That is all very interesting, but I want to know why the Democratic Party leadership has done absolutely nothing to counter attack. It looks like the worthless bastards are all Trump supporters.
In the era of the Trump cult, Republicans get elected on grievances — immigrants are eating our pets & getting free handouts, etc.
Democrats generally get elected because they have plans rather than grievances, although it also helps in Blue districts to run against. Trump’s record of ‘achievements’.
At this point, though, with the barbarians INSIDE the gates, we don’t need politicians so much as we need rabble-rousers to, erm, rouse the ‘rabble’ (I guess that’s us).
So the problem is that all our intelligent, well-spoken and experienced Dems in office are by their natures disinclined to shout above the tumult, “MAN THE BARRICADES!”. It would be very timely to have some brave, articulate soul emerge and whip up the anti-Trump majority with some suitably stirring words. Another qualification would be a willingness to make a heroic sacrifice if circumstances required it.
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Anyone volunteering? I don’t see any hands raised.
You’re absolutely right to ask that question. The Democratic Party, as it currently exists, seems utterly incapable of mounting a real counterattack against this rising billionaire-backed techno-authoritarianism. And it’s not because they secretly support Trump—it’s because they’ve been bought, blackmailed, and bullied into submission by the very same oligarchs who are trying to dismantle democracy.
Let’s be real: We let billionaires amass an obscene amount of wealth and unchecked power, and now they own everything—the media, the politicians, the think tanks, the courts, and even the “opposition.” Even the most well-intentioned Democratic leaders can’t get anything done because they’re up against a corrupt system where money dictates policy.
Remember when Obama bailed out Wall Street after the 2008 crash instead of locking up bankers? Or how Biden can barely get a corporate tax increase past his own party? That’s not because they “support Trump”—it’s because the system is rigged in favor of billionaires, and both parties have spent decades enabling it.
The difference is that Republicans embrace the corruption, while Democrats just politely manage it.
If the Democratic leadership actually wanted to stop this, they’d be:
• Breaking up tech monopolies, taxing billionaires at Eisenhower-era levels, and putting real restrictions on corporate lobbying.
• Cracking down on dark money, enforcing antitrust laws, and treating Silicon Valley libertarian billionaires like the existential threat they are.
• Actually fighting for the working class instead of throwing them an occasional tax credit and calling it a revolution.
But that would require real courage, and let’s face it: Most of them are too compromised, too comfortable, or too scared to take on the oligarchs.
So, what happens when your so-called “left-wing” party is too weak, corrupt, or cowardly to stop the billionaires from dismantling democracy? You get the slow, polite collapse of everything we were supposed to stand for. And by the time the Democrats realize what’s happened, it’ll be too late.
So yeah, the Democratic leadership isn’t “all Trump supporters.” But they might as well be if they refuse to fight back.
Also read the reporting on this subject by Gil Duran, Jim Stewartson and Dave Troy. This has been their “beat” so to speak and offer in depth coverage. Also articles in Vanity Fair, Vox and Yarvin’s own interview with NYT. There was also a leaked memo by whistleblower neo- reactionaries that tells an about Musk’s plan specifically.
"Curtis Yarvin argues that democracy is obsolete because it is inherently inefficient, corrupt, and incapable of achieving long-term stability or competent governance."
As the Cato Institute pocket Constitution edition notes in its introduction; "Grounded in reason, self evident truths invoke the long tradition of natural law, which holds that there is a "higher law" of right and wrong from which to derive human law and against which to criticize that law at any time. It is not political will, then, but moral reasoning, accessible to all, that is the foundation of our political system."
It seems to me that the core problem revealing itself in this crisis is that moral reasoning has been punched in the solar plexus, (if not the kidneys), by political will.
Welcome to the New America™—Brought to You by a Tech Billionaire Near You!
So picture this: Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Russell Vought, Elon Musk, and the Heritage Foundation all get together and actually pull it off. They turn America into their own personal Silicon Valley fever dream, where democracy is a bug, not a feature, and the Constitution is rewritten in blockchain code.
