The supposedly "realist" right will pretend to have these hard Schmidtian ideas of the true nature of power... That They're the ones who have seen through the illusions... They're the ones giving the Voldemort speeches "Only power and those too weak to seek it"
As a (secretly-reactionary) member of the parasitic 6-figure salary government/NGO class, I say dead-on.
Though it would hurt me and mine greatly for it to happen, the country would benefit immensely from the complete destruction of my class and its institutions.
It is rather peculiar that I fervently find myself hoping for it, despite the consequences, for I wish better for my children than this horrifying clown-world dystopia they have been brought into.
You are here which means you are likely fairly productive and competent. I am sure if your job were dissolved tomorrow you wouldn't have much trouble finding a new one, especially if it were clear you were on the side of the new order.
Our intelligence agencies are out of control. People in Congress and other high bureaucratic positions are controlled through blackmail and threats if they don't go along with the program.
I feel like we're living in the old days of the German Stasi or the Soviet Union.
There are other enemies: Left Wing Hollywood virtue signallers, Black Rock capital, Warren Buffet, most of the large family foundations, umpteen billionaire woketards, the invaders crossing our border.
Make them pay for the federal government. Raise their taxes. Bigly. Tax them hard enough to do a George Harrison and complain about taxes.
Other than inheritance/estate taxes, the progressive income tax has always been far less progressive than advertised. And even on estate taxes, the super rich could maintain their political power by putting their money in "charitable" foundations they continued to control.
Even in the days of 90% top tax brackets, the top bracket did not apply to capital gains. The 90% top bracket clobbered those who were *getting* rich, not those who were already were rich.
This is why we have this weird system of a Gilded Age wealth gap and an oppressive welfare state at the same time. We have a caste system in the making.
Cut a trillion from the federal budget. Double the taxes for Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Sean Penn, and Taylor Swift. Tax the "non profit" foundations which are "educating" the country. Get another half trillion/year via tariffs. Charge admission at the border. U.S. citizenship should be worth at least $200K.
A balanced budget would cut the profit margin of passive capital significantly. Deficit spending is a price support program for the already rich.
Everyone you listed, if we confiscated all their personal wealth and made them continue in workcamps til there dying day add up to maybe 4 months of federal spending. Taylor Swift's lifetime net worth is 1 billion dollars... what the federal government spends every hour and 20 minutes.
Blackrock is entirely set it and forget it retail investor's money... There's a lot of power and influence that comes out of manipulating that, its a pot of tens of trillions.... but its still just a few hundred billions worth of meaningful extractable power since its old people's money, not Larry Fink's , whereas the federal government's spending is 6.5 trillion dollars per year.
As for good billionaires, are there any? The billionaires of the Right supported the neocons and Laffer Curve lunacy. The Koch Brothers have real cred in using their wealth to try to limit federal spending -- but now Koch money is supporting Nikki Haley.
When the billionaires and biggest corporations feel the pinch from federal spending, the lobbying will change.
> Other than inheritance/estate taxes, the progressive income tax has always been far less progressive than advertised. And even on estate taxes, the super rich could maintain their political power by putting their money in "charitable" foundations they continued to control.
So you admit even the old progressives didn't succeed in actually taxing the well-connected rich, but I'm sure you'll figure out a way to do it.
The old progressives were a proxy for old wealth intended to prevent others from getting wealthy. In flat-out contradiction to Marxian theory of class struggle, the radicals and the rich are partners against the middle.
Marx was wrong in believing that the proletariat would rise up and replace the bourgeoisie, the class that actually embraced Marxism is the Procedural Managerial Class.
It is a known fact that the members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not read or debate the particulars of the Legislation they vote on.
They cannot read or debate the issues because the Laws and Bills approach 2000 pages each. And they do this every five minutes, 100 times per day.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign Ross Perot called attention to this by observing that "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy was the one specific reason that the people in America suffered".
Mr. Perot then suggested that the best and perhaps only way to make government officials accountable was to include the citizens in the decision making process - every hour, every day.
He went on to note that this can easily be done with computers and called the proposed mechanism
THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
With this computer program every interested citizen can indicate whether or not they agree or disagree with every line item of every law, policy and program on the books or that was being advanced. It can be used at every level of government and in every jurisdiction.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available. He referred to it as the Fourth Branch of government; The Citizens Branch / The Electronic Townhall.
If the government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people then what better way is there to perfect every section of the various laws and policies that do effect each and every one of us every single day?
