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Remember 2016, the Flight 93 election? Well, the 2020 election figures to be… — 62 Comments

1. It may indeed be too late, and VDH’s latest piece hints at such a dark scenario for the future of our republic. One wonders whether this extremely cogent analysis will even appear online at National Review, which has largely lost its way since the election of Orange Man. How will historians of the future explain the cultural, demographic and political suicide of a country which was once the envy of the world?

2. I think it is correct that, even if Trump is reelected, even if the Republicans keep the Senate and retake the House, at present Trump is just the Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike, and many of us have just woken up too late to our peril.

   Trump alone cannot stop the barely contained Leftist flood from washing our traditional society and government away, cannot reverse the conquests of the Gramscian Long March–the hostile Leftist invasion which, over the last couple of generations, has conquered, taken over, subverted, and “fundamentally transformed” just about every major institution of and cultural support for our traditional society in this country.

   Nor can–given its past and current performance–Congress.

   It will take a massive–from the grass-roots, all the way to the top–a sustained counter-revolution, a “Reconquista” and, so far, I don’t see such a Reconquista shaping up.

   But, reelecting Trump and a Republican takeover of Congress–especially by new Nationalist, America First “Trump” Republicans–might help things get rolling.

3. It has long been apparent to some of us, here and elsewhere, that the battle for America’s soul was lost long ago.
   The Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dohrns/Alinskys/Gramscians/Obamas long ago seized and held the high ground, much as at Gettysburg, where Pickett’s valiant charge was certain to fail, and did, at enormous cost in lives and ultimately, the defeat of the Confederate South.
   The collective Left does not break ranks. In that sense they are fascists, as in fasces (Latin!), tightly bound together with an ax at their center.
   Conservatives are philosophically devoutly conscious of individual rights, and are thus by definition easily defeated by that united, ever-united collectivist foe.

   je: Can you quit with the rather stupid “Orange Man” and perhaps pay some attention to Trump’s policies, whether realized or just attempted and foiled by Obama-appointed federal district judges?
   Future historians will write in Mandarin ideographs, since history is written by the victor(s). They will explain the global Chinese ascendancy in words of praise for the triumph of the Chinese Communist Party. You expect objectivity? From historians?

4. We on the right are facing a difficult cultural battle. The media, academia, and the globalists are working hard to corrupt our culture. Get involved at the grassroots level, that is all you can do. Of many of us are facing the actuarial tables. But shoulder on. You don’t have anything more important to do.

5. Parker–Those on the Left aren’t “working hard to corrupt our culture,” from what I see, with rare exceptions, it appears that they’ve already done it.

6. The American Mind, Hunter Hearns: The Flight 93 Election Crashed

   The American Mind, Peter Boghossian: Welcome to Culture War 2.0: The Great Realignment

7. parker:
   What do you mean “at the community level”?
   My city council is majority leftist. One cute council lady, a (R), votes with the (D) majority 76% of the time, and is re-elected by her huge-majority (R) district!
   One must be nominated by a council member to be on the library board and all other boards, and those resume submissions end up in their shredders. The Left appoints Leftists (surprise!).

   The elected school board is the same. Those who are not leftist are passive, ignorant go-alongs.

   There is a strategy called the “Benedict Option”, after St. Benedict, who founded medieval monasteries with iron-clad rules of monastic conduct, with expulsion for violators. But that is a circle-the-wagons-against-the-Indians approach. The BO book is by Rod Dreher.

8. The stance you described earlier in a quote, is relevant. Self-regarding snowflakes with an undisguised dictatorial impulse … the tyranny of the sensitive one who simply assumes that you belong to him:

   “A ‘boomer’ [in this case] is an older, angry white male who is shaking his fist at the sky while not being able to take an insult. They have close-minded opinions, are resistant to change — whether it’s new technology or gender inclusivity — and are generally out of touch with how their behaviors affect other people.”

   The snowflake cannot really say why it is entitled to your consideration; it just asserts that it is. Because, “rights”. Rights which it cannot ultimately justify; as its own anti-teleological “anthropology” and radical subjectivity, is incommensurate with the concept of objective rights.

   I came across an interesting formulation in a passage in a Wiki article on the concept of “The Other”; that notion which solidarity whores and inclusion pimps are always yammering on about. Emmanuel Levinas in this case, is referred to in a phrase which in some measure codifies the appetite driven assertions of the leftist, even though it does not explain or justify the leftist’s claims in any traditional sense of the term “justify” – by reason and category and attribute.

   “The others that obsess me in the Other do not affect me as examples of the same genus united with my neighbor, by resemblance or common nature, individuations of the human race, or chips off the old block. . . . The others concern me from the first. Here, fraternity precedes the commonness of a genus.”

   Phenomenologically then, (or so I take it) it is assumed – by the hierophants to these little snowflake bundles of uncalibrated desire and appetite which stake their incessant claims to your attention and forbearance – that:

   ” … fraternity precedes the commonness of a genus …”

   See? They don’t need to justify their claim structure. Their face wells up before your face, and you just f–king owe them, because … feelinz or some shit.

   The “Benedict Option”, at least in any naive formulation, does not have a snowball’s chance in Hell of succeeding.

   Because the appetite entities of the left, “the desiring things” as their philosopher priests have reconstituted the formerly human person, won’t leave you alone. They cannot leave you alone. They cannot survive unless “included”. On their terms. According to the dreams they dream.

   The only way to get them out of your face once they lose whatever inhibitions they now have, will be to quiet them once and for all: as they recognize no limits to their desires or sway, and apparently feel no point of satiety. They are like zombies knocking at your door … forever.

   Probably why there are so many movies of that theme at present. unconscious recogition.

   How can you reason, in moral terms, with a being like that?

9. I’m not too worried about the Left because the guy still in the lead for the Democratic Presidential nomination is Joe Freakin’ Biden, a septuagenarian who is about as “unwoke” as you can be in today’s Democratic Party.

   This is about college educated, upper-middle-class whites against basically everybody else…and not even all college educated whites are on the woke train. These people are not that powerful, they are not that persuasive, and there aren’t that many of them.

   To put it another way, go look up the polling data on what actual Latinos and Latinas think of the term “Latinx.”

   Mike

10. Geez Louise, Chesa Boudin was just elected San Francisco DA. Following in Kamala Harris’s footsteps.

    He’s the son of two Weathermen, David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, who went to prison for the infamous Brinks truck murder-robbery. Chesa was raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

    In other words Chesa is Weather Underground royalty. As I recall his name is a mash-up of Che and USA.

11. Victor Davis Hanson tends to keep his powder dry, so the dark tone of this column got to me too.

    The choice is on the American people now. I think we’ve got the better odds, but it’s hard to believe the Democrats have gotten this far, this crazy.

12. I’m here in LA; metro population 10x that of Nebraska. Culture shock for Cornhead.

    Most people don’t care about the rot. Bread, circuses and good weather are how the plebs are kept under control.

    Gas is $4.39 here but WTI is $55 throughout the country. As VDH notes, CA has oil and gas but refuses to drill.

    The thing I don’t get is how they tolerate those power outages.

13. MBunge, you’d best wake up. There is a political forest fire raging around you and you think you are OK. But you, and we, are not.
    You don’t get to sue the Democrats when you are dead at their hands via health care rationing, gun control, or whatever nasty other devices they have to snuff you and keep the planet from warming.

14. Neo,
    We’re in the Democratic primary season so naturally the candidates are appealing to the political ideas that they think make up the Democratic party. Republicans do the same. Trump went much harder against illegal immigration than his primary challengers … and won. So there is that. But I don’t think the electorate is that far left. Many simply do not like Trump and that’s why he polls so low. Which can be the only reason because we are at peace and the economy is strong. He should be polling at 60%.

