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Millions Have No Home. You Don't Need Two.
•�September 13, 2024
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Responding to polls that show that voters are worried and angry about the high cost of housing, both major parties are floating plans to make buying a home more affordable. Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats want to encourage new housing construction and subsidize first-time homebuyers by $25,000, which economists worry would have an... Read More
Intro: Dualism as the Philosophical Foundation of the Radical Center
•�June 17, 2024
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A lack of dualism is largely to blame for the problems of 20th Century ideologies including, Fascism, Communism, the New Left, and post-war conservativism. Reagan conservatism and wokeness are especially bad as far as having an all or nothing binary. While there is some value in libertarianism, it is insane to be a full-blown big... Read More
How Can Leftists be Mutants if They Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives?
•�May 6, 2024
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I’ve become quite well known for arguing that leftists are “mutants;” that they are higher in mutational load than conservatives. Leftists, in general though not always, are, in my view, the descendants of those who would have died under the harsh Darwinian conditions of high child mortality that were prevalent until around 1800. However, it... Read More
Pro-Palestiners Should Fight Back Against Right-Wing Bullies
•�May 3, 2024
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There are more Democrats than Republicans, more liberals than conservatives, more progressives than MAGAs. But you'd never know that from looking at our politics. From abortion to the minimum wage to war, the Right wins the important arguments. How do they do it? Verbal abuse. Right-wing bullies name-call, they hector, they doxx, they blacklist, they... Read More
What's Left 10: Police Who Help People
•�April 19, 2024
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It may come as a surprise, especially to conservatives, that the Left believes in law and order. Of course we do. Without it, you can't have much else. In November 2001, I went to Afghanistan as a reporter. It felt like the 14th century, if the late Middle Ages took place in an Islamist dystopia... Read More
Watch: Hundreds of Students Camping on Columbia University Campus in Support of Palestine
•�April 18, 2024
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It’s heartening that these leftists are more against the Palestine war than they were for the Ukraine war. On its face, it’s confusing why they would support one war and not the other. But if you study it for a bit, you realize that these people are just baby-level retards, and they think that somehow... Read More
The Philosophy of Radical Egalitarian Capitalism
You will inherit nothing for the good of “meritocracy” and “free markets”
•�April 17, 2024
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Source: @ChrisUnits on X Proponents of abolishing inheritance include many leftists, from French socialist economist, Thomas Piketty, to the Jacobin’s Ben Burgis, on standard wealth redistributionist or equity grounds. Basically, that privilege is bad so we must eliminate all privilege. There are also concerns about racial inequities in inheritance, such as arguments that repealing the... Read More
What's Left 9: Foreign Policy Under the Left
•�April 5, 2024
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Every country needs a coherent foreign policy. And it's impossible to overstate the importance of the United States' military and diplomatic posture. The U.S. has the world's second-largest and most sophisticated nuclear arsenal, exclusive, comprehensive command over the oceans, perfect strategic geography, nearly a thousand military bases overseas and is by far the biggest dealer... Read More
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Third Worldism
•�April 4, 2024
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As anti-Israel sentiment creeps into mainstream conservative discourse, a number of Jewish authors — some who try to interface with white radicals — have sought to counter this rising tendency with proverbial Pavlovian bell-ringing: opposition to Zionism is the agenda of “brown people,” “the woke left,” “anti-whites,” and “Third Worldism.” This discourse is intended to... Read More
What's Left 8: Health Care Is a Human Right
•�March 29, 2024
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Learning is a societal and individual good. American businesses, however, have weaponized higher education into an overcredentialization racket that coerces millions of young people to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars in tuition, room and board, often to study subjects in which they have little interest, for the chance to be hired for a job.... Read More
What's Left 7: Health Care Is a Human Right
•�March 15, 2024
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Liberals believe a compromise that gets us closer to a goal is better than no progress at all. But compromise can lead to the dead end of dilution and a false sense of resolution. The early 20th-century progressive and presidential candidate Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette argued that politics played into different a psychological dynamic.... Read More
What's Left 5: Let's Declare War on Economic Insecurity
•�March 1, 2024
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Wages high enough to cover basic expenses are only the beginning of the Left's struggle to eliminate economic insecurity. We must also fight for workers' rights on the job, as well as a robust and sturdy social safety net to protect people when they find themselves out of work. Americans suffer the worst worker benefits... Read More
What's Left
•�February 2, 2024
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We Americans are repeatedly told that the United States is a conservative country in which the 50-yard line of ideology is situated significantly to the right of the Western European representative democracies from which our political culture derives and to which we are most often compared. But there is a gaping chasm between the policy... Read More
Is the Israel/Gaza War the End of the Liberal-Zionist Alliance?
