The Election Industry versus Democracy
American politics is a multi-billion dollar industry. Let’s examine how the election industry works to cut the electorate out of the political process.
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American politics is a multi-billion dollar industry. Let’s examine how the election industry works to cut the electorate out of the political process.
Continue readingPolitical liberalism finds fascism abhorrent but neoliberalism is a fascist generator. Welcome to progressive neoliberalism: not the anti-fascism you’re looking for.
Continue readingThe neoliberal left champions progressive positions on social and cultural issues, but only in a manner that treats criticism of existing economic arrangements like the third rail of politics. Viewed in this light the neoliberal left begins to look less like ‘the left’ and more like the market logic of neoliberal capitalism itself. I want to suggest that this is exactly how we ought to view it.
Continue readingIn November of 2016 Reverend James Orsen Bakker is inexplicably no longer in prison. He’s back to doing the Lord’s work on television. Or rather, he’s back to doing the Lord’s work on YouTube.
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