Dr. Peikoff is a philosopher who sees the big picture, the effect of philosophy on culture over the centuries. He has identified a process that happens over and over: subjectivism destroys all absolutes, values and standards, and then people turn to religion for those things. It happened in ancient Greece, the Renaissance and the Reformation, and it is happening now with the black hole of postmodernism and the rise of religion over the last generation or so. In the long run, I believe Dr. Peikoff is right about religion as the most dangerous growing threat.

The problems start when you call Democrats the party of subjectivism and Republicans the party of religion. What’s to stop the Democrats from using religion to gain power? They lie about everything else; surely they can lie about that. If the Dems face the choice of staying in power or staying true to their pro-choice position, they will toss out abortion. The feminists might scream, but what do the Democrat men care if women can’t have an abortion?

In a country with elections, the two parties tend to be a lot alike in the mainstream, with differences at the edges. If America becomes an overwhelmingly religious nation, then the Democrats will follow. It’s either that or go the way of the Whig Party.

Another factor to remember is that right now the Democrat Party is farther down the road to serfdom than the Republican Party. They are a New Leftist party, which is much different than the party of Hubert Humphrey and LBJ. They are a dictatorship waiting to happen. They embrace the “ends justifies the means” premise and now lie brazenly on principle. They think reason is useless, and that only force and fraud are efficacious.

The Republicans are not this corrupt. Not yet.

So I think it’s an error to just vote Democrat now. There might be times to vote out an especially bad Republican, and there might be times to abstain from either major party.

There is an outside chance that the Republicans will follow Yaron Brooks’s lead and become a party of individual rights. If that happens, then Dr. Peikoff will be forced to go back to the blackboard.