I want to highlight the ideas stated by “Paolo Pagliaro” in this comment: One fundamental principle – identified and exploited by both Goebbels’ Propagandaministerium and the KGB in Soviet Russia – is that endless repetition of a slogan INFALLIBLY modifies … Continue reading →
I’ve long noticed that people’s opinions on issues and their voting behavior doesn’t have as much congruence as one might think. For example, when I read about polls that say the majority of Americans favor the deportation of illegal immigrants, … Continue reading →
Gee, I wonder why: The study, conducted by the Knight Foundation and College Pulse, found that 68 percent of U.S. college students say that “the climate on my campus prevents some people from saying things they believe because others might … Continue reading →
I chuckled along with just about everyone else when I saw this: The move by Ravelry, a popular knitting site, to ban support of President Trump drew both criticism and applause. But “knitting has always been political," said the editor … Continue reading →
For a while, the phenomenon of leftist censorship of the right concentrated on potential speakers at college campuses. The mechanisms were boycotts, demonstrations, disruptions, and demands that they not be allowed to speak there at all because it was too … Continue reading →
Commenter “Snow on Pine” makes the following excellent observation about the differences between left and right: The fork in the road occurs at the crossroad named Human Nature. Believe that humans are innately good and that it is just their … Continue reading →
As you might expect, when I saw the headline “Don’t get divorced because of Trump. The tough work of settling America’s political differences,” I immediately clicked on it, because it sounded as though it would deal with one of my … Continue reading →
I find NeverTrumpers interesting. Are they political changers, or political fail-to-changers? Are they virulent anti-Trumpers because of class and style objections, elitism, being part of the DC circle, desire to curry favor with liberal friends, or (as most of them … Continue reading →
A recent Gallup poll indicates that 4 in 10 Americans think socialism’s pretty darn good. Here’s Gallup’s short version. The Gramscian march has borne fruit, because (based on a poll from last year that has age-related data on the same … Continue reading →
I couldn’t resist that headline, even though it’s not true that Comey is a Communist. But apparently he once was a Communist, according to his own report, and it wasn’t just a supposed one-off like Brennan (whom I wrote about … Continue reading →
That’s the title of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest. My own opinion is that progressives have been anti-Semitic for a long long time. Anti-Semitism is both ancient and widespread, and what’s more it occurs among various groups and for a wide … Continue reading →
I don’t think Bernie Sanders did himself any political favors when he said that even the Boston marathon bomber should have the right to vote. What constituency is he appealing to, besides hardcore libertarians? It’s not that his argument lacks … Continue reading →