Resistance to MAGA seems futile considering how many billionaires, millionaires, disgruntled military and CIA alumni, religious fanatics, etc., it has on its side.
Below are some ad hoc schematics I like to do to track things
I see MAGA as a phase of history that the United States needs to go through. It is the manifestation of paranoia as old as the John Birch Society, the Minute Men far-right social groups, the racism of people such as Willis Carto, etc. It is the amalgamation of things a lot of ideas, that people won’t be content with getting over until tried. That is the simplest and least wordy way to describe it. Only when we are forced to stare at the results of our actions will we learn. That is it. It seems that all societies decay into some form of fascism at some point unfortunately, notably as the nation, like an organism, becomes insecure about any possibility of waning power and prestige.
So, this will all bleed together and flow like a linear story.
Michael Flynn has been waging a psychological war against the American people, and no one seems to…care.
Flynn admitted to commanding an army of digital soldiers in an insurgency.
To get the point, Michael Flynn was a friend of the late General John K. Singlaub.
Singlaub was a veteran of the WWII having served in Operation Jedburgh, but later spent time observing the Chinese Civil War, managing the Secret War in Laos during the Vietnam War, helped provide guidance to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, and was later implicated during the Iran Contra Scandal for having smuggled weapons – then banned by the Boland Amendment -, allegedly through a place called John Hull’s Ranch in Costa Rica to the Right Wing Contras in Nicaragua (some allege they were nothing more than death squads).
I think it is fascinating that every region that Singlaub was hot in was also interestingly a hot spot for drug activity (opium in Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia) and of course cocaine production in Latin America.
Singlaub not only knew Oliver North of the Iran Contra Affair but also knew Michael Hand, a CIA operative of the Vietnam Era who set up a shadow bank in Australia called the Nugan Hand Bank. Hand became a fugitive from the law after the bank collapsed and his business partner was found dead in the trunk of a car but was later discovered to be living in Idaho as a custom knife maker.
The bank is said to have been involved in drug trafficking since it had offices in places near DEA overseas offices, and this money laundering was likely used to fund CIA clandestine operations across the globe including continental Africa which was seeing conflicts such as Rhodesia, Namibia, etc. The Nugan Bank Scandal mimics other notable shadow banks such as the BCCI Bank and the Banco de Ambrosiano Scandal which had links to the Vatican. This era in CIA history was strongly influenced by William Colby and then later William Casey. Other notable CIA figures of this time, who were connected to Nugan Hand by varying degrees of separation where figures such as Theodore Shackey (The Blond Ghost), Richard Secord, Thomas Clines, Edwin P. Wilson, Frank Turpil, etc. Many of these men such as Shackey were CIA veterans from the days of Bay of Pigs invasion disaster and the assassination of President JFK, and Shackey through his cadre of underlings had links to many Cuban anti-communist radicals, where many of these men had ties to cocaine trafficking in South Florida, mercenary work (some as far as in Congo), assassinations, etc.
As you can read there is a lineage or direct links tracing from figures such as Michael Flynn all the way to deep state figures of the early CIA, yet, the irony is that Flynn and conservatives as weaved this lie that the Deep State is “liberal”, “Democrat”, etc., when the Deep State has always been more Right Wing (pro-elitism, pro- capitalism, etc., but nuanced with a Judeao-Christian, Zionists Millennialism. It’s ardent stance on anti-communism is often a passive-aggressive way for maintaining white supremacy, since most of the traditional wealth in the USA is still owned by white elites. This is why the CIA, when fighting anti-communists forces, often works alongside the extreme Far-Right and by doing so, they create “blowback”, i.e., domestic terrorists, hate groups, rogue veterans, etc.)
William Colby is noted as being one of the creators of Stay Behind Units (along with figures such as Frank Wisner, James Jesus Angleton, etc.) in Europe to fight the Soviets in case of invasion but these Stay Behind Units were often fascists or right-wing organizations including Neo Nazis and European Identitarians. William Casey, who later died from a brain tumor before he was possibly indicted for his ties to Iran Contra, was the creator of the Manhattan Institute, which is a conservative think tank. This think-tank, still in existence today, has hosted figures such as Right-Wing billionaire and Elon Musk associate, Peter Thiel, who has obtained lucrative tracking software contracts from the Trump Administration, but also has hosted figures such as Christoper Rufo.
