TOWARD NEO-POPULIST REVOLUTION

TOWARD A NEO-POPULIST FEDERALIST REVOLUTION

It's inadvertently good politically that Trump is turning control of the re-opening of the economy over to the states. It throws some light on the capacity of the states to take control of their own destiny and work with other states to re-empower local regions, communities and economies.

It serves the Neo-populist Federalist task of deconstructing the bureaucratic-technocratic managerial elite in Washington and in the two parties-- the New Class of managerial liberals. It's task is thereby to destroy Centralist elitist control of our democratic culture. Such de-constructive, de-centralization is the task of the revolution of the localities, regions and states, that is, the vision of the revolution of "neo-populist federalism." This revolution is based on the principle of subsidiarity, in short, meaning "what can be done at home, should be done at home." By logical extension, what an individual can do for him- or herself should be done by the same, not by the State, the 'Feds,' the specialists, experts and professionals. The re-constitution of individuality is the third task of this vision of revolution.

Neo-populism is conservative and progressive but not "left-wing" or "right-wing" in terms of the conventional usage of these relatively meaningless terms, meaningless in the sense of their uselessness in understanding and mediating progressive change.
Neo-populist Federalism is a genuine re-democratization of communities; it is thereby also the subjective re-empowerment of political ingenuity down to the level of the individual.
So, in summary, this new revolution involves three simultaneous projects: First, the de-constructive de-centralization of the Bureaucratic-Technocratic Managerial New Class elite in Washington and thereby in the two party-system. Secondly, the re-constitution of democratic control by re-appropriating state, regional and local community autonomy and self-responsibility. Thirdly it means reconstituting being a democratic citizen grounded in the primacy of local culture and community. All three of these projects are a function of the principle of subsidiarity. Democracy, autonomy, moral responsibility grows from the ground up, from local multi-cultural democratic communities.

This revolution flies in the face of mass mediated, big money dominated pseudo-democracy. It flies in the face of a two party system controlling candidate selection and platform determination. Such a system is a cancerous tumor lodged in Washington, seeded throughout the country through the blood and lymph of Republicanism and Democratism, enervating the voice, the will and the democratic confidence of the people.

Populism in its authenticity is neither left-wing socialist/communist revolutionism nor right-wing alt-right reaction. A true Populism is an organic vision of faith in the people. It aims to move beyond the wish and hope for a benign Big Brother. It gives up the hope for some Big-Other-technocratic messiah to do the work of the people from above, from outside their own local sovereignties. It seeks to transcend and thereby to enervate and destroy the hegemony of the New Class Puppet-masters pulling the strings of finance, profit, mass media ideology/ propaganda and tax parasitism, militarism and the bio-political invasion of bodily sovereignty and choice.
Neo-populist Federalism aims to de-colonize communities, the practice of democracy, the education of the people and the subjective power of individuals to create values worth living for, and a culture beyond commercialism, the mass aesthetics of Hollywood/TV/Internet, capitalist possessive individualism and a de-spiritualized relation to nature.

This revolutionary program is obviously a work in progress. But as Nietzsche insisted, we need to step outside the "city" to see how bad it is and what needs to be done. This project, vision and program intends such a comprehensive critical perspective on politics, revolution, democracy and the people.