Interesting. It seems to me that it has moved to the "right" over the past 18 months or so, which is understandable because most media tends to adjust its tone to appeal to the mass of its readers. For a site founded by centrist Democrats, the TFP certainly goes out of its way to respect and/or appeal to MAGA populism.
Acknowledge something is deeply wrong, propose a plan to fix it, and name an enemy. Isn’t that what the left has been doing for ages, and alienating masses in the process: Something is wrong—white supremacy, toxic masculinity, systemic racism, Trump, the GOP, Trump, Trump, Trump (and anyone who voted for him); Propose a plan—DEI, 1619, suppression of alternative viewpoints, demonize masculinity and feminize little boys and young men; Name an enemy—anyone who does not agree with the A to Z of the modern, western left. I am befuddled. What part of this has the Democratic Party as it currently exists not done?
The cluster of ideas and views espoused by Karl Marx and Friederich Engels and implemented by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and Hugo Chavez. Chavez is probably the most apt comparison, and the most likely path for a Sanders presidency.
No they are not happening because Sanders lost. The man took his honeymoon in the Soviet Union and supported both Chavez and the Sandinistas. He’s never once said that US victory in the Cold War was good. He explicitly supports wealth expropriation, and he frequently uses the language of class warfare. Obviously, he’s concealing the full scope of his totalitarian ambitions.
The author of today's post voted for Bernie Sanders. This proves two things. He may have left the Democratic/Socialist party, but he is still a glassy-eyed, drool on his chin, left-wing nut case. He voted with zombie-like, brain-dead adulation for a communist, Bernie Sanders.
When campaigning for the Senate, Bernie Sanders said that being a millionaire senator is immoral. Bernie is a millionaire senator. Maybe he should divest his millions just to prove he isn't as immoral or a hypocrite.
When he was mayor of Burlington, he kept a Soviet flag in his office. Bernie has said he supported and liked the bloody dictators of Russia and the mass murderer Fidel Castro.
Has the author, River Page, ever done his homework before voting?
I voted for The Donald, but I did it with my eyes open. I despise Trump, but I despise the Dem/Soc party more with their Naziest policies trying to stifle free speech, DEI, CRT, Woke, drag queens reading to kindergarteners, mutilating sexually confused minors, and too many more to mention.
Agree with your post except for your declared hatred of Trump. Right now, he's the only thing standing between us and a government that would consign us to woke oblivion. I have my own criticisms of him, but he's willing to absorb the slings and arrows that would otherwise hit the sane, and for that I'm not just relieved but thankful.
I don't hate anybody. I think I am incapable of hatred. There is a difference between despise and hatred. I think Trump is a megalomaniac who has no sense of propriety. He hawks his Bitcoin and Trump products out of the WH and accepting a $400 million jet, is wrong, and I think these things demeans the office of the president.
His ego won't allow him to take criticism, and he lashes out at anyone who dares to criticise him. I find that petty.
Samoans only wear "grass-skirts", which are actually made from pandanus ("grass skirt" is considered derogtory in Fa'a Samoa) during certain special ceremonies. Having known well Napoleone Tuiteleleapaga, one of Mead's primary informants, (convicted murderer, composer of the Samoan National anthem, and "bush lawyer"), when I lived and practiced in Fagatogo, more interesting is that he, and his fellow Ta'u teen-agers, told Ms. Mead exactly what they quickly discerned she wanted to hear about their sexual and other habits, thinking it hysterical, as teenagers world-wide can appreciate, to put one over on her. Millions have thus been mislead by "Coming of Age in Samoa". Nap and friends perpetuated perhaps the world's greatest practical joke.
In actuality, although "moetotolo" and other "exotic" practices do exist, in many ways the Samoans are as prudish (devout Christians, one and all) as any other culture. They have their "Taupo" customs, honored as the "Village Virgin", etc.
Exactly! Mead may have only documented interviewing girls, but any competent anthropologist would, of course, also survey boys. Nap and I were too close, nor would he have had any ill motive, confiding in a 24 year old VISTA lawyer in 1970, before Freeman, to confabulate.
They lost long term Democrat Dr. Naomi Wolf in 2020. She got canceled for speaking out against the madness everywhere. One of the few voices of reason that I remember.
