Realpolitik in an Unreal World
Realpolitik in an unreal world
Written by SurrealPolitiks
I recently took some amusement at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 60 minutes interview, in which she called the Democrat Party pedophiles. Leslie Stahl feigned bewilderment, as if this was the most outrageous thing a person could say, and stated, without evidence, that Greene had no evidence of this. Greene responded, in essence, by saying that pushing […]
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In the practice of Realpolitik, it is typically considered ill advised to go out of one’s way to antagonize the greatest possible number of political participants with one’s speech. Today we break that rule with our episode title “Misesian Socialism”. The phrasing derives from the name of one Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist of […]
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There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence lately in the news, and I’ve been struggling to get caught up with how dramatically technology has changed in the last three years. One might expect the pace of change to only increase from here, and as much as I share the concerns of Elon […]
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There’s an old saying that two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead. Which means Washington is going to have a lot of very morbid work to do, if it wants to clean up its intelligence messes. Over a million people in the United States have “Top Secret” security clearances. While […]
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There’s some weeks when you don’t know what to say, and others when you don’t know where to start. Today begins the latter sort. Happy Monday… I chose the episode title “Way Down We Go” because I like a song by that name, from a band called Kaleo. I’m not going to play it, because […]
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What is political power? One way to think about it, is as the capacity to alter the behavior of others. In this sense, the formal acquisition of such power, as in the assignment to a position within the government, or political party, is merely the acknowledgement of a previously existing state of affairs. One obtains […]
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Welcome to this first episode of SurrealPolitiks. Per our episode title, and the branding throughout, the theme of this production is, “Realpolitik in an Unreal World”. It is the position of this show’s production team, that the politics of the United States have become bogged down in ideological nonsense. Nonsense ideologies, yes, to be sure, […]
