If you want a sense of “deep state history”, read the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in all six volumes, written by Edward Gibbon in the 1780s. I have the one-volume condensed version, and in just reading that,…
Category: Socialism
The National ID Card: How American Liberty Will Change Under Any One of the Isms
The Moral Majority was a group of Protestant political activists who used some new marketing techniques, mass mailing, to help Ronald Reagan defeat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. This was before the rise of the internet which would…
Putting the “SERVICE” Back into Public Service
A favorite subject of mine (from a 2011 series, The History of Government Employment, Part IV), “service” is an important theme in an important election year, which could, if we do things right, dictate the course of America for the next 30…
Tracing the Gentleman’s International League of Gutter Trash
I started this little investigation into gutter trashery with Joe Biden for Joe is pre-Baby Boomer, so comes from a generation who should have known the value of keeping little private weaknesses out of the public eye. So, just in terms of the…
Revolution or Counter-Revolution? When two Revolutions Collide
When two revolutions collide, which takes precedence as the defending champion? And which is the contender? Who are the true revolutionaries here? The socialist-fascist Marxists, who go by so many names and historically contradictory to be irrelevant? Or is America…