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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: The Catastrophists
Date: 11/04/23 9:05 PM
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A coalition of intellectual catastrophists on the American right is trying to convince people of just that ' giving the next generation of Republican officeholders, senior advisers, judges and appointees explicit permission and encouragement to believe that the country is on the verge of collapse. Some catastrophists take it a step further and suggest that officials might contemplate overthrowing liberal democracy in favor of revolutionary regime change or even imposing a right-wing dictatorship on the country.

nytimes.com - Conservative intellectuals republicans

In this conversation, Mr. Anton and Mr. Yarvin swapped ideas about how this theocratic oligarchy might be overthrown. It culminated in Mr. Yarvin sketching a scenario in which a would-be dictator he alternatively describes as 'Caesar' and 'Trump' defies the laws and norms of democratic transition and uses a 'Trump app' to direct throngs of his supporters on the streets of the nation's capital to do his bidding, insulating the would-be dictator from harm and the consequences of his democracy-defying acts.

Among the most extreme catastrophists writing in this vein is Stephen Wolfe, whose book 'The Case for Christian Nationalism' calls for a 'just revolution' against America's 'gynocracy' (rule by women) that emasculates men, persuading them to affirm 'feminine virtues, such as empathy, fairness and equality.' In its place, Mr. Wolfe proposes the installation of a 'Christian prince,' or a form of 'theocratic Caesarism.'

Oh, the horrors--rule by women!

empathy, fairness and equality And this is bad?

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