    Democrats are closer to moderate in my view. One good example is the recent election in Tucson, AZ. The first Latina was elected as mayor. She is a Democrat. And yet in the exact same election the voters overwhelmingly voted against making Tucson a sanctuary city. And too, nationally, Joe Biden leads in the polls. As noted, he is not left. I think he has a very good chance against Trump. Polls show Warren and Bernie right with Trump too so that could happen but in order to implement some of the programs they want they have to take more seats in Congress then they probably will. And it would have to be all leftists. That’s a stretch. But this country swings back and forth. If Biden wins then the mid-terms will likely go back to the Republicans.

15. PRAGER: The Left-Right Divide Is About Reality Itself

    “The left-right divide in America is, unfortunately, unbridgeable.
    Left and right have different perceptions of reality.

    right and left have different perceptions of reality. That — even more so than differing values — makes the left-right divide unbridgeable. When you cannot agree on what is real, there is no possible bridging of the gulf.”

    “Our Revolution’s Logic”
    Angelo Codevilla

    “The American republic’s essence had been self-restraint toward fellow citizens deemed equals. The Constitution of 1787 had been its paradigm. Under its words and by its laws, Americans had enjoyed safety and predictability for themselves and their way of life. But Progressives’ subordination of the Constitution, laws, and institutions to their own purposes and for their own primacy ended all that. The rest of America’s increasing realization that only fire can fight fire has followed naturally.

    This is our revolution: Because a majority of Americans now no longer share basic sympathies and trust, because they no longer regard each other as worthy of equal consideration, the public and private practices that once had made our Republic are now beyond reasonable hope of restoration. Strife can only mount until some new equilibrium among us arises.”

    The greater the violation of the Constitution by the left, the more certain that it will not end well for them.

16. Polls.

    Learned nothing.

17. Recently I was wondering why more old-school Democrats haven’t defected to the Republican party. Obviously some people leave, but there are still people who are patriotic, pro-law enforcement, support the troops, etc. but haven’t gone over to the other side. I think the left-wing media has simply succeeded at convincing their constituents that voting with the Republicans means taking away healthcare, not funding schools, leaving people to die in the streets, etc. that the thought of going over to the Republican party and working within it to improve healthcare, housing, the environment, etc. isn’t an option. Really, Republicans need to do a better job of showing that this is an option and getting more moderates to join them.

18. Democrats are closer to moderate in my view.

    Yeah. Abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, triple the Medicare budget, connive with the media and the security state establishment against the elected president and anyone near him (see John Doe investigations in Wisconsin), and use petty thugs to break up meetings of the political opposition. #closertomoderate

19. This is what feminism as a force created whether for themselves or at the behest… if you want to complain about the rot and all that in the schools.. just look to who is there to do that…

    From the National Center for Educational Statistics

    77 percent of public school teachers were female and 23 percent were male in 2015–16, with a lower percentage of male teachers at the elementary school level (11 percent) than at the secondary school level (36 percent).

    the percentage of public school teachers who were male was 2 percentage points lower in 2015–16 than in 1999–2000.

    At the elementary school level, the percentage of male teachers was 1 percentage point lower in 2015–16 than in 1999–2000.
    By comparison, at the secondary school level, the percentage of male teachers was 5 percentage points lower in 2015–16 than in 1999–2000.

    In education, psychology, social work, and health, the predominance of females is between 75% and 80%. In English, foreign languages, communications, journalism, and art, and also in biology, females comprise between 60% and 75% of the students. Males predominate only in math, physical sciences, engineering, and computer science. Some 60% of Ph.Ds in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics were awarded to females.

    According to Jon Marcus in the Atlantic, “The problem has its origins as early as primary school, only to be fueled later on by economic forces that discourage men from believing a degree is worth the time and money.” The head of a middle school claims the recruitment efforts of colleges and universities are futile: “by the time [male] students reach college age, Maloney said, “It’s way too late. You’ve already lost them.” “Or even earlier than that. The “anti-school, anti-education sentiment” in boys has roots in kindergarten when they’re slower to learn to read than girls, said Jim Shelley, the manager of the Men’s Resource Center at Lakeland Community College in Ohio. … That disparity continues until, “by eighth or ninth grade, boys have lost interest,” Shelley said.”

    and here is a quite untrue story with enough truth to make it palatable

    Why Men Are the New College Minority
    Males are enrolling in higher education at alarmingly low rates, and some colleges are working hard to reverse the trend.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-men-are-the-new-college-minority/536103/

    “There’s one,” she said.
    It was, in fact, an unusual bird that Smith had spotted, especially on this campus: masculum collegium discipulus. A male college student.

    Women outnumber men by more than six to one here at Carlow University, where Smith is a senior and an orientation leader who was preparing to welcome incoming freshmen.
    
    [snip]
    Where men once went to college in proportions far higher than women—58 percent to 42 percent as recently as the 1970s—the ratio has now almost exactly reversed.
    [snip]
    This fall, women will comprise more than 56 percent of students on campuses nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Some 2.2 million fewer men than women will be enrolled in college this year. And the trend shows no sign of abating
    [snip]
    Through 21 years running one of the few campus support centers exclusively for men, he said, “I’ve thought it can only get better. But it just has gone nowhere. Not only are there not programs like ours that are supportive of male students, but at most college campuses the attitude is that men are the problem. … I’ve had male students tell me that their first week in college they were made to feel like potential rapists.”

    nah… not happening, they must be Ms-hearing therapist.. not the rapist..
    see a simple Ms-understanding

    from the UK

    White males now classed as a ‘minority group’ at university
    Women now dominate Britain’s universities and professions to such an extent that a leading institution has launched a campaign to recruit more “white males”.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9484597/White-males-now-classed-as-a-minority-group-at-university.html

    From legal match

    Typical Examples of Reverse Discrimination Claims in the Workplace

    Hiring of non-Caucasians and women (rather than Caucasians and men)
    Firing of Caucasians and males (but not non-Caucasians and women)
    Non-hiring or firing of persons under 40 years of age

    but who wants to be thought of as this (below)?

    To Learn About the Far Right, Start With the ‘Manosphere’
    The sexist world has become a recruiting ground for potential mass shooters.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/anti-feminism-gateway-far-right/595642/

    its not only noticed, its promoted, and i guess one would have to wonder why the people they are targeting will defend the country if they are treated like this… this could be to drive them to socialism where at least they can not be on the bottom and or loaded into ovens or camps eventually given where such politics ends up.

    An Acceptable Prejudice
    by Elizabeth C. Corey June 2019

    Contemporary universities are doing their best to eradicate prejudice and bias. Yet one remaining prejudice—against white men—is not only tolerated but encouraged. While we are told that diversity of skin color and gender is an unmitigated good, people in faculty meetings and job searches joke about the undesirability of white men.

    They look forward to the time when all the “old white men” shall disappear from campus. Job performance? ­Publications? Pedagogical skill? These are now less important than a faculty that reflects the demographics of the school, or the general population, or . . . we’re not quite sure what. But everyone knows the first principle of academic life: Diversity is a moral imperative.

    I guess the ladies who happen to also be pale better not have male children, or perhaps changing them into transgendered females is a way to “save them”?

    We are encouraged to speak out when we observe inappropriate words or actions, and to report such instances to teams of administrators. Yet the prejudice against white men goes unquestioned. Its victims never speak of it publicly. They only hope not to offend, and to be allowed to go about their business.

    “This is as it should be!” say the presumed moral leaders of the university. Men have held privileged positions for too long. White men, in particular, need to sit down and shut up so that others can speak out and take institutional power.

    For more radical activists, a group of white men is itself a symbol of oppression.

    For the less strident, the hope is that a school or program might acquire a critical mass of women and minorities to balance out the white men, or perhaps to equalize the numbers of men and women. The unspoken and largely unexamined assumption is that students need to learn from people who look like them. Women now make up the majority of college students; therefore, women should be their teachers.

    [snip]

    But do men, and white men in particular, really constitute a homogeneous bloc?

