At the end of 2024 when Trump won over Kamala Harris, I stated in a blog article that 2024 was the year that the left-right paradigm in the United States died.

I stand by that analysis. What I mean by that is the reasons people vote for president now have literally nothing now to do with left or right. Instead, at least in 2024, the entire voting criteria was not left or right, but whether or not you liked or disliked Donald Trump.

Anti-Trumpers told people not to vote for Trump because he was pro-abortion, when in fact, Trump is and always has been vehemently pro-abortion.

So they had to make up a story about Trump being anti-abortion, not because they’re left or right, but because they hated Trump

On the other side, Kamala Harris clearly said many times that she was pro-fracking, pro-Israel, and would not raise taxes on rich people, yet right-wingers in America had to make up some kind of story about how she was some kind of extreme left-wing, communist, anti-capitalist.

So America has fractured into a pro-Trump camp and an anti-Trump camp, neither of which really aligns with what we traditionally think of as left and right.

This is all well and good, but as I keep reminding Trump supporters, Donald Trump is going to be gone in two years (or less!) Which means this will shift yet again.

So now, and over the long term, America’s political base has fractured into seven categories. Unfortunately, all seven of these categories are insane lovers of big government, and all of them will accelerate the disintegration of the Collapsing USA.

Here are these seven sad categories, listed in no particular order:

1. Woke People

These are psychopaths who believe in things like 47 genders, all/most white people are racists, all/most men are rapists, there is no such thing as biological gender, 15-year-old girls should be turned into boys without their parents’ permission, and so on.

They are also communists who hate capitalism and think it should be abolished.

They hate free speech and want authoritarian government policing everything everyone says, so nothing hateful, disturbing, “problematic” or upsetting can ever be spoken by anyone.

They will even quickly cancel and disavow people on their own side if they say one little thing wrong.

Like the tradcon right, they are largely anti-sex, especially when it comes to heterosexuals (whom they call “cisgendered”). They think men and women doing simple things like having sex in real life or kissing in movies is evil, inappropriate, or downright abusive.

They are not able to debate, instead choosing to call people names and then block them.

Like I said, these people are psychopaths. Whenever I realize I’m speaking to a woke person, either in real life or online, I just politely end the conversation and leave.

2. Progressives

These are essentially the American version of Western Europeans, i.e. “woke lite.”

These are hardline left-wingers who are about two or three notches closer to sanity than woke people

Instead of full-on communism, they reluctantly agree that while capitalism shouldn’t be abolished completely, it should be “improved” by massive, sweeping government welfare programs. They want the government to pay for everyone’s health care, child care, university education, massive amounts of time off from work, and all kinds of other day-to-day items.

They are strongly for labor unions in every company and massive government regulations regarding things like the environment.

Whenever you point out that these programs are pretty much guaranteed to bankrupt your country eventually (fact), they get irritated and change the subject. Like woke people, they tend to not debate and instead immediately jump to name-calling, blocking, and/or cancelling.

Progressives used to be pro-sex and culturally left, but over the past 20 years, they have moved slowly toward the woke side of the spectrum on this (though they still aren’t as bad as woke people).

3. Neoliberals

This is currently the most powerful, common, and popular of these seven categories in the Collapsing USA (though not by much).

Neoliberals are what most Americans consider “normal” left-wingers. They represent the mainline of the corporatist, pro-war, pro-Israel left like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Maher.

They are heavily pro-capitalist, pro-big corporations, pro-welfare (but only to a point), and pro-big government.

They are technically left socially, but barely. They give social left-wing views (like gay marriage or abortion) lip service, but they don’t really care much for these issues.

They are 100% allied with the neocons (who I describe below) and think America should police the entire world and that the American Empire should constantly be expanded and enforced, even if millions of innocents die.

The majority (or perhaps plurality) of rank-and-file, non-political Americans in the Collapsing USA in 2026 fall into this category. In other words, definitely left wingish socially and economically, definitely likes big government, definitely likes “free” stuff from the government, but not anywhere near communist or even hardcore socialist.

“Normal” neoliberal Americans like this mean well but are ignorant and deluded. Neoliberals in the elite are truly evil.

4. Trump Supporters

These are hopelessly irrational idiots who believe anything Donald Trump promises them and then quickly ignore and bypass events any time Trump screws them and does the opposite.

