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In the U.S., we had no national state church, and likewise no titled nobility, and yet we nonetheless have developed our own centers of institutional power. In many ways our estates still mirrored those of what came before.

Our first estate is that of our secular religion—electoralism. Our kayfabe panto institutional political parties exercising a great deal of power over the epistemology, the ethics, and—as has become increasingly apparent—the metaphysics of collective discourse and phronesis.