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The case for being less partisan/political and being more objective

The abstract for the journal article At Least Bias Is Bipartisan: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Partisan Bias in Liberals and Conservatives which was published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science states:

"Both liberals and conservatives accuse their political opponents of partisan bias, but is there empirical evidence that one side of the political aisle is indeed more biased than the other? To address this question, we meta-analyzed the results of 51 experimental studies, involving over 18,000 participants, that examined one form of partisan bias—the tendency to evaluate otherwise identical information more favorably when it supports one’s political beliefs or allegiances than when it challenges those beliefs or allegiances. Two hypotheses based on previous literature were tested: an asymmetry hypothesis (predicting greater partisan bias in conservatives than in liberals) and a symmetry hypothesis (predicting equal levels of partisan bias in liberals and conservatives). Mean overall partisan bias was robust (r = .245), and there was strong support for the symmetry hypothesis: Liberals (r = .235) and conservatives (r = .255) showed no difference in mean levels of bias across studies. Moderator analyses reveal this pattern to be consistent across a number of different methodological variations and political topics. Implications of the current findings for the ongoing ideological symmetry debate and the role of partisan bias in scientific discourse and political conflict are discussed."

Arthur C. Brooks wrote in his article Reading Too Much Political News Is Bad for Your Well-Being: "A 2012 survey conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University asked a sample of Americans about their news-consumption habits, and quizzed them about U.S. and international political and economic events. They found that those watching the most partisan television news sources—on both the left and the right—were often less knowledgeable about world events than those who consumed no news at all."

• Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies

"In this article, we examine psychological features of extreme political ideologies. In what ways are political left- and right-wing extremists similar to one another and different from moderates? We propose and review four interrelated propositions that explain adherence to extreme political ideologies from a psychological perspective. We argue that (a) psychological distress stimulates adopting an extreme ideological outlook; (b) extreme ideologies are characterized by a relatively simplistic, black-and-white perception of the social world; (c) because of such mental simplicity, political extremists are overconfident in their judgments; and (d) political extremists are less tolerant of different groups and opinions than political moderates. In closing, we discuss how these psychological features of political extremists increase the likelihood of conflict among groups in society."

• The Santa Problem by Seth Godin

• Tali Sharot: "Cognitive Obstacles to Truth" - Related to politics

• How People Form Beliefs by Tali Sharot

Ground News on media bias

• Ground News - YouTube channel
• Ground News Education: A Lateral Reading Platform for Media Literacy

The Turn by Liel Leibovitz

• The Turn by Liel Leibovitz, Tablet Magazine, DECEMBER 08, 2021

Benefits of being more apolitical

• Benefits of being more apolitical - playlist
• Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet By Rolf Dobelli

Polarized thinking and depression/anxiety

• The connection between polarized thinking, anxiety and depression

Brain scans and political ideology

• Scientists Discover Biological Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives

• Functional connectivity signatures of political ideology

Quotes

• "And only the empathy (emotional faces) task was significantly associated with moderate ideology."[1]

• "conservatives tend to be more resilient and have better self-control"[2] (Science proves that conservatives have more machismo!)

Liberals vs. conservatives

• Liberals and uncharitableness

Sexual mores and behavior:

• Why Conservatives Have Better Sex Lives Than Liberals
• New study finds that sexual behaviors align with political values

Political ideology, media consumption, websites and effects

Media consumption: Conservatives vs. liberals:

• Conservatives, liberals and media consumption

Right-wing media online ecosystem:

• 50 TOP CONSERVATIVE AND CHRISTIAN WEBSITES, 2021

• Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda

• ‘Network Propaganda’ explored

• Partisan Right-Wing Websites Shaped Mainstream Press Coverage Before 2016 Election, Berkman Klein Study

• Network Propaganda: How A Right-Wing Media Ecosystem Helped To Radicalise America

• A Major New Study Shows That Political Polarization Is Mainly A Right-Wing Phenomenon

Books: Political terms, political science and other foundational works

See also: Political science

Encyclopedia:

• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Science 2nd Edition by Vernon Bogdanor, Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition (April 15, 1992)

Political science:

• Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock, Princeton University Press; New Ed edition (August 20, 2006).

