Signs of America’s Decline

I'd forgotten about those.  I did see his two Medfield movies.  The second is decent, but no more, though the glass-breaking section is decent, and the ending with the football orbiting the Earth.  The first is pretty good.  Perhaps his most absent-minded moment came when he was trying to explain to his bride-to-be what he was doing and couldn't seem to understand that she didn't know what he was talking about.

The link is to the best article I have read on the way the economy has been rigged using the "free-markets" meme, while moving to a type of state-capitalism.

The Economy is Rigged

This piece deals strictly with the economic side of a decades-long attack on the American idea.

My first question is why is this rubbish highlighted on the Fox New webpage? My next thought is "sure, just what every father wants, a child in the porno business." My thought after that is, "looks like she's adopted so maybe old Steven does not really care too much." Finally, I see that this female has something called "Borderline personality disorder." So once again, the popular culture is promoting mental illness disguised as "openess."

I'm a porno star

I doubt she has what it takes to make the A-list. And Spielberg shows himself to be a weak liberal parent when a daughter such as this really needs a strong father.

More "Analysis Conservatism" by Newt. It's much easier to say what has been done than to propose a movement for reform. Of course, in his own time he did make some of those efforts.

Bruce Price wrote a number of articles about education over at ST (or, more accurately, let me republish them). Maybe that's the guy you're thinking of, Mr. Flu.

I do not recall ever having read anything by Chekhov. Clearly I should have. His century-old observations are applicable to our time.

Chekhov

A good insightful analysis.

The MAGA party or Trumpism is a replacement for everything the Republican Party is supposed to be and isn't. Way back I suggested that what Trump was building was a genuine mass movement separate from the faux mass movement of the traditional political parties. A genuine mass movement can not exist in its beginning stages without a charismatic leader, and even democrats admit DJT has charisma. The other factor is when it achieves power is a pragmatic man of action able to direct the movement? President Trump has shown himself not only a charismatic leader but also that pragmatic man of action. The last president that combined both of these qualities was FDR and before him Lincoln, Jackson and Washington. Reagan for all his charisma was not the most pragmatic. 

The democrat party and the RINOs do not understand that there is no way to defeat a genuine mass movement except with another mass movement. BLM and Antifa play at being a movement but fall short appealing only to those whose goal is destruction. BLM and Antifa have the structure of a movement but lack something important and their philosophy has the taste of ashes. Not unlike the 1790s directory in France. It doesn't make them less dangerous. Like Islamists they are brutal if victorious, and cowards when confronted directly. 

Yes, they hate America that much.