Radical Middle.

I’ve always liked that term.

Gee, I don’t klnow.

Semi-autonomous merchant/guild run cities with special privileges for guild members.

Yeah, that’d be it, on the button.

I have an “uncle” (a distant relative who we grew up calling “morbror”) who was a skeet shooter and, therefore, had a reloading press for his shotgun ammo. When young men first came to take his daughter out he made a point of sitting there reloading shells when he met them for the first time. He was a very intense looking man (a WWII and Korean era fighter pilot) and the whole routine was no doubt quite intimidating. My “aunt” would have to go to the far side of the house because she would laugh so hard while this was going on. The whole family knew the schtick.

My guess is that the same will be true, though somewhat more subtle, of the Republican convention.

The Republicans will be more upfront about their agenda. But the significant part of the Republican Party that is for genuinely limited government and that is also deeply concerned about the immigrant flood, legal and illegal, will be given short shrift.

A tremendous pressure of “the voiceless” is building up in the Republican Party (and maybe in “old” Democrats, as well). How this will play out in the near future I have no idea. But a great upswelling change is coming.

Also off topic, supposedly a true story: an american friend of mine told me the first time his sister was going to go on a date. His father was an ex-cop, and I believe ex-marine, well over 6 feet and built like a tank.

The father says the doughter isn’t ready yet, and takes the young man down into the basement, to show him his gun collection, mounted on the wall. He takes down a gun and goes: “This is an UZI, it’s my favorit gun…” [clack!-clack!] “So, how long have you known my daugther?”

God. Don’t remind me. They’re f*cking colonizing Virginia. I prefer rednecks to snobs.

I used to think that elections were term limits, but that does not address the problem of party intransigence. How else can you explain the fact that Ted Kennedy is still there? Nobody will even run against him in a primary. What do they do in that state, shoot all the young promising Democrats?

KKK, the Kerry Kennedy Klan. After all these years you would think some young people would have come along.

Why do those cities mentioned remind me more of the Hanseatic League than the basis for declaration of a demographic shift? Semi-autonomous merchant/guild run cities with special privileges for guild members. Segregation through economic isolation by virtue of careful NIMBY planning. I wonder if they’ll hire mercenaries to protect them from the nation state tax collectors.