Tout Alors

In property rights is implicit the right to buy and sell what one has bought. When it comes to ticket touting this basic right is violated by the State quite flagrantly. If you buy a ticket to some event and sell it at a profit why the hell should the State have anything to say about it or criminalise such an entrepreneurial act?  I have yet to hear why selling a ticket one has bought is any different from selling anything else one has bought and this wanton demonisation of ticket touts by governments is as sinister and pernicious as it is profoundly immoral and unethical. An assault on free trade should not be countenanced for first they came for the ticket touts...

The Madness of King Donald

For a President of the United States to attempt to turn it from the melting pot of the world to North Korea and prevent Americans purchasing cheap products from abroad is so tyranical it beggars belief and is the reason  why psychiatric tests on Trump should be mandatory. When they come back positivie as they only can,  he can then  be unceremoniously bundled out of the Whitehouse. To try and pretend that he likes Ayn Rand and the Fountainhead as he has does -presumably on the grounds it is about architects and building -  is  is beyond risible and shows his concrete bound view of the world where abstractions,concepts and ideas are completely absent from his mental realm. This is a dangerous autocrat subject to capricious whims and arbitrary dictat issuing which is why he has such an affinity with Putin another thuggish demagogue who invokes religion to justify his psychopathy.

Ukip Nutter

The Ukip leader Nuttal has already been exposed pretending to live in a house in Stoke he has never set foot in to curry favour with the electorate in the area for the upcoming bi election and there is now doubt about his claims to have been at the Hillsborough football disaster when he was a child where drunken Liverpool football hooligans trampled one another to death in a case that has recently been whitwashed after a concerted politically motivated campaign by the surviving families. Why would someone pretend to be at a football disaster other than to get some perverted cachet from shroud waving about it?The man looks a plonker and  confirms the fact when he opens his mouth and that vile ridiculous absurd scouse accent comes out of it.Ukip must indeed have a death wish.

Kim ill Trump

Its hard to see how a mentally unstable narcissist like Trump is going to be able to deal with a mentally unstable narcissist Kilm ill North Korea. This is a man who thinks you can do a deal with the Devil and has spent his life cronying up to every authority for economic gain. The man would not know a moral principle if it kicked him in the teeth. Now more than ever we need principled ideological stand against evil whether it be the theocratic Islamic Nazi regime of Iran or the psychopathic state of North Korea. Expect only bungling and empty bombast from the intellectual pygmy who has inveighled himself into the Whitehouse with empty braggadocio and verbal wind. His refusal to even mention Pakistan and the Gulf state,Saudi Arabia is indication that no morality is governing his actions,just arbitrary knee jerk emotionalist spasm and his economic ties with Saudi Arabia show a president hopelessly compromised and mired in corruption which could well ultimately and inexorably lead towards impeachment proceedings down the line.

Trump Economic Jihad against America?

Building an economic wall round America to keep competition out is assinine economic illiteracy,economic chauvinism,waving a white flag and cowering in a protectionist bunker,an act of national suicide. Maybe the judges will rule that it is unconstitutional? If not the repercussions for the US could well be greater than 9/11 but all the worse in that the economic jihad will have been self inflicted.

Religion and other lies

Elderly people who have been scammed are very reluctant to admit  or talk about it,ashamed and embarrassed at the credulity involved and the same applies to those caught up in a cult,it is a source of embarrassment to them.For the same reason many people hold on to the same belief all their lives as to reject it would involve having to admit that they had been wrong all that time and this could explain the hold religion has on its glassy eyed adherents but also just as worrying the same could well apply to people's political allegiances.Political beliefs resemble religious ones in that they bypass the cerebral cortex and exist in a non rational locus.The connection between religious and political beleifs has already been made here -how else could people blindly accept the idea of self sacrifice,altruism,man being his brother's keeper explicit in all collectivist statist socialist fascist ideologies had he not already been softened up by religion to accept such a notion.

Ponzi Faith

No matter how big and seemingly plausible a Ponzi scheme is sooner or later it will be exposed and its operators thrown in jail. Bernie Madoff was the biggest perpetrator of Ponzi fraud but there are gazillions of other smaller operators and they all come a cropper sooner or later but imagine a fail- safe Ponzi scheme that only promised reward after death -the ultimate never to be exposed Ponzi! I wish I had thought of that one ha ha.The religious folk got there first however and it has been the gift that keeps on giving for centuries and they are still plying their lucrative trade in fraud to this very day.There is a sucker born every minute said the illusionist PT Barnum and it is upon such credulity that every religion builds its church. One is tempted to say against one's libertarian instincts that such such hucksters should be banned from this fraud of extracting monies under false pretenses but for some reason they have legal immunity so it just goes on. Will there ever come a day when the human race leaves behind this primitive urge for immortality and drops its need for superstition and false comfort and becomes truly human and rational I wonder?

Thou Shalt Not Question Religion

Religions are constructed on the most flimsiest of foundations,another indication of their human provenance.Take  Christ for example,a deluded psychotic who heard voices,thought he could perform miracles and heal people -(corroborated incidentally only by ignorant uneducated peasants)  and became a human sacrifice nailed to a cross to save the sins of the human race - on this basis was created the biggest religion of all time -an absurdity upon an absurdity which even a cursory  examination of would expose as an obvious fraud and nonsense on its very face. This stuff can only be approached in the same way my English teacher taught me to approach the reading of  a novel -with a willing suspension of disbelief,something which apparently religious devotees are all too ready to do.This is the sine qua non of belief for the minute you begin to look critically at this stuff it falls apart.

Muhamud -an illiterate epileptic peasant with a deviant penchant for little girls and by all accounts a serial killer starts to hear voices and another bizarre insane religion is born. The greatest enemy of religion is critical thought,turn it for one second against any of the world religions and their ridiculous claims and assertions crumble like pie crust.

The Cancer of Religious Faith

When I was a believer in what I can now see was a very vaguely defined  Christianity, I will freely admit to hating the humanity. It really does go with the territory. From the bible,surely the most evil man made document ever we are told 'love of the world is emnity with God'. Hatred of the human race is therefor mandatory for a believer! I was into the very deservedly little known  self styled guru and all round fake called Roy Masters who I have had the displeasure to write about before and he would come out with such gems as 'even for the best of us life is a living hell'  and 'heaven forbid I should die before my wife and leave her alone on this miserable earth' and 'my wife understands people better than me because she has a snake's eye view of things' and so on, ad nauseam. This is the pure hatred that religiosity engenders as a matter of course,a malevolent world view,toxic and misanthropic, replete with bile and rancour yet presenting  itself at the same time as benign and loving. Who needs a philosophy like that and where can it possibly lead but to nihilism and self imiseration?The record of all religions and the horror they have left in their wake down the centuries is hardly surprising animated as they all are with such a malign eschatology.

National Health Shipman Service?

We do not pay other people's house or life insurance so why do we pay other people's health insurance? Why is the health service run on a socialist ideology that has been widely discredited, exploded and rejected pretty much around the world except for North Korea and Cuba? Why is the media silent on this matter? We tell our children that Santa Claus doesn't exist sooner or later don't we? Maybe we should give a name to our collective denial about the NHS -how about Nhsosis - an irrational fear of pointing out that socialism cannot run a whelk stall let alone a complex health system?

It is thought tasteless to invoke Harold Shipman re the NHS? No what is tasteless,nay downright immoral obscene and evil is to knowingly attempt to operate a health system on socialist principles when you know fully well and for a fact that it  cannot possibly work and will result in the deaths of millions of people but will serve the most important purpose of all, namely allowing you to feel good and virtuous  about your belief in socialism - that, I would submit, is beyond evil.

Up On Housing Project Hill of Beans

The housing market crisis! What market? Nothing is less of a market than the housing market. And have you noticed how every area the State is involved in is under rationing? Education -do you feel postcode lucky Punk? Health - NHS -its not even funny anymore as since its inception it has been rationed and lurched from on crisis to another to the point now of possible complete collapse, the socialist dream cum nightmare collapsing like the Berlin wall.

Housing has been quasi nationalised since the end of the second world war with massive council housing building,then the housing benefit system,regulations planning restrictions,so called nimbyism, environmentalist obstructionism,green belt fetishisation, taxation,every such State intervention another distortion of an already totally compromised and hobbled market and endless governement 5 year plans has created a Sovietised housing system leaving generations homeless and priced out of a rigged market.

What's the chance that a State that cannot punish criminals,fight wars -the very things it exists to do where necessary is going to be able to solve a housing crisis that it created to begin with?

Brussels Scum V Westminster Scum

The reason it is desirable to return powers from Brussels to Westminster is not because the latter has any more probity than the former as the same dictatorial mindset prevails in both places, but because more control can be exerted over politicians on the national level (although that is hard enough) than in some supra national body that is accountable to no one and uses the very opaqueness of its bureaucratic structures to frustrate the will of its subjects which was its very original purpose of course. Those Westminster scum who favour the UK remaining in the EU and are doing their darndest to achieve it know their days are numbered when departure is effected as they will then be accountable directly to the UK electorate thus bringing their power lusting machinnations to an end.

Faith Schools - Child Abuse?

