Rebel Yid - Ideas beyond the left/right, red/blue, and liberal/conservative thinking

Progress emanates from the work of a very few, unpredictably and contrary to conventional wisdom. The protection of freedom and individual rights for these few benefits us all more than the right...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2024/05/political-realities/

Married to a binary one-dimensional interest spectrum, the Democrats only consider the economic interests at stake and even then, only consider the immediate consequences.  Perhaps the working c...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2024/03/losing-the-working-class/

It is also why it is important to remember the principle behind the divided government and intentional firewalls to democracy designed in our constitution: that human nature is permanently flawed...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2024/02/an-alliance-with-barbarism/

"But that’s the great lie of American politics (and of democracy at large): that the people cannot fail but can only be failed."

https://www.rebelyid.com/2023/12/the-great-lie-of-american-politics/

"What I saw was a worldview that replaced basic ideas of good and evil with a new rubric: the powerless (good) and the powerful (bad). It replaced lots of things. Color blindness with race obsess...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2023/12/end-dei/

I disagree with Mounk that this shift is sudden.  It has been ignored, tolerated, and excused for decades.  It is shameful that it took the overt antiSemitism displayed after October 7 for it t...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2023/12/the-identity-trap/

With all of the claims for diversity the one they need the most is intellectual diversity.  It is fine to discuss critical theory and Marxism but not without the balance of constitutional democr...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2023/12/we-have-only-seen-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/

"If a member of an oppressor class says something edgy, it is a form of violence. If a member of an oppressed class commits actual violence, it’s speech."

https://www.rebelyid.com/2023/12/finally-reaching-their-moment-of-shame/

"What if human beings are merely creatures that take whatever shape is imposed on them by the impress and promptings of the culture in which they are situated? If so, then controlling the culture...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2023/11/the-road-to-censorship/

The media, apoplectic for weeks from hatred displayed in Charlottesville in 2017, lack the same outrage at the depth and scale of the hatred that followed the Hamas attack on October 7.  It is w...

https://www.rebelyid.com/2023/10/the-aftershock/