During the Cold War, Soviet propagandists mocked the American political system by pointing out that its two major parties are the same.  According to Marx’s understanding of societal and economic processes, if the means of production did not belong to the proletariat and neither party called for their outright expropriation, then both parties are representatives of capital.  Apparently, communists were partly right, but for another reason.  Both parties are the same because they slowly and gradually moved American society away from the ideals of economic and individual freedom toward the condition of unprecedented wealth redistribution and collectivization of consciousness.  Democrats were leaders in that process, and Republicans were tacit supporters or at least spineless politicians who could not effectively stop the leftist agenda.

We started talking about socialism because Democrats felt that nothing and nobody could stop them anymore, and they began to broadcast their intentions openly.  However, in reality, socialism has been silently infiltrating our society for a long time, since the first half of the 20th century.  The primary reason it has been happening is that Americans lack a principled, major right-wing party, putting a brake on the negative trend.  Don’t be confused: Republicans are to the right of Democrats, but that doesn’t make them the right wing.

The two-party system is a political anachronism.  The system worked well when the majority of society was not involved in the political process and political leaders were statesmen.  In current conditions, politicians are mediocre functionaries, and at the same time, more and more people are involved in politics, which has led to the expansion of the political spectrum, which a bipartisan system can now no longer cover.  The left can only complain about the speed of socialization of society, but in principle, leftists agree with the gradient of its development and feel good in the Democratic Party.  The right is generally not represented by anyone.

Purely right-wing ideas were absorbed by the Republican Party, where they were muted and eventually died.  It is long overdue to free right-wing views from the shackles of the Republican Party and allow them to develop freely and be represented within the framework of an independent organization.  There has always been a demand for such a party, but the traditional two-party system has been a significant obstacle in its organization in practice.  In every election, people are forced to choose the lesser evil.  This is a completely abnormal situation that runs counter to the democratic order and damages mostly the right-wing adherents.

Which ideas are right-wing?  First, rightists’ views contradict the principles of the socialists.  If socialists encroach on private property rights, restrict individual freedom, and welcome forced redistribution of wealth, then the right wing is against all this.  The right wing firmly defends private property and individualism and restricts compulsory wealth redistribution.  Second, the right wing allows dissident thoughts to be heard, which cannot be said about the left.  Third, the right wing has nothing to do with racism and nationalism.  Unfortunately, they simply could not effectively defend themselves from the left’s defamatory labels.

The problems listed above — the attitude toward private property, the degree of individual freedom, the scale of the redistribution of wealth — have been the main topics for discussion from ancient times to the present day.  These questions are relevant and currently confront American society.  Amazingly, the answer to those problems from both major parties is almost identical.  Both sides are irresponsible squanderers and redistributors of wealth, who are trying to solve all issues by involving the state in the economy and in all other spheres of life.

Thus, we observe a blatant dichotomy between the right-wing ideas and the ruling elites’ practical politics, no matter which — Democratic or Republican.  This has become most clearly seen for many Americans right now.  The Trump presidency has many historic achievements.  However, the most important result of his tenure was the exposure of the rottenness, duplicity, and hypocrisy of the American political elite.  He tore the masks from the faces of hideous hypocrites, sacrificing himself and his family.  These sacrifices will be in vain if the MAGA movement is not organized under the flags of the new party.  After all, it is already clear that MAGA in the GOP framework is a road to nowhere.

Some people hope that the GOP could be hijacked by “true republicans” and reformed.  They could not be more wrong, as historical analysis shows that such attempts were made before, and all of them failed.  At any given time, the GOP has “mavericks” who go “across the aisle” and are ready to stab you in the back.  The GOP cannot be transformed since it is firmly established in the Washington swamp, and any innovative ideas will be drowned in the quagmire.  Others warn that a Republican split will bring Democrats to power forever, so it should not be allowed.  But who does not benefit from the creation of a strong right-wing party?

The Republican establishment does not want this for obvious reasons.  But Democrats will not benefit from the split, either.  Democrats understand that they are going to face fierce opposition to their ideas that they have never experienced from the GOP side.  They know that the right-wing ideas will be explicitly broadcasted and discussed publicly and will not be muted by the GOP elites and ridiculed as they were before.  The real beneficiary will be the American people, or at least that part of it that can vote for a party that reflects its members’ philosophy.

