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JOEL KOTKIN: Elon Musk and Woke Capital are Locked In a Battle for the Future of America: This election has exposed sharp divisions between the US’s new feudal elites.

In 16th century Japan, the Daimyo feudal lords, like their Medieval European counterparts, battled to secure control of the realm. Today, in the current US presidential race, a similar conflict has emerged, over an increasingly feudalised landscape. The discord among the American elites is far more pronounced now than in 2016 or 2020. This time, …

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JOEL KOTKIN: This is the end of the Democratic Party as we knew it. Joe Biden’s withdrawal will open the floodgates to unrestrained California-style progressivism.

The end of Joe Biden’s presidency also signals the demise of the old Democratic Party, with its roots in liberal ideals and advocacy for ‘the common man’. Although Biden, to his own detriment, chose to adopt the progressive views now dominant in the media and political apparat, he remained, at least superficially, a man of the old …

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JOEL KOTKIN: California’s progressive regime is weakened — but not defeated.

“One might think that Californians would want regime change. After all, the state suffers from a $73 billion deficit, an unemployment rate among the nation’s highest, the highest percentage of residents living in poverty, a failed education system, and mounting business flight. That’s not to mention its massive net outmigration, with a net total of …

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JOEL KOTKIN: The new age of agitprop: The mainstream media have abandoned the pursuit of objectivity and truth.

via spiked-online: “Are we living in a new age of agitprop? It is not unusual for journalism, culture and the arts to reflect the political bias of societies and individual writers. But in the past few decades, the business of providing information and insight has sharply deteriorated. Particularly at the elite level, the media now …

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