Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Nihilism

  • ‘Democrats’ Aping National Socialists

    Excellent commentary here: In two years, the Nazis went from being a fringe party to having a stranglehold on the German government and people. It was then that they unleashed their previously subdued anti-Semitism, from boycotts to book burnings to de facto discrimination to de jure separation (Nuremberg laws) and, finally, to the Final Solution.…

  • Is the Left Out for Power Alone?

    Tucker Carlson and many other conservatives say that the Left is out for power alone, but it is not true. I grant, of course, that leftists love power and will do anything to gain it and maintain it. But why do they want it? Not for the sake of power alone, but to implement their…

  • Is the January 6th ‘Insurrection’ the Left’s Reichstag Fire?

    I put the title question to an historian. Here is his response: It is not too far of a stretch to consider January 6th as the Left’s Reichstag fire, in that the Left is portraying the former event, chaotic but minor, as a serious insurrection against the Republic, the very Republic that the Left despises, as…

  • The Orwellian Abuse of Approbatives: ‘Democracy’

    An approbative word or phrase is one the conventional use of which indicates an approving or appreciative attitude on the part of the speaker or writer.  The opposite is a pejorative.  'Democracy' and 'racism' as currently used  in the USA and elsewhere in the Anglosphere are examples of the former and the latter respectively. If…

  • Does the Demonic Play a Role in the Politics of the Day?

    This just in from Vito Caiati: Your thought provoking post An Oligarchic Pathocracy and in particular the twenty characteristics of this collective psychological derangement, each of which is an absolute inversion of the natural, the good, and the rational, leads me to consider whether potent demonic (Satanic) forces are at work here and now, either…

  • Why the Left Won’t Budge on Anything

    This from a long-time reader with my comments in blue:   Really enjoy your site . . . .   From north of the border, I'm watching the abortion chaos and the Machiavellian machinations of court document leakers.    Since having a child, I have come to the admittedly not the most logically airtight position…

  • The Left’s Ingratitude

    How ungrateful, and how wrong, to sneer at the very conditions of one's own existence, activity, and well-being! Nature and society, church and state, language and institutions, culture and mores, everything that one finds and was given, that one did not make, cannot make, and can improve only to a limited extent, and only with…

  • The Core Tenets of the ‘Woke’ Revolution

    Wake up to 'woke' by reading this outstanding piece by Bari Weiss.  It is long, but very clear, covers the essential points, includes examples and some suggestions on how to fight back, and last but not least, it receives the MavPhil plenary endorsement and nihil obstat. And now I would like to ask any of…

  • The State under Leftism: Totalitarianism with Bread and Circuses

    Although the state under contemporary leftism is totalitarian and demands conformity and submission in matters of moment, it tolerates and indeed encourages the cultivation of a politically inconsequential individualism of private self-absorption. A people given bread (food stamps and other forms of infantilizing dependency), circuses (mass sporting events), dope (legalization of marijuana), HollyWeird pornography and…

  • Roots of Antifa

    Almost all of my political commentary and linkage these days is at my Facebook page, but some of you so despise that platform that you will not join me there. I fully understand. But this article is important enough to be worth citing here.

  • On ‘Peaceful’ Protests

    Two points. The subversion of language is the mother of all subversion. Worse than condoning evil-doing is denying its very existence.

  • Sebastian Haffner: Totalitarians Intolerant of Private Life

    Among the dozen or so books I am currently reading is Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A Memoir (Picador, 2003).  Written in 1939, it was first published in German in 2000. The Third Reich is no more, but the following passage remains  highly relevant at a time when the main forms of totalitarianism are Chinese Communism,…

  • Trotsky’s Faith in Man

    On this date in 1940, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Trotsky in exile in Mexico City when an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky's skull. He died the next day.  The Left eats its own. Read the rest. The tragedy of Trotsky is that of a man of great…

  • Christianity and Politics

    The Christian who sees politics with worldly eyes must support Donald J. Trump. The Christian who doesn't must withdraw from the fight and turn the other cheek even if it means getting slaughtered, just as Jesus allowed himself to be slaughtered. But the apolitical Christians won't be slaughtered right away. They will first have to…

  • The Democrat Agenda

    Open the borders; empty the prisons; empower the criminal; violate the the rights of the law-abiding; erase history and heritage and hard-won wisdom. Above all: Destroy language so that no one can coherently think or speak about the destructive Democrat agenda.