The man-made evil of religion finds its greatest manifestation in Faith Schools -the deliberate and wanton indoctrination of young minds into the warped ideology of faith with its life negating misanthropism, engendering a distrust of anyone outside the particular sect in question, fostering alienation as social policy and breeding mistrust and hostility among faiths and inverting moral values in the name of a loving God. How can this be viewed as anything other than systematic institutionalised child abuse? Indeed it is no accident that religious organisations appear to specialize in actual child abuse,using the cover of their faith to avoid detection and enable them to perpetrate their heinous life destroying depradations upon their innocent and captive charges with seeming impunity

In the 21st century it is surely way past time this  promulgation of pernicious primitive.anti scientific anti reason irrationalist obscurantism was no longer sanctioned and  financed in the name of education by taxpayers leaving those who seek to hobble their offspring with this deleterious indoctrination to get their funding from their church and pay for it themselves rather than implicating society at large in this egregious act of superstition pedaling and mind control.

Give Me Inequality or Give Me Death

If you want equality go to f****** North Korea. Inequality is good,nay essential as a distinguisher between good and bad, competence and incompetence, quality and dross, achievement and non achievement,industry and sloth,creativity and rote imitation. Far from seeking to eradicate it by government intervention it should be cherished as an invaluable indicator of value versus non value. The very reason the Left hate it is the reason we should value and seek to protect it by laissez faire hands off State delimitation. The equality drive is a collectivist argument from scarcity -there is only a limited amount of stuff and its government's job to 'redistibute' it 'fairly' ie take from those who have created it and give to those who have not. The only claim those who have not created it have on those who have is their need which trumps justice,equity and all concepts in a civilised society of moral right.

As a cursory glance at reality will show there is no finite stuff,it is created by the individual mind and is limited only by the extent of knowledge and creativity he or she can bring to bear on any given endeavour. The idea that the fruits of their labour should be taken from them and given to those who have done nothing beyond just existing indicates a culture and social system bereft of moral principles and values which has become a predatory communistic collectivist dystopia. This is what is held up as morality and desiderata by our political elites.

UK Republicans: Seize the Day!

If not now, when? On the eve of the sucession to the throne of a man who all by all accounts is mentally unstable, talks to plants, thinks the only problem with Islam is that we are not accommodating enough to it,subscribes to the arrant charlatanism and quakery of homeopathic 'medicine' and the irrational anti scientific pseudo science of environmentalism and who seems to spend most of his time penning rambling semi coherent missives to ministers, breaching every convention of non royalist intervention in political affairs the time has never been riper for a concerted political organisational philosophical intellectual assault on the monarchy as an immoral excrescence of a bygone tyranny long due for abolition.

In my 35 year close interest in politics I can honestly say I have never even heard or seen a debate or critique of the UK monarchy in this country which is a staggering indictment of our media in a so called free country illustrating  the sinister extent the monarchy has made the press a lickspittle to its will and has gained an unhealthy ascendancy over the intelligentsia who seem happy to play the role of court sycophants and lackeys to this corrupt and morribund institution that likes nothing better than to hobnob with fellow royals in Saudi Arabia with their blood soaked tyrannies and bronze age barbarism.

Now is the time to launch an all out assault as I say on the British Monarchy and its putrid toxic legacy of parasitism and arbitrary rule, representing as it does everything that is backward and intellectually sclerotic in our culture and public life and to end the cringing forelock tugging obesiance we show towards this tawdry criminal family sitting on vast appropriated wealth and sucking the life force out of its hapless captive tax enslaved subjects.

3 Jeers for Democracy?

Democracy has done such a great publicity job on itself that most people think an absence of it can only lead to tyranny. Well it could of course but it ain't necessarily so. How about freedom instead? The need to avoid this debate is paramount for the Democracy advocates as the minute the subject is broached one can see the fallacy of the end of Democracy leads to tyranny argument for what it is -an attempt to scare people off from even contemplating what could replace it and  safeguard all the precious things such as liberty and freedom that Democracy has deprived people of from its very inception and miss characterisation as the greatest manifestation of civilization - rather than what it actually represents I would posit,its nadir.

How  anyone could have thought that mob rule through the ballot box would lead to a civil polity is beyond belief but maybe Democracy itself is indeed best understood as a secular religion - the Augustinian I believe because it is unbelievable - but it certainly defies all rational analysis.If politics has become a religion there is an increasing sign however that more and more people are becoming agnostic towards it if not downright atheistic.The time has never been more favourable for a movement to emerge against the very concept of Democracy and its mob rule illiberal manifestations.

The present semi global insurgency movement as I have repeated many times is the very antithesis of such a movement for although it dresses itself as anti establishment it is the most establishment statist illiberal composition imaginable and will set back the freedom movement for decades if the idea that it is pro liberty becomes the established wisdom. Never has any movement flown under such false colours which makes it profoundly dangerous in that it parasites off the concept of liberty whilst robbing people of it at the same time, and most calamitously of all when it leads to disaster as it only can, people will then fatally conclude  that liberty itself is suspect and reject it. This is why it is so paramount now to take a stand for liberty and individual rights and point out that the biggest threat to them is the twin evils of Trump alt rightism and Democracy itself -the first of course being merely a logical conclusion and ugly excrescence of the second rather than its alleged opposite.

19th century Politics V 21st Century Technology

What a disjunct between politics and technology -the horse and buggy politics of class conflict, the narrow sectarian tribalism of the old defunct moribund political structures and the liberation of the internet. This mismatch is so stark between technology and fustian bankrupt ideologies of collectivism and statism that it will not be long before the latter is swept away as the detritus of history to be replaced by bespoke individualism, the small state and freedom from the tyranny of top down centralised political control.The latter is only kept going by lazy unthinking tradition and the inertia of groupthink. The corrupt political classes are taking their last gasp as  their obituaries are already being written.

God V America

A country built on the principle of a separation of Church and State cannot elect an atheist president and the latter is barred from office as an unbeliever -incredible! A man can be a known and self avowed sexual predator,and mysoginist but only has to mouth some asinine religious sentiments to indicate he is a' reformed' character and gets voted in as president.Should it not be religious belief that bars someone from holding high office or becoming a top  judge?

The only wall that should be erected is the Jeffersonian one between Church and State and to so violate Constitutional principles by dragging God into public office is one of the most flagrant violations of core principles in the history of the US. Do we now have a Theocracy,a Democracy or a Republic?

Instead of religion being a private matter between the believer and his conscience it is now used as a stepping stone  and sine qua non for political office and an atheist dare not express his belief and risks persecution and denunciation for doing so -the world is turned on its head and has become fit only for religious frauds charlatans and mountebanks -cometh the hour cometh the Trump.

Democracy or Liberty

It is no truism to say that Democracy leads to demagoguery as the alarming developments across the atlantic amply illustrate. People are becoming dimly aware that something is not quite right to say the very least with democracy, that it is throwing up disturbingly illiberal elements that pose a direct existential threat to their liberties and imperiling their lives as free citizens. Donald the sinister clown has actually - albeit unwitttingly - performed a very useful service in alerting people to the dangers of unfettered democracy in stiring up a mob mentality that can only lead to a totalitarian conclusion. Now the debate can be had about democracy and how it can deprive people of the very things is purports to defend and how it represents the biggest threat to individual rights,the very thing the Constitution was devised to protect. The fact that it has failed dismally in this regard suggests its deeply flawed nature and the need to return to first principles to correct its errors and omissions that has led to this calamitious pass. The fact that the Establishment blob is terrified that people will start such a debate is the clearest and most compelling reason why it should be had and not a minute too soon as freedom itself is drinking in the last chance saloon.

Questions

Will Messrs Wilders and Le Pen strike a death blow to Frau Merkel's Fourth Reich EU project making it crumble to dust like the Berlin Wall from  which she sprang? And should not all Americans who understand the foundations upon which their country was born tell Donald to Tear down that Wall idea - you are nicht bin ein Berliner. Although it must be said he is shaping up to be quite possibly the best President of the United States the Democrats never had.If they were not so caught up in their own emolument seeking personal struggles for power and narrow partisanship they would embrace him as one of their own and support his what are clearly socialist economic programmes and agenda dressed up in Republican language.

There is a lot of transgender political posturing and cross dressing going on but when the external garb is stripped away Democrats and Republicans are still statist ideological brothers under the skin fighting for a narrow strip of political turf upon which they can express  their narcissism of small differences.

Do the French need Le Pen?

As a corrective to the liberal drift and over-accommodation of the muslim importation in France Le Pen can be seen as a welcome tonic if only to rout the liberalist hegemony that has done so much damage to the french polity over the decades particularly with its Brussellphillia which she she will counter with a promise of a Frexit referendum. It is worth tolerating her for a season to return France back to its core secularist values that have been  compromised for so long. On the minus side of the ledger is the collectivist statist anti capitalist rightist racist  xenophobic nativism that her ideology and its cohorts embody which is itself a threat to the French Republic.From a Leftist agenda to a quasi Vichy one is not an advance but merely an exchange of one type of tyranny for another but in the round it is an improvement mostly because of the anti EU policy that Le Pen represents which could make her victory at the next election the final straw that breaks the  back of this insidious and regressive supra national institution that threatens  the rights and liberties of the whole of Europe.

Meet the New Boss?

The only good thing about the Trump, Farage ,Le pen and Wilders phenomenon is that between them they have smashed the liberal PC consensus that has so bedeviled and cast a shadow over Western culture   over the last 30 years, challenging the cosy suffocating liberal consensus,driving a coach and horses through the corrupt elite establishment with its  cronyism and illiberal hegemony. It is almost worth it to see the shock on the liberals faces as their world implode before their eyes  and their stranglehold on the culture is at last broken. Almost worth it I stress for it comes at a heavy price as what threatens to replace it is,alas, every bit as illiberal,if not worse.

It is to be rejoiced that some politicians such as Le Pen and Wilders now feel able to say what is wrong with Islam and oppose it and stand up for secular values but it is just a pity that it comes with a package deal of nativism,statism,protectionism,anti capitalism and something not far removed from crypto fascism. One step forward ten steps back in other words, for you cannot fight fire with fire, you cannot fight left wing collectivism with right wind collectivism and end up with a free liberal country that respects individual rights. Herein lies the problem.