It would not be difficult to expect at least 500 thousand qualified citizens to read four pages of law or proposed law and get their "Ratify" or "Annual" input every day the congress is in session. The results could be aggregated, made known and we would all be better off.
I think the only possible way "out" (in lieu of collapse of the dollar and fedgov) is to repeal the 16th Amendment. Watch how quickly the UniParty finds "bipartisanship" to claw back the lost revenue. If a convention of states were smart, they could cripple fedgov and then cream off a little for their own coffers. And if they were really smart and not greedy... (LOL!) they would let the people keep most of it and bask in the glory of a balanced state budget and a crumbling fedgov. (While they're at it, they should also repeal the 17th - that would help the cause a LOT, as well.)
Excellent article. Revolution is unlikely, so for now put all efforts into getting law passed that requires balanced budgets annually without exception, and watch how many of today's issues will improve and the all powerful Federal government has to focus its effort on internal fighting for limited funding.
This is why Trump was opposed at every step by Democrats and Republicans. The Swamp does not mean to be drained.
A French Revolution is hardly the answer. The same folks benefiting from the current grift would end up leading the tumbrels containing the enemies of the state to The Lady. Nothing would change except the Trotskites would be identified and killed off. Back to business.
It's really amazing how much the new "Schmidtian Right" resembles the old OWS "anarchists in favor of more government spending" left. In fact this "Schmidtian Right" happened to just show up out of nowhere right after the Democrats definitively threw OWS under the bus, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
The main issue I see with this approach, of course anarcho-libertarian true believers shouldn't give up merely out of practical considerations, is that the most valuable territories in the country are lost to the right arguably far more aggressively than the Federal government is.
Kill the Feds and Cali still rules over Tech, NY still contains the stock exchange and banks. I believe you've written before on how The Soviets could run a truly batshit insane system only to still pose a serious challenge in the space race. San Fran has gone to total hell, and history's most powerful bug-men largely remain there. Any right-wing movement with the ability to kill the Fed, has at least some chance of taking it over. Mass firing and replacing employees, with replacements hired with on the spot IQ tests and a 2/3rds reduction in size - then using the de-facto abolition of restraints on Federal control to smash Democratic strongholds seems far more plausible. You don't even need new IQ tests. Just use SAT to IQ conversion as your guide, and have someone leak/emergency eminent domain seize the college board database. Send emails with the job offers.
Crazy people on the train? It's a civil rights violation - trains are state property after all!, call in the new based feds; begin mass arrests.
Trump would be disqualifying of this approach had he tried any of it. He didn't, not really.
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But yeah the 'we should be more socialist plan' of the Banonite and post-liberal Cath types is insane.
Nor should there be. 75% of the agencies should be razed and the land salted. Sadly, the paper shufflers probably aren't employable in anything remotely useful.
The current governmental managerial setup actively selects for lefties. Cut it down to a third of it's current size allowing you to boost salaries, recruit without concern for educational qualifications except for standardized tests and you'll have a far more amenable workforce.
Presumably any destruction of the Federal government would entail either the total restructuring of the American system from a Federated Republic to something else, or else a breakup of the country onto states and confederations of states. Given that Kulak is a Libertarian I assume he supports the latter.
Libertardian like our friend Mileikowsky campaigned about libertardianism like our friend Kulak but not about closed border (Mileikowsky didn't close Argentina's): in fact, if you are agains the state, how can you be for state's enforcment of the border?
"In other words", the point IS that "Nothing in the article was about open borders.".
All power being based on the threat of escalatory violence in response to resistance has been known about at least since Sun Tzu...and probably since the first Neanderthal chieftain threatened an upstart young Neanderthal with his spear.
So what? What is Kulak proposing? A second J6? Because these open-border sheep-dipped "classical liberal" always talk about 2A, freedom and the like, but past the rhetoric aura there is only cheap talk about how wonderful is to be killed at Ruby Ridge. Sorry if I am not thrilled, call me when the ATF is sieging you and tell me how well is going for you.
Quite the opposite. I want violent men to end democracy and reimpose a new Ancien regime with no welfare state, no income tax, no popular will, and no voice for people who can't fight to defend their honor and liberty.
The french revolution reversed the natural order, and only a greater revolutionary terror will set it right.
Reactionary Anarcho-capitalism is the only ideology that addresses the root of the problem: Read Hoppe
That said, I am sorry for you, but as much as you hate the French Revolution as a son victim of Oedipal syndrome, you are its purest son: you are the master utopian, the Man free from every un-voluntary link, de Sade's dream.
