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Dark Enlightenment Rising: The Billionaire Experiment to Kill Democracy

Thom's Daily Read 21March25

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Absolutely scary. When I read that trump, vance, and musk's idea was to make gov't more efficient, I didn't buy that. When I read that they wanted to cut gov't jobs so that millionaires would have a lower tax burden. I didn't buy that. Haven't we been told that millionaires don't pay taxes? So the Neo-Reactionary Movement or Dark Enlightenment makes sense.

One of those behind this movement is Peter Thiel, the person who started paypal. I just cancelled my membership to paypal. Hit them in their pocketbooks, like musk.

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Thom, you are correct and I believe you’ve touched the third rail of GOPMAGA-hole truth.

Their ideal city on a hill is a white, male Singapore-like model. Moving from here to there will require many years of dire trouble and very dangerous times in America. She’ll be dead as founding fathers wrote her.

Unclear whether Putin is driving a compliant Trumpler-fElon unit or if, in fact, the ultimate authoritarian tech bro council of powerful, monied elites are the outline being followed to the “perfect American libertarian police state.”

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LKY was no different than our Colonial Puritans.

I worked for the government when we went through"reinventing government." I agree that 90% of "managers" can be replaced by robots. But IMHO we have too many managers -- the employees who were hired competirtively and had institutional knowledge were more competent than mangement.

Reagan and now Trump was surrounded by people who elevated "leadership" to dictatorship.

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Or both.

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