These are people who actually thought Trump was going to build a wall, bring back the manufacturing jobs, kick out all of the Mexicans, and throw Hillary in jail back in 2016.

In 2024, these are the people who actually thought he would not start any new wars, allow Elon Musk to shrink the government, and that he would release all of the Epstein files.

Their political opinions are… well, other than their hatred of woke people, Trump supporters don’t actually have any solid political opinions. Instead, their political opinions just follow whatever Trump is currently doing.

They’re for reducing the size of government, but if Trump increases the government by trillions of dollars (which he does regularly), they think that’s great.

They are pro-gun, but when one of Trump’s ICE agents kills a guy because he may have had a gun, they’re suddenly anti-gun.

They’re anti-new wars, but when Trump bombs Iran or Venezuela, they suddenly think it’s badass.

When you point out this insanity, they fall back to their favorite mantra: “Hillary/Kamala would have been worse.”

Just like woke people, as soon as I discover I’m talking to a Trump supporter, I just quickly and politely end the conversation and move on. It’s a waste of time talking to an insane person.

5. Neocons

These are Republican elites who are a slightly different flavor of neoliberal.

Like the neoliberals, they are hardcore corportists. They are pro-big government, pro-big banks, and pro-big corporations.

They believe that almost the entire planet Earth is evil except for the United States, and their entire goal is to conquer, control, invade, and/or manipulate as many other countries as they possibly can so they can enrich themselves and their corporate and banking cronies… while the US taxpayer pays for it all and dies in their wars.

They are staunchly pro-Israel and pro-Ukraine and gleefully send trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to these two highly corrupt and evil governments.

They have the power to commit this evil because they are unwittingly and regularly supported by Trump supporters and tradcons.

If you oppose anything the neocons say, they scream at you and call you anti-American, an effective technique they developed during the Iraq war.

6. Groypers

These are delusional, fascist authoritarians who fantasize about an America that is similar to Nazi Germany or the U.S.S.R. They are for massive government, massive military, massive corporate welfare, and massive subsidies to various groups of people.

They tend to be American men under the age of 35 who live miserable lives and use politics as a mechanism to channel their anger and disillusionment. They also tend to be racist and don’t view racism as a bad thing.

These are the kind of people who, fifteen years from now, are going to look back and be very embarrassed about the things they are now saying online. They’re the political version of the tramp stamp.

Just like I do with other insane people, I don’t really engage with groypers, other than to make fun of them, which is pretty easy (and fun).

7. Tradcons

These are constantly angry, hard-core right-wing Christians, comprising approximately 30% of the Republican base in the Collapsing USA.

Their entire focus is on social issues where they are hard right, something right out of the 1950s, and anything that doesn’t fit into that narrow category pisses them off.

Openly gay people, transgender people, women shaving the sides of their head, women with tattoos or nose rings, OnlyFans girls, rappers singing about sex; if they see anything like this, they fly into a rage and are furious and horrified that Americans have the freedom to do these kinds of things.

They fantasize about destroying democracy and representative republicanism and replacing the American government with a quasi-authoritarian Christian theocracy that runs everyone’s personal life.

Unlike with woke people or Trump supporters, I can actually speak to tradcons… for about five minutes - before they start getting angry when I quote facts about things like biology. Then I move on.

The Problem

The problem, as you can now clearly see, is that all seven of these categories of people are for massive government, which is the opposite of what you want in a collapsing empire that is dying specifically because the government spends too much money.

All seven of these types of people are accelerating American collapse. All seven.

Crazy, isn’t it?

I wonder if this is what late-stage Rome felt like.

You might be wondering why I didn’t add people like liberatrains to this list. That’s because real libertarians are only a teeny tiny fraction of one percent of the United States these days.

(Most people who say they’re libertarians are just secret Trump supporters embarrassed to admit it publicly.)

There are other political ideologies in the United States outside of the above seven, but they’re so tiny, fringe, and powerless that they’re not really worth bringing up.

Therefore, your options are at this point to either:

1. Join one of the seven categories (God help you) or stubbornly remain in one of these categories if you’re in there already (heh, good luck!).

2. Make plans to leave the United States at some point in the near future, where these people either don’t exist or only exist in very small numbers.

