Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]

In any political movement or disruption, new words are created to describe phenomena that either didn't exist or weren't generally understood prior to the movement or disruption. One such word that has exploded onto the scene in recent years is "Uniparty." This new word describes the operational reality of a national political system where the two parties have merged into common cause, with the party differences existing in rhetoric but not in reality.

"Uniparty" is a useful concept, which is why it has gained traction. When men like Mitch McConnell work tirelessly to push through massive spending bills and promote wars on the eve of a reduction in effective power, delivering the left's agenda as a final "screw you" shouted to the people who elected him and his ilk, the concept becomes clear as crystal. But as we have seen over the past decade, the Uniparty is also active in all things and not just in government.

The media - all of it, from the news to entertainment to advertising to online - is aligned with the same goals as the Uniparty. We have Unimedia, too. The political punditry shredded their masks in the Trump era and most of the pundits are all the same. They were pretending before, but now they are all just manifestations of Unipundit. The universities have been in this condition for decades, but the level of subversion in run of the mill public schools has come to the fore in recent years. They're part of that same system, too. Everything from your local kindergarten to the globally-recognized technical university are in Unischool.

I have referred to this in the past as "The Complex" - as in, the State-Party-Media-Education-Medical-Corporate Complex. There are various other words you can dump into the string and it all still works. These aren't all the same organization, but they are all in the same web of organizations working toward the same goals and moving in the same direction. It is all-encompassing, especially with the force multiplier of an enthusiastic Big Tech participating in the scheme. All within the Complex, nothing against the Complex, nothing outside the Complex.

Another way to think of this is "Omniparty." The Uniparty controls politics, but the Omniparty controls everything. Virtually everyone in every institution is a Party man. Those in government are working for the Party itself, but those in industry or academia or whatnot are working within a Party framework to advance Party interests (and their own, of course. After all, what's the point of being a Party man if you can't lord it over the peasants with special privileges and nicer stuff?).

The Omniparty has one response to everything: more power and control by and for the Omniparty. The recent bank run that resulted in the failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a great example of this. Word got out about the capital risks at SVB and this triggered a run which hastened the failure of the bank. The lesson that the Omniparty took from this event was that if only people didn't know, they wouldn't have run the bank and everything would have been fine. The Omniparty's proposed response? Censorship. Only a system that is totally corrupted and has nearly limitless reach goes immediately to "if only nobody was allowed to know!" as its default response to problems.

Control, secrecy, deception, corruption and scale. These are the operational defaults of the Omniparty.

posted by Open Blogger at 11:29 AM

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