    This idea is typical of the neo-Marxist world of the academy, and it has now thoroughly infiltrated the realms of business, government, and the arts. The notion that an individual, by virtue of his group identity, inherently possesses power or suffers oppression is a cornerstone of the theory of intersectionality.

    Invented by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, intersectionality has overtaken the academic world in the last decade.

    each of the things that are topics have their roots in marxism, and each has a feminist icon who put forth the point.. without the feminists, none of this would be possible… they are even proud of it…

    Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw

    an American lawyer, civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory who developed the theory of intersectionality. She is a full-time professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues

    Crenshaw is also the founder of Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS) and the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), as well as the president of the Berlin-based Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ)

    Crenshaw introduced the theory of intersectionality in 1989 in her paper written for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”

    The main argument of this black feminist paper is that the experience of being a black woman cannot be understood in terms of being black and of being a woman considered independently, but must include the interactions between the two, which frequently reinforce each other

    so…
    nie mój cyrk, nie moje ma?py
    not my circus, not my monkeys

    it either happens next year… or, happens in 5 years
    but, thats the end of it as i said 14 years ago

    now, please pass the popcorn.. and dont forget the butter…

    as all i am going to see here are opinions of what should be this or that..
    which amount to, nothing… way too little way too late, because if your seeing it as in germany openly
    then there is no way to stop it, slow it, halt it, etc…
    Hanson knows this, but he still has to earn a living for those next years, and has to draw the line at being PURGED
    purged from the press, the public square, purged by youtube… etc

20. “There is a political forest fire raging around you and you think you are OK. But you, and we, are not.”

    Oh, I’m not saying there aren’t bad times coming. But let’s remember that the entire political/media establishment got its ass handed to it just three years ago by Donald Trump. And that happened WITHOUT something like a war or economic crisis to enable it.

    Reality always wins. The old Soviet Union held off reality for decades but it took murder and repression the likes of which are unimaginable in the current United States and even then, it was still a hollow shell just waiting for a strong enough breeze to come along.

    Let me put it this way: America currently has both perhaps the most spectacularly wealthy oligarchic class in human history AND massive long term government spending and debt problems. Very few on the Right have any idea what to do about that but NO ONE on the Left has any clue.

    Mike

21. Recently I was wondering why more old-school Democrats haven’t defected to the Republican party. Obviously some people leave, but there are still people who are patriotic, pro-law enforcement, support the troops, etc. but haven’t gone over to the other side.

    I have a suspicion that if you unpacked it, you’d discover that HRC’s supporters among the white population (in 2016) consisted of (1) bourgeois types who tend to see themselves (in re the rest of us) as visitors from a superior neighborhood and (2) trashy single mothers. There are others, I’m sure, and it would be helpful to have them. However, most of this electorate is not reachable.

    As for the black electorate, it’s been an astonishing monolith for 50+ years and its voting behavior is insensitive to the identity of candidates or to circumstances. As recently as 1960 there was a vigorous Republican minority among voting blacks, and voting blacks ca. 1932 were adaptive and responsive enough to circumstances that they were capable of switching allegiances, in spite of how tainted was the Democratic Party. I’d like to see that monolith begin to crack, but I’m not holding my breath. (I have a suspicion about the source of this behavior).

22. Montage:

    The electorate isn’t as far left as the Democratic politicians. But the electorate has been pulled further and further left by the Gramscian March. And the candidates are not just appealing to this or that faction. They are leftists and they mean business.

23. the new USA
    a man was paralysed at mcdonalds..
    and now

    Video appears to show Popeyes employee body slamming woman outside restaurant
    https://abc30.com/video-appears-to-show-popeyes-employee-body-slamming-woman/5686358/

    you can be sure who they will be voting for..

24. MBunge: America currently has both perhaps the most spectacularly wealthy oligarchic class in human history AND massive long term government spending and debt problems. Very few on the Right have any idea what to do about that but NO ONE on the Left has any clue.

    The Left in Europe has decided to proceed as follows: European Central Bank President Lagarde’s quote from earlier this month regarding the negative interest rate policy, “We should be happier to have a job than to have our savings protected… I think that it is in this spirit that monetary policy has been decided by my predecessors and I think they made quite a beneficial choice.”

    That view is mind boggling on so many levels.

25. Students Tear Down Anti-Socialism Display, but UNC Charlotte Won’t Investigate

    https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/11/students-tear-down-anti-socialism-display-but-unc-charlotte-wont-investigate/

    I am the founding chairwoman of YAF at UNC Charlotte. I started this group to bring together students who are committed to free speech and the belief in a free marketplace of ideas. Our club hosts meetings with a diverse group of students whose political opinions are extremely varied. Our members share one thing in common, though: The belief in the power and importance of free speech.

    Our theme for October was the debate over socialism and capitalism. After several discussion sessions in which we provided literature for and against both sides, and after hearing from several experts, our members decided they did not support socialism. Some of our members also realized that this opposition to socialism was not well-received on campus and in the classroom. Many of our members voiced that they were ostracized in class for anti-socialist sentiments, while others were reprimanded or suffered lower grades for supporting capitalism.

    So much like another country in another time…
    Gliechshaltung..

    The old German socialist (and Nazi) slogan:
    “Alles muss anders sein” (Everything must be changed).

26. That view is mind boggling on so many levels.

    The inflation rate in the Euro Area is currently running at 0.8% per year. People’s savings aren’t in danger.

27. “Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, whether you’re from New York or the middle of the country, you should be frightened by efforts to try to create crimes out of nothing,” Dershowitz told host John Catsimatidis. “The latest twist was people on television, particularly CNN and MSNBC, are saying that if the president or somebody else were to name the whistleblower in the Ukrainian situation that person would be guilty of a crime. Well, I spent the afternoon yesterday searching the federal criminal statutes from beginning to end. I couldn’t find the crime.”

    “It reminds me of what Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the KGB, said to Stalin. He said, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime,’ which he really meant, ‘I’ll make up the crime.’ And so the Democrats are now making up crimes,” he added.

28. “It will take a massive–from the grass-roots, all the way to the top–a sustained counter-revolution, a “Reconquista” and, so far, I don’t see such a Reconquista shaping up.” – Snow on Pine

    I assume you chose that term with great precision.
    The analogy is more than just figurative for Europe; although not quite that literal here, it’s getting closer.

29. MBunge: America currently has both perhaps the most spectacularly wealthy oligarchic class in human history AND massive long term government spending and debt problems. Very few on the Right have any idea what to do about that but NO ONE on the Left has any clue.

    A technical means of correcting these imbalances eludes no one. The problem is our bad political culture and our wretched institutional architecture. Obstructive veto groups are so empowered that collective action to make authoritative allocation decisions is not possible. The kultursmog is such that people are persuaded the burden must be born by the other guy while our politicians pretend you can just kick the can down the road every year.

30. Joe Biden leads in the polls. As noted, he is not left.

    Joe Biden is properly described as a shallow careerist grifter who has in his life provided very little resistance to the prevailing currents in the Democratic Party. The closest you get to such resistance would be positions registered forty years ago (when he was of the stated view that court-ordered busing was a bad idea and social worky rehabilitation programs for street criminals largely a waste).

31. One of those stories where you’re pretty sure America disappeared somewhere, like **poof**, it’s just gone: Attack Of The Toms River Turkeys. Do the townsfolk have a jolly good slaughter, pluck-fest and barbeque? Oh hell’s no. They go bitching to the animal control bureau, the media, or the Governor.

    Pod people have replaced us. Quivering sissies. Jesus.

32. ArtDeco: The inflation rate in the Euro Area is currently running at 0.8% per year. People’s savings aren’t in danger.

    It isn’t the inflation but the negative interest rate policy that is depleting the savings. Her comment was specifically in reference to that policy. The negative return is obviously being funded with savings by somebody and it certainly isn’t the govt.

