Pinchbeck argues in this solo piece that the United States has crossed a threshold into an authoritarian consolidation with consequences beyond its borders, given American weight in ecology, the military, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence. He points to the recent speeches by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to assembled military leadership, the loosening of rules of engagement, Trump's suggestion that American cities serve as training grounds, and his call for full force against protesters in Portland. He criticizes his own milieu for avoidance, arguing that regenerative land projects and Climate Week programming are beside the point against a state-corporate apparatus dismantling environmental regulation, and that friends who dismiss politics as ego are practicing a bypass. He ends by calling for a cross-partisan movement against concentrated oligarchic wealth.
In brief
- Pinchbeck argues that what is happening in the US amounts to an insurrection against its democratic system, and that if the model works there it will be exported.
- He treats the Trump and Hegseth addresses to the military, including the removal of rules of engagement and the framing of American cities as training grounds, as evidence that force against citizens is being normalized.
- He says the apolitical stance common among his spiritually inclined friends is a bypass, since deregulation reaches food, finance and public health regardless of whether one engages with politics.
- Pinchbeck calls for a "purple revolution" uniting people betrayed across party lines, whose central task would be breaking the oligarchic concentration of wealth.
- Following AOC, he reads the extremity of the authoritarian overreach as a sign of weakness rather than strength, produced by fear of losing control.
- He links the fascist impulse to the Freudian death drive, noting that such regimes often end in mass destruction and in the demise of those who launched them.
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Hey folks. Uh so I think uh as painful as it is to do, we kind of need to talk about what's happening in the United States right now. Uh we're in kind of a critical threshold I would say uh for uh the US and actually even for the world as a whole because um what happens here has enormous implications uh everywhere in terms of the planetary ecology in terms of military in terms of nuclear and artificial intelligence and so on. So, I think we've kind of reached this this threshold right now where people really need to take a bit of time uh and um kind of appreciate the this the situation we're in and kind of what's at stake for us. Um and I'm going to try to do that in the in this this video.
Uh and um yeah, I mean maybe um maybe it leads to kind of thinking about our our priorities individually. Um and yeah, so you know, we're in a pretty extreme situation and you know, it's good to take some deep breaths, you know, become mindful, become present, you know, take stock of the situation and maybe kind of like stop focusing on on a lot of other things for a while, like maybe really make understanding this situation really like a a priority. That's what I've been doing. And I didn't even like really want to do it. I'm sort of like in a way mesmerized. It's sort of like watching a car crash.
Uh but unfortunately you're also in the car uh while it's crashing, you know, or like being on the deck of the Titanic as it kind of hits the iceberg and so on. So I've been sort of allowing myself to kind of just just marinate in this or or saturate myself with all the uncomfortable details and and just like thinking through what's happening maybe so you don't have to do all that yourself. At the same time, I'm also scanning for any possible solutions, any ways like out of this uh pickle, this predicament that we're in. Uh and of course uh last week we saw these extraordinary speeches from Donald Trump and Pete Hegths to the military. Uh you know Hegsath said that they were you know they were sort of removing the rules of engagement which basically means that they're you know almost like suggesting that you know these guys can commit war crimes if they want to.
Trump said that he wants the military to think about using American cities as you know training grounds for future foreign wars. And um you know this follows him saying that he wanted the military in in Portland to use you know quote unquote full force you know which means you know the capacity to shoot to kill on peaceful law abiding citizens in Portland who you know have a right to protest and and peacefully and so on and um yeah so this is like um extremely a dire circumstance and I think we have to try to really you know we're in a unique situation in the US, you know, we've been the world leader. We've been the sort of hegemonic hegemonic kind of empire, you know, kind of had, you know, since the Second World War, we we had so much of the world's GDP and, you know, the American myth of like progress and technological kind of evolution and sort of hyper capitalism and so on. That's all like sort of happened here. And it feels like I guess that's all kind of like unraveling or in a way or like um you know I you know it's hard when you're in the middle of a historical moment to really understand it.