Muslim Immigration Moratorium and other Good Ideas

A temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration into the States makes sense - until the global Jihadism problem is sorted.  Scrapping the calamitously suicidal, irresponsible masochistic Obama Iran deal as well as putting the Saudis on notice that they too will be on the sharp end of things if they persist in exporting terrorism are further sensible measures that should be swiftly activated. North Korea could possibly receive similar warnings. Nato  needs to be rebooted and the US is rightly aggrieved that it is paying for Europe's security and the latter is having a free ride at America's expense, something long overdue for remedy. And why not close down the UN altogether a ridiculous organisation that serves no purpose whatsoever but as a grandstanding bureaucratic behemoth that sucks in the wealth of nations and contains within its membership some of the most barbaric uncivil nations on earth.This is what Trump should concentrate on, not waging war against Americans with his devastating destructive anti American protectionist measures that could well plunge his country into the worst depression since the 1920's if it triggers as it inevitably must if implemented a terrible global trade war.It is to be hoped that he will be reined back by wiser counsel within his Whitehouse circle but this is mere hope indeed rather than expectation.

Trump the Anti American from Hell

There is no right  to a job or right to healthcare, but there is the right of the individual or a corporation -which is just an aggregate of the latter, to trade with other individuals and corporations across the globe.For the State in the form of the President to attempt to deny people the right to trade with whoever they want is so profoundly anti American and downright immoral and evil that it beggars belief that he should even suggest such and illiberal and statist injunction. This is the mark of the authoritarian and this attempt to bar and frustrate  free trade makes him totally unfit to hold the office of president of th United States and more deserving of the position at the head of a third world banana republic.

The State and War : What is it good for?

As I have stated previously the State does a million and one things it has no business doing whatsoever but the very few delimited  things it is properly mandated to do it does very very badly indeed. Take war as a prime and horrifically infamous example re both the US and the UK.The Middle East cataclysmic debacle  speaks for itself as an object lesson lifted right out of the Handbook of How Not to Fight Wars -every conceivable error of judgment objectives and execution is on sickening display rendering both our countries veritable laughing stocks around the world, a standing joke,an unserious player, a rag tag Dad's army of serial incompetents,faux combatants and blowhards,reducing our once respective armed forces in the public' eyes to a source of national shame and ignominy and making our enemies strong and emboldened by our very feebleness and rank amateurish incompetence and thus endagering our national security going forward and making it far more likely that said enemies will further trespass against us with what they will rightly suppose will be impunity.

This sorry state of affairs is down to of course to political bungling and incoherent policy objectives and the Vietnam Syndrome. We simply do not have great war leaders anymore,no Churchill or Thatcher prepared to engage in all out war, a take no prisoners, wham bam, in and out,smash and defeat the enemy with no holes barred, the Hiroshima spirit,not the insane masochistic milque toast namby pamby soldiers as politically correct social workers converting the natives and savages to Democracy ye gods. The armies have been feminised,women on the front line (their male counterparts refer to them secretly as the WRAC -weekly ration of c###)  -this is how to lose a war before it has even begun, it is a form of national suicide disguised as foreign policy. It is for this reason that I advocate no more foreign interventions until we know what we are fighting for and are prepared to destroy the enemy with extreme prejudice and then come home rather than try and save the lessers breeds without the law and bring them Democracy ye gods. The  Liberal Blair Delusion is now hopefully dead and buried forever -along sadly with its victims the hapless misled,ill ruled and betrayed British soldiers sacrificed to the evil altruistic creed of the Great Neo Con.

Legitimate v Illegitimate State

A State becomes illegitimate when it violates the individual rights of its citizens. At that point they have a right to overthrow it. They may not have the ability to do so being disarmed and confronted with the whole panoply and arsenal of a militarised State but they do have the moral intellectual right and justice is on their side.The battle is therfor intellectual and has to be waged on that front and this is hugely advantaged by the advent of 'social media' which is actually an inappropriate collectivist term created by leftists because the internet facilitates the power of individuals to posit individualistic pro freedom,pro reason,pro capitalist ideas and is therfor the antithesis of collectivist social group think as suggested by that deliberately misleading term.

The practical reality is indeed that a disarmed populace cannot bring down a heavily militarised State that has grown so large that its very existence is a daily threat to their liberties and freedom, rather than an intellectual argument that the time is not yet right to bring such a leviathan to heel.One would not argue, to illustrate this point, that the time has not yet come to confront a mugger,burglar,rapist murderer and that more discussions need  to be had,more education required,maybe if we can just reason with the criminal and try and talk him out of his delinquent criminal ways we will not have to resort to throwing him in jail. No, we apprehend the criminal,try him in a court of law and if found guilty throw him in jail. The only reason we do not do the same for a State that has gone rogue is that we do not have the power and force to rein it in and punish it for its misdeeds and depradations -not that we should not if we could.

The greatest evil of all therfor is not the entirely manageable common garden criminal however heinous and broad his depradations because they pale into insignificance when contrasted with the wholesale industrial criminality of the modern day democratic State with its vast confiscatory powers,its scope of intimidation and limitless power to enslave and impoverish with all the governmental agencies at its disposal and its clamy finger on the windpipe of the nation.

When the body elected to protect and defend its citizens namely the State becomes corrupt and predatory that is the greatest betrayal and threat to individual life imaginable because there is no recourse,no restitution possible as the very infrastructure designed to protect liberties has been turned against the people and used to subjugate and enslave them. To who or what can one appeal when every institution has been captured by the rogue State and turned against its sole purpose and function and co opted to serve another wholly hostile foreign interest ie that of its bureaucrats and officials elected or otherwise who have weaponised the State and turned it from its original pure purpose against its citizens for their own nefarious financial and political power and interests. Such a State is illegitimate and it lies to the citizens who comprehend this to work diligently to its destruction by whatever means it has at its disposal.

The education part comes in with reference to what should replace the illiberal State,how it would function,what its objectives should be and what the philosophical underpinnings are that necessitates freedom and liberty under the law which can only be facilitated by a system of free market laissez faire capitalism as opposed to all the extant statist solutions or the equally bizarre irrational anarchist or anti intellectual anti philosophical libertarian solutions which have plagiarized Randian Objectivism but stripped it of  the very philosophical foundations that alone made sense of it.

Labour's Metamorphosis

It matters not if Labour survives in its present form under Corbyn,whether they lose the upcoming bi elections or hang on to fight another day. The fact is Ukip is old labour in purple and they have poached the old working class protectionist  unionised Powellite racist wing of the party and co opted them into their new anti immigrant outfit so the party has another logo but the song remains the same. The people's flag is now deepest purple. As long as human nature remains part animal,parasitic and the desire to rule others and regard them as the means to one's ends persists there will always be  statist leftist Labour\Ukip-like  parties appealing to the ugliest in man and his base nature. Purple with rage they are reborn as Ukipites and the old battle for enlightenement and civilization continues.

An Atemporal Self

Lefty intellectual (ahem) Will Self in a recent bizarre talk to a live audience urged them to give up their sense of being individuals -because what's so good about that, we are not really unique, to paraphrase him, to put their mobile phones on aeroplane mode' whatever that is and wander about aimlessly around an urban space and attempt to divest themselves of any concept of time, to embrace atemporality and reject 'industrial time' and see what happens because to attempt this will be 'fun' and most people's concept of fun is according to him misguided and delimiting as it involves technology re iphones etc and this distracts them from their real selves.

This idea is based on some French Marxist philosopher and a intellectual movement of 'situationalism'. Which brings me back to an Orwell quote who incidentally and unsurprisingly Self despises: It was the kind of idea that only an intellectual could believe'. Self is of course a public intellectual who lives off tax funded  monies lecturing in a university which makes me wonder why any young person would want to run up a £9K plus debt to listen to his tortuous ramblings and circumlocutions. He can also be heard holding forth at regular intervals on the BBC so he can afford to make disparaging remarks about 'late capitalism' and wishing for its demise as he does in the speech alluded to. At least he identifies the necessary requirements for its destruction: people wandering about aimlessly without any human concept of time structures and imagining themselves to be some amorphous blob divested of individuation -a state of psychosis in other words and this he urges upon his listeners and one cannot help thinking that they deserve one another and that the state of intellectual collapse amongst our public intelletuals has clearly reached its ultimate and terminal nadir.

Modern Slavery!

Some employers have been sentenced to 6 years in jail for only paying hired immigrants £3 an hour and charged with 'modern slavery' for taking a third of their income for themselves. If that is the definition of 'modern slavery then every government official should be serving a 6 year jail sentence as they tax a third of most people's incomes but of course the charge is ridiculous on its face re the employers in question as no one forced the workers to accept such terms whereas the State forces everyone to agree to a third of their income being deducted on pain of imprisonment -and that is real, modern slavery.

Should Business be the State's Tax Collector? A Modest Proposal

The State is a gun pointed directly at the head of its subjects against which the latter have little or no defence. Yes they can vote out the offending political party which is enslaving them but the opposition waiting in the wings is from the same corrupt stock, a rival mafioso group waiting for their turn to tyrannise and extract royalties with menace. In fact the mafia analogy is inexact because its power its severely delimited in scope and scale and does not have the panoply of force at its disposal as does the State with its heavy arsenal and army which it can rely upon in the last resort when required to quell and crush dissent, an unspoken Damocles sword hanging over any potential rebellious faction that would dare to challenge State hegemony over the bodies and souls of its captive subjects with only their puny vote to protect them from their daily depradations.

