The New Radical Right
I’ve said it many times, and I’ll say it again: The Right can be just as dangerous to Liberty as the Left. Much of the unconstitutional/Orwellian/socialist/authoritarian laws and policies emanating from Washington, D.C., were put in place by the Right.
The Gun Control Act of 1968, which is the granddaddy of all the nefarious gun control laws and policies under which the American people are now subjected, was supported by the largest so-called pro-Second Amendment organization in the U.S., the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRA even helped to draft that monstrosity. The Act of 1968 was preceded by the National Firearms Act of 1934, which the NRA also supported. Furthermore, the NRA supported most every federal gun control law on the books since 1968.
When it comes to the life issue, the National Right to Life, Focus on the Family and similar “pro-life” groups have consistently been the chief obstacle to the passage of Personhood bills and amendments across the country, which would legally define life as beginning at conception, including Dr. Ron Paul’s Sanctity of Life Act that he repeatedly tried to pass while he was in Congress.
When the supposed “pro-life” party in D.C. controlled the House, Senate and White House under G.W. Bush, it was the Bush White House and GOP leaders in the House and Senate that killed Dr. Paul’s bill. And you can bet your last dollar that a Sanctity of Life Act has ZERO chance of becoming law with Trump in the White House and the GOP in control of both houses of Congress today.
And when it comes to perpetual foreign wars (most on behalf of Israel) and a burgeoning police/surveillance state domestically, the Elephants and Donkeys are twins. Neither the Left nor the Right in D.C. ever saw a war they didn’t like or ever saw an expansion of government that tramples the Fourth Amendment that they didn’t support.
At this very moment, it is Donald Trump and his conservative supporters who are feverishly trampling the First Amendment protection of the Freedom of Speech in America—particularly the right to speak or write against Israel’s genocide in Gaza or any criticism of Israel itself or any support for the Palestinians.
But it is the Elon Musk/Peter Thiel technocratic vision of government, which dominates the Trump administration, that perhaps poses the greatest threat to Liberty and constitutional government that we have ever seen.
From Technocracy.News comes this report:
Patrick Wood gives the introduction:
How could anybody in the populist MAGA movement embrace the outright destruction of Constitutional government, in favor of an authoritarian monarchy: abolish elections, concentrate power, neutralize dissent, turn citizens into users and shareholders of a sovereign corporation (SovCorp) and establish a Scientific Dictatorship based on Technocracy? It’s too late to suggest smelling the coffee here: you will soon smell the stench of the burning dumpster that used to be America.
How is this any different from the loony left’s plan to burn everything down? Same outcome, different means.
Either way, Technocracy is guaranteed to rise out of the ashes.
Here is the treatise. Read it carefully. Emphases are in the original.
Curtis Yarvin, known until a few years ago only to a niche audience under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, is now considered one of the most subtle and dangerous intellectual influences on America’s new radical right. His theory of the Dark Enlightenment is nothing less than a full-scale assault on the foundational values of modern liberalism: representative democracy, the rule of law, civil rights, public opinion, and the separation of powers.
In his ideological universe, democracy is not the pinnacle of civilization but its degeneration. A convenient lie designed to obscure the realit
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