The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Burying Lindsey Graham Won’t Be Easy Karen Kwiatkowski Photo by Simone Pellegrini on Unsplash Long ago, great Senators existed. Resolute and accountable, they represented their governors and state legislatures and asserted those interests in Washington. They aspired to conduct themselves as statesmen; we the people expected statesmanship. We the people also hoped they would be better than we could be, while we agreed with the fundamental truth of Colonel Ludlow in Legends of the Fall . No longer. A regal Senate with a bold populist House of Representatives do not exist. What we call Senate and House do not make federal law, nor do they perform the small number of defined duties described in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. The making of law has become the work of lobbyists and the regulatory bureaucracy, while other Constitutional duties have become entirely too frightening to even consider, much less perform. The hydra-headed executive branch has become the permanen...

  The Technocratic Control of USrael Iain Davis In the United States (US) a gaggle of Silicon Valley oligarchs has formed a partnership that has seized operational control of the US defence sector. This group of oligarchs can be distinguished by their liking for the ideas presented in Nick Land’s Dark Enlightenment and their enthusiasm for Technocracy . They want to build what their guru Curtis Yarvin called a “patchwork of realms” in the form of a transnational network of privately owned city-states , or neostates . Inspired by both the Dark Enlightenment and Technocracy, a wider Neoreactionary movement (NRx) has formed, and the Silicon Valley oligarchs are its inspirational leaders. The NRx oligarchs’ investment strategy focuses on seed funding “disruptive technology” startup ventures. In keeping with the Dark Enlightenment, this is called accelerationism . The NRx-aligned oligarchs—often referred to as the PayPal Mafia—include Peter Thiel (Palantir Technologies), Marc Andreess...