The Post-Partisan Emporium

You can find Part 1 here , Part 2 here and Part 3 here ... The Great Rehash, Part Four: A Hill to Die On John Michael Greer One of the things I’ve had to get used to in writing these weekly blogs is that events sometimes move fast enough that I have to scramble to keep up. The self-inflicted epic fail of mass Covid vaccination seems to be turning into a good example of that phenomenon. Two weeks ago, when I posted part three of the current sequence, medical and political authorities across the industrial world were still striking heroic poses in front of every available mirror, preening themselves on how well they responded to the Covid pandemic. Now?  Not so much. We’ve had the head of the CDC admit that their response to Covid was pretty much a failure, and announce a top-to-bottom reorganization in the hope of doing better next time. We’ve had Dr. Anthony Fauci, the highest-paid bureaucrat in the US government, suddenly announce his retirement. We’ve had the governor of New Yor...

The Rise and Coming Fall of the Pharma-Owned Authoritarian Left in the United States Social movements that demand conformity and intolerance of freedom of speech, an independent press, and gut-based hatred of individual rights cannot sustain themselves due to strategic flaws. James Lyons-Weiler The “Left” in America used to be represented as the umbrella party under which the disenfranchised could collect, welcome to protection from the storm of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance from (as liberals were fond of describing) racist, bible-thumping, uneducated conservatives. The Democratic Party was the party that represented labor against oppressive corporate greed. If you are a Democrat and you have not taken a close, objective look at what’s happened to your party, let me give you a mirror: Prior to COVID-19, the Democratic Party sold out to Big Pharma. Top-down party politics demanded support for the rejection of exemptions for vaccine mandates. The money was easy, and the Party acted ju...