I chose option two a long time ago which is why I live such a happy and fulfilled life.

Let’s see which option you will choose…

In my last article, I discussed a bit of the results I received from the massive amount of physicals I’ve had recently, and the discovery that I have a leaky gut which is causing a bunch of problems.

I also discussed the new diet I’m utilizing to fix this problem.

Several people in the comments immediately recommended I do the carnivore diet.

I realized, reading these comments, that I had never written a full article about the carnivore diet, even though it’s been a big deal on the internet for about five years now, ever since Jordan Peterson’s angry feminist daughter started promoting it.

First, I’m going to address the carnivore diet in general, then I will discuss why I, in particular, am not choosing to use this diet to fix my leaking gut, with real data and science behind my decision (as always).

Carnivore Diet People

The biggest problem with discussing the carnivore diet is that it quickly became an irrational cult on the internet. Much like flat earthers, vegans, feminists, and tradcons, it became a thing people were following because of the emotions they had around the diet rather than the science behind the diet itself.

For example, as soon as people started talking about the carnivore diet on my blogs a few years ago, when I correctly pointed out that it probably woudln’t be great for your gut biome if you only ate animal prodcuts for literally the rest of your life, various people attacked me personally and I had to ban a bunch of folks for violations of the Five Simple Rules.

Other people said that I should “get educated” on the carnivore diet and many of them sent me links to a Joe Rogan episode with one of the biggest carnivore diet gurus at the time (I forget his name).

In the first 20 minutes of the episode, Joe asked the guy how his blood work and biomarkers looked after being on carnivore for an entire year. The guy answered that he had no idea. He never had any blood work done(!).

Joe reacted with shock, and so did I. Why the hell would you try such a radical diet, go around on the internet promoting it as healthy, when you haven’t looked at any of your fucking biomarkers?

Insane.

And this was the guru all of these canrivore people were pointing at as the expert.

I turned off the episode and moved on.

Again, clearly, these carnivore people were in a cult, not following science.

FYI, that same carnivore guru (again, I don’t remember his name because I don’t care), after about three years, started eating fruits, veggies, and carbs because carnivore was fucking up his health, exactly as I had predicted.

Carnivore Can Still Help

Does that mean carnivore is bullshit? No.

Just because a lot of carnivore people are irrational doesn’t mean that the diet itself can’t be beneficial. I personally know people who have indeed benefited from the carnivore diet.

You may be one of those people, and if the carnivore diet has helped you, that’s fantastic and I support you.

The biggest reason carnivore helps people is that it forces people to stop eating shit like bread, pasta, sugar, gluten, high-inflammation dried fruits, artificial flavors and chemicals, and a bunch of other garbage.

Yeah man, if you stop eating that crap, your health will improve and you will feel better. But you can stop eating those things without converting to full-on carnivore. I’ll discuss that more in a minute.

So if you’re one of these carnivore people, make sure you read this statement: I’m not against carnivore and if carnivore helped you, I think that’s great and I support you.

(Now let’s see how many irrational carnivore people in the comments, DMs, and my email ignore that statement.)

The Biggest Issue With Carnivore

The biggest issue with carnivore is what I’ve said all along: it is a fantastic diet to use as a temporary cleanse, as in several months or so. It is an absolutely dreadful and unhealthy diet to use as a long-term lifestyle or for the “rest of your life.”

Again, the proof is in the pudding regarding the sheer amount of famous carnivore gurus who eventually had to reluctantly announce to their audiences that they started eating fruits, vegetables, legumes, and other carbs because of all the very predictable health problems they were incurring by embracing carnivore long-term.

If you are a carnivore person, you might respond with the more rational response of, “But that’s right, Caleb. You should do carnivore just for a few months and then pivot to eating healthy carbs and fats also.”

The problem is that over the last five or six years that carnivore has been promoted on the internet, I have literally never seen any carnivore person recommend this approach.

100% of these guys say or imply that you should just eat carnivore pretty much for the rest of your life and that every other diet is stupid.

Which, of course, is factually incorrect. But internet cults usually are.

So my position on carnivore today is the same as it was many years ago when the fad started hitting the internet hard. I think carnivore is a fantastic way, as a temporary cleanse, to clean up health problems in your body, and then after a few months, you get off carnivore and switch to a healthier, long-term, balanced diet.