And now about the fear that the Democrats will usurp power forever: Most plausibly, the split would lead to Democrats winning the next presidential election.  But this is not a reason to oppose the creation of a new right-wing party.  All previous projects for creating a third party have failed because they were aimed at short-term goals — to win the presidency.  But it is necessary to play for long-term goals — namely, to engage in party-building and the propagation of the right-wing ideas, along with preparing candidates for local elections and elections to the House and Senate.

Winning the presidency should not be an end in itself.  The main thing is not to let the Republicans lead and stifle the MAGA movement, as was done with the Tea Party.  MAGA must find another home.  Since there are so many MAGA-supporters, I do not rule out successful midterm elections for what could be called the MAGA Party.

In order to effectively fight creeping socialism, a robust organization is needed, based on genuine rightist ideas and consisting of people who love economic and individual freedom, who believe in the American Constitution and American exceptionalism.  The phobia concerning the split does not stand up to scrutiny since we are talking about ongoing and protracted battles and not about immediate results.

The U.S. has been drifting toward socialism for at least three generations; the road back will be lengthy, too.  Back to American roots.

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Donald Trump is a difficult man to understand, to say the least. He says controversial things, is a stranger to political correctness and yet his actions steer towards patriotism and conservatism.

Truthfully, as conservatives, we reject and abhor the cult of the individual. We believe in the sanctity of life, in the paramount freedoms of thought, speech and religion and in the purity and sacredness of family, country, tradition and history. Quite often, conservatives are left alone in defense of these values.  Many times they feel bullied, excluded, unwanted guests in their own countries by the media, the left, the so-called woke mobs and even right-wing politicians, who desperately seek inclusion in elite circles.

In this context, most conservatives see Donald Trump as the protector and champion of these beliefs. They rise to the defense of someone who finally stood up for them. Without understanding the deep chasm between the common people and the elites, it is impossible to comprehend the rise of Donald Trump and the devotion of his supporters around the globe. Yet, the establishment refuses to grasp this reality. They detest those who are not obedient. Hence, Donald Trump did not divide Americans. He was a defense mechanism of the common people in an environment of deep divisions and cultural conflicts.

In a rarity in national politics, President Trump does not leave a legacy merely to his own people, but to the entire world. On a planet where everyone does their best to mingle, hide their differences, erase their personalities, and forget about individuality, Donald Trump reminded us that our uniqueness, our identity, our nation, our community and most importantly our history and family are what make us special, giving hope that every individual can determine his own destiny. He urged everyone to reject dependence on government, unleash the potential within and live, think, and act freely. If an individual knows where he comes from, his strengths and advantages, he can go far. That takes away the power from the politicians and special interests and gives it to the individual. That is why Donald Trump is today the most attacked person on Earth.

President Trump gave the example of putting the nation first. His doctrine holds that if one cannot care about his family, community, and country, then he cannot help his neighbor – a logical assumption. Thus, Trump’s advice was for each country to look inwards first, strengthen itself, help increase the prosperity of its people and then cooperate with the other nations in rising to the challenges of our century. America First he said on more than one occasion, does not mean America alone.

For nations that suffered under communist regimes, where the individual was destroyed, the Trump model is of vital importance. In Albania — the country where I come from — the communist dictator and his co-criminals tried, and in many cases succeeded, in deforming the historical, cultural, and individual memory of the people, in an endeavor to create soulless men, part of the herd, incapable of reacting to corruption.

Donald Trump, through his sometimes harsh rhetoric and necessary political incorrectness, warned precisely against this. He rose as a mechanism of defense for the common people against cancel culture, mob rule, high taxes, the revision of history, collectivism, socialism and a globalism that leads to the annihilation of the individual, of the family and of small communities and businesses. He inspired millions in Europe and the U.S. to follow his lead. These modern conservatives reject violence, including endless wars and dangerous radical mobs, pursue supply-side economic policies, advocate for stronger national defense, and encourage freedom of thought, religion, and life. Having won the moral and logical arguments, they seek to stand up in front of an ever-aggressive and totalitarian left.

