Message of the Week
1/15/21 - Not all cultural and political systems are equal
Western liberal democracy is far superior to authoritarian Chinese communism with its censorship, concentration camps, slave labor, and forced organ harvesting. ‘Model to the World’? Only if you want hell on earth.
12/4/20 - The election shows weakness on the Right in reaching minority voters
J: I think this too explains a big part of it. Always feared this very thing: https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2020/12/02/the-real-kraken-what-really-happened-to-donald-trump-in-the-2020-election-n1185494
J: So true.
11/30/20 - It’s important to get both sides of the story
The Left uses cult techniques to keep its adherents from thinking for themselves. The Left tells people, ‘We’ll do your thinking for you. We’ll give you slogans. We’re your family now. Don’t listen to THOSE people; they’re deplorable, and all their information sources are not credible. Only OUR sources are credible (WaPo, NYT, etc.). I’ve even had someone tell me the Wall Street Journal is not a credible source! Hats off to the Left - all this is ingenious and insidious. It goes a long way toward explaining why our information doesn’t reach people on the Left and why they discount it when they do happen to see it. But if you can get them to agree it’s important to get both sides of the story, you have a fighting chance. I was recently in a tussle with a small-government libertarian who had been consuming a steady diet of never-Trumper articles for four years. He said there is no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. First, I got him to admit it’s important to get both sides of the story. Then I asked him if he was aware hundreds of pages of affidavits proving voter fraud had been filed in court cases, and he said no. Then I asked him if he was aware the claim Trump called the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville ‘fine people’ had been debunked by fact-checkers (including PolitFact) half a dozen times, and he said no. I kept going in this vein, concluding by telling him his process was deficient: he admitted it’s important to get both sides of the story, but he wasn’t making any effort to do it. You should have seen the look on his face. The smugness was gone.
10/16/20 - The political Right needs to scale up its media outlets
The political Right cannot prevail until it has mass media, e.g., an NBC where tens of millions of ordinary people go by default to get their news. That’s a lofty goal, but we should be doing everything we can to scale up what we have in the meantime. Yes, the recent actions by Twitter and Facebook to censor us are reprehensible, but we are to blame for getting into a position where we can be frozen out of the public square. Your suggestions on how we can make bigger megaphones for ourselves are welcome. Send them to tips@liberato.us.
9/18/20 - Never-Trumpers Are Going the Way of the Dodo Bird
9/11/20 - It is time for gun safety to be taught in K-12
Western liberal democracy is far superior to authoritarian Chinese communism with its censorship, concentration camps, slave labor, and forced organ harvesting. ‘Model to the World’? Only if you want hell on earth.
12/4/20 - The election shows weakness on the Right in reaching minority voters
J: I think this too explains a big part of it. Always feared this very thing: https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2020/12/02/the-real-kraken-what-really-happened-to-donald-trump-in-the-2020-election-n1185494
- Key Quote: “Even if Trump increased his share of the black and Hispanic vote, the opening of the urban turnout floodgates through private donations to government election offices easily swamped Trump statewide in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan. It doesn’t matter if Trump has 15 percent of the black vote in Detroit if turnout there soared by 92,891 Detroit votes, which it did. It doesn’t matter if Trump has even 20 percent of the black vote in Atlanta if turnout in DeKalb soared by 54,550 votes, which it did.”
J: So true.
11/30/20 - It’s important to get both sides of the story
The Left uses cult techniques to keep its adherents from thinking for themselves. The Left tells people, ‘We’ll do your thinking for you. We’ll give you slogans. We’re your family now. Don’t listen to THOSE people; they’re deplorable, and all their information sources are not credible. Only OUR sources are credible (WaPo, NYT, etc.). I’ve even had someone tell me the Wall Street Journal is not a credible source! Hats off to the Left - all this is ingenious and insidious. It goes a long way toward explaining why our information doesn’t reach people on the Left and why they discount it when they do happen to see it. But if you can get them to agree it’s important to get both sides of the story, you have a fighting chance. I was recently in a tussle with a small-government libertarian who had been consuming a steady diet of never-Trumper articles for four years. He said there is no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. First, I got him to admit it’s important to get both sides of the story. Then I asked him if he was aware hundreds of pages of affidavits proving voter fraud had been filed in court cases, and he said no. Then I asked him if he was aware the claim Trump called the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville ‘fine people’ had been debunked by fact-checkers (including PolitFact) half a dozen times, and he said no. I kept going in this vein, concluding by telling him his process was deficient: he admitted it’s important to get both sides of the story, but he wasn’t making any effort to do it. You should have seen the look on his face. The smugness was gone.
