2021: Welcome to Post-persuasion America
Mobilization and separation, not persuasion, is the way forward.
Mobilization and separation, not persuasion, is the way forward.
The goal of this national psychosis which they produce and impose on us every four years is demoralization, more than anything. Don't let that happen.
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the failure of the pollsters, the imaginary Blue Wave, and the end of naive democracy.
Projections have the 2020 election seeing record-high turnout. Conventional wisdom views this as a win for Joe Biden, but could conventional wisdom be wrong?
Did Murray Rothbard think that populism could work to limit the power of the state?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe has shown in his writings that democracy leads to economic impoverishment and political disaster under certain conditions. But what are those conditions, and are they dominant in electoral institutions in the United States today?
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss some strategies for lessening the damage democracy can do.
There are two distinct classes in America, and we have to break up. And we have to break up sooner rather than later. If we are to avoid a disastrous conflict, each side has to let the other go.
The attempt to conflate the defense of property with tribal street violence reflects the anticapitalist bias of the modern zeitgeist.