5 Comments

I am not a Republican. I am no longer a Democrat. I am an Independent. This is because we no longer have two parties - we have one, the Demopublicans, and they are ruled by their uber-rich elite puppet masters. They swing into the wind - no matter which way it is blowing, as you stated in your essay. We have become an out-of-the-closet and in-your-face Oligarchy.

I agree with a couple of Mr. Trump's ideas; but not most of them. I also agree with a couple of the Democrat's ideas; but not most of them. I believe there are many Americans who feel as I do, and this is why the Demopublicans have lost most of America. We are Middle-America, and we demand to be heard. We want middle-of-the-road commonsense legislation that benefits us all not just the rich ruling elite.

We want inexpensive complete health care. We want inexpensive continuing education. We want forever secure Social Security. We want security for women and children; and we especially want complete honesty from our elected officials. I certainly hope the Washington, DC elites hear and actually listen to Middle-America before some radical group decides they are tired of waiting.

Expand full comment

There will be a new party that represents middle America and it cannot arrive soon enough. Hopefully our next Teddy Roosevelt will show him or her self to lead us back to our true values.

Expand full comment

Excellent article.

I would also add the powerful influence of what psychologists call “preference falsification,” which is essentially deliberately misstating your true preferences to conform to one’s perception of the what the group believes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification

Preference falsification is a common human behavior to ensure cooperation within groups, but it is easily exploited by ideological activists who are willing to intimidate or threaten anyone who speaks up against them.

Essentially, everyone lies about their true preferences because they think no one else agrees with them, while not realizing that the majority of the people privately agree with them but are also lying.

Expand full comment

Biden was not smart enough or competent enough to resist caving to the whims of the far left wing of his party. He left the Democratic Party in shambles from which it may never recover.

If the remaining party leaders (whoever they might be) were smart (which they are not) they would look closely at at Trump’s many executive orders (EO’s) and maybe find a few popular ones that they could agree with and then use those along with the more popular positions that they currently endorse as the basis for a resurgence in 2026 and 2028.

So what’s currently in their bag that people don’t hate and what can be done with them to make them more salable to a majority.

First, a woman’s right to an abortion is popular but many believe there should be some time limit put on its availability as development proceeds from a single cell ( . ) to a 👶. So consider limiting it to the first trimester except to protect the health of the mother or when the fetus is not viable.

Second, most people are worried about climate change but the intermittent renewable energy sources located far from load centers Democrats are currently pushing will never provide reliable energy. The best long term solution is nuclear power plants located at existing coal fired plant locations that already have cooling and distribution infrastructure and are located near where electricity is needed. In the meantime we should be leading an international effort to develop geoengineering solutions to the problem because we will never reduce carbon emissions in time to stave off disaster.

Third, most people support vaccinations when their development is transparent and their use is voluntary. Use that approach to offset the current anti-vaccine rhetoric of the Republicans.

Back to Trump’s executive orders. There are three worth considering supporting.

The first of these EO’s recognizes that open borders are politically unacceptable and that the age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no more green pastures. They need to voluntarily reduce their own country's population to an environmentally sustainable level, stay home and work there to improve their living conditions.

His second important EO addresses the insanity of gender identity which denies the reality of human sexuality and results in men invading women’s sports, restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. Women need and are entitled to privacy from men. Even more diabolical is the mutilation of innocent children (many who would grow up gay) in pursuit of the impossible because you can’t change your birth sex.

Finally his EO that corrects the craziness of DEI which discriminates against whites, Asians and men in attempting to cure past discrimination against others is absolutely the correct approach. Who could believe that creating a new privileged class and a new discriminated against class would provide a solution to the problem? Not to mention that it’s clearly unconstitutional.

Would these actions help the Democrats recover? Who knows, but absent change there is no hope for them.

Expand full comment

Very interesting. I just read about half of "Stalin: Paradoxes of Power" (Kotkin). (It actually got too boring to finish). Anyhow, that's very instructive as a study in WHO creates a revolution and who maintains it.

The Bolsheviks in 1917 were entirely true believers, but they quickly attracted a lot of "professionals" as you put it; they even had some of the old Tsar's army officers working for them.

Realistically, you can't govern without them. There aren't enough true revolutionaries to run a government.

In fact, just last night I watched a documentary on Hitler's "Night of the Long Knives." Hitler found that the SA, which had helped him gain power, had become an obstacle to staying in power. He needed the conservative "professional" class to join him, and the SA was a turnoff to them.

Expand full comment