Tag Archives: New Feudalism

Class Warfare 2: Electric Boogaloo

Posted on August 16, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Progressive left loves to crouch their terminology in Marxist terms, of a parasitic class with their Bourgeois running-dogs who exploits the Proletarian.  Hence, the existence of the Occupy movement who shriek that they are the “99%” and condeming the … Continue reading →

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Teaching Dependency

Posted on August 16, 2013 by The Political Hat

     In the Progressives’ dream of a New Feudalism, where the meritocratically elected elite will guide and take care of the unwashed masses, the people demand their own slavery and their own dependency on the state and on the elites.      This, … Continue reading →

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The Fundamental Failure of Welfare

Posted on August 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the problems with the Welfare State is that it conflated Middle Class accoutrements, such as nice homes, with Middle Class values.  Simply having the accoutrements of the Middle Class will not make one Middle Class, or instill Middle … Continue reading →

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Welcome To The Machine: Cory Booker’s Technological Corporatism

Posted on August 12, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Soon-to-be New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is set to transcend Obama in the realm of both crony corporatist dealing and campaign technology, all at the same time.      In a puff-piece on the civil liberties hating Cory Booker, the “Old Gray … Continue reading →

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America’s Marxist Future?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Under Obamanomics, people have been dropping out of the workforce, which results in an artificially low unemployment rate.  The labor participation rate has been stagnant, or depressed, if you will.  What is most worrisome is that the jobs that America … Continue reading →

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The Nudging of America

Posted on August 7, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Obama administration is hiring a “Behavioral Insights Team” in order to tweak and alter people’s behavior without them noticing.  Such dark shenanigans are referred to as “nudges,” the term deriving from Obama’s fellow traveler Cass Sunstein.  The problem with … Continue reading →

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It Is In Our Nature

Posted on July 31, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The nature of man, and antithetical beliefs there regarding, are at the heart of the differences between the Progressives and those stand athwart their march in history and yell, “Stop.”      The Progressives’ view can be discerned from their intellectual ancestors … Continue reading →

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Children – The Front Line Troops for Obamacare

Posted on July 15, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Time and time again, Obama and his confederates have used children as agents of propaganda and indoctrination.  Children are easy targets for the Progressive left to indoctrinate and turn into brainwashed little foot soldiers on their assault on America and … Continue reading →

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The Ancien Regime Redux

Posted on July 10, 2013 by The Political Hat

     America’s strength lies in its civic virtue, in particular the ability of the people to take upon themselves the duty and privilege of maintaining economic and social order, and to cherish and protect our values and heritage.  It is this … Continue reading →

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Slave to Freedom

Posted on July 9, 2013 by The Political Hat

     A Slovenian “philosopher,” Renata Salecl, has been opining about what she calls the “tyranny of choice.”  She touts herself as a “neo-Lacanian psychoanalyst and philosopher,” i.e. a hack who couldn’t get a real college degree.  In an interview with Der … Continue reading →

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