Democracy is the figleaf all democratic despots invoke when about their business of subjugation through their bureaucratic offices that proliferate in order to admistrate this mannered despotism via the ballot box. Apparently you can fool all the people all the time in this regard.

Tho only possible opposition to this intolerable situation which cannot be remedied via the democratic process because it has been comprehensivley captured by corrupt officials and political parties with a vested interest in the status quo is simply non cooperation. Where resistance is possible it is morally imperative and this is where business can man the barricades by refusing any longer to collect taxes for the government in the form of VAT and National insurance and refuse to comply with minimum wage laws. What cannot be achieved in the streets can be achieved my mass non compliance with tax returns. Thus the notion of an employer's Strike.Employees are granted this right by the State because it is not threatened by it but a strike against its imposed and arbitrary authority will strike it a mortal blow and wrest power from its corrupt agencies back to the individuals who have been too long under its yoke.

It is important to stress that such a proposition as presented above is for the future and is the last resort to be used as a bargaining tool and not something to be advocated at the present time and the above is just an outline of possible future tactics when all appeals to reason and fairness have been comprehensively exhausted but it is a tool that needs to be in the arsenal of all those who oppose the tryranny of unchecked State gigantism and let it not be forgotten that it was of course a tool used by the founding fathers of the US and was the foundation of its institution lest I be accused of unprecendented revolutionary zeal and fervour outside the realms of civil discourse!

Wimmin against Trump. Really?

There is a great hysterical sobfest afoot from women's groups who do not like the result of the US election. Have they ever complained about the electoral college before by the way?Only now it has delivered a result not pleasing to them -infantile or what. Besides they are acting like only men voted for Trump rather than the millions of women who did so. They obviously need to direct their ire at their sisters who voted 'incorrectly'. Its a sisterhood problem,they  ought to talk it out amongst themselves rather than rail against  the system. That's the problem though when everything is seen through the narrow distorting prism of gender,you get yourself into this cul de sac and end up looking and sounding ridiculously and embarrassingly, cringe-makingly silly. Collectivism -and that is what feminism is after all -as if all women are Democrats and all men Republicans - robs people of their reason, strips them of their individual integrity and seeks to stereotype them into lock step where they all are required to think and act the same and conform to some prescribed notion based on gender not reason.Such is the essence of collectivism, such is the essence of virulent and unthinking feminism.

Any self respecting woman would run a mile from feminism and its pernicious toxic inhuman socialist collectivist ideology, it is a form of insanity and deeply and profoundly antithetical to women's best interests,demeaning them,insulting their intelligence and reducing them to aggregates and biological components,degrading their moral and intellectual integrity and damning them to biological determinism.

The Conservative Party is Not the party of Business

With its latest announcement of an industrial policy it is clearer than ever before that the Conservative party is not the party of business but the party of State and business melded together in a 'partnership' and all self respecting business should disassociate itself from such an unholy alliance  in the same way it would the mafia as any partnership between them can only be one of slave and master. Not to put too fine a point upon it this association that the government wants to have with business re regulation,taxation,industrial policy,subsidies etc is the working definition of fascism. Capitalism it is not and business should wean itself off its unhealthy corrupt and cronyist relationship with government and at the very least stop giving it funds and filling its party coffers with millions as this is a totally dysfunctional relationship with distinct overtones of  masochism bearing in mind the levels and degrees of taxation,regulation,bureaucracy,meddling lecturing and abuse that this government has heaped upon business to the point of demonisation and persecution.

Business needs a party that will defend it from abuse, not one that wants to get in bed with it which can only ever result in corruption and cronyism and its inevitable, fatal concomittant and excrescence - the ugly, exponential parasitic  growth industry of the lobby system.

Capitalist Manifesto cont

Alongside phasing out of taxation, government borrowing and regulation, some other salient policies in a Capitalist Manifesto would include:
Abolition of Monarchy
Separation of Church and State - Disestablisment, no State financing of church and cathedral repairs,
End to Prohibition re drugs
Separation of School / University and State
Zero% import duties
BBC sell off
Abolition of Foreign Aid,
De Nationalisation of NHS -total privatisation
End of all government business subsidies and tax loopholes
End of State funding of the Arts and Sport
End of government funding of scientific research
Privatisation of the Prison service
Privatisation ofFire service
Sale of all public land
End of all government housing programmes including social housing -sell off of all council housing

Time for an Employer's Union?

We all know the tail likes to go on strike but what about the dog? An employer's union seems eminently sensible and way overdue. Forget the CBI and the Chambers of Commerce,these are dogs that never bark and do not represent the interests of business big or small and it is mystery why they even exist or what purpose they serve. No, an employer's union is required,a united front against big government as an interim or interregnum until the Constitution is enshrined in law that will give the ultimate protection of individual rights to employers to run their businesses as they see fit with no government intervention whatsoever re taxation,regulation,employment law,wage fixing,hiring and firing etc.

An employer's union carries with it the implicit right of unions to call a strike. This will obviously not involve downing tools and closing businesses as that would be self defeating and self harming but rather a refusal to perform the role of tax collector for the State,re deducting national insurance and income tax etc. This would bring pressure to bear on the State to require all employees to fill in a tax return themselves rather than employers having the onerous bureaucratic burden of doing the government's job for it.It will also lead to clamour for a massive simplification of the tax code so the ordinary Joe can actually fill in his tax return without the need of hiring an accountant and in addition such simplification will result in transparency re taxation, letting light in to a deliberately opaque byzantine Kafkaesque obfuscatory system designed to baffle and confound the hapless taxpayer. If as well the State is mandated to break down what the tax is being spent on this too will shed light on the waste and misappropriation of taxes that is so widespread at present.

As the elimination of taxation altogether is something that could only be implemented over a generation the above suggestion would be a useful first step in that long process,raising people's consciousness about taxation and shedding  light into an operation the State has hitherto   carried out in the shadows, covertly implementing its exponential expansionist and parasitic agendas.

Constitutional Protection for Business

A licence to trade. Why? Why should anyone need permission from the State to do business? State licensing of business is an unwarranted intrusion into the private affairs of citizens with the sole aim of  extracting monies via a defacto tax, interposing itself between trader and customer in a direct imposition of force which would be totally prohibited and outlawed in a written Constitution. A separation of business and State would entirely remove the agency of the State from the private business affairs of its citizens and this would also encompass all regulation of industry and trade with its pettifogging restrictions,mountains of bureaucracy and interdictions soley designed to frustrate and obstruct business and in a sneaky,underhand covert unstated way to effectively co opt and nationalise it. A Constitutional separation of business and State is long overdue.  

A Written Constitution

No taxation without representation! We are all supposed to marvel at such a noble sentiment. Why? It is supposed to be acquiesced in as though it were the wisest proposition ever uttered by man.Really? The State here is effectively saying: Hello, I am from the government, this is a gun pointed at your head,give me your money, I am here to represent you. It's an offer you cannot refuse and its straight out of the Godfather. How about No taxation -full stop!

So in a Capitalist State with a written Constitution proscribing taxation all working men and women  would fill in  a voluntary tax form and pay what they deemed appropriate for the services they required which would be strictly delineated and  delimited  by said Constitution to the core functions of the State with  the sole purpose of protecting its citizen's individual rights ie the inalienable right not to be prey to fraud and force from other individuals and this effected by the institutions of a police force, a standing army and the court, legal system.

People would not pay if it were voluntary? This is counter intuitive as most homeowners pay house insurance though it is a voluntary arrangement as self preservation and plain commonsense dictates that they should. A people who do not deem it necessary to be protected by a police force and standing army do not deserve to survive long and will soon be plunged into a vortex of violent and ruinous anarchy and or be over run by foreign invaders. In the same way they would pay for a legal system that would protect contract as not to do so would render business impossible to conduct, as it would fall prey in the absence of such protection to the inevitable depradations of corrupt fraudsters and criminals.

It's Morning in theNational Socialist States of America

Now we know what it looks like. The snarling brute face of nascent Fascism on American shores.The fatal flaws in the Constitution are coming home to roost with a vengeance replete with blond Aryan hair blowing in the wind. The warning signs were there for all to see, and now the Janus faced collectivism innaugurated without missing a beat -a smooth transition indeed from Leftist socialism to Rightist socialism -old boss-new boss yada yada. You can apparently fool all the people all the time. Ameica see what you have wrought as you repeat history with a ahistorical ignorance. As helpless bystanders we can only anticipate the slow motion train wreck that is coming down the line.

The Very Worst Speech of all Time?

It rained on cue when the chimpanzee of a President started to speak and it was all downhill from there.No cliche was left unuttered,no plattitude unspoken,no fatuous statement unstated in a speech as leaden as it was pedestrian as it clunked on and on and on remorselessly and inexorably to its dire conclusion sprinkled with dollops of bromides and  religious vacuities along the way,surely the most embarrassing and intellectually impoverished speech in the history of presidential innaugurations.. Parochialism,provincialism,protectionism,nativism,demagoguery it was all on display, a witless humourless performance of abject cretinism and assinine nullity,the inarticulate gibberings of one barely human at all proving that America needs no external enemies, as, in plain sight the enemy is within.

Capitalist Manifesto: some pointers

Government shall have no tax raising or borrowing  powers! This is fundamental because at a stroke it takes away the chief tool of the totalitarian power that States throughout human history have deployed to deprive their citizens (or more correctly,subjects), of their free will,autonomy and liberty: he who cannot dispose of his income in a way fitting to his own individually determined needs and desires and own choosing is not a free man at all but a mere vassal, subject to the whims and impulses of his master, chief wallet and purse holder : a man who cannot control his finances cannot control his life. This governments know which is why they seek financial domination over their enslaved subjects and they use taxation as their tool of tyranny and control to do it.

