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J. D. Vance’s Insult to America is to Propagandize American Modernism
Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not just an idea,” Vance said in his introductory speech to the American people…
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Populist Nationalism Will Not Deliver; We have been Here Before, many times…
Recently, June 2024, I participated in an online workshop on Conservative Public History international forum. It revealed that, what we are experiencing in Australia, is the same across the planet: “Across the world right-wing popular political movements are harnessing the past as a means for attacking and challenging liberal consensus.” It is neo-conservative propaganda, that…
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Middletown. If you really want to understand, instead of the political propaganda bullshit
J.D. Vance’s hometown, Middletown, Ohio, if you want to really understand…(from Wikipedia) Middletown studies were sociological case studies of the white residents of the city of Muncie in Indiana initially conducted by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, husband-and-wife sociologists. The Lynds’ findings were detailed in Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, published in 1929, and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural…
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From a quote from out in the world…This is what global persons feel.
“In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not allowed to hear the full history of…
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Centrism (now called neopopulism): I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024
Dear Friends, and I thank Graham Perrett’s office for its recent kind support, and several friends who made sure I have not gone under, I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024: Gift Article (I paid for it, the least you can do is read) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/briefing/centrism-washington-neopopulism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU0.99mB.4xpAfXEjbZQR&smid=url-share So, I said it back in March with the emerging…
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The Propaganda War on liberalism
Dear friends, Today, at a BBQ, a young woman suggested that the edifices of peace in the middle east be forbade, due to her reading of biblical history. When I challenged her on an alternative — postmillennial — reading, she clammed up. So I let her know of my friendly expertise in evangelical history…
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How intelligent and sensible politics is done
This is how intelligent and sensible politics is done. “In return, the university will form an advisory committee made up of student, faculty, and staff members to ‘provide a conduit to engagement’ with its investment committee; answer questions “to the best of its knowledge and to the extent legally possible” about its investments…
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What is “Stupidity” and Why it is Not a Dismissal in My Philosophic-Sociological History Work
From ALEX BOLLINGER, “George Santos Boils In Rage After He Was Tricked Into Celebrating Pedophilia,” APRIL 25 2024, in CityWatch. “LGBTQ – Disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY) is willing to say anything to make a buck. He even made a video celebrating NAMBLA, the National Man/Boy Love Association, an organization that…
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It is What I Have Been Saying: Tillich
Paul Tillich, in 1944, spoke to the history of Existential Thought (attached below). Incredibly, it is exactly what I have stated in the one paragraph below. It is what I have been saying for the last two years, for those who I have sought attention from, and I have been treated like shit with their…
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It is Not Only Me Saying It: The Now-Open Dirty (corrupt) Secret of National-State and University Governance
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-gutting-of-the-liberal-arts?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_9519245_nl_Academe-Today_date_20240409&cid=at&sra=true READ!!!! THINK!!!! ACT!!!! David C.K. Curry, The Gutting of the Liberal Arts, The Chronicle of Higher Education, APRIL 8, 2024 Let me spell this out to the Prime Minister, the Premier, the Government Ministers, and all elected representative officials at the three level of governments, and the manipulative-thinking bureaucrats,…