IQ Voodoo and Other Errors
6th August 2026
One of the problems with American politics is how the two-party system tends to foster a Manichean duality on every issue. The Democrat “borg” (which includes media and academia) pushes whatever its policy agenda may be at any moment, and demonizes anyone who dissents. Meanwhile, those of us in the conservative opposition (Republicans, by default) are compelled to naysay whatever Democrats are advocating. Over the course of decades, one may see the two coalitions change — constituent groups changing loyalties — but this process is usually so gradual that it is not recognized at the time such shifts are happening.
One of the sudden shifts came in 1994, when the Republican Party’s “Contract With America” helped produce one of the most consequential midterm elections in American history. For the first time in 40 years, the GOP captured control of both Houses of Congress. Among other things, 1994 marked the beginning of the end of moderate or conservative Democrats being able to win elections in the South. This was ironic, in that Bill Clinton had been elected as an alleged moderate, but during his first two years as president, enacted an agenda so left-wing that it completely alienated many of his erstwhile supporters — including me.
You don’t get to backstab me twice.
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Believing that they are better than everybody else — not merely smarter, but also more “compassionate,” etc. — is what makes our elite so insufferably obnoxious, especially to those of us who tested pretty doggone good ourselves, even if we didn’t go to Harvard.