10/16/20 - The political Right needs to scale up its media outlets
The political Right cannot prevail until it has mass media, e.g., an NBC where tens of millions of ordinary people go by default to get their news. That’s a lofty goal, but we should be doing everything we can to scale up what we have in the meantime. Yes, the recent actions by Twitter and Facebook to censor us are reprehensible, but we are to blame for getting into a position where we can be frozen out of the public square. Your suggestions on how we can make bigger megaphones for ourselves are welcome. Send them to tips@liberato.us.
9/18/20 - Never-Trumpers Are Going the Way of the Dodo Bird
- To the few die-hard Never-Trumpers left:
Gerald Seib was one of you. But he has a new book. He came around because Trump is governing as a conservative - with his tax cuts, regulatory reform, judicial nominations, and his record as the most pro-life president ever. Time to get with the program.
9/11/20 - It is time for gun safety to be taught in K-12
- I bet that would eliminate gun accidents.
How many people know that many of our military officers in the Revolutionary War were 17+?
Stop coddling our kids.
8/21/20 - The Left uses sexual licentiousness to tear down the country and install their program
It’s a tragedy what entertainer Cardi-B has done with her freedom. The lyrics to ‘WAP’ are really quite depraved:
There’s a difference between freedom and license, between artistic freedom and depravity.
But Cardi-B is very far gone. She doesn’t think the song is vulgar at all. To her, it’s a means of “female empowerment”.
While Christians, Jews and MAGA patriots are censored from Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, Cardi-B entertains our children. No wonder why pedophile Clinton addressed the DNC. Perversion is now normal.
With freedom comes responsibility. Our children need to be taught the liberal arts - how to live in freedom as a self-governing people - not to be led astray into licentiousness to end up not even able to govern themselves.
The sexual revolution was a big game run by Leftists to tear down the country so it could be taken over by the Left. There are very practical reasons to discourage sexual licentiousness and promiscuity, and to teach people to rein in their own behavior. There is no such thing as a ‘good time’, not in that way. There’s always a price to pay, one way or another, eventually - disease, dissipation, unwanted pregnancy, you name it. Let’s send the bill to Cardi-B and others like her who are tearing down our society and expect to be paid handsomely for it.
8/14/20 - The political Right has fallen down on the job and has no answer to rhetorical assaults from the Left
A disturbing pattern repeats across issues: the Left advances in its thinking and rhetoric, the response from the Right is crickets, and the Left scores victory after victory as a result. Three examples:
First, take assisted suicide. The Left’s original rationale was to avoid intractable pain (which was a crock to begin with). Anyone stuck on this rationale is way behind the curve. The Left has moved on to unbearable mental suffering, mental illness, dementia, ‘completed lives’, and a bevy of other rationales for expanding government-assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Second, ‘gay rights’ became ‘LGBT rights’ with nary a thought from the political Right about the ramifications of adding transgenderism to the mix. Transgenderism is a weapon the Left uses to break down everything that is old (including male/female) to weaken resistance to what the Left plans to serve up next. It’s the New Soviet Man all over again. Nothing against transgender people, but why is the Left and its allies in government and medicine deliberately trying to create more of them, hmm?
Third, civil rights in the 1960s meant equal protection of the law and justice in individual cases. The Left has gone far beyond that, starting with affirmative action (which was supposed to be temporary), continuing with systemic racism and white privilege, and evolving most recently into ‘antiracism’ (where it’s not enough not to be racist; everyone must become a social justice warrior and activist). One consequence of making diversity the preeminent value is cancel culture and the assaults on free speech we are witnessing on a daily basis.
If the political Right is to survive, we must match the Left’s sophistication in crafting rhetoric and push back with ‘war rooms’ dedicated to demolishing the Left’s poisonous designs and rhetoric on these and other important issues.
Does it hurt bad enough yet? Are you ready to fight? If so, get in touch with this writer.
8/7/20 - The future the Left wants is more flawed than America’s founding could possibly have ever been
7/31/20 - America is the best country on earth for minorities
It’s a tragedy what entertainer Cardi-B has done with her freedom. The lyrics to ‘WAP’ are really quite depraved:
- Give me everything you got for this wet-a** pu**y
There’s a difference between freedom and license, between artistic freedom and depravity.
But Cardi-B is very far gone. She doesn’t think the song is vulgar at all. To her, it’s a means of “female empowerment”.
