What It Is

 

Any cultural, political or ethical arrangement that predominates in a given society, in a specific generation, follows one of two forks. If the right-hand branch is followed, then individualism is the primary social affiliation practiced among people, so good things follow: constitutional republicanism, rationalism, egoism, free markets, people with self-esteem that love good deities as rational religionists.

If the left-hand fork is followed, then collectivism is the dominant social patten of interconnection practiced among people, so less favorable conditions develop: authoritiarianism, emotionalism, socialist economics, and the masses and elites of low self-esteeming, worshiping good deities through the lens of altruist ethics.

Life Is A Do-It-Yourself Enterprise

 

Failure is a collective enterprise. If we as adults, parents and authority figures conspire to crush young people and smash their ambition to better themselves, and if we gaslight them incessantly enough over a period of years, there is a high probability that we will have ruined their lives. We have produced evil robots.

 

Succeeding in life is a do-it-yourself enterprise. We cannot save anyone else, but we can teach the young to esteem themselves, to learn about and practice self-realizing. These positive encouragements and reinforcements, strengthened by adults practicing what they preach, can inspire children to choose to live their best lives.

 

Being ruined is often an externally driven pressure upon suggestible youth who are eager to groupthink, to conform, to crow-please, and go with the flow in order that they may gain and keep high social standing with their peers, so external pressure is maximized and their stunted free will, rational consideration of consequences, and their consciences are operating on a subpar level.

 

Thus, group pressure can ruin people, but it cannot lift them up and make them self-improve, work, and grow. That can only occur for each separate child as an individual who chooses to bootstrap her way up to personal, moral, talent-enhancing victory.

 

Group or collective pressure can wreck people, but rarely motivates them to excel or upgrade themselves. Therefore, group influence is evil more than not.

 

Only the individual can save herself; only she can elect to take care of herself first and primarily, and then do other-care. She must decide to save herself, discipline herself, and become someone special and exceptional.

Reduced To Mediocrity

 

No one reduces you to personal mediocrity. It was your decision. We are not born mediocre, but we do choose to remain undeveloped or mediocre, and this act is throwing one’s life away.

Do Your Own Thinking.

 

It is vital that you think and speak for yourself, your original thoughts in public for all to hear. This is a human right and a human responsibility.

 

Anyone opposing this view is no humanist, no lover of humanity.

The Right Must Not Radicalize Itself

 

My introduction: College Student Michael Hout wrote an editorial for Townhall.com on 10/17/25 and I copied and pasted it and will comment on it. Here it is:

 

Hout: “

 

 

 

A Warning Against the Unmooring of the American Right

 

Michael J. Hout | Oct 17, 2025

Flag of the Know Nothing movement

William F. Buckley Jr. once said that a conservative is “someone who stands athwart history, yelling, 'Stop,' at a time when no one is inclined to do so.” To me, that captures the essence of conservatism—not a blind resistance to change, but the defense of what endures when everything around us rushes toward the new. Conservatism begins with the recognition that there’s an enduring moral order, that society isn’t a contract to be rewritten at will but a covenant among the living, the dead, and the unborn. Russell Kirk wrote that politics must rest upon “the permanent things,” while Roger Scruton reminded us that the task of the conservative is to love what’s ours and to preserve what’s good.”

 

My response: It is wise and necessary to preserve and renew the good in our traditions.

Hout: “Conservatism isn’t a purity test, but it does require some shared understanding of what’s fundamentally true. We should be able to agree that the sky is blue, that the grass is green, that the sun is hot, and that Hitler was evil. We ought to be America First without being America Only. We ought to be able to discuss immigration without descending into 19th-century nativism. We ought to be able to debate Israel’s policies without wading into the sewers of antisemitism. And we ought to be able to defend liberty without abandoning any semblance of decency.

Even these self-evident truths, though, feel increasingly tenuous. Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, something troubling has started to surface on the Right. These divisions were always there, but his absence seems to have removed a stabilizing force. The conversation online has grown darker, angrier, and more conspiratorial. It has begun to fester like an epidemic inside a movement that has otherwise proven quite robust.

The question is how these kinds of maladies take hold. Some of the most-followed figures in the world—the hosts of top podcasts and streams—are the very ones amplifying this conspiratorial and identitarian mindset. Some believe these ideas sincerely, perhaps victims of their own echo chambers. Others peddle them cynically, chasing attention, influence, or money (propheteering, if you will). Still others seem stuck somewhere in between, half-aware that they’ve mistaken paranoia for wisdom. Whatever their motives, the effect is the same: a distortion of conservative thought into something tribal, conspiratorial, and unrecognizable.”

My response: We always want to move slowly and think before doing and look before we leap.

We need to talk about this honestly—not to excuse the Left’s radicalism, which remains deeply diseased in its own way, but to admit that there’s rot within our own house, too. I say this not as an outsider. I did, however, spend years as a Democrat and watched that party surrender to its most radical elements. The far Left didn’t just get louder; it took over. Pro-life Democrats were told they no longer belonged. Support for the Second Amendment—or sometimes even the First—became heresy. Figures like Joe Manchin were treated as enemies. “Real” Democrats were defined not by principle but by purity. That suffocating orthodoxy ultimately pushed me away.

The populist energy of Donald Trump brought new life—and many new people—to the conservative movement. But even populism has to rest on principles. The challenge is channeling that energy without losing the moral high ground. Modern politics tempts every movement toward excess, but what the algorithms reward and what’s actually healthy for society are two different things. The more outrageous the statement, the greater the reach. So political commentary becomes a performance, not a pursuit of truth. When a movement feeds on outrage long enough, it forgets what it was fighting for in the first place.

