The Squelchistani Crank

I’m back after a little bit of a break. After all, I completed three blog posts in a week and could have used it. Of course, where I had left off in the Impossible Divide series regarding the Republicans and their ideological history as of recent – though ‘recent’ is a subjective term – may have been less than ideal. If one doesn’t believe me, here is the link to the first blog post in this particular series: Part 1 – A Greater Appalachian Spring Now where I had left off was in regards to the sub-cultural rule in both Greater Appalachia and Squelchistani Westoria that one had to be a Christian in order to be allowed to reside in their territories, a rule that has really only been something that has existed for a little over a century (never mind the fact that it isn’t as strictly enforced as it once was). The big question then comes: how did it become like this? I believe I have some answers to this question, using both the history of Evangelical Christianity and the sub-cultural i...

OK, now that I have gotten to writing down my 2023 Rabbit Year predictions, and have organized my look at the Democrat political party’s history under Counterculture ideological control (eventually transforming into the Reformed Counterculture when Big Academia and Big Science took control of its methodologies and co-opted its politics), I can move onto the next real portion of the Impossible Divide. It’s time for me to talk about the recent history of the political opposite in Squelchistan: the Republicans. To say the Republican political party has fallen hard image-wise is putting it mildly. When I came into this realm of existence in mid-March of 1984, the Republican political party under the leadership of the Gipper, better known as Ronald Reagan, was on the rise after three very rough years thanks to a combination of factors that will be brought up in good time. And by the time I experienced my first Squelchistani Thanksgiving in November of that same year, the Gipper had won ...

Hi everyone. As I promised, here is my master Counterculture/RC Ideology History hub for the Impossible Divide series that I have been working on for the past few years, and I hope to continue on for another few years, all things being considered. Here is the full list: Part 1 – Counterculture Territories Part 2 – Why The Counterculture Came To Be Part 3 – The Beat Society Connection Part 4 – The No-Jesus Club Part 5 – The Dumpster Fire That Smelled Like Nag Champa Part 6 – When Krakatoa Met Vesuvius & Erupted In The 1970s Part 7 – How & Why The Counterculture Buttered Mr. Peanut Part 8 – The Debacle Where Mr. Peanut Drowned In A Canal Of Hate Part 9 – Big Academia/Science’s Make-Over Part 10 – A Disco-Stick & A New Age Part 11 – Turn That Attitude Down! Part 12 – Finding A Pot Of Sepia At The End Of The Poop-Bow P art 13 – Not Enough Change & Too Much Of The Same Part 14 – Another Poop-Bow Manifests Part 15 – More Than One Sickness (Plus The Star...

Is everyone sick and tired – both literally and metaphorically – of the combativeness that occurred last year? Do you and others want to sit still for a little while in quietness, admiring the surroundings one is in? Wouldn’t it be nice if an atmosphere develops that encourages diplomacy and decency? For those that agree with me on these points, then we can hop out to such a potential point of being, as on 1/22/2023, the Year of the Rabbit will begin! Fourth in the Asian Lunar Astrology system, Rabbit people are associated with Peace, and it should come as no surprise to anybody that they are the first of what I call the ‘Pacifist’ triage (alongside the Goat and the Pig), which naturally is the most easygoing and least combative set of Asian Lunar Astrology personalities, to which Rabbit people are the most easygoing and least combative of the three. Some people like to call Rabbit people, when taking all of them into account, the peacemakers of Asian Lunar Astrology, always able t...