Government: We’re a Corporation Now!
First order of business: Cancel democracy.
That’s right, kids—Curtis Yarvin’s dream of a CEO-president-monarch-dictator hybrid finally comes true, because let’s face it, voting is so inefficient when you can just install a leader like a Tesla firmware update.
And what about the bureaucrats? You know, those annoying government workers who keep things running—gone! The Heritage Foundation is gonna “drain the swamp,” which, fun fact, is code for replacing people who know how to do their jobs with unqualified interns from PragerU.
But don’t worry! They’ll be replaced by a government run like a startup—meaning every federal agency will either be:
1. Disbanded, or
2. Sold to Peter Thiel for $1 and a promise to “optimize efficiency.”
Need a passport? Download the PalantirGov app, upload your DNA, and hope the AI overlord approves you.
The Economy: All Hail the Algorithm!
The economy? Oh, that’s getting turbo-charged, baby.
Marc Andreessen’s techno-libertarian fantasy world means we’re gonna move fast and break everything—except this time, instead of social media sites, we’re talking about the entire financial system.
Banks? Outdated. The dollar? Who needs it? We’re moving to ElonCoin™, and the Federal Reserve is now a Twitter poll.
Unemployment? That’s just an attitude problem—because AI will take your job, but don’t worry, you can always learn to code!
And let’s not forget, every major industry—energy, manufacturing, transportation—will be run by billionaire geniuses who got bored of launching rockets and decided to “fix” America. What could possibly go wrong?
Media & Culture: Say Goodbye to Free Thought!
Now, we all know wokeism is the real threat to America, not, like, economic collapse or actual governance. So Thiel and Musk are making sure that your opinions are Elon-approved.
• Twitter (sorry, “X”) will be the only legal news source.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion? Burn it all down.
• Journalism? Ha! Just ask the Neuralink chip in your head what to think.
And if you say something they don’t like? Congratulations! You’ve just been algorithmically shadow-banned from society. Good luck buying groceries now, Mr. Thought Criminal.
Foreign Policy: America, But Make It a Franchise
Trump and his new billionaire brain trust decide that NATO is just a really expensive group chat, so we’re out. The whole world now looks at the U.S. like that drunk uncle who used to be cool but now just rants about “globalists” at Thanksgiving.
• Putin? We’re besties now.
• China? As long as they let us sell Teslas, we’ll ignore the whole “totalitarian surveillance state” thing.
• Europe? Good luck with all those wars, losers!
And don’t worry—since America is now run like a tech startup, we’re privatizing war! Yep, Thiel-backed AI-powered drones and Musk-funded space lasers will handle all that pesky “defense” stuff.
The New American Society: Now With 70% More Dystopia!
Welcome to the new American dream! You now live in a corporate feudal state where:
• The president is a living meme,
• Your boss is a billionaire who believes in eugenics,
• Your job? Competing for food deliveries in a Hunger Games-style gig economy death match.
And don’t even think about protesting, because the cops are now automated robo-dogs armed with flamethrowers and funded by SpaceX.
Wanna move to another country? Ha! Good luck—passports are NFT-based now.
Final Verdict: The Great Techno-Oligarch Circus
If these guys actually pull this off, America is no longer a democracy—it’s a corporate-run, AI-policed, sci-fi fever dream where the only law is whatever Thiel, Musk, and their libertarian think tank buddies decide that morning.
Oh, and if you’re not in the billionaire class? Tough luck, peasant!
You work until you die in an “optimized” zero-privacy hellscape—but hey, at least the tweets are funny, right?
Final Thought:
So there you have it! The freedom-loving, democracy-dismantling, billionaire-sponsored revolution that’s going to turn America into a techno-feudal hellhole run by socially awkward Bond villains—but hey, at least the rockets will be cool.
