By Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguba and Steven M. Anderson Paul D. Eaton is a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets. Antonio M. Taguba is a retired Army major general, with 34 years of active duty service. Steven M. Anderson is a […]
By J.B. Shurk, American Thinker A friend of American Thinker, understandably upset about the unraveling of America around us, reached out with a heartfelt question: how did we as a society come to behave so acrimoniously toward one another? The two words that stood out to me while […]
The USA is like the high school bully that goes around bullying other kids until he finally gets kicked in the balls, which is more or less what has been happening to the US for the past 50 years since the defeat in Southeast Asia. By William P. […]
Whatever the relationship between the policies of these “progressive prosecutors” and crime rates, it needs to be pointed out that the present surge in crime rates began during the same period as the pandemic and its related social and economic effects. Whatever one’s positions on criminal justice or […]
If you’re looking to verify a claim, you ought to research and check supporting statistics. In this video, Andrew shares twenty reasons why the USA is no longer the number one country in the world.
Imagine needing a coup to save yourself from Sleepy Joe…
Krystal and Saagar detail the physical and mental health crisis among young adults in America as record amounts are obese and depressed in response to generational challenges
By George Packer, The Atlantic To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human […]
From, May 2021. BY ALEX GRANIER, Baton Rouge Advocate Democrats are waging political war on all fronts to transform America into a one-party state. Recently Democrats launched a legislative effort to “pack the court,” which if realized would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since President […]
By Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. In October of 1860, The Atlantic’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough […]
From February, 2020. By Brynn Tannehill, Dame Magazine The GOP has rigged the system on every level of government. Is there a path forward? ell me why you kept kicking him. You had already won.” “Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the […]
From October, 2020. The different ruling class factions and their constituent groups increasingly favor one-party rule. by Jeffrey M. Jones Gallup 41% of Americans favor unified control of federal government 23% want divided control 52% of Republicans, 43% of Democrats favor one-party control WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new […]
This editorial from the local newspaper in Colorado Springs (April 2021) nails it. The various ruling class factions understand their system is crumbling and the different factions are looking for ways to create a one-party state for themselves. By Barry Fagin, Colorado Springs Gazette It doesn’t take much […]
From August 2020. New York Post Editorial Board Democratic lawmakers in Albany are never satisfied: Their party already has a firm lock on the key levers of power, yet last week they moved to solidify that power even more — via an amendment to the state Constitution. And […]
From September 2020. By Marc Thiessen, The Washington Post Democrats say “democracy is on the ballot” in November. They are right — because a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for a one-party state. That’s not hyperbole. If Biden wins, Democrats will likely keep the House and […]
At present, the Trumpists are the least dangerous faction of the Republican Party. The other two major factions, the neocon-led Never Trumpers and the neocon-adjacent/infested Natcons are worse. The Never Trumpers are folks who want to return the Bush-era neocons to power (e.g. Liz Cheney). Natcons want to […]
This is an interesting body of analysis though the view of international relations expressed is a bit neoconnish. By Andrew Roberts Quillette How will the United States react domestically should she be dislodged from her role of global top-dog power by China? As well as the obvious economic […]
By Joel Kotkin Clobbered from all sides by the pandemic, climate change and disruptions in virtually every industry by the rise of artificial intelligence, the capitalist dream is dying — and a new, mutant form of socialism is growing in its place. In the US, perhaps it’s no […]
The weakening of the American regime provides many opportunities for anti-imperialist struggles and the creation of startup societies now that the global hegemon is in decline, and the domestic regime is experiencing decline as well. Meanwhile, I suspect the long-term effect of recent anti-police uprisings will be a […]
By Sharon Zhang, Truthout As the U.S. faces converging existential issues perpetuated largely by establishment politicians and the right wing, new polling released on Monday finds that a majority of young Americans believe that U.S. democracy is on the brink of failure — or that it has already failed. The […]
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative Two years ago, I walked into a café in Florence and said “Can I get an espresso?” The waitress replied, “No, no, here we say buongiorno first. We smile. And only then we order. Try it, it is nice.” That is a […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week The American economy is bitterly hostile to families. Is it any surprise fertility is falling? The long decline in the U.S. birthrate continues. 2020 saw the fewest babies born relative to the population of women between 15 and 44 of any year in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is a nation that loves its fairytales and folklore, not just the legends that we teach to our children as if they were scientific fact, but the stories we tell ourselves that make up the very fabric […]
This is a timeline of how the de facto civil war in Northern Ireland began in the late 1960s. The conflict lasted until the late 1990s, and there have been “incidents” since then. A civil war in the United States that involved the total breakdown of civil society […]
By Emma Green The Atlantic A faction of the right believes America has been riven into two countries. The Claremont Institute is building the intellectual architecture for whatever comes next. “Let me start big. The mission of the Claremont Institute is to save Western civilization,” says Ryan Williams, […]
By Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president of RAND Last week, an anonymous caller told a Republican congressman who voted with Democrats in favor of the infrastructure bill that he and his staff should die. On Monday, Twitter added a warning label to a cartoon video […]
By Chauncey DeVega, Salon If there is a second American Civil War, which side would you choose? It may be wise to make that decision now, in the spirit of planning for the worst while hoping for the best. A recent public opinion poll by the University of Virginia Center for […]
BY Malcom Kyeyune Unherd Historically speaking, empires on average last for around 250 years, after which they tend to either slowly — or very, very quickly — fall apart due to overreach and internal conflict. Somewhat ominously, the 250th birthday of America is coming up in 2026. Yet […]
By Joel Kotkin “I just took [my son] to our local Walgreens to buy him a toy. While there, a man shoved past me so firmly that he sent me into the shelving. Then he proceeded to fill a brown paper bag with Halloween candy and waltzed out […]
By Tom Engelhardt, The Nation It sure has been a disaster. On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the United States found itself in a global war, Henry Luce, in an editorial in Life magazine (which he founded along with […]
By Alfred McCoy, The Nation A succession of societies in the grip of a traumatic loss of global power have suffered coups, successful or not—and that includes the United States. As an eyewitness, I can recall the events of January 6 in Washington as if they were yesterday. […]
Predictably, Michael Lind once again gets it right. 100%. Although the main negative inherent in his analysis is one that he doesn’t mention. The trends he describes open the door for a return to power by the neocons. I have been concerned that we are presently in a […]
The electoral system is losing legitimacy as increasingly no one agrees on the basic rules of the game, and views victory by the other side as illegitimate by definition. There are two problems with his analysis. First, while he’s correct that the electoral system is increasingly losing legitimacy, […]
What is America going to look like if its current ways persist? In this video, Andrew shares an article from zerohedge.com to discuss his thoughts and prediction on what can happen in America if its situation doesn’t change.
Tom Woods Show Matt Asher discusses the prospects for American breakup, and what we should do while we wait. LISTEN HERE
It is true that class divisions are the widest they have been in 100 years, and there are now more strikes going on than at any time since WW2. However, the class-based politics favored by the economic left still faces an uphill battle in terms of becoming the […]
https://nomadcapitalist.com/ Wondering about the current condition of the United States? Historian and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said that the present day is one of the worst times in American history. In this video, Andrew shares an article from https://www.mediaite.com/ and discusses his thoughts on all the chaos that’s […]
On a daily basis, I come across more and more commentary from all over the political spectrum about the possibility of civil war, a coup, a revolution, or secession. Documentarian Ken Burns compares the current crises in the US to World War II, the Great Depression and the […]
Fiona Hill shares new details on Trump’s call with Putin and more from her book, “There is Nothing for You Here – Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century.”
British-born Russia expert Fiona Hill talks to DW’s Brent Goff on “The Day” about the danger to US democracy posed by former president Donald Trump, who like Russia’s Vladimir Putin has sought to prevent a transfer of power. Hill says Germany’s recent election serves an example of orderly […]
Conservative extremists such as Steve Bannon and Madison Cawthorn publicly and successfully aligning with the GOP–in addition to far rightwing Black and POC figures–are analyzed by experts in conversation with Joy Reid. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.
Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein and John Dean reacts to a Senate probe that reveals evidence that former President Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
CNN’s Brianna Keilar speaks to veteran journalist Carl Bernstein after Idaho election officials found nothing in their investigation into voter fraud in the state during the 2020 election.
Public policy professor Jack Goldstone predicted three decades ago that elitism, inequality and political obstruction would help usher a Trump-like figure into power. His latest prediction? Another U.S. civil war. He and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat join Mehdi to discuss.
Saagar provides the data that shows how the covid pandemic and elite policymakers are making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get married and live the American dream
At the bottom of this page is a reprint of an article I wrote on Alex Jones for an Alternative Right magazine back in 2010. It is interesting to revisit that article in light of what has happened in the past 11 years with the emergence of Trumpism. […]
By Victor Davis Hanson Independent Institute Our Byzantine interior and Roman coasts are quite differently interpreting their shared American heritage as they increasingly plot radically divergent courses to survive in scary times. In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively—and peacefully—under the control […]
This is from 2019, before the pandemic, George Floyd, J6, etc. By Boston University Staff Mueller report has Democrats and Republicans feuding—just how bad could it get? A recent Washington Post headline says: “In America, talk turns to something not spoken of for 150 years: Civil war.” The […]
By William G. Gale and Darrell M. West Brookings Institute Is it really possible that America could face the possibility of civil war in the near future? It may seem unthinkable, and yet there’s much to worry about. A 2021 national survey by pollster John Zogby found a […]
Kim Iversen details shocking poll numbers that show a large number of Americans want part of the country to secede.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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