ Is Racist, Period’
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley either doesn’t know what natural law is or he’s espousing fundamentally racist ideas. There’s no middle ground

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/14/calling-the-natural-law-white-nationalism-is-racist-period/

[Don Bessee]

They are talking to you socialist dem like those idots like labron, kapernick -

Cuba Protesters Warn Americans Who Like Che Guevara: ‘He Was a F*cking Terrorist’

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2021/07/18/cuba-protesters-warn-americans-who-like-che-guevara-fcking-terrorist/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

‘Americans Hate Each Other’
It’s time to embrace what that means for the country’s future

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/putnam-lind-duncan-moench

[Gregory]

Db 1⁸July

Good news!
When Che was my age, he'd been dead for 28 years.

[scenes]

C. Guevara: You know, if there hadn't been someone named Felix Rodriguez, you'd have to make him up.

There's just some people who were born to be involved in matters, check out Neall Ellis sometime.

Good article @8:35PM, although I don't know that you can blame modern time or it's technology. 'Bowling Alone' is worth a read.

Maybe it's just the natural inclination of particularly successful countries to become empires as they accumulate diverse people via invasion, immigration, or territorial acquisition. Sometimes the empire will even last for a while, but you sure have to put the hammer down from the center. After a time, geographically segregated people tend to be able to fission off into countries, highly geographically integrated angry people result in Yugoslavia or pre-breakup India. Exciting times ahead, especially given the lack of self-sufficiency most people have.

But, ya know...Trump.

[Bill Tozer]

Guess this will go here.

ANOTHER CLIMATE ALARM LOSES ITS MOJO

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/another-climate-alarm-loses-its-mojo.php

[Bill Tozer]

Good article on the radical leftist propaganda. Strike that. Better than good.

“That’s Not Happening and It’s Good That It Is”

https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/