by Thaddeus G. McCotter
A new term defines the left’s obsession with reshaping society—“cratometamorphosis,” the political disease of transforming nations without consent or constraint.
Suppose in these less-than-idyllic days and sleepless nights, you find our world confusing and confounding, and not a little imbecilic. In that case, you may be suffering from the efforts of politicians, not to transcend these trying times, but to transform our country. Thanks to Mr. Greg Copley and Dr. Marios Evriviades, we have a name for this affliction that is fueling politicos and sorely impacting us: “cratometamorphosis.”
On the John Batchelor Show podcast, Mr. Copley defined cratometamorphosis as “the total reorganization of society, and it can be applied at a national level or at a global level.” You may note that your input as a citizen is not a prerequisite for politicians’ attempts to reshape and reorganize your life for you. Worse, the presumptuous pols believe nothing is off-limits, as Mr. Copley notes: cratometamorphosis “means everything is up in the air; everything is up for grabs.”
While Mr. Copley and Dr. Evriviades are merely recognizing, not advocating, cratometamorphosis, even if they did promote it, the impact would be marginal. For the cold, hard fact is this febrile affliction has become a pandemic. One does not need to put the World Economic Forum’s past pronouncements about rebooting civilization or a United Nations call for a global tax on carbon emissions under a microscope to identify the disease (or their hubris and idiocy). Consequently, we Americans can empathize with our fellow human beings in foreign lands who are equally being subjected to cratometamorphosis, for we are being deliberately subjected to it by the left here on the home front.
The ways in which the left endeavors to radically reshape the American nation-state are as numerous as they are insidious, especially as they believe “everything is up for grabs” and nothing is off-limits—well, except for progressive orthodoxy.
Briefly discoursing on cratometamorphosis in his preface to an article by Dr. Alastair Paynter on “Reinventing Nationalism” for the October 13, 2025 issue of Defense and Foreign Affairs Special Analysis (Volume XLIII No. 49), Mr. Copley provides a crib sheet for understanding and identifying how the left aims to fundamentally reform our free republic: “Nationalism is about more than geography; it is about the accretion of the history of peoples attached to certain lands and about the examples of nobility or heroism, or just epic sagas, which give identity to the geopolitical whole.”
This is why the left wages war on American history—the destruction of statues, the denigration of America’s founders and freedom’s champions, and the redesignation of holidays to deny the accomplishments of all who have played a role in erecting our constitutional republic and spreading Judeo-Christian, Western civilization. It’s why the left hates Columbus Day and pushes “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” (News flash for the left: everyone knows you are merely using Indigenous peoples as props to condemn not merely Columbus but Western Civilization in general.)
Fortunately, as Mr. Copley notes, such a momentous transformation is a long slog: “The construction of nationalism around new geopolitical concepts—whether colonialism, empire, or ideological new thinking—is a difficult challenge and slow to take root.”
Hence, the enduring failure of leftist radicals: they are adept at attacking and uprooting aspects of a society, but they are incapable of planting anything better within the society they have rendered barren and barbaric, given how such Jacobins project their failure to create a terrestrial Eden onto their victims through repression, incarceration, and execution.
So, there is today’s health care tip for citizens of all ages and nation-states: avoid like the plague politicians who seek to impose “cratometamorphosis” upon our nation and world. After all, if one seeks to “fundamentally transform” our free republic, what do you think these smiling political charlatans intend to turn it into?
An American Greatness contributor, the Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter (M.C., Ret.) served Michigan’s 11th Congressional district from 2003-2012. He served as Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee and as a member of the Financial Services, Joint Economic, Budget, Small Business, and International Relations Committees. Not a lobbyist, he is also a contributor to Chronicles, a frequent public speaker and moderator for public policy seminars, and a co-host of “John Batchelor: Eye on the World” on CBS radio, among sundry media appearances.
Thaddeus G. McCotter
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/25/cratometamorphosis-a-k-a-why-columbus-day-matters/
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