On Democrats and Liberals

The twin fights against communists and against mobsters in unions, especially but not exclusively in the film industry, and in foreign policy and in government service was lead by Liberal Democrats more than by Isolationist Republicans in the 1930s to early 1950s. In the North the losing local fight against urban mobsters was lead by Republicans with the Democratic machines being corrupted. In the South the racist and Isolationist wing of the Democrats remained in control after the GOP had been wiped out after Reconstruction. After WW-II the GOP, which was always anti-racist, became more Internationalist. As the Marxists infiltrated and took over the Democrats many liberals migrated toward Eisenhower's GOP and, having seen the consequences of the corruption brought by big government, became more conservative. That happened with Ronald Reagan and Frank Sinatra and others. The moral and criminal corruption mentioned above also provided openings for organized crime, often based in the same communities the Democrats exploited as voting blocs. That lead to even more corruption of the Democratic Party as an institution in a vicious cycle of debasement.

In New York state there are both a Liberal and a Conservative party in addition to the Democrats and the Republicans. Both the Liberals and the Conservatives openly functioned as consciouses for their larger siblings. The Liberal Party of New York was founded as an explicitly anti-communist party for liberal trade unionists to influence the Democrats.
From the wiki:

The Liberal Party was founded in 1944 by George Counts as an alternative to the American Labor Party, which had been formed earlier as a vehicle for leftists who supported the presidential candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt but were uncomfortable with the Democratic Party. Despite enjoying some successes, the American Labor Party was tarred by the perceived influence of communists in its organization, which led David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Alex Rose of the Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and Ben Davidson to leave in order to found the Liberal Party as an explicitly anti-communist alternative. In the 1944 elections, both the American Labor and Liberal parties supported Roosevelt for President, but by 1948 the two parties diverged, with the Liberals nominating Harry S. Truman and the American Labor Party nominating Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace. Non-Marxist ALP leaders like Dean Alfange helped lead a walkout to the Liberal Party

The party itself sank into corruption and is no longer a meaningful force. Its presence on the New York ballot has been replaced by that of the Working Families Party, which is Marxist front and reincarnation of the New Party and ACORN that Obama associated with.

Garbage In, Garbage Out, NY Mag calls Trump a Liar

Trump has taken political spin to new, infernal levels. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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When Person A announces that they hate B and think that all B Lovers should be destroyed, and then walks up to you with the blood of a B Lover, or the job and college admission of a B Lover's child, dripping from their fingers and then asks "What do you think of B?" it is understandable if the response is "That bum?"

The Left have embarked on a campaign of professional and personal destruction against not only those who actively resist them but against those who fail to publicly submit or fail to celebrate the Left's current position.

At this time the voting booth is almost the last place where people believe that they might have some expectation of privacy in expressing their views. Therefor it is reasonable to expect that many or most people who are not seeking a confrontation will answer a question from an opinion poll to give the response most likely to end the encounter with minimal risk. While we may honor those who resist bullies we must also recognize that most people will reasonably not seek to escalate an encounter phrased not as a direct threat but as an inquiry with a possible threat, possibly from a 3rd party, to follow.

My expectation is that we will see efforts to convince people that their ballot is not secret, not only to feed the Russian Hacking theme, but put out a message that it is safest to submit at the ballot box. Those Who Would Rule look at places where the Beloved Leader gets 99.96% in an election and they feel envy.

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The same government that partners with the crybullies to defame isolate and demonize opponents, and then destroy them through the courts, refuses to use the police and other agents of government to protect the targets from real threats. This is done under the penumbra of the SCOTUS ruling in The Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales which held that the police have no duty to protect. To do so though uses a grant of tactical freedom to the police, whereby they get to assign their resources and react as in their professional judgment is appropriate, to provide a license for participation in an actual conspiracy to deny citizens of their civil rights. For an otherwise honest police officer to argue that he did not respond to a call for help, because to run down that alley without backup would have been tactically unsound or that departmental priorities assigned them to other duties, is not the same as if a police commander said "Screw 'em" when he heard that blacks or Jews or gays or straights were being targeted. The Broward Deputy who failed to respond did not do so because his superiors had ordered him not to citing the SCOTUS ruling. Quite the opposite in fact and he has been charged. Local authorities who abuse their office to enable assaults against the civil rights of any group or individual should be brought to justice.