Books on politics

Edmund Burke

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke

Martin van Creveld books:

• The Privileged Sex

• A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind

Reviews:

• REVIEW: Equality – The Impossible Quest by Dr. Martin van Creveld
• Book Review: Equality: The Impossible Quest

Political terms - Oxford Research Encyclopedia

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• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

General terms

• Polarity

• World politics

• History and politics

• Political Values, Beliefs, and Ideologies

• Political sociology

• Political institutions

• Policy, Administration, and Bureaucracy

• Governance/Political Change

• Political behavior

• Political psychology

• Groups and identities

• Contentious Politics and Political Violence

• Globalism

Conservatism

• Conservatism

• Conservative

Liberalism

• Liberalism

• Liberal democracy

• Economic liberalism

Political terms - Britannica

• Political terms - Britannica

Political terms - Conservapedia

• Liberal

• Conservative

• Conservatism

• Moderate

• Globalism

People

• Edmund Burke

• Russell Kirk

Political terms (left of center source)

General terms

• Polarity - International relations

• Mercantilism

• Feudalism

• Globalism

Liberalism

• Liberalism

• Liberal democracy

• Economic liberalism

• Political egalitarianism

• Open society

• Univeral suffrage

• Multilateralism

• Liberal international order

Conservatism

• Conservatism

Moderate

• Political moderate

"All men created equal" - US Constitution

• What does "all men are created equal" mean?

• The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights

• All men are created equal - US Constitution

• When Thomas Jefferson penned “all men are created equal,” he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar

• Centuries-long debate continues over ‘all men are created equal’

• Are We Morally Equal by Nature? - Philosophers from the Enlightenment, etc.

World map

• World Map

Military/economic/digital (information) powers in the 21st century

• The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think | Ian Bremmer
• The next global superpower? | Quick Take | GZERO Media

The case for a country having boring politics

• The necessity of boring politics

• The Only Good Politics Are Boring Politics

• Politics should be boring

• Boring Politics is Good Politics – Especially in a Pandemic

List of U.S. states and territories by fertility rate

• List of U.S. states and territories by fertility rate

Libertine values and societal decay

• Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought

• Sexual immorality and the decline of the West

Jeffrey Epstein and other corruption

• One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Alyse Webb

• One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein Vol. 2 by Whitney Alyse Webb

• Whitney Alyse Webb - YouTube

• Whitney Webb: How Government Steals From Us, Bombshell Epstein Book

• Whitney Webb PART 2: Deep Politics, National Security State, Surveillance & Blackmail

Meritocracy and Egalitarian falsehoods/myths

• Wealth, Poverty, and Politics
• Senator Phil Gramm: Why American inequality is a myth
• Michael Sandel vs Adrian Wooldridge on Meritocracy
• Fareed: The idea of meritocracy is under siege
• Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

Books

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics

Video: Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell; Book: Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell

Equality: The Impossible Quest: Reviews

• Equality: The Impossible Quest by Martin van Creveld, Review at The Guardian
• A brief review of Equality: The Impossible Quest by Dr. Martin van Creveld (Castalia House, 2015)
• REVIEW: Equality – The Impossible Quest by Dr. Martin van Creveld, Review by Castalia House

Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality

• Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion

Past and present and their interplay

• Vladimir Putin: Modern Man: Why the tension in Ukraine may feel deceptively regressive

Muslim migrant problems

• Muslim migrant problems

Rise of right-wing populism

• The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism is On. As of Now, the Right-Wing is Ahead
• Book Review: National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin
• Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin - YouTube
• National Populism: the revolt against liberal democracy
• National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy - book

Transnational right-wing politics

• The Vexing Rise of the Transnational Right, The Dipolmat, 2023

"American dark money supports overseas far-right forces: openDemocracy reported that, between 2008 and 2017, U.S.-based Christian fundamentalists gave $50 million to support far-right causes and parties throughout Europe (a significant sum in the European context). Russian money, bots, hackers, and propaganda have also backed multiple reactionary-populist parties. Russia loaned money to the National Front, a far-right party in France led by Marine Le Pen, in 2014 and threw its weight behind the Brexit campaign to push the United Kingdom out of the European Union."[3]

Donald Trump and American right-wing populism

• TRUMP, LUTHER, AND THE GREAT SCHISM OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.

Messianic Jew says Trump lost because he had become an idol to many evangelicals

• What (I felt) God told me about the Election in September

• Trump's cult of personality

Woke backlash

• The 'anti-woke' crusade has come to Europe. Its effects could be chilling - CNN, January 22, 2022

Major causal factors for politics today

• What’s behind the rise of radicalism? Here are some theories By Megan McArdle, Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2019

• How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right, Eric Kaufmann, 2019

• The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy, By RICK SHENKMAN, Politico, September 08, 2019

• The rise of populism shouldn’t have surprised anyone, Washington Post, 2017

• Trump rode an 'us versus them' populism all the way to the White House. A global recession could take it to dangerous levels, Business Insider, 2019

• Civic tech guru: Trump, Breitbart and populism are ‘the new normal’, 2017

• The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Evangelical organizations

• Covenant Christian Coalition

Racial demographic/political shifts

• Who Polarized Us?, Eric kaufmann
• STUDIES: Whites (not strictly defined) Projected to Become Dominant Supermajority in U.S
• Interview with Eric Kaufmann: race on a professor’s whiteboard
• Eric Kaufmann on Nationalism, White Identity & Immigration
• Harvard: Diversity + Proximity = Republican Voters

Racial demographic shifts - Eric Kaufmann, Book: White Shift

Eric Kaufmann, Book: White Shift

Multiculturism, Western culture and anti-white bashing

• White supremacy is bad. Western culture isn’t.

4 of the major groups/factions in American politics: Free America, Smart America, Real America and Just America

• HOW AMERICA FRACTURED INTO FOUR PARTS
• Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture, The Atlantic (25% of USA are conservatives; 8% are social progressives/SJWs, most are somewhere in-between)
• The Delusions of the Radical Centrist Michael Lind - Summary of some the various factions in USA politics and how they relate to each other

Peter Zeihan's demography series

• Peter Zeihan's demography series

Donald Trump's political coalition

File:Donald Trump's coalition.jpg

The above graphic is a graphical representation of post Donald Trump's Republican Party. Notice how large the social conservatism portion is.

Donald Trump's political coalition is represented by the portion of the graph that is circled.

Poverty, equality and inequality

• Senator Phil Gramm: Why American inequality is a myth | Ben Domenech Podcast

• Thomas Sowell is Back Again to Discuss His Book Wealth, Poverty, and Politics

• Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

• Mr. Leftist, the rich aren't going to bail you out. Get off your butt! And marry before you have sex! Godspeed.

Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How

• Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How

Academic and highly educated/intelligent people, political elitism and pride/blindsidedness

• Academic and Political Elitism

"Yet the cognitive and behavioral science literature suggests that those who are highly educated, intelligent or rhetorically skilled tend to be significantly less likely than most to revise their beliefs or adjust their positions when confronted with evidence or arguments that contradict their priors. This is because, in virtue of knowing more about the world, or being better at arguing, they are better equipped to punch holes in data or arguments that contradict their prior views or to otherwise make excuses for “sticking to their guns” regardless. And so, they do...

Indeed, research suggests that people with highly refined critical capacities often deploy them to scrutinize others. Hence, those with higher education levels and academic aptitude (college GPA) tend to be less attuned than most to ambiguity, complexity, uncertainty and limitations in their own knowledge -- and less prone to innovative or creative thinking.

That is perhaps because studies show that, compared to the general public, highly educated or intelligent people tend to be more ideological in their thinking, more ideologically rigid and more extreme in their ideological leanings. Highly educated and intelligent people are also more likely to grow obsessed with some moral or political cause. Research suggests that they are more likely to overreact to small shocks, challenges or slights. Other studies have found that, while they are less likely to be prejudiced against others on the basis of things like race, they tend to be more prejudiced than most against those who seem to think differently than they do -- and often look down on those with less education.

In short, many of the biases and distortions to which all people are susceptible seem to be even more pronounced among those who are highly educated or intelligent."[4]

Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

• Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

People clinging to dead ideas which have repeatedly failed: Ideological necrophilia

"Bernie Sanders’s attraction to massive, government-centered programs places him squarely among populists who dismiss the need to maintain fiscal balances and end up with unsustainable government budget deficits. The plans on his campaign website would amount to an estimated $18 trillion to $30 trillion in new spending over the next 10 years. In pledging a form of European-like socialism to throngs of adoring young people, he doesn’t mention that if they were European, many of them would be unemployed and without prospects of finding a well-paying job. The bottom line: Many of his policies have already been tested, and many don’t work all that well.

In a world in which a few keystrokes on a computer can lead to a wealth of information about the track record of a particular economic or political proposal, it’s surprising that ideological necrophilia is still so common. There are many reasons why bad ideas endure, but perhaps the most important is people’s need to believe in a leader when faced with the grave anxieties and uncertainties associated with rapid change—and the demagogue’s inclination in these fragile moments to promise anything, even the discarded notions of demagogues past, in order to obtain and retain power.

There are many reasons why bad ideas endure, but perhaps the most important is people’s need to believe in a leader when faced with the grave anxieties and uncertainties associated with rapid change—and the demagogue’s inclination in these fragile moments to promise anything, even the discarded notions of demagogues past, in order to obtain and retain power." - What Is Ideological Necrophilia? by MOISÉS NAÍM

America in crisis. A window of opportunity

• I’ve Experienced This Cultural Moment Before … in Russia, Christianity Today

Changing civilizational world order

• Civilizational World Order w/Dr. Steve Turley - Listen to this

Major power politics in the 21st century for the foreseeable future

John Mearsheimer's view

• The 2022 Holberg Debate w/ John Mearsheimer and Carl Bildt: Ukraine, Russia, China and the West
• John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette
• Russians and NATO both feel that they cannot lose - War could drag on at a lower level for years and this is a dangerous situation.