Rufo has been seen on Fox News segments with Tucker Carlson (he himself a reject of the CIA) decrying concepts such as Critical Race Theory. Rufo was later selected by Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, to set on the board of Florida’s state-ran liberal arts college, The New College of Florida, because DeSantis wanted reform the school to mimic Michigan’s Hillsdale College.
Hillsdale College is the mother-brain behind America’s charter school movement, offering curriculum such as the 1776 Project which is a rebuttal curriculum to the 1619 Project (a study course detailing America’s history of slavery, Native American conquests, etc.). Hillsdale College is not only the alma mater to ex-Blackwater mercenary group CEO, Erik Prince, but also hosts many notable conservative and Federalist Society connected individual such as Justice Clarence Thomas, who was later revealed to have received money from shadow donor Harlan Crow. Crow is a man known for collecting fascist memorabilia.
The school also has ties through its president Larry Arnn, a Plato fanatic and self-ascribed “West Coast Straussian”, i.e., after neoconservative progenitor, Leo Strauss. Arnn links to another conservative organization called the Claremont Institute.
The Claremont Institute is noted for having started the Obama Birther Conspiracy movement (alleging Obama is not an American citizen), and this organization attempted the same with Kamala Harris. Claremont was run by a man named Michael Pack who was later appointed by Trump to be the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the entity that overseas Voice of America (an organization that Tucker Carlson’s father in the nineteen-eighties ran). While at USAGM, Pack gutted the origination and filled it with Trump loyalists, going so far as having been sued by some of his employees for workplace treatment.
Pack later platformed a man named Guo Wengui, a shadowy Chinese exiled “billionaire”, who is a close associate of Steve Bannon who is an ex-Goldman Sachs manager, ex CEO of Brietbart in which Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is a spin-off of, and a former US Navy officer. Bannon of course was Trump’s former campaign manager and is still a diehard supporter. Bannon is credited with having discovered the armies of angry online male gamers via a scam in which Bannon would pay Chinese sweatshop workers to mine in-game digital goods and then sell these goods for real-world money at high markups, often to underage people. Bannon did business with ex-Disney star, Brock Pierce and his accomplice Michael Collins Rector where Rector later fled the country for assaulting teenage boys. Bannon was introduced to Trump by David Bossie, the President of Citizens United, a conservative non-profit known for winning a federal court case that enables corporations to give funds directly to political candidates, thus erasing any real chance of campaign finance law reform in the United States.
Bannon, a real chaos agent, during the early Trump years, went on a European tour courting Far Right candidates such as France’s Marine Le Pen, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Hungary’s Victor Orban, and Germany’s Alterative for Germany (AFD) Party where the AFD has ties to the Kremlin. Bannon even went so far as to help buy an old Italian monastery to be a “gladiator school” for new generations of Right-Wing activists, though this acquisition was protested by many of the local townspeople.
It is also important to note that Bannon was on the board of Cambridge Analytica, now going by Emerdata or something similar, was the data collection firm who took customer data with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook’s help, to launch targeted political campaigns. Cambridge Analytics also involved Robert and Rebekah Mercer, with the Mercer’s having earned their billions from the Renaissance hedge fund. The Mercer’s were the funders of Brietbart News where Bannon was CEO at. Further, a Hong Kong Billionaire named Johnson Ko was the board and Ko owned a Chinese security group known as Frontier Services Group (FSG) which employed Erik Prince. As you can see this is a closed loop.
But back to Guo Wengui, the Bannon associate and Michael Pack selected mouthpiece, he went on VOA to protests the Chinese government, but he was so unhinged that weary producers cut his segments, which later garnered the wrath of Pack. Pack was later let go by President Biden, yet, Guo was later indicated for having scammed his loyal followers out millions of dollars (some value the fraud as high as a billion).
Guo who courted people such as former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was later discovered to have been recording people in his Manhattan penthouse, and when investigators went back to inquire further, the apartment mysteriously set ablaze from incendiary devices set up in the apartment. Guo was discovered to have fled China for a sexual assault allegation but also fraudulent real estate transactions with corrupt CCP officials. Having fled to the United States, Guo presented himself as a political refugee trying to topple the Communist Chinese but was likely a double-agent working for the Chinese (as a form of probation to ensure his funds weren’t frozen), but his anti-CCP groups were simply a way of spying on dissident anti-CCP voices amongst the Chinese expatriate community. Guo was later found guilty of fraud, similar to his friend Steve Bannon, who was also indicted for hosting private “Build the Wall” fundraisers in which he and others pocketed the money for personal use.
