| > The People have not given consent to set aside the Constitutional order. Inaction is largely indistinguishable from consent. > autogolpe No. We are experience Russian backed regime change in the same way we have instituted regime change in other countries, amplified by tried and true propaganda techniques used to propel other authoritarian regimes to power. > CEO-dictator This is a deliberate new age propaganda technique using conceptual metaphors (see George Lakoff). "The CEO metaphor re-frames political rule as a business operation, which makes executive overreach appear logical rather than dangerous." By getting someone to accept the metaphor of CEO, it manifests consent for executive overreach without having directly assessed how accurate "president as CEO" is as a metaphor. > In no universe are Trump, Vance, Musk, Thiel, Yarvin on the right side of history. Complete darwinism/social darwinism is a cogent and consistent moral system. It doesn't produce a world anyone should want to live in, but it is a consistent ideology. Social darwinism was the philosophical core of nazi ideology. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/09/24/hitlers-world/ |