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Dreaming of a World After Patty Murray
My beloved Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) sent out an X-post on July 5. She said:
Elon Musk, the literal richest man on the planet–the world’s first TRILLIONAIRE–is paying the SAME amount in Social Security taxes as an electrician who makes $185,000 a year.
That’s outrageous.
We need to scrap the cap so the richest people in the world pay their fair share.
Aside from the fact that the top salary also maps to the top payment after retirement — so that if you make a billion dollars a year, the amount over $185,000 does not increase your benefit — I wonder what Our Patty meant by that.
And then, as usual, it all made sense. Patty Murray is facing reelection in 2028 and, with all the DSAs primarying good progressive Democrats this year, it makes complete sense for a sitting liberal senator to protect her left wing from attack by a DSA primary challenger. That means going full Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt and tarring every Republican and billionaire in the land as the enemy of the planet.
So we can expect every Democrat from here on out to be bellowing out hard-left rhetoric, just like Patty Murray. Not because they believe it, but because that is what it takes to defend the left flank from DSA attack.
Now I believe that the notable DSA supporters, twentysomething single women college graduates, are not voting DSA in order to stick it to the enemy. That is not the girl way. What they are doing is begging for protection. And the fact is that a young single woman with a useless college degree in the current sexual culture and workplace is feeling pretty vulnerable.
If you want to understand the situation of the young educated woman, a good place to start is JK Rowling. I’m reading a biography of her, A Pen to Change the World by Solomon Schmidt. After an uncomfortable experience in a Britland comprehensive school she went and drank and smoked her way through the University of Exeter in SW England. Then she got a job teaching in Oporto, Portugal, and ended up living with, and having a baby with, and marrying a rather nasty and violent Portuguese man. She escaped back to Edinburgh and lived for several years on welfare and in government housing. Then the impossible happened. The first Harry Potter book got published and the world changed.
After her horrendous experience Rowling is all-in for the welfare state and its support of women and children. And I understand.
Only I think that there has to be a better way. I think that government programs for the support of women and children are a disaster. And I think the reason is encoded in a yard-sign I pass on my morning walk:
I know. Bless her heart. But I think that “Care for Each Other” exactly communicates what women want from society. Especially, they want a society that cares for them.
And this is not a weakness or a selfishness in women. Women really need to be cared for, especially in late pregnancy and childbirth, and this need is encoded into every woman that ever lived. And the instinct to care for others is encoded into every woman that ever lived.
Guess what: government does not provide care. Government is in the business of chasing enemies and gifting friends. So when JK Rowling wants government to care for women she is whistling in the dark. Government doesn’t do care.
So what do we do? I believe that we must return to the pre-welfare-state social arrangements for the care of women. That means families, neighbors, mutual-aid societies, benefactors. And it also means a culture that protects and cares for girls and women, as in protection from sexual aggression and sexual license, and liberating women from having to “put out,” in the immortal words of Blanche DuBois.
In other words, I am saying that back in the day, before the modern state, women were protected and cared for by “traditional society.” Its two critical features were first: no nookie; and second: you tap her, you got her, for life. You will notice that in JK Rowling’s youth she got to drink and party and have a grand old time, until it ended up with a pregnancy and a thug of lover, partner, husband — in that order.
“Care for each other.”
But government doesn’t provide care, and partying uni students don’t care for each other, and young men skilled in getting young women to “put out” don’t care.
It can’t be that hard, this “Care for each other.” But Sen. Patty Murray blathering on about Us and Them and taxing trillionaires is not going to help. She and her pals are going to Make Things Worse.
| Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:13:57 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
He runs usgovernmentspending.com, the go-to resource for government finance data, and is a frequent contributor to the American Thinker. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Click for more.
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
The more politics, the more misery.
Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. — Donald Kingsbury
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: Four Laws: The Limits of Government in the Economy
