Dystopian Political Era
America’s Democratic Republican Form of Government At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1789 Benjamin Franklin was asked by Elizabeth Powell, what kind of a government the Founding Fathers had devised. He famously answered to her: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” The US Constitution and its associated Bill of Rights established the … Read more
The Strange Bedfellows of Geopolitics – Dictatorships Which Improve the Lives of the Common People 00 – Book Review: Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government 02 – Woodrow Wilson’s Weirdly Elitist View of American Democracy 02 – Pragmatic Socialism – The Actual 21st Century World We All Live In The modern American administrative state is not a … Read more
China’s now long-standing economic boom has significantly raised the living standards of nearly a quarter of the world’s population. It has brought hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty. It doesn’t matter whether you are a panda-hugging globalist, or a Sinophobic American nationalist, China must have the accolades it deserves for this remarkable … Read more
There are a great many characterizations of The People’s Republic of China floating around in the public square these days. Some people say they’re an authoritarian dictatorship, others describe them as socialist or capitalist or communist. A few sophisticated commentators use hybrid terms like “state-capitalist” or “state owned capitalism.” Perhaps it’s impossible to really describe … Read more
After the Second World War the victorious Americans did something utterly unique in world history. They launched a massively generous global campaign to help the previously embattled and badly damaged nations of the world to rebuild themselves. In Europe the campaign was referred to as the Marshall Plan. All the war-torn nations of Europe gladly … Read more
Counterinsurgencies have been a part of state warfare since ancient times, evolving significantly during periods of colonialism and decolonization. The American Revolutionary War was a classic example of the underfunded, under-equipped, and outmanned little guy, fighting against the British Behemoth that thought it ruled the waves. The American Revolution was a classic insurgency-counterinsurgency war. In … Read more
The pre-Second World War left-wing Marxist-Communists nominally viewed the fascists as governments of the inter-war period as “right-wing extremist experiments.” That was pure communist theater and political rhetoric. It had no real basis in fact. The rise of the totalitarian anti-capitalist state of the Soviet Union gave them a podium to shout from. The soviet … Read more
There is Marxism that’s permitted and Marxism that’s not. The iteration of Marxism that’s permitted in general public discourse is a modified form. Just because the other form isn’t permitted doesn’t necessarily mean it’s completely repressed in our culture, at least not in the manner that repression is usually understood. Our culture is more like Brave … Read more
Do the capitalist power elites always control their governments? Karl Marx and his fellow travelers strongly asserted they did? In the Dickensian England of Marx’s day, the productive factory owners clearly did have strong influences in the British Parliament. But that was a time when England was deeply enthralled with The First Industrial Revolution and … Read more
The gradually worsening circumstances of life in formerly beautiful California continued. Native Californians and long-term residents were fleeing the many failures of the state’s gross mismanagement in droves. The imbalance of California’s outgoing migrants and incoming migrants causes U-haul and Ryder moving truck rental to have to pay drivers to return their moving trucks back … Read more
A Christian worldview is a “God’s eye” view of our world. Creation is both visible (the physical world) and invisible (the metaphysical, “spiritual” world). Ancient Christianity understands that the visible and invisible worlds are coexistent, transcendent and indistinguishable.
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