The Post-Partisan Emporium

Activism: A Write-off and Autopsy Dustin Broadbery Audio Version  New Feature! Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. If Extinction Rebellion is  the midlife crisis of activist causes , the war in Ukraine is the crack cocaine of moral high grounds. For those finely attuned to consensual reality, activism is the perfect oasis from which to emulate dissent, while keeping one’s head beneath the parapet. Gone are the old hellraisers on the left stickin’ it to the man. Instead, you have a bunch of  snowflakes  looking to extricate themselves from moral responsibility by signalling their righteousness, rather than embodying it. Activism, for want of a better word, has become an assembly point to a fire drill. A part-time hobby for those in the cultural backwaters who mistake hoax for reality and  other people’s misfortune as their personal consolation . This innocent fun and games aside, however, the rebranding of groupthink in...

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Rust on the Iron Pentagon The presidency is a symbolic office; by forcing Biden into it, an oligarchy that survives by symbol manipulation has made a catastrophic mistake John Carter The Biden administration is proving to be an unmitigated disaster for the American ruling class. Their brazen theft of the election in 2020 was a Pyrrhic victory of the most archetypal variety - they got everything they wanted, and as a direct result, are now losing even what they once had. Tactical success at the cost of strategic defeat. The problem isn't that Biden himself was a blundering fool even before dementia started to eat his brain, at least not in the sense that President Grampa Simpson is making reliably terrible decisions: we all know that Biden isn't making any decisions. The problem isn't even that Biden's administration is staffed with the talentless cretins, sociopathic social climbers, terminally confused diversity hires, and embarrassing sexual perverts, all of whom are ...