The Church of Left or Right: Why It’s Time to Separate Party and State — the sister book to UNINCORPORĀTUS. Parties became religion. Three words. Past tense. It already happened.
The American electorate is not two teams. It never has been. The party system forces it into a binary because the binary is the machine that produces the power. But underneath the binary, the country is organized around something older and more fundamental than party identity: economic interest, civic frustration, Read more
RINO. Republican In Name Only. DINO. Democrat In Name Only. The accusation itself reveals the structure. You are not defined by what you believe, but by whether you conform. A Republican who supports labor protections is not a Republican with a different view — he is a false Republican. A Read more
Every church has a creed — a statement of faith that defines what the congregation believes, separates the orthodox from the heretic, and provides the standard against which all teaching is measured. Political parties have platforms. They are creeds. The Democratic Platform. The Republican Platform. Few congregants have read them. Read more
When you register Democrat or Republican, you think you’re ticking a box. You’re not. You’re being baptized. In colonial America, church membership was not merely a matter of faith. It determined whether you could participate in civic life. In Virginia, you paid taxes to support the Anglican church whether you Read more
Parties became religion. Three words. Past tense. It already happened. Not like religion. Not analogous to religion. Not similar in certain respects to religion. They became the same thing: the institution that occupies the corruptible center of government, demands loyalty, punishes dissent, divides citizens into orthodox and heretic, and concentrates Read more