Dolly Parton

 

Today on Facebook (9-7-26), I saw a posting about Dolly Parton that she knew even as a child that Jesus loved her and that through God all things are possible.

Jesus does love all humans, and this fine woman just knew it by intuition, and yes through God all things are possible. Miracles occur all the time, though what we pray for is never guaranteed to come about as we demand, for that is magic (coercing supernatural outcomes which we dictate). If God wills that our prayers will be answered as we wish and expect, it can occur, no guarantees ever, though.

I Believe I Was right

 

I have been warning the public for about five years that woke Leftists/Democrats/Progressives were the political expression of a deeper, older, more sinister and revolutionary ideology, Marxist Postmodernism. Below I will copy and paste an article from 9/7/26 Townhall.com, which I believes proves I was right. If one studies cultural Marxism as a mass movement on the march in America in 2026 it explains why Democrats think, choose and act as they do.

This article today is written by Rachel Alexander, and is called How The Left Turned Into A Cult. She refers to it as a cult, which is nearly equivalent or synonymous with my identifying Leftism as an ideological mass movement.

Here is Rachel (R after this): “Years ago, no one would have imagined the Democrats weakening laws against child molesters, promoting men to compete against women in biological sports and putting conservatives behind bars for their political views. Now they blindly accept it, with their only defense turning the debate around and bashing President Donald Trump (TDS).”

My response: These true believers no longer hide their fanaticism, and are proud of themselves.

R: “Cults are defined as top-down, with high control, us-versus-them thinking, and punishment of doubt. Democrats who disagree are considered heretics and purged from the party. A classic example is the ostracism of Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). Because he opposed the Democrat Party on some issues, he is now shunned and has almost been pushed out of the party. A poll from Quinnipiac found that most Pennsylvania Democrats want him out. He is not up for reelection until 2028, but three Democratic members of Congress — Brendan Boyle, Chris Deluzio, Summer Lee — and others are already floated as challengers.

Even though Fetterman votes with Democrats 88 percent of the time, that’s not enough because they are policing beliefs, not votes.  

How did they get to this stage? It’s like heating up a frog slowly in water; it happened so gradually Democrats didn’t realize it. With the mainstream media covering for them every step of the way (only 3.7 percent of journalists are Republicans), Democrats saw only positive spin, which ignored how crazy their party was becoming. 

Consequently, there is very little division within the Democrat Party, unlike the Republican Party. They cleverly line up candidates for races that rarely have viable primary opponents, unlike Republicans who think individually and don’t tell each other what to do. So the Republicans end up wasting massive amounts of money against each other during the primaries, leaving them with less money for the general election opposing Democrats.”

My response: She describes the behaviors of ideological-cultural true believers eloquently with examples. Notice how she praises Republicans for thinking individually and not telling each other what to do. That is generally true, but there are RNOS who need to grow a pair and hang tight with a program that conservatives agree to unite on and back to hold back the Democrats who are utterly united and speak with one voice, one mind.

R: “The Democratic Socialists are taking over the party, increasing the authoritarian tilt. Avowed communists are running for office and winning. A hispanic gay Democrat friend of mine told me he is unwelcome at Democrat events in Arizona because he is perceived as too moderate; he doesn’t use the jargon of the Democratic Socialists, adopting stylistic lingo like talking with a barrio accent. Several far-left Democrats attempting to win offices in the Arizona Legislature this year ran on a platform of “No Safe Seats,” primarying moderate Democrats. 

The left now conducts violent riots everywhere, especially on college campuses, inner cities and ICE facilities. They celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They want violent criminals released from prison, including illegal aliens.  

The Democrat elite culture enforces their package of “sacred silence” — systemic racism, “gender-affirming” care as settled, “climate change” as a moral emergency that ends tradeoffs, Jan. 6 as the only serious threat to the republic — that is non-negotiable. Data that cuts the other way, such as crime spikes, the dangers of medical-transition evidence, pandemic school-closure costs, and the atrocities of illegal immigration, is not weighed; it is labeled as bigotry or “misinformation.”

Like cults, they use loaded language and exclude anyone who diverges from this Orwellian groupthink. They have changed the language to force their viewpoints into it: Latinx, “birthing persons,” “equity” (not equality), “undocumented,” “gender-affirming,” and “mostly peaceful” are now common. This is how cults shrink thought, because if you cannot say “woman,” you cannot argue about women’s sports.”

My response: With their loaded language enforced on all members, they guarantee totally internal conformity and unity. The free will and independent thinking and strong personality of each of these submitting, enthusiastic true believers have vanished and these empty souls, these breathing flesh-and-blood ghouls are a formidable monster speaking with one voice.