33. Ok, I don’t stay up to the minute or hour on the comment thread…

    What I mean is push back at the local and state level. Get involved, do the grunt work, canvass, put your money where your mouth is, or just bitch and moan sitting on your asses. And/otherwise learn to reload.

    If you want something work for it and put your money (not your words) on the line.

34. Artfl knows. The whole country has become a female seminary.

    Still time to vote for Sean!

35. Root Cause Analysis tells me that what we are seeing is the chaos introduced by a failing Constitution. Any Constitution that is written so poorly will ultimately fail. The Founding Fathers indicated they were creating a limited government but a lack of detail has led to an unlimited government. And like our ancestors in 1861 we are seeing the same inevitable slide to violence because we are predisposed to think that violence to decide the Constitutional problems is preferable to a Convention.

36. “When a progressive mom takes her kids to walk and play in a California municipal park and, instead of relaxing comfortably with her fellow mom friends, finds blood-tainted needles sticking up out of the grass, what sort of policies does she imagine allowed that? When a small business owner in San Francisco finds vagrants defecating near his breezeway or mobs of shoplifters swarming his store, what sort of politics and ideologies will he consider led to that?” – VDH, among his many other rhetorical questions, the answer being in all cases, “They have no comprehension of the connectedness of their votes for the Democrats and the undesirable results.”
    (Undesirable for normal sane people; a feature for the Left.)

    Case in point comes from the now-blue state of Virginia, which is on its way to becoming East California:
    https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/11/parents-in-virginias-loudoun-county-protest-against-lgbtq-books-in-schools/

    Parents are speaking out against an influx of pro-LGBTQ children’s books in public schools in Virginia’s Loudoun County, according to the Washington Post.

    The books in question, promoting same-sex marriages and same-sex adoption, have been appearing in elementary schools and high schools throughout Northern Virginia. Many parents have called it “sexual propaganda” and “a political agenda.”

    The Loudoun County School Board flipped from red to blue in last week’s elections, as Democrats made gains all across the state of Virginia. The subsequent implementation of such pro-LGBTQ material is indicative of the Democratic Party’s shift further to the Left on social issues, which is now encroaching on the education system.

    Public backlash has been on the rise against the increasing sexual indoctrination of children; as the Post reports, the majority of the top 100 “most frequently challenged and banned books of 2018” were pro-LGBTQ books. As a result of parents’ complaints against the new books in Loudoun County, county officials are reviewing ten of the new books to determine whether or not to keep them.

    And yet – the complaining parents almost certainly include people who also voted for the Democrats on the school board.

    Total compartmentalization of cause and effect.

37. It isn’t the inflation but the negative interest rate policy that is depleting the savings. Her comment was specifically in reference to that policy. The negative return is obviously being funded with savings by somebody and it certainly isn’t the govt.

    It’s not depleting anyone’s savings. If you don’t like the coupon on the bond, don’t buy the bond, and invest in other assets.

38. Virginia again.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/how-states-like-virginia-go-blue/

    How States Like Virginia Go Blue
    By MATTHEW CONTINETTI November 9, 2019 6:30 AM

    When I was growing up, Loudoun County was considered a rural area disconnected from the rhythms of the Beltway. In the years since, its population has exploded from 86,000 people to 407,000. The percentage of foreign-born residents has gone from 6 percent to 24 percent. A county population that was 3 percent Hispanic and 2 percent Asian is 14 percent Hispanic and 20 percent Asian. The percentage of the county with a bachelor’s degree or higher has gone from 33 percent to 60 percent. Loudoun is the richest county in America. Fairfax is second. In 1992, Bill Clinton won 35 percent of the vote in Loudoun County. Twenty-four years later, his wife won 55 percent.

    As Virginia has moved into the Democratic column, the state Republican party has become more populist, more nationalist, and more culturally conservative. The dwindling number of Republicans who spoke the language of suburbia could not escape their party’s national reputation for hostility to immigrants and opposition to progressive ideals. A similar process occurred in states like California, Colorado, and Nevada. It may also be underway in Arizona and Texas (!).

    Virginia became a blue state as the world celebrated the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The political development of the Commonwealth is emblematic of America in the post-Cold War world. The Republican party found it no longer could count on unwavering support from the upscale college-educated white voters who once made up its base. The cultural churn produced by a migrant-driven, globalized, information-based economy gave suburban America a different population, with a different structure of values, which looks upon social conservatives as ambassadors from Mars.

    The GOP has a path to the presidency and to congressional majorities. But it does not go through my old Virginia home.

39. Art Deco: It’s not depleting anyone’s savings. If you don’t like the coupon on the bond, don’t buy the bond, and invest in other assets.

    There is about $15-trillion worth of negative yielding debt out there. I will let you do your own calculation and draw your own conclusion if that is depleting savings or not. On Aug 1, 2019 Bloomberg reported that the total negative yielding debt was $14-trillion. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-01/sub-zero-debt-pile-hits-record-14-trillion-as-fed-cuts-rates

40. sdferr on November 11, 2019 at 5:55 pm said:
    The American Mind, Hunter Hearns: The Flight 93 Election Crashed

    The American Mind, Peter Boghossian: Welcome to Culture War 2.0: The Great Realignment
    * * *
    Excellent. I will add a third topical post from Peter Thiel, via that source.
    https://americanmind.org/essays/the-star-trek-computer-is-not-enough/

    The three of them address Neo’s rejoinder to Montage’s comment:
    neo on November 11, 2019 at 8:35 pm said:
    “The electorate isn’t as far left as the Democratic politicians. But the electorate has been pulled further and further left by the Gramscian March. And the candidates are not just appealing to this or that faction. They are leftists and they mean business.”

    Another thing Montage said is also debatable: “Democrats are closer to moderate in my view. One good example is the recent election in Tucson, AZ. The first Latina was elected as mayor. She is a Democrat. And yet in the exact same election the voters overwhelmingly voted against making Tucson a sanctuary city.”

    You can’t “average” political positions. These voters are not moderate; they are schizoid. As VDH pointed out in his essay, also linked by Neo today, people who vote for any Democrat are in effect voting for ALL the Democratic Party’s policies unless (as in this case) explicitly rejected, because Leftist Democrats will enact those “rejected” policies by stealth anyway.

41. sdferr–Yeah, I thought it was pretty funny, how the way too “civilized” townspeople in this “over 55 community” were getting pushed around by a bunch of Turkeys, which raises the question, who were the real Turkeys here.

    Seems to me that there was a lot of meat on the hoof so to speak, yet, no one in this community seems to have thought about just shooting the damn nuisances, cooking them up, and just having Thanksgiving a little early this year.

    Actually, my step-father was born in Toms River, and my impression was that people out that way were made of sterner stuff.

    These days, apparently not.

42. shadow on November 11, 2019 at 7:40 pm said:
    Recently I was wondering why more old-school Democrats haven’t defected to the Republican party…. I think the left-wing media has simply succeeded at convincing their constituents that voting with the Republicans means taking away healthcare, not funding schools, leaving people to die in the streets, etc. that the thought of going over to the Republican party and working within it to improve healthcare, housing, the environment, etc. isn’t an option. Really, Republicans need to do a better job of showing that this is an option and getting more moderates to join them.
    * * *
    That is a correct assessment of the problem, but sdferr’s links to the essays at American Mind address the rather optimistic proposal at the end, as do the remarks by parker and Cicero about the up-hill battle at the local level to regain ground already lost by the Republican Party.

    Not too coincidentally, this mirrors the British situation (h/t Andy on that thread) where the Leavers who usually vote Labour will never vote for the Conservatives even though they agree with them on that issue, because of the same type of perceptual narrowness.

    There, the Leavers have a third option, and are more likely to vote for the Brexit Party than for either of the two main parties (ignoring the minor ones).
    Here, there is no functioning “moderate” party with any combination of “moderate” policies that might appeal to a significant number of unhappy voters.