But, as the Master utopian, your coordination strategy is the shittiest one, tHe MaRkEt i.e. your violent men are going to trade their will while commies build bureaucracies and fashies enter mannerbunds.
That's why, while Antifas looted raped and killed and conservatives prepared to activate the Sediction Act, you libertardians bitched about police brutality. That's why, while the scum of the world crosses the Border and the States organise their defense, you bitch about income tax.
You have some interesting takes, e.g. I too believe that, given the Right's manpower shortage, suppressing the bureaucracy is a good alternative, but if your argument is really "rEaD hOpPe" I am not surprised libertardianism has always be a dead end.
> But, as the Master utopian, your coordination strategy is the shittiest one, tHe MaRkEt i.e. your violent men are going to trade their will while commies build bureaucracies and fashies enter mannerbunds.
And you'll be complying with all government orders while telling yourself how clever you are for "resisting the feds' provocations".
As a (secretly-reactionary) member of the parasitic 6-figure salary government/NGO class, I say dead-on.
Though it would hurt me and mine greatly for it to happen, the country would benefit immensely from the complete destruction of my class and its institutions.
It is rather peculiar that I fervently find myself hoping for it, despite the consequences, for I wish better for my children than this horrifying clown-world dystopia they have been brought into.
I am glad to know I am not the only one out there.
You are here which means you are likely fairly productive and competent. I am sure if your job were dissolved tomorrow you wouldn't have much trouble finding a new one, especially if it were clear you were on the side of the new order.
Our intelligence agencies are out of control. People in Congress and other high bureaucratic positions are controlled through blackmail and threats if they don't go along with the program.
I feel like we're living in the old days of the German Stasi or the Soviet Union.
There are other enemies: Left Wing Hollywood virtue signallers, Black Rock capital, Warren Buffet, most of the large family foundations, umpteen billionaire woketards, the invaders crossing our border.
Make them pay for the federal government. Raise their taxes. Bigly. Tax them hard enough to do a George Harrison and complain about taxes.
Other than inheritance/estate taxes, the progressive income tax has always been far less progressive than advertised. And even on estate taxes, the super rich could maintain their political power by putting their money in "charitable" foundations they continued to control.
Even in the days of 90% top tax brackets, the top bracket did not apply to capital gains. The 90% top bracket clobbered those who were *getting* rich, not those who were already were rich.
This is why we have this weird system of a Gilded Age wealth gap and an oppressive welfare state at the same time. We have a caste system in the making.
Cut a trillion from the federal budget. Double the taxes for Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Sean Penn, and Taylor Swift. Tax the "non profit" foundations which are "educating" the country. Get another half trillion/year via tariffs. Charge admission at the border. U.S. citizenship should be worth at least $200K.
A balanced budget would cut the profit margin of passive capital significantly. Deficit spending is a price support program for the already rich.
Everyone you listed, if we confiscated all their personal wealth and made them continue in workcamps til there dying day add up to maybe 4 months of federal spending. Taylor Swift's lifetime net worth is 1 billion dollars... what the federal government spends every hour and 20 minutes.
Blackrock is entirely set it and forget it retail investor's money... There's a lot of power and influence that comes out of manipulating that, its a pot of tens of trillions.... but its still just a few hundred billions worth of meaningful extractable power since its old people's money, not Larry Fink's , whereas the federal government's spending is 6.5 trillion dollars per year.
Correction: make them pay for the remaining deficit, not the entire federal government.
Or maybe, make the pay for the current deficit and expect them to lobby for a trillion/year in cuts.
American billionaires hold around four and a half trillion dollars of wealth. https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/
So every single billionaire in America, good or bad, honest earner or government crony... combined. Is equal to 8 months of federal spending
See correction below.
As for good billionaires, are there any? The billionaires of the Right supported the neocons and Laffer Curve lunacy. The Koch Brothers have real cred in using their wealth to try to limit federal spending -- but now Koch money is supporting Nikki Haley.
When the billionaires and biggest corporations feel the pinch from federal spending, the lobbying will change.
> Other than inheritance/estate taxes, the progressive income tax has always been far less progressive than advertised. And even on estate taxes, the super rich could maintain their political power by putting their money in "charitable" foundations they continued to control.
So you admit even the old progressives didn't succeed in actually taxing the well-connected rich, but I'm sure you'll figure out a way to do it.
And many/most modern progressives are economic illiterates.
Yes, I can outthink Alexandra Ocasio Cortez.
The old progressives were a proxy for old wealth intended to prevent others from getting wealthy. In flat-out contradiction to Marxian theory of class struggle, the radicals and the rich are partners against the middle.
