This past summer when the BLM movement and others decided that if you weren’t an anti-racist (and ascribe to everything Ibram X Kendi says) you’re a racist it was difficult for some of us to take, especially since we’d been raised in an era of “content of character not color of skin.” But it seems we’ve gotta chose sides a LOT more often these days. So here are a few related observations from folks who write a lot more and a lot better than I.

I used to be asked frequently what it meant to be a Libertarian. I had a variety of tap-dancing answers that I used to avoid confrontation but here’s a decent discussion. Jeff Hummel on Classical Liberals and Libertarians

So why now? Because many folks believe we’re On the brink. And as far as things become “us vs them” there’s always the “We the People” argument. But I never like the Barney Frank definition of “government” as “those things we do together.” And then there’s this: The Vacuity of the Political “We” – Econlib.

So what does it mean to be a “dissident” in this milieu? Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21st-Century American Dissident. See, I still remember my ex-wife reaching out to me from Cali on election night 2016 afraid that there would be jack-booted thugs marching down American streets in the morning. That didn’t happen. But today the White House is surrounded by fencing, concertina wire and jack-booted National Guardsmen who have been marched into elected officials offices to intimidate them. But Organgeman bad. News flash: Lifelong liberal Naomi Wolf says dictators always take the same 10 steps to seize power, and we’re on step 10 right now.

Think she’s wrong? Over-reacting? Here’s a very telling look into the anti-American statist mindset, courtesy of CNN, along with a brief corrective delivered via flamethrower.

Some other interesting reading:

The Thing And The Whole Of The Thing

only slightly related: Matt Taibbi: A list of official falsehoods about Russian influence.