Road to the Middle Class - by Christopher Chantrill

ROAD TO THE MIDDLE CLASS is a forthcoming book and a supporting website advancing the concept that all people are, or ought to be, capable of self-government. Further, we believe that people learn best how to be self-governing through the four social crucibles of enthusiastic religion, education, mutual aid, and living under law.

Conversely, we do not think that the current welfare state and its rule of the liberal experts does much to encourage self-government and civic virtue. We agree with the Canadian philosopher Mark Steyn that the current political system encourages permanent adolescence.

We invite you to read the manifesto to get an blurb on the project and the book. Or, if you like, plunge right into the book with the table of contents and Chapter One: After the Welfare State. For serious students there is an online test to measure your knowledge of the road to the middle class.

Oped of the Week

EVERY WEEK on Monday morning we publish an oped here on www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. You have probably already read this week’s article “Budget Fun with Fannie and Freddie.” Here are a couple of recent efforts for you to enjoy:

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
ISN’T it great to have a Republican Senator from Massachusetts? It’s also good to have the First Amendment reaffirmed by the United States Supreme Court—even if our liberal friends
| link | 02/03/10
The Content of Obama's Character
ON THE HOLIDAY celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday we celebrate also the first year of America’s first black president, Barack Obama. It’s telling that 47 years ago,
| link | 01/22/10

and there is lots more.

Daily Blogging

WE BLOG DAILY, Monday to Friday, at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com, chiefly on national US politics, religion, education, mutual aid, and law. We also look at our junior partners in the global Anglospheric hegemony, the British. It is hard to say why, but very often our blogging zeroes in like a laser on liberal hypocrisies, monopolies, and sinecures. Of course, at Road to the Middle Class we love our liberal friends to bits, but we do not take them quite as seriously as they do. If we get too pompous and serious, please get in touch and tell us to lighten up.

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Enjoy.

If GOP is Mean and Nasty, Then Dems Are...

OUR LIBERAL friends is the media and the academy and the Democratic Party do a superb job of painting conservatives and Republicans as mean and nasty. Haters, even.

Yes, but what do we do about it, writes, Lorie Byrd? We could just fight dirty, like they do. But that’s a problem; after all, we are conservatives.

I would not say we need to fight “dirty,” but at the very least we should stop being worried about being seen as mean or nasty... We not only do not fight hard enough against the image, and the unfair (and often untrue) allegations and accusations in reaction to them, but we do nothing to preempt them.

How the Republican Party and conservatives manage to do that is a big topic of discussion, but there is no doubt it is something they must do if they want any chance of regaining political power.

Actually, I think this will take care of itself. Conservatives were seen as mean and nasty when they were in power. In other words, to a liberal, a conservative with power is, by definition, mean and nasty. And certainly, a conservative with power is a roadblock to everything that liberals hold dear.

Now liberals are in power, and a lot of people don’t like it.

So the solution is simple. Tell the world what liberals are really like, using daily examples.

Of course we are not talking about liberals, personally. Many of my best friends are liberals. But liberal politics...

After years of painstaking research I have found that liberal politics always involves the following five characteristics:

CRUEL, CORRUPT, WASTEFUL, UNJUST, and DELUDED.

All we conservatives have to do is come up with examples, every day. Here are two, taken at random off the web yesterday and today:

Cruel:A mother discovers that her daughter at Stanford will have to live in a mixed-sex dorm room, i.e. two boys sleeping in the same room with daughter.
Unjust: A Tea-Party activist was denied the right to speak at a Quincy, MA city council meeting.

There are examples of this every day. And I will record them, and publish them away on my public Delicious account. I will use the following tags cruel corrupt wasteful unjust deluded as appropriate.

Here’s how you’ll find them:

See? That isn’t hard.