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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Delusion: The Mind of the American Elite

3/31/2024

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​How do you identity delusory thinking? A few examples:

It is normal and beneficent to allow children to change their sex if they want to.

American elections are always completely fair and honest and to say to the contrary is false propaganda that undermines democracy.

A rowdy but unarmed walk by the people through their Capitol is an insurrection.

Military action in remote parts of the world, sometimes in behalf of former enemies like ISIS, is a mission to spread “democratic capitalism.”

Post-Soviet Russia is a threat to the United States.

Murdering women and children is the proper response to “terrorism.”

There is not enough talent among Americans so expert foreigners must be imported to make our corporations work.

America is really just an idea that allows anybody who believes in it to come on in.

Affluent government-paid people inside the Washington bubble know what is best for ordinary Americans, who should stop their ignorant populist complaining.

​The death of a criminal thug in police custody in Minnesota requires the destruction of 100 year old Confederate monuments.
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Some More of the Bad Way We Are Now

3/24/2024

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“A war against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.” --Orwell 

Our U.S. armed forces, which claim to be the best in the world, abandoned $86 billion worth of arms in Afghanistan after their failed war. $86 billion. 

Under Joseph Biden more illegal aliens have entered the U.S. than the population of 35 States.

Only a slight number of Republicans in public office are trying to do something about this. 

Jimmy Carter was our last Christian President
. He had many serious defects, but as President he did not repeal the Glass-Stegall Act, bailout criminal bankers, start illegal and counter-productive wars, or tear down any Confederate monuments.
 
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How much longer do I have to wait for my “peace dividend”? 

The once celebrated "American Dream” is now only a dream
. Was it ever anything else?
 

I recently saw a catalog of books published by the U.S. Communist Party in 1944
. Every one of their positions on the War between the States and Reconstruction is now mainstream.
 

The ongoing genocide in Gaza tells you everything about the moral character of the American elite.
 

Voters
don’t win elections; donors do.
 

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More of the Way We Are Now, Alas

3/17/2024

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The first destruction of a Confederate memorial was by Republican George W. Bush, who removed a plaque from a state building in Austin years before Democrats got into the business.

The destruction of memorials is intrinsically and historically a barbarian act of hatred and vaunted supremacy.

Republicans are shallow and short-sighted and always evade responsibility. For instance, they deplore the anti-Americanism of a group of foreign women (Somalian, Puerto Rican, etc.) in the U.S. House of Representative. But except for immigration policies that most Republicans voted for, the “anti-American” Representatives would not even be here and elected to Congress. Republicans deplore the Supreme Court Justices of Roe v. Wade although most of them were appointed by Republican Presidents and received confirmation endorsement by Republican Senators.

Republican officials declined to enforce the law and prevent destruction of the Calhoun monument in Charleston. In Congress they made no significant effort to prevent destruction of the reconciliation memorial.

You learn a lot about the Republicans from Neil Kumar’s opponent in a recent primary election in Arkansas. When Neil brought up the question of immigration, his incumbent opponent babbled about the need for imported talent. Obviously he had never even thought about the issue. He was just blabbing Republican boilerplate created by ad men as talking points.

The national Republicans cultivate and support for office ambitious mediocrities without any ideas or principles. Another example: the recently elected Speaker, now asking for money from conservatives, in every recorded spontaneous remark is leftist.

Last but not least, most Republicans bankrolling and applauding the ongoing Israeli murder of innocent women and children. They have no moral or intellectual thought about the matter---they just know that being against “terrorism” and for Israel play good with the media. But being shallow and short-sighted people, they may have outsmarted themselves.

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Still More Sad Observations On The Way We Are Now

3/10/2024

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​Honest Americans think they have the protection of the law. That is not true. Only the rich can now afford the law.

World War Two ended 80 years ago. Why do we still have troops occupying Germany?

The Soviet Union collapsed a quarter century ago and the Russian people want friendship with Western people. What reason can there be for NATO, which was created as protection against the Soviet Union. to keep expanding to their borders? Especially since it was specifically promised to them that NATO would never move an inch further East. Two reasons: 1) U.S. leaders are still fixed in a Cold War mentality, which is highly profitable to their campaign donors. 2) U.S. “foreign policy” controllers (neoconservatives and neoliberals) have a visceral hatred of Russia dating back to previous times. Neither of these reasons have anything to do with defending the American land and people.

How did so many of us succumb to the swindle that dropping bombs on innocent people halfway around the globe is “national defense.”

The U.S. provides more than 2/3rds of all expenses of NATO for the defense of Europe. No major European country spends even as much as 2% of the GDP on defense.

How is it that NATO expansion became an instrument for imposing WOKE policies on foreign nations?

When President Trump hinted about withdrawing from NATO, he was pounced on publicly and privately by every bigwig of the Deep State.

Perhaps we should start referring to the Deep State as the Dark State.

Putin makes most Western leaders look like ignorant, weak clowns. No wonder they hate him.

​Ancient persons like me remember when dealing with Big Business by phone you reached polite, friendly people. Now you are forced to go through steps of punching numbers that are quite often irrelevant to your purpose. Think about it. You, a free American, are a robot obeying a machine. Even your doctor is doing it now. Or else you try to deal with a foreigner with incomprehensible singsong Hindu English.

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The Way We Are Now Again

3/3/2024

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​The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is keeping all records relating to its approval of the Covid vaccines classified until 2476. Congress passed a law saying that pharma companies cannot be sued for bad consequences of the vaccines. Testing periods for vaccines are usually 10 years. For the Covid jabs it was about two months.

The U.S. government refused admittance to white visitors from Europe who were unvaccinated while turning loose into the interior millions of unvaccinated illegals.

GoFundMe tried to steal $9,000,000 contributed to the Canadian truckers movement and give it to BLM.

Ilana Mercer’s great label for the U.S.: Walmart with Missiles.

Two candidates for the Republican nomination for President of the U.S. are from the Indian subcontinent. What would Founding Fathers say? What would any American have said up to the last 25 years?

No television set has been manufactured in the U.S. since the 1970s. The semiconductors in all your communication devices come from China and India.

American capitalists are causing prosperity—in China and India.

There are serious problems in the U.S., requiring high talents of real statesmen to deal with: catastrophic debt, military over-extension and incompetence, falling living standards for the middle and working classes, growing inflation, unemployment, especially among the rising generation, destructive malicious invasion by illegals from every place in the world. Every one of these problems has been caused by the U.S. government with mainstream Republican support.

When did you hear about any of these problems from a major spokesperson from either political party? Republicans are good at superficial hints at the problems, which they promise, rather unspecifally, to solve. That is, Republicans mouth boilerplate supplied by their ad men without giving any real thought to the matter. And they are good at blaming China for economic problems caused by our own corporate/political elites.

I like gnomes. They are good-natured and hard-working. But like and other groups they occasionally turn out a bad character. Take Dr. Fauci.
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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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