A recent startling poll shows that a majority of voters not only view the opposing party as a threat to the nation but justifying violence to combat their agenda. The poll captures a crisis of faith that I have been writing about for over a decade as an academic and a commentator. The United States at war with itself: Many now …
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America has become a source of hatred at home and abroad
Today our country is far more divided that it was in 1860. Identity Politics has taught Americans to hate each other. In America there is nothing on the horizon but hate. Everywhere you look in America you see nothing but hate. Russia is hated. Muslims are hated. Venezuela is hated. Assad is hated. Iran is hated. Julian Assange is …
Read More »The Civil War was never about Slavery: History is twisted to fit Identity Politics?
Here is a “civil war” lesson for the uneducated. In response to my short essay, a reader sent me a link to secession documents that implicated slavery, not the tariff, as the reason for Southern secession. It is typical for the uneducated to come across a document of which they have no understanding and to send it off with …
Read More »America is finished says Glenn Beck: Trump indictment, end of PetroDollar marks moment of the end of American Hegemony
Today marks the first time in the history of the United States that a President has been criminally indicted. “By 2025 we are going to be at war, we will have a currency collapse and live in a virtual police state. The Bill of Rights is gone. This is insanity,” Glenn Beck says to Tucker Carlson Tonight, reacting to …
Read More »The Continuing American Collapse
Herland Report: American Collapse: Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are America’s best journalists. They are not talking heads on CNN or voices on NPR and they are not permitted to write for the New York Times. Moreover, they are both men of the left, so how can they be America’s best journalists? The answer is that they are honest. …
Read More »Coercive governments and righteousness: How a Gun to the Head silences the People
Herland Report: There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the …
Read More »State Power and Totalitarianism: Why Self-Righteousness is a Danger
Herland Report: State Power and Totalitarianism: There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former …
Read More »End of the U.S.? 52 % Republicans and 41 % Democrats want to secede from Union
Herland Report: End of the U.S.? The political division in the United States is rapidly deteriorating towards ‘red’ states seceding from the union, according to a University of Virginia Center for Politics report. It found that more than half of Republicans and nearly half of Democrats wanted to secede from the Union. The new initiative explored deep, divide between Biden and …
Read More »The United States will cease to exist as a nation, divided in blue and red states?
Herland Report: The United States will cease to exist: Today it is a lie to call America “the United States.” The country is the Disunited States. The blue states are one people. The red states another. The blue states politically assassinated the President elected by the red states. Mark Twain, once a celebrated American Author, now cast into the Memory Hole as the author …
Read More »Mile Markers of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms from 9/11 to COVID-19
Herland Report: Mile Markers of Tyranny: You can map the nearly 20-year journey from the 9/11 attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic by the freedoms we’ve lost along the way. The road we have been traveling has been littered with the wreckage of our once-vaunted liberties, especially those enshrined in the Fourth Amendment, writes Constitutional attorney, author and founder of …
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