To a Brit living in Thailand, it seems just as terrifying. It’s like you have a leaky bathroom pipe but instead of calling a plumber you entrust the job to a convicted arsonist who has no knowledge of plumbing but burns the house down and you’re happy because at least the pipe doesn’t leak.
Once again scary AF layers that add up to this unraveling democracy at dizzying speed. While our country is flawed and certainly has blood stains on its hands, we at least were slowly progressing (before trump sowed seeds of hate and division), made some + shifts for diversity, equality and inclusion. This screwball guy Yarvin is yet another playbook today that explains what is happening!.Good on you Yarvin secret guest of Trumps inaugural lizard ball. Thank you for this Michael ! His Wikipedia profile confirms all you shared also scary AF. I wrote to my senator (D) today again to ask WTF? Non action=complicity. CLEARLY THE OLD WAYS are in hospice. Most Americans are naive, busy in their lives, yet unaffected, or uneducated to grasp the severity of what lies before us. Sidebar what’s up with Bush, Clinton and Obama ? We need them!!!!!
Very interesting. I’ve read some articles which refer to Thiel’s anti-democracy stance, but thank you, this article, and The Plot Against America, puts it’s all into perspective.
I knew Trump was incapable of doing this on his own, but I had no idea how much money, and thought by some Silicon Valley “Space Cadets”; with delusions of grandeur, could accomplish with the right imbecile in place, as Dear Leader!
And if they’ve already moved all of our most critical information to private servers, it’s game over. Social media “likes” can do a psychological profile more accurately than the best forensic psychiatrists. And with all our information at their disposal, they could blackmail and manipulate people in power to do their bidding.
This is getting scary, so my next question is how do we fight back?
That is all very interesting, but I want to know why the Democratic Party leadership has done absolutely nothing to counter attack. It looks like the worthless bastards are all Trump supporters.
Copy that. Carvikkee and some others are saying play dead and let Trump implode. I don’t agree with that. What dem could do a good job v Trump?
In the era of the Trump cult, Republicans get elected on grievances — immigrants are eating our pets & getting free handouts, etc.
Democrats generally get elected because they have plans rather than grievances, although it also helps in Blue districts to run against. Trump’s record of ‘achievements’.
At this point, though, with the barbarians INSIDE the gates, we don’t need politicians so much as we need rabble-rousers to, erm, rouse the ‘rabble’ (I guess that’s us).
So the problem is that all our intelligent, well-spoken and experienced Dems in office are by their natures disinclined to shout above the tumult, “MAN THE BARRICADES!”. It would be very timely to have some brave, articulate soul emerge and whip up the anti-Trump majority with some suitably stirring words. Another qualification would be a willingness to make a heroic sacrifice if circumstances required it.
‘
Anyone volunteering? I don’t see any hands raised.
Anyone, anyone???.
Response:
You’re absolutely right to ask that question. The Democratic Party, as it currently exists, seems utterly incapable of mounting a real counterattack against this rising billionaire-backed techno-authoritarianism. And it’s not because they secretly support Trump—it’s because they’ve been bought, blackmailed, and bullied into submission by the very same oligarchs who are trying to dismantle democracy.
Let’s be real: We let billionaires amass an obscene amount of wealth and unchecked power, and now they own everything—the media, the politicians, the think tanks, the courts, and even the “opposition.” Even the most well-intentioned Democratic leaders can’t get anything done because they’re up against a corrupt system where money dictates policy.
Remember when Obama bailed out Wall Street after the 2008 crash instead of locking up bankers? Or how Biden can barely get a corporate tax increase past his own party? That’s not because they “support Trump”—it’s because the system is rigged in favor of billionaires, and both parties have spent decades enabling it.
The difference is that Republicans embrace the corruption, while Democrats just politely manage it.
If the Democratic leadership actually wanted to stop this, they’d be:
• Breaking up tech monopolies, taxing billionaires at Eisenhower-era levels, and putting real restrictions on corporate lobbying.
