Notes On Progressive Technocracy
The Ishmaelite as usual was beguiled and seduced by the circus of representation, mindlessly retweeting the successes of an albeit impressive American-Egyptian candidate that delivered that feel-good fuzzy feeling that voting in the American mid-terms really is the way to liberate Al-Quds - or something close along those lines. Who can really divine their motives and emotions?
Abdul Sayed was an amusing circus, a sideshow to a much deeper transformation shift happening at the heart of the Empire. The Boomers are about to die off and now begins the contest of who can claim to be the heirs of the Imperial machinery. Padishah Trump promised, that is before the Iran campaign anyway, a generation of Trumpism - which meant effectively channelling the dysfunctional dynastic politics of a failed Old Islamicate state like an Egypt or a Pakistan that was meant to mire and condemn the Imperial Machinery to the scrapheap until nepotism, despotism, corruption and all other manner of debauchery consumed everything. Trumpism promised to curtail the power of the American Imperial machinery by subjugating the beast to the worst political instincts deployed by a legion of buffoons, compromised intelligence assets, sycophants and coup-proofing idiots who would only promote the most low-IQ loyalists to positions of influence under some vague ethnonationalist agenda.
This was my dream and my hope. This appears to have been derailed now. The newest batch of Democrats are incredibly sharp, they are technocrats at heart, their understanding of the moment ahead is acute and they have the credentials, connections and training to be effective stewards for Global American Empire. I'm particularly concerned about Ossoff and Talarico - especially the latter given his spectacular victory in Texas which should be the main headline. They have the understanding to navigate the moment between Bernie-ism and are natural heirs to Obama Centrism.
They will combine progressive social and economic policies domestically, and progressive in the American context means quite milquetoast European welfare initiatives coupled with complete unfailing support for the technocratic machinery that Millennial Democrats understand as being key to American Primacy. Lest we forget that Surveillance Valley historically speaking has always been far more comfortable with those on the "Left" of the American political spectrum and find that they have a natural ideological kinship with social and economic progressivism which in the American tradition once again to reemphasize is quite moderate and not at all radical.
Young, connected and intelligent stewards who will understand domestic aspirations, be aware of global conditions and out of that fashion a new enduring understanding of American Primacy is a nightmare/doomsday scenario for those wishing for the re-emergence of Islamicate Sovereignty. An Osoff-Talarico ticket with a highly prized cabinet job for Abdul-Sayed and Mamdani running domestic interference as everyone's favourite mayor of everyone's favourite progressive metropolis is a deadly combination. Under such a scenario the project of Obama-ism can be further extended and potentially even realized. Obama himself is still in frighteningly sharp command of his faculties and continues to function as a canny and shrewd operator. Obama never involved himself in the debacle that was Kamala's aborted bid and also distanced himself carefully from the chaos of the Biden-Clinton angst and rivalries because he knew that once this period of havoc passed he would have a generation of heirs and acolytes to marshal. That time now seems to be upon us.
And what of the Right? The problem with Padishah is that though he really was a once in a century phenomenon that was a gift and miracle, his very presence was incompatible with any real political project that would be able to outlive his own fortunes and indeed his own life. His entire project hinged on him and him alone - in that respect he is remarkably similar to any other garden variety Old Islamicate dictator like a Saddam or a Mubarak in terms of psychological aptitude when it comes to succession planning or having a vision larger than himself. Obama in contrast was always acutely aware of his own mortality and his own political circumstances and has carefully cultivated a new generation of ruthless operators who will be able to give the Progressive lines but at the same time be focused stewards for the Empire.
We can call this phenomenon many names - Obama-ism, Dark Woke, the Millennial Reich - I suspect the name that will stick is yet to reveal itself and will become only apparent when a ticket like Osoff-Talarico actually emerges. Until then describing this move in American politics as Progressive Technocracy is enough. America spiritually has always been in recent living memory a Progressive Technocracy. Padishah was a welcome aberration and as his star begins to fade we will return to the status-quo.
So what does the Ishmaelite now expect to contend with? A legion of millennial credentialed technocrats who have commanding meatspace accomplishments, CVs and charisma to boost, who understand how to operate in the media ecologies of megacorporate social platforms and will invariably share a close relationship with Surveillance Valley
One can only pray that Padishah recklessly accelerates in whatever little time he has left so the Progressive Technocrats inherit a sinking burning ship
And truly God knows best