While Christians, Jews and MAGA patriots are censored from Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, Cardi-B entertains our children. No wonder why pedophile Clinton addressed the DNC. Perversion is now normal.
With freedom comes responsibility. Our children need to be taught the liberal arts - how to live in freedom as a self-governing people - not to be led astray into licentiousness to end up not even able to govern themselves.
The sexual revolution was a big game run by Leftists to tear down the country so it could be taken over by the Left. There are very practical reasons to discourage sexual licentiousness and promiscuity, and to teach people to rein in their own behavior. There is no such thing as a ‘good time’, not in that way. There’s always a price to pay, one way or another, eventually - disease, dissipation, unwanted pregnancy, you name it. Let’s send the bill to Cardi-B and others like her who are tearing down our society and expect to be paid handsomely for it.
8/14/20 - The political Right has fallen down on the job and has no answer to rhetorical assaults from the Left
A disturbing pattern repeats across issues: the Left advances in its thinking and rhetoric, the response from the Right is crickets, and the Left scores victory after victory as a result. Three examples:
First, take assisted suicide. The Left’s original rationale was to avoid intractable pain (which was a crock to begin with). Anyone stuck on this rationale is way behind the curve. The Left has moved on to unbearable mental suffering, mental illness, dementia, ‘completed lives’, and a bevy of other rationales for expanding government-assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Second, ‘gay rights’ became ‘LGBT rights’ with nary a thought from the political Right about the ramifications of adding transgenderism to the mix. Transgenderism is a weapon the Left uses to break down everything that is old (including male/female) to weaken resistance to what the Left plans to serve up next. It’s the New Soviet Man all over again. Nothing against transgender people, but why is the Left and its allies in government and medicine deliberately trying to create more of them, hmm?
Third, civil rights in the 1960s meant equal protection of the law and justice in individual cases. The Left has gone far beyond that, starting with affirmative action (which was supposed to be temporary), continuing with systemic racism and white privilege, and evolving most recently into ‘antiracism’ (where it’s not enough not to be racist; everyone must become a social justice warrior and activist). One consequence of making diversity the preeminent value is cancel culture and the assaults on free speech we are witnessing on a daily basis.
If the political Right is to survive, we must match the Left’s sophistication in crafting rhetoric and push back with ‘war rooms’ dedicated to demolishing the Left’s poisonous designs and rhetoric on these and other important issues.
Does it hurt bad enough yet? Are you ready to fight? If so, get in touch with this writer.
8/7/20 - The future the Left wants is more flawed than America’s founding could possibly have ever been
- The Left goes on and on about how the American founding was flawed - the framers were slaveholders, the Constitution was written by and for rich white men, etc., etc. Turn the tables - The future you want is more flawed than America’s founding could possibly have ever been. Given half a chance, you will enslave everyone and create hell on earth for all except a tiny ruling elite. How do we know? Because you’ve done it before, many times.
Inspired by Daniel Greenfield, Leftist Slavery Was Worse Than Southern Slavery - - Under 400,000 slaves were brought to America. Those enslaved African people represented only 3.6% of the transatlantic slave trade. By the Civil War, there were under 4 million black slaves in America. Over 20 million people were imprisoned by Soviet leftists in the gulag system....
7/31/20 - America is the best country on earth for minorities
- Minorities here have rights and are protected. Compare that to China where a million Uighurs are in reeducation camps, Venezuela which instituted a second legislature when the political minority opposition made gains in the existing legislature, and Vietnam where Cao Dai Buddhists are routinely persecuted.
7/24/20 - Joe Biden Isn't Answering Questions - Here's How to Use It
7/17/20 - How would your life be different if Trump is not reelected? (occasional series)
President Trump held a news conference in the Rose Garden on July 14th in which he laid out a number of very clear policy differences between him and Joe Biden. The transcript is here. Mark Levin went through a lot of it in the first hour on July 16th. Breitbart did a lot of stories on the Biden-Sanders ‘Unity Platform’ which is in the same vein. Here are some of the high points - if Biden is elected, he will:
Raise taxes
Open the borders
Give illegal aliens free health care and make hardworking Americans pay for it
Make police the “enemy”
End school choice
Destroy the suburbs
Be soft on China
End American energy production
Tie up construction projects in the name of climate change
Rejoin the disastrous Paris Climate Accord and go beyond it
Move to pie-in-the-sky net zero carbon emissions in buildings and power plants
There’s lots more, but as President Trump summed it all up in a tweet:
7/2/20 - How would your life be different if Trump is not reelected? (occasional series)
6/26/20 - Stop with the Blackwashing, Already
You’ve heard of whitewashing and greenwashing (token steps to show people what a good environmentalist you are). Now there’s ‘blackwashing’ - corporations falling all over themselves and throwing money to show they’re down with the struggle. Here are two examples:
6/20/20 - Confederate Statues Belong in a Museum
Confederate statues may not belong in the public square, but they do belong in a museum. We cannot destroy our history or we will forget and repeat the same mistakes. Is the destruction of Confederate statues because of slavery? Or is it because the DEMOCRATS are the Confederates who supported slavery? Eliminating Confederate statues altogether erases history and severs the Democratic Party’s connection to slavery. We must never forget.