Peter Zeihan's view

• The Old World Order Is About To Collapse - Peter Zeihan - 2022

• Peter Zeihan Warns End Of Great Powers Will Bring Famine And Destruction For Smaller Nations -2022

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio -2022 (Ray Dahlio has some good ideas, but he is inconsistent when it comes to China[5])

NATO

• NATO–Russia relations

What would a post-communist China look like?

• What Comes After the Communist Party in China?

Decline of civilizations

• Decline of civilizations

Leftism

• Godlessness, Leftism, and the World's Holes

• The left will always be with us

Leftism is dead/collapsing

• How the Left Died

• The Left is Dying Because it’s Turned Into a Bonfire of Vanities

• The Left's 1942

• The Left is collapsing everywhere, Washington Examiner, February 2017

• The collapse of the political Left, Washington Examiner by Michael Barone, Dec 7, 2016

• America’s Dean of Politics Says Left is Collapsing, 2016

• Despite Thomas Piketty, Voters Reject Economic Redistribution, Townhall, 2014

Left-wing authoritarianism

• Clarifying the Structure and Nature of Left-Wing Authoritarianism

Political left collapsing while leftism ascending in Democrat party

• Is the political Left collapsing?, Democrats not doing well politically. Regional party of American NE and some coastal regions and don't have national appeal

Identity politics

Anti-white identity politics

• Actually, white people have contributed quite a lot

Freedom vs. complete autonomy vs. social responsibilities

• How Freedom Became an American Idol

Right-wing news

• The Next Right-Wing Populist Will Win by Attacking American Higher Education

Conspiracy thinking and American politics

• The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter

"This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States."[6]

Conspiracy thinking and American politics - essay by Richard Hofstadter

• The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Essay by Richard Hofstadter

Academic discussion

• The Paranoid Style, Past and Present

Research

• The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Tucker Carlson

• Tucker Carlson: This should make you nervous

• Tucker Carlson: This is a manufactured disaster

China and Christianity

• This fascinating map shows the new religious breakdown in China

Peter L. Berger's blog

• Peter L. Berger's blog

Eastern culture vs. Western culture

• Oriental despotism

• East* vs. West: Life Philosophy, Cultural Values, Mindset

• East vs West: 5 Cultural Differences International Student Should Know

• Understanding the Difference Between Eastern & Western Culture

Western culture

• The Truth About Popular Culture

Feminism

• Feminism

Identity politics

• Identity politics death grip

Racial politics and immigration

• Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann

Paul Joseph Johnson

• Paul Joseph Johnson

Gerald Celente YouTube channel

• Gerald Celente YouTube channel

Donald Trump

Trump and Christianity/religion

• Recognizing God's Hand in Donald Trump's Election
• Importance of the 'faith factor' in Trump's election win
• Michele Bachmann on Election Night Prayer: 'The Lord Did This'
• Billy Graham's Son: God Put Trump in Office
• Franklin Graham: God had a hand in this election
• Sarah Sanders: God wanted Trump as president
• ‘God is the ultimate’: How Trump talks about his faith
• Trump Pledges to Protect Christianity
• Christmas message from President and Mrs. Trump
• Trump: We're saying 'Merry Christmas' again
• Trump on saying ‘Merry Christmas’
• Trump Responds To Pope

2020 Presidential election anomolies

• 2020 Presidential Election anomalies deserve scrutiny

2020 Pro the election was not fraudulent

• Why Trump Lost - Claremont Institute (conservative thinktank)

Trump derangement syndrome

• Letter: The cause of Trump Derangement Syndrome

• The Next Pandemic: Trump Derangement Syndrome, WSJ

• Feehery: Trump Derangement Syndrome dooms Dems, The Hill

• Mass Psychology in the Age of Trump, a liberals explanation of Trump derangement syndrome

Demography and religion/Global Christianity

• Christianity in its global context

• Shall the religious inherit the earth - Eric Kaufmann

• Europe and religion/creationism

• Europe and Islam - Eric Kaufmann

American evangelical hispanics:

• American Hispanic population to triple by 2050
• How shifting religious and other experiences are affecting Hispanic political identities - Pew Research

Eric Kaufmann:

• Eric Kaufmann's Twitter feed
• Eric Kaufmann - Facebook

Decline of the state/nations

• The Fate of the State by MARTIN VAN CREVELD

• Decline of nations

• Men have forgotten God by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

• Juan Donoso Cortés' speech to the Spanish Parliament on January 4, 1849

Expansion of right-wing material on the internet

• The recent explosion of right-wing news sites

• Why the Right Is Dominating YouTube - Vice News

• Why the Right is Dominating YouTube (A Response to Vice)