43. ArtDeco: The inflation rate in the Euro Area is currently running at 0.8% per year. People’s savings aren’t in danger.

    Andy: It isn’t the inflation but the negative interest rate policy that is depleting the savings. Her comment was specifically in reference to that policy. The negative return is obviously being funded with savings by somebody and it certainly isn’t the govt.

    ArtDeco: It’s not depleting anyone’s savings. If you don’t like the coupon on the bond, don’t buy the bond, and invest in other assets.

    Who needs to conceive and then disseminate propaganda, we have people here who generate it out of the air believing its their knowledge… Andy is talking savings accounts at banks, not what the banks invest in (that people can too).

    What Are Negative Interest Rates?

    Negative interest rates refer to a scenario in which cash deposits incur a charge for storage at a bank, rather than receiving interest income. Instead of receiving money on deposits in the form of interest, depositors must pay regularly to keep their money with the bank. This environment is intended to incentivize banks to lend money more freely.

    Real World Example of a Negative Interest Rate

    In recent years, central banks in Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan have implemented a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on excess bank reserves in the financial system. This unorthodox monetary policy tool is designed to spur economic growth through spending and investment as depositors would be incentivized to spend cash rather than store it at the bank and incur a guaranteed loss.

    Big banks start charging clients for euro deposits

    Several global banks have begun charging large customers to deposit their money in euros, a rare move that could have costly implications for investors and companies that do business on the Continent.

    The actions are driven by policies from the European Central Bank, which in June became the largest central bank to impose a negative interest rate on deposits–meaning banks are paying to park their money with the ECB. The effort is designed to encourage banks to instead use that money to lend. When the ECB dropped those rates further in September, some banks started pushing those costs–or costs related to the rate cuts–onto customers.

    Now, instead of paying customers interest on their euro accounts as they have done traditionally, some banks have started charging them. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. recently started charging 0.2% on euro deposits, the bank said Friday, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. have also started charging clients, according to people familiar with the matter.

44. Artfldgr on November 11, 2019 at 8:50 pm said:
    Students Tear Down Anti-Socialism Display, but UNC Charlotte Won’t Investigate

    https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/11/students-tear-down-anti-socialism-display-but-unc-charlotte-wont-investigate/
    * * *
    The run-around by the administration was despicable, and the actions of the #resistancesnowflakes deplorable, but the closing statements by the YAF leader were heartening — not just because of her support for freedom, but because she wrote a coherent, grammatically sound, understandable essay.

    The goal is not to ruin a student’s life who trashed a political display they opposed. Rather, the goal is to ensure all students’ political views receive the same protections on UNC Charlotte’s campus. University leaders have an important responsibility to teach students how to debate ideas respectfully. Educating students about the American idea of free speech prepares them for a world where violating someone’s Constitutional rights has grave consequences. By responding that they cannot do much to help us, our administration is telling students that the correct response to speech that offends them is vandalism.

    This failure to identify or reprimand the vandal sets a dangerous precedent: It may indicate that the university, though not officially stifling free speech, will allow students to compromise the free speech of others. Our display can be replaced, but a weak response to protecting free speech can have a chilling effect on unpopular opinions—whether of the political left or the political right.

    Also not coincidentally, this situation echoes an episode in early Latter-day Saint history, where the President of the United States gave the same craven response as the president/administration of the college, but with deadly ramifications because it gave dubious legitimacy to the state governor who officially ordered the extra-judicial murder of his Mormon constituents.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_and_politics_in_the_United_States

    In 1839, Joseph Smith visited U.S. President Martin Van Buren to plead for the U.S. to help roughly 20,000 Latter-Day Saint settlers of Independence, Missouri. The Governor of Missouri, Lilburn Boggs, in attempt to resolve the 1838 Mormon War, had issued an executive order on October 27, 1838, known as the “Extermination Order”. It authorized troops to use force against Latter-Day Saints to “exterminate or drive [them] from the state”.[11][12] Smith and his party appealed to members of Congress and to President Van Buren to intercede for the Latter-Day Saints. According to Smith’s grandnephew, Van Buren said to Smith, “Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you; if I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri”.

45. This is on topic, really, since we started with VDH, who is the Voice of Doom for California.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/how_dystopian_los_angeles_measures_up_to_rwanda.html

    As we drove through Kigali in a green Toyota Land Cruiser we were stunned by how incredibly clean and well kept Kigali’s streets, sidewalks, and businesses were. There was no litter, no graffiti, roadside vegetation was manicured, and there were no foul vagrants living along the sidewalks or in the parks.

    I asked our guide how the Rwandans manage to keep their city so clean.

    “Umuganda!” he shouted. “Before Umuganda, there were piles of garbage everywhere! … He explained that on the last Saturday of every month, all able-bodied Rwandans (18–65), including the president and his Cabinet members, are required by law to go out and clean the areas around their homes and businesses. The police fine eligible citizens who fail to participate 5,000 Rwandan francs (about U.S. $5.00).
    …
    A4 is the two-lane highway between Kigali and the park. Like all of Rwanda’s highways, it is kept impeccably clean by crews of maintenance workers who sweep up litter with wicker brooms and hand-snip the flora and fauna growing on its shoulders. Small farms with modest cottages line the highway. I was reminded of Switzerland — a far less wealthy Switzerland, but a nation of proud citizens.
    …
    We began comparing Rwanda’s A4 to our stretch of U.S. 101 that runs from the Cahuenga Pass near Universal Studios, past the Hollywood Bowl and the Hollywood sign, past the star-studded Walk of Fame, then down into the Los Angeles Civic Center, Staples Center, and the opulent Arts District. This stretch of California 101 serves motorists in one of the world’s most vibrant and richest cities, yet little money is been spent maintaining it, never mind beautifying it. It is a dull, dreary, and sad stretch of highway. The freeway is bounded by ghostly trees and weed patches covered in layers of litter — empty beverage cans, soiled diapers, discarded cigarette packs, snack wrappers, and more. Befouled homeless shanties dot 101’s shoulders, line its overpasses, and occupy its underbelly… U.S. 101 reflects our city’s, county’s, and state’s lack of leadership and vision.

    There are too many areas in Los Angeles that are equally neglected.

    California and Los Angeles promote our city to poor, uneducated Latino immigrants. We wondered why our government could not declare Umuganda throughout Los Angeles, why it does offer the uneducated, the poor, and the able-bodied social services recipients minimum-wage jobs maintaining our roads. We wonder whether Nuevo Los Angeles will be a proud, revitalized city under the sun or a jumble of tiny islands of wealth in a sea of slums.

46. “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted,” Boudin vowed in response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questionnaire during the campaign.

    “Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted, we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness,” he lamented.

    [snip]

    Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders cheered Boudin’s victory in the election. “Now is the moment to fundamentally transform our racist and broken criminal justice system by ending mass incarceration, the failed war on drugs and the criminalization of poverty,” the Vermont Sen. wrote on Twitter Saturday, congratulating Boudin on his “historic victory!”

    [snip]

    https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/11/san-francisco-chesa-boudin-public-urination/

47. California and Los Angeles promote our city to poor, uneducated Latino immigrants. We wondered why our government could not declare Umuganda throughout Los Angeles, why it does offer the uneducated, the poor, and the able-bodied social services recipients minimum-wage jobs maintaining our roads.

    many own many properties, and so, could not physically clean them all
    then, there is the problem of letting these minimum wage jobs violate the unions

    the union issue is the biggest… i remember a man in toronto got tired of a broken staircase in the park and fixed it.. not good.

    i found the article..
    City says steps will cost at least $65,000; man builds them for $550

    Original story: A retiree in Toronto was unhappy with the length of time the city was taking to build a flight of stairs on a precarious slope.
    And so he did it himself — at a fraction of the cost.