Before I end this tangent on China, it is also important to note that Erik Prince worked for a Chinese mercenary group called Frontier Services Group (FSG) who provided security services to the Chinese regarding their Belt and Road infrastructure project but also security details for their African mineral extraction programs. Prince, a real shadowy player, also met with a Russian banker via a UAE lobbyist, George Nader (later convicted of child sex crimes) while in the Seychelles, and Prince was outed as having broken UN Sanctions by providing military hardware to Libyan warlord General Haftar via Project Opus, where Haftar, a CIA asset, is one of many vying for control of the oil rich region (this meeting was arranged via Trump’s ambassador to Egypt).
Regardless, Michael Flynn in recent years has admitted to having a Digital Army which he admitted at a Young Americans for Freedom event. The Young Americans for Freedom event is a conservative youth organization now under the leadership of Scott Walker, former Governor of Wisconsin who made his fame by going after public employee unions in his state. YAF is notable for having purchased Reagan Ranch. Scott Walker was bankrolled by the secretive billionaire family, The Uihlein Family, and this family also donates to Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Kirk himself has said plenty of racist things throughout his career and seems to have strong ties to Arizona’s College Republicans, an organization which seems to have ties through individual members to the America First movement with figures such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and his Groypers (which I would assume through individual members have ties to groups such as Patriot Front).
The Uihlein Family are intermarried with the Bradley Family, and both have ties to the infamous John Birch Society, which is a right organization so unhinged they claimed that Republican President Eisenhower was a Communist, likely for his support for desegregation.
What Flynn was really saying is that he runs an army of trolls and bots who see politics as insurgent warfare.
Michael Flynn can be seen online with Singlaub at Phyllis Schlafly Eagles event celebrating his 100th birthday. Phyllis Schlafly Eagles is a conservative organization which according to their site are anti-feminists, anti-political correctness, and supports reduced immigration and fosters free market economics. It is important to note that Phyllis Schalfly was a female activists who opposed female rights. Think about that, you have career military and intelligence officers being celebrated at an organization that is vehemently opposed to modern female liberation. YouTube content creator named Intelexual Quickies has a great video titled, Are White Women Voting Against Their Interests? detailing Phyllis Schlafly. Separately as a side note, I find it interesting that the modern Trad Wife movement, which itself could be understood as a sub-set or proxy to Alt-Right politics, could be considered as being a psychological operation in and of itself, and it has roots in the anti-feminism of women such Schlafly. Yet, these ideas of old have been repackaged for a younger generation of Millennials and Zoomers, etc., who are being inspired to be nostalgic, notably as a reaction to the Social Justice theories they were taught in school, but also they are reacting to the lack of economic ease grew up in since 2008 (The Great Recession) until now. For example, many Zoomers were in elementary school during the tumultuous Recession and Social Activism years, largely defined by the Presidency of Barak Obama (and the ardent obstructionism of Republicans at this time to Obama), and despite the assumption that these younger people would be all become progressive, many in rebellious fashion are looking backwards rather than forwards to gain identity. The reactionary nature to be Far Right to me is a reality of an empire in decay and in which the citizens of said empire refuse or cannot accurately criticize the underlying presuppositions of what props up their realities, notably that of capitalism. For example, as home and other assets continue to rise as worker wages stall, and as the wealth of a few balloons to new heights, many people still put their faith and vicarious aspirations into figures such as Elon Musk. A man who is sinister due to the fact that he not only understands that the game is rigged and able to be exploited by the billionaires and tech elites, but he is so cynically aware that he understands people will simply believe whatever he says as long as he says the rights things, even if he doesn’t believe those things or if he is in fact behind the conspiracies he claims others are.
Yet, back to Michael Flynn and his “Digital Army” (which is very real).
Michael Flynn’s brother, Charles Flynn was involved in the January 6th insurrection scandal. Colonel Earl Matthews alleged the Charles Flynn and Lt. General Walter Piatt misled investigators in that the Flynn and Piatt seemed to delay requests for National Guard support. Lieutenant General Piatt, previously a candidate to run the US Army Futures Command (the command that deals in modernization efforts of the US Army) is likely very salty that he was denied his fourth star by President Biden. Piatt is now the CEO of the powerful Wounded Warrior Project organization, which has loyal followers amongst the veteran and POW/MIA community. So not only does Michael Flynn run a digital army of trolls, but a likely associate of Michael via this brother Charles Flynn, runs the WWP. The political left often loses the “war of aesthetics” regarding the military and veterans, largely due to the pacifistic notions such as cutting military spending, thus giving them a massive disadvantage in political discourse. Criticizing the military is often misconstrued with attack veterans, and conservatives us this as a means of controlling the narrative around the military, intelligence communities, etc. Sadly, the Left falls for this hook and sinker because the Left has no tangible realpolitik on military matters besides emphasizing peace – which is something that arguably doesn’t exist in nature- but, also emphasizes a self-reflective and self-critical gaze, which can be easily misconstrued as not being patriotic.
