There has been much talk in recent years about “misinformation” on social media. There’s relatively little focus, however, on the misinformation pumped directly into the most damaging place of all: young people’s minds. Moreover, this misinformation — or “brainwashing,” as a critic puts it — has supplanted real learning to the point where youths now lack basic skills. A major reason why, too, is that while some proclaim “wokeness’” death, it’s alive and well. And this is because, says that critic, independent journalist Emil Hasle, wokeness-mind-virus carriers pervade American education.
“Democratic Socialism” Is In, but Is It an Oxymoron?
By Selwyn Duke
Marketing is an interesting thing. The buyer always has to beware because labels and packaging don’t always reflect ingredients. Consider the following list, for example, asking: What’s the most common word among its elements?
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Democratic Kampuchea
People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen
Democratic Socialism
“Democratic,” obviously. Now note that 1 and 2 are communist countries, with the first (North Korea) being particularly brutal. Three through 7 were also communist countries. Number 5 (Khmer Rouge Cambodia) exterminated one-quarter to one-third of its population in just 4.5 years. They all love(d) that label “democratic,” though, even if the only democratic thing about them is/was, well…nothing.
Then there’s number 8, which is all the rage in the United States. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) now have, in fact, more than 250 affiliated or endorsed public officeholders nationwide.
The DSA, mind you, has called for the public ownership of key economic sectors and the “means of production” — a communist tenet. It wants to replace capitalism with socialism.
The DSA also aims to abolish or radically reform institutions such as the Senate and Electoral College. Furthermore, it would reduce Supreme Court power.
You needn’t worry, however, because all this really will be done democratically this time, they say. Heck, “democratic” is in their name.
What Have You Heard About the White, Non-criminal George Floyd? Probably Crickets
Image credit: U.K. police handout
By Selwyn Duke
“I can’t breathe.” These were some of the final words of Henry Nowak, 18, a victim of a knifing — and British authorities’ wokeness. Nowak had repeatedly told police “I’ve been stabbed,” to which one cop replied, “I don’t think so, mate.” How’d they draw this conclusion?
They took the word of Vickrum Digwa, 23, the man who knifed Nowak with a Sikh “ceremonial” blade. Digwa, you see, had claimed he was a victim of a “racial attack.” And his mother, 53-year-old Kiran Kaur, had spirited the ceremonial knife away from the scene. So when Nowak said “I am dying” and Digwa replied “You’re not dying, bro,” the police knew whom to believe. They handcuffed Nowak instead of getting medical assistance.
The Unmentionable Race? WNBA Avoids Marketing Golden Goose Caitlin Clark
By Selwyn Duke
“The white race is the cancer of human history…,” wrote feminist author Susan Sontag in 1967. Now, almost 60 years later, some may wonder:
Has the white race become the cancer of marketing?
Many have long noted that black Americans are overrepresented in commercials and ads. At the same time, others complain, whites in commercials are often portrayed unflatteringly. But this may seem mild compared to what the unprofitable Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has done in recent marketing.
Spanberger Advances Anti-Electoral College “Soft Coup Against America”
By Selwyn Duke
One of the nation-shattering issues hardly ever discussed, distracted as we are with frivolity, is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This is the state-led scheme to circumvent the Electoral College and force presidential elections to be decided by popular vote. It’s dangerous not just because it would essentially enable densely populated cities to determine the president for the whole country. It also would profoundly magnify vote fraud’s effect, allowing those localities to steal any and every election.
And now Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) has given the NPVIC another shot in the arm. She has just signed a bill making Virginia part of the compact. This places the NPVIC a mere 48 votes away from national implementation.
Pundit Bill O’Reilly recently said he was “surprised” that ex-NY governor Andrew Cuomo lost to Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 NYC mayoral race.
“I thought,” he told Cuomo during a May 14 discussion, “you were going to wax them [your competitors].”
Do you know when I realized Mamdani would win?
The very first time I saw him on TV.
No, it wasn’t that Mamdani was promising to rob Peter blind to pay Paul and then send both home to rent-frozen apartments on a free bus. It was that I understand the Luciferian Beauty Principle.
A Party About Nothing: The Democrats’ 2026 No-platform Campaign
By Selwyn Duke
In Season 4 of famed sitcom Seinfeld, main characters Jerry and George were seen pitching a sitcom to NBC, with George’s only selling point being that it’s a “show about nothing.” Many fans ever since have called it that, too. Well, now we have a “political party about nothing”: the Democrats.
In 2020, journalist Matthew Yglesias insisted we use increased immigration to grow the U.S. population to one billion. Our current 343-million number is insufficient to compete with a future China and India, his theory goes. Yet before we MACA — “Make America China Already!” — we should first ask a question:
AOC, the Gal With an Economics Degree, Gets an Economics Lesson
By Selwyn Duke
It has been said that more suffering is caused by ignorance than intended iniquity. One of the best examples of this, too, may be in economics. And with socialism gaining currency in our society, economics warrants serious discussion.
Red States Betrayed Over Same-sex “Marriage”? Maybe They’ve Betrayed Themselves
By Selwyn Duke
A lawsuit last year called then-Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy’s Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) majority opinion “legal fiction.” This is for good reason, too. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it at the time, the Constitution “had nothing to do with it.” But then there’s what had a lot to do with it. That is, growing public support for faux (same-sex) marriage.
In fact, U.S. majority support for faux marriage (FM) — 53 percent — was reached in 2011. It was approximately 60 percent at Obergefell’s issuance in 2015.
What had much to do with this was a “conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.” (Related to this, declining religiosity was a major factor, too.) This line, do note, is from the 1989 bookAfter the Ball, which laid out sexual devolutionary (homosexual) advocacy strategies.
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