Thread by @ConceptualJames

We need to talk about the "elite theory" at the center of Woke thinking, particularly Woke Right thinking. Here's the bottom line: All you grassroots conservatives and MAGA who have fought like hell for this country are NOT ELITES and NEVER WILL BE to the Woke Right. They hate you. They want to rule over you. Just like the Woke Left. To the degree that they're nice, kind, or helpful to you, THEY ARE USING YOU to gain power for themselves, and YOU WILL BE DISCARDED.

The Woke Right is overwhelmingly invested in the idea of "Elite Theory," which they always try to present like it's some high-minded idea that's just a simple fact of political and social life, like it's the background we all just have to accept. Elite Theory, they'll insist, "just" means "society is always run by elites."

The "just" there is doing all the work in that description. It does not just mean that except in the strict and boring philosophical technical sense. Elite Theory does not stop with the banal observation that the people who are in positions of status and power are elites so the elites are the ones who run things. It goes on to suggest other things as a consequence.

For those of you who know the language, Elite Theory just meaning elites run things is the MOTTE position. The BAILEY position is that the elites should run things, and the Woke Right subscribes to this theory too, just like the Woke Left does, though differently and with fewer lies involved.

The idea that the elites (not the grassroots) should run things is sometimes called elitism. The Woke Right (and Woke Left) are elitist in this way, not merely "descriptivist" Elite Theorists. They believe elites have some right to rule that we plebs do not. They believe people want and/or need to be ruled, and they say so frequently.

Wokes subscribe to an even deeper, more self-serving elitism than just that, though, too. They believe that THEY THEMSELVES are the rightful elites (either in power or in infuriated exile) and that the real problem with society is that we have the WRONG ELITES in charge. That is, they go on to grant themselves not just right to rule (over YOU) but also right to depose the existing elite in some kind of coup or revolution. Their whole social theory is built around this.

The Woke Right bases a great deal of its thought on the "counter-revolutionary" (reactionary, proto-Fascist) thinker Joseph de Maistre. They do not try to hide this. de Maistre wasn't just elitist in this way; he literally believed that the sovereign executive (not you, the sovereign, self-governing individual in a free state) rules with the worldly authority of God and that he is therefore the representative of God on Earth. They do not hide their heavy reliance on de Maistre or this specific belief of his.

Woke Right propagandist "Auron MacIntyre" references de Maistre's ideas in detail (as solutions to our current problem) a dozen times in his short book The Total State. He's a fan.

The Woke Right also bases a great deal of its thought on the "crown jurist of the Third Reich" Carl Schmitt, who outlined the legal basis for the "total state" in Nazi Germany. They are openly proud of this. Schmitt, in his book Political Theology, imports this belief of de Maistre and claims that the sovereign executive (not YOU) performs secular "miracles" by making executive decisions, which he alone is rightfully given to be able to do. Virtually every character on the Woke Right is a Schmittian (though they downplay his Nazi era, lol).

Woke Right propagandist "Auron MacIntyre" affirmingly mentions Schmitt and his political philosophy twenty-five times in that same short book. He's a huge fan, and is relatively famously identified as a "based Schmittian."

Among the ideas from Elite Theory presented on the Woke Right regularly, we have the idea of the so-called "circulation of elites," which comes from the Italian Elite theorist and statistician Vilfredo Pareto (yes, the 80-20 rule guy), another darling of Woke Right thought. The circulation of elites describes a theory of REGIME CHANGE (see: Woke Right philosopher Patrick Deneen's most recent book, titled Regime Change).

The idea behind the circulation of elites is that any given set of elites in power can become sclerotic, incestuous, corrupt, or just weak, or maybe it already is that without having to "become" it, and "regime change" occurs by a "new elite" arising from below and replacing them. As the "new elite" gains standing, the "old elite" loses it in a rather zero-sum fashion, and eventually people decide to be led/ruled by the "new elite" rather than the crappy "old elite," and so the elites circulate like the water in a jacuzzi tub.

