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Christopher Chantrill

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WELCOME. I am Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill, writer and conservative. You can see my work at the following sites:

Road to the Middle Class contains the eponymous book and my daily blog. It investigates and celebrates the cultural artefacts that ordinary people appropriate as they struggle to adapt from country ways to the demands of life in the city. Start here.

An American Manifesto is the site for my book and blog. I am writing this book about "life after liberalism" and blogging about it as I go. All are invited to comment. Start here.

USgovernmentspending.com is a resource on government spending in the United States. It presents tables and charts on federal, state, and local government expenditure in the United States from 1902 to the present. Spending data are sourced from US budget data and US Census reports. Start here.

US Spending 101 is a “university” of government spending. It features several walks through the pages of the usgovernmentspending.com suite of websites. And the learning never stops. But it is not a real university, nor does it offer credits for courses completed. Start here.

USgovernmentrevenue.com is a resource on government taxes and receipts in the United States. It presents tables and charts on federal, state, and local government taxes, charges, use fees, and business revenue in the United States from 1902 to the present. Revenue data are sourced from US budget data and US Census reports. Start here.

UKpublicspending.co.uk is a resource on public spending in the United Kingdom. It presents tables and charts on public expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public corporations in the United Kingdom from 1900 to the present. Spending data is sourced from UK government Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, the UK National Statistics “Blue Book,” and academic studies. Start here.

UKpublicrevenue.co.uk is a resource on public revenue in the United Kingdom. It presents tables and charts on public revenues by central government, and local authorities in the United Kingdom from 1900 to the present. Revenue data is sourced from UK Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK National Statistics and academic studies. Start here.

American Thinker publishes my op-eds most weeks. Click here.

US Stuck on Stupid analyzes the perfect storm of political bungling in the years from 1929 to 1939 that plunged the American people into untold misery during the Great Depression. Start here.

US Presidential Elections tabulates the results of presidential elections going back to 1788. Start here.

US Midterm Elections tabulates the history of midterm elections for the US Senate and the US House of Representatives going back to 1790. You can sort the elections by year, by party strength, and by party gains and losses. Start here.

Biography

I AM CHRISTOPHER CHANTRILL, a member of the international capitalist conspiracy. Both my grandfathers owned and operated import/export businesses in the early twentieth century, one in St. Petersburg, Russia, where my father was born, and the other in Kobe, Japan, where my mother was born.

I was born in India and raised and educated in England. I immigrated to the United States in 1968 and worked for many years designing and implementing utility control systems and software in Seattle.

Soon after moving to Seattle, I instinctively revolted against the suffocating left-coast culture of the Soviet of Washington, and soon came to revere the four great Germans who helped inspire the Reagan revolution: Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin. Since then I have broadened my appreciation of “The German Turn” that has transformed the world over the last 200 years.

I have written for Liberty, FrontPageMag.com, and The American Thinker. My book Road to the Middle Class celebrates the self-governing culture of the United States in which enthusiastic Christianity, education, mutual aid, and living under law have taught generations of immigrants to rise from indigence in the countryside to a life of competence and prosperity in the city. My book An American Manifesto: Life after Liberalism tries to imagine what America would look like after the end of left-wing politics and big government.

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The websites have no relationship with any government institution, or any other institution. They are supported solely by advertising and by the life, fortune, and sacred honor of Christopher Chantrill.

Daily Blogging

WE BLOG DAILY, Monday to Friday, chiefly on national US politics, religion, education, mutual aid, and law. We also look at our junior partners in the global Anglospheric hegemony, the British. It is hard to say why, but very often our blogging zeroes in like a laser on liberal hypocrisies, monopolies, and sinecures. Of course, we love our liberal friends to bits, but we do not take them quite as seriously as they do. If we get too pompous and serious, please get in touch and tell us to lighten up.

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LATEST BLOG

Hey Gerry! How's the Mandering?

Yep, who was that Elbridge Gerry guy that first invented gerrymandering up in Massachusetts? Bless his heart! You know that the original gerrymander was shaped like a salamander?

But the question now is, after our Democratic friends got their Virginia gerrymander nixed by the Virginia State Supreme Court, how desperate are our Democratic friends?

After all, if they were going to win the midterms going away, why bother?

You mean that, in fact, our Democratic friends knew they were in a whole peck of trouble, and desperately needed those extra seats in the Democratic column? No! Because the triumphant truth of Allyism and its fight for the Oppressed against the White Male Oppressors cannot fail!

Like I say, my belief is that the Age of the Educated Class is about over, and our liberal and globalist and wokey friends need to get used to it. And their idea that they can save the world with politics is a conceit and a lie. After all, how do they know that it is their truth that will fundamentally transform the Earth instead of another Saving Truth?

I say the meaning of life, the universe, everything, is not 42 but grandchildren. Whaddya think of them apples?

Especially now that Nigel Farage and his Reform UK Party look like they are cleaning up the local elections in Britland and eating Sir Keir Starmer for breakfast. Or at least, a pub lunch.

I was reading recently that the one thing that drives politics — especially since the expansion of the vote in the 19th century — is the Nation. A few of the smarter Commies realized this in World War I. That’s what the Frankfurt School was all about.

Forget your ideology, your Rights of Man, your limited government, your Justice, your Oppression, you educated snobs. Humans, we humans, identify with the land we love.

Now I, of course, am a bit weird in this respect. My Dad was born in Russia, my Mom in Japan, and I was born in India, and raised in Britland. It’s a long story!