R: “Similar to Maoist “struggle sessions,” Democrats demand public apologies for old jokes or votes, known as “ritual confessions.” The point is not truth; it is submission.

They control who you may read and talk to, through big tech blocking and shadowbanning conservative points of view (thank goodness Elon Musk bought Twitter, so there is now one big tech platform that doesn’t ensure one monolithic political view).

Manichean cosmology justifies using radical language to discredit the opposing side. To Democrats, Republicans are considered evil and illegitimate, fascists, a “threat to democracy” and racists by structure.

The end justifies the means to today’s Democrats. They pressure big tech and large corporations, treat courts as illegitimate when they lose and utilized COVID-19 emergency powers that outlasted the era.

They sit around in secret meetings plotting how to take Republicans down with lawfare, concocting legal schemes that don’t follow the law — but by judge-shopping, they can ensure sympathetic rulings. They pretend the targeted Republicans are being prosecuted for odd violations of the law, not their politics, in order to fool the public. The mainstream media dutifully reports this spin.

The few Democrats who have left the party now understand that they were in a cult. Some became red-pilled due to COVID-19; the lockdowns and vaccine mandates opened their eyes. I’ll never forget the huge number of nurses who started following me on X during COVID. Fetterman says his values did not change; the party did.

This should come as no surprise since Democrats are the party of groups — minorities, LGBTQ, unions, etc. — whereas Republicans are the party of individual rights. Republicans value free thought and debate. Democrats treat everyone collectively, with their special interest groups making the decisions for all. “

My response: Rachel writes that the Democrats are the party of groups whereas Republicans are the party of individual rights. They are a mass movement, and there are no individuals inside their cult, and their cause is run by the elite with totalitarian clout.

R: “Democrats used to claim to be the party of free thinking years ago. The ACLU was formed to protect fringe viewpoints. But all of that has disappeared, and the left doesn’t even use that type of language anymore. The ACLU only defends fringe left-wing views now, with rare, minor exceptions. Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz was the epitome of the old-style classical liberal. He’s since seen the light and left the Democrat Party. 

How far will it go? The left now openly acknowledges they want to destroy the country and tear it all down to be rebuilt from scratch. Darializa Avila Chevalier, who won her Democrat primary and now faces a Nov. 3, 2026 general election for New York’s 13th congressional district, is co-founder of a group that called for “nothing short of the total collapse” of the “American empire,” with the goal to “eradicate America” and “Western civilization.”  

This is how communists come into power: total allegiance to the cult, with any dissent swiftly and brutally punished. It will be terrifying to see how far they get.”

My response: God bless and save America, the greatest country in the world. If the Democrats destroy America as they fervently plan to do if they can get enough power and control to complete their Communist revolution here, then humanity might go down too. It seems as if an evil spirit is controlling the Progressives now.

 

A New Definition

 

Here is a new or latests definition of moderation which I offer the reader, though it need not contradict or negate any previous definition.

There is an old saw the perfect is the enemy of good, and that is a definition of moderation or is quite tautological as to its meaning.

We never want to strive for perfection because that it is godly gift or status, and it might even be blasphemous to strive to be perfect, to rival or compete with, let alone match or surpass the benevolent deities.

Nonetheless, the good deities and the Good Spirits want all of us to self-realize or constantly self-perfect every day until we die. We are self-perfecting when we do our divinely designated job and self-perfect, both God and each us knowing full well that aiming for or attaining perfection is never the goal for a human being of limited talent, mortal and finite. Seeking self-improvement will be a level of excellent performance that will suffice for us mere mortals. That we can do and do well if we will to so live and stay at it.

Still, we should avoid being nothing, or destroying and spreading chaos, poverty, hatred and unnecessary suffering in the world, never seeking or spreading imperfection in the world.

We should seek to make ourselves, others and the world better, and a life of heroic self-improvement is just the ticket: it is a high standard, but not an unreasonably high standard, and it is a moderate goal, a moderated level of achievement for any individuator.

Hoffer's Working And Thinking On The Waterfront, Pages 19-24

 

I am typing out and commenting on Eric Hoffer’s journal, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, June, 1958-Nay, 1959, Pages 19-24’ Here it is:

Hoffer (H after this): “July 3

Worked the same ship the same place. A cold gale is just now blowing outside and the world is lost in a fog.

More talk with the Slavonians. As I said, they are extremely competent people. I found that most of them built their own houses, have small vegetable gardens, and each has a well-appointed workshop in the basement. I cannot see how people of their kind back in the Old Country need a totalitarian government to tell them what to do.”

My response: Amen.