James Madison warned of factions in Federalist No. 10, describing the danger of passion unrestrained by reason. Those factions now live not only between parties but inside them. The Left’s radicals already dominate their agenda. If we don’t build guardrails for ourselves, we’ll repeat the same mistake—and hollow ourselves out from within.

Horseshoe theory helps explain what’s happening. The far Left and far Right, though seemingly opposite, bend until they almost meet. Spend enough time online and you can see it: polar opposite extremists retweeting one another, echoing the same conspiracies, united more by hatred than by reason. When anger becomes the organizing principle, ideology no longer matters. And anger, once severed from moral truth, isn’t conservative anymore—it’s revolutionary.

We can be a broad coalition—libertarians, traditionalists, populists, and former Democrats like me—but not a coalition without boundaries. A conservatism that embraces everything ultimately stands for nothing. The Republican Party rightly calls itself a big tent, and it should stay that way. But being a big tent doesn’t mean we ought to become a circus. A movement that wants to represent a great and diverse nation must be broad, yes, but it also has to be serious. We can’t make Faustian bargains with Mephistophelian figures whose ideas betray everything we claim to defend. Inclusion without discernment isn’t magnanimity; it’s self-destruction.

I spent four years as a high-school history teacher, teaching about 20th-century totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Communist China. These were subjects I talked about every day, and the experience shaped how I understand what happens when moral clarity disappears. That’s why I’ve always been critical of the Left’s habit of calling every Republican a fascist or every populist another Hitler—it’s lazy, and it betrays ignorance of what those systems truly were. But it’s also why I’m critical now of the far Right’s disturbing flirtation with those same ideas. When people on “our side” post admiringly about Hitler or indulge antisemitic conspiracies, it isn’t “edgy.” It’s abhorrent. And it shows just how far some have drifted from reality.

Since 2020, I’ve lived in Warsaw, a city that bore the consequences when reason collapsed and extremism devoured truth. Living here, surrounded by reminders of what totalitarianism does to nations, has made me even more grateful for the American experiment. It’s also made me more determined not to see it corroded by hatred and ignorance. Too many Americans, Left and Right alike, have lost touch with history. They throw around words like “fascist” or “communist” without grasping their weight. They don’t know what those ideologies actually did to human beings—or to civilization itself. That ignorance isn’t entirely their fault. We’ve built an education system rich in technology but poor in moral literacy. We’ve spent years replacing history with cynicism.

Despite what some progressives think, to be conservative isn’t to be hateful. It’s not to be racist, or sexist, or closed to compassion. True conservatism, as Burke, Buckley, and Kirk understood it, is a moral disposition before it’s a political one. It’s the effort to conserve what’s good and to improve what’s not. For those of us who are Christian, it’s to try—imperfectly—to model Christ in public life. For others, it’s to live honorably, keep one’s word, and seek order, gratitude, and virtue. What drove me from the Democratic Party was the unrelenting hatred I saw there. I don’t want to see that same hatred consume the Right. And I’m not talking about the “hate” the Left accuses us of—I mean real hatred, the cold, poisonous kind that corrodes the soul.

This is more than a question of party health; it’s a question of national health. Once the moral dam cracks, it’s hard to repair. Charlie Kirk, for all his differences with people across the movement, served as a kind of linchpin—a reminder that energy and principle can coexist. Since his death, the fractures have become more visible, but they were always there. What we do with them now will decide whether we restore coherence or slide further into chaos.

Electorally, the stakes are obvious. The Democrats’ indulgence of their extremes has cost them the trust of ordinary voters. If Republicans follow the same pattern—alienating moderates, independents, and former Democrats like me—we’ll squander what we’ve gained. Imagine a world where the Left finally starts to temper its excesses while the Right drifts deeper into its most conspiratorial corners. That would be a disaster, politically and morally.

We can avoid that fate by building a movement that’s broad, but principled. A healthy Right welcomes debate but rejects what is reprehensible. It argues from facts, not fantasies. It knows that liberty without virtue becomes license—and that the point of freedom isn’t to indulge our passions, but to govern them.

That’s my warning, and my hope: that we not repeat the unraveling I already saw on the Left. Let’s ground ourselves in the wisdom of Burke, the clarity of Buckley, the reverence of Kirk, and the moral seriousness of Scruton. Let’s maintain populism’s fire but guide it with an unmistakably conservative conscience. Conservatism, at its best, isn’t mere opposition; it’s stewardship—the quiet work of keeping a nation steady through the storm.

If we can do that, the Right won’t drift into the abyss that’s already consumed the Left. It’ll remain what it was meant to be—the ballast that keeps the republic steady.

 

My response: Well said.

 

Leviticus 26:3-5, Obeying God

 

It will go well for those who obey and are faithful to God’s commandments. Here is what is written in The New American Bible: “If you live in accordance with my precepts and are careful to observe my commandments, I will give you rain in due season so that the land will bear its crops, and the trees their fruit; your threshing will last till vintage time, and your vintage till the time of sowing, and you will have food to eat in abundance, so that you may dwell securely in your land.”

 

Here are these same passage from the Holy Bible: “If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

 

And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.”

 

 

Leviticus 1:3, The Offering.

I will not be commenting much on at least the early part of The Book of Leviticus, but there is one passage which interested me. Here it is from The New American Bible: “’If his holocaust* is from the herd, it must be a male without blemish.”

 

My response: The sacrificed male animal must be a creature without blemish for God would take umbrage if an inferior animal was sacrificed as being good enough for Jehovah, offering Him a second-best or inferior present or offering.

 

Here is the footnote: “*1,3: Holocaust: from the Greek word meaning ‘wholly burned,’ this is the technical term for the special type of sacrifice in which an entire animal except its hide was consumed in the fire on the altar. The primary purpose of this complete gift was to render glory and praise to God.”

 

My response: Let us offer sacrifices which also render glory and praise to God.

 

Here is this quote from the Holy Bible (KJV): “If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.”

 

Exodus 39:42-43

 

n the passages below from Exodus, it seems clear to the reader or should that Yahweh is pleased when humans obeyed His instructions, for these Hebrews erected the Dwelling of the Meeting tent as God instructed, and, once God was pleased with their completion of the project and their willing compliance with His expressed wishes, He indirectly expressed His approval and pleasure by ordering Moses to bless the dwelling.

 

Here are the two passages from The New American Bible: “The Israelites had carried out all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So, when Moses saw all the work was done just as the Lord commanded, he blessed them.”

 

My response: It occurs to me that there is something going on here wonderful and a bit mysterious: we cannot ever fully understand God and De’s motives, for presumably God could have snapped De’s fingers and the Dwelling could have been instantaneously constructed down to the last brad, just as God wanted it fabricated, better than the obedient Hebrews could have provided. The Divine Plan, whatever it is, cannot be met just by God’s efforts: Providence requires that puny, frail humans create the Dwelling as their limited but vitally important contribution to moving forward the Divine Plan, which is obstructed without human input and effort. Yahweh did not need such a human contribution, but somehow eliciting this contribution from cooperative, willing humanity in some way expands and grows God’s kingdom and implements the Divine Plan, not known to us.

 

But that was beside the point to Yahweh: he wanted humans to obey Him of their own free will, and for them as commanded to fabricate the Dwelling or temporary desert church/tent to suit Yahweh’s taste: if they would do that, and once they did that, pleased Yahweh wanted both the Dwelling and the people to be blessed as His reward for the and as a communal sign of divine approval for their fine efforts.

 

Here are the same passages from the Holy Bible (KJV): “According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.

 

And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so they had done it: and Moses blessed them.”

 

My response: Yes, Moses did bless the Hebrews, but God through Moses also blessed them.

Exodus 34:31-35

 

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments for the Hebrews, he did not realize that his face had become radiant from conversing with and dealing with Yahweh. The people were afraid to come near him, which reveals two facts or truths.

 

First, if one was in communion with a good deity, the inner radiance of the brilliant and loving communion, mutuality and communicating would be so pervasive and powerful, that the radiance of God’s love and presence would show in the human communicant’s countenance.

 

Therefore, those without such radiance displaying openly God’s presence and love in the human’s countenance, it automatically reveals that those without such radiance are without much actual presence of God in their lives, or that that they are more intertwined with evil or even demons than they would dare admit.

 

Second, the people fled from Moses, afraid of his radiant countenance, which also indicates people are afraid of Yahweh’s presence, and likely do not much like Yahweh, and have not rewarded his presence in their lives.

 

Below, I will run my quote from The New American Bible, but the editors have this footnote on Page 94 of this Bible: “*34,33: He put a veil over his face. St. Paul sees in this symbol the failure of the Jews to recognize Jesus as the promised Messiah: the true spiritual meaning of the writings of Moses and the prophets is still veiled from the unbelieving Jews.”

 

My interpretation of this is that the editors are correct in identifying the veil that Moses must wear so that the people will entreat with him as a recognition of their failure to believe in God and to invite God into their lives, and this is the story of most humans anywhere in every generation.

 

I wish to add an unrelated aside: It seems to me that the Ten Commandments being the Holy of Holies in the Arik of the Covenant is an almost Jungian archetype, symbol, and message from God to humans, a most critical message misunderstood and not heeded by everyone even unto this latter day. That divine message is: loving others and oneself is an ethical duty of the first rank, that a code of ethics, a Gift and Covenant from on high to the masses is the Holy of Holies. Piety and faith are noble and necessary to be saved, but being a virtuous soldier of God is a calling of the highest order to be saved, and to help save the sin from evil and Satan.

 

There is something absolutely unique and profound about the Old Testament message to the world that Yahweh insists that Moses install the Ten Commandments (God’s touchstone code of morality shared with humanity) inside the Ark of the Covenant as the Holy of Holies. Ethical behavior is a divine mandate demanded of each human by God, the price of being saved, and each human’s freely willed acceptance of and execution of these ethical commandments is in part how each human will be saved and received divine grace from Jesus and all good divinities, brothers, and sisters in faith to Christ Himself.

 

That almost all of us walk around with countenances without radiance, and we of the same universal human nature as fielded by the ancient Jews too would run for cover in shame, fear and aversion to godliness visibly expressed on the face of a modern Moses or Caitlin should one of them walk on the earth today.

 

Our dull, pallid countenances reflect the absence of God in our lives, and that God does not rule the earth today or in ancient Israel 3,000 years ago.