The fact that governments claim that they are doing this financial appropriation of the people for their own good adds insult to injury as it implies that people do not know what constitutes their own good and need governments to tell them what it is. Thus the condescension of all despots in encapsulated in this idea: the people must be protected from themselves -but who will protect them from the State that poses the biggest threat of all to them and all that they hold dear? A written Constitution!

The fact that governments play the paternalist in human affairs and seek to oppress their people with faux compassion whilst robbing them blind is in no way mitigated by their equally bogus claim that they are providing them with services that the market could not better provide. Another lie! A) the markets can provide better services and goods because they compete and B) a service provided at the point of a gun is no service at all but rather a monstrous imposition and violation of individual rights. One only has to see the injustice of it by imagining a scenario in which a plumber knocks at someone's door and tells them they are going to have their plumbing overhauled regardless of whether they wish it done or not, they are not smart enough to kn ow whether they want such a service and their say in the matter is irrelevant and of no regard whatsoever. Take it from there.

Just as governments should have no tax raising powers they should have no borrowing powers either because a State has no more right to place an individual in debt than a man has a right to put next door neighbour in debt and for the same reasons. The State exists to protect individual rights not violate them in this way. These are two of the many interdictions that comprise the bedrock of a free society that a State should and must be subject to if a country wishes to place liberty justice and individual rights at the heart and core of its political system.

The Invisible State

The degree of the UK's State power is in inverse proportion to its visibility -an ingenius achievement one has to admit. What had to be accomplished with a crack of the whip is now achieved by the click of a mouse,the silent deep State has no outward show of existence at all and is all the more powerfull in its sinuous opacity where not even veiled threats are required to maintain its puissant hold over the comatose and other directed minions who go around in a blissful state of unawareness thinking their bonded and tax indentured servile state freedom and liberty and their mental and moral chains mere decoration.

To rail against this statist quo is to risk and hazard accusations of paranoia and 'extremism' or 'market fundamentalism' but it a risk well worth taking when considering  what is at stake especially when one reflects on the fact that contrary to Rousseau man cannot be said in such a state to be born free at all.Mr Smith may not be aware of it but he is touched to the very fibre of his being by the invisible hand of the State and to deny this inexorable reality is not to be free from it and its effects but rather to subject himself by default all the more abjectly and entirely to its soporific and oppressive will.

Bill of Rights: What to guard against

A Bill of Rights would not enshrine the faux rights so beloved of liberals and as enunciated at the inception of the UN which precipitated Rights inflation with every added 'right' of some minority negating and occluding fundamental individual rights which was its main purpose, ie,to so obscure the nature of rights  as to render the concept meaningless and null and void and to thus rob people of their liberty in the very guise of protecting it.This rights inflation is an attempt to debase the currency of rights altogether and to pitch arbitrarily constructed groups based on non essential characteristics such as sexual orientation,ethnicity,race,colour,creed, against one another via a strategy of divide and rule into pressure group warfare. This degeneration of rights into a free for all is the endgame and nadir of democracy and is a monstrous fraud perpetrated against the individual -the greatest minority of all - by political hucksters and demagogues.

Unfinished Revolution?

The United States was founded as we all know on a tax revolt against the English crown. A Constitution and Bill of Rights was drawn up and independence from England resulted. So this precedence of resistance to tax upon which the greatest country on earth was founded is a totally legitimate and established one and as a principle and tool to throw off the yoke of oppression wherever it be there is not a country on earth that would not hugely benefit and be improved upon with the institution of such a policy as applied to its respective polities.

A written Constitution and Bill of Rights is therfor needed in the UK as the State as it stands has almost unlimited powers over its subjects,its monarchy is still - incredible as it is to believe - in place and the executive has carte blanche to trample over the liberties of its oppressed peoples with immunity. Transferring power from Brussels to the UK is a positive move but those powers will simply find another home,their arbitrary amoral nature will still remain  just as oppressive and dictatorial but a Constitution would strike them all down if it were properly constructed and defined with clearly articulated and unambiguously objectively reasoned principles in concert and accordance with the sound and just precepts of clearly enshrined and codified individual rights.Nothing less will do if the present semi feudal tyranny of state absolutism with its pettifogging injunctions,injustices, wholesale taxing usurpations and depradations against the individual, replete with sweeping tyrannical and arbitrary powers is to be done away with forever and replaced by a proper system esnhrining individual rights at its core and its sole, driving and animating purpose.

Intellectuals part 3 Postscript

Every organisation has its jargon and internal language to keep outsiders and the uninitiated at bay. It seeks exclusivity to provide it with status and cachet amongst its self elected fellow elites. The intellectual classes are no exception to this human flaw and indeed have all the means at their disposal to create a hermetically sealed environment for themselves being as they are masters of subterfuge via language manipulation. Their biggest enemy is clarity because this would make clear what their deliberately intended opaque language makes obscure. They must perforce employ euphemism to conceal their true intent. It is much harder to get away with a wrong flawed and fallacious argument if it is couched in simple language than if it is hidden in dense abstruse esoteric prose.This of course is why politicians do the same thing and hide behind the figleaf of euphemism to conceal their true intent.They are not therfor plundering the citizenry via taxation but merely 'asking the public to pay what is fair' ad nauseam.

Intellectual Treason Pt2

As alluded to in the last post and as a follow on, the intellectuals have led everyone down the primrose path and alienated all but their incestuous milieu of self referential cadres with their codified language, obfuscations and tortuous ratiocinations designed deliberately to keep out the riff raff common folk with their jargon-free no nonsense commonsense so feared by the intelligentsia.

Just as the clerics in previous centuries kept their arcane knowledge jealously to themselves, insisting on the use of latin so the congregants would be dependent on their interpretation of scriptures and later with the advent of the printing press were totally hostile to the idea of the bible being made available to the masses, so too the post religious intellectuals have shown the same obscurantist elitism,deliberately couching their intellectual constructs in abstruse impossible to decipher language with tortuous and serpentine prose and hairbrained essays in illogic which left any common reader completely and indeed justifiably baffled, resulting in the most sensible ones ultimately abandoning the field of ideas and philosophy altogether which of course was the motive and purpose of such intellectuals to the begin with ie,to establish a de facto closed shop monopoly, an intellectual caste system of elite rulers of the mind.This is the root of the so-called and much derided 'anti intellectualism' of the English which far from being as presented, a form of militant Phillistinism and abandonment of the mind was nothing more than a self defense mechanism of the sane in the face of a direct assault on the mind and reason from said intellectuals.

Is the Age of Reason Dead?

Whilst it is true that 'organised religion' has had its day it is undoubtedly the case that this has not led to a total embrace of reason by the human race as testified by the absurd superstition still extant across all classes  races and continents and not just in the usual areas one would expect to find this ie amongst the uneducated and primitive peoples for whom enlightenment culture has yet to penetrate and impact.

Western interest in eastern mysticism  from the 1960's is not one of the least sins and backward steps culturally and intellectually of that sorry and dismal decade but it can all be traced back to the betrayal of the intellectuals and philosophers who claimed there is no such thing as objective reality and still do to this day.As they control the commanding heights of the cultural and intellectual establishment it is hardly surprising that reason has been all but relegated to the dustbin of history and people are walking around in a state of total ignorance with the devastating effects this has on arts, culture literature,science,politics. If the age of reason is all but dead small wonder people have turned to the soporific and mindless solace of new (dark ages) age mysticism,pseudo science in environmentalism,and emotionalism and rage in politics.

One does not have to be a conspiracy theorist to see how this benefits the clerisy who seek to dominate the masses by disseminating the irrational in all intellectual fields including its practice re politics which in such a context can only be collectivist and statist for since the mind and reason is such an unreliable tool human beings cannot perforce be trusted to run their own affairs but need an elite who apparently are not prone to such human limitations and  alone are able to penetrate the mysteries of the universe by some mystical yet to be explained supra intellectual divination that makes them  capable of ordering the human family and polity.

End of Religion?

Whilst the prediction of the end of history and politics has been wide off the mark and downright wrong and mistaken  it is far more probable that the 21st century will see the beginning of the end of religion. Why -because of Islam and its monstrous depradations. Like Christianity before it Islam will find such opposition and rejection of its minissaries and core fundamental assertions and its evil nihilistic applications that history itself will turn against it in much the same way it did against Christianity in all its rabid tyrannical totalitarian inhuman and barbaric expressions. Christianity as we know it today is an eviscerated emasculated depleted morally and intellectually spent force,a parody of its former minatory and robust self ,stripped of its military associations with absolute States across the globe,themselves supplanted by democratic institutions,its whole base diminished and etiolated to the point of near extinction.This it hardly needs to be iterated is a stupendous victory for the forces of genuine progress and enlightenment,the ultimate corollary of the glorious age and triumph of reason over superstition and the tyranny of priest craft.

The next monotheism for the chop -an apt analogy in this context is of course Islam itself the unreformed monster bestriding our civilization like a Collosus,wreaking havoc through national polities,sweeping across borders with crazed insensate blood lust,unchecked by decadent democracies hamstrung by self defeating self denying ordinances of political correctness,emboldening the Muslim enemy to yet further atrocities but this too will be but a temporary Spring for Islam to be followed a cold winter of Reform as international powers muster to defeat this pathetic rump of ultimately self immolating stone age mystics and Islam itself will be reformed unto death and become an absurd caricature of its former inhuman self as Christianity is today with its feeble mutterings and limp-wristed pontifications from on low.

