Missing Narratives

I can't remember the last (and only) time I read the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (wasn't married yet). But when I did I was certainly naïve. In fact, not only did it not seem all that interesting then given my interests and activities at the time, but I probably didn't really understand it. Maybe the ongoing education during the struggles of life, raising kids, and expanding one's perspective independently has a way of revealing pragma vs. vanity, a posteriori vs. a priori. I basically grew a bullshit-o-meter. Having recently read it I have to say I didn't see before how twisted (and obsolete here) the involved ideas are, which with the author's apparent rancor and contempt smells a lot like Democrat Party rhetoric. Somehow the Democrats have been able to take obsolete nineteenth century proletariats vs. bourgeois contexts and forge class wars today, while ignoring the education disparity caused by a broken public education system. The ...

This is about Proud Boys. I realize I may take some heat, but gossip, and left wing propaganda, clouds the truth, and I'd like to share some of it here. The Proud Boys, though not my cup of tea, may not be anywhere near what the left claims them to be. Half a century ago, they might be considered run of the mill western males and thus no need for such an organization with relatively the same expectations as society (personal responsibility, limited government, and stalwart patriotism). But it has been labelled as a white supremacist group when there is no evidence of such. I've searched and all I find is regurgitation of accusation and opinion. If you find something that clearly evidences white supremacy, please post a comment. FYI, just as some BLM violent criminals cannot be generalized to the organization, same as the Proud Boys. The CNN interview at the last link below shows how the left feels about any conservative group. And you saw a recent headline about a colored man w...