Showing posts with label america joins civilization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label america joins civilization. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Pepe's Faustian pact

L'Arroseur Arrosé: The people whose wallets will be drained in the new war on “the rich” are high-earning, but hardly plutocratic professionals like engineers, doctors, lawyers, small business owners and the like. Once seen as the bastion of the middle class, and exemplars of upward mobility, these people are emerging as the modern day “kulaks,” the affluent peasants ruthlessly targeted by Stalin in the early 1930s.

Sunday, September 09, 2012

de Tocqueville had it all figured out

.. when he wrote: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. The time has come, boys.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Charly puts on the brass knuckles

This guy Menino isn’t the mayor of Soviet Novosibirsk or Kampong Cham under the Khmer Rouge, but of Boston, Massachusetts. Nevertheless, he shares the commissars’ view that in order to operate even a modest and politically inconsequential business it is necessary to demonstrate that one is in full ideological compliance with party orthodoxy.

Buchanan goes Spenglerian

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Pepe's horizontal, autonomous, leaderless, modified-consensus-based system

If elected Democrats dare associate their sagging party with this project, they need immediately to consult their nearest psychiatrist and political consultant, in that order. Occupy Wall Street is toxic and pathetic, the perfect distillation of an American Left in extremis. Go for it, Charly. This is May 1968, all over again!

Tuesday, August 02, 2011