Tag Archives: Communism

Venezuela: Is Reality Setting In?

Posted on February 10, 2020 by The Political Hat

     After a year of over five-thousand innocent Venezuelans dead, including targeted assassination, amongst other abuses of power, people are still willing to stand up against the tyrant Maduro, and his friends in other countries.      Yet, while Maduro seems happy to … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: Extremism

Posted on February 7, 2020 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Extremism can be either good or bad, and either portrayed as either bad or good. But extremism isn’t … Continue reading →

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The Wobbly-Furry Alliance

Posted on February 4, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Just when you thought politics in the year 2020 couldn’t get any more… year 2020, this happens:      Yes, that is the far Left “union”, the International Workers of the World (aka “Wobblies) with furry fetish art. “Kelsey Tanabe Walker, the … Continue reading →

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How Cultural Marxism Destroyed Education

Posted on January 8, 2020 by The Political Hat

     The once-hallowed halls of education, most importantly higher education, have been thoroughly taken over by the Gramscian march of the hard Left, with increasingly rarer holdouts and those successful in hiding their beliefs. Indoctrinated students form a new Red Guard … Continue reading →

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Venezuela: Brand New Decade; Same Old Tyranny

Posted on January 6, 2020 by The Political Hat

     The decade of the 2010s certainly seemed to close on a twinkling of hope for Venezuela. Spain ordered the extradition of Venezuela’s Ex-Intelligene chief to the U.S., while Maduro’s brother tyrant, Evo Morales, fled Bolivia after he was caught rigging … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: The Road Back

Posted on January 3, 2020 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Much has been achieved to not only slow down the advance of socialism but also to establish a … Continue reading →

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Housing Justice

Posted on December 11, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Whenever an ardent Leftist Progressive qualifies the word “justice”, they don’t actually mean justice and rarely actually care about the qualifier beyond the excuse to target someone over something.      Such as is the case in the call of “housing justice”. … Continue reading →

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Old Communist China Same As The New Communist China: Evil Incarnate

Posted on December 10, 2019 by The Political Hat

     With the recent attention shone on Hong Kong trying to resist the treaty-violating machinations of the tyrants of Beijing, we are reminded that the “New Communist China” that was supposed to embrace democracy and (classical) liberal values just embraced a … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: The Meaning of the China Vote

Posted on October 25, 2019 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      With the People’s Republic of China being in the news, primarily for the repression in Hong Kong, let … Continue reading →

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The Perpetual Whittling Away of Venezuela

Posted on October 21, 2019 by The Political Hat

     How bad is it in Venezuela? So bad that fleeing Venezuelans are willing to accept forced labor and sexual exploitation rather than go back. Increasingly, nations are recognizing that something has to be done to stop the perpetual slow collapse … Continue reading →

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