“I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won. I know now. MAGA is not my mortal enemy and neither is the extreme left. My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!” --cenk uygur, longtime left-wing activist, pundit and host of the neo-liberal cable show young turks

“Elon Musk is right.”--BSanders, senator and socialist maven

“Welcome home, bernie.”--Matt Gaetz, former Congressman

The concept of populist conservatives aligning or cooperating with populist progressives(1) on points where they agree is not new. In protesting war, militarism, defending basic civil liberties and opposing corporatism, the principled right and left have historically circled around to find common cause against a centrist right and left that often agitate for war, are keen on mass surveillance, censorship, overclassification, and serve, 1st and foremost, deep-state elites. Such a convergence of left and right, as cenk uygur, BSanders, and Matt Gaetz are flirting with, is not unprecedented.

Trump’s 2nd presidential term has a team and potential cabinet of former democrats like Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, whose agendas line up with many traditional liberal concerns. It makes one wonder how many disenchanted leftists are out there with a similar outlook. Even a hard-left senator as high profile as BSanders agrees in principle with probable future Dept of Government Efficiency leader Musk that America’s budget is just too much.

There are 2 political sides in American politics currently that defy mere left and right. There are certainly diehard MAGA-acolytes who are less interested in the issues and most obsessed with Trump himself. Then there are their mirror images in the left-wing/democratic Party, for whom no matter what positive results might come out of Trump’s 2nd term, even if those results square with traditional liberal concerns and will never acknowledge any of it in their blind rage and hatred for the person and symbol of Trump. There’s just not much to work with there, in their mania and misery.

But there are also so many Americans, a likely majority, who might lean left or right, or perhaps somewhere in between, who genuinely want what’s best for the country and see the real problem is the people who have been in charge for so long. For too long. There is something to work with there. They don’t have to be enemies in this environment. How many might be able to clear their heads of Trump Derangement Syndrome long enough to finally see that the best hope of avoiding the next war or fixing the border, crime, the budget and inflation, health care, might come in the vehicle of a Trump White House?

A principled left-right coalition’s mortal enemy really is the current establishment. cenk uygur is spot on. May they be defeated.

1. What’s deceptively called the “progressive” promotes the support to achieve desired results, whether really good or not, for the members of a particular group.

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"Today I’m delighted to announce Willow, our latest quantum chip. Willow has state-of-the-art performance across a number of metrics, enabling two major achievements. The first is that Willow can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits. This cracks a key challenge in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years. Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe..."--Hartmut Neven, Founder and Lead, Google Quantum AI

Technology made the middle class possible, with labor saving devices decreasing the need for servants and farmworkers, more people could do other types of work, and most of that work paid better and allowed for more freedom. But technological change isn't just about stuff; it's about how we live, which influences how we think, feel, and behave. Technology is one of the root causes of cultural change.

"We may have created a Frankenstein."--Richard M. Nixon

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neo-liberals are destroying the country! Hyperbolic invective aside, enough of those specific accusations have been made that they form a blueprint of sorts and wouldn't you know, they're all in play!

Here they are, in no particular order:

1) Divide citizens into groups and turn them against one another. The imposition of CRT & DEI, accusations of systemic racism, white privilege and the 'soft bigotry of low expectations' have separated Americans into "oppressors" and "oppressed."

2) Debase the currency. Inflation, debt and the deficit pose significant threats to the U.S. economy.

3) Implement the cloward-piven Strategy. This aims to overload the welfare system, precipitate a crisis, and institute a system of a guaranteed annual income in order to end poverty. See also item 2 and item 10.

4) Destroy masculinity, demoralize our military – Soldierrced to attend lectures on systemic racism and transgender narratives resulting in a decline in unit morale.

5) Dumb down the population. Pick up a 5th-grade math or rhetoric textbook from 1850 and you’ll see that the texts were pitched then on what would today be considered college level. Thomas Sowell and Gatto suggest that the way to solve this problem is to get children out of the public school monopoly.

6) Impose censorship. Censorship is still occurring. Individuals expressing unpopular opinions find themselves debanked, doxxed or lose their jobs, bringing us to Orwell's quote in 1984, "History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

7) Outsource research and manufacturing. "A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade.”--Vannevar Bush. R&D has shrunk to pre-Sputnik levels. Our emphasis is shifting to products rather than the "seed corn" of basic investigative research.

8) Teach children to hate their country. “A government is like everything else: to preserve it, we must love it.”--Thomas Jefferson. History texts authored by howard zinn teach that America's founding is irredeemably racist, rooted in slavery and white supremacy. Far too many Americans educated since the 1980's are cynical and suspicious of our nation's history, rather than proud of our founding ideals and accomplishments.

9) Make the streets unsafe . America's larger cities tend to be run by left-wing/dememocrats and almost all of them have seen record spikes in crime. Law enforcement is no longer proactive. Criminals who are arrested are often released back onto the streets where they’re free to offend again.

1 Flood the country with third world illegal immigrants and hostile aliens. Between 2021 and 2024, Border Patrol agents apprehended people who were on the terror watch list, a 2,251% increase from 2017-2020. Encounters of Chinese nationals in March 2024 increased over 8,000% compared to March 2021. The DoD and FBI have documented more than 100 incidents of Chinese nationals posing as tourists to gain unauthorized access to U.S. military bases and other federal sites.

“Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. A great state can fall apart when the rule-breaking of one man inspires his enemies to break the rules, too.” --Machiavelli

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https://thefederalist.com/2024..../12/10/merrick-garla

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli....tical/trumps-victory

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“democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have ‘facilitators’ who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points, To keep on message is the key autocratic aim of the party, so any single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise.”--Adam Mill

BObama(1) and through him, lyin' biden, destroyed his party and with it many of our institutions. The left-wing/democrats’ decision-making process doomed their chances, a process unlikely to soon change. This explains why kamala harris’s rare public interviews devolved into bafflegab word salads. Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic books in public school libraries, “fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody.” The consequences of their rigid orthodoxy not only damaged their party, but caused all of us to suffer from their tactics, not the least of which is “a widespread crisis of incompetence within the institutions that sacrificed merit for ideological parity.” The party is riddled with corruption, and it spread throughout the government. As Michael Walsh has contended, the left-wing/democrats: “are nothing less than a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.”

Which institutions sacrificed merit for ideological parity? Our once great schools of higher education, our military, and the nation’s public health and law enforcement agencies come immediately to mind, but the incompetency, corruption, and extravagant waste of our resources throughout the federal government, not to speak of their illegal censorship of speech and assembly, can best be explained by this analysis as well.

In contrast to the generally incompetent biden cabinet, who often rose through the ranks of those they were set to govern, President-elect Trump has reached out to some of the most forward-looking, competent, non-governmental leaders to head his government -- people like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Howard Lutnik, Scott Bessant, Jared Isaacson, and Kelly Loeffler.

There’s still a lot of damage between now and the inauguration for corrupt biden to do, and he is doing his best to do it. 1st, he issued an unheard-of blanket pardon of his son for crimes for which he was found guilty and even those for which he hasn’t been charged for the decade and more that hunter acted as the family bagman in an influence operation that spanned the globe. This after lyin' biden gave his word that he’d never do this, and after a number of top party leaders and popular media lickspittles praised that promise as proof of the party’s commitment to the rule of law. John Kass says that with this pardon, bad biden and his party arrogantly laugh at America. He reminds us that senile joe knew about hunter’s business dealings that vacuumed up millions of dollars from, among other countries, China and Ukraine, who wanted influence from the left-wing/democrats, knew that hunter’s laptop, which provided hard evidence of his many crimes, including participation in sex with underaged women, illicit drug use, and political corruption, was true even as he and disreputable intel officials said it was a lie. “The pardon is an unprecedented, corrupt trick that we all knew was coming no matter how brazen and how many times Biden and his media mouthpieces lied about it, Biden isn’t just trying to protect Hunter, he’s desperately trying to cover up the scam he’s been running on the American people for the past decade.”

Now there are rumors, which the White House spokeswoman will not deny, that ol' joe considering pardons for a number of people, including liz cheney and fauci. In case you were hoodwinked by left-wing media coverage of the government’s handling of the Coronavirus Pandemic, the House Select Committee has issued a 550-page report(2) on what a disaster the response to the virus was by our generously funded federal government.

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Both the Jewish and Christian dogma balance freedom with the travails and sacrifices that freedom requires. One was to seek to live his life with purpose, use his talents, work hard, and by action demonstrate thankfulness for the gift given. Culturally, these traditions were so engrained in all Americans that freedom was always understood in the following context: Freedom was bought and those who’ve received the blessing should be circumspect and humble before the sacrifice.

Americans have been known for their Puritan work ethic, fastidious personal hygiene, and moral rectitude in the face of evil. All of these characteristics flow out of their relationship to God. This is what the Judeo-Christian ethic means.

These themes underpin the whole of the American legal system. Checks and balances are acknowledgements that man, when given power, tends to do terrible things and must be checked. Personal responsibility and the freedom that comes with it are acknowledged to only work when someone is law-abiding. Lawlessness, by its nature, makes one a slave — to government authorities, sure, but also to one’s own drives.

Human nature is not good. Left by itself, it’s sinful, resulting, among other things, in death of the soul. This was once understood. Christians, especially, have a fundamental understanding that human nature is fallen and lost. Thus, the need for redemption. However, there’s not much focus on sin these days. It’s an uncomfortable word because it implies universal laws were broken and that breaking those laws has consequences, not the least of which is death. In Romans 3:23, Paul tells the Roman church members that “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” I John 3:4 says that, “Sin is transgression of the law.” [KJV] To be sinful is to be filled with iniquity and to defile oneself and to be impure. Romans 6:23 says that, “The wages of sin is death.”

With less church-going, agnosticism seeps into the culture and results in a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. Colleges are but 1 example of this cesspool encouraged by ignorance. Great symbols and themes that were once considered assumed knowledge are being dismissed as the traditions of “old white guys”(1). This ignorance and arrogance breeds contempt for the freedom and the God-given rights Americans enjoy. America didn’t just happen. It was bought and paid for with blood and belief. A system was created that acknowledged human nature, and it counted on every citizen having the humility and God-fearing grace to attempt to live a life animated by gratitude for the gift they’d been given.

And it all comes back to sin. Without understanding the fine line between evil, fallen natures, and societal chaos, and the work to keep all that in check, Americans find themselves in dead ends politically and policy-wise. Solutions that used to be, and still should be, found in the family and church, are being sought in public policy to fruitless ends. Ultimately, America only works if Americans know who they are and where their rights come from and why. As Americans lose their humility before God and their love of the Bible’s truths, they’re losing respect for the Constitution, which is built on both those things. When you lose that you eventually lose America itself.



1. The more recent Church document, Centesimus Annus, cautiously endorsed the free market, praising western civilization’s respect for freedom and human dignity while warning against the perversion of freedom into the pursuit of superficial material goods.



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