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Jared Yates Sexton

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4 Jan

Once again. Conservatism, from the very start, was riddled through with patriarchal white supremacy, poisonous conspiracy theories, and an antidemocratic obsession with maintaining power and dominance for an elite few.

What we’re watching is in that tradition. The mask is off.

When conservatives win elections, they’ll pretend to be democratic and support institutions, all while working to increase their advantage and head off any potential future opposition.

When democracy thwarts them it turns to outright authoritarianism and dismantling the system.

These writers and pundits trying to save the GOP so that they can salvage the neoliberal economic consensus are desperate to believe aristocratic, patriarchal, paranoid white supremacy wasn’t always a main feature.

But it was. From the very, very beginning.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

4 Jan

Our media and politics are tuned to a certain status-quo frequency so that people can spend years watching an authoritarian threat build and boil over and then just continue arrogantly dismissing it.

It’s almost like it has to do with money and privilege and power.

You’ll notice that almost every single pundit and writer dismissing the threat of Right Wing extremism is calling for moderate proposals.

There’s a reason. They have no interest in troubling in their own positions and even less interest in risking their wealth.

These pundits are desperate to believe the GOP can be saved because they want to maintain the neoliberal economic consensus that has served them, and probably their families, well.

And so they’ll continue to peddle false hope and moderate policy. All of which got us here.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

2 Jan

We have to look at global and massive systems of power, analyze and demystify them.

But they are designed to make us feel powerless and incapable of changing anything. It takes people working at all levels, locally, personally, regionally, globally, to change things.

The construction of our modern systems of power were based on technocratic elites guiding everything while we stayed out of their way and exercised our "rights" by consuming and buying products.

We have to reassert our power and control if anything is going to change.

As a commentator and writer, I spend my time tracking these big giant systems, as well as how they protect themselves through violence and mythologies. I'm trying to demystify what they are.

Take action WITH that understanding. Knowing is only part of the struggle.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

31 Dec 21

A reminder that Elon Musk isn’t actually good at anything besides convincing people desperate to believe in technological and capitalistic messianism that he’s actually good at things.

Capitalism isn’t going to fix climate change. It’s going to deny it’s happening while profiting from it until there’s no denying it and then it’ll profit from the tragedy. None of these people are going to shove you onto a spaceship and ferry you away. It’s a con. A big fat con.

We’re trusting a bunch of people who set up payment options on the internet with a future that has nothing to do with them, all while letting them destroy the planet because they pretend they’ll save us. They won’t save you. They’ll save themselves. And that’s it.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

27 Dec 21

With the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, we have to face a hard truth: everyone lost the Cold War.

Decades of militarism drained resources, hindered resources, and led to this tragic state of suffering and rising authoritarianism.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/everyone-los…

This story that America “won the Cold War” is just that. A fiction. In battling the USSR we embraced reactionary forces, fascistic militarism, conspiracy theories that destroyed unions and reform movements.

We didn’t “win.” We only survived longer with a bleeding wound.

Because of the Cold War we let our healthcare and educational systems fall apart. Exploitation grew and grew. The GOP was able to dismantle government as a public good and sell our country off for spare parts. Now, we’re suffering the consequences.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

26 Dec 21

All the corporations and cable news channels and personalities know climate change is a real and pressing problem, just like they all got vaccinated and lied about it. The whole point is there’s an opportunity for profit and power by selling denial to an audience desperate for it

The denial of unquestionable problems and realities is worth billions in advertising and products and the only means of winning elections for an antidemocratic, authoritarian movement whose only pursuit is protecting white, patriarchal, oligarchic power.

What Fox and other operations like it do is sell a fantasy reality to its consumers that they don’t actually believe. It’s make believe performance for almost all of them except for the wild-eyed true believers, and the grifters are more than happy to work with them.

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