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zsomething wrote:I went to one of those "academies" in the South that was governed pretty much like Rick Scott's "plan." You know how conservatives are always fretting over "indoctrination" in schools? They practice it harder than anyone else. My school jammed right-wing white-supremacist Christian (specifically Southern Baptist) bullshit down our throats every fucking day. What we didn't get taught were things like algebra, or science, or actual history. Damn little literature, too.
Luckily I recognized it as something to rebel against. Plus, I was a reader, and I had smarter parents than most of my classmates, and they home-schooled me after hours in a lot of stuff that my high school missed. When I got to college, and had to be in classes with kids who'd gone to the local public school, I quickly found out how bad my conservative high school had been. Fortunately I was able to catch up. Most of my old classmates didn't, and almost none of 'em made it through college. And my class, for all that "Jesus" shit we had forced on us so aggressively, was full of drunks, drug addicts, criminals, etc., just disaster after disaster. Crazy divorce rate. And their kids are even worse; I hardly know a conservative who doesn't have a kid who's in jail, in drug rehab, or dead from their failed parenting and, often, abuse. And usually they've got substance problems, relationship problems, and bad legal records of their own.
And yet they still think they're people everyone else should listen to. Like I should take advice from somebody who's fucked up their life a lot more than I have. No thanks, y'all can stow that shit.
Fuck ya, Rick Scott -- you've got nothing to offer to anyone. Keeping people ignorant and governing by theocracy is what the Taliban does. This, however, is America. If conservatives want to find out exactly what that means, they can just keep pushing... because the rest of us, especially after that shit on January 6th, are 'bout fuckin' tired of toleratin' ya.
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Yarvin advocates for an entirely new system of government – what he calls “neocameralism.” He advocates for a centrally managed economy led by a monarch – perhaps modeled after a corporate CEO – who wouldn’t need to adhere to plodding liberal-democratic procedures. Yarvin has written approvingly of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping for his pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism.
While not explicitly fascist, Yarvin’s worldview does, at times, appear to have a fascistic bent. As the historian Roger Griffin once argued, the essence of fascism was a nationwide process of death and rebirth. Yarvin’s rhetoric of “reboots” and “hard resets” evokes the imagery of national renewal.
Moreover, though he maintains that he is not a white nationalist, he has echoed racist views like the belief that white people, on average, have higher IQs than Black people.
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Though neoreaction has long eschewed involvement in electoral politics, it seems to be be gradually penetrating mainstream right-wing spaces.
Yarvin is said to have helped popularize the “red pill” meme in alt-right subcultures. Pulled from the 1999 film “The Matrix,” to take the red pill is to no longer live under the spell of delusion. In the context of politics, it means breaking free from the spell of liberal orthodoxy.
In September 2021, Yarvin made an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Today,” during which he explained the concept of the cathedral. When Yarvin called himself a monarchist, Carlson didn’t bat an eye.
Then, in May 2022, Vanity Fair reported on the relationship among Yarvin, GOP megadonor and venture capitalist Peter Thiel and U.S. Senate candidates J.D. Vance and Blake Masters.
Thiel, who is often described as a libertarian, holds views that can appear to be contradictory or mysterious. Reporter Max Chafkin, who wrote a biography of Thiel, told Politico in September 2021 that the investor has an authoritarian streak – “a longing” for a “more powerful chief executive.”
Thiel, like Yarvin, has expressed frustration with American democracy. As far back as 2004, Thiel lamented that “America’s constitutional machinery” prevents “any single ambitious person from reconstructing the old Republic.”
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