If you disagree with that statement and think carnivore is perfectly healthy to do for 50 years straight, as always, show me your data and let’s take a look. As usual, emotions, anger, name-calling, and snark don’t work on me and further indicate that I’m correct.

Why I’m Personally Not Doing Carnivore

With all of that context, now I will explain why I personally will not be pursuing carnivore to address my specific set of problems.

As I explained earlier, I’ve had a huge number of comprehensive tests, including mapping my genetic profile, my gut profile, heart health, full-body MRI, and various other things. I have worked with several doctors on this and I am also working with AI.

Using AI (the best paid version of Claude Sonnet 4.6), I have fed the almost hundred pages of reports of test results into it so I can ask questions based on the results.

When first going through these results, I asked AI, based on my results, if carnivore was a good idea to address my leaky gut and other problems. Here’s exactly what it said:

Great question — and your test results actually give us a pretty clear answer on this. Here’s what the data says:

Your leaky gut situation: Your Zonulin came back at 238.7 ng/g (reference is <175), which confirms increased intestinal permeability. Your Secretory IgA is also elevated (2336, reference 510–2010), and your Anti-gliadin IgA is slightly elevated (183, reference <175), suggesting your gut is reacting to gluten specifically.

Why carnivore might seem appealing: Eliminating gluten and processed foods does reduce gut irritants, and some people feel better short-term. Since gluten is a trigger for you, removing it would help — but you don’t need to go full carnivore to achieve that, and it will likely make your situation worse.

Why carnivore would likely work AGAINST your specific case:

1. Your prescribed 3-month protocol includes prebiotic fiber. Phase 2 of your gut plan specifically includes Organic Sunfiber prebiotic, and Phase 3 is microbiome re-population with a multi-strain probiotic. A carnivore diet provides zero fermentable fiber — meaning you’d be starving the beneficial bacteria you’re trying to rebuild. This directly undermines the protocol you’ve been given.

2. Your DNA report recommends a Mediterranean diet, not carnivore. It specifically calls for fruits, vegetables, and plant diversity to support your biological processes — particularly your antioxidant status, inflammation control, and methylation.

3. Your detoxification genes (Phase II) are compromised. Your DNA report flagged this and specifically recommended daily intake of foods like broccoli, cauliflower, and kale to compensate. These are completely off the table on a carnivore diet.

4. Lipid metabolism concerns. Your DNA summary flags the need to support lipid metabolism with soluble fiber and plant sterols — carnivore does the opposite.

The bottom line: A short carnivore stint might quiet some symptoms temporarily (especially by dropping gluten), but it would likely set back the microbiome rebuilding that’s central to your actual healing plan. The structured 3-phase protocol you’ve been prescribed is far better matched to what your tests actually show.

So there you go. Going on the carnivore diet would be a bad idea for me and would work against my goals of fixing my gut.

This is why it’s so dangerous and reckless to just adopt a severe diet like carnivore just because some zealots on the internet reported some positive results by doing it for a few months. You don’t know your DNA or gut profile. You don’t know what’s going on inside your body.

I realize that most people can’t afford $7,000 in advanced genetic and gut health testing, but there are lots of simple, inexpensive blood tests and biomarkers you can get a look at before making a major change like this, and you should.

One of the biggest things being on TRT has taught me is that everyone’s body is radically different and reacts well and poorly to different things.

Again, carnivore can help, and maybe it can help you. But don’t just go into this shit blind like so many carnivore gurus did in the past. That’s dumb.

I just got over being sick for two weeks straight. This is probably the sickest I have ever been in my adult life, and the longest I’ve been sick, much worse than when I had covid.

Historically, for most of my life, when I got sick, I would be sick three or four days, and then I’d be fine. I usually have the same symptoms: sore throat, runny nose, and then coughing during the final days. It’s never really been a big deal.

In the last few years, however, it’s felt like I’ve been A) getting sick more often, B) getting more severely sick when I get sick, and C) remaining sick for longer periods.

I assumed that was just an aging thing now that I’m in my fifties.

I was completely wrong. This doesn’t happen to people in their fifties. It was for a completely different reason.

