Restoration of a Common Culture

 

"Because they can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality,

they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it.”

—Sasha Stone on the Democratic Party

In case you’re wondering why the Democratic Party is in a death spiral, it is the proportionate response to the damage they have done to American culture and politics. You might think that they fell haplessly into error, but their turn to Marxian idealism was a cover for a matrix of hustles and rackets to make up for a void of any sane political program.

Coming into the 21^st century, our country was beset by looming decline. Our industrial base was going, going, gone, and with it millions of well-paying blue-collar jobs, the Democratic Party base. It was replaced by a so-called “financialized economy,” which was sanitized language for sets of swindles and frauds allowed to operate in the de-regulated banking system, in concert with the politicized Federal Reserve and crooked Congressional interests — you notice how many politicians paid $175-K a year somehow acquired multi-million-dollar fortunes?

What mainly grew in this period was government and things that fed off of it, such as the war industries, computer tech allied with the Intel gang, and especially the burgeoning universe of government-sponsored non-profit advocacy orgs, which became the jobs program for otherwise unemployables churned out of higher education, a racket that fed on federal loan guarantees. It was in the racketeering ecosystem that billionaires such as George Soros and Bill Gates could use their fortunes to advance their own personal obsessions through webs of non-governmental orgs (NGOs) to influence public affairs.

By 2016, that was really all that the Democratic Party had left. It was the source of their money and their power. They also had the accumulated political capital of race advocacy, starting with the civil rights crusades of the 1960s. After our victory over manifest evil in World War Two, the Jim Crow system had to go, or else America could not pretend to lead the so-called “free world.”

By some paradoxical alchemy of government policy and human nature, the civil rights campaign eventually produced a larger and more intractable “underclass” than existed before. This baffled liberal idealists who had expected a new era of brotherhood and equality. They could only account for it by “structural racism,” and the Marxian trope of “oppressors-and-victims” fit into that scaffold perfectly. It lured them into Marxian “praxis” generally, which by then was already failing everywhere else in the world it had been tried as “communism.”

One way to counter “structural racism” was to declare a new ethos of “multiculturalism,” meaning each ethnic or racial group could behave according to its own particular standards and values. It was like waving a magic wand to make failure disappear and it worked through the 1990s, (which happened to be the fattest years of cheap oil production in America). The trouble with multiculturalism was that it negated the thing that had held America together through vicissitudes such as the Great Depression and World War Two: The American common culture, the thing that belonged to everyone.

The MAGA movement has largely been an effort to reconstruct an American common culture, a consensus of values and behaviors we can all agree on. The Democratic Party opted to oppose that — a poor choice. In fact, they apparently viewed that effort as an existential threat to the hustles and rackets that were sustaining the party. For instance, the jobs program for otherwise unemployable college grads who styled themselves as “activists” working for NGOs under the umbrella of USAID.

This was the party’s army of influencers, organizers, ward-heelers, and ballot-harvesters, laboring on behalf of the “victims of oppression.” Quite a few of them resided in Academia, where they cultivated a whole lexicon of arcane, gnostic, crypto-Marxian ideology aimed not just at opposing the recovery of a common culture, but destroying whatever remnants of it remained.

The catch was: they didn’t believe in “social justice” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” That was just a smokescreen of verbiage over their race hustle, which means extorting money, unearned advantages, and status dishonestly. Thus was DEI birthed. And, with it, colossal frauds of “victimhood” such as the beatification of George Floyd and a long line of similar “justice-involved” cases that generated an impressive revenue flow for the Democrats.

That revenue flow and its utility for holding power was all they had left in 2024. It explains the empty symbolism of running Kamala Harris for president. Now, the money flow is gone and so is the party’s power and perhaps its last remaining reason for existence: the maintenance of its own power. Notice that the Democrats can’t even advocate for the return of USAID, now that it has been unmasked as rife with financial fraud and crime.

There is surely a need for an opposition party to any in-party, which happens to be Mr. Trump’s Republicans at the moment, if only because power corrupts. You can see the outline of what that new opposition party might be: a party of re-localization, of small business and small farmers, of traditional towns as opposed to still-rampant and malignant suburban sprawl. Some related issues already belong to MAGA, such as smaller government, the protection of privacy, respect for the Bill of Rights — but these would be implicit in the restoration of an American common culture, a set of values and standards of behavior that both parties in a two-party system can subscribe to.

                                                   by James Howard Kunstler on August 8, 2025 at kunstler.com

Dems Don't Have a Prayer

The Democrats are going full “Dodgeball” by deciding, after their latest perverted, weirdo constituent went on a mass murder spree of little Christian kids, that they should take aim at the idea of prayer. Apparently, the big problem in the aftermath of yet another Dem-aligned killer is that we’re turning to God and not to our Democrat betters. We shouldn’t be on our knees before the Lord; we should be on our knees before them, submitting, obeying, and accepting the divine right to rule of the No Kings Klan.

