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Why Democrats are Planning Hearings, Impeachments, Etc.
The mainstream media are announcing that Democrats plan lots of hearings, investigations, and impeachments of Trump and his administration in the months to come.
This is not new. President Roosevelt invented the game for modern players in 1933, when he went after Harding and Coolidge and Hoover’s Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Amity Shlaes:
Roosevelt relished lawfare and often chose tax court as his battlefield… The president sent others to jail over taxes — the publisher Moses Annenberg is an example — but concentrated most of his firepower on Mellon.
Well, Mellon was a banker, a “malefactor of great wealth”, or at least an “economic royalist.” Wikipedia:
Mellon was diagnosed with cancer in November 1936.[113] His health declined in 1937, and he died on August 26, 1937… Months after Mellon’s death, the Board of Tax Appeals handed down a ruling exonerating Mellon of all tax fraud charges.[115]
And now our Democratic friends are planning a veritable orgy of investigations, “to probe alleged self-enrichment, financial conflicts of interest, and business dealings involving President Donald Trump and his family… Elon Musk’s leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)”, and the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
But why? It’s pretty simple, really.
There is no politics without an enemy — Curtis Yarvin.
Politics is the mere continuation of war by other means — my distortion of Clausewitz.
In other words, if you are in politics you are someone that likes to fight the enemy.
Now, it is my belief that Republicans don’t do the investigations and hearings and impeachment thing too much, and I think there are two reasons for this.
Politics is not really a religion for Republicans; we don’t expect politics to change the world. But Democrats have a religious belief that, with the correct politics, they can create a perfect world of peace and justice.
Republicans don’t get the backing of the media echo chamber that Democrats enjoy.
Also, we don’t get any cooperation from The Blob, as Democrats did from Deputy FBI Director Mark Felt in the Nixon investigations, and from all kinds of IC creatures in the Trump Russia investigations.
About religion. Even Google AI in a “comparison of leftist revolution and christian eschatology” agrees that:
Leftist revolutionary theory (specifically classical Marxism and its derivatives) and Christian eschatology share striking structural and psychological parallels, despite their fundamentally different views on the supernatural.
Both frameworks offer a grand historical narrative that moves from an original paradise, through a period of suffering and conflict, to an ultimate, irreversible state of universal justice.
The difference is that the left’s religion is mixed with politics, even though in the US constitution the First Amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…
The reason for the separation of Church and State is that our Founders lived in the aftermath of brutal religious wars, most notably the Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648 in Central Europe.
But the cults and the crazies are always with us, as in this article touching on the Zizians and AntiFa. And the whole lefty culture of protest and activism is really nothing more than a secularized religion devoted to the overthrow of the oppressors. Think of your average peaceful protest as a secular religious service.
The problem for our Democratic friends is that the average American is not a member of their secular church, and they don’t see the need to purge the nation of evil oppressors, except for billionaires and big corporations.
Also, I would say that, back in the 1970s, Americans sorta believed that the attack on Nixon was on the up-and-up. A lot fewer people believe that the attacks on Trump were on the up-and-up.
To be continued, at least for the next two years.
| Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:10:53 GMT |
Imagine a World That Can Fix Mistakes
Back in the day, Andrew Breitbart said that politics is downstream from culture. And I have liked to extend that to say that culture is downstream from religion. Or, in the words of Björn Merker, “Ideology is religion in the guise of politics”. Take your pick.
But now I am reading The Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich in which he says that the unique characteristic of humans is that we learn from other people. Also killer whales and elephants.
For instance, if you eat maize you get pellagra from niacin and tryptophan deficiency. But traditional American cultures fixed this by mixing corn with ash or soaking it in an alkali like limewater. And that frees up the niacin, also known as Vitamin B3.
So, one fine day, someone mixed corn with ash and the pellagra went away. And other people copied him/her.
Henrich calls this “social learning.” Notice that you don’t need to know the biology or know your Vitamin B3. You just have to copy what works. And if you don’t copy what works, you get sick and maybe you die.
Here’s something else. Grandparents. Most animals die off soon after they get too old to have babies. But humans live another generation longer. Why? Because grandparents have life knowledge that is beneficial to the young’uns if they are willing to listen.
Now I believe that our big problem right now is that we are ruled by a ruling class that has short-circuiting this “what works” culture. I say that almost everything our rulers push on us Makes Things Worse, from government pensions and healthcare and education to feminism and no-fault divorce and abortion.
I am not taking a moral position on all that. But I believe that morality and “the way we do things” are a short-circuit way of transmitting cultural behaviors that work and avoiding things that don’t work.
I believe that our big problem today is that our political system has no way of correcting mistakes. I believe this is because war and politics are interchangeable, and if the leader of an army makes a mistake and is defeated then, at the very lest, he is outta here. Same for politicians. The defeat may result in “regime change,” and that usually involves a butcher’s bill.
Of course, the astonishing thing about modern humans is that we don’t only learn from copying another person, or just doing things “the way we always do it.” We have science and religion and culture where such things are understood not at an instinctive level but at a conscious level.
And even more astonishing is the market economy and its prices that coordinate the behavior of millions — billions? — of humans. And we just stumbled into it.
And the even more astonishing thing is that the market economy and its prices enable humans to fix mistakes without getting sick or dying. You don’t like the price at the grocery store? Go somewhere else. You don’t like your job? Quit and go find another job. Your business is failing? Declare bankruptcy and start over.
But with, say, Medicare for All, you don’t get to influence the health care system with your actions. Because everything is decided by politicians and administrators and politicians and administrators can never admit a mistake.
I think we see this “never admit a mistake” problem at work in Western Europe where the elite cannot admit that its vast social welfare programs and regulated economy and free-speech control has failed. But the leaders know this: that the “far right” must never be allowed to get into power.
You will notice that, Before the Dawn, harmful behavior — such as eating corn without ash or limewater — just killed people off with pellagra. In the present we have oceans of knowledge, partly from science, partly from religion and culture, and it is all at our fingertips with writing and books and media and the internet.
Except that in the present we have a political culture that imposes its will on the rest of society and has no mechanism — not even a “way we do things” — for identifying and correcting mistakes.
But that is what we need. We need to adapt our society away from the Dictatorship of Politics to something closer to the market culture in which good ideas flourish and bad ideas just melt away.
It needs to take care of the poor, but not with the current system where the government fails the poor at every turn from education to housing to SNAP cards.
Any ideas, sports fans?
| Mon, 09 Nov 2026 23:27:32 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
He runs usgovernmentspending.com, the go-to resource for government finance data, and is a frequent contributor to the American Thinker. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Click for more.
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
If you bend the arc of history, you do not get justice, but injustice.
Politics for men: I will fight for you! Politics for women: I will protect you!
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: Analysis of Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation
