What percentage of crypto enthusiasts understand their views are well-aligned with those of the John Birch Society, the World Anti-Communist League, the Moonies, and the Council for National Policy?
What percentage of crypto enthusiasts understand that the Council for National Policy planned and executed the January 6th insurrection?
What percentage of crypto enthusiasts are sympathetic to the goals of the January 6th insurrectionists?
What percentage of crypto enthusiasts think the US federal government is illegitimate and should be overthrown and/or “drowned in a bathtub” (per Grover Norquist)?
Do crypto enthusiasts generally understand that cryptocurrency is designed to undermine government power and thereby subtract power from democratic governance?
Do crypto enthusiasts commit a logical fallacy when they conflate “participants on a blockchain” with the “demos” (the ruling body in a democratic state)?
Should people who support innovation and ‘web3’ technology take care to distance themselves from hardcore libertarians and anti-government ideologues?
What percentage of crypto enthusiasts consider themselves “progressives,” or “liberals,” in the center-left or far left?
Is being “progressive” or “liberal” generally ideologically consistent with support for unregulated cryptocurrencies?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Please share this thread with the crypto enthusiasts in your life, especially family!
I’d also recommend that crypto enthusiasts and their family members read the essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” by Richard Hofstadter, if they have not done so.
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