There is only one ‘regressive’ people left in this world, and that is islam. Regionalism lets us divide the problem with Russia/China.#Trump
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-25 18:21:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/835555378788249601
We cannot make peace with Russia w/o assisting her in the restoration of Orthodox Civ. We can only prohibit her from western slavs. #Trump
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-25 18:14:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/835553590609588224
The difficulty with Russia will turn on the western slavs who are not Muscovites or part of Mongolian emprie, but european christians.#Trump
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-25 13:25:00 UTC
There is only one ‘regressive’ people left in this world, and that is islam. Regionalism lets us divide the problem with Russia/China.#Trump
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-25 13:21:00 UTC
We cannot make peace with Russia w/o assisting her in the restoration of Orthodox Civ. We can only prohibit her from western slavs. #Trump
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-25 13:14:00 UTC
—“If we view liberal humanism as a political religion, leftists are Anglicans and libertarians are a Quakerish sect, defending the beliefs of the majority but in a purer form, and only dangerous to the status quo in that they are not willing to actually defend it, or expand its dominion except through peaceful conversion.”—Waylon Hill
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-24 09:38:00 UTC
http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/is-secession-a-solution-to-cultural-war/#gT0rvAD5mjrpGtAi.01IS SECESSION A SOLUTION TO CULTURAL WAR?
Pat Buchanan: ‘Secularism had been enthroned as our established religion’
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
Yet, given the divisions among us, deeper and wider than ever, it is an open question as to how, and how long, we will endure as one people.
After World War II, our judicial dictatorship began a purge of public manifestations of the “Christian nation” Harry Truman said we were.
In 2009, Barack Obama retorted, “We do not consider ourselves to be a Christian nation.” Secularism had been enthroned as our established religion, with only the most feeble of protests.
One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations. Heads would roll, literally.
Which bring us to the first culture war skirmish of the Trump era.
Taking sides with Attorney General Jeff Sessions against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the president rescinded the Obama directive that gave transgender students the right to use the bathroom of their choice in public schools. President Donald Trump sent the issue back to the states and locales to decide.
While treated by the media and left as the civil rights cause of our era, the “bathroom debate” calls to mind Marx’s observation, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls’ bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
Remarkably, there was vigorous dissent, from DeVos, to returning this issue to where it belongs, with state and local officials.
After yielding on the bathroom question, she put out a statement declaring that every school in America has a “moral obligation” to protect children from bullying and directed her Office of Civil Rights to investigate all claims of bullying or harassment “against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.”
Now, bullying is bad behavior, and it may be horrible behavior.
But when did a Republican Party that believes in states rights decide this was a responsibility of a bureaucracy Ronald Reagan promised but failed to shut down? When did the GOP become nanny-staters?
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Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
But what kind of society, what kind of people have we become when we start to rely on federal bureaucrats to stop big kids from harassing and beating up smaller or weaker kids?
While the bathroom debate is a skirmish in the culture war, Trump’s solution – send the issue back to the states and the people there to work it out – may point the way to a truce – assuming Americans still want a truce.
For Trump’s solution is rooted in the principle of subsidiarity, first advanced in the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII – that social problems are best resolved by the smallest unit of society with the ability to resolve them.
In brief, bullying is a problem for parents, teachers, principals to deal with, and local cops and the school district if it becomes widespread.
This idea is consistent with the Republican idea of federalism – that the national government should undertake those duties – securing the borders, fighting the nation’s wars, creating a continental road and rail system – that states alone cannot do.
Indeed, the nationalization of decision-making, the imposition of one-size-fits-all solutions to social problems, the court orders emanating from the ideology of judges – to which there is no appeal – that is behind the culture wars that may yet bring an end to this experiment in democratic rule.
Those factors are also among the primary causes of the fever of secessionism that is spreading all across Europe, and is now visible here.
Consider California. Democrats hold every state office, both Senate seats, two-thirds of both houses of the state legislature, 3 in 4 of the congressional seats. Hillary Clinton beat Trump 2-to-1 in California, with her margin in excess of 4 million votes.
Suddenly, California knows exactly how Marine Le Pen feels.
And as she wants to “Let France Be France,” and leave the EU, as Brits did with Brexit, a movement is afoot in California to secede from the United States and form a separate nation.
California seceding sounds like a cause that could bring San Francisco Democrats into a grand alliance with Breitbart.
A new federalism – a devolution of power and resources away from Washington and back to states, cities, towns and citizens, to let them resolve their problems their own way and according to their own principles – may be the price of retention of the American Union.
Let California be California; let red state America be red state America.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/is-secession-a-solution-to-cultural-war/#vIJMIPah96ZBjj5U.99
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-23 20:05:00 UTC
—“Princess Olga of Kiev was the first ruler of Kievan Rus to convert to Christianity, either in 945 or 957.”—
always through the women
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-23 17:55:00 UTC
(dear dimwit of the moment) (from elsewhere)
But (a) I didn’t justify monarchy, i justified Christian Monarchy under Natural Law. (b) I didn’t justify feudalism. (c) I have no idea what you mean by royalism but it’s extremely unlikely I justified it. (ergo, straw men, not arguments)
And (d) Natural Law as I use the term is not an abstraction but a rigorous definition: the limit of our actions to productive, fully in formed, warrantied, voluntary exchange of property-in-toto, limited to productive externalities. Or conversely, the prohibition of the imposition of costs upon property-in-toto. Where property in toto refers to demonstrated property not authoritarian declaration, or rational justification definitions of property. Or what you might call the initiation of ‘aggression’ against property-in-toto; whereby we preserve and expand the incentive to cooperate, and refrain from initiating the incentive to retaliate. (An adult version of the half truth we call the non aggression principle) (Ergo, straw man, not argument)
From what I see in just a few of your comments, and which is obvious from the chain of reasoning that you depend upon, you rely on sentimental rather than operational definitions of terms. This is a form of pseudoscientific argument applied to economic, political, and legal sciences.
If you define your terms precisely you will be unable to make the arguments you think you do.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-23 10:18:00 UTC
Dear Russian Orthodox World.
You don’t understand us do you? We really are this evangelical in our beliefs – and really do believe we are trying to create a Utopia. We are just wrong of course, about the nature of man.
However, because we are wrong about the nature of man, we are very trusting ‘up-front’, and then we punish heavily ‘afterward’ for violating that gift of trust. We can take these risks of trust, because we can trust our fellow men to punish heavily those who violate that trust. The side effect is that americans can take all these commercial and political and military risks and produce such an innovative economy.
This is the opposite of the Russian world where you cannot trust your fellow men to punish heavily those who violate trust. And so you cannot extend trust first. And that is why you have more corruption, a slower economy, and work in smaller organizations, and need to ‘know people’ to trust them. Yet it is why you are more skeptical of invaders, invasive groups, invasive organizations, invasive businesses and invasive religions and invasive ideas.
So despite the fact that American and Russian AVERAGE PEOPLE are more the same than an other people on earth, because we both still have HONOR and PRIDE, we find ourselves in conflict for no other reason than differences in trust, because of differences in the trustworthiness of our governments.
If we still had our ancient nobility we could marry American Nobility to Russian Nobility and use the combined family to unite us, and together rule the world as the family we evolved from.
How do we unite our people across the entire north of the globe? The world is ours to rule – if only to defend ourselves from the barbarian hordes. Without each other we will both fail. there are not enough Russians, and not enough White (European) Americans.
How can we bring Russian skepticism of outsiders back into the west, and destroy the decadence we live under, while bringing trust to Russians so that they can equal us in economy and prosperity?
Together we rule. Divided we fall.
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-22 11:38:00 UTC