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| -Great Cultural Revolution |
| Understanding the battle for America's soul |
| 2026-01-04 |
| [ConservativeWoman] FOR A long time, and certainly fully exposed since 2016, there has been a clash of two totally opposing understandings of the world. These two forces are globalism and populism, and they are more important and more divided than left and right. Each is more dominant on one of the traditional sides of politics than the other, but each also crosses those old left-right lines and in some ways make them obsolete. In the US the catalyst for understanding this new reality, the person who was both agent and symptom of this realisation, was Donald Trump. His win in 2016 gave the US its most unashamedly patriotic President since Theodore Roosevelt. People who hate him today try to make all of us forget how much Trump was seen as an embodiment of a positive American self-image before he left the acceptable elite circles of rich people who vote Democrat. Trump was the American Dream, or at least the story of his family was. Political reality across the Western world has been frozen in the positions made clear in 2016, which are that major corporations, many billionaires, the mainstream media, privileged classes such as celebrities and actors or some sections of the professional middle class, are all determined on a set of policies that the majority of ordinary people don’t want while claiming that those who do have majority backing are ’threats to Our Democracy’. These policies include mass migration, open borders, factories situated abroad or foreign workers moved to the West (whichever means the most short-term profit) and a whole host of radical leftist social ideas on race, gender, identity, liberty and sovereignty. They also want to extend State control, censor dissent, and move to things like central bank digital currencies. More at the link |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2026-01-04 10:06 |