Identity Politics
Genuine Liberals believe in:
- Meritocracy – Do capable people become leaders ?
- Equal Opportunity
- Colour-Blind Justice
Covid 19 was an American attack on China
Cannot rely on on market forces, need the intervention of the state.
Too many checks and balances leads to more corruption.
Stronger leadership.
There are time where we will need more distributed power, thats possible, but not now.
- Race
- Gender
- Religion
Oppressed marginalized minority. Society shaped by systemic racism.
Identity Politics is more pronounced in America and Britain
Jobs based on politics of race or gender.
Exploiting our moral sensibilities
Calls to dismantle imperialist capitalist.
Abolishment of prisons and detention centers
Taking advantage of our natural desire to be liked, they
People are judged by the content of their character.
Oppositional Determination
- The chefs cooking the food in front of the patrons obscures the preparation that takes place behind the scenes.
- The spectacle of productivity, obscures the base layer of production that has to occur.
- Race and Gender hide Class in plain sight.
- The democratization and broadening of the struggle by means of identity politics.
- The particularization of struggle into the myriad forms of struggle, allow the functioning of Capitalism to take place as the ultimate horizon of all meaning in the world.
- If we particularize the struggle, we lose the sense of the universal, we lose the struggle itself.
- Capitalism is all to happy to celebrate the victories of identity politics.
- Identity politics is a trap, whereby narratives of victimhood becomes necessary in order to create legitimacy for oneself.
- The ultimate narrative of victimhood is the White-Ethnic one.
- The obstacle to power in a feudal society, is competition for power.
- A healthy democracy is one in which people do not agree and there is a constant fight for power by different interests.
- The monarch or feudal authority creates the illusion of stability.
- Government exists as the protector of of Civic Society.
- Any resistance to this illusion is considered something that undermines the very foundations of society. Anarchy and Chaos would ensue.
Democracy is the Will of the People
- The rule of the people, essentially means that the people equals the Universal Truth or core of society.
- The government becomes depoliticized and neutered of it’s authoritarian content, so as to guarantee the interests of civic society.
- The government exists to safeguard the rights of the property holding class.
- Capitalism continues feudal system of repression in it’s opposite guise.
- In a Capitalist system, government exists to ensure the continued functioning of Capital.
- Post-ideological and post-political is the process by which ideology and political allegiances come to seem suspicious to us.
- Instead we have a technocratic class, a centrist government, which outsources problems to the Consultant Class, so that we can have the illusion of a politics that serves Capital and the Capital Class and therefore Capitalism.
The false universal of post-modern identity politics
- The political is never about the overt political content nor about the political ideology behind it. The political is the investigative inquiry into a societies universal and particular positions of belonging.
- Feudal society – The monarch is the universal representative of the authority of God. The responsibility of society is to sustain the universal core.
- Capitalist society – Governing class becomes devoid of ideological content. It becomes post-political, technocratic. It is there to serve Capitalism.
- Struggles in identity politics serves to obscure the idea that no theoretical or practical alternative to Capitalism can take place.
- The working class was taken to be the universal class, because never was the working class considered the majority.
- The central logic of identity politics is how to make Capitalism work for the poorer class.
- The ideology of Capitalism is that nobody is poor, everyone is in the process of becoming rich.
- The working class is not seeking representation, instead it is seeking absolution and seeking to deidentify itself.
- If the goal of the working class, is to eliminate the necessity for a working class.
- Identity politics is the opposite of this and moves people into wider dissemination.
- It is the reduction of class into representational struggle.
- The most radical conclusion of the New Testament, is not that man can ascend to unite with God.
- It is that God equals weak, fallen man.
- The Divine essence is made manifest only by means of
- It is not How to reunite with God.
- It is how God is reunited with us.
- It is that Truth is transposed onto appearance.
- Democracy is not a melting pot of cultures.
- It is a constant struggle to articulate the needs of society.
- It is impossible to translate all of the interest of the people into a universal framework.
- The only true universal is difference.
- Feudal System – The leader embodies the will of the people.
- Democracy – The will of the people is temporarily represented in short periods of consensus which is forever subject to change.
Turkey, Iran and Germany are not Superpowers, their policies revolve around America’s foreign policy.
Khomeini was brought in by the CIA to overthrow the Shah and create a larger divide between Sunni and Shia.
