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Envy doesn’t just distort individual judgment — it reconfigures whole political parties and conversations by shifting motives from common good to status competition, from policy reasoning to resentment‑management, and from deliberation to punitive comparison. Political psychology treats envy as a relational toxin: it warps how groups see themselves, their rivals, and even their own members. Envy reshapes political parties. Envy in politics is seldom acknowledged directly, instead showing up through indirect behaviors like moralizing, scapegoating, enforcing purity tests, and fostering factionalism. Here’s a breakdown of how envy can mutate party dynamics. Status mimicry. Parties begin imitating the rhetorical style, emotional tone, or organizational tactics of rivals they resent. Envy drives copycat radicalization: “If they mobilize outrage, we must mobilize more.” Internal purging. Envy of rising figures inside the party produces loyalty tests, ideological policing, and factional pu...

Just for Kicks When fortune's hand doth turn so cruelly as to bid us remember. Lamentation This we know: hard working Canadian men and women cannot afford housing. In a country blessed with abundance, with vast mineral resources, oil sands, fertile prairies and recovering fisheries, why is it that food and fuel costs are skyrocketing? Young people, having been subjected to one social experiment after another, are melting down in dangerous ways - the horrific Tumbler Ridge shooting should be a sobering reminder of the increasing disintegration and deepening despair. And even a cursory review of local news sites reveals an astonishing level of foreign interference in the national and regional economies, yet deals continue to be signed that give additional access to bad actors . Globalist-socialist-anything-but-noblest? Prime Minister Mark Carney, weekly Mass-goer, successful international banker, inherited the quagmire manufactured by Justin the Apostate. Sadly, it appears that PM Ca...

Religion, Society, and Culture Politics. Our American cousins and the Omar. Nine Lives Ilhan continues to hang on. One moment, her net worth was $30 million; the next, it dropped to under a million. Which is it? A reasonable question even her former allies are now asking. How does a sitting congresswoman with an annual salary of $174,000 per year manage to increase her net worth into the tens of millions of dollars in such a short period of time ? Speaking engagements? Investments? Did she seek financial advice from Nancy Pelosi? Hunter Biden? Former President Joe Biden? Was her previous estimate conflated with the income of her husband? Her troubles are piling up just as quickly as her wealth seems to be evaporating. Whether she is innocent or not, pray that justice may be served for the good of all souls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD15LXg5WLQ&t=9s  Omar named in fraud scandal x.com/FoxNews/status/2057124901798936972  Fraud scandal https://rumble.com/v6i2771-watch-ilha...

Religion, Society, and Culture Media. Stephen Colbert leaves his late night throne. Having had his feet held to the fire he helped to create, and subject to a loss of market share (declining viewership) indicative of a lack of actual comedy, Colbert leaves late night entertainment after more than 20 years in the spotlight. Some claim, he among them, that he is the victim of political interference . No doubt, he provided some untimely and unseemly pokes that got him the wrong kind of attention, at least to his way of thinking. If ya can't take the heat... . Perhaps he will use the off-air time to work on becoming less cafeteria and more Catholic. Religion. As the SSPX vs Holy See battle continues, those of us on the sidelines can and should pray, and avoid pouring gasoline on an already heated exchange. The Society has many beautiful and truly excellent attributes - love for the sacred liturgy, a robust devotional life, and authentic disciplined spirituality. However, obedience to...

"What do vampires and socialists have in common? Both are lifeless bloodsucking monsters that fear the light." Bloodthirsty undead feed on the innocent, all while reveling in the very systems that sustain their grim mission. Vampires inhabit the shadows of society. A vampire will even destroy another to protect its dominance. Vampire culture is parasitic, distorting elements of Christian culture: hospitality transforms into enabling illness, charity transforms into lust and indulgence, and hope transforms into confusion and despair. Vampire culture is fueled by an obsession with gaining and using power to control others and to push corrupt beliefs. The Vampire Slayer Key Principles of Justice in Catholic Social Teaching Dignity of the Human Person. At the heart of Catholic social teaching is the belief that every human life is sacred and possesses inherent dignity. This principle asserts that all individuals deserve respect and protection, which forms the foundation for justi...

Exploded Head , 1982 | Salvador Dali The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. Saint Teresa of Calcutta Without honest and compassionate support, a vulnerable person could be trapped in a terrifying oxymoron, a maze of contradictions and deceptions that, in today's world, can and often does metastasize into a perpetual nightmare. If you hope for mercy, show mercy. If you look for kindness, show kindness. If you want to receive, give. St. Peter Chrysologus History's Child Young people are routinely conscripte...

Please note: excerpts rarely do justice to the intelligent exchanges of partners in discussions. Take the time to review the essays. - - - How to Reason Prudentially about Immigration: A Reply to Feser Dr. Therese Cory https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/therese-cory/ Source:  https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/04/97623/ Although Feser is right to emphasize the need for prudence, he relies on an essentially relativistic notion of prudence—one in which objective moral principles only get us so far, and the rest of the work is done by prudential judgment in a personal realm of mere “difference of opinion,” shielded from objective moral scrutiny. Feser’s Relativistic Portrayal of Prudence There is a puzzling disconnect between the beginning and end of Feser’s essay. Titled “A Catholic Defense of Enforcing Immigration Laws,” it opens by taking the position that “the administration’s restrictive immigration policy” is “on much stronger ground” vis-à-vis Catholic social teachin...

DEI content may not only increase the hostile attribution bias but converges with outcomes produced by authoritarian traits themselves. NCRI A recent study published under the auspices of the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab evaluates equity, diversity and inclusivity programs (EDI or DEI).  The study found that decent people, "as a result of these programs, have experienced undue duress, social ostracization, or even termination of employment." The research team that compiled the data is not asking whether or not DEI programs produce a hostile attribution bias.  They are stating the fact that such programs can and often times do produce and increase a hostile attribution bias. - - - INSTRUCTING ANIMOSITY HOW DEI PEDAGOGY PRODUCES THE HOSTILE ATTRIBUTION BIAS NCRI | Rutgers University Social Perception Lab https://www.openread.academy/en/paper/reading?corpusId=513675482 Equity Extremists: How Anti-Oppressive Narratives Converge with Authoritarian Intolerance (p.1...