In today’s episode I read through Russell Kirk’s ten Conservative Principles, commenting on them as I do. You’ll be surprised to learn which ones I agree with and which ones I find woefully misleading or poorly explained (if you’ve been listening to this show for any length of time, you may not be surprised). I then delve into the idea that capitalism as currently structured can protect or nurture families by creating free market solutions to promote family expansion and growth. I argue Capitalism, especially free market Capitalism dismantles families.

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Who is Donald Trump? Many books have been written to answer this singular question. Why did he get elected? Again, see the previous sentence; both answers are summed up in the title given to this episode, though its simplicity is deceptive. To draw from the Morris Berman clip included in this episode, Trump is America – HE REALLY IS! He is the personification of the Greed principle highly touted by the wealthy, as well as the most grotesque aspects of the Elites collective psychology. But, if that wasn’t enough; he is also White Civilizations most egregious aspects rolled into one orange ball of contradictions.  If you’ve read any of the books published about his psychology, you’d be hard pressed not to see his personal problems as separate from this country’s societal problems. Because I am merciful and come from a people who believe personal attacks should only come after one personally attacks you, I do not speak about his personality, but instead look at his leaving thousands of people in the cold without a way to get home after a rally, as a very interesting metaphor.

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The Democratic Party’s attempts to win back the suburbs, essentially the disaffected voters who left the party in 2016 and – wait for it – 1980, is troubling. With a generational insurgency bubbling up from the grassroots, their attempt to rush away from the left-populist and social democratic yearnings expressed by these future administrators of the country, threatens the more progressive agenda envisioned by the most vocal members inside this group. The writing is on the wall, you can see it in the recent challengers who are taking on the Party machine operators, the Main Street everyman will not be silenced any longer. Yet, the party Elders refuse to acknowledge this burgeoning call – instead resorting to tried and falsified methods for gaining support, methods that include using a vast media apparatus to smear their more populist leaning opponents. In this episode I discuss the implications and potential consequences which will arise from this intergenerational conflict, one with huge political ramifications – one, which Mark Blythe aptly remarked, won’t end in the previous generations wishes being granted, but with the newer ones being instilled. The question I wonder (is) how costly will the conflict become before those who created the mess will finally let us clean it up.

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The Anti-Trump RNC Dog Whistling in the DNC who Dog Whistles the World with Economic Gusto

If you blow a dog whistle what do you expect to come towards you, a pig, a duck, a cat – no, you blow a dog whistle expecting a dog to follow shortly after your call. Why then, do politicians who have dog whistled for the past 40 years seem utterly surprised, and dare I say frightened, of the dogs who have emerged from the darkest shadowy places throughout this land? Why then, do the politicians, who 25 years ago were considered stars in the Republican party because they more conservative – meaning corporatist – than the moderate conservatives who really believed in non-intrusive non-authoritarian government; why do these politicians act surprised by the callous predatory nature innate in those people they have stoked with their whistling habits. Where they not calling the most despotic tendencies in this society to the surface of those they were whistling to? Where they not feeding beasts when they tossed “red meat” to the masses? Where they not speaking to the baser elements in the human mind when they spoke about fascist ideas without calling them such? Yes they were, now the monsters they have created are running wild and those politicians who help bring them into existence, are looking around innocently wondering where they came from. Don’t run ole Republican, stay here to witness what you have brought into reality.

Intergenerational Conflict Scapegoat Generation Chronicles

In the library, in a dusty area where very few like to visit because it requires you to think outside the ideological constructs created for this country by corporate marketeers who worked to create consumers out of citizens – see the documentary “Century of Self”. In that dusty area resides books that were written to explain why things where how they were and how one might see through the mist and fog towards understanding why people act as they do when in a crowd. In a bygone era many of these books would be labeled “crown psychology” books or “socio-economic”books or maybe even “political science”books; but today they just sit on the shelf marked “non-fiction” –for this reason they are forgettable. Digging into those books we find “Scapegoat generation” an interesting page turner which attempts to explain to the reader why the modern generation (from the 90s) is in bad shape and how their bad shape is often blamed on them. This episode is inspired by, though not based on the context in, that book.