Democracy Part111. Postscript

The cause of all the rage in Western Democracies that we are witnessing in the form of emergent populist movements can I think be put down largely to the issues I highlighted in my 2 previous posts on the matter ie a prevailing and overwhelming sense of frustration and impotence in the face of the democratic process itself which has gone completely unidentified by the clerisy and intelligentsia for reasons I can only conclude are deliberate and conscious, motivated as they undoubtedly are by a desperate need to hang on to its power and influence as the prevailing elite orthodoxy across politics media and academia.

Rather than tell the public their rage has its origins and cause in the failure inherent within democracy itself they seek to deflect onto personalities or parties arguing with cognitive dissonance that the problem is not  enough government,not enough statist interventionism and nannying busybodying in their lives,not enough regulation and state support -in other words like a losing gambler the statists argue for a doubling down on statism in an Einsteinian repetition of folly. The drunken man lying unconscious in the alley just needs more alcohol!

The public in red mist mentalist mode is strangely susceptible to this Sirenic doublthink as it has clearly taken leave of its senses and is looking for a strong man to save it and like the drowning man they will clutch wildly for any straws however flimsy. Maybe they will listen to the cool voice of reason, someone who will tell them politely that they have drunk to deep at the well of statism and its time to dry out. No politician will of course do this any more than a publican will tell his clients not to booze. Hence the dilemna. But the cause is clear, Democracy itself has brought us to this pass and identifying the cause is more than half way to the solution.

Obummer's (Charge sheet) Legacy

Worse race riots in 30 years. Healthcare seized and socialised. Bin Laden shot -supposedly instead of captured and waterboarded for wealth of information on terror. A muddled confused and ambivalent incoherent foreign policy. Appeasement of Cuba. Appeasement of Iran and a craven suicidal one at that. Hostility to Israel and concomittant encouragement of its enemies. Tax funded bailouts of industry. And that is just the little I know about him.His was a triumph of style over content,the man was the message and too many people voted for him because of the colour of his skin rather than the content of his character which was always patently negligible and voting on pigmentation is racist no matter who is doing the voting.

Democracy Pt11 Why politicians love it

Why do they love it ?because it takes away the liberty of the individual completely and gives it to the mythical artificial construct called 'society',the 'public' the 'public good', and since every human being is an individual everyone is automatically robbed of their rights and freedom. Ingenious when you think about it but that is what the banal invariably is which is why no one can ever see it.The politician will forever invoke those false and fallacious collectivist constructs and purport to be their spokesmen.He will cite the public interest whenever he is about to violate individual rights and depradate the polity. Who could be against the 'public interest' -its disarms the victim before devouring it, it is the paralysing venom of the human snake politician -a veritable Ickean shape shifting reptile indeed. No one has ever met 'society' or the 'public', it always seems to be someone else, some amorphous aggregate from another dimension perhaps with mystical properties that demands propitiation usually in the form of huge amounts of money filched through the democratic process called taxation,commonly known as theft.It's a stand in for apple pie and motherhood but is of course the get out of jail excuse for every every socio/psycho/spiritual criminal, small time politico huckster and snakoil salesperson on the perennial take in the political go round called Democracy.

Democracy -What is it Good For?

Or what the hell is it? Democracy is the politician's excuse. Its the excuse for just about any imposition he seeks to visit on the hapless electorate who every 4 years signs what amounts to a blank cheque from which he promptly draws with prodigal liberality. On the strength and the pretext of a sprinkling of bromides,dollops of generalities, helpings of vague approximations,hollow promises,veiled threats,ludicrous pledges and crowd pleasing demagoguery, class warfare and the politics of victimhood and  identity politics he divides and rules his clueless sheeple and empties their pockets into the bargain.

Is democracy a process or an ideology? A politician only has to invoke the word to put his listeners into an altered state of consciousness,passivity credulity and acquiescence.To challenge it is to risk charges of base heresy,to put oneself outside civilized society and beyond hope or rational discourse.It is in short the inpenetrable armour of the blackguard,mountebank authoritarian and fraud,  every politician cum sociopath's intellectual backstop and failsafe, the solid rock and foundation upon which he builds his shaky career of evil and defalcating sinecuring parasiting raiding of the public purse.

He,the Democrat will concoct all the rights under the sun, ignoring the only one that matters and upon which civilization was built,namely individual rights which he violates at every turn with collectivised rights that are of course a complete violation of individual rights.He will even usurp the greatest intellectual revolution of all time, the American one and subvert it with the Democracy tocsin,devouring it from within and turning it from the first experiment of capitalism in human history and reducing it to a dungheap of collectivisation and socialisation, the very excrescence and pullulating puss of Democracy itself. It ends as it only could in the grotesque spectacle of the Twitter in chief,the demagogue in chief Trump himself astride the dungheap of what was once a noble country,gesticulating and firing off obscenities and profanities,mired in corruption,cronyism and moral delinquency and not yet innaugurated.I have a Nightmare and its name is the Uniturd Sraits of Amerikkka.

Who Will Defend Us?

There is no protection whastoever from the predatory State - the individual is in mortal danger and his situation is all the more dire and perilous in that he is alarmingly and sublimely oblivious of his servile state! No, slavery was not abolished 200 hundred years ago, it is alive and flourishing in the 21st century in the regulating taxing meddling quasi totalitarian welfarist states of Western Europe and beyond. It cannot be the case as some libertarian minded folk bizarely posit that we have not yet reached the point where outright rebellion and resistance is required on the frankly ridiculous claim that the State is still allowing for delimited  liberty and freedoms and hasn't yet come for the whole cake.

Would such a claim be accepted in regards to a burglar who has just ransacked a property and  the owner shrugs and says,well that's ok, he left us the TV and loads of other stuff so not to worry, no need to call the police and have the burglar caught and punished. If such a policy was widely adopted towards burglary (and some say it  tacity and implicitly already is) how long does anyone think it will be before the burglar comes back and takes the rest?

This is exactly and precisely where we are as regards the individual and the State today. The principle has already been established way beyond perchance or doubt that the State has a statuary right to reach into the purse and wallets of its citizens, nay subjects, and help itself. Once that principle was established  the sums involved are a secondary issue. and it is only a matter of time before their depradations widen. The pass has already been sold and we are now at the absolute mercy of the subjective whims, impulses,appetites,predatory impulses  and discretion of the State as to how much it will plunder and pillage with the moral sanction of us sacrificial altruistic schmoos.

The time to stop a burglar is when he steals your first penny, the time to stop the State was centuries ago and hence our Herculean task before us of re education and discussion of this the only serious issue of our times. We do not have the arsenal to start a revolution so it is to words and polemics that we must launch the bid for freedom and liberty so in peril today.

Er, Sorry, I told you so

Less anyone think I have been in any way  prone to exaggeration on the total ideological  confluence of Left and Right I give you the latest George Galloway interview on RT with billionaire businessman Aron Banks who is widely attributed with bankrolling UKIP and the Brexit team to victory last June. (For those who do not know Galloway he is an extreme Leftist who was kicked out of the Labour party along with Ken Livingstone years ago). Banks and Galloway were in absolute lockstep agreement about the  desiderata of State nationalisation of the banks, utility companies and de facto the pharmaceutical industry with Banks proffering a prediction that Trump will be going after Big Pharma big time. I really do rest my case.

Tristram and Jeremy, Brother's Under the Skin

One of the most telling commentaries of New Labour is how accommodating and aquiescent it has been to the Corbyn Project all the way along  opposing it purely and only on tactical grounds not moral intellectual ones. The most it has said re Jeremy is he cannot win an election not that his views are poisonous and toxic and socialism is an evil collectivist creed. They are just terrified that they will be out of office with all its emoluments and prestige that goes with it if Corbyn remains the leader,there is nothing whastsoever principled about the New Labourite's anathametising of Jeremy.

Tristram Hunt's departure illustrates the opportunism and cynicism of New Labour on steroids. He moves to another State institution, The Victoria and Albert Musuem because he has read the runes and thinks he will not be part of a Labour government under Jeremy, although as I have said I think he could well be wrong about that butt here has been no substantial criticism of Corbyn's socialism from him or any of the other time serving New Labour members. This can only mean that they agree with his goals but just think he has been inept in articualting them so starkly and frightening the horses. If this is not the case and they truly oppose his ideolgy then their silence on this matter has been  all the more reprehensible and despicable. Either way it is not a good look.

How Conservatism Sold Capitalism down the River

The faux competing pathologies of Left and Right have their provenance in the post WW11 era when in a collusive pact both within the US and the UK they conspired to foist Welfarism on the people through propaganda. Britain defeated German Socialism but succumbed to English Socialism straight after and the US went as equally seamlessly from war Socialism to Peace Socialism and compounded their folly even further by bankrolling the UK's welfare state in its foolish lend-lease programme fostered by the Leftist economist and rabid statist Maynard Keynes.

Neither the US or the UK benefited whatsoever from its involvement in the Second World War and without such involvement it is an absolute certainty that neither countries would have succumbed and fallen prey to the deadly socialist welfare delusion and both would be looking and faring a million times better than they are today bedeviled as they are by crippling national debt and an addiction to State subsidies,regulation,taxes and ever exponentially expanding statism.

One has only to look at the blatant propaganda put out by the British coalition government during the Second World War laying out very clearly what amounted to demands for a socialist welfare state after the war to compensate for all the sacrifices engendered in that struggle. But one statist encroachment begets another as the poor British were shanghaid and conscripted into the 'war effort' and were effectively hostages to the State and so felt entitled to claim recompense in the form of housing,jobs etc after the battle was won. War Socialism indeed leads to Peace Socialism. The State and its ever expanding emissaries and aparatchicks are the only beneficiaries of course.