Trump exposed the left’s violent actions and hypocritical rhetoric. Since the day after his inauguration, members of the Democratic Party pushed for impeachment and harassment of Trump officials. Members of the Obama administration used illegal warrants to spy on the Trump campaign and pursued a witch-hunt using the now-discredited Steele dossier. The media in the U.S. and Europe showed how partisan and dishonest it is. The Establishment and the Media worked together to undermine the 45^th President and remove him from office, through a farce impeachment, riots, looting, and murders by the Antifa and BLM mobs throughout the 2020 summer, and a disgraceful coverage of the election, all because he had threatened their power and influence.

Post-November reports showed that the media’s and Big Tech’s interference had influenced the outcome of the election. The hypocrisy reached new highs when the President and the Republicans in Congress raised doubts about the honesty and transparency of the electoral process. The same people who spent four years of parroting the lies of Russian collusion and interference in the 2016 elections, the same politicians who endorsed the objection of electoral votes in 2001, 2005, and 2016, now branded as traitors anyone who dared speak of the same issues. Donald Trump did not defeat the Swamp. Yet, he exposed its rot for everyone to see.

Trump’s legacy includes standing up to China, pushing other world leaders to form a coalition against the Asian dragon’s attempt for world domination. His decoupling goal is a painful but necessary policy. The Chinese Communist Party does not deal in good faith, does not hold up its end of agreements, mistreats its own people and is responsible for stealing around 70% of software from the U.S., at a cost estimated to be $600 billion.

Moreover, according to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, “Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.” The West was wholly unprepared regarding China’s expansionary goals. Yet Trump, through his rhetoric and actions, was the only world leader to do something about it. Four years after his election, we live in a totally changed world, one in which the Chinese threat is viewed entirely differently.

In addition, he is the first U.S. president in more than three decades who has not started a new war. His foreign policy accomplishments include peace agreements in the Middle East between Israel and Arab countries, most notably the United Arab Emirates. He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, something every president before him had promised. Trump eradicated the Islamic State and authorized the assassination of terrorists such as ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and Qasem Soleimani. Trump has placed sanctions on communist regimes and vowed that the U.S. will never become a socialist country, becoming the first President since Reagan to actively denounce the scourge of communism.  Today, the world is a safer place thanks to President Trump.

Furthermore, Donald Trump has proved that supply-side, capitalistic policies work, providing a blueprint for every nation to follow, by restoring American economic superiority. He cut taxes for individuals and businesses. Both consumer and business confidence reached record highs. Because of the President’s policies, in 2019, the median household income grew by 6.8%, which, as the Wall Street Journal noted, is the largest annual increase on record. America gained seven million new jobs — more than three times government experts’ projections. Middle-class family income increased nearly $6,000 — more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration. Median household incomes rose most among Hispanics (7.1%), blacks (7.9%), Asians (10.6%) and foreign-born workers (8.5%). For whites, the increase was 5.7%, while for native-born Americans 6.2%. Overall, poverty rates during the first term fell to a 17-year low.

Lastly, through his judicial appointments, President Trump has strengthened the fundamentals on which the United States is built on: equality under the law, equality of opportunities, safety, and freedom of expression.

According to an October 2020 Gallup poll, 56% of Americans said they were better off compared to four years ago, showing that America is stronger. This helps the entire world because a stronger U.S. means a stronger West. It is in the interest of every freedom lover in the world that the balance of power remains in the West in front of Russian, Chinese and Iranian aggression.

Conservatives around the world should be proud of these achievements. Donald Trump’s four years in office are the perfect model of how to build up a nation and lead it to prosperity. Not every President can make a lasting influence in the world. Donald Trump’s triumphant doctrine will be his true legacy in the history books.

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Like many Americans, I’ve been in a funk since last November.  Now it’s time to shake it off and re-engage.  George Washington presided over a series of lost battles and tactical retreats during the American revolution.  But each battle (regardless of outcome) weakened the enemy, and led to eventual freedom from monarchical rule.  The ruling class has taken an election, but they’ve substantially weakened their position in doing so.  It’s time to take stock of our relative positions and move on.

