Just a little heads up . . . .

This substack has received a fair bit of new subscribers recently and I haven’t posted in some time, mostly due to scheduling and personal factors.

Just want to send out a little line welcoming all of the new subscribers and also a heartfelt thank you as well to the pledges that have come in. I hope to one day take you up on your offer!

In the meantime, I hope you can enjoy a new piece of mine that came out in Compact Magazine today, “The Mirage of Liberal Historical Guilt.” I will be back with more posts as soon as my schedule lets up a bit. Shoot me your thoughts in the meantime and it will contribute to the germination process.

Here’s a little brief synopsis of my political thought today and how it relates to the piece that was just published.

There is an increasing body of evidence for the absolute necessity for a complete turnaround in left-of-center politics.

In my opinion, one key element of that turnaround should be the wholesale abandonment of symbolic appeals to some of liberals’ and progressives’ most precious values, such as diversity, deconstruction, representation, visibility, decolonization, antiracism and so forth, the fake left policies that have served only as an illusion of leftism in this country.

These have always been merely flattering window dressing on the grotesque capitalist politics of the Democratic Party. Recent elections and recent polling, along with recent world events, indicate that the policies of this party have utterly failed to mobilize a real, durable, materialist left—a true left—in America today.

It is time to rediscover the left cases for grander values such as liberty, freedom, equality and justice, the same values that the right has appeared to a majority of Americans to have successfully defended for a long time, much to the shame and chagrin of the left. What we need is a mass politics on the left.

In this piece I explore how the issue of signage at the nation’s parks in the wake of a recent Executive Order illustrates the need for a true left and a return to mass politics.