A False God Fails
Apparently, Bill Lind has become an anarcho-Monarchist in the tradition of Tolkien, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, or Hans Hermann Hoppe. By William S. Lind Traditional Right As Great Britain moves towards its independence day, i.e., Brexit, a false god is failing: the god named “democracy”. Prime Minister Theresa May, […]
Reflections on Electoral Politics (Not a Pleasant Thought)
Voting is fine as a cultural ritual (like trick or treating on Halloween or setting off fireworks on July 4), but the outcomes of elections are merely reflections of pre-existing cultural patterns. Elected officials are the employees of the ruling class/power elite, and their job is to implement […]
Reflections on the Democratic Party (Not a Pleasant Thought)
At this point, it looks like the Democrats are probably going to run an “Anybody but Trump” campaign like the “Anybody but Bush” campaign they ran in 2004 (the only time since 1988 that they lost the popular vote). My guess is that they’ll repeat what Hillary did […]
Tulsi Gabbard Interview On TYT
This is pretty impressive. She nails it on Saudi Arabia.
Andrew Yang and the Post-Nationalist Future
By Robert Stark Taki’s Mag The internet underworld that famously boosted Trump in 2016 appears to be unified for the first time since. This time everyone from the meme-makers of 4chan, to the “America First” crowd, to explicit white nationalists is marching to the beat of a new, […]
Pelosi, Schumer: Attorney General must not give W.H. sneak preview of Mueller report
Solid Reasons Not to Vote
By Will Schnack Even if we were to vote, where is the line drawn? We all know that Ralph Nader gave Bush the election, and we know that Bernie and the Greens and Libertarians did the same thing. So, what are we to do? Press that even the […]
The Next Ron Paul?
I almost never endorse politicians. I generally regard all elected officials, from the President to dogcatchers, as employees of the real ruling class (C. Wrights Mills’ “power elite”). Voting is merely participating in the king’s coronation rituals in a way that conveys legitimacy on the state. However, there […]
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: Requiem for a Fictional Party
By Nicky Reid Exile in Happy Valley Do you remember the Democrats, dearest motherfuckers? Not the neoliberal, gutter capitalist, Clintonista kind or even Bernie’s brand of drone-strike socialists, but the peace loving hippie kind. The doves who tried to end the Cold War and marched against the draft […]
Colbert Smears Tulsi Gabbard To Her Face While Telling Zero Jokes
It’s obviously true that most of the MSM, particularly television, is simply the propaganda arm of the Democratic National Committee, just as FOX, talk radio, Christian broadcasting, and the Wall Street Journal are simply the propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. By Caitlin Johnstone Medium Hawaii Congresswoman […]
CNN’s Horrible, Terrible, No Good Tulsi Town Hall Questions
A good discussion of how the corporate imperialists circle the wagons around anyone with even moderately anti-interventionist views. US foreign policy is essentially a Roman-like imperialism that is committed to large-scale massacres as a matter of policy. The Democrats and Republicans are fine with this, and committed to […]
Far Left Democrats Declare WAR On Moderates Threatening The Democratic Party
Unlike Tim Pool, who is a centrist vlogger, I am very appreciative of the divisive and disruptive effect that supposed “far left” Democrats are having on their party, just as I am very appreciative of the effect that Trumpism is having on the Republicans. The neocon/neoliberal duopoly is […]
Trump’s shaky capitalist support: Business conflict and the 2016 election
An interesting analysis of the relationship between Trumpism and the capitalist class by “antifascist” writer Matthew Lyons. Read the article here. (Caveat: Lyon is vehemently opposed to attack the system). As I would have suspected, Trumpism was an unwelcome insurgency that was initially opposed by the overwhelming majority […]
The Future of US Party Politics?