• Psychological effects of right-wing and Islamic extremist videos - Netherlands and German report

The influence of wealthy class, media and the military-industrial complex on American politics

• WHO RULES AMERICA - FULL DOCUMENTARY - Based on a book by the psychology/sociology professor G. William Domhoff (Midwesterner who studied psychology at liberal colleges)

Manufacturing consent

• Noam Chomsky Explains The Propaganda Model in 5 Minutes | Manufacturing Consent (Part 1)

• ‘There Is Always a Fringe of Dissidents’ — Noam Chomsky On The Propaganda Model (Part 2)

• Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent revisited | The Listening

• Does "Manufacturing Consent" Still Hold Up? — Matt Christman

• Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | Feature Film

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

• Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Audiobook) [1/2

• Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Audiobook) [2/2

USA, power and politics

• Remember that study saying America is an oligarchy? 3 rebuttals say it's wrong. - Ordinary citizens get what they want about half the time.

• Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy - Appears to be incorrect and/or misleading

Related resources

• The Illusion of Democracy | Who Really Controls our Lives
• Guided democracy: The Illusion of Choice. ( Walter Lipmann, Chomsky and Edward Bernays )
• Corporations Control Our Governments: Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard | Downstream

Feminism

• Feminism

Secular left

• Mueller ‘nothing burger’ report exposes folly of the secular left

Political/religious essays

• The Last Crusade: Rip van Con

Islam

Europe: Mass immigration, guilt and a continent on the brink of 'societal catastrophe'

• How Europe Built It’s Own Funeral Pyre, Then Leapt In

Islamic populations hitting various percentages of population and the consequences

• What Islam Isn't - Dr. Peter Hammond
• What Islam Isn't - Dr. Peter Hammond, 2008 - from his 2005 book

Islam and indoctrination

• Islam and indoctrination

Islam, Europe and demographics

• French researcher Charles Gave says Muslims to be majority in Europe within two generations

• Europe's growing Muslim population

Muslims/evangelicals. Secular leftism collapsing faster than I expected

Please read the following articles:

• French researcher Charles Gave says Muslims to be majority in Europe within two generations

• Europe: The Great White Death?

• France's Muslim Demographic Future

• In a France suspicious of religion, evangelicalism's message strikes a chord

• Immigrant evangelical churches are a fast growing movement in France.

• Nearly half of young French voters backed Marine Le Pen, projections suggest

• Angela Merkel ‘will become a lame duck very quickly’ as she polls worse than Theresa May

• East Asia and global desecularization

Germany/France are two main pillars upon which Western, secular, liberalism rests now. If Gave is roughly correct (he did have a mathematical error as per the latter link given above), then an anti-atheism, anti-homosexuality, ant-feminism Muslim population may strike a huge blow against secular leftism much earlier than I thought.

On top of this, Merkel appears to be much weaker now and the French youth are becoming more right-wing in recent years.

I do know that Muslims are not assimilating and they tend to live in isolated ghettos in France (See: European desecularization in the 21st century).

My guess is that the accuracy of Gave's calculation rests on whether or not the fertility rate of French Muslims will about stay the same or significantly drop in the next 40 years.

After all is said and done, secular leftism appears to be between a quickly growing hammer of right-wing populism and an anvil of Muslim/Christian evangelicalism.

Secular leftism is collapsing much faster than I anticipated. However, I did foresee an acceleration of desecularization happening in the world so I was not completely caught off guard (see: Acceleration of 21st century desecularization).

Election betting odds

• Election betting odds - Advantages over pundits/polls

• Paddy Power and Paddy Power - US presidential election

• US election betting odds

• Betfair US poliitcs

Accuracy of political prediction/betting markets

• If you want to know who will win the election, ask a gambler

• Something better than polls for political predictions? You bet!

• Why all political junkies should follow prediction markets

• Politico story on political betting websites

• How Gamblers — History’s Most Accurate Election Forecasters — Are Betting on 2012

• In May of 2015 bookies said Rubio would be the Republican nominee]

Finland: A country with a Protestant heritage and a most sensible prison system and society

• Prisoners In Finland Live In Open Prisons Where They Learn Tech Skills
• An observation about the countries that handled the coronavirus pandemic well so far. And let's look at Finland.