Intergenerational Conflict

AOC Verbally Assaulted by Congressman, Generational Hatred on Display

Time to face an uncomfortable truth, the older generation – really are not into the younger generation. For those not quite old enough to understand what this means, let me break it down into simple English; the older generation does not seem to like the younger generation. I came to this conclusion many years ago and found evidence overflowing in various books I read and documentaries I watched. Using this information as a backdrop, I explain why AOC’s encounter with the older, elder statemen revealed a generational hostility which was merely suggested previously. Now because some people don’t know how to not see statements as blanketed, let me say – NOT ALL BOOMERS FIT THIS MOLD – but I am starting to ponder if a majority who reside among the wealthiest classdo fit the mold.

Financial Cliff Here We Come

I knew this yearlong decade wouldn’t pass without significant economic turmoil. Yes – yes, I call this year, 2020, a yearlong decade because I swear each month represents a full year. Before telling me I’m crazy, really think about what’s happened over the last six months and tell me if time doesn’t seem to have a multiplier engrained into it this year? That aside, yes there is a fiscal cliff coming and we, the wonderful consumers of America are getting hosed good. How could a Senate refuse to pass much needed relief to a population in desperate straights before leaving town? How could a House pass a bill in May providing all the relief necessary for the population, only to have it die due to ideological alignments? I know the modern appetite among Progressives is to beat up Democrats no matter what they do, a sentiment I truthfully don’t mind because they are a pretty horrible corporation – I mean Political Party LLC, but here the Democrats did their job and the Republicans didn’t. For this reason we are heading for a terrifying economic cliff that will impact our society for at least the next 10 years (God help us if each of those ten years are as long as this one).

Kenosha, Revisiting A Dramatic Event We Just Visited A Few Weeks Ago, No, Time to Move Forward

I naively thought I wouldn’t have to publish an addendum to this episode but alas here we are again. I don’t spend time going over the details of what happened because you already know the story; what I spend my time doing in this episode is looking at why Marching is not enough. I speak about the difference between Marching and Protesting, suggesting books people may want to busy themselves with reading to see the difference in action. This is not intended to be an episode built around grievances, not is it an episode build around sulking around or feeling sorry for ourselves – nope, it’s time to move ahead. We know what the situation is, we know what dangers the environment present to us, now we have to gather our strength and move ahead without any delay. I mention a couple books in the episode, including Gene Sharp’s The Politics of Nonviolent Action and David Roediger’s Working Towards Whiteness.

Addendum

How Ordinary White People Responded to George Floyd

In this episode recorded in June, I recount the many interactions I had with people with very strong feelings towards the changes stemming from the George Floyd Protests. After these stories I delve into my historical view of how the European Peasant Class because the Elites Protectorate Class throughout the world, insisting that the dangers posed by Imperialism – those created by the heavy handed and very psychopathic tactics used to capture and secure lands not belonging to Europeans – realigned the social parameters that had governed Europe throughout all its history. Old class rivalries began to fade away as those classes embarked on conquering expeditions demand solidarity and, more importantly, a reimagining of the spiritual tales the Elite crafted to maintain their stranglehold on power on their continent. These new stories still insisted that the Elite were the Elite because God chose them to be, but now the lower classes were damned to drudgery – once they left Europe – nope that work was saved for those who looked different from Europeans. In other words, the Roman concept of the outsider as inherently inferior, was re-established. Hope you enjoy this episode.

My Interest in Equality is Zero,

- Why –

Your Standards are to Low

Justice and Equality is the call for this age – while I agree with the Justice as a rallying cry; equality is not something I would encourage BLM and other protest groups to call for; obviously the answer to the question, Why, is in this episodic parts title; explaining it is to present to you the last eight years of work I’ve put forward in this podcast. For starters, the economic system used by White Civilization destroys lives on many levels; it devalues human life to resource status, it devalues natural life to resource status, it poisons the environment while encouraging its participants to extract more and more from those environments until they become barren and unable to sustain life. Furthermore, the economic system has revealed itself to be anti-familial and anti-life; it gorges its exploiters on the lifeblood (education) of the oncoming generation, saddling them with so much debt, they can’t start families nor afford homes to continue building on the legacies started by those before them. The monetary system undergirding the economic system is far worse, being composed of imaginary transaction bills that serve only to boost some people’s egos and rob other people’s means of existence; the civilization is a mess. Yet there is hope, keep listening to find out more.