H: “Even the most perfect central planning could not achieve anything approaching what these people manage to do on their own.

Returning to talk of the Old Country, I remarked that there is nothing to prevent them from getting together and re-creating somewhere in California a replica of the village they came from. They are all of them well off, and it should not be impossible to obtain the required financing from a bank or even a government agency. One of them said: ‘It can’t be done. The air here is not clear. Even in the mountains there is gas and smoke. In the Old Country the air is sweet.

July 6

Nine hours of the Chilean ship Almagro in Encinal. Quite a number of people on the Chile ship look like intellectuals. I don’t think they are passengers. In several Latin-American countries the intellectuals go not only into teaching and civil service but also into the army. This is probably one reason why army officers are meddling in government. It could be that a lack of employment prompted some intellectuals to become sailors on merchant ships.

I am reading An American in India by Saunders Redding. The author is a Negro American sent by the State Department to India. It is a perplexing and depressing book. A sick man writing about sick people. When facing the most preposterous questions and defamatory insinuations, he remains speechless. He tells us that he identifies himself with America, yet here is a man of words without words. The whole performance leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I suspect that for an American audience this is probably the most anti-Indian book they could read.

July 7

Same ship, same place. Six hours. In the morning I took the key-system bus to Encinal. As I walked down the several blocks from the bus stop to the docks I was impressed by the gardens in front of the houses. The houses, of average size, are fairly old, yet in excellent shape. The people living here are mostly workingmen. The sight of the gardens and houses turned my mind to the question of maintenance. It is the capacity for maintenance which is the best test for the vigor and stamina of a society.”

My response: Hoffer the genius and truth-finder is especially prescient in predicting that a people that take care of their houses and gardens might well represent a society of vigorous citizens with stamina and staying power. Maintenance is a Western habit or skill, and somehow it is intertwined with individualism, moral moderation, self-discipline and industriousness, perhaps even fostering creativity, as well as complementing the creative urge.

H: “Any society can be galvanized for awhile to build something, but the will and skill to keep things in good repair day in, day out is fairly rare. At present, neither in the Communist countries nor in the newly created nations is there a pronounced capacity for maintenance. I wonder how true it is that after the Second World War the countries with the best maintenance were the first to recover. I am thinking of Holland, Belgium, and Western Germany. I don’t know how it is in Japan. The Incas had an intense awareness of maintenance. They assigned whole villages and tribes to keep roads, bridges and buildings in good repair. I read somewhere that in ancient Rome a man was disqualified as a candidate for office because his garden showed neglect.”

My response: What is precious and refreshing about Hoffer is he highlights was is vitally important, a concept like maintenance as a prime moral value.

H: “Saunder Redding’s book os worth reading for its detailed recording of the talk of the Indian intellectuals both young and old. He reproduces minutely their arguments, rudeness, sarcasm, and self-righteousness. Since he seldom essayed a rebuttal his recording comes out sharp and forceful.”

My response: Hoffer is mad at Redding for failing to defend America, the America Hoffer loved and was proud of.

H: “July 8

Finished the job on the Chilean ship Almagro at Pier 19. Ten hours. The work was easy but I felt quite weary at the end of the day. My weariness generates in me bad temper, but this shows itself only when I return to my room. After a glass of hot tea and some fruit, and particularly after writing a few lines, the irritation fades more or less.

Saunder Redding’s book is a fascinating puzzle. His tongue-tiedness in the face of the crudest slanders and insults might be merely a continuation of the technique he perfected in the face of slights and insults in his own America. I doubt whether the ability to identify oneself with America is proportionate to one’s acceptance by fellow Americans. There is an intense patriotism among the rejected—inmates of prisons, and migratory workers living on the edge of subsistence.”

My response: It occurred to me that if it is true that the rejected might exhibit an intense patriotism, but their motive would be to demonstrate to the in-crowd slighting and debasing them, that they, the rejected are still loyal, intensely patriotic, longing to fit in and belong.

H: “The question is whether a Negro intellectual can feel himself truly and wholly an American. I don’t know. The Negroes I know can be fiercely American. I once heard a Negro longshoreman, while observing a Hindu crew on a British ship, pour forth his scorn on the way poor people are treated in the cold world outside America.

As I said that fact that Redding rarely hit back or even argued enabled him to record faithfully all that the Indian intellectuals threw at him, and by doing so he has produced the most anti-Indian book I know of.”

My response: Notice how Hoffer emphasizes the hypocrisy and double-standards evinced by the Hindu intellectuals so sneeringly anti-American, feeling so superior—all the while the Hindu crew of sailors were mistreated aboard their ship by their British masters.

