Category: Politics

The death of one career criminal changed Minneapolis, but it also parted the veil on a lot of the changes which had been taking place under the surface. In a similar way, I would like to use the occasion of last week’s elections to reflect once more. This article does not hope to be an out-and-out analysis of the election, but instead a piece which will capture the mood of one man and the state he lives in.

What the White Russians, the Cubans, the South Vietnamese, and others all had in common with today’s Afghani refugees is that they were losers. They fought for the right to shape the character and destiny of their homeland and they failed. Some struggled valiantly and others half-heartedly, but none of that changes the fact that their country and their countrymen ended up under the control of an ideology which they loathed. The Republican Party collected these dinosaurs into its coalition, happy for the bit of ethnic flair which they can trot out to assure their White voters that they aren’t racists for voting against Democrats. But the reason why they are such a perfect fit is because they are essentially defanged.

It is worth exploring the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with reference to our current regime ruling from Washington, D.C. Historical parallelism is certainly a popular theme in the dissident sphere, encompassing connections to Weimar Germany’s degeneracy, the fall of Rome, and, for the mor exotic-minded, the bureaucratization of child abuse in the Ottoman Empire. It is also one prone to faults of wishful thinking and doom-saying.