Politics

BY NICK PEMBERTON “I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.” —Donald Draper I very much enjoyed Anthony Dimaggio’s piece on January 6th that ran recently here on Counterpunch. I agree wholeheartedly that the insurrection was driven by white supremacy primarily and of course, he has the numbers to back it up. I also think we should ignore, and not obsess over, grifters who claim to be on the left who spend most of their time bashing the left and cozying up to fascists. These people do indeed blame the working class for fascism when it is a bourgeois phenomenon. This is not surprising to anyone except for those educated enough to believe in their own virtue. The left is still confused about the fascists and there ar...

In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal democratic institutions are widely viewed as the principal means of obtaining and exercising political authority, Washington Post introduced its article, adding that Competitive authoritarianism is not only thriving but inching westward. No democracy can be taken for granted. “As Americans vote in midterm elections, the specter of ‘competitive authoritarianism’ looms. That may be disquieting to many in a country that still sees itself as a democracy with no peer, wrapped in myths of exceptionalism and preeminence. But for years, analysts who examine the health of democracies in a global context have been sounding the warning. They point to the toxicity of the United States’ polarized politics, the partisan bias of the Supreme Court, the ...