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The Rise of Modern GOP Politics and Its Radical Christian Right – Analyzing America’s Duopoly
January 6th, 2021 was not a spontaneous event. It was the culmination of years put into meticulously perfecting the GOP propaganda machine, waging a political war against socially focused policy that would challenge our status quo of white supremacy and savage capital. The GOP’s path has been meticulously designed, shifting our Overton Window to the…
Revision of Previous Essay – What about Liberal Democrats?
I’ve been waffling back and forth about how some of my points came across in the original upload of this essay. To be clear I do not side with Greenwald or Rogan fans on any of their crusade, I simply believe that censorship divides us further within an identity politics based wasteland. I made some…
We Know Why GOP Politics are Dangerous. What About Liberal Democrats?
Many readers may find the insinuation that the Democratic Party is dangerous to be off putting. However over the course of this post I will rebuke what the Democrats stand for and present readers with evidence as to why our liberal party is more insidious than the GOP, and just as much of a driver…
America’s Futile System Fuels Festering Fascism and Violent Politics
This post is an ending as well as a beginning, and it took me longer than I would like to admit to find the proper wording and explanations for the arguments I make. It marks the conclusion of the 4th New Federalist series concerning identity politics, but will combine themes from past discussions in order…
The GOP Opened Pandora’s Box and are Shocked we can’t go Back to Normal
When the Trump train rolled into Q central and truly went off the rails in 2017, people initially laughed off the cult’s influence on American politics. Many saw the rapidly growing group as a childish mash up of conspiracy theories pulled from across the lexicon of paranoia. Those who looked a bit deeper saw foundational…
Faith in the Cult of Personality
In this post I would like to begin a discussion of the ideas that religion play in our modern political sphere. I will be going further on this topic in regards to right wing extremism in some other posts; this discussion will center around the ways that faith play into our cultures and different lifestyles…
How Media Fans the Flames of Culture War and Allows Fringe Figures to Gain Power
In our discussions of identity politics to this point I’ve mostly centered on left/right aspects and divides along race, explaining how statistics have been used in misleading ways to fear monger white conservatives into anti-immigration and supremacist attitudes, stoking their suspicion of any “other” and driving us to the edge of a cliff that half…
How Many More of Our Children Will Suffer?
We are so blinded within our own bubbles, only concerned with personal gain or status, that the well being of our children and other’s means less than to us than being personally shielded from their actions. I had taken a couple weeks off from posting because I needed to breathe for a bit, step back…
Examining Underlying White Supremacy Within the American Identity
This post goes hand in hand with my previous; Disproving Misleading Statistics and Analyzing the Harm of Identity Politics Many white Americans don’t give too much thought to what other ethnic groups income is in comparison to theirs, and this goes across the board for many Americans in general. There isn’t a consideration for conditions…
Disproving Misleading Statistics and Analyzing the Harm of Identity Politics
Figures such as Trump, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, or any number of right wing personalities have preyed upon the history and isolation of rural communities by either justifying their ingrained white supremacy, or presenting racist justifications for the nation’s problems that allow a group to direct their anger from American disenfranchisement at. This manifests in…
Identity Politics and Our Loss of Rationality
“The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.” – Chris Hedges…
The Biggest Grift in Human History
Today I would like to share a special essay with you all, one that I personally had the most fun yet disgust researching; the ballad of the Federal Reserve. I recently finished this lovely piece with Bezos implementing his boring dystopia, so I figured it would be the perfect companion for our discussion about robber…
An Idealist Essay on Restorative Justice
Now that we’ve reached the end of series II and III I would like to take a moment and look back on the discussions we’ve had about police and incarceration while offering an idealist vision for how these institutions can be changed for the better. As part of this I will present some ideas that…
Podcast Episode – New Feudalism and the Distribution of Wealth
I wanted to share the latest episode from my podcast! If you’ve read my first posts it may have some repetition, but there are some additional questions raised and facts I point out 🙂 I hope you enjoy, and thank you for your support!