And I freely admit that I was probably first radicalized in Britland when some professorial adjunct at Uni told me that I was taking away a university place from a working-class lad.

But I tell you, with tears in my eyes, that I became an American the morning I woke up in the gin-clear Colorado dawn of Denver after flying in to see my parents for Christmas in 1965 after my first term at the University of Leeds in Britland, just down the road, I suspect, from Downton Abbey in Yorkshire. And I’ve never looked back.

And then I started reading The Wall Street Journal during the reign of Bob Bartlett, and learned about Mises and Hayek & Co.

Listen, dear liberal friends. I get it. You are the educated ones. You are the wise ones. You know. And you know that the future belongs to those that administer and regulate and hand out goodies to the plebs — but only the right kind of plebs, supervised by a whole universe of educated wise ones in their cozy NGO sinecures.

And now it’s all collapsing around you and you “cain’t stand it.”

Let me be clear. Gerrymandering won’t fix it. Woke politics won’t fix it. Government programs won’t fix it. Wealth taxes won’t fix it. Mental health professionals won’t fix it. You guys are done.

And as I say, the only question now is the size of the butcher’s bill. That’s ‘Murican for the only question yet unresolved: whether youse educated-class guys and gals will go quietly into the good night. Or not.

What’s it to be, sports fans?

| Sat, 09 May 2026 03:14:10 GMT |

The Other Guys Believe in The Narrative

There’s a piece up at The Epoch Times today about “The Science of Manipulation: Why Good People Follow Orders to Do Bad Things.” It’s all about the Milgram experiment, where ordinary people were encouraged by an expert in a lab coat to apply electric shocks to a subject (actually it was fake; the subject were actors). And about Adolf Eichmann, who kept the notes at the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem and administered the Nazi death camps.

Then there is Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles stepping down. As mayor she said of the alleged murder of Iryna Zarutska by Decarlos Brown, diagnosed with schizophrenia:

“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,” Lyles lectured. “Mental health disease is just that — a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence, and commitment as cancer or heart disease.”

See, I think it is all too easy to go for the Eichmanns of this world as mass murderers and Lyles of this world as crazy liberals soft on crime.

Remember Lt. Cable? He sings in South Pacific: “you’ve got to be carefully taught” to be a racist.

Sorry. I don’t agree.

Suppose you were an ordinary person in Nazi Germany. You think you would stand up against its ideology, when Nazism was the only Narrative in town? Whatabout the British bomber crews that firebombed Dresden? Just following orders!

Suppose you are a Democratic politician in Charlotte, NC. You think you are going to have a dog’s chance of getting elected unless you recite all the woke stuff on race and homelessness?

And as for racism, we humans are programmed to fear and distrust people who are not like us. It’s in the jeans. It’s how rulers gin up support for wars.

The problem is not that there are weak people who go with the flow and administer genocides, or excuse criminal behavior because mental illness, or hate the Other.

All that stuff is just par for the course in politics.

In fact, to be able to step outside the Narrative means that you have to have read books, and not under the supervision of teachers and professors. The whole point of childhood education and university is to indoctrinate the kiddies in the state Narrative.

And it’s not just the schools, but the media and the taken-for-granted among co-workers, friends, acquaintances.

But whatabout heroes that refused to bow to the Narrative? Folks like Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

[he] defied the Nazis because he recognized their evil early and refused to accommodate it.

But the thing about Bonhoeffer is that he was educated and trained as a minister in a religious ideology opposed to Nazism, and was willing to go against the regime and be executed for his opposition. So he was the exception that was trained in a different Narrative, and had the intestinal fortitude to live the truth of his beliefs against the world. One in a million.

So when our liberal friends find themselves in ideological hot water after the defeat of wokism and its institutional superstructure, what then?

I suppose that the new regime will find a few monsters and put them on trial and make an example of them.

But I wouldn’t do that. Of course our liberal friends believe what they have been carefully taught. So of course they believe that only whites can be racist and only men can be sexist. And of course when they get to be administrators they know what is good for their careers.

And if the music changes, they will mostly learn the new dance steps and get with the program. Because they are humans.

See, for me, it would be enough to change the regime, dial down the government programs and get the government out of the schools and the pensions and the healthcare. So we Americans could go back to being social humans that work and cooperate and support each other without the need for government to set the agenda and the Narrative for everything.

And I’d forgive all the liberals for believing all the lies taught them from pre-K to retirement. What, you expect people to go out and read a book?

| Thu, 07 May 2026 22:12:17 GMT |

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US GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE

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US GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS

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UK PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

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ROAD TO THE MIDDLE CLASS

The Road to the Middle Class is a journey from a world of power to a world of trust and love. In religion, it is a journey from power gods that respond to sacrifice and augury to the God who makes a covenant with mankind. In education, it is a journey from the world of the spoken word to the world of the written word. In community, it is the journey from dependence on blood kin and upon clientage under a great lord to the mutual aid and the rules of the self-governing fraternal association. In law it is the journey from the violence of force and feud to the king’s peace, the law of contract, and private property.

Road to the Middle Class: The Book

Contents

Chapter One

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AN AMERICAN MANIFESTO

With the failure of the welfare state, it is time to consider what comes next. In "An American Manifesto: Life After Liberalism" I develop a narrative about where we are and where we should go to redeem the American experiment.

An American Manifesto: The Book

Contents

Chapter One

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