Category Archives: Politics

The Postmodern Party

Republicans are regularly called “stupid” by Democrats, but there is one label that so comprehensively describes and predicts the political behavior of today’s left-dominated Democratic Party that it deserves to be regarded as a meta-label: postmodernist.

Institutionalized, formal postmodernism is almost exclusively centered in higher academia; you will search in vain for an average man on the street who says, “I am a postmodernist.”  However, academic postmodernism has long been reaching out from its lofty eyries via its “educated” acolytes, who have been busy for decades quietly worming their way into American life from top to bottom, including not just politics, but education at all levels, entertainment, journalism, corporations, foundations, even churches — everything that affects you and me.  Postmodernism is much more than a philosophy; it is today’s foundational cultural driver. Continue reading The Postmodern Party

Rules for Republicans

The midterm election of November 2010 almost certainly promises substantial victories for the Republican Party as more and more Americans wise up to the lies and deceptions, the political bullying and disregard for the voting public being perpetrated by the radical left Democrats now in power. The question is not whether Republicans will make major gains, but how large they will they be. Will only the House be snatched from Democrat despotism, or will the Senate fall to a Republican majority as well?

Less certain — maybe much less certain — is whether Republicans will be up to the task once the reins of legislative power are returned to them. It’s easy to harbor a nagging, queasy fear that they could very well blow it.   Continue reading Rules for Republicans