 

Here is my quote: “Only after Moses called to them did Aaron and all the rulers of the community come back to him. Moses then spoke to them. Later on, all the Israelites came up to him, and he enjoined them all that the Lord had told him on Mount Sinai. When he finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.* Whenever Moses entered the presence of the Lord to converse with him, he removed the veil until he came out again. On coming out, he would tell the Israelites all that had been commanded. Then the Israelites would see that the skin of Moses’ face was radiant; so he would again put the veil over his face until he went in to converse with the Lord.”

 

My response: The veil is a symbol that deep, divine truth must remain hidden from humans behind a worldly curtain of mere appearance and illusion because that is all the truth that humans can handle, or are willing to endure, and God honors their reject of De, by staying gone, silent and mostly absent, to God’s sorrow, and to huge human loss.

 

Here are the same verses from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And Moses called unto them: and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

 

And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord has spoken with him in mount Sinai.

 

And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

 

But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.”

 

My response: Note that Moses was invited to go in before the Lord, a rare honor and privilege indeed, almost unheard of.

 

Note also that God refers to his chosen people, the Hebrews, as the children of Israel, and that Yahweh their Lord and Creator, was their spiritual father, and they were His spiritual children.

 

Holy Bible: “And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak to him.”

Peterson On Power

 

Jordan Peterson has often defined power as competence, not tyrannical abuse of subordinates or citizens by ruling elites.

 

I agree with that: competence is a manifestation of the power of powerfulness, where one does work in the world to improve the self, to create something, to build something, to make money. It is not about controlling others.

 

One individuating and wielding the power of powerfulness would have something of the anarchist in him, and he would work to introduce constitutional republicanism to all nations in the world.

Intrinsic Nature

 

Ayn Rand argued that human nature is not intrinsic or essential, but that its essential nature is epistemologically arrived at by the human thinker. It is epistemological in part, but human nature is also how it is due to its nature, its essence, aa metaphysical state or set of attributed and characteristics. I believe we all have souls, and that we are born basically but not entirely evil, and these are intrinsic human properties.

 

I would argue that reality itself is essential both epistemologically and metaphysically encountered, detected, and comprehended.

Why Reform Within The System Always Fails

 

Let me correct this title: reform or revolution within the system always or almost always fails in the long run, and reform or revolution from without the system does not fare much better. We would all do much better to recognize, accept, and implement egoist ethics, because no reform or revolution works or lasts for long unless it is conducted within the peaceful, voluntary, willed consent of the private individual who loves herself, really loves herself.

 

Lasting, consistent, sure, permanent reform or revolution must occur on the individual level; there are not alternatives that work, though they are tried and forced upon the masses all the time. Morality cannot be legislated for each adult for himself and upon himself, he must legislate morality, writing it upon his own heart.

 

Human nature is what it is, and has an unchanging, non-malleable, universal essence to it—regrettably in a way—so that the mistakes and sins humans committed 200,000 years ago are the same sins they commit today. Human nature has not improved at all: as babies and children, there is still more self-loathing devil and beast in each of us than self-loving and self-esteeming angel and good actor in each of us.

 

We are not only biologically more evil than good, we are spiritually born with a consciousness more evil than good, so as we fight our personal battle in our own consciences, we are battling our natures and devil-drenched souls, struggling mightily to eke out a good will that is more grateful, proud, loving, pious and virtuous, and less ungrateful, resentful, bitter, entitled, humble, hating the self and others through self-hatred, and vicious.

 

We all have to engage the forces warring within us and win this personal battle before we can even think of reforming society, and we have to keep the self-reforming going for the rest of our lives, lest we lapse back into sin and darkness. There is hope but it is not easy hope: we can manage to cobble together for oneself a good will and a loving relationship with God, before embarking on the journey to reform society.

 

 

Reforms always fail because the reformers do not understand human nature, how it works, and how to come with social and ethical strategies to work with the way people are to unnaturally and civilizedly increase mightily odds that the reform will work this time despite almost universal, historical failures of all reforms and revolutions due to mortality (The good people die off and the new generation of humans fall short of what their parents’ ethical achievements.), people losing interest, and the Devil brewing power lust in every new generation of born, unrepentant sinners in self-denial, strengthened and reinforced by collective denial and lying to one another.

 

The typical, idealistic, naïve, inexperienced, unwise reformer has no idea who she is up against: career bureaucrats outlast reformers, and human nature rears its ugly ahead repeatedly as replacement elites ruling the masses keep being born and claw their way into powerful spots. The corrupting essence of human nature is an incurable lust for power accumulation, to live off others, a terrible, irresistible sickness that elites must suffer from, and, now feeling bad about themselves, they take revenge upon the masses.

 

 The answer is not violent revolution to replace bad institutions with the worst imaginable institutions riddled with elements like pure collectivism, totalitarianism and pure hierarchies, utterly cruel, unjust institutions, which convert the masses into purely huddled sheep and serfs.

 

 The only cure, the only near perfect, permanent reform is my suggestion that we rear a generation of egoistic-individualist, anarchist individuating supercitizens. Of course, that is not permanent answer, but this conditional guarantee is still the best shot at workable reform and revolution (gently executed and voluntarily received) from within the system or from without the system.

 

We are born to live, work, build something, do good, create, and propagate the species, create cosmos out of chaos, serve God. We are born depraved, which means we are beast more than angel, and that we must confess our sins to Jesus or whatever good deity we choose to serve, and then work hard to transmute our naturally depraved bad wills into a good wills, each a person of sterling ethical and spiritual aura and demeanor.

 

When we hate ourselves, are selfless and run in packs, we our living demons: we still wield power, but it is the negative power of powerlessness, spreading suffering in the soul, and we personally are a vehicle for spreading unnecessary suffering across our nation.

