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  • We Hear Gen Z Is “Shifting Right,” Yet 62% Like Socialism and 34% Like Communism

    Young People Holding Socialism SignBy Selwyn Duke

    “Communist governments killed 100 million people during the 20th century,” I told a young man about seven or eight years ago. I’ll never forget the look of surprise that registered on his face. Though he was approximately 18 and had attended a wealthy suburb’s “good” government schools, he’d never heard that before. It’s a good example of why, as the saying goes, you should “never let your schooling interfere with your education.”

    But that such interference is the norm today perhaps explains the results of a new poll. It found that among older Zoomers (18-29), 62 percent have a favorable view of socialism. The kicker (and it’s a kick in the head):

    Thirty-four percent have a positive view of communism.

    A second kicker: At the same time we hear that, as The Hill reported recently, young voters “are shifting right.” How can these seeming incongruities be reconciled? Is it that the polls are wrong (again), or is it something else?

    (Spoiler: It’s something else.)

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  • Right-wing Threat? In Germany, 99% of Serious Terrorism Involves Foreigners/Islamists

    MuslimStarandCrescentBy Selwyn Duke

    “I have photos, I have images, I have pictures, I have names of terrorists who actually are already in Europe posting their photos in Europe on Facebook.” So said asylee Dr. Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian Palestinian academic, while expressing opposition to Muslim migration into Europe in 2015. Now there’s the following headline in 2025:

    “Germany: Incredible 99% of serious terror cases were foreigners and Islamic extremists.”

    Meanwhile, the German powers that be are still talking about banning the anti-immigrationist party Alternative for Germany (AfD). This is a bit like having a population suffering a scurvy epidemic — and talking about banning citrus fruit.

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  • Hunter (and Grok) Says Yes, but Do Native-born Whites Really Commit More Crime Than Illegals?

    Back to School DuncecapBy Selwyn Duke

    A motley crew of media and others, from Politifact to the CATO Institute, have claimed that illegal aliens have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans do. In a recent interview, prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden went even further. He claimed that white males are 45 times as likely to commit violent crimes as immigrants are. Why, even Grok artificial intelligence, in a contentious Monday thread, claimed that white men are bigger perps than illegals.

    The whole idea here, obviously, is to sanitize illegal migration. “These ‘undocumented’ enrich the country,” is the implied argument. “They’re safer to have around than Mr. White Bread next door!”

    This is counterintuitive, of course, and for good reason.

    It’s completely untrue.

    In fact, I got Grok to say uncle and confess its error. But before getting to the artificial stupidity, let’s start with the natural variety.

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  • SCOTUS May Overturn 45-year Precedent — Which Itself Overturned 193-year Precedent

    Ten CommandmentsBy Selwyn Duke

    Should the Ten Commandments be displayed in public schools? With relatively new Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas laws mandating such, this matter may soon come before the Supreme Court.

    The reportage on this is interesting, too. The “Court may soon consider overturning 45-year precedent,” reads a recent Newsweek headline. Unmentioned is that this now-“45-year precedent” itself overturned a 193-year precedent: That of almost two centuries of American tradition and practices, nationwide and by numerous generations, based on consensus constitutional understanding. For it wasn’t uncommon for government schools to display the Ten Commandments prior to 1980. For that matter, the Bible was also typically used in American education in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

    Apparently, though, an entire civilization’s multi-generational determinations are irrelevant. Only the momentary judgments of a handful of lawyers in black robes can be considered “precedent.”

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  • Old Media Dying: Waning CBS Cancels Colbert. Is Kimmel Next?

    Failure FigureBy Selwyn Duke

    “So, for the first time in history, Americans have stopped watching NBC, CBS TV, and ABC,” reported commentator Bill O’Reilly Thursday. “Their viewing level has fallen below 20 percent — unheard of.”

    “And it’s because they’re boring and they’re far left,” O’Reilly elaborated. “That’s the two reasons.”

    The latest casualty of this legacy-media collapse is notable, too.

    CBS is canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, effective after the 2025-’26 season.

    The move will end what will have been a 33-year run that began with host David Letterman in 1993. Colbert took the show’s helm in 2015, shortly after Letterman’s retirement.

    The news-making announcement has prompted some observers to ask: Is this the death of the late-night genre? Actually, it portends far more:

    The old media’s slow but sure demise, as new media come to flower and inherit the former’s mantle. With media/entertainment not being on our culture’s periphery, but at its center, it’s a sea change at least as significant as the transition from horse and buggy to automobile.

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  • Democrats Are Openly Embracing Socialism Now (or Is It Communism?)

    Angry Democrat Marxist Donkey2By Selwyn Duke

    It was back in 1880’s Britain that liberal politician Sir William Harcourt infamously said, “We are all socialists now.” (Perhaps this would explain why today’s Britain is poorer than Mississippi — literally.) But here’s a question:

    Should the Democratic Party make this pronouncement now?

    And should they add, “And communism can sorta’ fly, too”?

    After all, their latest golden boy, NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, has openly talked about seizing “the means of production” and abolishing private property, communist tenets both.

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  • 16-year-olds Will Be Voting: UK’s Libs Aim to Stay in Power by Recruiting Kids

    Teens Holding a Vote SignBy Selwyn Duke

    Facing severe manpower shortages in WWII’s waning months, Nazi Germany conscripted adolescent boys, some as young as 12, into military service. This was a sign of desperation, of course, one that ended well for neither kids nor country. And we see another attempt to recruit the young for something they’re ill prepared for today.

    Britain’s ruling Labour Party will allow 16-year-olds to vote in the next general election.

    What’s more, the party, the approximate equivalent of our Democrats, has dumbed down voter ID laws. My, a cynical observer could suspect that they believe poorly informed, inexperienced, and/or illegal voters are likely to support them.

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  • Explaining the Left’s Deep Hatred for America

    Enraged Woman

    Image created using Grok AI.

    By Selwyn Duke

    Apart from Sandy Cortez (aka “AOC,” D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) party now claims 200-plus elected officials nationwide. This is why what’s part of the DSA’s platform is notable.

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  • Jordan Peterson: What Happens When You Erase Masculinity

    Struggling SchoolboyBy Selwyn Duke

    When the Māori conquered the Moriori in the South Pacific in the mid-19th century, they proceeded to kill most of the fighting-age men and boys. The process, known as “androcide,” has occurred numerous times in history. The idea: Neuter a society by eliminating masculinity — in this case, by eliminating the masculine sex itself — and it’s yours. Rebellion against you is removed from the equation.

    But there’s another way of neutering a society, too: Killing manhood emotionally and spiritually.

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  • Is It Fair Calling Gen Z the “Useful Idiot Generation”?

    Banana RepublicBy Selwyn Duke

    “What embitters the world is not excess of criticism,” noted philosopher G.K. Chesterton, “but an absence of self-criticism.” This could come to mind with a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled “Gen Z, the Useful Idiot Generation.” Oh, it’s not that the authors are wrong about how “leftism” greatly infects this relatively young cohort. It’s this: Who are the more useful useful idiots?

    Is it the more indoctrinated young people?

    Or the less indoctrinated older people who allowed them to become more indoctrinated?

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