Opinion: Facebook is Only Maintaining the American Meta
Here’s a comic and opinion piece I did about the latest from Facebook, enjoy! Facebook is Only Maintaining the American Meta When a corporation gets too greedy and “accidentally” does harm they can always rely on their PAC bought candidates in Washington to protect them. Sometimes though, public opinion overrides willful ignorance or inaction from…
Law Enforcement Doesn’t Protect our Rights, They Restrict Them
Everything that I have described up to this point in the series shows a police force that is completely divergent from the goals of community health and safety. This post is going to be a final analysis of how American law enforcement violates our constitutional freedoms and show once again that police were created as…
The Source of Law Enforcement’s Poison Isn’t a Few Bad Apples – It’s the Entire Orchard
To this point in Series III, I have described a police force that practices intentional ignorance, harm, and violence. A force that takes joy in brutalizing the people they are supposed to protect while being the only public servants with unionization that allows for complete lack of culpability. This post will be perhaps my strongest…
A Doctor’s Diagnosis for Murder Part II – Excited Delirium
Part I Part II Warning: This post will be graphic and discuss police violence in a very real way. We left off after the first part of this excited delirium analysis with an account of Gregory Lloyd Edwards’ murder, how he was placed in a cell with tasers lodged in his back and a pepper…
A Doctor’s Diagnosis for Murder Part I – Corporate Controlled Policing
Before beginning this 2 part series on excited delirium I would like to provide a warning that this topic is going to be extremely triggering and dark. Please take it slowly, and take breaks if you need. This video is also extremely important to see. At the beginning Minneapolis police officers discuss their plans to…
Police Unionization and The Damage It’s Done
As we discussed in our introduction to American policing, the values of groups that early departments spawned from never truly left them; even after 150 years. The people that they were created to oppress still suffer under the brutalization of law enforcement, and the police have made sure to get their hands on all of…
Opinion (#KenGriffinLied): The Facade of a Free and Fair Market
This is an opinion piece I wrote about the recent trending of the #KenGriffinLied on Twitter and how it exposes much deeper systemic issues if you look a little further. The beginning of 2021 brought a stock mania to the country with GameStop, Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities, and Robinhood at the center. We’re once again…
An Introduction to the American Police
You awake to the sound of heavy footsteps outside. The stomp of what must be several pairs of boots startled you out of your slumber, and along with the creak of the porch under their weight, you can hear other muffled movements coming from behind your front door. You feel your partner still peacefully breathing…
Opinion: The Ghost of Arpaio Haunts Us
This opinion piece was submitted to the AZ Daily Star a couple days ago! While Arpaio isn’t super relevant in our 12 hour news cycle, he was an extremely important figure in shaping our virulent identity based politics, along with the other names mentioned here. I can not emphasize enough how damaging yet influential his…
Opinion: Sinema and Biden are Moderate Enemas Flushing the Working Class
If there’s one thing you need to know about me, I am the ultimate perfectionist. I was workshopping this article with a friend because I didn’t quite like it, and came out with a much stronger argument I believe. This is being submitted to Politico, hopefully they like it enough to publish! Enjoy Rather than…
Parole, Recidivism, and Extension of Trauma
To end the series on prison, I’d like to end on a discussion about mass incarceration by putting in perspective that there are nearly 80 million Americans who have a criminal record. The trauma, injustice, and constant surveillance by law enforcement doesn’t end when people go home. When the system is designed to inflict maximum…
Misleading Statistics and Racism, The Traumatizing Reality of Our Justice System
Following our discussions of race and mass incarceration along with disproportionate punishments doled out to POC by the justice system, it is time to put those concepts together and discuss the full horrifying reality of American prisons from the inside. We are taught at a young age in schools that law enforcement are the good…
The Disproportional Punishments of American Incarceration
We live in a reality in which there are two Americas; the criminalized and the wealthy. Due to the intimacy with which our status quo operates with white supremacy’s influence and savage pursuit of capital, it has created institutions that reinforce inequality and maintain establishment domination. One of the most obvious representations of this has…
The Concept of Race and Mass Incarceration
For people of color in America the barriers to chasing the ‘dream,’ or even living comfortably, are tenfold those of white middle and lower class citizens. We like to believe that after events like the civil rights movement, emancipation of slavery, and defeat of slavery part II (Jim Crow Reconstruction Era) we left our ugly…
Introduction for The New Federalist
