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[DP @DavidWParkerson]

The more I think about it the more I’m convinced that the biggest indicator of potential brainwashing is a persons lack of willingness to consider both sides of an issue. ALL of us should be open to ALL information available. The issues are way too complex to make final judgements and opinion. We should ALWAYS be searching, esp for info. on both sides of the issues. If we say, “I’ve already made up my mind” and “don’t need to explore further” then we are already wrong.

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

“Trust the science,” he said. Over and over he declared, “trust the science.” Then why can’t the “science” defend itself? Why does the “science” have to plead the fifth? That makes no sense. #COVERSTORY #COVIDー19 #trustmatters

[Dr. Zakaria MD @ZakariaMDv3]

RFK Jr. reveals the single most disturbing thing he discovered in Anthony Fauci’s diaries.

This is peak hypocrisy. No other way to put it.

KENNEDY: “One of the things that was new to me in his diary was his admission that he got a pulmonary infarction in July of 2021 after receiving the vaccine.”

“So he took the Moderna vaccine on TV… to show people it was safe.”

“And then he got one of the primary most expected adverse events, which was potentially deadly blood clots in his lung, myocardial infarction.”

“He kept that secret from the American public, and we only learned about it because of the diary.”

“He was getting the best medical treatment that is available to anybody in the world at Walter Reed and all these other centers. There were doctors fawning over him.”

“Meanwhile, he was telling other people to take this product and concealing the fact that he himself, after announcing this press conference to show it was safe, had actually gotten very, very sick from an injury that was highly expected and highly likely to be caused by the vaccine.”

[Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 @seanhannity]

"Same day you say there's no evidence, there was ALL KINDS of evidence." Ron Johnson holds up the studies. 60-70% efficacy for ivermectin. Then: did you sabotage hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to get the EUA? Fauci pleads the Fifth.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Elon Musk: "If Trump had lost, there would have never been a real election again."

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – the original Woke

He invented it. Every premise of contemporary progressive ideology traces directly back to one man who had never met a "noble savage", never raised a child, and never lived according to a single principle he preached.

1. His foundational claim: man is naturally good and civilization corrupts. This sounds compassionate. It is the most dangerous idea in Western political thought. Because if man is naturally good, then every failure, every crime, every inequality is caused by the system – never by the individual.
Responsibility evaporates. The oppressor is always external. The victim is always pure. This is the complete architecture of Woke in one sentence, written in 1755.

2. The "Noble Savage" is Rousseau’s Form – his version of Plato’s ideal. The uncorrupted man, untouched by property, competition, and civilization, living in natural harmony. Rousseau had never met one. He invented him from an armchair in Paris, extrapolating from travel accounts of peoples he had never visited. The Noble Savage is not an anthropological observation. He is a political weapon – a club to beat civilization with, wielded by someone living comfortably inside it.

3. The "General Will" is the most dangerous concept in modern political philosophy. Not the actual expressed will of actual people – but the deeper will, the will people would have if they were "properly enlightened". Whoever claims to know it can do anything in its name. Robespierre knew it. Every revolutionary vanguard since has known it. Today’s progressive institutions know it – which is why they can override democratic majorities, suppress dissent, and compel speech, all while insisting they represent the people’s true interests. The General Will is the intellectual license for every tyranny that calls itself a liberation.

4. The chain from Rousseau to today is unbroken. Rousseau to Robespierre and the Terror. Robespierre to Marx, who secularized the General Will into historical necessity. Marx to every "liberation" movement that ended in a gulag. And today: replace civilization with white supremacy, replace the Noble Savage with the marginalized community, replace the General Will with lived experience – and you have the complete operating system of contemporary progressivism. The software is the same.

5. Voltaire, his contemporary and rival, saw him quite clearly: Rousseau made primitivism intellectually respectable. He gave the comfortable classes of every generation a way to signal virtue by denouncing the civilization that produced them, from inside it, without cost. The French Left Bank intellectual denouncing capitalism from a café. The Harvard professor deconstructing Western civilization from a tenured chair. The hedge fund billionaire funding the abolition of meritocracy. All of them are living in Rousseau’s armchair.

