The Post-Partisan Emporium

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  On Being a "Threat to Democracy" Power to The People? Donald Jeffries Merriam-Webster defines “democracy” as: “a: Government by the people  especially   :  rule of the majority,  b:  a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” Well, that sounds good. Do we have a rule of the majority? The majority of Americans, after all, about eighty percent of them, are losing in this rigged economy, and living paycheck to paycheck at best. I don’t think they’re “ruling” anything. We all (well, some of us) know that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Again, sounds good. But when’s the last time you heard about one of our tyrannical judges ...

  "Counting Votes to Decide Everything" Zionist Zealotry and the Ballot Box. Which Zionist Political Party Will You Pick? ANTHONY JAMES HALL Many dozens of elections throughout the world are taking place during 2024. Not surprisingly, the most widely and closely watched of these electoral rituals is the US presidential contest. In 2023 the  The Economist  ominously predicted that in the forthcoming year of mass voting, “Donald Trump Poses the Biggest Danger to the World.” In this essay I shall highlight the elections in the USA, the UK, and Canada. These three cases as well as many others revolve around growing factionalism within Zionism and within the larger Jewish community based inside and outside Israel. These antagonisms figure prominently among the growing tensions generated by the genocidal assault in Gaza and the West Bank. The intensity and duration of this onslaught to advance the longstanding quest to de-Palestinianize Israel, is helping to inflame a larger co...