    Adi Astl, with the help of a homeless man he hired, built eight steps for $550, more than 100 times cheaper than the $65,000-$150,000 the city had estimated for the job.
    Astl told CNN affiliate CTV News that members of his gardening group thanked him for building the stairs. One of them had broken a wrist falling down the slope that leads to their community garden.
    [snip]
    The city insisted that Astl should not have bypassed the legal steps and should have waited for city officials to handle the problem. Mayor John Tory acknowledged the absurdity of the city’s estimates but said it does not condone private citizens bypassing city bylaws to build public structures themselves.

    then UPDATE

    The stairs are gone! On Friday morning, a group of workers descended upon the staircase and dismantled it with power tools. According to a local Toronto radio station, the city decided the stairs were unsafe and had them removed.

    This is the same reason that people cant donate and volunteer to help the poor in NYCHA

48. A couple more essays on point. Are the right-wing journalists following a conservative talking points memo this week??

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/the_palestinians_and_the_trump_resistance.html

    Probably not part of the memo, but a reminder of where the 1984 Election could take us.
    Trump is not Hitler, but the Democrats are giving a good imitation of the ideology that he & the Communists manifested.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/berlin-wall-gone-lessons-remain/#slide-1

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/hes_not_a_king_a_brief_encounter_with_the_swamp.html

49. AesopFan–The Gramscian conquest was accomplished through informational, psychological, cultural, linguistic, moral, and spiritual warfare, and any counter-revolution will have to be won using those same modes of attack.

    The problem is that we on the Right are at an extraordinary disadvantage, since pretty much all of the high ground and positions of power in these areas have already been occupied, conquered, subverted, and “transformed” by the Left.

50. “Joe Biden leads in the polls.”

    Further evidence of the utter insanity that’s become the “new normal”.

    To be sure, the Ministry of Truth has been working overtime to ensure that this most dismal of candidates—of personalities (yet less dismal, apparently, than the others)—is even in the running.

    (“Now gods, stand up for dementia”? For thuggery? For serial prevarication? Yes, so it appears…. Anything to defeat the Orange Man.)

51. The incident mentioned by Artfldgr about an assault on a female customer by employees of Popeye’s is an unfortunate byproduct of the booming economy. For a very long time economists have considered 5% unemployment to be “full employment”. This is an acknowledgment that about five percent of the population is actually unemployable, meaning that they don’t have the intelligence, or skills to hold even the most menial of jobs.

    We are currently at 3% unemployment, which means that 2% of the current workforce are a major liability to their employers. But it’s worse than just that 2%. The shortage of qualified labor means that everyone is working at a level slightly above their qualifications at every level.

    In simple terms, it means that we end up with a significant lack of adult supervision, which is what is happening in those fast food restaurants.

    The last time this happened was in the late nineties. The result was a general lowering of the quality of the goods and services produced in the U.S. which, in turn, resulted in significant losses of market share for U.S. companies. It took many years for those companies to restore their quality and recover their markets.

    I worry about the economy heating up more than it already has.

52. There have been quite a few reports–often with videos–lately about violence at various fast food outlets, and at relatively low end chain eateries.

    Pretty soon people who don’t want to take the chance of being assaulted, being in the joint when a brawl breaks out, or the place gets shot up, will just avoid this kind of place altogether.

    Not a good advertisement for fast food joints or these chains.

53. Many simply do not like Trump and that’s why he polls so low. Which can be the only reason because we are at peace and the economy is strong.

    My 52 year old daughter was visiting this past weekend. She is an attorney and a federal employee. I know her politics are leftist but in September 2016 she told me she would NOT vote for Hillary. I took this as a sign of political sanity. Last Sunday she was ranting about how “incompetent ” Trump is. I asked her if 3% unemployment and Dow Jones at 28,000 meant anything to her. He answer was NO !

    I did not inquire further.

54. We are currently at 3% unemployment, which means that 2% of the current workforce are a major liability to their employers.

    If they actually were a ‘major liability’, they wouldn’t have been hired.

55. Snow on Pine says (in my estimation, perfectly correctly) that, “The Gramscian conquest was accomplished through informational, psychological, cultural, linguistic, moral, and spiritual warfare….”

    I wonder, though: Shouldn’t we also add “philosophical?”

    Forgive me, everyone, for briefly rehearsing Alasdair MacIntyre’s argument from After Virtue (I’ve done it before here). But one very important root, but a widely-unacknowledged root, of our current predicament is the fact that for four hundred years, no one in public life has been able to provide a widely-acknowledged rational basis for ethical calculations. For a long while, no one has been able to derive an “ought” from an “is.”

    That situation didn’t obtain throughout the prior period, on account of the merger of Aristotelian and Judeo-Christian ethics: The view of man as a rational animal with a knowable telos, discoverable simultaneously from right reasoning and from divine revelation. The awareness of what a man is for, of what constitutes his proper flourishing in view of his nature, allowed ethicists to objectively reason to moral conclusions in ways able to achieve broad consensus, in just the same way that knowing what a wristwatch is for allows us today to achieve broad consensus about the difference between a good watch, a crappy watch, and a completely broken watch.

    Now that way of reasoning was condemned by the more-radical (proto-lefty) enlightenment thinkers as outmoded, dusty, cramped, exasperating, stodgy, et cetera: Anything, you see, other than false. Nobody made any serious effort to refute Scholasticism, but they did exactly what leftists still do to the present day: Propagandize it into unpopularity. A handful of modern Thomists, nearly all serious Christians, remain the only persons still keeping the light on.

    As a replacement for that, we’ve had a few centuries of thinkers trying to replace the A-T/Scholastic approach to morality with something (anything!) else, and all of them have failed. What Kant said has holes in it, pointed out to them by everyone other than Kantians. What Nietzsche said has holes in it, too; they were pointed out by everyone other than Nietzscheans. For four hundred years, nobody’s has a consistent scheme, everybody’s had a favorite but incomplete and partly self-contradictory system. Work has stalled.

    The societal evidence of this is simple: Everyone still talks in moral terms about all kinds of things, but all their language reduces to something like, “I feel that I like XYZ, but I dislike ABC.” Moral relativism reigns because we’ve given up reasoning about right and wrong and have nothing left to replace it other than distaste for certain notions and our self-sorting into tribes of persons with similar moral sentiments.

    Does it seem the left are always winning the propaganda war?

    Well of course they are! After all, propaganda is about manipulating others through their sentiments, and it is only their right reason that can save them back to knowledge of truth. But you can’t “fight something with nothing,” can you? If you have no basis for right reasoning about the things the left proposes (notice the adjectives) as “compassionate” and “fair” and “progressive,” how on earth can you remain anchored to truth in a flood of sentimental propaganda?

    I don’t know how to do it, but if every schoolkid in America — even all the homeschooled and private schooled ones, if such things don’t become outlawed — were to become young Thomists for the next 20 years, in 25 years the left would stop winning elections and find themselves cast out of public influence.

56. Roy Nathanson, you left out the diversity mandate which allows them to ignore EEOC rules and laws…

    however, I do not think that these are unemployable, i think they need training in this case… they have been given a license where there is a reward for outrage and a reward for joining in, and a system that does not punish, under the idea that others are doing the same, and not getting punished.

    There is also the problem that the new feminist system is ignoring those boys and hurting them, and not helping them, so they are coming out completely unprepared to take the college courses or work without issues based on how they were actually educated!

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    currently they are playing games to give proper lip service to EEOC, but in truth, their suggestions and such are really about skirting that… things like we want to win the diversity award… we want to be seen as X because to be seen as Y is a problem.

    1933 – Germany
    We want to be seen as a company that will not hire the Jews who have too much privilege and too much power and are responsible for the ills in our society

    2019 – USA/UK/ etc.
    We want to be seen as a company that will not hire the white males who have too much privilege and too much power and are responsible for the ills in our society

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    below is an example where they make suggestions that imply an illegal action without actually telling them the illegal action to take to meet that!!!!!!

