The Post-Partisan Emporium

  An Assassin Showed Just How Angry America Really Is The murder of UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson was brutal. The reactions were telling. Elite disdain for the rule of law is leading to a society that is spinning out of control. Matt Stoller In his speech for the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, Senator John Sherman of Ohio made a number of legal points about how to understand competition. But the thrust of his argument was about law and order, for the specter of violence was hanging over a nation that had within living memory experienced a massive and traumatic civil war. And there had been significant, and violent, strikes involving railroads, sometimes nationwide. Sherman believed America as a free people simply could not sustain the rise of immense concentrations of power in the industrial corporations he saw in his day. Congress had to act, or chaos would reign. Here’s what  he said : You must heed their appeal or be ready for the socialist, the communist, and the ni...

  Reinventing Democracy The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition on elites who are desperate to eliminate competition. What's the point of discussing reforms that aren't even possible in the current status quo?  That's a good question, as any discussion of major systemic changes can be dismissed as pointless (since they'll never be adopted), and a distraction from the "real work" that can be managed within the current system. On the other hand, we might ask: what's the point of discussing what is do-able in the status quo, i.e. superficial feel-good  policy tweaks  that change nothing in the  power structure ? In other words, everything is ultimately a superficial feel-good  policy tweak  if it doesn't change how power, "money," credit and resources are amassed and distributed. The argument for discussing "impossible" systemic changes is this:  we must ponder other ways to structure who has power for two...

Musk's Dangerous Vision for Twitter It is not what you think it is... Robert W Malone MD, MS So, why does Elon Musk want Twitter so badly? Is it because he is such a big free speech advocate, that he wants to “save the world, ” save us all from BIG TECH? Why does Elon Musk care so much about the number of bot accounts? Is it because he truly wants to ferret out foreign influences? Why does Elon Musk want to reverse the bans on people’s accounts? Is it because he really cares about scientists, and conservatives ability to interact on the social media app? The answer of course, is no to all these questions. “We” are being manipulated into the vision of Elon being the free speech shield-bearer - but what has Musk revealed recently as to his true motivations for wanting Twitter. Musk’s vision for Twitter is “one stop shopping.” E-commerce. He intends to bring social media, banking, auto loans, Amazon type buying, insurance, paying loans and utility bills, medical insurance, service est...