To understand where our nation needs to go, let’s look first at where we are. The Spectator’s Dominic Green writes about America’s upper class. Green’s article uses a Greek word — oligarchy — to describe them. A French word —elite — works better. As Green himself says, “Our oligarchs are the social elite.” And America's social elite rule us today. Says Green: Our universities sell credentials for membership in a class system that has hardened into a chasm, with the wealthiest 20 percent of Americans on one side, and the desperate majority stranded on the other. The Democrats .   .   .  are firmly on the side of Silicon Valley. Our corporate media, with the exception of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, overwhelmingly support the Democrats. Social media, which has functionally replaced the town square and the local paper, is so confident of its progressive principles that it can silence the president of the United States. Green has the evidence. Those who ...

(rewritten from Wikipedia ): Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), twice British Prime Minister and a favorite of Queen Victoria, created the modern Conservative Party. Born in London to a Jewish family, his literary critic father left the faith to became an Anglican, as did Benjamin after baptism at age 12.  Disraeli’s chief political achievement: securing passage of the 1867 Reform Act. Disraeli’s reform nearly doubled the number of males eligible to vote and increased the power of urban voters at the expense of country gentlemen. The victory was long in coming; 25 years earlier, at age 38, Disraeli had helped form the “Young England” parliamentary group which sought to gain power by moving to “protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.”  Then 10 years later, Disraeli, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (equivalent to U.S. Treasury Secretary) lowered the taxes on malt (for beer) and tea, provisions designed to appeal to the working class.  Disraeli’s actions...

During the past four years, Trump’s Republican Party has emerged as the champion of American working men and women, veterans and small business, while the Democratic Party has become the mouthpiece of Big Tech, Big Business and the liberal elites who run California, New York and other blue states. — Liz Peek, the Hill  Looking at the Biden Inaugural audience — with its flags-for-humans crowd below — Rush Limbaugh says : They’ve been sweating bullets for four years. And they are now convinced that they have re-secured their complete and total hold on power in Washington. But I think they know that it’s fleeting. They’re gonna do everything they can to make sure it’s not fleeting. Limbaugh adds they all have “deep, dark crevices where they engage in deep thoughts about themselves.” And inside, they know with 74 million who did not vote for Joe Biden, they can’t say to themselves they represent the country’s power base. So “they’re gonna to have to take [power —] hold on to it and nev...

Here are words from the text of Biden's Inaugural Speech, as released in advance (see previous post): Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart. The battle is perennial, and victory is never assured. But here, from yesterday’s delivered speech, are Biden’s actual words : And now, a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. Rather than reassuring Trump supporters, Biden suggests we will see the full force of government power turned against “white supremacy, domestic terrorism” in a fight to the finish. Up to now, the War on Terrorism has justified technology’s efficient use to find, fix, and defeat terrorism abroad. It sounds like that technology could now be used at home against those government believes to be “white supremacists.” Who exactly will fit government’s defin...

 Today, President Biden said: Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart. The battle is perennial, and victory is never assured. Racism. The Democratic coalition is built to fight an enemy -- white (male) racism. That's how a national elite, an obvious minority, maintains power in a democracy while sitting above a vast majority of middle class, working class, and poor. It practices divide and rule. It turns the female majority and the  people of color near majority against "racism, nativism, demonization." Under Franklin Roosevelt, Democrats mobilized an obvious majority against the wealthy. Under Bill Clinton's unofficial campaign motto, "It's the economy, stupid!", Democrats again promised prosperity to the lower classes. But today, Democrats practice a new racism well recognized by those of us who hate...