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"Affordability" is the Latest Word for "Free Stuff"
Silly me. I have been hearing for months — or is it years — about how the Democrats stand for “affordability.” To tell you the truth, I was a little confused by the notion; I did not pay enough attention.
But a couple of days ago, I realized what “affordability” is all about. It is simply more “free stuff” legislated or regulated by government. Only I can’t find the piece that gave me the “aha” moment.
But Washington State Representative Noel Frame (D) sent me a flyer that made the point. “Fighting for Affordability,” she says, as in:
Reduce utility bills for low-income families
Expand property tax exemption for seniors and people with disabilities
Largest tax cuts for small businesses in state history
Expand Working Families Tax Credit
Help build more housing
And don’t forget the Millionaires Tax that “will fund public schools, health care, higher education and more.”
Dear Rep. Frame. If you want to increase affordability then decrease the cost of government, especially in education and health care, so that ordinary Americans can “afford” education and health care without the “help” of government.
Or there’s the “New Affordability Agenda” of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Federal program for manufacturing generic drugs
Universal down payment assistance for first time homebuyers
Mandate double time for overtime and mandatory two weeks vacation
Reform agricultural patent laws to make seeds cheaper
Cap Super PAC spending
Of course, it’s obvious what is going on. Politicians are railing at the enemy: millionaires and special interests. And they are shoveling out free stuff to their supporters — those helpless public school and university administrators.
I wonder when the current grift will come to an end. Of late I have realized that government in the “liberal” era meant setting up Enlightenment notions of government, meaning mostly legal — rather than economic — rights. But when the vote was expanded politics became simple war on the rich and the corporations and loot for the voters.
I wonder if we could be starting a new age. In this new age the ordinary middle class will run the table. It will rail against the enemy: the educated and administrative class and their lower class clients. Enough already with the free stuff. Just stay out of my life but don’t ever cut my Social Security and Medicare.
Obviously the era of populist nationalist politics is going to be different from the last century of welfare state politics. But I have no idea how much.
Nothing will change until we get the kiddies out of government public schools and government universities.
| Fri, 01 May 2026 00:10:23 GMT |
What Do We Do About the Lefty Thug Card
For years and years our lefty friends have played the victim card on us. The most successful play was the Race Card: you racist you. There was no response to the Race Card, not then, and not today. Just like the N-word.
And then it was the Sexist Card, the Homophobia Card, and I know not what.
It may be that you have noticed that in our day, we ordinary mortals are much disturbed and are made to feel unsafe by various devoted believers in liberal doctrine who insist on attempting assassination upon various conservative icons, from President Trump to Charlie Kirk, Rep. Steve Scalise, and even almost unknown corporate executives like Brian Thompson of United Healthcare. But our liberal friends often seem to suggest that the recipients of assassination attempts have it coming, because of their authoritarian instincts and poisonous beliefs and medical malpractice.
Is it not time to return the compliment to our liberal friends and trump them with Hate Cards and Lefty Thug Cards and other splendid trumping that will cow them to silence? Something that will stop them discharging their lethal weapons and their mindless social media posts echoing, without a scintilla of original thought, the daily propaganda narrative of our beloved lamestream media.
And then I realized: what a fool I am, what a dominated fool not to see the answer staring right in front of me.
Because a new, improved Race Card is not the way to deal with hate speech and the politicians that spew forth the vile bilge that cranks political division into the stratosphere.
Let us remember: what did our liberal friends do when they were on the receiving end?
Exactly. They made a sensible application to a good liberal lawyer representing his client, the US Army, at a congressional hearing when Norah O’Donnell was not yet a gleam in her father’s eye.
That noble lawyer Joseph N. Welch, the toast of every liberal for over 70 years, said, all friendly like, to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) during the Army-McCarthy hearings the following gentle remark and philosophical remark:
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
Are we dumb or something? Why haven’t all our political and cultural and philosophical geniuses not recommended Welch’s memorable words, from 1954 unto this very day!
Imagine EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin up before the tastefully blue-haired beauty Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) as she disgorges liberal climate change bilge about The Planet. Suppose he says to her: “Have you no sense of decency, sweetie, at long last!
I know. Calling Rep. DeLauro “sweetie” might make her feel “unsafe.”
And as for Elevenhan Omar and Sandy Cortez and all the rest of the intellectual political elite. Imagine everyone responding to their delta-minus-moron broadsides with “Have you no sense of decency, congressperson, at long last?”
Let us recall how brilliant Joe Welch’s remarks were at the time: how they deflated the raving Joe McCarthy in about ten seconds flat and made the whole question of Commies in the State Department a moot point.
Liberals: shut your eyes for a moment while I tell my readers that, you know, of course, that the Commies in the State Department meme was started by the Truman administration in the runup to the 1948 presidential election.
The beautiful thing about the “Have you no sense of decency” meme is that there is no answer to it. It is calling out a politician for doing what politicians do every day: pour out nasty accusations that have no sense of decency. And really, what is the response to “have you no sense of decency?” Obviously there is none. The whole point of all liberal narrative is to put the other guy on the defensive, defending the indefensible.
And the best way to counter it is to blurt out the truth: “have you no sense of decency, he/him, at long last?”
| Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:44:08 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
What people want from government and political leaders is protection.
In 1900 poor women worked and rich women were supported by Daddy or Hubby. In 2020 rich women work and poor women are supported by gubmint checks.
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: An Analysis of Curtis Yarvin's Gray Mirror.
