The Soapbox: Political Discourse

I've been reading a book about the Aztecs. They were among the most sophisticated of the mesoamerican tribes. Some aspects of their culture even rivaled that of Europe. And yet, despite this highly advanced society it was a culture of death that revolved around human sacrifice. Their temples were slaughterhouses where human beings were ritually scarified on a daily basis in the most barbaric way possible. Their still-beating hearts were literally ripped from their chests. It wasn't just men who were sacrificed but women, children, and babies too. In one particular ritual they cut the throats of infants. The human skins of their victims were routinely worn like garments. To give you an idea of the magnitude of these human sacrifices, the Aztecs ritually sacrificed 50,000 people per year in a population area of four to five million. That equates to sacrificing one percent of their total population annually. In modern terms it would be considered a genocide. In one pa...

Every year in October, Columbus Day is celebrated in several countries in The Americas as well as in Spain and Italy. However, in more recent decades there’s been increasing opposition to Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. According to the Left’s narrative, Christopher Columbus arrival in the New World marked the beginning of one the largest genocides in human history. But was it really? The major problem with this assertion is that the vast majority of natives, some 75 to 95 percent, were killed by Old World diseases to which they had no immunity. While no less a tragedy, it does not qualify as a genocide. A genocide requires a calculated deliberate intent to exterminate a whole group of people. The Europeans were unaware that the natives had no immunity to Old World diseases, let alone how infectious diseases even worked. Germ Theory was not fully understood until the late nineteenth century. It should also be noted that in the United States, at least, there was n...

On The Morning Joe show, MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch recently likened Trump voters to Nazis. Speaking in regards to the latest manufactured outrage of separating illegal immigrate children from their parents, Deutsch said:     I wanna attach what you just said to the question that Carter asked John about; politicizing; I could put an exclamation mark about everything you said. It was particularly reprehensible when Ivanka said, “It looks a certain way.”     What has to happen now is this can no longer be about who Trump is. It has to be about who we are, if we are working towards November. We can no longer say Trump’s the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you’re the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you are ripping children from parents’ arms. The mistake that we’ve made in the past, is “Look at that bad guy over there. Look at that bad guy.”     What the Democrats have to do is make the next election a referendum on not who Trump is,...