So, what is the left’s position now?  They lost seats in Congress.  Even more significant, they lost power in state governments.  These are the same state bodies that are going to reapportion congressional districts this year.  They’ve exposed their true nature to all Americans.  Through their actions over the last year, they’ve revealed themselves to be petty, vindictive, dishonest autocrats.  It is not an attractive look.  They’ve also exposed all of their covert operators.   The media, tech oligarchs, and faceless bureaucrats have taken sides — and now we know it.  Much of their power came from secrecy, which they no longer have.  All of this was sacrificed to drag a demented, racist has-been across the finish line.  President Asterisk enters office in the weakest position of any president in recent history.  We’re not at the dawn of the left’s ascendancy.  They have peaked.  They’re spent.  I’m sure they’re not done fighting, but their strategic position is not something to envy.  It’s doubtful they can retain power.

However, what conservatives have is quite formidable.  We have over 75 million followers.  That number is our floor, not our ceiling.  Our ranks are growing every day.  The more our ruling class attempts to suppress us, the faster our movement will grow.  Remember when the left used to warn us, “Don’t mistreat terrorists.  They’ll use it as a recruiting tool.”  They were right, and it applies here too.

Republicans control a majority of state governments now.  Republicans control 32 upper chambers (versus 18 for Democrats) and 30 lower chambers (versus 19 for Democrats and one TBD in Alaska).  Republicans are in the driver’s seat for reapportionment.  They’ve been on the receiving end of gerrymandering for a long time.  Now it’s their turn.  In addition, state and local governments stand as a bulwark against tyranny.  My home of Star, Idaho recently declared itself a 2^nd amendment sanctuary, as many other communities across the country have.  Sheriffs are beginning to step forward and assert that they will not enforce unconstitutional laws.  Our state and local governments have the ability to push back, and many are beginning to do so.

Finally, and most importantly, we have the truth on our side.  We know the election was compromised.  We know the left is trying to impose socialism on us.  We know socialism never works.  We know we are not a racist country and we can no longer be subdued with name calling.

Many on our side are arguing that the left institutionalized election fraud and we’ll never be able to win an election again.  That is simply not true.  Elections are controlled by the states, and Republicans control the majority of states.  Out of 50 states, the vote was compromised in perhaps six of them.  Fraud was only able to tip the election because it was close.  As Hugh Hewitt used to say on his radio show, “If the election isn’t not close, they can’t steal it.”

Some argue that now that the Democrats have all of the levers of power, they’ll use the military to subdue us.  I’m sure a few Democrats have given that some thought and realized the notion is nonsense.  Putting aside the optics of another Kent State massacre, it simply wouldn’t work.  Soldiers are not robots.  They are us.  Some would follow their orders, but many would not.  So no, military suppression of the citizenry is not an option.

The use of the military for propaganda purposes is an option.  The left will try to use it to intimidate us, but it’s all a bluff.  The Democrats moved five divisions of soldiers into Washington D.C. for the inauguration.  Let me ask this — does putting on a Kim Jong-un style coronation telegraph confidence or fear?  The fact is, our ruling class knows that they’ve overplayed their hand, and they are terrified.  But beyond a bluff, they’ve got nothing else.  If they want to retain power, they have to do it through politics.

Here’s what they have to work with.  They have a propaganda ministry that sacrificed the last shred of credibility they had in the last election.  The legacy media approval rating is bouncing around somewhere between that of Congress and used-car salesmen.  They have big-tech oligarchs that went out on a limb and then sawed it off.  Google, Facebook, and Twitter are now facing legal challenges from state and foreign governments (bet they didn’t see that coming).  They’ve got educational institutions which have been politically indoctrinating our children for generations.  But COVID-19 lockdowns and remote learning exposed many parents to the reality of what’s been going on in classrooms.  It was both eye opening and disturbing.  The Democrats have a tenuous grip on political power, and are likely to lose it in the mid-term election.  Finally, the left has only minority support from the citizenry.

All we need to do, is keep up the pressure.  We need to vote nationally and work locally.  Speak over the propaganda by talking to friends and neighbors.  Take over school boards.  Deprogram our children by talking to them.  Engage in local politics.  Elect local officials based on a constitutional litmus test.  As General George (Washington or Patton — take your pick) would say, “Okay boys.  We’ve got’em outnumbered, exposed, and scared — Engage!”

