The Fairly Traded Coffee Party – Patheos (blog)

An over-caffeinated hysteria is the backdrop against which the Presidency of Donald Trump has begun.

At first, the hysteriaseemed the inevitable aftermath of a particularly nasty and at times vitriolicpolitical campaign. With two such dislikable and polarizing candidates, a winter of discontent was comingno matter who became the 45th President of the United States.

But the range and intensityof the outrageseems to be growing every morning, and in a manner asymmetric with past elections.

The asymmetry invites further reflection.

It seems to me that the range is boundless because Hillary Clintons loss wasnt just a political defeat. It was a radical contradiction of the progressives worldview convictions.

The postnationalist corporations a designation which includes celebrities, the media, multinational corporations, and various international agencies are predicated upon a globalism built on technology that seeks to remove all boundaries, particularly of a moral nature; on the other hand, President Trump has clearly defined boundaries to his vision for America, and upholds the historic position that as President, his prime responsibility should be to his country: America first.

President Trumps stances are problematic for politicians and institutions around the globe that have been thinning borders of all sorts for a generation. As the lead actor on the international stage, the multinationalists recognize that the United States lead will force the political class of other countries to change. A Brexit-like effect will require them to demonstrate a similar patriotism and priority of care for their own citizens, not just the good of the wealthy multinationals that live in every country.

Trickle down multinational economics and open tap immigration policies arent working for Middle America, or the first world for that matter.

Instead of a localized earthquake that shakes American politics like the Tea Party, the reaction to Trump is a global tsunami of the expressive individualism that forms the civil religion of the global elite. And because it is an establishment rebellion, it comes not from the mouths of the ordinary people of middle America, but those of the good and the great, or in the debauched equivalents of our day, the celebrities and the CEOs of multinational corporations.

It is symbolic that Starbuckshas capitalized on the feeling to advertise its internationalist and borderless bona fides, because it is serving up the antithesis of the Tea Party movement.

We might call it a neo-Marxist Fairly Traded Coffee Party.

The defeat of the technocratic, postnationalist establishment

It seems irrelevant to them that some of President Trumps policies sound a lot like those of Bernie Sanders, whose stances were wildly popular with many in the Democrat ranks. It is irrelevant because the Fairly Traded Coffee Party is not a popular revolt, it is an organized establishment pushback manipulating the causes of the various identity groups of its anti-establishment base to foment insurrection against their common enemy.

However much she was disliked, Hillary Clinton representedcontinuitywith the consensus that existed across political party lines. That movement didnt need a leader with policies. It simply needed a likable figurehead. It had that in Barack Obama, just as it has one now in Canada in the avatarthat is Justin Trudeau.

The consensus uponwhich these figureheads govern exist on amyriad of faith commitments ofthe technocratic elites. But taken as a whole, they relate to the hopefultranshumanist and posthumanist agenda tochange humanityfundamentally.

President Obama was a perfect leader for them. His hope and change were vague slogans. While the slogans resonated withthe needs of the rust belt andAmericas heartland, the same voters that Trump has just captured, it became clear that Obamaspolicies of hope and change were transnationalist policies more in tune with the agenda of the UN, Silicon Valley, the Ivy League, and the European technocratic elite than with jobs for middle America.

The change the coastal elites had in view, which President Obamadelivered on, was an intensification of the transformations of human nature that had been taking place in evolutionary biology and research institutes at least since C.S. Lewis identified them in 1943 inThe Abolition of Man. With respect to sexuality and the family, it had atranshumanistimpulse; with respect to the environment, it wasposthumanist.

To both the transhumanist and posthumanist movements, the deeply defined social relationships and implications of a Biblical norm for sex, marriage, family, church, school, business, community, and nation the very things that made America great were the obstaclesit was managing to eradicate at an extraordinary rate across the globe.

Trumps promise to restore, strengthen and defend the boundaries around these things by putting America firstis a strike at their abolition of man.

All the coffee in Starbucks wont wake his opponents from that living nightmare.

And the rage is served hot every morning, individualized to the customers antinomian taste.

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