Category: Politics
-
Donald Trump’s Nashville Rally Lies and Ignorance about Black People, Republican History, and Voting Rights
May 30, 2018. President Trump, Nashville, Tennessee Rally: “Remember when I’d make a speech, and I’d talk about African-Americans, and I’d say, ‘highest crime-rate, bad education,’ I go like ten-points, and they’re always voting; African-Americans vote for Democrats, for the most part. Y’know, vast majority. They’ve been doing it for over a hundred-years!” In the…
-
Lesley Stahl: President Trump’s admitted tactic to “discredit” Press » And Cenk Uygur defends True Journalism
CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl revealed a remark made to her by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 to a group of fellow journalists at the Deadline Club Awards Dinner in New York City earlier this week. It is in regards to Mr. Trump’s attitude and tactic toward the press, which in his understanding are lügenpresse…
-
Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century
“Educated people of varying political persuasions celebrated republicanism for its spirit, its morality, its freedom, its sense of friendship and duty, and its vision of society. Republicanism as a set of values and a form of life was much too pervasive, comprehensive, and involved with being liberal and enlightened to be seen as subversive or…
-
The Irony of Apoliticism in the Theosophical Movement
INTRODUCTION: APOLITICISM AND MODERN STATE OF MONARCHISM With the reintroduction of theosophical research in the mainstream comes opportunity to combat misconceptions about the relation between the Theosophical Movement and Politics as explained in Herman de Tollenaere on Influence of Theosophy on Indonesian and South Asian Nationalisms. I am not of the belief, that Theosophists had…
-
Trump and Conservatives defend Shithole Remark on Haiti, Africa, and El Salvador
The American Right and GOP will suffer for defending it in the end. The Trump administration, political base, and Identitarian Nationalists are in agreement. The issue largely is with President Trump’s alleged comments, defended by his base, who did not stand beside Americans—Latinos, Haitians, and immigrants who found the comments highly ignorant, divisive, and deeply…
-
Constantin Von Hoffmeister “Secret America”: Defining America as a Race-Based Republic
Was America meant to be a White Ethno-State? German Identitarian desires a race-based American vision and rationalizes Trump’s policies. The philosophy of REPUBLICANISM makes the idea and historical permanency of an American ‘White Ethno-State’ impossible, and a contradiction in terms, especially given our historical circumstances. What was the true vision of the United States? Who…
-
Liberals and Nationalism: Countering the Linguistic Coup on Western Values
“What is there about ethno-nationalism now that rallies voters, but hasn’t done so before?” (Ivan Krastev, Central Europe is a Lesson to Liberals: Don’t Be Anti-Nationalist) Misunderstanding what is nationalism lies often in our confusion of terms and theoretical frame of reference. Nationalism, which was not seen as the end of the means, became increasingly…
-
Katie Engelhart of Vice News interview Dov Maimon on Israel: “Demography is the key to everything”
Katie Engelhart of Vice News interviewed Dov Maimon in 2016 about the decreasing immigration of Arabs in Israel in Europe’s Jewish Exodus. Many Jews in Europe are still immigrating, in high numbers to the Jewish-majority Israel; but what should be pointed to as worthy of notice is the logic Dov Maimon, the author of The Absorption…
-
Giuseppe Mazzini on the Divine Ideal of Republicanism
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI ON THE REPUBLICAN SPIRIT TIED TO THE COMMON GOOD “The Republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means, association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal, that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the…
-
The Origins of the Religious Right with Samantha Bee
The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS II “I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another” (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Philadelphia, Jan. 26, 1799)
-
Poland officially enthrones Christ as King in Jubilee Act of Acceptance
A ceremony was held in Poland known as the Jubilee Act of Acceptance of Jesus as the King and the Lord, where Poland acknowledged the sovereignty and dominion of Christ over Poland. President Andrzei Duda, alongside Catholic bishops of Poland officially recognized Jesus Christ as King of Poland, in the ceremony at the Church of Divine Mercy…
-
The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”
“The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic, and transforming it into a democracy. The foremost tactic of the subverters is subversion of “language” — by calling America a democracy, until people thoughtlessly accept the term, and use the…
The American Minervan 