    People analytics thought leader Josh Bersin has stated that workplace diversity and inclusion is a top priority for 2019. Companies have notably stepped up.
    [snip]
    Step 2: Pick one metric to improve for your diversity hiring
    Trying to overhaul your diversity hiring metrics can be overwhelming. Intel’s CEO has set an aggressive goal of diversity parity by 2020. But you don’t need to be so ambitious. The simplest way to improve your diversity hiring is to pick one metric to improve upon.
    For example, maybe it’s increasing the percentage of qualified female employees in tech-related roles by 10% within 6 months. Or increasing the percentage of qualified visible minorities on your sales team by 15% within 12 months.

    IF you dont ignore the applications of qualified people waiting for the people you want to appear, how do you accomplish the goal and not be in violation? easy, you waste time on empty interviews where the subject doesn’t know that they could literally be god, and have zero chance to be hired as they are being used to establish a cover story for reaching the above goal…

    Step 3: Increase your diversity hiring in your candidate sourcing

    If your diversity hiring audit reveals that you’re failing to find and attract diverse candidates in the first place, there are several things you can do.

    So right there they are saying, if your getting too many unprotected class members who are applying, which will increase as people dont hire them, you have to what? not hire them, and adjust so that you can find more of the people with the right sex, gender, or race qualities you want… after all, they are protected classes, and the ones your avoiding are by definition, a negative to all diversity scores

    Tip 1: Re-word your job posting

    Studies has found that the language you use in your job description helps to attract or turn off diverse candidates from applying to your open role. To attract more female candidates, avoid using too many “masculine-type” words (e.g., ambitious, dominate, challenging) in your job posting. Check out if your job posting might be turning off female candidates using this nifty tool here.

    Tip 2: Show your existing workplace diversity (or the diversity you aspire to)

    Enjoy the TOOL..
    http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/

    look… all you have to do is look at the postings and images at the locations, they are full of what they want, and what they dont want is either absent, or blurred in the back.. IF you havent noticed, jews have started to wear the kippa more, to insure they are seen as a protected class…

    the SBA 8A program gives so much to one side, that the other side cant get loans, or any help
    this has been in place putting forth half a trillion, guaranteed loans, mentorships, abatements, free office equipment, discounts on electricity, an extra database that only they can be in (5×5). and if you talk about it, as i tried years ago, you got pish toshed…

    so in a way, even neo helped make this happen by not believing this was ALREADY happening and treating the subject as valid.. its on her old site and i dont think it transferred..

    8(a) Business Development program
    Program benefits
    Compete for set-aside and sole-source contracts in the program [no set aside for the unprotected]
    Get a Business Opportunity Specialist to help navigate federal contracting [no specialists to help for the unprotected]
    Form joint ventures with established businesses through the SBA’s mentor-protégé program [not allowed to be a front for larger companies if your unprotected]
    Receive management and technical assistance, including business training, counseling, marketing assistance, and high-level executive development [none of this available for the unprotected]

    8(a) program qualifications

    To qualify for the 8(a) program, follow this eligibility checklist:

    Be a small business
    Not already have participated in the 8(a) program
    Be at least 51 percent owned and controlled by U.S. citizens who are economically and socially disadvantaged
    Be owned by someone whose personal net worth is $250,000 or less
    Be owned by someone whose average adjusted gross income for three years is $250,000 or less
    Be owned by someone with $4 million or less in assets
    Have the owner manage day-to-day operations and also make long-term decisions
    Have all its principals demonstrate good character
    Show potential for success and be able to perform successfully on contracts

    The federal government fully defines who qualifies for the 8(a) program — including what counts as being economically and socially disadvantaged — in Title 13 Part 124 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). You can also get a preliminary assessment of whether you qualify at the SBA’s Certify website.

    Non-disadvantaged individual means any individual who does not claim disadvantaged status, does not qualify as disadvantaged, or upon whose disadvantaged status an applicant or Participant does not rely in qualifying for 8(a) BD program participation.

    hows that for a circular argument… they do not let me use that i grew up in a very bad neighborhood but would for my neighbor… and we all know women are disadvantaged as they make 71% compared to men (an erroneous figure that has not changed in 35 years)..

    You can also get a preliminary assessment of whether you qualify at the SBA’s Certify website.
    https://certify.sba.gov/am-i-eligible
    The Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program allows set-asides for WOSBs in industries where firms are underrepresented. WOSBs must be at least 51% owned and controlled by women.
    IF you answer the first 8 questions YES..
    Are the qualifying individual(s) of the firm women who own at least 51% of the firm?

    back to how to hire diversity

    One of the biggest barriers to increasing workplace diversity is that diversity attracts diversity. Glassdoor found that 67% of job seekers use diversity is an important factor when considering companies and job offers.

    Take a look at the pictures and videos of your workplace on your website and social profiles. Pictures and videos of your employees should show their diversity.

    which is why i said look at the website of a company… they are telling you what they dont want this way
    been doing this for years till enough side with them that no one could bring an EEOC court case, even if valid!

    Tip 4: Encourage referrals from minority employees

    In general, people’s social and professional networks are made up of people who are demographically similar. You can leverage this network similarity effect by encouraging minority employees to make referrals since they are more likely to refer members of their community. Minority employee referrals help increase your diversity hiring with the added benefits of hiring from referrals in the first place.

    put the referrals of others into the round filing cabinet.. or actually, save them to show you accept the referral

    this one below is very illegal… except that there is one unprotected class..

    Step 4: Increase your diversity hiring in your candidate screening
    Tool 1: Pre-hire assessment
    Tool 2: Blind hiring
    Currently, software that anonymizes resumes by removing names, schools, and even addresses as well as software that anonymizes pre-hire testing exist and are showing promising signs of reducing unconscious bias

    So if your a person who was homeless to go to school without a scholarship or loan available, did well, all that you did and worked for has no bearing any more… so you dont get to be the “better qualified hire”

    Step 5: Increase your diversity hiring in your candidate shortlisting
    If your diversity hiring audit reveals the bottleneck is in your candidate shortlisting, there are two techniques you should know about.

    Research featured in Harvard Business Review found that when the final candidate pool has only one minority candidate, he or she has virtually no chances of being hired.

    If there are at least two female candidates in the final candidate pool, the odds of hiring a female candidate are 79 times greater. If there are least two minority candidates in the final candidate pool, the odds of hiring a minority candidate are 194 times greater. Hence, the “two in the pool effect.”

    soooooo treat the wrong person the same as the glasses used to drink harveys bristol creame
    throw away those tiny little glasses!!! dont put them in the pool.. regardless of experience and skills
    they will just blow the numbers, and force your diversity rating down

    Technique 2: Intelligent shortlisting

    Automated intelligent shortlisting increases workplace diversity by replacing the most tedious and time-consuming part of recruitment: manual shortlisting.

    Intelligent shortlisting software lives inside your ATS and uses your resume database to learn about existing employees’ experience, skills, and other criteria. The shortlisting software then objectively and consistently applies this criteria across all candidates, which reduces problems related to unconscious biases and accidental discrimination.

    blame it on the computer that is never wrong…

    How To Alter Your Hiring Practices To Increase Diversity FORBES
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/maynardwebb/2017/10/29/how-to-alter-your-hiring-practices-to-increase-diversity/
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    We know this is a problem, but there just isn’t enough pipeline to find other good people now.

    it is a problem they can fix, and one that they must fix, if they want to ensure the best success for the company. I have to admit, there was a part of me that felt as if I had no business telling the company that they had to focus on diversity. After all, I am also white and male. But over the past seven years at WIN, and my 40-year career, we’ve come to see how crucial it is to be deliberate about making your company diverse — and doing it early is much, much easier.

    right there his comment about himself tells you the truth about this…
    its hire by gender, race, or such… outright EEOC violation as a NORM
    but remember, once the left allowed selective prosecution

    Make inclusion and diversity part of your corporate culture. People will hire based on “fit” — and that often means “people like us.” Instead, if you build a culture where fit means people who expand who we are, then diversity will be germane to your future success.

    fire or dissolve jobs of the people you dont want, and make those you dont want feel uncomfortable
    dont give them raises for 15 years, give others raises… after all, no one gets to see you do that

    Employ a diverse set of interviewers. Women are much more likely to join a company when they can interact with women who are already there, and can testify to a company’s commitment to diversity. In fact, experts say, one of the biggest deciding factors on whether or not a female candidate accepts a job is if there was a woman on the interview panel.

    there is so much out there..
    so i guess i will be homeless a third time..
    and my indonesian wife will lose all she came to america to have BECAUSE she married a jew, i mean white heterosexual male she wanted to have mixed children with..