It is also interesting to note that on the day of January 6th, that Alex Jones was on Capitol Hill with lawyer Kenneth Cheseboro, one the ringleaders of the Fake Elector Plot. Cheseboro later plead guilty to election fraud in the state of Georgia. Interestingly, Captain Emily Rainey, another psychological warfare officer from Fort Bragg, NC, head of US Army Special Operations Command the JKF School for Psychological Warfare, was incriminated for organizing parts of the January 6th insurrection.
Alex Jones of course is friend to Joe Rogan, who as a podcaster platform a litany of personalities involved in steering the general public more right-wing such as Jordan Peterson (who pushed notions such as “Postmodern Marxism”, which is simply a reinvention of the older Pat Buchanan “Cultural Marxism”, and the even older Nazi term of “Cultural Bolshevism”), Sam Harris (who flirted with studies about Racial IQ and acting through his atheist persona would go onto to push Islamophobia), Stefan Molyneux (a man listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate list who too pushed racial IQ hierarchy studies), Gavin McInnes (founder of the Proud Boys), Graham Hitchcock (knowns for his alternative archeology beliefs notable in conspiracy theory, New Age, and Ancient Alien-like subcultures), etc.
Rogan, who I like to call a “Neoplatonist”, a former actor tied to the Disney corporation, is the cross-roads between the Alt-Right, UFC bloodsport, comedy, and conspiracy theory culture such as UFOlogy, the New Age movement (which included the Human Potential Movement, a movement famously lampooned in the film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, which was inspired by true event such as Project Stargate), Timothy Leary-like “psycho-naut”, i.e., psychedelic drug using subcultures as best typified by the Burning Man festival, MAPS, and The Esalen Institute, etc.
Rogan not only is able to platform and spread “red-pilled” ideas to the masses, but his ability to bleed into the comedy sphere grants him even more authority. Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon, Tom Segura, etc., are all part of the “Rogan-verse”.
Rogan, whose politics could be best understood as classically liberal yet syncretic, i.e., splicing elements of libertarianism and some aspects of socialism (if you catch him on day he’s not fuming about the political Left). I have compared his views to that of science fiction author and US Naval officer, Robert Heinlein, author of Starship Troopers and Strangers in a Strange Land. Starship Troopers details a society ruled by a military government where voting is based on military service, yet, for those who wish not to serve, they live a libertarian and voluntarist existence. Strangers in a Strange Land is noted for having inspired both early hippies in areas such as Laurel Canyon and also libertarians, where libertarians through the Cold War became more so synonymous with Right Wing politics and think-tanks, e.g., the CATO Institute, the Atlas Society (a global libertarian foundation). Republicans such as Reagan, Nixon, etc., all called themselves libertarians at certain points, and both were influenced by thinkers such as Milton Friedman, where Friedman led the Chicago School of Economics, a school dedicated to neoliberalism, i.e., unfettered free markets. Friedman trained a cadre of Chilean economists under the fascist regime of Augusto Pinochet, where Pinochet was known for his kidnapping, torture, and disappearances of his opposition.
Tulsi Gabbard, a politician hailed by the Joe Rogan community because she seems to mix both hippy and militarist elements, such as those I spoke about above, is now Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence. Tulsi herself is the epitome of this nexus between New Age culture and militarism as I alluded to relating to Heinlein. Her youth was largely controlled by the Hare Krishna sect, The Science of Identity Foundation, which is a group known for their anti-homosexual beliefs and also their anti-Muslim stances. She like Michael Flynn is involved in psychological warfare with her meritorious service with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne).
Alex Jones has been hailed by Russian media for his anti-Hillary Clinton stance, and he has links to little known YouTube influencers such as Jay Dyer, author of Esoteric Hollywood. Dyer, a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, has interviewed thinkers such as Aleksandr Dugin, who is Vladmir Putin’s ideological architect. Dugin wished to bring back Russian power to its heights in the Soviet Union but instead of Communism he shifted to fascism with an Imperialist Czarist aesthetic. Dugin believed that stirring up as much civil unrest in the USA by fostering racial conflict, ideological conflict, etc., so the USA will implode from within and European forces would leave NATO.
