Dr David McGrogan considers the civil war erupting in the Conservative Party between national and liberal conservatism and says the former is bound to triumph because the latter is a contradiction in terms.
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The galling thing about being controlled, inspected, commanded, etc., by our bureaucratic and political overlords is not the encroachment on our liberty. It's the fact that we’re being governed by absolute half-wits.
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“Fortune thus blinds the minds of men when she does not wish them to resist her power.”
Livy
It seems quite evident to many that the United States has been consumed by the same ambition and thus fate with that of the Roman Empire. That one of the most notorious periods in history for its extensive imperialism, corruption and barbaric slavery are the blueprint for what the founding fathers used in forming the moral constitution of the United States, and thus it has been rotten to its core from its very inception.
Gilbert Mercier
Counterpunch
If humans were largely moral and ethical beings, then globalization could be a workable proposition. Unfortunately, the dark behavioral narcissism expressed by compulsive greed and an infinite appetite for power seems to have become the guiding precept of our collective nightmare.
