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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Who is this person? Their audio quality isn’t very good. Since I do audio myself, I’m sensitive to that sort of thing.

That’s a nice criticism but he falls in to the same trap that he’s criticizing Ben Shapiro for. I didn’t hear any sort of solution or call to action. It’s just “that guy is wrong”.

Ok, and then now what?

I think he is smart to be able to see “the formula” and recognize that it doesn’t work, but then what?


50 posted on 04/12/2021 6:37:16 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
The person is part of loose group of YouTubers who call themselves neo-reactionary. They have read the writings of a guy named Curtis Yarvin who went by the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug and generally agree with his diagnosis of the current situation. They, however, don't agree with his proposed solution.

They tend to be Catholic or Orthodox and believe that a return to God is the most necessary part of any real solution. They were also about to expand into real life interactions rather than just putting out YouTube videos and streaming until the pandemic arrived. They believe that large scale political solutions are no longer possible and they will focus on developing organizations of likeminded people in their local communities to create a bulwark against the increasing secularization and progressive bent of society.

Some of them would like to see a return to something like a monarchy. They believe that we are currently living under an unstated oligarchy, so a monarchy would at least be honest about the fact that democracy is dead or at least in its death throes.

The American attitude is never say die. There is always a solution no matter how difficult the situation. We are John McClane. The left is Hans Gruber. We will overcome. But this situation is not like Die Hard where there is one short-term threat that must be dealt with. This has been, and continues to be, a slow-burning, long term problem. The progressives have completed their long march through the institutions and now control even corporate board rooms. They don't just own Nakatomi Plaza. They also own city hall, and the police force as well.

Obama, and now Biden, are bussing illegals into major cities around the country. Every state has a San Francisco or Austin or Vegas or Boise. Some place where liberals can outnumber all of the conservatives in the rest of the state. So even making a stand in a Red State may shortly become an impossibility.

If history is any guide then we just may be at the end of the American Empire. We just may be at that point where the 'gimme dats' outweigh the productive members of society.

If I had to propose a solution it would be a fifty year program of marching through the institutions to reclaim them for conservative principles, but I don't know that there would be a sufficient number of people on board to even want to try that.

The hope is that instead we can create parallel institutions like on-line courses instead of woke colleges and alternates to YouTube and Facebook. Those may be ways to create "safer spaces" for conservatives, but they would in no way allow us to retake the country for conservative and Christian principles as the vast majority of citizens will continue to flock to the current institutions for their education and entertainment and will move further and further away from us in our beliefs.

As far as the audio goes, YouTube makes it difficult for rightwingers to monetize their channels so he probably doesn't have the money to get a better mic.

53 posted on 04/12/2021 7:46:53 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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