ABOUT THE LIBERAL LEISURE CLASS a. there is a lexicon that stratifies everyone politically b. there are people wholly versed in said lexicon c. there are (presumably, likely) elaborate tracts and justifications for each strata d. one should know precisely where one fits on this topological map e. if...

Liberals like to talk about changing people - sort of a hearts and minds program - and see that as a prerequisite to political success. People are to be converted - educated or whatever - to become like-minded people. The problem is that this conversion program is not political. Converting people to...

The ruling class doesn't fear any ideology, any alternative lifestyle choices, any theories. Elite clubs of intellectual snobs refining radical theories pose no threat to them, either. Intelligent people who have an inflated sense of their own self worth are very easy to buy off and neutralize. Narc...

Is it a coincidence that liberalism has become dominated by the relatively well-off, and that simultaneously economics are no longer front and center for the Democratic party but are merely a minor side issue? All of the liberal causes are important, once you already have a certain degree of economi...

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LIBERAL AND A LEFTIST I offer this a starting point. A Leftist says that the fundamental organization of our society is intolerable because it leads directly to war, poverty, oppression, and environmental destruction. The Leftist argues that a new and different framework is ...

THE HOLLOW GOSPEL OF THE LIBERAL LEISURE CLASS There is much pretending throughout the progressive and liberal community. Success and the good life, credentials and status, position and privilege must be protected, at least for people like "us." At the same time, this position and privilege is depen...

Acronym, the dark money group behind the Iowa caucuses app meltdown, explained “People have been waiting for this to blow up.” By Emily Stewartemily.stewart@vox.com Updated Feb 5, 2020, 10:03pm EST A staffer stands in the shadow ahead of the Bernie Sanders caucus night celebration in Des Moines, Iow...

February 6, 2020 Acronym group that sabotaged Iowa caucus birthed by billionaire who funded Alabama disinformation campaign Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results, after bankrolling voter manipulation campaigns includi...

Democrats seek to suppress Sanders victory in Iowa By Patrick Martin 7 February 2020 The effort by the Democratic Party establishment to conceal or suppress reports of Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the Iowa caucuses reached a new stage Thursday with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Pe...

Who Exactly are Biden and Buttigieg’s Campaign Money Bundlers? https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/05/who-exactly-are-biden-and-buttigiegs-campaign-money-bundlers/ The spooks’ choice: Coup plotters and CIA agents fill Pete Buttigieg’s list of national security endorsers https://thegrayzone.com/2019...