Victor, when you have Mencken, one of the 20th Century's greatest writers and have someone need to have Mencken's snarky humour explained, there's a serious problem.

He wrote of the founding fathers and their natural distrust of democracy:
"They realized the essential weakness of democracy, and predicted some of its worst excesses – now unhappy and inescapable realities. They warned that giving the vote to incompetent, despairing and envious people would breed demagogues to rouse and rally them, and that the whole democratic process would thus be converted into organized pillage and plunder"

These are heretical words to the true believers in the God Democracy, but as inescapably true today in this 2020 election cycle as ever.

RayR wrote:

Yes Victor, you're starting to catch on, Shapiro is not exactly admired in libertarian circles. His neoconservative progressiveness shows through. He sometimes morphs into a sometimes libertarian just as he morphed into a sometimes Trumper. The boy is a chameleon.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/07/jack-kerwick/ben-shapiro-alt-left-celebrity-extraordinaire/ 

RayR wrote:

Yes Victor, you're starting to catch on, Shapiro is not exactly admired in libertarian circles. His neoconservative progressiveness shows through. He sometimes morphs into a sometimes libertarian just as he morphed into a sometimes Trumper. The boy is a chameleon.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/07/jack-kerwick/ben-shapiro-alt-left-celebrity-extraordinaire/ 

RayR wrote:

I've been digging professor Victor Davis Hanson, Senior fellow at the Hoover institute. Yeah his name is Victor but don't hold that against him. Dude's brilliant!
Check out his podcast, articles, books for some serious thinking. You don't have to be a con to be edified by genius.
Been wanting to quote and vouch for him for a minute. Any thoughts on this guy?

Dg west deptford wrote:

I've been digging professor Victor Davis Hanson, Senior fellow at the Hoover institute. Yeah his name is Victor but don't hold that against him. Dude's brilliant!
Check out his podcast, articles, books for some serious thinking. You don't have to be a con to be edified by genius.
Been wanting to quote and vouch for him for a minute. Any thoughts on this guy?

Dg west deptford wrote:

I knew I could count on you Vic. I haven't vetted that one but I accept it because I trust you for the moment. That said I'm sure there's some brilliant minds you enjoy that have offended in some word or deed. Even Clinton is off the #metoo cancel list in some circles

Dg west deptford wrote:

I'll look into it thanks.
What's your thoughts on governmental penalties on gathering together?
Or do only violent Marxist anarchists get that right?
There's actually churches and synagogues, citizens...facing an expensive question of what our constitution reads on the matter of our first amendment.
That's not a maga thing that's a S.O.S. thing.
I keep hearing about our souls from DNC speakers

Dg west deptford wrote:

Pretty sure RayRay thinks he's a progressive.

Pretty sure RayRay thinks you're a progressive.

but I'm just playing the odds at this point.

victor809 wrote:

Right again Victor. You see I don't as other libertarians and traditional conservatives pigeon hole people into simple caricatures. Progressivism has to be viewed broadly because it's a state of mind so you shouldn't be surprised when even a conservative criticizes another conservative, especially when they have that distasteful neoconservative streak like the previously mentioned Ben Shapiro. Their uber-partisan minds can go off into a parallel universe where their hatred for the left allows them to construct unhinged bizarre historical connections like trying to create a direct lineage of the Confederacy to the modern Democratic Party. Really crazy stuff and so progressive.
Paul Gottfried who is now Editor in Chief of Chronicles Magazine here takes on the "The Two Hansons" in a piece he wrote for LRC, as he starts off "It has long been apparent to me that there are two Victor Davis Hanson, a very perceptive observer of current events and a historian with large axes to grind...
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08/paul-gottfried/comparisons-ii/ 

And more Gottfried on Hanson and his "half-truths and fictions" about European history.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/07/paul-gottfried/686477-2/ 

RayR wrote:

Could be pearls from a swine but... Someone^ mentioned God-
I believe that what happens in the ten days between September 18th and 28th will be a determining factor in the future of our nation. Feast of Trumpets to Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Ten days of prayer for our nation. Ten days of confessing our sin as a nation. Ten days of repentance before our God and Father.

Speaking of Great Holidays- Anyone else planning on keeping the mitzvah of Sukkot?
Best holiday of em all!
We build a mean sukkah! Lost the weeping willow so not sure what we're gonna do for a roof this year but The Lord has always provided Himself a covering
It's Jersey not Jerusalem but All are welcome for joy and herfing in our tabernacle

Dg west deptford wrote: