“ He who is not a liberal at twenty compels one to doubt the generosity of his heart; but he who, after thirty, persists, compels one to doubt the soundness of his mind. ”    — attributed to Edmund Burke (1729-97)     About the youth vote (18-29) in 2020, here are some facts from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University:  Over half of all voters under the age of 30 voted in the 2020 elections, a record figure.  The surge in turnout greatly benefited Joe Biden, who won the youth vote by 24 points (60%-36%) over Trump.  Avoiding the failure that plagued Democrats in 2016, Biden's campaign went after young voters throughout the presidential campaign.  The Tufts Center found that the share of youth voting as opposed to not voting rose by 8% over 2016 (although youth share of total votes rose just 1% from 16% to 17%, slightly ahead of the rise in total votes).    Youn...

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” — Sun Tzu ( The Art of War ) Minorities are not enemy, they are the future. The enemy are the elite, who own the Democratic Party. As an elite, they want political war to be about anything other than the truth — elite control of the rest of us. As race helped white Southerners run the South through the Democratic Party from 1876 to 1964, so 2021’s elite would hold power through a Democratic army united against “white supremacy.” Understand what the elite are doing? We should, because Sun Tzu is right. If they know only their race war against “white supremacy” while missing the fight against elite control, then we knowing both self and enemy will win. There is truth behind elite use of race. White exploitation of Blacks wasn’t fully rectified with Barack Obama’s election. That rectification continues, and will keep most Blacks loyal Democrats. But class divisions are more significant than “white supremacy,” and...

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those talents.” ― John F. Kennedy Women are more likely to vote than men, making up  roughly 52% of the electorate, Women are also 10% more likely to vote Democratic (56% to 38%) than men are to vote Republican (50% to 42%). In the popular vote in 2020, Biden beat Trump by 4.5%; sex differences may account for much of that margin. Progressives do very well with unmarried women -- a Democratic core group. Abortion is key to locking in that group, largely because Republicans are pro-life, while unmarried women both value control over their bodies and are less likely to want children. Progressives are the party of government, seeking to hold power through government-financed programs. Unmarried women, less wealthy than their married counterparts, look to government to provide welcomed security. One survey shows unmarried women are 26% more likely to vote Democratic than those married. If po...

        “the truth will make you free”         — John 8:32 Let’s go over basic facts. As Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)  tells us , Democrats are the party of the rich, Republicans of the rest of us. This shift began with Nixon’s “silent majority,” ran through the “Reagan Democrats” (with George H.W. Bush a caboose rider), received new life under Newt Gingrich (1994-1999), and culminated when Trump’s presidency caused the entire elite to coalesce against Big Orange Man’s attack on their power. The “elite v. populist” clash simplifies to class versus money. Populists have the votes if it’s us against the elite, while going the other way, wealth can buy both message and mass votes.  The forces are roughly evenly divided. Except for Obama’s victory in the Big Recession election of 2008, no president in 42 years has won with more than 51% of votes cast. Democrats’ coalition is the elite including well-paid professionals (top 1...

the problem with picking the normal candidate [i.e., Biden, is that] the normal candidate doesn’t care about you. The normal candidate knows better than you. The normal candidate will screw you over to appease the powers that put him there. You don’t matter; you are the ruled rubes, not the governed citizens.   .   . We were promised unity. And what do we have? A political pogrom against the ex-president that serves less purpose than a Hindu steakhouse. — David Marcus, Federalist Do you know why we hear so much about the top 1%? It’s because Democrats want to keep us from looking at the top 10% (including 1%ers), the folks who really rule us. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), whose district includes her hometown of Toledo where she grew up the daughter of a union organizer, says her fellow Democrats “just can’t understand.” They can’t understand a family that sticks together because that’s what they have. Their loved ones are what they have, their little town, their home, ...

if the defining issue of American politics becomes a defense of democracy against Trumpist insurrection, that.   .   .  may be the factor that will lock Republicans into a permanent minority position that will determine the outcome in 2024 and beyond.   .   . the impeachment trial isn’t just an act of revenge. It is a vehicle for making the culture war about Trump a permanent feature of American politics.                       — Jonathan S. Tobin, Federalist   The NY Post’s Miranda Devine states that the power high tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg have to censor political thought is moving America toward becoming an authoritarian surveillance state. And it’s conservatives they are after, in partnership with the Democratic Party. Of course, Silicon Valley leans left. Top executive political donations went to Joe Biden as did 95% percent of employee contributions. And last month, the...

Jeremy Carl, at the conservative Claremont Institute and a Trump administration deputy assistant secretary, writes that "the election was rigged” is the one thing social media and the powers that be will not allow to be said. But Carl adds, the “more depressing truth” is that “[t]hey rigged the election in front of our very eyes because we weren’t smart enough, tough enough, and most importantly, not powerful enough to stop them. That’s something we desperately need to fix.” He believes Senators Ted Cruz (R-Tx.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), three of the progressives’ targets, are vital to the fix. Carl’s points: The voter registration and the voting process was rigged. Facebook helped register over 4.4 million voters, slanted to Democrats. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg spent nearly $500 million on “election technology” overwhelmingly in Democratic areas. Michael Bloomberg spent $100 million on Democrats’ get-out-the-vote efforts in Florida. The tech platforms wer...

To understand where our nation needs to go, we are looking first at where we are. Rob Henderson, an American Ph.D candidate at Cambridge (U.K.), tells us what he means by “luxury beliefs.” In the past, upper-class Americans displayed status with luxury goods. Now it's luxury beliefs. We know people care a lot about social status. Admiration from our peers means more than money to our sense of well-being. And we face pressure to display status in new ways, which is why fashionable clothing always changes. What’s happening now is that clothes and other goods have become more accessible, so the rich draw increasingly less status from luxury goods. The replacement: luxury beliefs — ideas and opinions that confer status on the elite at little cost to them, while harming the rest of us. For example, the idea that all family structures are equal. It’s not true. Families with two married parents help young children most. But strangely, affluent, educated people raised by two married paren...