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Category: Great Divide

  • Past the Tipping Point – 27oct12 (edited)

    George Rebane Readers know that I believe our country is already past the tipping point and headed for a bad transition.  For me the tipping point represents that unfortunate state of affairs in our nation from which recovery by ‘normal’ or historically successful corrective measures will not be enough to save us from a disastrous…

  • The Big Asymmetry (Addended)

    George Rebane A recurring theme on RR has been debating the fundamental asymmetry giving rise to the polarization between conservatives embracing liberty and free market capitalism, and liberals embracing big government socialism.  The Great Divide is one foci of the debate about how to resolve this asymmetry.  The nearby graphic communicates the essence of this…

  • Why it’s so damn hard to be a Democrat (updated 30aug12)

    George Rebane I have long maintained that I don’t understand why self-proclaimed ‘patriot’ Democrats are doing everything possible to torpedo this fair land, and make it into a shadow of a failed socialist state, or worse.  I’ll start with the worse. Radical Islamists are already entrenched in the US among the non-radicalized silent majority of…

  • The Liberal Mind – Examples of separate worlds continue (corrected)

    George Rebane The 'Liberal Mind' segment of RR is dedicated to the analysis and illustration of how fundamentally different are the highways and byways of reason in the liberal (progressive) mind that give rise to their heartfelt and fervent efforts to create what to the rest of us often seems like a perverted and insane…

  • States enforcing federal laws

    George Rebane Today SCOTUS handed down a decision to strike down major provisions of Arizona’s attempt to enforce fallow federal laws against illegal aliens – both illegal immigrants and illegal entrants.  The 25jun12 WSJ reports –  The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status…

  • ‘Whose fault?’ and ‘market morality’

    George Rebane On Russ Steele’s NC2012 there is a comment stream in which people are groping for some middle ground.  I have contributed to it by asking what would one do with such a middle ground, were one to be discovered.  The point being that it’s highly likely that there is no profitable middle ground…

  • The Great Divide – the debate continues

    George Rebane RL ‘Bob’ Crabb posted ‘Inept vs Insane: The National Feud’ on his blog which by its title alone invited a heated discussion in its comment stream.  I put in my two cents and started a thread that had Bob worrying that people would “put holes in (his) new blog”.  Points were raised and…

  • The Liberal Mind – Yes Virginia, we really are different (updated 10apr12)

    George Rebane The curious and inexplicable course of our polarized public discourse has been examined for some time in these pages, even to the extent that ‘The Liberal Mind’ is an RR category of collected posts on this issue.  To a reasonable person on the so-called Right, the reasoning processes of the so-called Left are…

  • Why we rage and what we can never condone

    George Rebane Here's a detail that has escaped me about the whole can of worms about the millions of illegal aliens in our country and the thousands more arriving every month.  The US Code dating back to 1940 required all aliens in the US to present proper identification giving evidence of their status when required…

  • The Great Divide – 29feb12 update on work in process (updated 4mar12)

    George Rebane This is a weblog entry to update our ‘progress’ toward a fundamental transformation of America.  As has been discussed, we are past the tipping point with two alternative destinations that will redefine the social, economic, and political landscape of the North American landmass.  The first is the United Socialist States of America (USSA)…

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