What Iran did in Syria and Iraq is clearly aligned with American foreign policy.
What Turkey is doing in Syria must also be aligned with American foreign policy.
Israel is not backing the rebels.
Americans are backing the rebels, and America will secure Israel’s interest.
America will not allow Israel to expand further.
Islam is a system of justice.
Unity is the only way forward.
We need a government that is willing to concede temporary gains for a long term victory.
Non-Muslim tankies are deluded. The world is not that binary.
There isn’t some pro-American camp and some Anti-Imperialist camp.
There are countless examples in history, where things were more fluid and pragmatic in terms of how civilizations emerged.
Political Left that wants to see the world through an analytical lens that does not see the reality. A materialistic, minority focussed view.
Don’t assume anything about yourself, people and the world. Listen to the world. It will tell you the truth.
They tell us something, and do something else.
What is their policy vs what do they want us to think is their policy?
Radical left is just as extreme and the radical rights. The radical left runs all the institutions.
The Oligarchs
For decades, Americans have been reluctant to label the billionaires bankrolling electoral campaigns as oligarchs. The term, it seemed, was better suited to Russia, conjuring up images of shadowy figures using corruption and criminality to build and protect commercial empires.
The 10000 institutions are the oligarchs that collectively set the agenda. The educational, corporate institutions.
It’s a matter of basic justice to control these 10000 institutions.
Democratic forces is to control the terms of our public life. To control the shape of our shared public life, is to control the institutions.
They say “Governmental control should be minimized at all costs.” That doesn’t help the cause of liberty. It hurts the cause of liberty.
Berkley gives people their membership card amongst the ruling class. They give us the glasses through which we can see around us.
Sanctity of individual rights, does not mean that we are immune from public control.
By intervening in these institutions, we can preserve individuals rights.
Universities and Businesses are very intertwined with government
The answer to tyranny is democracy, not smaller government.
Hubris, denial, and prejudice have a way of clouding judgment.
The elite are guilty, so they have to compensate by talking about morality. Their problem is when their children call them out.
The separation of public property (natural resources) from government property (no nationalization) from private property (no privatization) ensures no corruption in the public sector. The law must ensure the separation of representatives from canvassing for support from the public, but rather just presenting there principles and goals in an equal fashion, then no marketing nor election campaigns are required.
And the asset tax (zakaat) instead of the income tax (corporate friendly).
No one likes nuance these days, then you are labelled. Talking about politics and Syria, things are very murky, and grey areas.
When it comes to Islam, most things are black and white. Very different to politics.
Propelling their civilization. and putting themselves at the forefront.
Principle of proportionate use of power, Principle of distinction – Non-existent in Israeli Law.
Do we trust Turkey? Do we trust countries? No. We trust governments and leaders. All nation states are selfish, and don’t care about their neighbours.
Erdogan is good for the Islam in his own society.
Cooperation culture, not domination culture.
Syria
Agreed principles expecting from government in Damascus: A. No mixing terrorist groups namely ISIS and PKK. B. No threat to neighboring countries, C. No treating badly the minorities. 1. Territorial Integrity, 2. Political Unity, 3. Sovereignty.
Iran
Iran’s presence in Syria did not prevent a big genocide in Gaza.
UN’s Agenda 2030
UN’s Agenda 2030 is all about control. Leaders lacking empathy reduce humanity to a mere dataset which can be monitored.
The outcome is a rich getting richer, poor getting a bit more, middle class getting colder, poorer and more enslaved.
Human beings are commodities which can be monetized.
There is a false assumption that their is consensus on climate change.
The race is on to save the world, and also to line the pockets of the small group of experts driving this agenda.
This powerful technocracy might promote efficiency, cleaner seas, toilets in remove African villages, but as per their literature, the stuff that really excites them is not the expensive projects, it is the profitable stuff, the solar farms, the wind turbines, it is surveillance on the streets, it is the trans ideology.
Responsible technology.
Must freedom of religion be promoted ?
Legalized bribery is the basis of our political system.
Politically correct textbooks and ideas will not change the political system.
Distribution of wealth is not determined by effort or merit, but be power relations.
The rules of the economic game are set by those who control the world.
Focus on markets grows the gap. Focus on distribution, lessens the gap.
