The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Thanks to Who D. Who for recommending this article... The "No Kings" Scam: The Oligarchs Are Funding Their Own "Resistance" The No Kings rallies this weekend will not frighten the oligarchy.   Dorothy Lennon The upcoming No Kings rallies, set to take place across America, will not spark fear within the oligarchy. It does not call for a  general strike.  It does not call for an end to the  Iran War . It does not call for an end to the  genocide  against the Palestinians in Gaza. It does not call to strengthen the  labor movement . It does not call to leave the Democratic and Republican Parties. Like the  “anti-war movement”  during the Bush administration or the  Women’s March  during the first term of Trump’s presidency, this will be an attempt to channel energy back into a decaying Democratic Party with leaders who have already  acquiesced  to President Trump’s demands. For if we are to break the oligarchy’s ne...

  You can't handle the truth "We needed a bad cop anyway, and there are always more good cops." For the past two decades, I’ve been watching the world wake up to the obvious. As Orwell said, nothing is so difficult as noticing the nose in front of your face. A few people, me among them, were seeing that the whole story of reality that we lived in was as false and narcissistic—at least!—as the Soviet Union’s narrative of itself. Yet none of us could accept the darkest aspect of that truth. We all had the idea that we could stand up and speak the truth and, if it was true enough, it would flash around the world like lightning. Nothing could prevail against the truth. The Father of Lies could not stand against the Lord of Hosts. That this fantasy itself was part of the lie—that truth has no army, that no angels will ride to our rescue—was too much. Perhaps if I had known it, I never would have said anything. This truth is only available to the most advanced atheists and the ...