Conservative governments of both sides of the Atlantic put up practically no resistance or opposition to the massive wholesale welfare programmes of Roosvelt and the Labour Party whatsoever because they were largely in agreement with them and had no ideological position from which to launch any objection both priding themselves on their militant pragmatism which they still do to this very day. This sytematic betrayal of the Right over generations is the greatest indictment against them and why the Right should be seen for what it is and perhaps always has been, essentially a fundamentally statist socialist oriented movement with a thin gloss and scintilla of capitalist sympathy which it invariably protstitutes compromises and betrays at every possible opportunity and turn.

In the light of all this the only course is for those who support these intellectually bankrupt Right parties to totally reject and break from them and form  new Capitalist parties stripped of all association and ties with the discredited conservative movement with its amoral and opportunist statist power lusting.This should be relatively easy as with the advent of Alt Rightism and Trumpism the conceit that there is any ideological/ economic difference whatsoever between Left and Right has been comprehensively exploded, albeit that it is undoubtedly the case as I have had cause to mention before that Nationalism and Socialism have always been haindmaidens  re National Socialism.

What is the Constitution Good For?

If the Constitution of the United States can permit the socialist depradations of a Roosvelt and Johnson to say nothing of Wilson before them and Obama after, then the best thing for it is to be put through a shredder as it has done nothing whatsoever to protect Americans from the progressive liberal advances over the past 100 years that have had the cumulative effect of making it a de facto quasi European Socialist Republic which is why Americans were prepared to even entertain the out there eccentric leftist Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate who only narrowly lost to Clinton herself a leftist.

The flaws in the Constitution that allowed this essential capture of the State by collectivists must be systemic and fundamental and now almost everyone is prepared to admit it as they wait in horrified anticipation for the annauguration of an arrant knave and mountebank of positively Hitlerian proportions,a petulant sollipsist and demagogue not even imagined in the the most polemical and extravagant outpourings of Mencken and Sincalir Lewis. Behold, the thing some of us feared the most has come upon us.

The Wildly Exagerrated death of History and Politics

When you have an ex Channel 4 economics reporter Mason openly saying on radio 4 that the wealthy rich will be 'taken down' by a Corbyn government and repeating this open threat you know the howling madness of collectivism has returned with a vengeance. Not since the Right wing - let it be noted - Labour chancelor Dennis Healey threatened menacingly that he would 'squeeze the rich until their pips squeaked' in taxation which threat he carried out raising income tax to 99% in the 70's and creating the tax exile phenomenon, have we seen such a direct assault on capitalism  so baldly and starkly articulated.

When Churchill warned that the introduction of the Welfare State in 1945 would necessitate a Gestapo to enforce it he was widely condemned and dismissed as an alarmist/ fantasist and in a sense he was proved wrong because the British people proved perfectly capable and indeed willing to act as their own self enforcing Gestapo and voted for  enslavement through  the ballot box but it is nevertheless an inescapable fact that freedoms have been curtailed and circumscribed in order to bring about this wholesale co option by the State of the individual in practically every area of his life and this latest particularly virulent strain of militant socialist expression is merely an extreme amplification and intensification of what was an already  pretty advanced direction of travel towards a progressive State expansionism. The prevailing orthodoxy and culture of collectivism and anti individualism was very fertile ground for the leftists to emerge and go for a final push from mixed economy to pure socialism as represented by the Corbyn leadership coup.

If anybody believes that Theresa May is going to halt this trend when every speech she gives is interlarded with socialist sentiment of state interventionism and suspicion of capitalism and self advancement they are in for a very rude awakening.With Ukip advancing on the same Old Left protectionist ground there is simply and alarmingly no opposition whatsoever to this Statist collectivist juggernaut hurtling towards us. Democrat's Demagogues are waiting in the wings...

Sociopath in waiting

It has been said that the people get the kind of government they deserve so I suppose we should not be too sorry for Americans who are about to get the biggest screwing of their lives and indeed in all of their chequered history. But what an embarrassment the man is, one devoid of all sensibilities, sense of decency and propriety,  without an ironic bone in his body, a man who no one has clearly ever told that self praise is no recommendation, a man who has clearly had a self awareness bypass operation, is amoral,ethically delinquent,financially and politically compromised,clearly in the pockets of the Kremlin with practically  'impeach me' written on his forehead, a man who makes Richard Nixon seem like a straight talking guy, a sexual predator who makes Clinton seem like a man of sexual probity, an ignoramus,  militantly uneducated and who talks like the third rate huckster he clearly is,delusional,borderline sociopathic, paranoid, hair trigger tempered, mentally unstable, a pathological liar, a fantasist, a thin skinned narcissist, a socialist in Republican clothing but with fascistic tendencies that will no doubt take America down a very dark and scary place from which it may struggle to ever extricate itself. As goes America,so goes the world. The nightmare is about to be inaugurated,be very, very afraid.

Do you Feel Lucky, Punks?

Corbyn's blood curdling speech yesterday when he said he would take 100% of the wealth of the higher earners has met with some critical response in the press but it wide off the mark nevertheless . How about Dominic Sandbrook a left wing historian in the Daily Mail no less who laments on the fact that this measure by Corbyn will drive all entrepreneurs out of the country and with it all the tax revenues that flow from their earnings! Nothing about the wholesale looting of private property,ust the negative effect it will have on government revenues yegods.

Sandbrook then proceeds to say that as horrific as Corbyn's proposals are he does not think we have much to worry about because it is unlikely that Corbyn will be elected because the  polls indicate he is very unpopular.Leaving aside his credulity in trusting to anything the polls have to say in the light of their recent abysmal record consider th grave implications of his comments and what he is actually saying. We may be confronted by a prospective Prime Minister who will launch an all out assault on private property and raid the incomes of our highest achievers but do not be concerned because he will probably not get elected! So we are to rely on the subjective whims and goodwill of the public towards our entrepreneurs as to whether or not they will be ruined and their businesses are destroyed and the country's economy shot to pieces? Any political system that allows even a distinct possibility of such an outcome and is predicated on self preservation and indeed  sanity itself  needs to rid itself of such a suicidal system immediately..

False Dichotomy of Left and Right

It used to be said with some truth that the difference between Left and Right was that the Left wanted to control people's finances and the Right their souls.  With the death or decimation at least of social conservatism however that is no longer strictly true but in fundamentals it is the case that there is not any ideological difference between Left and Right as economically they seem to have coalesced into an incoherent blob of collectivist premises - I cite the marked verisimilitude between Bernienomics and Trumpenomics.

The religious right tend to be anti welfare and taxes at least rhetorically but in practice and when in office did very little to reduce the size of the State.To the extent that the religious right maintains anti big State ideology they are flying in the face of the essential nature of Christianity which is about altruism and sacrifice or it is nothing.Theirs is a bogus Christianity therfor.

The only way to challenge the hybrid Left-Right statist monster is to highlight its faux divisions and expose the hydra-headed monster as a single monster that needs tackling head on and that those who wish to overturn the present politcal cancerous system should separate and distance themselves from this monumental Left-Right fraud and reject its pretence of being ideological enemies and reveal its true Tweedledee and Tweedledum imposture.

The Personality is the Political

In all the criticism of Corbyn there has been extremely little about his ideology and almost all the attention has been focused on his personality defficiencies,his appearance -like a geography teacher apparently. It is a bit like Hitler being castigated for his moustache. If there has been any serious analysis of Corbyn's socialism I have clearly missed it.

This coyness to identify ideology or indeed to even discuss it at all is not just an exclusive pathology - for such it is - of the media but even extends to the Left itself and Corbyn in some respects for the Left as a whole usually tries to deliberately couch its toxic ideology in code and euphemism so as not to scare the horses, a sort of bland baby-talk of innocuous sounding bromides to gull  the inattentive public who are not so versed in subjecting their utterances to a close reading and will be more inclined to take their anodyne blandishments at face value.

Most leftists know that a bald unvarnished statement of their intent would drive away all but the most committed collectivists to their cause  so they have resort to this abovementioned blandspeak, liberal servings of stock phrases and words such as as fairness. income inequality, the rich asked to pay more,the income gap,growing gap between rich and poor ad nauseam.

So between the media that contrives to evade any discussion of ideology and the leftists who collude in this evasion by resorting to self censoring generalities and obfuscations the public is totally disarmed and left in the dark as to what is in store for it until it is a fait accomplis and an ideological demagogue is installed in power and the mask is finally discarded.

Who will resist the Corbinista Red Menace?

It's the 1980's revisited on Corbenn steroids but where is Maggie? We may have someone who apes her mannerisms and external appearance but Theresa May is no Maggie. In her ideology such as it exists under her typical tory pragmatism - which for some reason she and they appear to take pride in as if it were a virtue instead of the abject renunciation of moral principles values and integity that it is -we seem to have someone who as I have said has been captured by a fuzzy touchy feely leftistism full of vague half hinted at subliminal statist interventionist  tendencies but never overtly enunciated or explained which is the mark of moral cowardice and cynical opportunism so typical, common and rightly despised by all those heartily and wearily sickened by the corrupt amoral manoeuvrings of  politicians on the make, in other words the whole stinking parasitic political class.

