Political & Civilizational Stance
I’ve always believed you come to known and understand someone’s beliefs and values through personally experiencing their everyday words and actions. But unfortunately in this current age, we are very rarely in close enough proximity to each other to figure this out, so I’d thought I’d lay it out here for those interested. I also thought it be a nice experiment for myself to express all this in words and really see where I land on all these certain topics. So, here we go.
I’m not “above politics,” but I’m also not auditioning to be a mascot for any party. I’m a Christ-first, orthodox Christian, Catholic-anchored husband and father who believes the modern machine (corporate, cultural, and bureaucratic) is actively corroding faith, family, and place. My order of loyalty is simple: God, my wife, my kids, our parish, our land. I believe in father headship, duty, sacrifice, and masculine responsibility in the home. That’s the center of gravity, not Washington, nor any governmental office for that matter.
I’m unapologetically America First, not as a slogan but as a hierarchy of care. I want a sovereign, sane, fertile America again: borders that actually exist, an economy that rewards productive work over financial games, and a culture that treats marriage and many children as a blessing, not a lifestyle choice for weirdos. I want a country that prefers babies, churches, homesteads and community fairs to pornography, gender ideology, consumerism, and pharmaceutical sedation.
I’m strongly pro-life, womb to tomb. That means no disposable children, no disposable elderly, no throwaway disabled. Abortion, eugenic “medicine,” casual talk of euthanasia, and the quiet warehousing of the weak are symptoms of the same disease. Human life is sacred from conception to natural death, and any serious politics has to start there or it is just arguing over shapes on the sinking ship.
I reject the whole “global citizen managed by experts” thing. I care more about my kids’ town than Washington, DC, a country over in the Middle East, a UN resolution or a WEF panel. I’m anti-globalist, anti-UN/WEF/corporate-government nexus, and I see the military-industrialization-complex, pharma-state, technocracy, captured media, and financial banking cartels as one integrated machine, not neutral “stakeholders.” My bias is strong civil and parental sovereignty: parents over the state, church over state, community over corporations. That includes free speech, medical freedom, privacy, bodily autonomy against forced mandates and digital control.
When it comes to daily life, I’m pro localism: small towns, rooted parishes, land, homesteads, neighborliness. I’m strongly pro-homeschool and alternative education and deeply skeptical of the edu-bureaucratic complex that treats kids like state property. I’m pro farmer, tradesman, and small business; anti-megacorp and anti-financialization. Economically I land in a right-populist, distributist-leaning lane: productive capital and real work over speculation, strip-mining, and debt peonage.
I’m also not a pure libertarian or a professional partisan. “Do whatever you want as long as it’s legal” is not a moral code. I believe in ordered freedom under God. Some ways of life are better than others. A nation has both the right and the duty to defend its families, its borders, its worship, and its moral order. That includes strong self-defense norms: I support the right to bear arms, local militias, and a citizenry capable of resisting tyranny, not just complaining about it on the internet. I’m skeptical of foreign interventionism and empire building; I want real defense of the homeland, not endless managed wars for contractors and lobbyists.
On the party map, I see the D vs R establishment as mostly one captured uniparty that serves the same donors and the same machine. I reject the progressive left, neoliberal technocracy, neocon hawks, and corporate “centrism” that exists to tranquilize normal people. If you need labels, I’m somewhere in the postliberal, based localist, Christian-nationalist-lite neighborhood. I overlap with MAGA on being anti-regime, anti-globalism, pro-working family, and pro-national interest, but I’m not in a personality cult. Ordered, disciplined, family-and-faith-first, or it’s not worth my time.
My framework is what I call eternalist generationalism. I’m trying to live like my soul is eternal and my bloodline is real. I’m thinking in terms of great-grandchildren, parish life, and homesteads that still exist a hundred years from now. I want my descendants to inherit both a living faith and an actual country worth inheriting, not just a stack of screens and a pile of debt.
So yeah, in the current order, I’d say that makes me a dissident, hence my publication name and username handle. I reject the reigning script for men, marriage, children, and country. I’m reorganizing my life, my work, and my land around a different, older, more Christian way of being. Patriarchal, land-rooted, Christ-loyal. I’m not claiming to be a lone prophet; I’m one of many dads waking up, stepping off the conveyor belt, and trying to build a quiet counter-elite our great-grandchildren can thank instead of curse.