A reader at AttacktheSystem.Com nails it: “I’ve noticed more and more folks on the current right becoming anti-war (at least, selectively anti-war for pragmatic reasons, though some have begun to sound like full-on peaceniks). If nothing else I guess that reflects neocons’ losing hold on the GOP. […]
How the System Works
“It’s interesting how figures like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are labelled as “communists” for wanting the economic policies of the 1950s (when a third of the US labor force was unionized and the top income tax bracket was 91%), and the Trumpians/MAGA hats are considered “fascists” for wanting immigration […]
Salon Interview: Tucker Carlson bashes capitalism, says he might vote for Elizabeth Warren
Not exactly the kind of left/right coalition I would envision, but you’ve got to crawl before you can run, I guess. By Matthew Rozsa Salon.Com In my recent interview with Tucker Carlson, he waited until nearly the end of a long conversation to drop a bomb: He might […]
In Defense of Tulsi Gabbard
An interesting article from Daily Kos. I know the author of this piece, who is generally friendly to ATS. By Alex Shepard Daily Kos he election of 2020 is approaching us fast, and the primary season will be here before we know it. Already, the 2020 democratic field […]
Tulsi Gabbard Is Running For President In 2020
This is a pretty good discussion of Gabbard. From what I can tell, she’s basically just a moderate who trends liberal on social issues, who is pro-military, pro-Israel, and pro-terror war but who merely thinks the neocon/neoliberal foreign policy paradigm is insane (which it is), largely from her […]
Trump: Hush payments in 2016 vote were legal
US President Donald Trump says hush payments to women he allegedly had affairs with before the 2016 presidential election were legal. Trump said the payments were personal transactions and denied they were a violation of US campaign financing laws. Earlier, federal prosecutors in New York demanded a “substantial” […]
Trump renews call for end to Russia probe
My discussion of the Trump/Russia investigation with Press TV.
The Last Temptation of the Evangelical Right
I generally hold to the obviously heterodox view that, contextually speaking, Donald Trump is the most liberal president the USA has ever had (though Barack Obama was more liberal on some social issues like the environment and transgender rights, and Jimmy Carter was more liberal on some foreign […]
What Happens When Trump Falls?
I find it fascinating that Donald Trump, a man who personifies the perfect hybrid of 1960s/70s hedonism and 1980s/90s greed and materialism, would emerge as a conservative hero, with the religious right and social conservatives being his biggest backers. If there are any snowflakes left who still think […]
Why Social Justice And The Far Left Are Doomed To Collapse
Some interesting commentary from Tim Pool. ———————————————– Social Justice And The Far Left Are Doomed To Collapse due to internal inconsistency within itself. They advocate for the rights of groups at odds with each other and for positions that can’t be brought together. You can’t advocate for Abrahamic […]
Trump’s Great Wall is Trump’s Great Stall?
Ann Coulter, as everyone knows, is a staunch conservative and immigration hawk. But she correctly perceives that Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric is largely a ruse intended as raw meat to be thrown to his base. Coulter’s examination of electoral politics correctly perceives that the future belongs to the ascending […]
Obama: A Legacy of Ashes
In case anyone is nostalgic for Obama, let’s not forget what a douche the guy was underneath the articulate, polished exterior.
Establishment GOP Runs Scared as Trump Says What it Has for a Decade about the Judiciary
I highly recommend the video commentaries of Styxhexenhammer666. He offers a refreshingly non-partisan, independent, relatively centrist, somewhat libertarian perspective.
Ocasio-Cortez’s Ignorance and Gaffes Are Weakening The Left
An interesting critique AOC from Tim Pool.
Ari: Dems. crushed Trump in biggest midterm blowout in 40 years
I agree with this analysis. The Democrats were the primary winners in this election by a significant margin. They flipped the House, multiple governorships, and multiple state legislatures. Votes on referendums like weed legalization and felon voting rights generally went liberal (although abortion related issues in some red […]
Trump claims Republicans won midterms
Another discussion of the mid-terms featuring yours truly.
Democrats retake U.S. House, Republicans keep Senate
My discussion of the mid-term elections with Press TV.
Vote or Don’t (the Brick and the Ballot Box)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Like any twilight empire, America has some strange and perverse rituals that are generally excepted as normal by our unblinking masses. There’s the fascist war prayer of the National Anthem, which you can lose your livelihood for betraying […]
Slavoj Žižek: Trump’s rise is a symptom of a dark and subtle force
A leading Marxist philosopher says what I have been saying for (at least) 20 years. Interesting. By Stephen Johnson Big Think Slavoj Žižek and British political writer Owen Jones recently spoke about American politics, the left and global capitalism. Žižek sees the success of President Donald Trump as […]
Larry Krasner’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration
I’m inclined to say “I’ll believe it when I see it” but is this a case of the system actually working? By Jennifer Gonnerman The New Yorker Krasner asked his young prosecutors, “Who here has read Michelle Alexander?” Photograph by Jeff Brown for The New Yorker Until Larry […]
Five Tribes of American Voters
This research more or less confirms the findings of the “Hidden Tribes” researchers with some slight variations. By Carl M. Cannon Real Clear Politics “Every difference of opinion,” Thomas Jefferson warned in his first inaugural address, “is not a difference of principle.” Speaking to his countrymen after an […]
The Democrats’ Left Turn Is Not an Illusion
The research that is cited in this article, along with the “Hidden Tribes” report that came out recently, seems to confirm what I have long suspected, i.e. that “political correctness” is the ideology of the mostly white, educated, affluent, left-wing of the upper middle class. This is probably […]
Political Correctness Is Apparently Widely Unpopular Among All Americans
The recently released study indicating the deep unpopularity of political correctness, as well as the marginal nature of both PC partisans and the hard right, carries certain implications for the ATS strategy and program. First, there is no need whatsoever to capitulate or kowtow to PC, and that […]
Lou Dobbs & Tucker Carlson: Trump Is A Pragmatic Centrist!
Kyle Kulinski offers a good critique of why right-wing critics of the Left typically fail, but regrettably Kyle merely wants to steer the conversation toward his own Berniebro/neo-Rooseveltian perspective.
Tucker: The uncivil left reveals their real strategy
These Tucker Carlson-types are pretty good at criticizing the Left. But they regrettably use their critique to steer their audience toward the Republican-oriented right-wing. It’s possible to hate Bolsheviks without wanting to preserve the Tsar.
Elections, Power, and the DSA: The Failure of the Left in Power
A left-anarchist discusses the limitations of social democracy. Listen here. . The discussion itself was very good, although I found the intro monologue to be something of a turn off in the sense that it sounded like a barrage of buzzwords and catchphrases (kind of like reciting the […]
Elections Are a Fraud: If You Vote, You’re Wasting Your Time
It is interesting to see a quote from Emma Goldman in an article originally published in Forbes in 2012. By Lawrence Hunter Forbes Elections are a fraud. If you go to the polls, you are wasting your time, or worse, deluding yourself that you are actually making a […]
The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line
“Why the differences? I’ve long argued that United States politics resolves around the tension between advancing individual liberty and promoting the common good. The regional cultures we think of as “blue” today have traditions championing the building and maintenance of free communities, today’s “red” ones on maximizing individual […]
Centrist Dems begin arguing against far-left agenda as 2020 play
It’s interesting how the neconservative/neoliberal political establishment is being challenged by the neo-Nixonian Trumpians from the right, and by the neo-Roosevetlians like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez from the left. If these insurgencies continue, the power elite will mostly certainly move to coopt them, which they have already done in […]
Trump’s Working Class, Conservative, Populist Realignment
One of the best and most thorough analysis of Trump voters I have seen to date. Trump ran a Ross Perot-like campaign, and was able to take the Rust Belt away from the Democrats. That’s how he won. The question is how sustainable will that be over time […]
Reflections on Idiocracy
A Facebook reader comments: “The original Black Panthers were pretty awesome too. I haven’t seen any leftist groups that are even on their level either these days. Even the 70’s radical groups were more respectable. I rate The Weathermen who were the most notorious toilet bombers of that […]
Reflection on the Condition of U.S. Politics
Recently, a reader asked for me for an assessment of the present condition of the Alt-Right due to my past associated with that particular milieu. Here is my response: Regrettably, the Alt-Right has become a mirror image of the Left in the sense of operating as a self-marginalizing […]
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: Trump Isn’t Ready For A Girl From The Bronx
That this candidate won shows that people really are fed up with business as usual in US politics. More maverick candidates will probably be achieving victories in the future. Her actual politics are just those of a moderate social democrat, not particularly radical, although it’s possible she may […]
Trevor Noah thinks Kim Kardashian would make a better president than Donald Trump
Kanye and Kim 2024. Make it happen. By Eileen Rivers USA Today Is America going to cheer for Kim Kardashian for president in 2020? After the Keeping up with the Kardashians reality TV star took a photo with another reality TV star in the Oval Office, late-night comic Trevor Noah […]
The Real Revolution Has Nothing To Do With Donald Trump
Like all presidents, Trump is just an administrative manager for the power elite (much to his own frustration, I would imagine). By Caitlin Johnstone Medium It’s been a weird last couple of days. I wrote an article about WikiLeaks’ dismissal of “QAnon”, the anonymous 8chan poster that hundreds […]
Dave Rubin Handles Protesters at University of New Hampshire
Dave goes back and forth with protesters during his entire speech to students at the University of New Hampshire. Due to security threats the University moved the venue from a 300 seat room to a 7500 seat hockey rink – without informing all of the attendees. This event […]
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