Essays

• Ten Conservative Principles by Russell Kirk

My essays

• Essay: Liberal meltdown and desperation tactics: A look at the future
• Political tremors and the supervolcano of conservatism
• Liberals are pantywaists. They have a weak ideology. They will be defeated.
• Richard Dawkins and the supervolcanic eruption of feminist atheism

Democrats

• Democrats: The Only Way To Save Democracy Is One-Party Rule

Hardball GOP politics

Trumpism related stuff

Roger Stone and Roy Cohn

• Get me Roger Stone

• Get Me Roger Stone segment on Roy Cohn

Lee Atwater

• Lee Atwater

The modern idea of retirement rather than working until you cannot

• The History of Retirement

• A brief history of retirement: It’s a modern idea

2013 Seattle Times article: "Now, governments are reversing those policies and raising retirement ages to prevent aging populations from breaking their budgets. And older people, who now enjoy better health, are working longer again: In the United States, 18.6 percent of people 65 and older were working or looking for work as of November 2013. That was up from a record-low 10.4 percent in January 1985, according to Labor Department figures dating to 1948."[7]

Conservative books and articles

Essays/articles:

1. Ten Conservative Principles by Russell Kirk

2. Miller, John L., "His Conservative Mind," Traverse (January 2007).

3. The Fate of the State by MARTIN VAN CREVELD, a historian (The article is on big government and how it is losing power and/or effectiveness).

Books:

1. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) by Edmund Burke, Complete text of the book online

• Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, summary

• Edmund Burke, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2. Russell Kirk's book: The Conservative Mind from Burke to Santayana (1953), put Burke in the mainstream of American conservatism. Copy of book: online edition

3. Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell

Video: Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell

4. Equality: The Impossible Quest by the historian Martin van Creveld

5. A Choice Not an Echo by Phyllis Schlafly

Political ideology, websites and effects

• 50 TOP CONSERVATIVE AND CHRISTIAN WEBSITES, 2021

Right-wing media online ecosystem

• Research finds TikTok actually favors Republicans, not Democrats, 2023

• How billionaires are building a right-wing online ecosystem, 2022

• Right wing builds its own echo chamber, 2021

• Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda

• ‘Network Propaganda’ explored

• Partisan Right-Wing Websites Shaped Mainstream Press Coverage Before 2016 Election, Berkman Klein Study

• Network Propaganda: How A Right-Wing Media Ecosystem Helped To Radicalise America

• A Major New Study Shows That Political Polarization Is Mainly A Right-Wing Phenomenon

Conservative websites increasing traffic

• User: Conservative/Conservative web and conservative political consulting

How a conservative website can increase web traffic

• Google Isn’t Really Biased Against Conservative Websites – Here’s Why, SEJ, 2019

Examples

• Why internal links and hub pages are a major factor in SEO success, Daily Mail, 2014

• How hub pages and internal links are paying off for Mail Online, 2016

• How conservative media has grown under Trump, Columbia Journalism Review, 2019

• 4 Conservative Sites Double Traffic In March, 2020

Political consulting companies for conservatives and Republicans

Top Political consulting firms for Republicans and nonpartisan

1. FP1 Strategies is a general consulting and political advertising firm for Republicans. Our battle-tested team has helped elect 31 U.S. Senators, 8 Governors, 56 Members of Congress and won 7 high-profile ballot initiatives

2. Cultural Currents Institute - Nonpartisan - Executional firm that can build a beautiful website, run an ad campaign, and handle voter outreach with ease. CCI also offers high-end strategic consulting and intelligence to VIP clients.

3. PURPLE STRATEGIES - Bipartisan. You are an organization looking for a communications and public affairs strategy informed by a team of bipartisan political consultants.

4. Jay Townsend - You are an entry-level candidate looking for guidance from an experienced political consultant who works with campaigns of all sizes.

Conservative

• Vicimedia Group - Digital strategy, websites, advertising, and design. We build winning campaigns for conservative candidates and causes to kick butt online

• Mosaic - Mosaic has delivered results for Conservative Businesses, Campaigns, and Causes since 1995. From website design, to commercial video production, AUDIO • VIDEO • PRINT • DIGITAL • CREATIVE • MEDIA PLACEMENT

• Remnant Agency - Digital media advertising is an effective way to reach conservative audiences in today's technological world. Social media, search engine, remnant media buyers and advertising experts

• Bingham Design, Digital marketing for Republicans

• Ozean Media - Digital advertising and media for conservatives and Republicans made by conservatives

• Salem Surround - Reach a nationwide conservative audience with expert digital marketing services from Salem Surround

• Conservative Web Designers - Conservative Web Designers offer website and digital marketing services for Patriots, Christians, Conservatives and alike.

• Arsenal Media Group - Arsenal Media Group delivers passionate storytelling for conservative campaigns, non-profits and causes. We're the industry leader in creative video, social management and branding

• Targeted Victory - We’re a digital first agency built for the mobile age. We bring the best of political campaigns and a right-of-center perspective to solve marketing challenges. Local activation at a national scale.

