Before we get started, it would be useful to remember that the founding “parents” of the “conservative revolution” or “neo-liberalism” as it is known in Europe, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, both died of Alzheimer´s disease … This might not be the cause of the ongoing disaster, but it sure is a nifty metaphor for the situation we are in.

Regular readers know that one of my favorite hobby horses is criticizing the blockheadedness of post Cold War politicians who seem to have totally lost their fear of popular wrath.

Those who are cheerfully going about the work of dismantling the welfare state seem blissfully unaware that the welfare state was created by men as, or even more conservative then themselves (Bismark, for example), in order to avoid revolutionary social movements which would destabilize and jeopardize the entire economic system and society itself. This was a strategy that was so eminently successful that it practically has destroyed revolutionary praxis.