Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Dying For An Ideology

 At least since the French and American Revolutions, people have fought and died for ideologies - some good, some bad, some terrible. 

What's striking about today is not that Americans are dying in a struggle to preserve or advance an ideology. They are effectively committing suicide in deference to the ideology of every Republican president since Ronald Reagan.

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