H: “July 9

I had several good hours with Lili and the boy. He is growing up fast and becoming reasonable. He ate a frozen boysenberry tart which he greatly enjoyed. For the first time I saw him attack food methodically—eating first the loose berries on the plate and, after cleaning them up, tackling the tart. I savor being with him the way I savor food and drink. Lili is still herself and nothing can go wrong. Everything we do is adequate, everything we say meaningful, everything we see memorable,

July 10

There is something in the air. You come to expect America to fail whether it be in the launching of a satellite, the exhibition of the Brussels Fair, the interventions in the Near East, the revival of the slumping economy. We are not in the van, and we are not going anywhere in a hurry. To those in the van much is forgiven, their blemishes and shortcomings are temporary, since they are growing and rushing into the future. But to those that are not going anywhere, the present (made up of vulgarity, senseless haste, juvenility, dishonesty) is all there is. You are aware all of a sudden that the country is in dire need of an exceptional leader. The need is an unhealthy symptom.”

My response: Hoffer never believed in the need for an exceptional leader, nor did I, having arrived at this same conclusion on my own, I rather see as exceptional common people, most or all individuators.

H: “July 12

Pier 38. One o’clock start. The five-hour shift (1-6)passed without the least strain. Reading Ivan Bunin’s little book Memories and Portraits reinforced my conviction that life with writers, artists, and intellectuals in general is most likely charged with envy and malice. It could be that the air thus charged stimulates the creative flow. Yet what a strained and miserable life it would be.”

My response: My interpretation of the small Hofferian paragraph above is that if intellectuals run in a pack, their originality and creativity will be stymied or less than it could otherwise be. Rudeness, vicious competing, ugly struggling for rank and prestige, backed by and riddled with malice, envy and ill-will. My conclusion is that such vying, miserable, vicious, second-rate intellectuals and artists (2nd rate not because they have gone as far as they can go but because they choose to quit growing and developing as intellectuals and artists, settling for running in a pack because they are joiners and nonindiviudators with little self-esteem; they are so rude to each others because they have been so internally self-discourteous first and foremostly.

It seems to me that Hoffer is highlighting that the creative, the intellectuals, the elites, at least as classically defined are more cliquish, mean and cruel on average to even each other than they are to the masses whom they live off of, direct and rule.

Hoffer also believes the masses, especially burghers and blue collars workers in the prosperous, free, decent, happy America which he knew was populated by the masses who were not so vicious, sniping, quarreling and my clique versus your cliquish intellectuals in the ruling class.

I agree but wish to emphasize that their ideology and their hyper-collectivism robs them of all self-esteem, any residual sense of decency and kindness, thus they can and will do whatever to others and themselves and each other. Their is nothing wrong with heir intellects though they are ideologically lazy and generally not very intellectual curious and ambitious by choice. Their power of powerlessness power mode makes them cruel. Their high rank corrupts them some, but I believe their hyper-collectivism as mobists, and their ideology are what truly make them malevolent, oppressive, violent and dangerous for the whole society: their lifestyle and policies are not models to be followed.

H: “July 14

Finished the job at Pier 38. Nine hours. Though the same work and company, I felt less weary this evening than last. The reason: eight hour’s sleep last night and a good hot lunch today. Yesterday (Sunday) all the restaurants were closed and I had two sandwiches and a piece of pie for lunch.

This morning, some item in the paper started me thinking on the cause of British defeatism. Quite a number of people in Britain seem to envisage the defeat of the West and even the occupation of Britain by Soviet troops. I wonder whether this defeatist prognostication is born of a secret wish to see the defeat and decline of the whole West.”

My response: Yes, Westerners, like other peoples and nations in history, become demoralized, defeatist and ready to surrender their hegemony, their superior cultural story and their cultural excellence when they are tired and have lost faith and hope, but these attitudes are largely a matter of choice. Why should the West decline, unless we give in first, thus making it inevitable? Why cannot we allow Mavellonialists and the Good Spirits to build a new West a world cultural of hope, strength, peace, freedom and prosperity, so the American Way becomes the World Way and we Westernize culturally, politically, economically people all over the globe?

H: “The decline of the British Empire seems to be having a more demoralizing effect on British intellectuals (who were supposedly anti-imperialist) than on businessmen. One wonders how much of ‘the unbought grace of life’ of the British intellectual was derived from the fact that British red covered half of the map of the world. They have seen this map from childhood and known the axiom that the British are natural rulers. They wish to see their own decline as part of a general, natural process.”

My response: I don’t deny that Hoffer is right that British intellectuals in the late 1950s were culturally gloomy and defeatist not just because the Empire was winding down, collapsing even. Rather they missed their divine right to rule the Third World..

I think if the individual is self-realizing, that is the best antidote to feeling gloomy, defeatist and despairing. If one self-realizes, loves the self and loves and serves the Good Spirits, there is no room for silly thoughts of despair, cultural suicide, cultural waning and death, Each individuator that takes action refutes that whole sorry worldview.

One Thing (Thought) Might Lead To Another idea

 

I am a follower of Ayn Rand and I like her epistemological and/or metaphysical trichotomy between the subjective, the intrinsic and the objective.

Still, I am not a true believer in subscribing to her views. For example, I am for metaphysical moderation, which allows me to assume that she is mostly right that we are born tabula rasa, but that our innate ideas and the makeup of our human natures strongly color and bend what genetics and environment hand us.

At least five intrinsic ideas which I feel but cannot prove are foundational ontologically in my thinking. First, God exists. Second, we are born more depraved than morally neutral or basically good. Third, the truth about the world is moderate more than extremist, too much or too little, and Rand is absolutist and totalist too much. Fourth, egoist morality is the most benevolent code of morality under which a human can make choices. Fifth, I do agree with Rand that as rational beings with free will, we must choose how to live.

Now, I want to highlight but two of these premises as having helped me reach some original conclusions about the nature of the Father and Mother, major deities and minor deities, all spiritually and morally good.

If moderate morality or moderate truth is the rubric that runs the universe, and God created the world, then God loves moderation more than extremism. Thus when Christians (or any other denominational backers) claim to be the one, true faith, that Jesus is the only way to heaven, and that all unbelievers and other-believers will burn in hell, they verge over into lying and extremism, which are demonic traits, proclamations and practices, alien too and resolutely repudiated by Jesus and all other good deities.

My ethics is rational egoism. If rational egoism is the preferred and promoted morality of all the good deities, then such a moral system informs the believer, or offers him a glimpse into God’s perfect or near perfect nature. If egoism is the divine moral code, then the good deities are egoists more than altruists, loners more than joiners, individuals more than collectivists

It was, over many decades, my latching onto foundational beliefs about moderation being the way to live and detect what is true and what is false, and that egoism is the finest moral standard available, then I somehow concluded that these two ontological realities inform us profoundly and substantively as to the nature and personality of the good deities.

I wish to hasten to reassure altruists, who conclude that egoism is selfishness and that God is pure love and pure self-sacrifice, that the divine egoists are the shepherds that guide their flocks, so the needs of the many and the lowly are provided for, and there is no contradiction inhering here, nor is the paradox of egoistic divinities caring for their flock, a problem at all. It is a pattern to emulate, an opportunity for growth, joy and love, and it is what the good divinities call us to do and live as, as living angels.

Summer Of 69

 

I was driving home alone from the lake on Sunday, 8/31/26, and I was listening to a classical rock station when the song, Summer of 69, cam on, the nostalgic song about love and lost youth, being the best days of the singer’s life. This great pop tune, by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and sung by Adams, got me to thinking.

Are the glory days of high school and one’s late teens and early twenties typically the best day of a young person’s life? Likely so, since the vast majority of adults of any race, any generation, are groupist and nonindividuators.

My take is that, if one would self-realize for a lifetime, then the day before one died would be the best day of one’s life. Just a thought.

Darlene Graham

 

Yesterday, 8/30/26, I was driving back to the Twin Cities from our lake cabin in Hubbard County. I was listening to a weekend roundup with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on a Fox News radio station. I usually do not have a bone to pick with them but what they said about Darlene Graham, dismissing her scornfully as being wholly unfit, unworthy to serve as the new US Senator from South Carolina; their foolish remarks really irked me.

One of them depreciated her worth severely as unworthy to serve as South Carolina’s future US Senator.. They said she knew nothing, and implied she is not very bright, and that smart candidates make the best politicians.

It is true that she is under-informed, but I do not know that she is smart or not. Chuck Schumer likely is quite smart and politically very savvy, but few Senators have done some much to destroy America.

She is loyal to Trump, and that is valuable in a Senator. She should just admit she is an amateur but that she will hire excellent advisors, and that she will grow into the job, which she will if elected. She should reassure the voters disarmingly that her judgment is sound and wise, and that she will be a loyal backbencher for the Trump agenda. That is what she will do if elected, and that is precisely what we need.

Far more important to me than a political expert and being a Washingtonian insider is if she is a principled conservative who will vote as she promised the voters, that she will listen and often obey voter wishes, and that she will vote as she promised as a principled conservative.

There are many wicked but clever politicians who hate and hurt America once elected.