The Dems also lost lifelong left-voting middle aged females like me. Their refusal to acknowledge the damage to society caused by men self-identifying "as females" has made me into a one-issue voter. In my upstate district, the Dem candidate for state government refused to include this topic in debates with her GOP opponent. She won by much slimmer margin last fall. The fact that The Free Press refuses to review the documentary on trans widows, Behind the Looking Glass (Lime Soda Films youtube channel, Vaishnavi Sundar, cancelled auteur) still sticks in my throat. My data, the only in the world, on women who divorced a suddenly "female identifying" husband, reveals, with information from 68 of us, that these men are violent over 35% of the time. Brianna (formerly John Flynnt) Wu gets a pass from TFP, as "one of the good ones." Here's what I'd like TFP and Wu to watch and recognize:
Men are not at risk if a female claiming male identity enters their locker room or bathroom in the same way women are at risk when a male is in our private, women-only space. However, men don't like it when females enter and cause confusion. Gay men are starting to complain about the women with this ideation claiming to be gay men and saying same sex attracted men need to learn about vaginal intercourse. I find women who claim to be non-binary or "trans" to be aggressive, obnoxious and demanding.
The voters that still reside and control the Democrat party (the 'elites') haven't made any inroads as to why they lost the election. They still don't see any need to change. It's still that their voters just don't understand. . .So this 'group' of young men would have to change the party elites who hold the purse strings. I don't see this happening any time soon.
Bernie Sanders has now aligned himself with the remaining Democrat elites and continually proves he is now one himself (ah, but Sanders is still snubbed by the elites).
After what the Democrat party pulled during the last 3 election cycles they should be allowed to tumble and die. Maybe then these 'new' Dems might have a chance.
The targeted Jewish Boulder firebombing victims of the Islamic terrorist should sue the NYT & CNN for journalistic malpractice- for running Hamas propaganda false news stories that rile up these antisemitic terrorists who take actual physical action to “globalize the intifada” in America
For a concise preview of the AI future of war, read The Sentient Machine, which will clue you in to the coming world in which no humans will be allowed to be involved with war. We're all far too slow. Major battles will last 30 seconds. It's amusing to contemplate the clueless human race drifting along helplessly into this AI future in which there will not only be 30 second battles, but also ultimately no jobs for anyone in any current field. Robots will be better than Seinfeld, and better than your trusty plumber as well. All within the next few decades. With luck, the machines will tolerate us, but who would be surprised if our irrationality was so irritating to them that they simply wiped us all out. As you know, the most serious AI geniuses fear just that. Long before Musk can get anyone to Mars, we could all be history.
Bari's interview of Rod Dreher was excellent. And, yes, Mr. Dreher comes across as a decent, thoughtful individual. (I plan to read his book, "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents.") Where he lost me, however, was his unfortunate suggestion that there exists anywhere close to a comparably dangerous "wokeness" arising on the extreme right. In fact, it is precisely the principles held dear by Mr. Dreher -- as well as JD Vance and Christopher Rufo, both of whom he effusively praises -- that protect against the "threat" Dreher warns against. With all due respect, I find his concern about a rising "wokeness" on the right to be ridiculous. Ain't gonna happen.
His initial FP article referred to the “woke right” but he has revised the article to minimize that term, using “radical right” instead. Unusual revision.
Wish you'd tell him this on his substack, as so many of his readers (myself included) have. His blindspot on the issue seems Irreparable, and he is incapable of recognizing that Bari has duped him.
I feel like TFP is sliding further left. I don't mind examining all sides but I feel like there's a decided slant lately.
Interesting. It seems to me that it has moved to the "right" over the past 18 months or so, which is understandable because most media tends to adjust its tone to appeal to the mass of its readers. For a site founded by centrist Democrats, the TFP certainly goes out of its way to respect and/or appeal to MAGA populism.
Acknowledge something is deeply wrong, propose a plan to fix it, and name an enemy. Isn’t that what the left has been doing for ages, and alienating masses in the process: Something is wrong—white supremacy, toxic masculinity, systemic racism, Trump, the GOP, Trump, Trump, Trump (and anyone who voted for him); Propose a plan—DEI, 1619, suppression of alternative viewpoints, demonize masculinity and feminize little boys and young men; Name an enemy—anyone who does not agree with the A to Z of the modern, western left. I am befuddled. What part of this has the Democratic Party as it currently exists not done?
