The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article from Ramin Mazaheri.  This is the last in a series.  You can find the previous articles through the following links... The Ukrainian suicide: Reading Emmanuel Todd’s French-only 'The Defeat of the West' Eastern Europe’s pro-West shift is ‘inauthentic’ - Emmanuel Todd’s ‘The Defeat of the West’ Emmanuel Todd asks ‘What is the West?’ Protestants and professors won't like his answer The ‘EU-icide’: Emmanuel Todd asks if it’s suicide or homicide? Emmanuel Todd on the UK’s Russophobia: a crumbling nation needs a scapegoat Emmanuel Todd beats Democrats by 6 months: The US is an oligarchy ‘The Defeat of the West’ necessarily includes done and dusted failures in the US Emmanuel Todd has hard, obvious truths for why the US is leading Ukraine to ruin Ramin Mazaheri (This is the 7th part in a multipart series on Emmanuel Todd’s political it-book of the moment  The Defeat of the West (La Defaite de l’Occident) .) In

 Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article... The Hoi Polloi Are Sick SIMPLICIUS As things dwindle down to the wire, and the country is plunged into historic political divisions pitting one extreme against other, we’re dragged along in a frenzy of misdirected aggression. Paralyzed by limbic hijack, we resort to an imitation of each other’s motions—the wisdom of the crowds replaced with a teeming madness. One of the simplistic ideals we’ve adopted in the heat of struggle is that the government is solely the problem, and that as long as we can uproot the worst of the klepto- and kakistocrats—those entrenched deepstate fungi wracking the nation’s liverspotted trunk—the country will be freed, to blossom anew like a springtime meadow. The ‘System’ as culprit: always the same faceless, nameless System, or its shadow twin of ‘the Man’—as long as we can dethrone them, victory is guaranteed, and America will be free. But in those hallucinatory throes we ignore the i