It’s unclear whether the Democrats are stupid and bigoted about Christians (as well as observant Jews, whom they also despise as a matter of policy), or whether they are merely bigoted. Regardless, the outcome is the same. They will fire up their freak show base but drive away the normals. The Democrat Party was born of largely faithful working-class people, and it has morphed into a party of largely pagan professional managerial-class swells who embrace a bizarre quasi-religious ideology that rejects God and embraces their SSRI-driven obsessions. 

Purposefully or not, they misunderstand the purpose of prayer, which is to connect with God. The Lord is not a vending machine where you insert your prayer and get the result you want. This misunderstanding is of a kind with the over-credentialed cretins who think that Christian salvation is based on a tally of good deeds, as if Jesus is there at the pearly gates with a clipboard checking off mitzvahs until you get enough of them, and says, “Congratulations, welcome to heaven.” 

Now, of course, this may be stray voltage, that is, an attempt to create a smaller imbroglio to distract from a larger one. It certainly looks organized. Various politicians and media hacks, including Gavin Newsom, that femboy Minneapolis mayor, Jen Psaki-Longstocking, and Senator Tina Whateverhernameis, plus others, all jumped on the “How dare you pray!” bandwagon in a suspiciously coordinated manner. Perhaps they wanted to turn attention away from yet another trans freak deciding to murder normal people because he can’t become a girl. Americans are getting sick of evil, mentally ill mutants who take out their frustrations with either having or not having a penis on innocent people. Paired with the prayer calumny were the usual calls for common-sense gun control; what America needs is common-sense deviant control.

The problem for the Democratic Party is that most Americans are still people who believe in normal religions and not weird pagan superstitions, like the climate hoax, systemic racism, and feminism. These boutique beliefs may be ubiquitous in blue urban areas and pampered suburbs, but they just don’t play with the normals. The people who run the Democrat Party no longer embrace Christianity, nor even tolerate it. They actively dislike it and the people who practice it, and they barely put up with it even when practiced by groups that are still inside their shrinking tent.

Pity the poor black church ladies who still believe in that Jesus stuff; you can almost see the eyes roll back in the heads of the frigid white Chardonnay women who dominate the party when they encounter sincere belief. Black ladies of faith, the door is open to you at the Republican Party. We’re not going to mock you or laugh at you or treat you as if you’re mental defectives who will vote as directed in exchange for a pat on the head, some DEI talk, and maybe a visit to your church where the Ultimate Tiresome White Lady can tell you how she don’t feel no ways tired. Remember, until the Democrat Party is finally gone with the wind, the wine women will always insist on being Scarlet, and you will always be Mammy, expected to submit and serve as an enabler and supporting player in their neurotic psychodramas.

In the meantime, the Democrats have their own rituals and sacraments. Just the other day, at the Democrat annual convention, they had some alleged Indian come up and give a land acknowledgment. Some people fast, some confess and do penance, and some listen to Elizabeth Warren’s second cousin give them grief because Europeans conquered this continent, to which they nod in approval at their own historical abnegation. Every time you order a glass of iced tea and it comes with a paper straw that degenerates into mush after the first couple of sips, you are participating in one of their rituals. It means nothing, but the sacrifice of both the utility and the dignity that come from a plastic straw is a secular sacrament. 

Oh, and they have heretics too. That would be us, the ones who don’t believe that a woman can have a penis or that a man can get pregnant. We refuse to say the holy words that are their preferred pronouns or their euphemisms like “the unhoused” for bums, junkies, and hobos. For these heresies, we must be driven from our employment, driven from society, and – increasingly – driven from this mortal coil by murderous perverts, whose minds are twisted by sick leftist lies.

While it certainly rallies their God-free communist cadres, disrespecting prayer and people who pray is going to be a huge turn-off to everybody else. It’s not clear they understand that, since they don’t seem to know anybody who believes in God and assume anyone who does is a little bit insane (to them, believing in God is insane; believing you were born the wrong gender is not). Note that this doesn’t apply to any other religions – those are awesome. It’s just the ones that founded America that are bad, because, of course, everything about America is bad except them.

It’s not clear that the Republicans will necessarily benefit from this in the long run, though they probably will in the short run. In Europe, there are overtly Christian parties that are usually the parties of the right and are in opposition to the leftist parties. In the past, these parties were actually conservative, but, like many of the mainline Protestant denominations in America, they’ve been infiltrated, overwhelmed, and assimilated into the Bolshevik Borg. The German Christian Democrats are just as ready to submit to foreign invasion as the Social Democrats. For this reason, while it might be tempting for the Republican Party to continue towards becoming the default party of religious people in America, that might not be good either for the party or the religions. Look at the Republican parties in the red states; when it’s the only game in town, people who should be Democrats come flooding into it and water it down into a gooey bowl of ideological tofu. While perhaps it will give us an edge in the short term, it is to our long-term advantage for both parties to welcome the religious. But that’s not going to happen while the Democrat Party is controlled by a bunch of atheist pagans for whom ridiculous ideology is a substitute for a meaningful faith.

So, pray for our country even if that makes Gavin Newsom’s teen social media gurus sad.

                                                              by Kurt Schlicter at townhall.com on September 4, 2025