Woke anti-Zionists hate Israel/Jews due to their Whiteness
•�November 9, 2023
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@Aristos_Revenge Twitter Many pro-Israel Jewish liberals are now finding themselves at odds with their previous allies on the left, due to tension over the Israeli Palestinian conflict. In an article in Tablet Mag, Hamas Killed My Wokeness, Alex Olshonsk said that “I was taught that we, as Jews, stand with the oppressed—because we were the... Read More
Biden Plays a Progressive on TV. Will Progressives be Fooled?
•�July 7, 2023
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Winning, as your parents probably told you if they were decent people, isn't everything. It's OK to lose or fail, as long as you clearly did your best. President Joe Biden doesn't understand this truth. He's trying to attract votes from working-class people next year by marketing himself as some sort of Bernie Sanders-style warrior... Read More
How Did the Modern Mind End Up in the Middle Ages? — the Blinding Effect of Pride & Ego on 'Progressives' Who, Drive...
•�May 8, 2023
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For all the talk of progress and becoming 'more evolved', it's as if we've found ourselves back in the Middle Ages, or even the Dark Ages. So many people harbor superstitions based on mindless obsessions. But it's worse in a way because, at least in the Old-Old Days, people worshiped God and Jesus, not the... Read More
I Once Admired George Monbiot. But His Grim Trajectory Shows Us Where Politics Is Heading
•�March 10, 2023
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What‘s been the most significant threat to journalism – the lifeblood of a free society – over the past decade? Maybe we can turn to George Monbiot, the doyen of the British liberal-left, for an answer. He has a weekly column at the Guardian newspaper in which he exposes the abuses of state and corporate... Read More
Here's What a Progressive Platform Looks Like
•�November 4, 2022
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"Be realistic. Demand the impossible." — Situationist slogan, 1968 Demand No. 1: The $30-per-hour minimum wage Not phased in over so many years that today's $30 is worth $20 by the time it takes effect. Thirty dollars an hour for all workers, no exceptions, now. This is an eminently reasonable demand. If anything, it's too... Read More
Supreme Court to Progressives: Wake U
•�July 1, 2022
•�900 Words •�34 Comments • Reply
The Supreme Court just sent us a wake-up call. Pro-reality Americans, i.e., the 40% of voters to the left of the Democratic Party, should be grateful. A freedom essential to half the population never should have hinged upon a flimsy and poorly reasoned legal opinion. Congress should have followed the example of other countries where... Read More
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The Subtleties of Anti-Russia Leftist Rhetoric
•�May 13, 2022
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While the so-called liberal and conservative corporate mainstream media – all stenographers for the intelligence agencies – pour forth the most blatant propaganda about Russia and Ukraine that is so conspicuous that it is comedic if it weren’t so dangerous, the self-depicted cognoscenti also ingest subtler messages, often from the alternative media. A woman I... Read More
What Does the “Far Left” Want? What Can’t It Do?
•�May 2, 2022
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Credit Image: © Michael Brochstein / ZUMA Press Wire) On Friday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent off a series of tweets that proved popular: This is a common refrain on the Left: “If the (far) Left is so powerful, why isn’t America socialist?” The question ignores race. The reason America isn’t socialist, despite a... Read More
Biden Is Making a Fool Out of Progressive Democrats
•�April 8, 2022
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Like a lepidopteran Charlie Brown drawn to Lucy van Pelt's flaming football, congressional progressives keep falling for corporate Democrats' pathetically predictable, and transparently self-serving, pleas for unity. Support our priorities, the centrists keep urging, and we'll get around to your stuff later. How much later? We'll tell you later. "Progressives have grown increasingly accustomed to... Read More
The Democratic Centrist-Progressive Alliance Hinges Upon Build Back Better
•�November 12, 2021
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"At a certain point, we have to trust one another," Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, said Nov. 5 as he left a meeting of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Progressives had just acquiesced to President Joe Biden's pleas that left-leaning House members sign off on the $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill they'd been holding up in order... Read More
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Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party?