6. He sent all five of his illegitimate children to a Paris orphanage. Then wrote Émile – one of the most influential books on education in Western history, a detailed guide on how to raise a virtuous child in harmony with nature. He did not find this contradictory. This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense – this is obłuda (remember the obłuda of communism?👇🏻). The defining structural feature of the ideology he invented: the sermon is inversely proportional to the practice. The performance of virtue replaces the exercise of it. Naming the oppressor substitutes for personal accountability. Rousseau didn’t just invent Woke – he lived it, in every detail, before anyone had the word.

7. The original Woke was woke about a fiction he invented – and spent his life performing outrage about a civilization he depended on and never left. Two and a half centuries later, the performance is the same. The noble savages have been updated. The General Will has new names. The orphanages are metaphorical. But the man who sends his children away and then lectures everyone else on how to raise theirs – that man is everywhere.”

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

10. America has been a beacon for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

While it would be nice if they came in the front door, I do not fault any person for wanting to come to America. The whole world looks at their opportunities, and somewhere in their mind, they cannot shake the realization that it would be great to be an American. And I was blessed to be born in the greatest nation on earth.

The woke culture’s worst argument is that America is evil and must be torn down. Anyone wanting to take an honest look at the facts will conclude otherwise.

America is worth celebrating. And the fact that we are willing to admit our need to continue working toward the values of our charter—equality for all, God-given rights, and self-government—that humility makes it all the clearer that America is truly the greatest nation on earth

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

From Michael Farris:

Celebrate (not denigrate) America’s 250th!!

This is the 250 celebration of our independence. I have only been alive for 3/10 of our national history.

It is deeply disappointing that I feel compelled to defend the fact that America is worthy of celebration.

If we listen to the forces who have captured the majority of public schools in this country, we would observe the Fourth of July as a day of mourning. Children are being taught to hate our country because it did not live up to some socialist utopian dream on the first day of its founding.

I have previously written about the fact that the central premises of our Declaration (all are created equal, all have God-given rights, and we should govern ourselves by the consent of the governed) were our goals for our future, not a description of current reality. We should not be judged by the state of affairs on July 4, 1776, but by our growing faithfulness since then to the ideals proclaimed that day.

My argument today may not be accepted by Critical Race and Gender Theorists, because they reject reason as a methodology and objective evidence as proof. But the majority of Americans have not fallen into this deep well.

I write for regular Americans who are not afraid to face our problems but still believe in the ideals of our founding.

While acknowledging that progress is still needed, today I share ten reasons why America is truly a great nation—the greatest in the history of mankind.

1. America was the first nation to introduce constitutional government to the world.

The Magna Carta was a helpful historical step, but the first constitution in the history of the world was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. Our Constitution has served us well for 237 years. It is only by observing constitutional limitations that any restraints are put on power-hungry leaders.

2. America was the first nation to protect religious freedom for all.

Britain only got as far as religious toleration, which allowed one to disagree with exactly five articles of the Church of England’s statement of faith. All of our freedoms—which have also led the world in their scope—flowed from the original fountain of religious freedom.

3. America defeated Nazi Germany and its allies.

We had help. But without America, the war would have been lost.

4. America stood down Soviet Communism in the Cold War, and our brave president, Ronald Reagan, inspired the movement that tore down the Berlin Wall.

5. America is the most generous nation on earth.

If there is a disaster anywhere in the world, you can count on America to help. Our free market system makes it possible for us to share, but it is our hearts and our values that compel us to do so.

6. America has led the world in technology and innovation.

The first to fly. The first on the moon. The first to mass produce automobiles. The internet. Cell phones. And more. All American.

7. American medical care is the best on the planet.

When world leaders get sick, they come to America.

8. America has made genuine racial progress.

I have six black grandsons. I guarantee you that I want them raised in the America of today, , not the America of my childhood or any other place on Earth.

9. America has the greatest opportunity culture in the world.

If you are born in the wrong family or on the wrong side of the tracks in many other countries, your future is limited and sealed. While these factors present challenges even here, one’s fate is never sealed. None of my four grandparents graduated from high school. None had running water when I was a young child. My mother was a migrant worker as a child. My father lived on a subsistence farm in the Ozarks. Yet by any measure, I have had an opportunity for success that defies this past. America gave my parents and me the chance to fly higher than our circumstances. This same opportunity is available to absolutely everyone.

