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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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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
When the left ran out of real victims to patronize it started inventing “fake” victims.
After we elected the First Black President we learned that to oppose his policies was racism. Does that mean that any opponent of the First Woman President will be sexist, and any opponent of the First Gay President will be a homophobe?
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: Reactions to Nietzsche