6/12/20 - How would your life be different if Trump is not reelected? (first in an occasional series)
#1 - You wouldn’t know who is running the country. Joe Biden is obviously out to lunch and everybody knows it.
6/5/20 - Antifa and Black Lives Matter have communist roots
The history of Antifa traces back to the communist ‘red shirts’ in Nazi Germany and, further back, to Trotsky’s call for a communist street army. Today, Antifa in America is essentially the armed wing of the Democratic Party, much like the Ku Klux Klan before it.
- Send questions to the Biden campaign and publicize it when they don’t answer.
7/17/20 - How would your life be different if Trump is not reelected? (occasional series)
President Trump held a news conference in the Rose Garden on July 14th in which he laid out a number of very clear policy differences between him and Joe Biden. The transcript is here. Mark Levin went through a lot of it in the first hour on July 16th. Breitbart did a lot of stories on the Biden-Sanders ‘Unity Platform’ which is in the same vein. Here are some of the high points - if Biden is elected, he will:
Raise taxes
Open the borders
Give illegal aliens free health care and make hardworking Americans pay for it
Make police the “enemy”
End school choice
Destroy the suburbs
Be soft on China
End American energy production
Tie up construction projects in the name of climate change
Rejoin the disastrous Paris Climate Accord and go beyond it
Move to pie-in-the-sky net zero carbon emissions in buildings and power plants
There’s lots more, but as President Trump summed it all up in a tweet:
- Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment – and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!
7/2/20 - How would your life be different if Trump is not reelected? (occasional series)
- Biden will roll back Trump’s tax cuts and your taxes would go up.
- Zoning would be federalized and suburbs would be abolished (AFFH on steroids)
6/26/20 - Stop with the Blackwashing, Already
You’ve heard of whitewashing and greenwashing (token steps to show people what a good environmentalist you are). Now there’s ‘blackwashing’ - corporations falling all over themselves and throwing money to show they’re down with the struggle. Here are two examples:
- Chick-fil-A CEO makes bizarre plea for white people to repent for racism by 'shining a black stranger's shoes'
- 'Stop using our pain to attract black consumers'
- Some brands “have been accused of appropriating the protests, and ‘jumping on the PR bandwagon’ of the movement, while not doing enough on diversity within their own companies.”
6/20/20 - Confederate Statues Belong in a Museum
Confederate statues may not belong in the public square, but they do belong in a museum. We cannot destroy our history or we will forget and repeat the same mistakes. Is the destruction of Confederate statues because of slavery? Or is it because the DEMOCRATS are the Confederates who supported slavery? Eliminating Confederate statues altogether erases history and severs the Democratic Party’s connection to slavery. We must never forget.
6/12/20 - How would your life be different if Trump is not reelected? (first in an occasional series)
#1 - You wouldn’t know who is running the country. Joe Biden is obviously out to lunch and everybody knows it.
6/5/20 - Antifa and Black Lives Matter have communist roots
The history of Antifa traces back to the communist ‘red shirts’ in Nazi Germany and, further back, to Trotsky’s call for a communist street army. Today, Antifa in America is essentially the armed wing of the Democratic Party, much like the Ku Klux Klan before it.
- From Wikipedia: “The original organisation called Antifa was the Antifaschistische Aktion (1932–1933), set up by the then-Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the late history of the Weimar Republic.”
- More background on Antifa in America in Trevor Loudon’s “America Under Siege” video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNKs0RKHtw&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2qnY9q6YGsDBfvARMD4NbSmN6XW1rOFQIgXtUwMrhBUJ2B4J98jnMKmsg - As Jim Simpson documented, Black Lives Matter, another well-funded and highly organized participant in the recent riots, also has communist roots:
Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter - Democrats have shown themselves to be on the side of Antifa and the rioters. I hope the Democrats will still be happy with the choice they made when the rioters come to their house.