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2018-11-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 the link

Posted by Harry Spoth3426 2018-11-26 01:19|| 2018-11-26 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I blame affirmative action.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-11-26 03:52|| 2018-11-26 03:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Oikophobia, a hate of the people in their own countries, unites the globalist vermin.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-11-26 04:29|| 2018-11-26 04:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Globalism + collectivism = neofeudalism.

The push for neofeudalism contains two powerful groups - globalists (small in number but control vast amounts of capital) and the public sector clerisy (large in number and have access to vast amounts of state power).

Two threads came out of the end of the Enlightenment/Westphalia century. The founding of the U.S. and the French Revolution. One sought a truly new way and was the delivery of the promise of the Enlightenment and Westphalian nationalism, tempered by Christian principles.

The other was an attempt to hijack concentration of state power and rising scientific knowledge to attempt return to the pharaonic model of a society and world domination if possible - only with a slightly different group of thugs at the top.

The mandarins in Brussels and their Blue State model counterparts here in the U.S. are all people who would have sided with King George III in the 1770s. There is a lot of desire in people who style themselves a ruling class to be, well, rulers. There is a lot of desire by people who join an economically protected public clerisy for a system which will give them what they, as twisted, damaged adolescents and sociopaths desire most - perfect economic security at any cost to their neighbors and nation.

The Democrats and GOPe tap into both of those dynamics.

Posted by no mo uro 2018-11-26 07:20|| 2018-11-26 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Which is why it's so important to fight rent-seeking wherever it occurs.

The more you allow rent-seeking, the more it expands, of course rent-seeking destroys that which sustains it, which means it is either a temporary affair (AKA marxist societies) or done stealthily (billionaire progressivists picked by "security" services).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-11-26 08:04|| 2018-11-26 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 We've had anti-american Americans since the Cold War. Probably earlier but they became obvious during the cold war. I sort of understand those paid by the communists but will never get the useful idiots who just believe whatever nonsense they are told.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-11-26 10:32|| 2018-11-26 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm beginning to think that Roberts is a "sleeper cell" for the left.

Posted by warthogswife 2018-11-26 11:55|| 2018-11-26 11:55|| Front Page Top

#8 but will never get the useful idiots who just believe whatever nonsense they are told

See The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. It explains how:

Feminists have no problems with muzlim depradations against women.

Gerbil worming crusaders loves them some private jet.

The people who most want you poor and oppressed sure don't want to join you in that.

It isn't about the common good at all.

It's about believing...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-11-26 14:08|| 2018-11-26 14:08|| Front Page Top

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