Russian operations have been effective at convincing many in the West that the Ukraine War is explicitly a “money laundering scheme” and that it is the United States’ fault that Russia invaded despite the fact that Russia has had a dictator for over twenty years and was already meddling in Ukrainian politics. For example, the United States borders Mexico in which some security studies organizations deem it a failed narco-state, but the US has not invaded Mexico. Even if NATO was on the door of Russia, Russia had already invaded Georgia and has shown themselves as having a foreign policy which seems to advance themselves at any chance at the expense of the United States.
Dyer often pushes anti-Western conspiracy theories, often disregarding any criticism of Russia, where is Orthodoxy is symbolic of. His conspiracies theories often involve concepts such as “predictive programming in film”, Federal Reserve conspiracy theories, and how science and materialist philosophies have erased God, spiritualism, etc., and therefore enabled an Occultic and Satanic takeover of modern societies. I don’t think Dyer however is a Russian asset, but I think by proxy he leads people down a path towards anti-Western thinking that can be usurped and twisted against the West for the benefit of foreign intelligence agencies.
His remedy is embracing Eastern Orthodoxy, yet the issue is that his feeds into the Kremlin backed information campaigns which seeks to make Russia look the Savior of “Christendom” and the West. Pro-Russia conspiracies have expertly infiltrated the Western and American conservative movements. Fox News hosts such as Tucker Carlson hailed Putin for his stance on LGBTQ issues and his anti-feminist perspectives for example. Yet, a big reason Western conservatives are supporting Russia is because of white anxiety in the both the United States regarding demographic changes, but also in Europe due to Middle Eastern Refugees. The irony about the Middle Eastern refugees is that Russia played a role in helping exacerbate the destabilization of the Middle East such as how Russia stepped in on behalf of President Bashir Assad. Russia used mercenaries in the region and also conducted aerial bombing missions. However, Russia helps send refugees into Central and North Europe often with the help of Russian underling Belarus.
Tucker Carlson currently seems to be undergoing a mental and/or spiritual crisis with his belief he was attacked by demons. Seriously. He said it.
Dyer even connects back to the comedy space, via online troll figures such as Sam Hyde, but Dyer also connects to Alt-Right figures such as Lauren Southern, where Southern also interviewed Russia’s Dugin, but she was also platformed on Rupert Murdoch owned Sky New, where Murdoch of course owns Fox News. Fox News of course has produced Trump cabinet position picks such as Pete Hegseth, Sean Duffy, and Sebastian Gorka, etc. Gorka of course was a liaison to Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, and Hungary and in many ways has been seen by the Western and American Alt-Right as a bastion of hope because of its anti-migrant stance and perceived social conservatism. Hegseth in true “crusader” fashion with Deus Vult and Jerusalem Cross tattoos (slogans and symbols appropriated by the fascists) has been accused of sexual assault.
[Ending Commentary by Author]
First off, I want to say I love my country, the United States of America, and I do not hate Republicans. I hate that they hate their opposition and how they are pretending that they haven’t always. I may not have been Rambo, but I raised my hand and gave a few years of my life to serve the country.
But I am tired, absolutely tired of the Right Wing thinking they own this country. I see their games about how they try to corner, encircle and engulf the very powerful aesthetics and mythology of the military for themselves, and they try to use this to take the high horse position to undermine progressive ideas as not being American enough or not American at all. Though I have many issues with the political left, such as their idealist stance on pacifism and their lack of a realpolitik when dealing with legitimate threats to the United States, I do embrace the inclusiveness of progressive politics and its empowerment of the working classes.
The truth is the Left Wing lost the psychological warfare fight.
The Left does not seem to have full-time armies of trolls online, nor the funding to afford complex bot technology, etc. The Right Wing expertly conducted a shadow war on the American public such as pushing erroneous and dangerous conspiracy theories such as Qanon. Even though the mainstream media seems to be on the Left because they have to be inclusive as a means of selling advertisements to the diverse masses for their revenues, the truth is mainstream media, as capitalist organizations, are not necessarily in alignment with what Leftists actually want, e.g., Medicare for All, universal education, criminal justice reforms, restrained military spending, etc.