• Cracking down on dark money, enforcing antitrust laws, and treating Silicon Valley libertarian billionaires like the existential threat they are.
• Actually fighting for the working class instead of throwing them an occasional tax credit and calling it a revolution.
But that would require real courage, and let’s face it: Most of them are too compromised, too comfortable, or too scared to take on the oligarchs.
So, what happens when your so-called “left-wing” party is too weak, corrupt, or cowardly to stop the billionaires from dismantling democracy? You get the slow, polite collapse of everything we were supposed to stand for. And by the time the Democrats realize what’s happened, it’ll be too late.
So yeah, the Democratic leadership isn’t “all Trump supporters.” But they might as well be if they refuse to fight back.
Also read the reporting on this subject by Gil Duran, Jim Stewartson and Dave Troy. This has been their “beat” so to speak and offer in depth coverage. Also articles in Vanity Fair, Vox and Yarvin’s own interview with NYT. There was also a leaked memo by whistleblower neo- reactionaries that tells an about Musk’s plan specifically.
"Curtis Yarvin argues that democracy is obsolete because it is inherently inefficient, corrupt, and incapable of achieving long-term stability or competent governance."
As the Cato Institute pocket Constitution edition notes in its introduction; "Grounded in reason, self evident truths invoke the long tradition of natural law, which holds that there is a "higher law" of right and wrong from which to derive human law and against which to criticize that law at any time. It is not political will, then, but moral reasoning, accessible to all, that is the foundation of our political system."
It seems to me that the core problem revealing itself in this crisis is that moral reasoning has been punched in the solar plexus, (if not the kidneys), by political will.
Welcome to the New America™—Brought to You by a Tech Billionaire Near You!
So picture this: Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Russell Vought, Elon Musk, and the Heritage Foundation all get together and actually pull it off. They turn America into their own personal Silicon Valley fever dream, where democracy is a bug, not a feature, and the Constitution is rewritten in blockchain code.
Government: We’re a Corporation Now!
First order of business: Cancel democracy.
That’s right, kids—Curtis Yarvin’s dream of a CEO-president-monarch-dictator hybrid finally comes true, because let’s face it, voting is so inefficient when you can just install a leader like a Tesla firmware update.
And what about the bureaucrats? You know, those annoying government workers who keep things running—gone! The Heritage Foundation is gonna “drain the swamp,” which, fun fact, is code for replacing people who know how to do their jobs with unqualified interns from PragerU.
But don’t worry! They’ll be replaced by a government run like a startup—meaning every federal agency will either be:
1. Disbanded, or
2. Sold to Peter Thiel for $1 and a promise to “optimize efficiency.”
Need a passport? Download the PalantirGov app, upload your DNA, and hope the AI overlord approves you.
The Economy: All Hail the Algorithm!
The economy? Oh, that’s getting turbo-charged, baby.
Marc Andreessen’s techno-libertarian fantasy world means we’re gonna move fast and break everything—except this time, instead of social media sites, we’re talking about the entire financial system.
Banks? Outdated. The dollar? Who needs it? We’re moving to ElonCoin™, and the Federal Reserve is now a Twitter poll.
Unemployment? That’s just an attitude problem—because AI will take your job, but don’t worry, you can always learn to code!
And let’s not forget, every major industry—energy, manufacturing, transportation—will be run by billionaire geniuses who got bored of launching rockets and decided to “fix” America. What could possibly go wrong?
Media & Culture: Say Goodbye to Free Thought!
Now, we all know wokeism is the real threat to America, not, like, economic collapse or actual governance. So Thiel and Musk are making sure that your opinions are Elon-approved.
• Twitter (sorry, “X”) will be the only legal news source.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion? Burn it all down.
• Journalism? Ha! Just ask the Neuralink chip in your head what to think.
And if you say something they don’t like? Congratulations! You’ve just been algorithmically shadow-banned from society. Good luck buying groceries now, Mr. Thought Criminal.
