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Originally Posted by roachboy
basically, conservativeland is a self-help manual for petit-bourgeois self-disempowerment. if it is taken seriously as a policy map, it does not open onto some imaginary "real capitalism"-----it opens onto a kind of feudalism in which the plutcracy does what it wants and the lesser beings run around bragging about how very john galt they are while they work as sharecroppers for the Lords and console themselves by hoarding weapons.
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this is so very true. and it is perverse.
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