John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Star Idaho. He is a retired engineer with over 40 years of experience in the areas of product development, quality assurance, organizational development, and corporate strategic planning. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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Democrats are ambivalent about the military, something clear from their approach to the inauguration.  The Democrats summoned 26,000 National Guard troops to D.C., purportedly to protect Joe Biden from rioters.  They then accused those same troops of being potentially dangerous white supremacists.  Many of the troops responded — not by being dangerous, because they’re patriotic, constitutionally guided Americans, but by apparently turning their backs on Joe Biden.

National Guard Troops turn their backs.

Sure, some have argued that the backward-facing troops were providing operational security, protecting the president from attacks from beyond as his motorcade drove by.  But a look at the video shows that only some units have some troops facing Biden and others looking backward.  Many units show that all troops gave their backs to Biden — not a good look for a president’s first day in office.

Beginning with the Vietnam War, the Democrats’ basic principle has been to dislike the military.  For example, as recently as 2009, Obama vividly described American troops as a people who are busy “air-raiding villages and killing civilians.”

While he was in the White House, Obama worked hard to reshape the military into a more Democrat-friendly organization.  At the officer level, the administration purged the old guard, making way for a horde of college-educated, hard-left politicians in uniform.  At the rank-and-file level, the administration worked its social justice wiles on the troops.

The most visible and extreme example of the new social justice policies happened with the LGBTQ+ policies.  “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” gave way to openly homosexual troops, which gave way to drag queens in the Navy.  This was taking Churchill’s remark about the Navy being the home to “rum, buggery, and the lash” to a whole new level.

The Obama administration also welcomed so-called “transgender” people into the military.  These are people with severe body dysmorphia who believe themselves to be the opposite of their genetic sex.  They are tragic people, and the statistics show that they are emotionally unstable.

Even in transgender-friendly Sweden, and even after cosmetic surgery that makes their bodies comport somewhat more with their self-image, they have inordinately high suicide rates.  The smart money is on keeping these damaged people away from military life.

Because of the problems associated with the so-called “transgender” phenomenon, Trump reinstated the ban on allowing them to serve.  This decision, incidentally, saved taxpayers from being forced to pay for “sex change” surgery for “transgender” troops.  Biden, however, has promised to reverse the Trump ban and reinstate in our military people who have inordinately high rates of suicide and other mental instability.

It turns out that leftists also like the military, not as a force against America’s foreign enemies, but as a force against Americans.  That’s why the Democrats, working with their allies in the Pentagon, placed 26,000 National Guard troops in D.C. as part of Biden’s decidedly weird inauguration.  Instead of crowds of excited Americans, Biden would take the oath of office behind massive fences, surrounded by phalanxes of National Guard troops.

Democrats were still worried.  While the officer corps is strongly allied with the Democrats, the troops still lean conservative.  Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) said what all the Democrats were thinking:

I was reading about this on my Twitter account, I guess, and people were reminding people of Anwar Sadat and Indira Gandhi who were killed by their own people. I was thinking, the guard is 90 some odd percent, I believe, male.

Only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden. You have got to figure that the guard, which is predominantly more conservative and I see that on my social media, and we know it, they are probably 25 percent of the people that are there protecting us who voted for Biden.

The other 75 percent are in the class that would be the large class of folks who might want to do something. And there were military people and police who took oath to defend the Constitution and to protect and defend who didn’t do it who were in the insurrection. So it does concern me. But the vetting at the last minute —

The FBI — another Democrat institution — therefore investigated the National Guard troops for ideological purity.  It’s reasonable to believe that those who passed the test were nevertheless offended that their loyalty to American norms was being questioned.  Many of them revealed that sentiment by turning their backs on the Biden motorcade, in much the same way that the New York Police Department earlier turned their backs on New York’s cop-hating mayor, Bill de Blasio:

Here’s a word of advice to the Biden administration: if you’re relying on armed American troops to protect you, not from foreign enemies, but from the American public, treat them well.  It’s really tacky to question their loyalty.

Image: National Guard troops turn their backs on Biden.  YouTube screen grab.