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The "Chinese Communist Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization hybrid of what the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was"

Why yes, yes it is. Both the CCP and the KMT were founded on Leninist lines with Russian and German advisors. In part they were rivals because they occupied the same space. As in Cuba when Castro evicted Batista the Soviets, and in Cuba the Official Communists, were supporters of the Old Regime until the end, although in China by 1945 Stalin was playing both sides and allowing Mao to seize the Japanese munitions in Manchuria.

Politicians and Bureaucrats believe in kicking cans down the road. Every cop or government clerk knows that if you just listen and wait then 99% of the time the problem in the form of the unhappy person will just go away. Tell a cop that some crazy person is on the street or that some guy is selling solid gold watches for a dollar and the cop will say "You can't make this stuff up" and then the cop will go away. That doesn't mean that when the chips are down they will not act like lions, although the clerk despite their best intentions may not remember how. As Bernard Wolley said, "Minister, it's my job to see the chips stay up."

What we need are politicians, like Trump, who deliberately do not act like bureaucrats. We hire politicians through a political process to represent our values, because the normal logical process of administration needs to be lead. We need a politician or a great business manager to recognize when logic has failed and that some things are worth fighting for. For the Boomers we need a Kirk because Spock can't do the job, and 53 years ago Spock knew that.

200+ years ago the term Civil Servant applied to both elected officeholders and the staff that they supervised in English government ministries. Over time as the British system was developed, and its American variant followed, the idea of an apolitical impartial professional staff took root. In America its acceptance was affirmed late in the 19th century. However in the US that was in fact part of the Progressive Movement and the allegedly apolitical nature of the bureaucrats was always doubtful.

During the last 100 years the appointed civil service has become more ideological while the elected politicians and their temporary appointees have for at least the last 50 years taken to publicly denying their ideological responsibility. They now project themselves as merely overseers of the professional staff whose probity they accept and rely on to solve what are only technical questions. Arguments over conflicting value judgments are referred to the Courts, a nonpolitical body. That is why the Left seeks to preempt arguments by declaring that "The science is settled" and all problems can be resolved by judicial fiat.

We need to restore the Constitutional basis of government whereby the decision as to what the Constitution stands for is a political question for the citizens to decide through their elected officers.

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The condition is not fungible. For reasons that defy the stifling whitecisgendercapitalistlogic meritocracy paradigm some microaggressions are privileged over those directed at people who are preemptively declared priviliged. Those deemed privileged are not privileged to be protected from microaggressions but the speech of those deemed privileged is declared preemptively aggressive and hateful so that it can be declared an aggression by those granted the privilege to declare the speech of others an aggression because those so declaring have already themselves been declared not privileged. Now is that clear?

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When there were only two sexes most people managed to find a partner. It may not have been Mr or Miss Right and there was enough self pity generated to keep bartenders employed but there was remarkably few instances of arsenic in the scrambled eggs. People muddled through. The greater the complexity though the lesser the probability of finding anyone even remotely likely to fit in the narrowly defined box people are being measured for. Over 47% of humanity meet the definition of "Heterosexual Male" and another 47% meet the definition of "Heterosexual Female." Stick your nose out of the door and you are bound to encounter someone that meets the minimum standard. Additional standards will reduce the size of the availability pool. Must they be single? Must they be within certain age limits? Must they, as a college roommate once called out, have "Two eyes and a lung?" Still a qualified candidate is sure to be out there. When you start narrowing the criteria to meet standards that only apply, if they exist in reality at all, to 0.01% of humanity the sad truth is that even with the aid of the internet you are unlikely to find a match. It certainly becomes ineffective to impose costs on the other 99.99% of humanity to aid you in your search. Simple homosexuals are 4-5% of the population. That is large enough to make some reasonable allowances that do not impose excessive costs on the majority.

Why do totalitarians like the obsession with creating multiple narrow categories? Partly it is because they want time and energy wasted since on general principles they want to see our civilization self destruct. Partly it is because the more that people are isolated and frustrated then the easier they are to control. A lonely society is a trustless society. A trustless society lacks civil society and is open to totalitarian control.