When one of the two major political parties goes barking mad, that bodes ill for civic peace in the future.
You Tell ’em Senator
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Like Bill Maher, though, until Fetterman consistently votes against his party label, this is all talk.
The reflexive reaction is “well the other side is so much worse!” The key is getting your side to honestly not take your vote for granted. Easier said than done, I’m aware.
Discussion of ‘socialism’ is always tedious. Brass tacks, the trouble is that the Democratic Party is chock-a-block with people who..
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(1) Despise ordinary (non-exotic) people employed as wage earners, proprietors, and common-and-garden salaried employees (working outside of school teaching and social work).
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(2) Seek to injure such people by promoting street crime and sexual deviance and by flooding the country with strangers who have no investment in it but can be mobilized as clients.
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(3) Favor manufacturing social strata which place professional managerial occupations and word merchant occupations on top, designated clients of same next, and ordinary people last. An implication of this is that everyone’s decisions are to be second-guessed by those in the first category, that those in the 3d category cannot legitimately exercise authority over those in the second category, that institutional patronage is to be distributed by those in the 1st category to those in the 2d category at the expense of those in the 3d category, and that the 1st category is a monoculture from which any dissenters are expelled.
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(4) As a consequence favor manufacturing pantomime institutions which propagate narratives but hardly perform their supposed tasks.
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(5) As a consequence, the escalating political repression in the occidental world. The faculty understanding of free speech is that it’s for peers, and you aren’t.
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(6) As a consequence, the decay of the courts into instruments of political warfare and the decay of elections into a pantomime corrupted by massive cheating.
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(7) As a consequence, the pervasive trashing of everyone’s ancestors in deference to the (often manufactured) sensibilities of regime pets.
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(8) As a consequence, the valorization of states of perpetual adolescence.
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What characters like Mamdani and Cea Weaver – two people who know next-to-nothing and have in their lives done nothing of note – are up to is to implement measures which abuse people who get along in life satisfactorily without being clients of anyone else.
Socialism uses other peoples’ money. Make sure it is not your money. Working without legitimate compensation is involuntary servitude.
Socialism is slavery