If there's a problem that the left and center have it is that they are reactive, not proactive. Benjamin Netanyahu is planning for 500 years from now when it won't even be a memory that there was a population of Arabs in Israel. "Project 2025" began in 1971 [1] On the other hand, Democrats decided to dump Biden for Harris at the last minute possible. Sam Altman is saying we have to draw a line in the sand now . Peter…
When you're merely against them you find you're not for anything, and you collapse. The failure of the American progressive movement is that it abandoned the values it claimed it was for, in order to adopt new values that seemed to garner it more power. The American progressive movement became for perpetual power (oligarchy and plutocracy), and against them, where its moral authority derived solely from being opposed…
I had friends in Britain who I'd talk with about politics and throughout the Trump term said, well, we didn't get an own goal like Brexit. Although I didn't vote for him, I don't think anything terrible happened in the 1st Trump administration, except Jan 6.
The first time I saw the capitol dome I arrived on the concourse at Reagan Airport and felt something stir in my heart when I saw the capitol dome. In 2022 I took my wife to Washington DC to see the sites around the Mall and it really hurt me to see the front of the Capitol building (such a beautiful thing in itself, as well as a symbol of our institutions) wrapped up in plastic.
I saw Jan 6 live on TV and felt it it was a worse event than Sep 11 as it came from an enemy within. That Trump could be behind that and not be stopped from gaining power again by the courts, the party mechanism, and the voters, boggles my minds. I listened to The Rush Limbaugh Show the next day (about a week before he passed away from cancer) because I wanted to know what he had to say about it and he was just about as shocked as I was.
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Other than I largely agree.