The US has not known social and domestic peace since the start of the present decade, and it is unlikely that it will know it again for the foreseeable future. This is because it has ceased to be a country at all, assuming that nationhood implies fundamental unity, which America no longer has.

When novelist John Dos Passos wrote in the late 1930s, “All right, we are two countries,” the boundary he had in mind was economic, separating the rich from the poor. Today the obvious divide is political, between left and right. But what seems obvious is not always true, as in this case. The reason is not that all of life in the US has become politicized – though that is certainly true – but that Carl von Clausewitz’s dictum about war as an extension of politics is fast being superseded by the fact that western politics in the 21st century is itself becoming the equivalent of war, as in the state of Minnesota today, since for the contemporary left politics is meaningless in a world where the only boundary that exists is the boundary between oppressor and oppressed.

The three most obvious things in the world remain the existence of evil, of the Devil, and of human wickedness

The three most obvious things in the world remain the existence of evil, of the Devil, and of human wickedness

This boundary can be erased only by violence and nihilism operating on behalf of formlessness and chaos which have no need of politics and politicians and, by definition, no place or even desire for........

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