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[DP @DavidWParkerson]

Vance’s speech is bringing me to tears! #usa #AmericanSpirit

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

[Brian Westrate] One of the many challenges American socialists have is to explain why being the world's largest and most productive economy with the worlds wealthiest "poor" is a system that needs to be upended. In 250 years the United States as a Constitutional Republic, capitalist free market (mostly) system has exported more prosperity, wealth, and freedom to the rest of the world than is imaginable under any other global political and economic system. The rising tide of America has literally lifted hundreds of other national boats for the last 200+ years.

It is truly asinine to suggest that this system should be replaced by essentially the Bolshevik's marxist ideas that were an epic failure for the peoples of Eastern Europe, and a danger and drain on the rest of the world for nearly a century…,

Suggesting that socialism will work this time is akin to trying to fly by flapping your arms and believing that the reason nobody has done it yet is because they just haven't figured out the right way to flap.

Socialism is a failed idea that has 150 years or so of proof that it doesn't improve the lives of citizens. Socialism is however very good at creating an oligarchy and concentrating power and wealth in the hands of a small cadre of people able to control an invariably unarmed populace through force. So if that's one's goal then yup, socialism is great. This of course begs the question of the real purpose of those Democrats pushing socialism. If you know history its hard not to conclude that DSAs are are either horribly ignorant or are evil, possibly both in some cases.

The proof is there for anyone willing to actually accept truth, and understand history. The problem with the idea that socialism leads to positive human outcomes is the same problem one has with trying to fly by flapping their arms, the human condition simply doesn't allow it.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan says he watched his “wild little” neighbor “go flat” the second his mom drugged him on ADHD meds.

His guest, who wrote the entire Yellowstone series, shakes his head and tells him ADHD is actually a “f*cking superpower if you understand it.”

He says his ADHD is exactly why he can sit in a crowded airport for 12 hours straight, writing a script and never lose focus.

TAYLOR SHERIDAN: “They tried to give me medicine for the ADHD.”

ROGAN: “Did they?”

SHERIDAN: “They did give it to me when I was a kid… You’re lobotomized… And so my parents were like, ‘Fuck it. Just let him run around.’”

ROGAN: “My neighbor’s kid, they gave it to him when I lived in California. It was such a bummer. He was this wild little kid. And they gave it to him, and all of a sudden he was flat. And the lady was like, ‘Oh, he’s on medication now because he’s hyperactive.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Not my kid. Not my place… And I kept thinking, if somebody did that to me when I was a kid, for sure I would have been on drugs.”

SHERIDAN: “It’s a f*cking superpower, if you understand it.”

ROGAN: “Exactly. It’s a superpower. If you could find something you love.”

SHERIDAN: “People say, ‘How in the world can you write a script? You write all these things.’ It’s not that hard. Once I know what it is, I can sit. You could sit me in an airport, around a thousand people. I won’t hear them. And I can sit there for 12 hours straight.”

ROGAN: “Because you love it.”

SHERIDAN: “I just hyperfocus.”

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

Here, the brilliant @Miss_Snuffy from London explains Zoran Mamdani Mania better than anyone in America has so far done so…

This is a great, but terrifying speech…
😱🤦‍♂️🤮🥲

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

It took Lenin a while to take over Russia.

First he had to take over his party and get them all to align with his ideology

Then he set the lower class against the upper class

Next he promised free "Peace, Land, and Bread"

By the time the people realized it was all lies he was firmly in power and communism lasted in Russia for 74 years

Any of this sound familiar?

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Why has evil been such a hard concept for many on the left to accept? The basic agenda of the left is to change external conditions. But what if the problem is internal? What if the real problem is the cussedness of human beings?”

— Thomas Sowell

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

#america #socialism #Capitalism #SocialistSunday

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

@tylerwp So true!

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

#socialism sucks!

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

Constitutional republic vs #Democracy

[DP @DavidWParkerson]

#socialism vs. #capitalism