 

Selfish elites running all packs. All of them are users and inhabitants of institutions are altruistic and groupist, beyond reforming, because of their militant allegiance to what sickens them and all under their thumbs. They curry their natural wickedness, their social status and their taste of accumulated power, their inability to see the truth any longer because they have lied to themselves and each other for decades.

 

It is near impossible to extricate them from power but violent revolution and resolved reformers occasionally dislodge them, and gain have victory for a day, a month, a year or a few decades, but the humans badly crave and need what is bad for them: altruism, collectivism, group-living, nonindividuating, and eager submission to hierarchies of elites willing to push others aside to rule them. Enslavers and the enslaved are the prehistorical and historical human story, as the iron laws of biology human nature and the way society forms itself are acted out in every society by each new generation.

 

The solution, the only successful reform or gentle revolution is for America to develop a powerful, trained, aware, united, unforgetting citizenry of middle and upper middle-class voters of the anarchist individuating supercitizen persuasion. Each supercitizen is ½ elitist an individuators, and at the same time in the same body and consciousness, she is one half a commoner, everyday worker, taxpayer consumer voter one of the mases, an uncommon commoner. A vast upper middle class of supercitizens living in, under and running a constitutional republic with small government and free markets is our best hope for reform working and lasting for a few decades.

 

Today, 10/9/25, I copied and pasted an editorial off of Townhall.com and this editorial is by Dmitri Bolt, a blogger and liberty lover.

 

Here is the article which I will comment on: Dmitri (D after this): “

 

Cornell Professor: Campus Anti-Semitism Hasn’t Faded—It’s Adapted

 

Dmitri Bolt | October 07, 2025 8:00 PM

A Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School warns that the wave of anti-Semitism that swept through American universities after the October 7th attacks of 2023 hasn’t disappeared—it has adapted, taking on quieter, more insidious forms that have become embedded in campus culture.

Professor William Jacobson says the "venomous" hatred that pervades campuses has adapted, learning to mask their anti-Semitism, cracking down on physical encampments and demonstrations, while hardening the ideology within.”

My response: This Clinical Professor uncovered something of first-rank importance, that institutional reform is much more difficult that the idealistic reformers ever realize. Idealists severely underestimate the stubbornness and defiance of those embedded institutionalists clinging to poor ideas and unjust practices. Fools and sinners in power are proud of their track records, and they have no intention of changing, and resent any criticism whatsoever.

D: “"There has been a gross campaign at the international level to demonize Israel," he told Fox News Digital. "False accusations of genocide. These are all percolating under the surface on the campuses. In some ways, the situation’s worse underneath."

Anti-Semitism, he argued, has simply been absorbed into the culture of American universities.

"People should not be complacent that these issues were brewing before October 7th," he warned. "They’ve been pushed now back below the surface, but it’s still brewing on campuses and nobody should kid themselves."”

My response: Note how the ideologues and evildoers are on campus, lodged in these institutions of higher learning, once the beacons of hope, promise, reason and civilization, the crown jewels of Western civilization, have been reduced to what they are today by institutional bureaucrats out to rule society, not just their education hierarchies. Sooner or later, all institutions and their ruling classes go rogue, and attack society and the masses.

Institutional elites are realistic and cunning: they know if they lie low, they can outlast Trump and Maga, and recapture the institutions of higher education in 2038, becoming more virulent and destructive, once they get a chance to wreak havoc and revenge upon the resisting masses.

Professor Jacobson below also will characterize elite universities as "playing hide-and-seek" with the Department of Education and its investigations into campus anti-Semitism. He argues they believe they can simply outlast the lawsuits.

"I think the schools think they can outlast the Trump administration," Jacobson argued. "That they can rope-a-dope it for two to three more years. And then perhaps they'll be rescued by a new administration." 

My response: Let it never be said that committed, evil people are not cunning and adaptable—they cleverly camouflage and hide their ambitions and intentions while out of power, waiting for a chance to return as the true believing cultural Marxists and anti-Semites, to unleash upon society what believe in: they are how they hate and will conduct themselves.

Anti-Semitism, he argued, has simply been absorbed into the culture of American universities.

He also argued they care less about backlash from donors and more about the federal funding that keeps them afloat.

D: “"They take a longer-term view. They think this is going to blow over," he said. "For every alum who withholds a contribution because of anti-Israelism on campus, there's probably another, probably a foreign donor, who makes up for it."

"What they do care about is federal funding, because federal funding is on a scale that so far surpasses private donations that it's something they can't ignore," he continued. "If Trump ends up prevailing in a lot of these lawsuits, and I believe he will, that’s going to put certain schools in a very bad situation."

My response: Jacobson is insightful: they don’t mind losing a few donors as long as the big money, federal dollars, keep flowing into campus coffers.

 

 

Though despite the administration's efforts, few universities are truly reckoning with the anti-Semitism they let fester.

D: “"I don't believe the schools have changed their world outlook at all," he said. "They’re just waiting it out. They're playing hide-and-seek with the administration."

My response: Jacobson is insightful: they don’t mind losing a few donors as long as the big money, federal dollars, keep flowing into campus coffers.

Professor Jacobson is a wise lawyer, professor and conservative blogger; and his warning to the public is excellent public service and should be heeded. Institutional Leftist rot runs deep in the bowels of all kinds of hierarchies across America.

We must seek substantive change: we must invite the student, worker, burgher, farmer, soldier, lawyer, cit1zen, consumer and taxpayer to grow into being an anarchist individuating supercitizen, for only they collectively can work together to downsize and flatten hierarchies, and keep elites in line, from gather power to themselves, to be prevented from attacking society.

 

 

American Firearms Association

 

I am a proud member of the American Firearms Association (AFA), a no-compromise on gun rights nonprofit lobbying group that works on federal legislative efforts.

 

This morning, 10/8/2025, on Facebook, they ran a quote which is profoundly insightful. It is short, it is theirs not mine, but I will write it out and then comment on it. Here it is:

AFA: “Our government is backward. We are private; they should know nothing about us.

 

They are public: We should know everything about them.”

 

My response: This is political wisdom of the highest order. Our government does have it backward: they are the servants of the people, but, its entrenched ruling elite, have forgotten who is the boss, the people. The ruling elite, of any country or any kind of institution anywhere, is endlessly, ceaselessly greedy for power, the bad kind of power. Governing elites are the worst. They want to know everything about us, and, in fact already come close to knowing everything about us. Tyrants of the totalitarian mindset always surveil and spy on the masses to learn all they can about their private lives. Glen Beck is very worried that England’s recent forcing every Brit to sign up  for a digital ID is so intrusive that privacy disappears for each citizen.

 

We see what Red China is already doing to facial recognition technology, with likely a digital ID and social credit systems to deny money and jobs to dissidents, heretics, and criminals. With a one-world Communist government (Red China intends to rule the world, and should be regarded as building up their military, so they can take over the world.) Imagine all money is electronic, and a one-world government with a digital idea required for every person on earth.

 

In office totalitarian elites with this type of intelligence-gathering technology, will unleash unheard of levels of cruelty and viciousness upon their civilian populations, as the agents of their national dictator, or in the case of the head of the CCP, should he become world emperor, his universal monarchy would wield human rights abuses in ways that would make Stalin, Hitler and Mao blush. We are serious trouble as Western governments go down the same terrible path, as has the CCP, which has smashed the illusion of citizen privacy.

 

They trample under the red line, indicating private citizen privacy, an intelligence-gathering intrusion into which, is constitutionally and legal disallowed still in America, except if the citizen is suspected of engaging in illegal or seditious activity, which much be actual, and a judge needs to sign off on a search warrant, based on probable cause.

 

I am not saying the government should know nothing about the private citizen, but mostly they should not. I am not saying we should know everything about what the government on all levels is doing (There are acceptable, protected state secrets kept by our government for reasons of national security and privacy rights of government employees which need to be protected, as long as they conduct themselves legally and honorably.), but we should know most of the those ruling us on all levels are up to.

 

Our governing ruling class, if left operate without being ever scrutinized, not monitored, and questioned openly and repeatedly by a class of super-involved, bright, and questioning American masses, comprised of individuating supercitizens, they will be up to no good often immediately right away, and inevitably so sooner or later. They want their corrupt, cruel, and often illegal acts done in secret, so the public cannot discover what they are up to, to stop them before it is too late.

 

I have long sensed I am under federal surveillance for my political and religious views, but I cannot prove it. I wonder how I can file a lawsuit under FOIA to see what they have on me in a federal file, and if they are conducting illegal surveillance upon me, a private citizen doing nothing illegal, and nothing dishonorable. I wonder if I could sue them for damages for intruding illegally into my private affairs without cause.

 

We should know almost everything about them, and they should know almost nothing about us, though the technology exists by which they can easily and readily know everything about us, while keeping us from knowing almost everything about them.

 

Kudos to AFA for getting it so right, once again.

 

 

My Gift

 

I have writing my idiosyncratic Mavellonialist philosophy since 1976, and I pondered the other day as to what is the primary gift I wish to bequeath to humankind, and the following is what I came up with.

 

I probably am a prophet sent by God, but I bring no new religion, actually, though my peculiar faith, conservative Unitarian-Unversalism, so a new religion is not what I seek to introduce to the world.

 

The gift I seek to share is my Mavellonialist system of moderate, egoist ethics, and I think it can help people as they blend it with their altruist-collectivist morality and live by it while worshiping a good deity of their choice and preference.

Clueless Elitists

 

Elitists only hang up with each other and only talk to each other in their gilded cage, echo chamber enclaves, so it is no wonder they know not what the masses want or need.

 

Here is an 10/5/25 editorial at Townhall.com by Derek Hunter, which I copied, pasted, and will comment on: Derek Hunter (D after this):

Democrats Have No Clue What Normal People Want

 

Derek Hunter | Oct 05, 2025

In the movie “As Good As It Gets,” Jack Nicholson was asked how he writes female characters so well. His answer, hilariously, was, “I think of man, and then I take away reason and accountability.” That is exactly what it is like to talk with a Democrat. They honestly live on a different planet, which is fine. The problem comes in when they try to force everyone else to live in that world – normal people aren’t interested in pretending there’s no difference between boys and girls, as none of us would be here without that difference, and we’re big fans of that difference – we just want to be left alone. That is the exact opposite of the nature of a Democrat.”

My response: Leftist elitists live on a difference planet. And no one cares, but they are totalitarian, and order the masses with federal force to live as the elite lives, when the masses just want to be left alone. Only the masses as individuating supercitizens will have the chutzpah, iron will and willingness to repel tyrants with force of need be.

