The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Thanks to BrahmaFear for providing this bit of good news... C.J. Hopkins Acquitted in Berlin Court finds satirist's use of a swastika to criticise anti-pandemic measures legally justified FABIAN A. SCHERSCHEL C.J. Hopkins (second from left) with his defence team appears before the court in Berlin Tiergarten US-born playwright and political satirist  C.J. Hopkins  is of the firm opinion that countries in the West are threatened by what he calls "a new kind of totalitarianism". Living and working in Berlin, he says he saw this new form of totalitarianism manifest itself in the government's anti-pandemic measures. To protest what he saw as injustice in society, he posted two critical tweets in 2022 that equate face masks with the principal symbol of conformity of this new totalitarian state. To draw parallels between this new phenomenon and the Third Reich, as the culturally most prevalent example of totalitarianism in Germany, he included his book cover in these tweet...

  Make the Left-Right Divide History David Fleming at Independent Alliance asked me to do a piece summarising my thoughts on the Left-Right Divide. Here it is. RUSERE SHONIWA We have to go all the way back to the  French Revolution  in 1789 to trace the roots of the Left-Right political divide that permeates political discourse in the West today. The burning issue brought before the French National Constitutive Assembly in 1789 was whether the king should have absolute veto power under the new political regime or whether that power should be restricted. When voting on the issue, those who wanted the monarch to retain absolute veto power sat to the right of the president, while those who favoured restricting the power of the monarch congregated to the left. Ever since then, the labels of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ have been used to demarcate political opinion across a wide spectrum of issues from economic policy to law, civil rights and even religious attitudes. At this epochal mo...