Yet, the opposition in Republicans argues or insinuates that this corporate left-leaning liberalism is proof that the media (including social media) is actually controlled by Leftist.
There is a difference between liberal and leftist. Liberals are actually both Democrats and Republicans since they both trace roots to Enlightenment classical liberalism, which fosters private property, inalienable rights, separation of religion from state, pluralism, etc., whereas leftism, is more on the spectrum of Socialism, i.e., a collective view to property to some, or at least a redistribution of wealth within a liberal system for egalitarian means. For example, in the United Kingdom you have a Liberal Party similar to the American Democratic Party, yet they have the Labour Party, which is similar to the Democratic Socialist of America with figures such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. You can be a Left Wing liberal, a Social Democrat, a Democratic Socialist, a Communists (typically but not exclusively adhering to Marxist ideology. For instance, you have socio-anarchist who reject the state), etc. which are all different things.
Yet, the American public with a short attention span, and easily misled by fantastical and escapist conspiracies such UFOs and “animal-human hybrids” rather than focusing on factual conspiracies, have seemed to have already forgotten the real and apparent attacks on democracy that Republicans and their operatives conducted in this MAGA era.
Getting students at Evergreen State University or Oberlin College to develop a comprehensive defense policy relating to manpower, readiness, intelligence, psychological warfare, and nuclear weapons seems a bit of stretch, but with Trump having won for a second time, the Left needs to do some deep thinking about how it lost and why it will continue to lose. A big reason I believe the Left will continue to lose, is that the left has an ideological issue with the military, despite Leftist regimes throughout history having actual militaries.
The military by the Left is always framed as tool for colonialism for the behest of capitalism and spoken about with an explicitly self-critical tone. And even though it is apparent that this colonialist-capitalist animus is fact a reality of the current military, the Left, despite talking, does not have a plan for an alternative system. Peace is a concept often enforced by violence or fear thereof. They don’t have a concept of what I call Patriotic Progressivism. Even being proud to be an American is often left out of discussions. For example, I have said before that a start in this process is to frame the American Revolution – which is often usurped by conservatives – as being a worker revolution against a charter corporation rather than merely a revolution against taxes. 1776 was a war in which human trafficking victims (African slaves), non-unionized contractors (settlers), and Indigenous peoples rose up against a chartered corporation owed by foreign investors of a global empire.
But what is the end game here of Republicans?
It sounds like a mouth-full of intellectual jargon, but the clear agenda of the conservative movement seems apparent to me.
They seek to establish an anti-democratic Republic ruled by wealthy elites, technocrats, and industrialists, as a type of dreams-of-grandeur vision of ancient Plato’s Greece as understood in his treatise “The Republic”. This sort of “Neo-Greco-Roman”, i.e., fasci, i.e., fascist vision, is layered with Christian Evangelicalism, and they see the United States as a continuation of this Greco-Roman tradition as understood through the thinking of figures such as Leo Strauss, Edmund Burke, Ayn Rand, etc.
These Rand-Straussians as I call them wish for a nativist and isolationist world to protect the culture they have designed in their own image, yet see no issue in exploiting, colonizing, and extracting resources from abroad, indifferent to the destabilizing global impacts these may have, such as migration of the impoverished to their borders. Thus, their ideology is ultimately a Darwinist, zero-sum game of eternal struggle of power versus the powerless.
Underneath the veil of modern capitalism, marketing, commerce, and corporations there is an underlying animus akin to medieval and feudalist thinking. A reality of generational lords and knights (business owners, landlords, the officer classes, etc.) ruling over the renting serfs (the general public). Religiously committed to capitalism, they must ensure capitalism’s continual existence.
As technology reaches its logical conclusions, they are left with only investing in over-charging the people on assets such as housing, using forced obsolescence, and turning the entirety of life into a subscription-based model, etc. Many neighborhoods are now owned by corporations. Even automobiles may require people to pay to unleash special features in the cars they already paid for.
The same way how Kings and Popes of old used fear of “witchcraft” and the Occult to violently suppress progress and dissent, modern conservatives use conspiracy theories to engender irrational fear. Irrational fear of “Communism” as a means of ensuring that they can privatize government, cut their own taxes, and deregulate industries. Fear of racial, gender, and sexual orientation equality because they may pose a threat to the existing Western order that traditionally favored European American, straight, males, and maintaining this white heteronormative order, i.e., a type of caste system, the existing capitalist and colonial inspired order which is the foundation of the USA lives on.
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