Since it’s Halloween, I felt a little macabre this morning and started thinking about my death. And I was thinking about all of the people in our country scared to death of COVID. They’ll do anything to avoid getting it – even if it increases the chance of dying from something else. We’ll lockdown stores and schools. Keep all of our kids indoors, not exercising and sitting in front of screens all day. We’ll drink and do drugs to kill time. Depression may set in, and God forbid if we attempt to just end it all. We’re all going…
Static is part of the worldview
Much of The Bubbler Institute is the study of the relationship between personality types and political worldview. In past articles, we’ve covered how leftists tend to see things through a static lens, whereas conservatives see things as dynamic, fluid, and ever-changing. For example, if you raise prices, the leftist will simply calculate the same number of purchases multiplied by the new price. Conservatives will estimate that the number of purchases will go down as people change their behavior based on the new information. This is static vs dynamic. And it helps to explain why “cancel culture” fits so neatly…
Illegal immigration: today’s slavery
If you read enough (or any) conservative media when talking about public education, and you would think our high school history books are just teaching kids how racist we are. But this week, I was helping my teenage daughter study for a history exam, and I had a chance to dive into her history book. (I must confess, I had been anticipating this moment when she was born and I was envisioning my arguments with liberal teachers.) Surprisingly, I thought her history book was a very fair and balanced recap of history. The bigger crime wasn’t the ideological leaning…
Freedom of speech protects the minority
Nothing signals the death of critical thinking in this country more than the attack on free speech. The First Amendment, which was literally the first Amendment for a reason. Nothing is more essential or critical to a functioning republic. Nothing. If people are not free and comfortable to say what they’re thinking, we cannot sustain a free nation. Without the freedom to say what we think and what we believe, we are effectively censored. If we are censored, that means the government (or media) can control the information we’re given and, more importantly, the information we’re not given. Information…
Takes one to know one?
We’re an irredeemable country of racists and bigots. Or so we’re told by white liberals who have decided they’re racist. As we discover our supposed white privilege in this new era of found racism, those who’ve decided all whites are racist are really getting angry at those of us whites who are pushing back on the narrative. Those of us who’ve viewed, seen, considered, and treated everyone equally are simply confused and irritated by those whites who are now enlightened enough to see their own racism and privilege. And apparently, it’s lonely at the top. So they’re coming down…
Early voting for civics lessons
For all those who want to make voting easier: Early voting Mail-in ballots Registration kiosks everywhere Ballot harvesting Felons vote Voting age reduced to 16 I’ll trade you. You can have that if we can insert America-loving conservatives in every classroom in the country for kids 10-16 years of age to teach them about America, it’s founders, and the liberty and freedom it promises for all who want to pursue it. Deal?
Did the strategy work?
For the past four years, leftists in the media and in the Democrat Party have worked tirelessly and constantly to make sure every day of those four years has been a living hell for the entire country. Every day, they threw all of the venom, hatred, accusations, made-up charges, allegations, and vitriol they could dream up at President Trump, his supporters, and the entire country. Their goal was to make every pay for electing Trump and make everyone regret putting the country through this with a steady barrage of bitterness and by inserting politics into absolutely everything they could….
Fired for Trump support
It’s not too difficult to find examples of people who say they were fired for their support of President Trump. Whether they had a yard sign, were seen at a rally, posted something on their social media, or showed their support in other ways, many people claim this happened to them. Yet, you don’t ever hear of anyone being fired for supporting Democrat causes. But this makes perfect sense. It’s yet another illustration of one of the fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives value freedom of expression, freedom of thought, and varying opinions. You can see this within…
Arrogance of liberalism
I’ve lived in five different cities in the United States, and another in Europe. No matter where I’ve lived, I’ve noticed one thing about liberals: when they speak, they assume everyone agrees with them. A week before the election, the head of my company addressed the company, and everything he said was spoken from the point of view that obviously, everyone in the company can’t wait to vote against President Trump. In conversation, liberals are not only fearless about stating their positions and putting down people with opposing views. (And when they do put down others, they usually do…
Solving our media crisis
Make no mistake, no matter where your political loyalties lie, our media has become a Soviet-style, propaganda organization that no longer serves the public by sharing information so the people can decide. People who are looking at President Trump, Joe Biden, the two-party system, or political disagreement, in general, as the main problems causing our divided nation are wrong. We are a divided nation because we’re not all getting complete information, and we’re not all getting the same information. Our media has one purpose, to seek and provide the important information necessary to maintain an informed public, and they’re…