If you don't follow me on Twitter (and apparently most people don't), then you probably haven't seen what I've been saying about Der Trumpenführer. I will sum up: I don't like him.But that's not enough, and this is something that I think (in agreement with others more intelligent and informed than I) will matter a … Continue reading The Trump Post or, So, It’s Come to This, Has It?
Tag: politics
Sentiment not sentimentalism
It is inevitable that the decay of sentiment should be accompanied by a deterioration of human relationships, both those of the family and those of friendly association, because the passion for immediacy concentrates upon the presently advantageous. After all, there is nothing but sentiment to bind us to the very old or to the very … Continue reading Sentiment not sentimentalism
Well, It Was a Good Run While It Lasted
Perhaps enough Republicans decided they were tired of being called fascists by the Democrats and figured they'd really nominate one. They have their internationally-minded socialists, so the GOP decided to go with a nationalist socialist. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.Either way, it's going to keep getting tougher for Christians. Broader society is … Continue reading Well, It Was a Good Run While It Lasted
The slow death of friendship
In Megalopolis the sentiment of friendship wastes away. Friends become, in the vulgarism of modern speech, "pals," who may be defined as persons whom your work compels you to associate with or, on a still more debased level, persons who will allow you to use them to your advantage. The meeting of minds, the sympathy … Continue reading The slow death of friendship
Military prediction
"(The attempt of the United States to make military service attractive by offering high pay, free college education, and other benefits looks suspiciously like bribing the child with candy.)"~ p. 124Ideas Have ConsequencesI was reading through some saved drafts on my blog and came across this quotation from Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences. (A marvelous … Continue reading Military prediction
A Large Mob Is Still A Mob
I've been on Twitter for a little while now, and it seems that there is a consistent bias (I don't mean to pick on Mr Geraghty specifically, his was just the tweet that sent me to my soapbox) against paying any mind to people with few followers. Now, granted, it can be very hard to … Continue reading A Large Mob Is Still A Mob
Bad Habits
"The life of adventurers, gamesters, gypsies, beggars, and robbers is not unpleasant. It requires restraint to keep men from falling into that habit. The shifting tides of fear and hope, the flight and pursuit, the peril and escape, the alternate famine and feast of the savage and the thief, after a time render all course … Continue reading Bad Habits
The Vulgar Thomas Paine
Paine has a following still: with interesting archaism, the village atheist continues to pass out paper-backed copies of The Age of Reason. Radicalism having passed Paine by long ago, the twentieth century does not turn to him for political wisdom—merely for brilliant examples of what James Boulton accurately calls "the vulgar style" of political rhetoric.~Edmund … Continue reading The Vulgar Thomas Paine
Burke and the French Revolution
Burke knew that men are not naturally good, but are beings of good and evil, kept in obedience to a moral law chiefly by the force of custom and habit, which the revolutionaries would discard as so much antiquated rubbish. He knew that all the advantages of society are the product of intricate human experience … Continue reading Burke and the French Revolution
I Will Not Compromise With My Conscience
The problem with all the recent attempts by the libertarian-leaning folks in the conservative movement and the Republican party proper to get social conservatives to acquiesce in a softening of what is expected of national politicians is that they fail to understand that these are moral questions before they are political ones. Too often, these … Continue reading I Will Not Compromise With My Conscience
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