D: “They are the nosy neighbor always popping by because they saw the light on, borrowing things, and not returning them, while being stingy with their hedge trimmers. They’re quick to call the police if your music is a little too loud, but don’t mow their lawn when it needs it – wildly lacking self-awareness. They are the morbidly obese person in spandex, disproving the claim that “one size fits all” while insisting, like a Jerry Springer guest, that “You know I look good in this.”

They do not, they never do.

But the insistence is their power; they’re like Bill Clinton with a state employee: they aren’t about to take “no” for an answer.

Still, they keep trying – bless their hearts, as they say in the south. They’re like a pig trying to put together a simple Lego set – it’s just not going to work out, but they continue to roll around in the parts.

They’re trying desperately to find some way to appeal to normal Americans so they can win an election, but it’s just not working out.”

My response: Elitists, if unpopular once more, and not heeded and obeyed, here gives me hope that once more America is the land of the common people, who run things once more.

D: “Take Texas, for example. For years, Democrats have been pouring the GDP of a mid-sized country into statewide races under the delusion that they can win. They don’t. That doesn’t stop them from trying.

How much money did they throw at Wendy Davis? Remember her? She filibustered in support of abortion and became a celebrity. No other accomplishments, just talked about abortion, and that was enough to make her a progressive celebrity. They threw money and media fawning at her like a rapper who just went platinum at a strip club with a money gun, making it rain. She ran for governor….and she lost, badly. Then she ran for Congress and lost that, too.

 

What about Beto? How much money did they throw at the failed presidential candidate – perfect Butthead impersonator – when he ran for the Senate? How’d what work out again?

Now, they have a guy named James Talarico, a state representative, on whom they’re pinning their hopes for a Senate victory because he’s “religious.” Yes, it really is that pathetic.

You may ask yourself how Democrats could embrace someone who is a “Christian” because of their contempt for faith and anyone who has it. Well, it’s fake. Not Talarico’s faith, I have no idea if he really believes what he says or not, nor do I care, but the embrace of the idea is what is fake.

In an appearance on MSNBC (where he appears to have set up shop as they try to prop up another left-wing phony), you can see left-wing media personality Nicolle Wallace choke back the vomit as she asks him about “this moment in our politics.” Talarico starts off with, “You know that, in addition to being a lawmaker, I’m also a seminarian…” because believers always preface everything with a reminder of what they are, obviously. (Never trust anyone who insists they are something – funny, smart, honest, etc. – if they really are, people don’t need to be told, we will notice.)

This bowl-cut fake then says, “If you read the New Testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.” Does this mean James is leaving politics and going to medical school? Nope. It means he wants to force everyone to pay for the health care of the uninsured – good ole socialized medicine. Democrats are now trying to wrap their politics in Christianity in the hope that A) it fools people into thinking the party of child genital mutilation and abortion is Christian, and B) to try to provide a “moral” cover for their horrible, failed ideas.

Tell me you don’t understand normal people without telling me you don’t have a freaking clue how normal people think.

This is not only the entire premise of how Democrats are functioning these days, it is the programming guidance for MSNBC.

Honestly, these people have no clue how people who are not in 100 percent agreement with them think or what we want.

Personally, I think Texas is safe. This year’s model of “the chosen one” to flip it blue has all the charm of a weirdo with kids chained to a radiator in his basement. In addition to that, they still have no idea how Christians, conservatives, or Christian conservatives think or what they want. As long as they treat talking with or trying to represent normal people like a trip to the zoo, they will continue to lose. That is a beautiful thing.”

My response: When one enters a conversation with all the answers, then one does not hear what others say or want, and thus is clueless to who they are, what they are saying, what they need, and how they are responding.

Bauer Knows

 

I read Townhall.com online daily and if I read an editorial I like, I will copy, paste and then respond to it. Here is the full article by Alan Bauer about how elitists are cut off from the masses, what the masses want and need, and elites often have not a clue how their draconian public policy decisions are upon the common people, not sheltered from reality like the pampered elites.

 

Bauer: “Gilded Bubbles

 

Alan Joseph Bauer | Oct 05, 2025

Many of those in the public eye have opinions that have no impact on their personal lives.

How holy is Yom Kippur? The secular state of Israel, that allows the sale of non-kosher food and the desecration of the Sabbath by public buses, closes the international Ben Gurion Airport for 24 hours. So, when Goblin Greta and her crew approached Israel, the country had to employ hundreds of navy and police personnel on Yom Kippur to impound the boats and arrest the losers. The boats were searched and there was no humanitarian aid of any kind present. So what were they thinking? They probably wanted a violent confrontation with Israel—with casualties—to strengthen their activist resumes. The next best option would have been to glide into Gaza and prove that they can beat the evil IDF’s totally legal blockade. In the end, they received the worst outcome possible. After they threw their phones overboard, they were quietly arrested and taken to Israel. These people have no skin in the game, so it really is just playtime for them. They don’t care about Gazans or Israelis. They just want to live out their fantasies of being important and pretending to help the downtrodden—with empty boats.”

 

My response: Leftists ideologues interfering with Israeli lives, when the latter actually have skin in the game.

B: “Dealing with another fraud, J.K. Rowling continues to hold her ground on a subject that 30 years ago would have been considered a farce: trans mania that claims that people can change their “gender” like socks. Biologically, genetically, and factually there are two sexes, determined by one’s genetic makeup. Sure, there are some unusual cases, and the word “androgynous” actually appears in the rabbinic literature of nearly 2,000 years ago. But for the vast majority, one is born a boy or girl, and no, doctors really don’t have a very hard time determining this fact immediately after birth. But with a bored generation with no religion and filled with self-loathing, the thing to do is change gender and take all of the girls’ trophies.”