Lol. Good!
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/1CUB1SNRij
So, win back men by becoming Marxist demagogues. Hope you get sent to the labor camps.
What is Marxism?
The cluster of ideas and views espoused by Karl Marx and Friederich Engels and implemented by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and Hugo Chavez. Chavez is probably the most apt comparison, and the most likely path for a Sanders presidency.
Right....and those are currently happening in U.S.?
What among the "cluster of ideas" does the Sanders represent?
No they are not happening because Sanders lost. The man took his honeymoon in the Soviet Union and supported both Chavez and the Sandinistas. He’s never once said that US victory in the Cold War was good. He explicitly supports wealth expropriation, and he frequently uses the language of class warfare. Obviously, he’s concealing the full scope of his totalitarian ambitions.
Well, not sure what honeymoon location has to do with anything.
By "wealth expropriation" do you mean billionaires paying taxes?
Perhaps "trickle down" economics is the preferred method, as it as been so successful.
Emulating Bernie Sanders? You seriously wrote that?? Good luck gaining back male democrats.
My take on the article:
The author of today's post voted for Bernie Sanders. This proves two things. He may have left the Democratic/Socialist party, but he is still a glassy-eyed, drool on his chin, left-wing nut case. He voted with zombie-like, brain-dead adulation for a communist, Bernie Sanders.
When campaigning for the Senate, Bernie Sanders said that being a millionaire senator is immoral. Bernie is a millionaire senator. Maybe he should divest his millions just to prove he isn't as immoral or a hypocrite.
As far as being a Communist, read this: https://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/
When he was mayor of Burlington, he kept a Soviet flag in his office. Bernie has said he supported and liked the bloody dictators of Russia and the mass murderer Fidel Castro.
Has the author, River Page, ever done his homework before voting?
I voted for The Donald, but I did it with my eyes open. I despise Trump, but I despise the Dem/Soc party more with their Naziest policies trying to stifle free speech, DEI, CRT, Woke, drag queens reading to kindergarteners, mutilating sexually confused minors, and too many more to mention.
Agree with your post except for your declared hatred of Trump. Right now, he's the only thing standing between us and a government that would consign us to woke oblivion. I have my own criticisms of him, but he's willing to absorb the slings and arrows that would otherwise hit the sane, and for that I'm not just relieved but thankful.
I don't hate anybody. I think I am incapable of hatred. There is a difference between despise and hatred. I think Trump is a megalomaniac who has no sense of propriety. He hawks his Bitcoin and Trump products out of the WH and accepting a $400 million jet, is wrong, and I think these things demeans the office of the president.
His ego won't allow him to take criticism, and he lashes out at anyone who dares to criticise him. I find that petty.
What is "woke oblivion?"
Samoans only wear "grass-skirts", which are actually made from pandanus ("grass skirt" is considered derogtory in Fa'a Samoa) during certain special ceremonies. Having known well Napoleone Tuiteleleapaga, one of Mead's primary informants, (convicted murderer, composer of the Samoan National anthem, and "bush lawyer"), when I lived and practiced in Fagatogo, more interesting is that he, and his fellow Ta'u teen-agers, told Ms. Mead exactly what they quickly discerned she wanted to hear about their sexual and other habits, thinking it hysterical, as teenagers world-wide can appreciate, to put one over on her. Millions have thus been mislead by "Coming of Age in Samoa". Nap and friends perpetuated perhaps the world's greatest practical joke.
In actuality, although "moetotolo" and other "exotic" practices do exist, in many ways the Samoans are as prudish (devout Christians, one and all) as any other culture. They have their "Taupo" customs, honored as the "Village Virgin", etc.
O oe pepelo!
It turns out Margaret Mead's Samoan work was a work of fiction. She was a fraud.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201702/margaret-mead-and-the-great-samoan-nurture-hoax?msockid=1f548487ee886114284c9150ef066020
Exactly! Mead may have only documented interviewing girls, but any competent anthropologist would, of course, also survey boys. Nap and I were too close, nor would he have had any ill motive, confiding in a 24 year old VISTA lawyer in 1970, before Freeman, to confabulate.
