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A Michigan woman’s dubious ActBlue donations
An 88-year-old woman named Elizabeth Waffle, who lives in a trailer off a dirt road in Milan, Michigan, was surprised to learn that, since 2020, she had donated over $150,000 to the Democrat mega-fundraiser ActBlue. When asked about it, Waffle responded, “One hundred and fifty thousand? Hell no, I don’t have that kind of money.” According to FEC filings, her name was tied to thousands of donations to ActBlue, as well as other Democrats, including 104 donations to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Even more troublesome was the frequency of the donations, with 39 happening within a two-day period. ActBlue is currently being investigated by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over legitimate concerns of fraudulent and illegal campaign donations from foreign donors.

 

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Fabian Socialism: The Incremental End of Liberty

Progressivism’s Quiet March to Power Aside from Marxism, one of the most enduring and insidious ideological movements of the modern era has been Progressivism. But progress to what, exactly? The te…

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Progressivism’s Quiet March to Power​

Aside from Marxism, one of the most enduring and insidious ideological movements of the modern era has been Progressivism. But progress to what, exactly?

The term itself is a rhetorical sleight of hand, implying inevitability, virtue, and forward motion. Yet beneath its polished exterior lies a strategic blueprint for incremental socialism, pioneered by one of its most influential architects: the Fabian Society.

I. The Strategy of Delay: Fabius Maximus and the Art of Incrementalism​

Founded in 1884, the Fabian Society took its name from Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman general who famously resisted Hannibal not through confrontation, but through delay. As Dictator during the Second Punic War, Fabius employed a slow, grinding strategy of attrition; avoiding direct battle while gradually weakening his enemy.

The Fabians adopted this model not for military conquest, but for ideological transformation. They rejected revolutionary upheaval in favour of gradual reform, believing that socialism could be achieved not through barricades and manifestos, but through policy, bureaucracy, and cultural drift.

Their emblem? A wolf in sheep’s clothing; a symbol so brazen it was eventually retired. But its meaning remains: deception in the service of transformation.

II. The Boiling Frog and the Stained Glass Wolf​

The Fabians are often associated with the boiling frog metaphor: if you heat the water slowly enough, the frog won’t notice until it’s too late. This is not just a cautionary tale; it’s a strategy.

One of the Society’s founders, Bertrand Russell, famously claimed he was not a communist. Yet his stained-glass contribution to the Society’s headquarters, depicting the wolf in sheep’s clothing, suggests he understood the game. His fellow Fabian, George Bernard Shaw, was less coy. He openly declared himself a communist and praised authoritarian regimes for their efficiency.

This tension between Fabian gradualism and Marxist radicalism has never fully resolved. The two camps share a destination, (State) socialism, but differ on the speed and spectacle of the journey.

III. The German Schism: SPD and the Post-War Fallout as Example​

The divide between revolutionary and reformist socialism was starkly visible in post–World War I Germany. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), under Friedrich Ebert, opted for parliamentary democracy, a distinctly Fabian tactic. This enraged the Marxist factions within the party, who saw compromise as betrayal.

Two major splinters emerged:

• Kurt Eisner, who advocated for a “peaceful revolution” and briefly led the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
• Rosa Luxemburg, alongside Karl Liebknecht and others, who demanded radical upheaval and paid for it with their lives.

These schisms weren’t mere tactical disagreements; they were philosophical ruptures. Eisner’s legacy, to be explored another day, would ripple through German socialism and shape its future avatars.

IV. Orwell’s Warning: From Animal Farm to INGSOC​

Most readers assume George Orwell’s 1984 is a critique of Soviet communism. It’s not. That role belongs to Animal Farm. 1984 targets something closer to home: English Socialism, or Ing-Soc; a thinly veiled reference to Fabian Socialism.

Orwell understood that tyranny need not arrive with gulags and purges. It could come through committees, euphemisms, and Ministry-speak. The Party in 1984 doesn’t just control the economy; it controls language, memory, and even arithmetic. It is the Fabian dream taken to its logical extreme: total control, achieved incrementally.

INGSOC: A Visual Breakdown of Incremental Tyranny​