•�November 5, 2021
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History has been rewritten almost daily this week, almost immediately as it occurs. A Wall Street Journal editorial on November 4 spun its view of what is at issue for the Democratic Party: “Voters warn Democrats to walk away from the Sanders-Pelosi agenda.” The Democrats’ own leadership quickly agreed with this take, playing the blame... Read More
Democratic Moderates Aren't the Answer to Right-Wing Republicanism; They're the Cause
•�November 5, 2021
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Another election, another shellacking. Democrats are returning to the political reality that predated the quantum singularity of Biden's anti-Trump coalition: adrift, ideologically divided and, as always, arguing over whether to chase swing voters or work hard to energize their progressive left base. At the root of the Democrats' problem is rightward drift. The 50-yard line... Read More
Biden Becomes a Bernie Sanders Democrat?
•�October 5, 2021
•�800 Words •�34 Comments • Reply
"We've got the president of the United States on our side," said Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "Got 96% of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House on our side. We got all but two senators at this point in the Democratic caucus on our side. We're going to win... Read More
Biden's Left Feint
•�April 30, 2021
•�800 Words •�25 Comments • Reply
If you don't dig deep, Joe Biden appears to be governing as the most liberal president since Lyndon Johnson. But conservatives needn't worry. Biden is no progressive in centrist's clothing. True, the president's legislative agenda — after the coronavirus relief bill, which was undeniably progressive — would expand the social safety net, increase direct aid... Read More
Bosses At Leading Leftist Book Publisher Allegedly Sexually Harass Their Workers and Protect Rapists
•�February 16, 2021
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A former employee is exposing one of the largest leftist book publishers in the world, Verso Books, as a dangerous work environment that systematically protects credibly accused rapists and sexual harassers while ignoring their accusers. Verso was founded in 1970 to specialize in promoting books inspired by the Frankfurt School, an influential line of leftist... Read More
It's Not That Biden Is Too Slow. It's That He's Going Too Small
•�February 12, 2021
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In the intraparty Democratic war between progressive leftists and corporate centrists, each side speaks a different language. The two factions' takes on Joe Biden's first weeks as president starkly demonstrate that inability to communicate. Biden's base is his centrist supporters, those who backed him against Sen. Bernie Sanders during the primaries on the grounds that... Read More
The Data Is Clear: Progressives Should Boycott Biden
•�July 4, 2020
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Once again, the Democratic Party is asking progressives to vote for a presidential nominee who says he disagrees with it about every major issue. This is presented as an offer it cannot refuse. If it casts a protest vote for a third-party candidate like the unionist and environmentalist Howie Hawkins of the Green Party or... Read More
Why We Need a New Progressive Party and How We Can Create It
•�April 18, 2020
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There is no room for progressives in the Democratic Party. No matter how many votes he or she gets, no progressive will be permitted to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Progressives who try to work inside of, contribute to and support the Democratic Party have no real chance of moving its candidates... Read More
For Progressives, Capturing the Democratic Party Is More Important Than Beating Trump
•�November 9, 2019
•�800 Words •�26 Comments • Reply
Nothing, leading Democrats say, matters more than beating Donald Trump. 2020, they argue, is the most important election of our lifetimes (OK, they always say that). It's not true. If you're a progressive voter, taking back control of the Democratic Party from the Democratic Leadership Council-Clinton-Biden centrist cabal is more important than defeating the incumbent.... Read More
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The Politics of Protest Is Literally Killing Us
Most Americans would like to see a humane and sensible foreign policy
•�June 23, 2015
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I receive hundreds of emails each day, a volume that is not that unusual and is probably experienced also by many readers of this website. As I have been actively involved in the debate over national security policies since 2003, much of the material I receive is partisan in nature. It’s a regular smorgasbord but... Read More
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Robert Lewis Dabney and His Attack on Progressivism
•�October 19, 2014
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Introduction Most Americans who know anything of Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) know him only as the stern chaplain of General “Stonewall” Jackson and the author of a classic biography of the general. Yet, after the War Between the States Dabney became one of the most intransigent and impressive American critics of industrial capitalism of the... Read More
Beware a Beneficent Government
•�June 12, 2014
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The president is an ardent progressive. This dastardly philosophy of government was brought into the American mainstream 100 years ago by a Republican, Theodore Roosevelt, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. Its guiding principle is the belief that government -- not individuals -- is the chief engine of human progress. If that means government tearing down... Read More
Glenn Beck's Myths
How the Fox News pundit distorts the Progressive legacy.
•�November 10, 2010
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When Glenn Beck wants to look serious he dons oversized horn-rimmed glasses and begins to lecture about Progressivism. In his telling, Progressives have contributed significantly to our latter-day political problems. He finds their ideology—combining massive bureaucracy with a command economy and certain forms of social engineering identified with eugenics—at the heart of today’s big-government liberalism.... Read More
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