For all their flapping appeals to "populism," the Woke Right isn't populist at all. It's elitist, and in this worst, self-serving, entitled, bratty, bitchy, WOKE way. They see themselves as the "new elite" that is growing its status (especially with young MAGA) that will displace the current "managerial elite" that's running things. Because they like state power and tyranny, they'll not break the back of the evil statism crushing us but co-opt it to their own purposes. Many Woke Right figures (as well as the current Vice President) have articulated their intentions to claim and weaponize big state power and its EXECUTIVE administrative apparatuses rather than getting them out of the way (so, no Milei-style afuera, just new rulers).

So, my dear grassroots friends and real American patriots, YOU ARE BEING USED.

You must understand where that model leaves you. You are NOT elite; they are elite. They understand all the specialist theories, and you don't. They want to be philosopher kings, and you just want to live your lives with no desire to be philosophers at all. You want or need to be ruled, and they want to rule. But they need your energy, your work, your insights, your efforts, your blood, your sweat, your tears, your cancellations, your bodies, your sacrifice, and YOUR CHILDREN to make this coup ("circulation of elites") work.

You are disposable. Your children are disposable. They're your new masters, and you're supposed to love them because they hate your enemies and claim to love you. They don't.

They don't even hate your enemies. They ENVY them. They want their elite power and status, but it's not actual dislike for the evils they represent. They don't want to defeat them. They want to BE them. And they need YOU and YOUR CHILDREN to accomplish it.

One of their idiot philosophers of the current day (again, one JD Vance likes and upon whom many lean, including Peter Thiel in many ways) is Curtis Yarvin, code name "Mencius Moldbug" (the guy who called the Vertically Integrated Institutional Apparatus on the Left "the Cathedral," which you might have heard of). How does he characterize this situation? You, grassroots, are HOBBITS. The world is run by ELVES. The current elites are the awful, turned bad HIGH ELVES. The Woke Right are the renegade DARK ELVES who want to rule in their place. These "dark elves" require the manpower of you "hobbits" to take over, but they have absolutely no interest in letting you "hobbits" lead or even to have seats at the table. Elves rule, not hobbits. Leave it to them. He literally says that.

Yarvin: "The goal of the dark elves is to win the culture war—but not with hobbit power. In fact, the less a dark elf smells like a hobbit, the better. Just let us take care of it."

Another contemporary Woke Right "thinker" and activist, Aaron Renn, co-founder and senior fellow at the hoaxed-and-disgraced American Reformer, explains what he thinks of you everyday American patriots in similar terms.

Renn: "Today’s populists tend to come from subaltern backgrounds and do not have a track record of running large organizations or high level leadership in elite domains. This cripples their ability to make changes or even run the office they were elected to effectively. The result is often a circus."

That means YOU, grassroots. He's saying that when normal patriotic Americans take power, "the result is often a circus." You can't lead effectively. He writes this in an attempt to get conservatives to "reclaim FDR," whom he praises for his ability to execute specifically because he's an ELITE, not a PLEB like us.

Renn: "This ability to execute grew from his [FDR's] upper class background. He had lots of training and experience in leadership, and a vast network of high capability people to draw on in carrying out his work."

Renn is not criticizing FDR for this, as you might think. he's listing it as a central reason why FDR was actually much greater (from a "conservative" perspective) than we usually appreciate.

Why would he do that? Because he is a Woke Right elitist! Why would Yarvin call himself a "dark elf" and you a hobbit who he doesn't even want to smell like? Because he's a Woke Right elitist.

My grassroots and patriotic friends: the Woke Right hates you. They hate even the aroma of you. They less of you and your stink they have on them, the better, they insist. Do you think they're going to let you lead when they take power (if they take power)? Hell no, they won't. But they need your work, your sacrifices, and your children so they can take power to RULE OVER YOU.

They are elitists. They have slightly different expressions of them, but they have exactly the same values as the tyrants on the Woke Left and in the global tyrannical machine. Those values are power, right to rule, entitlement, envy of all who are above them, and disgusted resentment of all who they believe are beneath them. Which is us.

Like them all you want, I suppose. It's a free country (for the time being). You should like them knowing what they really represent, though, and it's UGLY.