57. I asked her if 3% unemployment and Dow Jones at 28,000 meant anything to her. He answer was NO !

    you should have asked if she planned to work till she dropped or till she was forced to live in public housing… as not caring would mean she didnt care if her retirement account had anything in it to keep her eating…

    does she really like roaches and rats that much?
    or does she have a complete disconnect on where the money for her 401k, roth ira, etc. grow from..

    tell her to look at NYCHA housing as an example of where she will end up if she dont have enough money and has one accident..

    or maybe a little pink house…

    or maybe just not being able to go outside cause its just too violent in the place she is at because she didnt care about such..

    really short sighted… sorry

58. Mike K
    No offense intended but I’m curious. Is your daughter married? Does she have sons?

59. Geoffrey Britain on November 11, 2019 at 7:30 pm said:
    PRAGER: The Left-Right Divide Is About Reality Itself

    Well it is about the Left hand path vs the Right hand path, but not in the sense Prager sees it as.

60. The collective Left does not break ranks. In that sense they are fascists, as in fasces (Latin!), tightly bound together with an ax at their center.
    Conservatives are philosophically devoutly conscious of individual rights, and are thus by definition easily defeated by that united, ever-united collectivist foe.

    If that was true, why do conservatives maintain the power of a government that uses the fasces (tight bundle of sticks) on their Greek columns of authority and various other seals?

    That’s a bit… inconsistent or contradictory, don’t you think.

    The truth is that all American citizens are slaves of the Deep State. Has been for decades if not centuries. Trum is the first President since JFK got killed by the DS (for reasons like Epstein killing himself was a reason) that was NOT selected by the Cabal DS.

61. This is an excerpt from a much longer article.

    The US Election: The Schoolyard Bully Saves The Day (With Some Help From The SBA)
    It might seem to you that Donald Trump would obviously be part of the Cabal. He comes across as rich, conceited, braggadocious, a womanizer, and a racist elitist, so he fits the profile, but appearances can be deceiving.

    Hillary Clinton, who is a pedophile, satanist, and high-ranking member of the Cabal (same with Bill), was actually the Cabal’s choice for US President.
    As the date of the election approached and it appeared, contrary to the disinformation put out by Hillary’s campaign, that Trump actually had a very good chance of winning, the Cabal stepped up it’s plans and began to put into motion their long-planned false flag alien attack. The plan was to stage the invasion shortly before the election which would trigger marshal law and cancel the election.

    After the “victory” over the pretend invaders was accomplished, Obama (also a Cabal collaborator, though I have heard conflicting stories about his level; in one version he was, at one point, making moves to expose the Deep State, but then caved to pressure when they threatened the life of his family, in the other version he is a top Lieutenant) would then hand power over to Hillary while marshal law was still in effect, avoiding the election altogether. Then the Cabal could reveal themselves as I’ve previously described — as a benevolent secret society that has been working behind the scenes to prepare humanity for this event.
    Thankfully, the intelligence community within the SBA and their allies in the FBI got wind of the plan. The FBI and the US military (most of whom are actually part of the Alliance, though they have often unwittingly done the Cabal’s bidding) made it clear to the Clintons that they would tolerate no monkey business whatsoever in this campaign, and that any future attempt on their part to stage a false flag attack or rig the election in any way would result in marshal law being declared, the US military taking power from the government, and an aggressive attack on all known Cabal bases.

    The Cabal had only one shot left at this point and that was to feed as much disinformation to the public as possible about Hillary’s “inevitable victory” in a hope to sway voter turnout. And yes, there haven’t really been free elections in this country since Kennedy anyway, but that was always because the Cabal was pulling strings which they couldn’t do this time. Their only hope was to actually win for real in such a landslide that the SBA would be hard pressed to maneuver Trump into the office.

    Had she won, the plan was for her to start world war three as quickly as possible, most likely through a confrontation with North Korea or China, in a last-ditch effort to destroy much of the population, destroy the advancements being gained in human consciousness by reducing the world back to a survival-of-the-fittest state (which had worked well for them in the past) and take the wind out of the SBA’s sails once and for all.

    Thanks to the efforts of the SBA and those aligned with them we got our first democratically elected President since Kennedy and narrowly avoided a pretend alien invasion followed by continued Cabal control, and/or a holocaust.
    And Trump, blowhard that he is, serves an important function.
    America has been living with cultural trauma since before it’s inception. The very foundations of America were built on trauma, oppression, and genocide. And the Cabal has used these methods to ensure that trauma and survival energy rules the consciousness not just in America, but in most of the world’s population.
    In any trauma system the sign that something is starting to shift out of its habitual bracing and management is change. Even painful change.
    Hillary represented business as usual. A continuation of the status quo. A nice presentation that is fundamentally a lie.
    Trump’s victory was a painful, ugly change for many people, but it is definitely a radical change in the collective system, and not at all what the Cabal wanted to occur.
    It is a sign that the collective disorganization and trauma in the American system, and in the world at large, can no longer be contained and managed and covered up. Its bursting out at the seams. It’s right there for all to see.

    For everyone worried about his apparent lewdness, racism, sexism, etc… those traits greatly inform the American collective consciousness already. In terms of karma, in terms of actions, that is the energy that America, and the Cabal, were built on. The energy that is on display from Trump is exactly the energy that has been running the show from behind the curtain this whole time. His election is a big part of that curtain being ripped down.
    Also, his seemingly infantile bullheadedness was a big part of why he was approached by the Alliance in the first place!

    The military elements of the Alliance had gotten to the point where they felt that only through a violent coup could they regain control of America and eventually the rest of the world. Other factions talked them into giving a lawful, in-the-light-of-day-take-down one more shot, and Trump was proposed as the best candidate for the job of President during that effort precisely because of a lot of the qualities that make him repugnant to many; what better choice than someone who not only had a bullish nature and over-inflated perception of their own awesomeness, but also a childlike enthusiasm for the next great thing and a will strong enough to try and see it through?

    Plus, he was rich enough to finance his own campaign, he was aware of the Cabal but not part of them, and he had already gotten inklings of secret technologies through his uncle’s access to Tesla’s research back in the day; all of these factors helped him willingly shoulder a task that, quite frankly, has been one hell of a long shot.

62. In other words, most of the war has been won. it’s not over over, but the beginning is over.

    Assuming America can prevent Trum from getting JFKed/Epsteined… or another holocaust WW3 post apoc scenario.

    Can you all?

    This explains why many of us strongly intuited that Emergency Martial law would be declared in 2016. But then it didn’t happen and many of us were left with that old Biblical prophet issue. What are false prophets?

    If you tell someone “If you repent and change yourself, you won’t be annihilated”. So they are “true” prophets if people refuse to change and they get annihilated? Or are they false prophets if people change and they don’t get annihilated?

    It’s a rather strange situation although if you believe in free will, one knows that destiny can be changed, and so can the future. The Cabal and Leftist alliance is powerful but… they are weaklings compared to Our Host of the Divine, or even the Deep State.

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