So in the far left corner we have Corbyn and in the  other fuzzy left corner we have his half sister Theresa. Who is likely to prevail in that contest? Theresa May but who's to bet on it. Opinion polls have proved a catastrophically unreliable captured as they have been and still are by establishment groupthink. We may be sleepwalking into the Red Terror so passports at dawn ladies and gentlemen. And do not look to UKIP for salvation as under their superficial old Tory exterior beats an old Labour heart with protectionist,statist, restrictive practices tarriffs and nationalisation running through its dna like the writing through Brighton rock.

Is Trump a Soviet Manchurian Candidate?

His refusal to acknowledge that the election was tampered with by Russia when the evidence is overwhelming suggests that Trump may well be under the evil sway and tutelage of Putin and his goons in the Kremlin and it is not altogether impossible that he could face impeachment down the line as the collusion and his special relationship with his new found friend and fellow authoritan  soviet thug is beginning to smell real bad.

That Trump is mentally unstable there can be no doubt.His incessant tweeting in response to every perceived affront to his fragile and precarious self esteem and to every imagined slight suggests a man with a tenuous grip on reality and a thin skin that is positively and potentially lethal in a soon to be innaugurated President of the most powerfull country of the free world.

His prodigal recourse to twitter, the latest being an attack on Merril Streep in a Hollywood reward ceremony in response to a few critical remarks she made about him is on the petulant level of the kindergarden in its lack of proportionality and suggests that he is locked in a seemingly perpetual presidential campaigning mode and indicates a man dangerously and perillously mentally unfit for high office.

How Now Red Cow?

I have not been able to glean what Theresa May means by there being a need for a more 'sharing culture' but it smells nevertheless. When parents enjoin their children to share their toys with their friends it is clearly a socialist injunction that they do not even honour themselves as they cannot be found 'sharing' their house or cars with their neighbours so sickening hypocrisy is clearly at play leaving aside if one can the evil unjust and obscene immoral philosophy of socialism that they are seeking to inculcate into their hapless charges.

Whatever she precisely means by this sharing meme it is becoming clearer by the day less there was any doubt before that the woman is a socialist change agent and has been shoehorned into her job under the radar,bipassing  the electorate and is a remainer in Brexit clothing who cannot be trusted in any capacity whatoevere and is under the malign influence of a dodgy cabal of advisers whose political persuasion is dubious and ideologically sinister in its leftist composition and for this reason an early general election seems to be the only just and politically appropriate way to proceed.

Why the Left hates the World Wide Web

Despite all their attempts to co opt the interenet with such collectivist nomenclature as Social Media the Left is fighting a losing battle with it because the thing they have trumpeted since almost the beginning of time, namely the rights of the voiceless has now come to pass -except that the voice ,the free democratic expression of 'the people' far from being imbued with as they supposed and told themselves it was, namely, egalitarian and socialistic sentiment has turned out to be  the most virulently populist,hostile,non conformist,non pc and anti public service politicians who have rightly been exposed as third rate carerists and power lusters draining the public purse. Now the voiceless people much vaunted by the Left as the sole raison 'd'etre for their coming in to politics are roundly dismissed as vile trolls to be censored out of the existence by the State, if the Left have their way that is.

It was bad enough that Britain continued to have a free press very critical of the Left which it has tried for the longest time to censor and demonise but that was as nothing compared to the sheer horror revealed in the wake of  the interent which has given a voice to the general public, the 'little guy' in a truly revolutionary way it has never done before in the whole of human history but who have turned out to be far more virulently anti left than the much demonised so called right wing press itself. So the Left is now fighting an unwinnable war on two fronts having  been totally outflanked by the forces of reaction and populism and moreover exposed as profoundly intolerant,bigotted and illiberal into the bargain.

Objectivism is the Philosophy of Love (No, really)

All the propaganda against Rand's philosophy Objectivism aside, namely that it is a malevolent theory of man is just that,a canard of the left for it is on the contrary a benevolent view of man as a non sacrificial creature -neither sacrificing himself to others or sacrificing others to him. It is a live and let live philosophy, allowing people to work out their own destiny although Rand did not beleive in such but leaving people alone to succeed or fail by their own efforts. The Constitution enshrines  this principle as the right to the pursuit of happiness and there is nothing in the Constitution that says that man is his brother's keeper and that the role of the State is to provide people with happiness,welfare,healthcare,housing,education. All of that is statist collectivist talk totlly alien to the principles of personal independence of the Founding Fathers. Just as no critic of Ayn Rand has ever been able to cite verse and chapter of any of her opus where she advocates Nazism no one can cite any verse and chapter of the Constitution where it guarantees anyone a house welfare,education or healthcare search as they will in vain.

Rand's philosophy advocates a dog eat dog, Darwinian survival of the fittest dystopia say her critics. Really?Ony if not sacrificing oneself to one's neighbours is seen as an act of aggression which is pretzellogic crazy.Objectivism allows for personal charity and benevolence between men -but unforced and not enforced by the State with a gun.It enshrines the principle of non coercive force: no man can initiate force against his fellow man and force is only justified in retaliation to the one who initiates force.This perforce precludes acts of force by the State as well as the individual ie taxation,regulation,licensing,tarriffs etc. The only transactions between individuals must be voluntary and uncoerced and the State 's sole role is to protect individual rights and prevent those who would use force against others from doing so. To try and conflate allowing man to flourish or starve by his own actions or inactions with exterminating him is grotesque inversion of logic and an evil slur.

Whose afraid of Ayn Rand (And Why)

The Left loathes,  detests and fears Ayn Rand and for good reason. She is like the atom bomb -she spoils their whole day. Conservatives and Republicans are easy to attack because they are so feeble,temporizing, weak,equivocating and generally pathetic and compromised in their half-hearted apologetic defence of markets and the smaller state because they sold out their core principles decades ago in their accommodation and acceptance of the mixed economy welfare state and it is questionable whether they ever had any core principles from the get go so quick were they to capitulate to the welfare status/statist quo.

Ayn Rand and her totally uncompromising passionate defense of individual rights, liberty,the delimited state and man's inalienable right to live for himself and not be regarded as a means to the ends of others with their  needs and wants is historically unique in the whole philosophy of politics although other figures contributed in the groundwork going back to Aristotle,Locke,Adam Smith and Hume but she is the only one who provides a systematic philosophically based system dedicated to the defense of individual rights presenting  man as a self made being rather than as a sacrificial animal to the needs of others.

Confronted with this direct assault on everything the Left holds most dear,the collectivist herding of men through government dictat,it simply does not know how to handle Rand and starts off ignoring her, hoping she will go away. Decades go by but her influence steadily grows in the culture but although resistance is total the Left at least has to start acknowledging her existence.So what does it do? It demonises her by smear and misrepresentation. Rand is a Nazi is the commonest abuse it musters relying soley on the hope that no one will actually read her and discover the terrible truth namely that she is the scourge of all manifestations of collectivism be it Left or Right. Conservatives equally have nothing but fear in response to her total excoriating of their compromised vacillating accomodation with statism and welfarism. She has exposed their joint fraud,their collectivist sleight of hand exposing them both as illiberal and anti individual.

So hated by the whole political establishment Rand stands alone in the culture and even the libertarians who attempt to co opt her teachings rip them to shreds with their anti intellectual anti philosophical expediency and compromises,hideously misrepresenting and distorting her ideas and by so doing discrediting and setting back the objectivist cause by decades.

But what can the Left do in the face of Ayn Rand's  continued and ever growing direct existential threat to them and all they stand for and have constructed this past century across the Western world and beyond threatening to bring the whole shaky edifice crumbling around their ears? The 3 choices remain still: Ignore, misunderstand or misrepresent. The first is myopic and doomed,the second offers no protection and is an argument from ignorance and the third will not succeed because truth will out.

An Empty Hull

It is extremely difficult to determine just how much taxpayer's money has been thrown at the Hull Culture Centre bid as all the websites I have visited are extremely coy about details.The most I sould glean was the usual coded reference to 'no direct taxation' has been spent which when decoded means the money has gone through 3rd party State intermediaries,proxy byzantine government bodies,rather like the convolutions of money laundering procedures so hated by the Left when exposing tax evasion operations.

Leaving aside all the obsfuscations and glaring ommissions by the media in covering this story there is the central point that the State has no business bigging up and aggrandizing failed cities with taxpayer's money in an attempt to create a Potemkin Village facade of smoke and mirrors in the hope of by some alchemistic means never explained to turn its fortunes around. Culture zsars are airlifted in to this doomed enterprise and it all has the whiff of White Elephant syndrome that statists revel and specialize in from Olympics on down.The grandfather of all this empty show was Goebelles himself, one of the first Ministers of Culture which profoundly sinister  sinister post has incredibly enough been replicated by most post-war  European countries including alas the UK.

To the Finland Station

If anyone doubts that there is barely a scintilla of difference between Left and Right economically these days they need only look to Finland whose  centre Right government has introduced an automatic wage to its citizens the equivalent of £4oo per month -regardless of whether they are unemployed or have a job! This however is not really a new phenomena as socialism and right wing go together like a horse and carriage as witness Nazi Germany -National Socialist party -the clue's in the name. Hitler's speech and programme and  were interlarded with the old theme of the individual sacrificing himself to the Motherland State. The present day sees Marie le Penn and Trump on the right seeking protectionist tarriff imposing anti capitalist policies.Try telling them apart from the Left wing economic programme if you can.

This patent fraud on the public should have been rumbled a long time ago yet we hear the same old tripe about 'both sides of the polical aisle' perpetrated by the advocates of statism of course who seek to present Left and Right as opposite poles when they are ideological bedfellows with a minute insignificant variation between them.When or if the public every rumbles this ruse we may get a genuine choice at last -ie between the Left-Right statist parties and the advocates of small state free market capitalism on the other.