• American Target Advertising - (ATA) is the oldest and largest conservative direct mail marketing and fundraising agency for nonprofit organizations that does digital marketing too.

• Redvail - Political Digital Marketing. Providing top-tier digital marketing to conservative campaigns and causes nationwide! Free Quote.

• Conservative Connector - Conservative Connector - LinkedIN Needs a good website. Conservative Connector is an innovative and award-winning email marketing firm

• Fractal - Works with conservative brands as far as companies. Fractl specializes in increasing its clients organic search rankings, brand engagement and authority through a harmony of technical SEO, content development, and digital-PR strategies.

• Majority Strategies - Majority Strategies is a full-service data, digital & print firm with over 20 years of experience solving problems & influencing public opinion & behavior.

• Leadership Institute - Founded in 1979 by its president, Morton C. Blackwell, the Leadership Institute (LI) teaches conservatives the nuts and bolts of how to succeed in the public policy process. It provides training in campaigns, fundraising, grassroots organizing, youth politics, and communications. Since 1979, LI has trained more than 250,000 conservative activists, leaders, and students. The Institute's unique college campus network has grown to more than 2,300 conservative campus groups and newspapers.

• Century Strategies - Clients Donald Trump and corporations

• Harris Media LLC - Clients Rand Paul, Benjamin Netanyahu - Works with conservatives and Republicans

• Eagle Consulting Group - Direct mail, digital, TV, phones. Its principal, Christopher Nicholas, is recognized as a leading GOP political consultant with a proven track record of winning tough campaigns.

• McShane LLC - The McShane Political Consulting team has worked for more than fifty elected officials, ballot initiatives, and super PACs, across twenty-seven states

• Burges and Burges - Burges & Burges is Ohio's leading political strategy and communications consulting firm.

• Faith and Freedom Coalition contracts with outside firms American Target Advertising and Unisource Direct LLC for solicitations through direct mail and telephone calls.

Texas:

• Macias Strategies

Conservative/Republican other

1. BrabenderCox - BrabenderCox is a full-service political marketing, public affairs, strategic communications and advertising firm that combines innovation, technology, and creativity to solve problems in an adversarial world. BrabenderCox has earned a reputation as one of the most creative firms in America, winning hundreds of awards for work in both traditional advertising and the digital space.

BrabenderCox is a nationally recognized Republican political consulting firm, with offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

With offices in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, BrabenderCox works with clients from a wide range of industries and disciplines. Some of the firms notable past-clients include Mike Pence, Evan Bayh, Todd Young, and Rick Santorum. BrabenderCox is named for the firm’s Founder, John Brabender.

The firm’s political consultation services are limited to adversarial marketing, political ads, and public affairs. It focuses more on offensive attacks and damage control, rather than SEO targeting to mobilize voters. Rick Santorum dubbed Brabender his ‘guru’, before losing the 2012 Republican nomination for the General Election.

Its many successes include past Presidents, Fortune 500 companies and healthcare providers. Over the years, the firm has accrued many awards for digital, broadcast and print advertising campaigns.

2. Capitol City Research - Capitol City Research is a firm based in Jefferson City, Missouri providing opposition research to Republican political candidates. The firms’ tagline is “Uncover the truth, no matter how ugly!”. The firm has over 20 years of experience in assisting Republican campaigns with research into democratic opponents.

3. Neva Hill & Company - (Needs website) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma provides Republican political consultation, strategizing, and direct mail services. The firm has a record of working on local, county, municipal, and federal campaigns, as well as statewide ballot initiatives.

Major powers: Western World, USA, European nations, China and Russia

• Stephen Kotkin: Turning Points: Yesterday’s World, and Tomorrow’s

The changing character of war - Peter Zeihan

• Peter Zeihan | The Changing Character of War, Peter Zeihan

Polarity (International relations)

• Polarity - International relations

Bipolar:

• The myth of multipolarity. What do the terms unipolar, bipolar and multipolar mean as far as international relations?

• The Myth of Multipolarity, American Power’s Staying Power, Foreign Affairs, April 18, 2023

• No, the World Is Not Multipolar, Foreign Affairs, September 22, 2023

• Multipolarity: What Is It Good For? (Discussion of the above Foreign Affairs article The Myth of Multipolarity, 2023)

• Essay: The 2023 BRICS Summit was a bunch of hoopla. We still don't live in a multipolar world.

• The multipolarity thesis: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook, FT, 2023 (Argues multipolarity is exaggerated. Focuses on financial)

• Why has the West been so successful? (Stephen Kotkin - Multipolar world is nonsense)

Middle Ground:

• 'A Multipolar World With Bipolar Features', video, Stratfor, 2023

Multiple views discussed:

• The Long unipolar moment?, Foreign Affairs, 2023 (Article with counter-response) - Focuses on multiple dimensions, etc.