Marx was wrong in believing that the proletariat would rise up and replace the bourgeoisie, the class that actually embraced Marxism is the Procedural Managerial Class.
Many of the old progressives WERE the well-connected rich.
Debt / Usury finance is the problem. All else derives from this
Debt / Usury is what made the Age of Exploration, the Industrial Revolution, and modern society possible in the first place.
European genius achieved those things
Indeed, by creating an extremely sophisticated financial system.
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/genoa.html
Very sophisticated way of robbing the people blind
So now you're a woke anti-colonial activist?
Who believes all of these things?
Boooooooommmmmmm.
The Electronic Townhall
It is a known fact that the members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not read or debate the particulars of the Legislation they vote on.
They cannot read or debate the issues because the Laws and Bills approach 2000 pages each. And they do this every five minutes, 100 times per day.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign Ross Perot called attention to this by observing that "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy was the one specific reason that the people in America suffered".
Mr. Perot then suggested that the best and perhaps only way to make government officials accountable was to include the citizens in the decision making process - every hour, every day.
He went on to note that this can easily be done with computers and called the proposed mechanism
THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
With this computer program every interested citizen can indicate whether or not they agree or disagree with every line item of every law, policy and program on the books or that was being advanced. It can be used at every level of government and in every jurisdiction.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available. He referred to it as the Fourth Branch of government; The Citizens Branch / The Electronic Townhall.
If the government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people then what better way is there to perfect every section of the various laws and policies that do effect each and every one of us every single day?
It would not be difficult to expect at least 500 thousand qualified citizens to read four pages of law or proposed law and get their "Ratify" or "Annual" input every day the congress is in session. The results could be aggregated, made known and we would all be better off.
This is the only way forward.
The Electronic Townhall
The best, most acute, take on the US published so far in 2024.
I think the only possible way "out" (in lieu of collapse of the dollar and fedgov) is to repeal the 16th Amendment. Watch how quickly the UniParty finds "bipartisanship" to claw back the lost revenue. If a convention of states were smart, they could cripple fedgov and then cream off a little for their own coffers. And if they were really smart and not greedy... (LOL!) they would let the people keep most of it and bask in the glory of a balanced state budget and a crumbling fedgov. (While they're at it, they should also repeal the 17th - that would help the cause a LOT, as well.)
Why would a convention of the states not end up dominated by the same people who currently dominate congress?
They might. But, then again, maybe not. However, to continue doing more of the same stuff we have been doing will guarantee we get the same stuff.
> They might. But, then again, maybe not.
Wishful thinking is not a strategy.
Excellent article. Revolution is unlikely, so for now put all efforts into getting law passed that requires balanced budgets annually without exception, and watch how many of today's issues will improve and the all powerful Federal government has to focus its effort on internal fighting for limited funding.
This is why Trump was opposed at every step by Democrats and Republicans. The Swamp does not mean to be drained.
A French Revolution is hardly the answer. The same folks benefiting from the current grift would end up leading the tumbrels containing the enemies of the state to The Lady. Nothing would change except the Trotskites would be identified and killed off. Back to business.
It's really amazing how much the new "Schmidtian Right" resembles the old OWS "anarchists in favor of more government spending" left. In fact this "Schmidtian Right" happened to just show up out of nowhere right after the Democrats definitively threw OWS under the bus, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
The main issue I see with this approach, of course anarcho-libertarian true believers shouldn't give up merely out of practical considerations, is that the most valuable territories in the country are lost to the right arguably far more aggressively than the Federal government is.
Kill the Feds and Cali still rules over Tech, NY still contains the stock exchange and banks. I believe you've written before on how The Soviets could run a truly batshit insane system only to still pose a serious challenge in the space race. San Fran has gone to total hell, and history's most powerful bug-men largely remain there. Any right-wing movement with the ability to kill the Fed, has at least some chance of taking it over. Mass firing and replacing employees, with replacements hired with on the spot IQ tests and a 2/3rds reduction in size - then using the de-facto abolition of restraints on Federal control to smash Democratic strongholds seems far more plausible. You don't even need new IQ tests. Just use SAT to IQ conversion as your guide, and have someone leak/emergency eminent domain seize the college board database. Send emails with the job offers.
Crazy people on the train? It's a civil rights violation - trains are state property after all!, call in the new based feds; begin mass arrests.
Trump would be disqualifying of this approach had he tried any of it. He didn't, not really.
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But yeah the 'we should be more socialist plan' of the Banonite and post-liberal Cath types is insane.
> Any right-wing movement with the ability to kill the Fed, has at least some chance of taking it over.