This time I got sick, I immediately started coughing right out of the blue. For the next 7 days, I was coughing so hard I felt like I was going to puke up a chunk of one of my lungs.

For that first week, I was also extremely sleepy and could barely keep my eyes open throughout the day and the evening. I spent most of the week literally taking naps or sleeping 12-15 hours a night with subpar sleep because of my horrible coughing all night.

During the second week, I wasn’t quite as sleepy, but I was a little disoriented and again, coughing like a fucking maniac almost 24/7.

Needless to say, these two weeks wiped out two weeks of productivity for me in one of the most key and important times of my life when I’m transitioning to my self-actualized phase, hopefully to complete this phase around April 20th this year when I turn 54.

So why was I sick so badly and sick for so long? What the hell is going on?

Fortunately, I have the answer, because in February, as part of this new phase of my life, I spent many thousands of dollars doing a whole bunch of very expensive physicals where they check everything in your body, including:

• a full-body MRI

• a heart CT scan

• a full genome genetic profile workup

• a stool sample examination (for digestion and gut health)

• urine examination

• blood test examination

• massive lipid panels (40 pages)

• and so on

I found a lot of interesting things in these reports (I have over 60 pages of reports that I have fed into AI) but perhaps one of the most important things I learned is that I have a case of leaky gut, meaning that many of the nutrients and vitamins I have been taking the past several years are leaking out of my stomach and into my body before being absorbed into my system.

For example, the reports show that I’m actually magnesium deficient when I’ve been taking 400 mg of magnesium with food with fat every day for the past 25 years.

How the fuck is that possible? Well, it’s possible because the magnesium is leaking out of my stomach before it gets absorbed into my body. Not good. Not good at all.

Also, when you have leaky gut, crap gets out of your stomach, invades your body, and makes you sick, and more sick than normal, which explains a lot.

Fortunately, as part of this massive transition I’m making this year into the next phase of my life, because I have all these results from these fantastic physicals, I can now address this leaky gut problem.

Working with three different doctors and AI, I have changed my entire diet and most of the vitamins I take to customize 100% for my genetic profile and to repair my gut, which will take about three months.

These changes that I’m making are severe, complicated, and extreme, so I don’t have time here to go through all of them here, but to cover the leaky gut repair process, these are the changes that I am making to my diet.

1. I can no longer have any cheese of any kind, at least not for the next three months. Apparently, I am partially lactose intolerant (after 53 years of life I had no idea until these genetic reports showed it) and this has caused some problems with my stomach. Since I have been on a keto diet for most of the past several years, cheese has been my primary source of fat. I have now replaced cheese with avocados, extra virgin olive oil, and full-fat Greek yogurt, which is the only form of dairy I am allowed to eat.

2. I can no longer have any bread, pasta, or rice even for once-a-week cheat days. Instead, I am having things like eggs, beans, and potatoes, including sweet potatoes, which won’t damage my stomach and will actually assist in its repair.

3. I can no longer consume mass quantities of dried fruits like dates. I assumed that eating lots of dates would be perfectly okay because they’re all-natural and dates aren’t going to give you cancer. However, the weekly amount of dates I was eating was increasing my inflammation. I’m still allowed to eat dates, but I can have like three or four per day, not the pile of dates that I used to eat. Since eating three or four dates seems stupid to me, I just pulled dates out of my diet completely unless it’s a rare cheat day.

4. I have completely shifted my entire fruit intake to berries. Berries are the safest fruit to eat in terms of leaky gut, gut health, inflammation, and overall health, so I am consuming massive amounts of blueberries and blackberries instead of things like dates.

You might be thinking that this will assist in my weight loss, and it has so far. My weight loss strategy has radically changed in light of these new results and in light of some things that happened late last year. In a future article, I will discuss what I’m doing in terms of weight loss. I have reoriented my entire thinking about that. But more on that later.

The main objective right now is to completely repair my stomach and digestive system within the next 90 days so I can get my body back to normal, which is a very doable goal as long as I stick with the above diet, the new supplements that I’m taking, and I minimize cheat days to the absolute bare minimum possible.

Not sure if that’s possible (“Chubby Caleb” loves his cheat days), but the good news is that the foods I’m now eating are very tasty to me, and so I have felt less of the need to eat cheat-day type food.

We’ll see how things go and I will update you on future results.