Multipolar:

• Yes, the World Is Multipolar, and that isn’t bad news for the United States. - Foreign Policy, 2023

• A multipolar world can benefit both US and China: ex-FM George Yeo, The Star, 2023 (Singapore)

• US needs to accept it’s a multipolar world and work with China, South China Morning Post, 2023

• Piece by piece, the BRICS really are building a multipolar world, Atlantic Council, 2023

Focuses on the rise of non-state actors and the state having less power:

• The new age of multipolar, 5D war against the West has begun, The Australian, 2023 (See also: The Fate of the State by MARTIN VAN CREVELD)

Western World

• Why the West Won’t Collapse

USA

• These Are the 5 Reasons Why the U.S. Remains the World’s Only Superpower
• I’ve Experienced This Cultural Moment Before … in Russia - Decline of the USA and Christian response

• The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future

Europe

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According to a September 2022 Ipsos poll, 7 in 10 Britons agree that the UK is in decline.

As the HMS United Kingdom was going down, Britons could be heard saying, "We shouldn't have put Charles Darwin on our currency. God is not mocked. We are reaping what we sowed."

European News:

• TLDR Euronews YouTube channel
• Breitbart - Europe
• Europe - Bing news
• France 24 - Europe
• Politico Europe
• Europe - Euronews
• Europe - Google News

Other:

• EU records lowest birthrate amid a steady 60-year decline
• Why is Europe losing the will to breed?- Irish Times, 2016
• David Harsanyi – On Busting the Myth of European Superiority
• Everything You Hear About Europe is Wrong
• David Harsanyi: “Eurotrash”—Rejecting the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent
• David Harsanyi, Author of "Eurotrash" on The Interview with Hugh Hewitt

Europe's anti-Americanism post start of Russia vs. Ukraine War:

• Europe’s anti-American itch, Politico, 2022

Classical liberalism view:

Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent:

• Death Wish - Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent - Claremont Review of Books
• Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent - book

The deindustrialization of Germany/Europe (Europe's economic engine):

• The deindustrialization of Germany (Europe's economic engine)

• Europe Is Losing Its Factories

China

• China Uncensored
• South China Morning Post
• New China TV

China:

• The End of China? - Nomad capitalist
• '10 years left': This famed geopolitical analyst says China will collapse in the next decade — here are 3 key numbers that could support his contrarian forecast, Yahoo News, April 2023
• The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China

Japan

• Why Japan Rejects Western Style Globalism

Russia

• A brief history of Russia with Sergei Guriev
• Unwrapping The Enigma, Mystery And Riddle: Stephen Kotkin Explains Russia To Andrew Roberts
• Vlad Vexler
• A LOOK AT RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION: POWER, TRUTH, TRUST, AND WAR
• U.S–Russia Relations, with Stephen Kotkin, August 2022
• The Psychology of an Isolated Russia - Stephen Kotkin
• Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture 2018: Stephen Kotkin - Sir Isaiah Berlin was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas
• 5 More Questions For Stephen Kotkin: Ukraine Edition
• What is Eurasia? - Stephen Kotkin
• Russia and the West: A Historical Perspective.

Essay: Why I am not bullish on Russia's future and The true impact of a year of war on Russia's economy

Russian culture - positive character traits:

• Russian culture - core concepts
• 5 Characteristics of Russian Culture I Have Learned from My Host Family While Teaching English

Russia and fertility rate and demographics:

• Russia's fertility rate
• Demographics of the Orthodox Christain world by Peter Zeihan
• Russia's Demographic Crisis Explained - TLDR News
• Updates on Russian Demographics
• (Russia is DONE) Russia's Catastrophic Demographics Collapse is Here.

Putin:

• Vladimir Putin - history and analysis

Ukraine:

• The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin - History of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia (And U.S. involvement)
• Why it’s wrong to assume American evangelicals are siding with Russia over Ukraine

Blog on Russia:

In Moscow's Shadows

Post Western World notion

• A Post Western World? A Disturbing Interview With Prof. Harry Redner - Part 1

• A Post Western World? A Disturbing Interview With Prof. Harry Redner - Part 2

Decline of nations:

• Decline of nations - Daniel Greenfield's blog

Map of world by population size

• Map of world by population size

Peter Zeihan's view

Peter Zeihan is an American geopolitical analyst and author.

• What Will The World Look Like in Five Years?

• The Old World Order Is About To Collapse - Peter Zeihan - 2022

• Peter Zeihan Warns End Of Great Powers Will Bring Famine And Destruction For Smaller Nations -2022

• Who will Dominate the Geopolitical System in this Decade

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