Foreign Policy: America, But Make It a Franchise
Trump and his new billionaire brain trust decide that NATO is just a really expensive group chat, so we’re out. The whole world now looks at the U.S. like that drunk uncle who used to be cool but now just rants about “globalists” at Thanksgiving.
• Putin? We’re besties now.
• China? As long as they let us sell Teslas, we’ll ignore the whole “totalitarian surveillance state” thing.
• Europe? Good luck with all those wars, losers!
And don’t worry—since America is now run like a tech startup, we’re privatizing war! Yep, Thiel-backed AI-powered drones and Musk-funded space lasers will handle all that pesky “defense” stuff.
The New American Society: Now With 70% More Dystopia!
Welcome to the new American dream! You now live in a corporate feudal state where:
• The president is a living meme,
• Your boss is a billionaire who believes in eugenics,
• Your job? Competing for food deliveries in a Hunger Games-style gig economy death match.
And don’t even think about protesting, because the cops are now automated robo-dogs armed with flamethrowers and funded by SpaceX.
Wanna move to another country? Ha! Good luck—passports are NFT-based now.
Final Verdict: The Great Techno-Oligarch Circus
If these guys actually pull this off, America is no longer a democracy—it’s a corporate-run, AI-policed, sci-fi fever dream where the only law is whatever Thiel, Musk, and their libertarian think tank buddies decide that morning.
Oh, and if you’re not in the billionaire class? Tough luck, peasant!
You work until you die in an “optimized” zero-privacy hellscape—but hey, at least the tweets are funny, right?
Final Thought:
So there you have it! The freedom-loving, democracy-dismantling, billionaire-sponsored revolution that’s going to turn America into a techno-feudal hellhole run by socially awkward Bond villains—but hey, at least the rockets will be cool.
Now, who’s excited?!
Incredible!
Why is everybody freaking out ?
Why is it better that an unelected IRS employee will decide that after 23,654 the tax should be x, and after 56,654 it should be y ?
Have you been trapped before in the traps of the bureaucracy people ?
It's he'll.
698 forms, go here, bring that, fill this, do that, just to get what's yours anyway.
The unelected government employees should be abolished.
See the movie Brazil...
To a Brit living in Thailand, it seems just as terrifying. It’s like you have a leaky bathroom pipe but instead of calling a plumber you entrust the job to a convicted arsonist who has no knowledge of plumbing but burns the house down and you’re happy because at least the pipe doesn’t leak.
there doesn’t need to be personal connection between Musk and Yarvin…
Once again scary AF layers that add up to this unraveling democracy at dizzying speed. While our country is flawed and certainly has blood stains on its hands, we at least were slowly progressing (before trump sowed seeds of hate and division), made some + shifts for diversity, equality and inclusion. This screwball guy Yarvin is yet another playbook today that explains what is happening!.Good on you Yarvin secret guest of Trumps inaugural lizard ball. Thank you for this Michael ! His Wikipedia profile confirms all you shared also scary AF. I wrote to my senator (D) today again to ask WTF? Non action=complicity. CLEARLY THE OLD WAYS are in hospice. Most Americans are naive, busy in their lives, yet unaffected, or uneducated to grasp the severity of what lies before us. Sidebar what’s up with Bush, Clinton and Obama ? We need them!!!!!
Very interesting. I’ve read some articles which refer to Thiel’s anti-democracy stance, but thank you, this article, and The Plot Against America, puts it’s all into perspective.
I knew Trump was incapable of doing this on his own, but I had no idea how much money, and thought by some Silicon Valley “Space Cadets”; with delusions of grandeur, could accomplish with the right imbecile in place, as Dear Leader!
And if they’ve already moved all of our most critical information to private servers, it’s game over. Social media “likes” can do a psychological profile more accurately than the best forensic psychiatrists. And with all our information at their disposal, they could blackmail and manipulate people in power to do their bidding.
This is getting scary, so my next question is how do we fight back?
If you wish to see the future of this, look at Canada and be afraid.