 

My response: Bauer states it so well, a bored generation of affluent frauds constructing a social justice warrior cause, because they have no real, worthy cause to serve or defend.

 

B; “Rowling has been a lion in fighting those who believe in destroying women’s lives and spaces. She has faced death threats and enormous hatred, but she continues to soldier on.

In replying to Harmione, Emma Watson, she made many extraordinary statements. None was more potent than her comment that she, Rowling, was not a multimillionaire at age 14—thus implying that the Harry Potter witch was. She then went on to describe the destructive effects of Watson’s support for “trans” on real women, like those who share prisons or shelters with fake women. I loathe Watson as she never said a word after so many Israeli women were raped and killed, this despite her official position as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. She was perfectly positioned to speak out against violence and terror against women. But she said nothing—the victims were Israelis, and obviously they don’t count. There is no room on her narcissistic broom for anybody else.

The point that Rowling made about Watson could be extended to many other people in the public domain. Many a fine actor with armed security like Matt Damon has waxed philosophically on the need to get rid of guns. People like Mark Zuckerberg who would never see an illegal alien beyond a waiter in a restaurant can demand an open border. Their children will never have poor illegal students holding their classes back. They will never have squatters in their neighborhoods, with increases in crime and disorder. The Davos crowd can fly private and demand that normal Americans give up their pickups, barbecues and air conditioners. Many of those who pushed Covid restrictions were photographed without masks, at restaurants, or in large crowds. Like Hermione, they can demand of others that which has no impact on their own lives but can destroy the lives of those “others.”

“Gun control” is generally the process of removing weapons from law-abiding citizens and thus making them more vulnerable to the bad guys who can always get guns. The funny thing about the Hollywood clowns is not only that they employ gorillas with concealed weapons, but many of them, like Damon, star in movies that have lots of bullets flying around the screen. Disarming responsible citizens does not reduce crime. Unfettered immigration does not make for a more perfect union. Those in border towns or even cities like Chicago and New York City where illegals were shipped suffer from the inability to absorb so many people. The Big Apple, the largest city in the U.S., could not withstand the requirements of 30,000 illegal immigrants gifted by Texas’s governor. They needed to find housing for these folks, provide them food, medical and an allowance. The numbers are in the billions and the city commandeered several valuable properties to put up people who had no right to be in the country.

This phenomenon of supporting positions that have no impact on one’s life but are completely destructive to others is nothing new. We have seen hypocrisy for ages, but the point of Rowling saying that Watson was so ignorant that she doesn't even know how ignorant she is is a poignant description of many in Hollywood, sports, and online who try to leverage their fame for some social importance. They support Hamas, though they would not want their children burned in front of them. They demand the end of oil while they arrive at protests in SUVs and fly throughout the world in carbon-dioxide spitting private planes. They can hold any position they like, but let’s demand that they also be subject to the outcome of their views. If Watson wants to spend some time in jail with a guy who goes by Sally, then maybe she could use the experience to reevaluate her views on trans and women’s spaces. Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago at least lived in the Cabrini Green housing project to show others that she would share some of their pain. Sure, it was a gimmick, but at least she tried to show that she cares about their suffering. One of Donald Trump's greatest strengths is that he understands the lives of normal Americans, even though he grew up and lives in the highest economic stratum.”

 

My response: Hypocritical, feigning elitists demand sacrifice, deprivation, and loss for the masses, while indulging themselves. I am a commoner and a populist, I do not want elites running the country anymore, nor bossing around the masses, legislating how they are allowed to live.

 

Let the masses run America, and they will find eventually the right answers, doing course corrections.

Bauer: “J.K. Rowling hit the nail on the head when she called out Emma Watson for her support on trans. Watson thinks that she is being merciful and supportive of people who try to change their gender. Rowling knows the real wages of such efforts, including the sterilization of young children and the destruction of women’s spaces. If one bought into Watson’s worldview, there would be no place left for women. Some guys would take their prizes, positions and honors. We have already seen men pretending to be women getting prestigious honors or taking women’s places on sports teams. When I was at Harvard, I found it funny that Radcliffe still had programs, grants, and seminars only for women. If I was there today, I could just put on a wig, call myself Ellen, and get in on the plunder.

Harvard is full of Hermiones and has just brought in a new Indian professor who goes by the name of LaWhore Vagistan. It is amazing that in the 1950s if anyone asked about trans he would have given a Rowling answer from every direction. Today, the best and brightest have become the demented and the degenerate.”

 

My response: Today the best and the brightest have become demented and degenerate. And they are rotten, foolish, stupid, and cruel, all while virtual signaling each other that they are morally and intellectually superior to the masses.

 

How can the best and the brightest reduce themselves to being stupid, cruel, demented and degenerate.

Well, I rely on Eric Hoffer. Ideology and true believership make people stupid, cruel, demented and degenerate, and these Leftists serve their secular religion, cultural Marxism. It all fits.

 

 Bauer: “No, there is no trans. Instead, there are very famous frauds who use their fame to peddle ridiculous ideas which have no impact on their lives, but can destroy the lives of others about whom they simply do not care.”

My response: Only as anarchist individuating supercitizens can the masses run things well and keep elite monsters at bay. It is time for the sleeping giant, the masses to wake up, and know real wokeness.