The Post-Partisan Emporium

 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

( Of course it does! ) But Will Elections Change Anything? BY  JEFFREY A. TUCKER      OCTOBER 20, 2022 I t’s coming up in a fortnight. For many people, all their hopes rest on the outcome. I get it because these seem like very dark times. We cannot live without hope. But we also need realism. The problems are deep, pervasive, scandalously entrenched. Many people won financially and in terms of power from lockdowns and have no intention either to apologize or give up their gains. What’s more, for that to have happened to this great country – and many great counties – indicates something far more pernicious than a policy error or an ideological mistake.  The fix is going to require vast change. Tragically, the elected politicians may be the least likely to push for such a change. This is due to what we call the “Deep State” but there ought to be another name. It is rather obvious now that we are dealing with a beast that includes media, technology, nonprofits, and multinational and inter

Races, Tribes, Nations Divide and rule Carlos Ramalhete Photo ©  Brian Snelson Once I wrote that no self-respecting “race” could ever accept me. After all, I am Brazilian — the mongrel of mongrels. But what is a race? Moreover, what is a tribe? A nation? These questions are quite important these days, as the American construct of race is being forced down the throats of every other country, even if it cannot be applied to the local situation. Down here in Brazil, for instance, while people do have ancestors from all over the world, the American concept of “race” makes no sense at all. Brazilians see themselves as a nation, and neither tribes nor races can exist within this national identity. The same goes for other countries; in France, for instance, it is simply forbidden to divide people into  races . But, as I asked in the beginning, what does  race  mean? The  Wikipedia definition  is that a “ race  is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into gro