Thread by @LatinxPutler

Simple statement of true leadership from Lee Kuan Yew: but simple truths need always to be repeated!

This may sound like "antidemocratic authoritarianism," and may be unwelcome now when we face the tyranny of a cruel and rapacious oligarchy. But it is its opposite--short thred:

An avowed dictator like Lee Kuan Yew or Putler takes responsibility, owns his position: he is forced to declare his plan and intention. The salus populi, or the well-being, prosperity of the people in both cases. They will be judged by concrete results. There is also transparency

In postdemocracies like America and west Europe, no one knows who is responsible. It's supposed that a vague "system" rules, or fashionable opinion. Nobody knows who: increasingly absurd puppets (Bush, Oboma, Hillary, Rubio, Pelosi etc.) are paraded as a form humiliating theater

The pretense of democracy and the rhetoric of egalitarianism furthermore makes it impossible to hold government to account for concrete results. "Democracy" comes to mean not the well-being of the people but a vague endless process where retrograde forces are forever beaten back

Western postdemocracies no longer make any pretense of pursuing the well-being of the people or the majority: this is even called a slur-word now, "Majoritarian" (lol). "Democracy" comes to mean authoritarian control by an oligarchy that endlessly expands "rights" to new groups.

Sometimes the groups on behalf of which the majority is to be clobbered, scolded and redistributed are formerly unknown (Caitlyn Jennerians and other novel forms of Skoptsy will be invented). This shows the intention is the progressive degradation of the hegemony of the people

This redefinition of "democracy" is more authoritarian than what went on under Lee Kuan Yew. A dictator and his retainers may rule like a mafia, get rid of challengers, be corrupt, but they won't attempt to revolutionize all social life and dispossess or transform nations

In other words there's a limit to the abuses of dictatorship in the style of Lee Kuan Yew or Putin. There's no limit to how far Western postdemocracies will go: well known example, many openly wish to abolish their own peoples through mass demographic replacement

This is also why talk of "technocracy" is wrong; there's no technocracy, no rule by experts. It's also not "Capital." It's a revolutionary oligarchy that is frankly crazed. Dictators like Putin or Orban arose specifically in response to this crisis, to stop the madness

Both Putin and Lee Kuan Yew use democratic, populist language and this is good: they may even be embodiments of national will. But conservatives should stop fooling themselves about the measures now required...

When you face a passive aggressive but capricious, cruel, stupid oligarchy that obfuscates its power, that hides Maoist insanity under the scalped skin of constitutionalism, you do need a return to freedom yes, but above all you need a GARBAGEMAN! And a DISCIPLINER of journalists