PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash

<p>The basis of Marxism is egalitarianism. Karl Marx offered some technical ideas on how to achieve that goal, but Marx wasn't a philosopher, he relied on past philosophers, specifically the Bible; for example:</p> <p> </p> <p>Proverbs 11:24 There is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.</p> <p>Acts 2:44-45 All the believer...

<p>Communism has a bad name, rightfully so, and it's credo, “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need,” elicits an unthinking knee-jerk reaction from liberty-loving Americans, but the sentiment is not really so clear cut. In reality, the first part of the sentence, “from each according to their ability” doesn't actually conflict with liberty. It's simply the Will...

<p>No phrase has been uttered more often to excuse the most heinous of crimes than, “for the greater good.” It works as excellent cover because good is subjective, so everyone imagines their own good, and they want more of it. It entered the lexicon from philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the early 19<sup>th</sup> Century as part of his ideology of Utilitarianism, and has been propaga...

<p>Let's review the concepts that keep a society running:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Political aptitude tests are fun to take but are little more than entertainment.</p> </li> <li> <p>Politics was the intention to rise above tribal values, but it has failed.</p> </li> <li> <p>People know their place and are satisfied with it.</...

<p>Society is only achieved through the use or threat of force. People don't protect you because they like you; they protect you because society has carefully allocated force: some of us are armed to make sure nobody steals from you or extorts you, and keeps the area around your home & business safe. Unfortunately, many people take society, and the safety it provides, for granted, and do...

<p>For some reason, anarchy appeals to a lot of people, mostly the young who imagine themselves climbing to top of the chaotic heap because they're bold, strong, and have nothing to lose. Both extremes of Libertarians and Egalitarians think anarchy, combined with either radical individualism for the former or radical communitarianism for the latter, will somehow work; all they have to do is...

<p>Extreme partisanship in a split congress, one with endless phony investigations, where a president is impeached for purely political reasons, and biased news is nothing but a relentless drumbeat of negativity, has devolved into a farce of a government. Starting with Obama; if he was to have any hope of leading the country, since he couldn’t get any of his legislative agenda passed, he res...

<p>Voting attracts those who want power for themselves, but even more would rather the world devolve to their level. Many people are bitter, resentful, envious & perverse, and there's a lot of them. They will work against the established status quo just for the sense of satisfaction it brings them to tear it down. Combined with those who prefer authoritarianism, especially the kind that...

<p>Compromise seems like a promising solution to deadlocked political confrontation but in practice, not so much. What kind of compromises are good compromises? Supposedly, they're the ones where everybody loses and everybody wins; sounds deep but what does that mean? Can compromise be measured? Can one side compromise more than the other? The King Solomon solution of cutting the baby in hal...

<p>Right & wrong, as determined by The Law, are the only morals we uniformly accept; anything further is up to the individual. Morals are also subject to democracy so what was moral for one generation can be immoral to another; and morals differ in different societies. However, many people insist that morals are universal; specifically, their morals; that’s called Western moral arrogance...

<p>American ideals were mostly a myth but they motivated people and gave them hope, both short and long term, but now those ideals seem antiquated & anachronistic. Example: liberty to make choices for yourself and to reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of your own actions, is what The Constitution is based on. Another example is guns; that’s an American ideal literally guaranteed...

<p>Society in America has once again reached aristocracy levels, as it did at its founding, and again in the late 19<sup>th</sup> Century, but there's a lot more people, a lot more money, and a lot more anger involved now. Athletes, entertainers & politicians are the top of the class heap, followed by random famous people, then The Rich, but everyone’s a peon below that. The...

<p>We don't all have the same values, customs & traditions, so these are the things that define our tribe. Tribalism has its own news, its own entertainment, its own markets, and certainly its own politics. Members only do business and provide opportunities to people of their tribe. The most important value, custom & tradition is to think whatever your tribe thinks, no matter what th...

<p>There is a very famous political test that purports to determine your ideology from answering a list of questions. The reason the test has such wide appeal is that it's a simple box of four colored quadrants, and though it's difficult to understand, it's easy to comprehend. The quadrants are Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism & Libertarianism. Liberalism is progressives, the SJW type...

<p>Let's review why there's so much voting going on:</p> <ol> <li> <p>The best definition of Left, Right & Center wound be on a liberty axis.</p> </li> <li> <p>JFK Democrats have no place to go but nobody cares because there aren't enough of them left.</p> </li> <li> <p>#walkaway is what happens when your Party's ide...

<p>People have hardly any participation in government other than to vote for someone they don't know, and have no control over if they aren't part of the Special Interests that got the candidate elected. Initiatives are an astounding opportunity to have a say. Some States offer the idea of an initiative, a citizen-sponsored law, rather than using elected representatives. Mostly, Initiatives...

<p>For anyone who's ever voted, trying to decide on a candidate is impossible given the limited information; that's why attractive candidates have the edge; but how can an ugly candidate get elected? Many adopt the tactic of being identified with a single issue, like Pro Life. This is often a successful strategy because no matter what else another candidate may propose, no matter how qualifi...

<p>The whole idea of democracy is predicated on a majority of people using their best judgment to decide a subjective issue, but the reality is, at the individual level, voting is far from an exercise in good judgment, logic & sound thinking; the simple fact is, most people don't have enough information or experience to vote on most things, even with the 1-paragraph blurb in a Voter's Pa...

<p>Because Egalitarianism, the equality crowd, hasn't yet taken over America, people are still forced to recognize that all men may be born equal but we doesn't force them to stay that way; meaning the only thing that is equal is your vote, and in a Republic, even that isn't equal. This is why egalitarians have turned democracy into a fetish, because they obtain all of their power from the f...

<p>Invariably, whenever the word “democracy” is used to describe America, someone responds with the word “republic” as a kind of rebuke, as in: America isn't a democracy, it's a republic; though practically speaking, a republic is just geography-based democracy. Unfortunately, due to poor education, a lot of people are under the mistaken belief that America is supposed to be a popular democr...

<p>The place where the biggest impact money can make on government is lobbying; the strategy of cajoling and essentially bribing legislators to vote a particular way that has little or nothing to do with voter's interests, except perhaps negatively. Lobbyists aren't needed for issues that are obviously good for voters, so if outside influence is needed, that's how you can tell if it's lobbyi...

<p>The claim of election interference is muddled because it seems to apply to what elections are: Special Interest groups trying to get their candidate into office. The distinction that it's only interference if foreigners do it is belied by the many international interests, like Climate Alarmists, Globalists & SJWs, who certainly make their preferences known in American elections. Yet t...

<p>There are some strange hyphenated political ideologies people claim to be; for example, a Libertarian-Socialist is the ultimate oxymoron since it combines the two extremes of the Left-Right political spectrum; where radical individualism and radical authoritarianism meet together in a circle. Such a label is rhetorical gibberish, and nothing more than extreme selfishness; people who want...

<p>As the Democrat party radicalizes more and more towards egalitarianism, authoritarianism, even Communism; the people left behind are one-by-one recognizing they no longer fit into the ideology; but it's difficult to leave what is essentially a religion, so spontaneously, a support group popped up called #walkaway, where people post videos of themselves explaining their reasons for leaving...

<p>Democrats and Republicans were not always so partisan as they are now. Through a fluke of history, the Civil War, many were “Blue Dog” Democrats, primarily from the South, who had a lot in common with Republicans, but they were racists, and Republicans freed the slaves, so these legislators became Democrats out of perversity. When there’s a block of people who think like you but they’re o...