Category: Electoralism/Democratism

Your candidate isn’t Jesus

As I have said before, political ideologies are the new religions and political interest groups and subcultures are the new ethno-cultural/linguistic tribes. By Devin Foley, Intellectual Takeout If you’ve ever spent any time in politics, especially during caucus or primary season, you will quickly learn that there are […]

The Triumph of Totalitarian Humanism?

The term “totalitarian humanism” is the one I use for the self-legitimating ideological superstructure of the ruling classes, states, and power elites of developed (“First World”) countries. Totalitarian humanism’s core features would be the following: -masking imperialism under the guise of “human rights,” “collective security,” “duty to protect,” […]

Witless Ape Rides Helicopter

Now if we could just have a President who wrecks the Democratic Party as bad as Trump wrecked the Republican Party. The best thing about Trump was that he made the state look like what it actually is, i.e. the mafia writ large, and having a chaos agent […]

Kick the Puppy Season 2: EP 02

Keith, Emma & RJ 01/09/21 – Mob assault on the Capital, 5 dead, nice photo op, police weren’t prepared, political assassinations, most were peaceful, two-party existential crisis, American Democracy, the Five Crises of the American Regime, “why the wealthiest Americans should prepare for revolt against unprecedented inequality,” Rothbard […]

January 6: A Mass Base for Fascism?

Crimethinc As a consequence of Donald Trump’s supporters occupying the Capitol building in Washington, DC after a rally promoting his baseless claims of election fraud, the Republican Party is fracturing, setting the stage for the consolidation of a new bipartisan political center—albeit much further to the right than […]

A New Paradigm Is Sorely Need

This is an excerpt from something I wrote 18 years ago. I haven’t seen anything yet to change my mind. The history of human civilization can be divided into three primary phases when considering the evolution of political institutions. The first of these involves an idea that might […]

Rioters Were Going to Execute the Vice President

Increasingly, the Trump diehards resemble something more like Scientology than a political movement. I started noticing back in the 90s that there was a cultural undercurrent that was combining anti-establishment politics with conspiracies, religion, the occult, pseudo-science, science fiction, pseudo-history, mythology, crank economic and legal theories, crank medicine, […]