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Category Archives: America
Life Under A Clicktatorship
Gemini says: A “clicktatorship” is a term coined to describe a form of government that merges a social media-first worldview with authoritarian tendencies. It represents a governing style where decisions, policy, and official actions are driven by, and responsive to, … Continue reading
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How are Americans enjoying elite safetyism and ever expanding harm-reduction?
ChatGPT says: Poorly. And the dissatisfaction is compounding rather than stabilizing. Alliance Theory says elite safetyism and ever-expanding harm-reduction work only when people trust the protector and experience proportional benefit. Americans increasingly experience neither. Here’s how it’s landing. First, protection … Continue reading
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How’s the elite project to educate, hector, badger, prompt, transform, reshape and prime non-elite Americans going?
ChatGPT says: Poorly, and the failure is now structural rather than tactical. Alliance Theory says the project to educate, hector, badger, prompt, transform, reshape, and prime non-elite Americans was never really about persuasion. It was about control through norm enforcement. … Continue reading
How’s Judeo-Christianity doing these days?
ChatGPT says: Uneven, fragmented, and no longer hegemonic. Alliance Theory says Judeo-Christianity isn’t “declining” so much as losing its role as the moral operating system of the elite alliance. Once that happens, everything else follows. Here’s the real state of … Continue reading
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The Middle Path
Paul Gottfried writes Feb. 1, 2026: A recent discussion among our editorial board focused on how we can navigate the vital center between two unacceptable positions on what now passes for the American right. Those two unacceptable positions are, on … Continue reading
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Rooted Citizens vs. Mobile Capital: The Real Free Trade War (2-1-26)
01:00 Decoding the Free Trade Debate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16751107:00 The British civil war has already started? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcHTYtm7mo1:40:00 Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1675221:41:00 DTG: Scott Galloway, Part 2: Peak Masculinity, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/scott-galloway-part-2-peak-masculinity1:58:00 Decoding the American … Continue reading
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Why Americans love rhetoric about freedom and Australians love rhetoric about fairness
ChatGPT says: This difference drops out cleanly once you look at coalition structure, frontier history, and how each society manages internal conflict. Start with the United States. The core American problem was coordination among strangers. A huge, mobile, heterogeneous population … Continue reading
The American Revolution
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory explains the American Revolution as a coalition breakdown driven by status denial, not abstract love of liberty. For most of the 18th century, colonial elites saw themselves as loyal members of the British ruling coalition. They … Continue reading
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Decoding The Federal Law Enforcement Debate
Following the high-profile killing of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minnesota and subsequent “No Kings” protests, the discourse around federal law enforcement is intensely moralized. One side frames federal agents as “guardians of the rule of law,” while the … Continue reading
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Is Our Democracy At Risk?
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, “democracy is at risk” is not mainly a constitutional diagnosis. It is an alliance alarm. That phrase functions as a high-status moral signal used by institutional elites to coordinate resistance to a perceived defector threat. … Continue reading
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