Tag: politics

Liberal vs Conservative

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My sense is conservatives have always been fundamentally live and let live, you do your thing, I’ll do mine, while liberals tend more to be activists for moral-sounding causes; and once they are activists they will also be ideologues and their whole thing becomes a religion.

This is a fundamental difference that shows very loudly in politics, as the chart above illustrates.

The activist left always wants to get into your head and make you be like them.

Historically and practically much of the fervor of the left comes from Jews who invented and them became fanatical about communism.

Today the same energies have morphed into woke stuff, previously PC stuff, now also Antifa stuff.

The common theme is they want to get into your head and make you be like them (often while robbing you blind).

There are few political happenings today that do not succumb to these energies.

There are also few interpersonal happenings today that do not succumb to these energies.

USA was built on the presumption that it was and would be a nation of White Christians who shared strong moral fiber and wanted to work together to build the nation.

USA today is no longer that and many of its non-Christian, non-Whites hate what they are not, and do activist shit against it relentlessly. ABN

Huckabee in Israel

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I do not have a sophisticated understanding of Huckabee’s theology but have read it is called Dispensational Christianity, which was crystalized by the dubious Scofield Reference Bible in USA.

Whatever the case, Huckabee’s obeisance does not seem appropriate to me, especially while Israel’s savage assault on Gaza is ongoing and he is representing USA.

I know it is too much to ask of any mainstream prominent American, but it would be good if at least a few of them openly recognized that both USA and Israel had to have had foreknowledge of the 10/07 attack and that Israel clearly delayed reacting to it and was responsible for the majority of Israelis killed that day. This profoundly undermines the ersatz ‘moral basis’ of the slaughter and starvation of so many Gazan women, children and civilians.

I am fine with religion and government mixing on abstract and some practical levels, but Huckabee is taking this much too far into dangerous intellectual and theological territory. ABN

‘If you take away religion, I think you get something in its place which is worse than what was there before’ — Musk

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I am posting this because it concerns religion and because Musk is saying it. I am not a Musk fanboy but I do recognize he is a powerful member of a somewhat amorphous faction of the American elite, and by extension the Western elite in general.

X is much better than Twitter and seems to have more actual free speech than any other major platform. The algorithm can be dicey and is not everything it could be but it is still pretty good by internet standards to date.

Notice that in the space of one week Japan’s PM resigned due to popular opposition to his open borders policy and that Nepal’s PM resigned over the banning of social media and corruption.

The voices of the people matter. The elite will always be with us and will always be affected by what the public thinks.

Musk is volatile and caused himself significant damage when he exploded over Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Nevertheless, I like a lot of what he says and does, including his hatred of the woke mind-virus and the little bit he says above about religion.

It’s best to support the elite when they are doing good and oppose them mainly when they are not. ABN