They lost long term Democrat Dr. Naomi Wolf in 2020. She got canceled for speaking out against the madness everywhere. One of the few voices of reason that I remember.
The Dems also lost lifelong left-voting middle aged females like me. Their refusal to acknowledge the damage to society caused by men self-identifying "as females" has made me into a one-issue voter. In my upstate district, the Dem candidate for state government refused to include this topic in debates with her GOP opponent. She won by much slimmer margin last fall. The fact that The Free Press refuses to review the documentary on trans widows, Behind the Looking Glass (Lime Soda Films youtube channel, Vaishnavi Sundar, cancelled auteur) still sticks in my throat. My data, the only in the world, on women who divorced a suddenly "female identifying" husband, reveals, with information from 68 of us, that these men are violent over 35% of the time. Brianna (formerly John Flynnt) Wu gets a pass from TFP, as "one of the good ones." Here's what I'd like TFP and Wu to watch and recognize:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPvkZqkaq14&t=217s
It would be interesting to see what % of the trans community is identifying as women.
Interesting that those identifying as male don't seem to get people upset as much.
Men are not at risk if a female claiming male identity enters their locker room or bathroom in the same way women are at risk when a male is in our private, women-only space. However, men don't like it when females enter and cause confusion. Gay men are starting to complain about the women with this ideation claiming to be gay men and saying same sex attracted men need to learn about vaginal intercourse. I find women who claim to be non-binary or "trans" to be aggressive, obnoxious and demanding.
It would be interesting to find out the % of male - female trans people in America.
Also, the % that have raped women in bathrooms and lockerrooms.
The voters that still reside and control the Democrat party (the 'elites') haven't made any inroads as to why they lost the election. They still don't see any need to change. It's still that their voters just don't understand. . .So this 'group' of young men would have to change the party elites who hold the purse strings. I don't see this happening any time soon.
Bernie Sanders has now aligned himself with the remaining Democrat elites and continually proves he is now one himself (ah, but Sanders is still snubbed by the elites).
After what the Democrat party pulled during the last 3 election cycles they should be allowed to tumble and die. Maybe then these 'new' Dems might have a chance.
The targeted Jewish Boulder firebombing victims of the Islamic terrorist should sue the NYT & CNN for journalistic malpractice- for running Hamas propaganda false news stories that rile up these antisemitic terrorists who take actual physical action to “globalize the intifada” in America
Yes, Elon wants even deeper cuts in spending. Can you imagine the outrage that would follow?
God, Greta is awful
I can’t believe that TFP gave space in its daily newsletter to Greta Thunberg. Give me a break.
For a concise preview of the AI future of war, read The Sentient Machine, which will clue you in to the coming world in which no humans will be allowed to be involved with war. We're all far too slow. Major battles will last 30 seconds. It's amusing to contemplate the clueless human race drifting along helplessly into this AI future in which there will not only be 30 second battles, but also ultimately no jobs for anyone in any current field. Robots will be better than Seinfeld, and better than your trusty plumber as well. All within the next few decades. With luck, the machines will tolerate us, but who would be surprised if our irrationality was so irritating to them that they simply wiped us all out. As you know, the most serious AI geniuses fear just that. Long before Musk can get anyone to Mars, we could all be history.
Bari's interview of Rod Dreher was excellent. And, yes, Mr. Dreher comes across as a decent, thoughtful individual. (I plan to read his book, "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents.") Where he lost me, however, was his unfortunate suggestion that there exists anywhere close to a comparably dangerous "wokeness" arising on the extreme right. In fact, it is precisely the principles held dear by Mr. Dreher -- as well as JD Vance and Christopher Rufo, both of whom he effusively praises -- that protect against the "threat" Dreher warns against. With all due respect, I find his concern about a rising "wokeness" on the right to be ridiculous. Ain't gonna happen.
His initial FP article referred to the “woke right” but he has revised the article to minimize that term, using “radical right” instead. Unusual revision.
His purported clarification is anything but.
Wish you'd tell him this on his substack, as so many of his readers (myself included) have. His blindspot on the issue seems Irreparable, and he is incapable of recognizing that Bari has duped him.