“Dear Friends of the Claremont Institute,
The conservative setback in the recent election is part of a 100 year advance of the welfare state. Even Ronald Reagan could not stem it. It is Claremont’s view that most conservatives do not fully understand the cause of their defeat. They focus on symptoms, not the fundamental cause: the early 20th century Progressive overthrow of the Founders’ political philosophy which has led, slowly but inexorably, to a regime committed to what liberals call “social justice.” This means equal outcomes, not the equal opportunity of the Founders.

Conservatives need to respond, to engage liberals at the level of political philosophy. Conservatives must convince the American public that “social justice” is actually injustice for it denies the nature of man.”

To “engage” liberals in political philosophy goes back to Neo’s theme, A Mind is a Difficult Thing to Change. We do not have the time required to accomplish such change; the Left will see to that.

Whether we can or cannot come back after two or three generations is not a topic that interests me or my children or my grandchildren. I have a brilliant and beautiful daughter in third year of medical school, studying her heart out and questioning, “Why?”

Obama and Holder, as well as the so-called civil and human rights businesses, are selective crickets.

Carlos Romero, Donkey Sex Suspect, Says It’s His Constitutional Right To Have Sex With Animals

He’s neither right nor wrong. The Constitution does not proscribe this dysfunctional behavior. As it does not proscribe most dysfunctional behaviors. It does not, however, grant a right to engage in bestiality or any other dysfunctional behavior. Most people assume that normal behaviors are defined by their contribution to evolutionary fitness of the species.

It should be interesting to observe how people will reconcile mutually inconsistent subjective standards. So far, the outcome is progressive corruption, instability and decay throughout our society.

They do not respect individual dignity other than their own. They do not recognize an intrinsic value of human life other than their own. This is why they are capable of rationalizing policies which denigrate individual dignity and devalue human life. This is why it is seemingly impossible to hold these people accountable for their words and actions.

It is dissociation of risk which causes corruption. It is dreams of instant gratification which motivates its progress.

I know you are of the “all is lost” camp. Perhaps you’re correct. But that will become clear in the fullness of time. In the meantime I see absolutely no reason whatsoever to give up. I am not convinced you are correct.

As I think I wrote in a different comment, if you’re right and this is all wasted effort, then so what? Big deal, because it wouldn’t have mattered either way what we do, so we may as well have tried. And it’s not as though preparing for the worst, and trying to avoid the worst, are mutually exclusive activities.

And if you’re wrong and yet people give up prematurely because they are convinced it’s no use trying, that’s a very very bad proposition.

The bottom line, seems to me, is whether we can fight the Left by following conventional rules or not. Trying to achieve shareholder control of the MSM, as posed by ziontruth, is conventional rule thinking: and it is NOT possible. Consider the market capitalization of GE (owns NBC) is 227billion, Disney (owns ABC) is 87 bill, CBS is 22 bill. Ownership of ~10% minimum would be needed, at least, and even then the outcome would be far from certain. You think 30 billion plus could be raised for the effort? Over what time? Futile.

Secession? Non-payment of IRS taxes? Masses walking off their jobs? Boycotts? utterly futile.

The bad news is that our sociopolitical cancer is, like Chavez’s, no longer curable. We will over time move thru the denial-anger-bargaining phases and come to acceptance of the political mortality of the USA as based on constitutional principles.

A friend of mine, a highly-regarded estate attorney, tells me that in 30 years of practice she has never experienced anything like this years-end crush of ‘wealthy’ clients looking to reduce their estates before Dec. 31. For these people, it is every-family-for-itself, man-the-lifeboats. They achieved prosperity by correctly anticipating the future….and the future is bleak.

With respect to your background and experiences, Oldflyer, I think the Claremont Institute’s 2004 paper The Myth of the Racist Republicans pretty much shreds that argument. YMMV, of course.

But even amid deteriorating relations with the West, Museveni raised many eyebrows with his pro-Russian and even but pro-Soviet rhetoric. He urged Russia to reset relations with Africa, which, in his opinion, were perfect during the Cold War.

Resetting the reset: Hillary warns Moscow against a new Soviet Union

In a sign the United States may be finally changing its line toward Russia, Hillary Clinton has warned that Moscow is trying to recreate a new version of the Soviet Union under the guise of economic integration.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/chatter/resetting-the-reset-hillary-warns-moscow-against-new-soviet-unio

In some of her most critical words yet, the US secretary of state told reporters on Thursday that Washington would fight Russia’s effort to boost its influence among its neighbors.

“There is a move to re-Sovietize the region,” she said. “It’s not going to be called that. It’s going to be called a customs union, it will be called Eurasian Union and all of that. But let’s make no mistake about it. We know what the goal is and we are trying to figure out effective ways to slow down or prevent it.”

[prevent it externally, but did the dupe get what she was a part of internally with her Fulbright scholarship exchange student to Moscow husband?]

can we finally be allowed to say that the people who took over in africa for kenya and south africa are communists?

Nelson Mandela ‘proven’ to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial

A new book claims that, 50 years after he was first accused of being a Communist, Nelson Mandela was a Communist party member after all.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nelson-mandela/9731522/Nelson-Mandela-proven-to-be-a-member-of-the-Communist-Party-after-decades-of-denial.html

Was Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress, really a secret Communist, as the white-only government of the time alleged? Or, as he claimed during the infamous 1963 trial that saw him jailed for life, was it simply a smear to discredit him in a world riven by Cold War tensions?

ie. did they put him away because he was black fighting for the rights of Africans, or because he was a communist subversive trying to change the state? (and getting assistance from Russia, a country who bankrupted its people to pay for all this kind of stuff world wide – rather than build economy)

The former South African president, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, has always denied being a member of the South African branch of the movement, which mounted an armed campaign of guerrilla resistance along with the ANC.

aint that funny… part of terrorist factions. just like ayers was part and has someone close in state. which is just like rote zora, which reminds us of feminisms terorrist roots.

and fancy that, all socialist too…
[you cant fight what you cant identify as opposition]

But research by a British historian, Professor Stephen Ellis, has unearthed fresh evidence that during his early years as an activist, Mr Mandela did hold senior rank in the South African Communist Party, or SACP. He says Mr Mandela joined the SACP to enlist the help of the Communist superpowers for the ANC’s campaign of armed resistance to white rule.

In the minutes, Mr Motshabi, is quoted as saying: “There was an accusation that we opposed allowing Nelson [Mandela] and Walter (Sisulu, a fellow activist) into the Family (a code word for the party) … we were not informed because this was arising after the 1950 campaigns (a series of street protests). The recruitment of the two came after.”