Um, no. Leftism is the ideology of the managerial class (https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-china-convergence). There is no stable of "right wing managers" waiting in the wings ready to take over.
Nor should there be. 75% of the agencies should be razed and the land salted. Sadly, the paper shufflers probably aren't employable in anything remotely useful.
The current governmental managerial setup actively selects for lefties. Cut it down to a third of it's current size allowing you to boost salaries, recruit without concern for educational qualifications except for standardized tests and you'll have a far more amenable workforce.
Presumably any destruction of the Federal government would entail either the total restructuring of the American system from a Federated Republic to something else, or else a breakup of the country onto states and confederations of states. Given that Kulak is a Libertarian I assume he supports the latter.
Because they have - and serve - different constituencies.
Is this some kind of pathetic fedposting to give the feds another J6?
You sound demoralized.
https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/on-psy-ops-demoralization-and-dystopia
No, do not believe to an open-border sheep-dipped "classical liberal" is not demoralization, is smartness.
Nothing in the article was about open borders. Now care to explain why you brought it up.
You're starting to sound like a demoralization agent.
"Everybody i don't like is a demoralizing agent" you are a liberal, aren't you?
This article is a bad copy of BAP defense of Mileikowsky candidacy to the Argentinian presidency (https://mansworldmag.online/the-populist-moment-never-happened/). Informed people (e.g. you are not) know that Argentina was not a "populist country" because the first things the Kirchners did was legalise open borders (inter alia: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/argentina-the-must-know-facts).
Libertardian like our friend Mileikowsky campaigned about libertardianism like our friend Kulak but not about closed border (Mileikowsky didn't close Argentina's): in fact, if you are agains the state, how can you be for state's enforcment of the border?
"In other words", the point IS that "Nothing in the article was about open borders.".
> "Everybody i don't like is a demoralizing agent" you are a liberal, aren't you?
Says the person calling everyone a "fed".
If you don't want to be called a demoralization agent, I recommend you stop acting like one.
I see you forgot to take on the point: good, not a single libertardian survive the open border dabate (or the "Summer of love" one, btw).
All power being based on the threat of escalatory violence in response to resistance has been known about at least since Sun Tzu...and probably since the first Neanderthal chieftain threatened an upstart young Neanderthal with his spear.
So what? What is Kulak proposing? A second J6? Because these open-border sheep-dipped "classical liberal" always talk about 2A, freedom and the like, but past the rhetoric aura there is only cheap talk about how wonderful is to be killed at Ruby Ridge. Sorry if I am not thrilled, call me when the ATF is sieging you and tell me how well is going for you.
I'm not a classical liberal.
Quite the opposite. I want violent men to end democracy and reimpose a new Ancien regime with no welfare state, no income tax, no popular will, and no voice for people who can't fight to defend their honor and liberty.
The french revolution reversed the natural order, and only a greater revolutionary terror will set it right.
Reactionary Anarcho-capitalism is the only ideology that addresses the root of the problem: Read Hoppe
"rEaD hOpPe" lol srsly?
That said, I am sorry for you, but as much as you hate the French Revolution as a son victim of Oedipal syndrome, you are its purest son: you are the master utopian, the Man free from every un-voluntary link, de Sade's dream.
But, as the Master utopian, your coordination strategy is the shittiest one, tHe MaRkEt i.e. your violent men are going to trade their will while commies build bureaucracies and fashies enter mannerbunds.
That's why, while Antifas looted raped and killed and conservatives prepared to activate the Sediction Act, you libertardians bitched about police brutality. That's why, while the scum of the world crosses the Border and the States organise their defense, you bitch about income tax.
You have some interesting takes, e.g. I too believe that, given the Right's manpower shortage, suppressing the bureaucracy is a good alternative, but if your argument is really "rEaD hOpPe" I am not surprised libertardianism has always be a dead end.
Ah, GPT shitposter.
Did I harm your sentiments? Sorry, not sorry.
> But, as the Master utopian, your coordination strategy is the shittiest one, tHe MaRkEt i.e. your violent men are going to trade their will while commies build bureaucracies and fashies enter mannerbunds.
And you'll be complying with all government orders while telling yourself how clever you are for "resisting the feds' provocations".
You are the guy that haven't answered my question about open borders, aren't you? That explains why you are here bitching instead of riding to Waco.
In other words, you propose to just rolling over without so much as a fight.
Aww, a false dicothomy, how cute!
Very well, I'm all ears to hear your brilliant third option.
It's the "first" one, my libertardian friend.