The Case for Social Capitalism America has long endured as a powerful democracy, a testament to the will of our people to remain loyal through centuries of near fatal conflicts, none of which broke our resolve to maintain the Union. We are at another decisive moment in history testing whether our nation can endure, at…
Modern Slavery – The Connection Between New Feudalism and Mass Incarceration
“If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t pulled the knife out; they won’t even admit that it’s there.” – Malcolm X The…
Economic Analysis Wrap Up – War Profiteering
To end the month and my first series of posts analyzing the state of our economy I would like to include one last analysis of war profiteering, including how it affected Afghanistan, providing an outlook for the role our military industrial complex plays in savage capitalism. If we are measuring based on human cost and…
Disenfranchisement, New Feudalism, and the Ghost of an American Dream
The inability to pursue the American dream becomes even more evident when looking at the overall assets that younger generations hold in comparison to baby boomers and older. Millenials are hardly able to own their own property, let alone have any type of savings built up in case of emergency. The average person doesn’t even…
Friedman & Reagan Part II – the Shaman and Christ of Neoliberalism
Part I Part II Republicans realized that to get fundamentalist religious groups buying into a free market and limited government, the party needed some kind of bridge between moral and economic life, since many religious groups considered the excess that American capitalism promotes as sinful. The GOP solution to keep their voters happy has been…
Friedman & Reagan Part I – An Insidious Seed is Planted
There is a saying that capitalism can take either a savage or benevolent form; the United States has always been a system of savagery. Regardless of what tactic used there has always been oppression of a group of people sponsored by the government in our iteration of capitalist structure. Our modern government uses less openly…
For Profit College & the Lie About Loans
The government’s promise of student loans as a gateway to education and subsequent financial independence has been a huge misdirect for us as well. Student debt has tripled since 2008, and there has been a skyrocketing discrepancy in the cost of college and the loans taken out in comparison to how quickly students can pay…
A Tale of Economic Corruption Part IV – Death & Taxes
The Full Tale of Economic Corruption Death & Taxes – Only Applicable to 99% of Us To introduce this final installment of my economic corruption series I would like to highlight the inability to pursue the American dream. We have been sold on the idea that through hard work and loyalty in our savage capitalism…
A Tale of Economic Corruption Part III – Quantitative Easing and Bernake’s Legacy
The Full Tale of Economic Corruption Quantitative Easing and Bernake’s Legacy The Fed and its collusion with Wall Street has been perhaps the most responsible force in the last decade or so for the economic inequality that America is continuously battling with. Post 2008 all arteries and capillaries of the financial respiratory system collapsed. Wall…
A Tale of Economic Corruption Part II – Political Perks
The Full Tale of Economic Corruption Political Perks The largest contributing factor to Wall Street’s legislative influence is due to the fact that our government is permeated with financial insiders on every level; Congressionally, bureaucratically, and judicially who fight to deregulate the industry and defend the necessity of big banks taking advantage of us because…
A Tale of Economic Corruption Part I – Wall Street and 2008’s Great Inside Job
We grew up believing that America is a champion of laissez faire economics, a land of opportunity where a free and fair market determines the winners. Unfortunately, two major factors have prevented this from being reality; 1. Deregulation throughout the last several decades that has created a lopsided market and the widest wealth gap in…
Using Architecture to Analyze Inaccessibility within American Markets
An analysis of the industry called a barometer for the economy to help explain the disenfranchisement we feel. The corner store that you used to go in as a kid got demolished a little while ago. You felt a twinge of sadness remembering the ice cream sandwiches and other snacks that your parents used to…
In Memory of Deante Strickland
This isn’t related to The New Federalist per se, but I wanted to share a couple of images I designed for my friend who passed. I and everyone else close to you continues to hold you in our hearts.
Our Existence Within New Feudalism
Developed countries have strong social programs such as universal healthcare, asset taxes that circumvent income to prevent unequal rates, and high speed public transit that is a part of bolstered climate protection policies. Americans have the hope that one day we will be rich, and can finally afford a life that sees our basic needs…
Are you Overwhelmed by the World? I am Too. Challenging the Way we View Growth may Help
“The reason they call it the American dream is because you have to be asleep to see it.”- George Carlin Right now you may be feeling outraged, frustrated, saddened, or overwhelmed by the current state of the world. I am right there with you. My goal in discussing our most polarizing issues is to analyze…
Rumel Writing 