Given the seemingly grim prospects for this presidential election and the dynamics around the duopoly that help spawn disaster after disaster, I’m happy to relaunch my VotePact.org project, which literally opens the door to antiestablishment candidates winning office: The Problem Most voters don’t vote for—often don’t even consider voting for—third parties because they view voting […]
Does “Rich Men North Of Richmond” Manifest the Radical Center?
Seeing Oliver Anthony’s roots from The Clash to Johnny Cash to Leonard Cohen to Muse and the Steve Miller Band. The good folks over at Decensored News brought to my attention a bit ago how Oliver Anthony’s hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” was potentially setting off something of a political wildfire and it took me a while to give it the listen it deserves.
Is RFK Jr. Campaign Part of an Establishment Agenda — a More Insidious Sheepdog?
Kennedy’s campaign seems intent on further splintering antiestablishment forces while failing to meaningfully advance real accountability for pandemic criminality.
Talking Election, VotePact and Covid Origins on Convo Couch
I talked with Craig Pasta Jardula today. Craig recently did an admirable job in questioning RFK Jr. on Israel and also Cornel West regarding Covid policies in the last third of his recent interview with West.
The Origin of My Voting Strategy
When I was young, my dad and I would go on walks. Sometimes I loved them. Sometimes I hated them. We would talk and some of those talks were hard. But that’s a story for another day. We’d sometimes go to a park and toss a frisbee around. Sometimes we’d go to the IHOP. I […]
RFK Jr. and the Architecture of Electoral Revolution: VotePact on Steroids
RFK Jr.’s run for the presidency can be both an opportunity or a peril. Or it could be part of a larger strategy to upend the establishment. Needed: A challenger to Trump’s phony populism.
Collapse of the Peace Movement, Part II: Left-Right Cooperation
With minimal effort, there has been real success with the left and right working together. Rather than demonize the Rage Against the War Machine rally, left-right cooperation should be expanded.
The Art of Strategic Voting: Talking VotePact on TheNewView
The antiestablishment left and right can come together and dethrone the establishment. In voting, people can pair up and vote for an independent candidate rather than cancelling out each other.
Three Cheers for Justin Amash; Seeing the Two Centers
Former Rep. Justin Amash — who quit the Republican Party and lost a valuable committee assignment in 2019 and then decided not to seek reelection in 2020 — has put himself forward as a possible House Speaker. Amash putting himself forward for House Speaker took guts. It’s a step to seeing the reality of our political spectrum: There’s the establishment center and the anti-establishment center.
Trump is the Opposable Thumb of the Establishment: Trump appears to stand in opposition to the establishment, but in fact helps it grab more.
Two years after he lost the presidency, Trump continues to dominate much discussion in the US, yet the meaning of Trump’s time as president is still poorly understood by many across the political spectrum. There are several layers to it, but at his core, Trump was the opposable thumb of the establishment. He pretended to be against it, […]