Getting rid of Mob Rule I can certainly agree with. The question, that I have been asking myself as well, is would it be enough?
We'd still be plagued with feminists, the federal reserve, the two(one)-party system, the military industrial complex, I could go on but honestly I'm a bit of a doomer today.
It'd probably require some sort of cataclysm or revolution. In Starship Troopers, the society that one sees in the book only came about after a civil war and the founders of the then government came to power. I don't think removal of the institutional actors that you mention (particularly the uniparty) would willingly accede to the removal of their power willingly.
I think we were already fucked in the 50's personally. Like way beyond fucked. Our money was fake, the uniparty was real, feminism was a surging tide, it's the same shit as today, it just hadn't rotted yet.
Right now we're taxing and using Fiat currency which is complete bullshit. So long as we're using Fiat it really doesn't matter whether we're taxed or not as we would still be going to pay the ultimate tax that is levied by the Federal Reserve's presses, inflation. As long as the Cathedral can just print money from nothing to further their goals, we're their slaves and playing their game.
No, because America was founded by the Dissenters, which were the Progressives of their time. They dissented against the Crown and the Church, just as our progressives enjoy rebelling against the State and all Churches.
I had the same reaction but overall it's pressed me to re-examine American history and Democracy in a new light and from multiple sources and perspectives.
What progressive ideas since our founding increased liberty? What progressive ideas decreased liberty? If I think progressivism has gone wrong, can I point to moments or thought leaders who took us that way? Is this new progressive wave actually "new" or just history playing itself for another loop?
I don't agree with the answers I've read from the alt-right for all of these questions, but damned if I don't agree with the asking of these questions and their historical perspective.
But where do we stop rolling back progressivism? Was the progressivism of the 1900's okay? The 1800's? The 1700's?
That's the thing, is that the story of the success of America is the story of the success of progressives.
Beginning of the 19th century when property rewuirements were removed for voting.
That doomed the republic into a kleptocracy death spiral.
Getting rid of Mob Rule I can certainly agree with. The question, that I have been asking myself as well, is would it be enough?
We'd still be plagued with feminists, the federal reserve, the two(one)-party system, the military industrial complex, I could go on but honestly I'm a bit of a doomer today.
It'd probably require some sort of cataclysm or revolution. In Starship Troopers, the society that one sees in the book only came about after a civil war and the founders of the then government came to power. I don't think removal of the institutional actors that you mention (particularly the uniparty) would willingly accede to the removal of their power willingly.
I think we were already fucked in the 50's personally. Like way beyond fucked. Our money was fake, the uniparty was real, feminism was a surging tide, it's the same shit as today, it just hadn't rotted yet.
Sadly, consider me not convinced at all. I'd rather you be right for what it's worth.
Removal of the IRS and income tax which funds the beast.
I agree, but I don't think that's enough.
Right now we're taxing and using Fiat currency which is complete bullshit. So long as we're using Fiat it really doesn't matter whether we're taxed or not as we would still be going to pay the ultimate tax that is levied by the Federal Reserve's presses, inflation. As long as the Cathedral can just print money from nothing to further their goals, we're their slaves and playing their game.
No, because America was founded by the Dissenters, which were the Progressives of their time. They dissented against the Crown and the Church, just as our progressives enjoy rebelling against the State and all Churches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Dissenters
This could be incorrect, but after reading Moldbug I am fairly convinced by his arguments and analysis of American history.
I had the same reaction but overall it's pressed me to re-examine American history and Democracy in a new light and from multiple sources and perspectives.
What progressive ideas since our founding increased liberty? What progressive ideas decreased liberty? If I think progressivism has gone wrong, can I point to moments or thought leaders who took us that way? Is this new progressive wave actually "new" or just history playing itself for another loop?
I don't agree with the answers I've read from the alt-right for all of these questions, but damned if I don't agree with the asking of these questions and their historical perspective.