“AI should be the antidote to America’s demographic decline.” – The Lonely Realist “Demographics is destiny” is an economic axiom signifying that a population’s size, structure and composition significantly shape its future, including its economy, politics and social structure. An aging population (like Japan’s), low birth...
“Is Donald Trump the 21st Century’s ‘Robert Shaw’?” – The Lonely Realist TLR on July 12, 2025 in “The Manchurian Candidate” discussed claims made by former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev and journalist Craig Unger that Donald Trump had been recruited by the KGB in the 1980s and,...
“God created man. If man creates self-aware AI with abilities exceeding those of homo sapiens, would that make man a god?” – The Lonely Realist TLR this past June asked whether the development of “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) might signal that man is on the verge...
“There are three different definitions of ‘democracy’: one for those on the far right; a second for those on the far left; and a third for everyone else.” – The Lonely Realist “American democracy” means different things to different groups of American tribalists. Each wants to...
“Cassandra is predicting that the Republican Party will carry both Houses of Congress.” – The Lonely Realist TLR yesterday received the following letter from Cassandra (the mythical Trojan princess gifted by the Greek God Apollo with the ability to prophesize). As readers of TLR well-know, there...
“MAGA’s approach to geopolitics is the international application of ‘The Art of the Deal’.” – The Lonely Realist When it comes to foreign relations, the slogan “Make America Great Again” stands for prioritizing domestic interests over international ones…, often doing so by pursuing colonialism. President Trump’s...