You know I'm sure people in you know 1920s and 1930s Germany you know wouldn't have been able to fathom all the reasons why the sort of fascism happened in in in the way that it did there. And um it's hard for us to fathom because yeah we we know that America is still very wealthy country and um I think we're like 5% of uh the world's population but we have been using like 40% of the resources and so on and you know and and yes there's a lot of things going on archetypally and and mythically in a sense um as well as just in terms of economic and social uh terms and so on. And it's a lot to kind of like hold all these things at once to get to get a to sort of get a multi-dimensional sort of uh coherent analysis. And I but I do think we need to come up with a kind of comprehensive understanding you know that includes you know not just socioeconomic aspects and psychology of male grievance and so on. um you know the the the narcissism and the sociopathy of of the leadership class you know but but also understanding things like you know how religion plays a role in this and and gender relations and you know the history of this country and so on.
Uh I mean I admit that sometimes I feel like like a sort of hamster in some kind of weird laboratory experiment you know toggling back and forth. I have a sense sometimes that we really are just doomed crushed at this point. But I also feel hope and and wild strains of possibility at the same time. So yeah, all I feel that I can really do is kind of report on what's happening as honestly as possible, you know, from my personal perspective, you know, without really sugar coating it because I don't think we have much time left for that. And um yeah, we we we really have to get more serious than we do.
And I still see unfortunately like in the communities that I'm part of mostly a lot of um avoidance. Um, you know, people are like, they just had climate week last last week and a lot of people I know were there talking about, you know, oh, regenerative land projects or they're going to do this, they're going to do that. But to me that all all just feels a little irrelevant when you have a you know massive machine of the sort of corporate government hybrid that has resolutely posited itself as as an you know ecologically destructive behemoth and is actually sort of taking almost like cruel pleasure in you know getting rid of the renewable energy industry in the US or taking away all the corporate regulations so that corporations can pollute and I just read about you know one corporation that's just beenowed allowed to drop like tons of radioactive waste in the uh rivers in New York, you know, which will influence our kids getting cancers and so on. So, I feel like yeah, I have a lot of friends who are resolutely unpolitical and believe that, you know, the, you know, right versus left is all just ego tripping and the political system doesn't matter to them. But I I think that that's also become a little bit of a uh a bypass because yeah, when everything is deregulated and you can't trust the food that you eat and every financial system is corrupt, you know, you're not looking at a very healthy future for your life or your child.
And maybe you think you can escape because you have European citizenry or you can go to Bali or something. But, you know, this this this second American revolution that's happening here, this sort of insurrection and destruction of our of our democratic system, this is like it's it's if it if it if they figure this out here, they're going to take this model everywhere. I mean, that's kind of the plan. And so, it would be a better idea for us to, you know, figure out how to counteract it here. Uh, which, you know, may may be admittedly very difficult at this point. So, you know, I not may not get all the way there, but in a future future videos, uh, I will look at, you know, what I would say like the chinks in the armor of this sort of authoritarian machine that that, you know, this medicine authoritarian machine.
And, you know, that includes kind of um their kind of arrogance, their overreach, their their crudity, their kind of like uh you know, aspbergerish um failure to understand like emotions and so on. I mean, you know, people talk about the, you know, Trump and his cabinet being like a bunch of clowns, and it does have this sort of buffoonish quality, but that also apparently is what happened in in fascist Germany. At first, people were like, "Oh, these guys are buffoons." And so on. And behind, you know, Trump and these people is a wellorganized machine that's really planned for this uh for a long time, you know. So um that's like the heritage foundation and project 2025 and yeah it's kind of like the r the you know re kind of building of the of the confederacy in a way.
So yeah right now we're really sliding down. We're facing uh social decay, uh consciousness collapse, degeneration. Um and um you know, if we're not able to course correct, this could easily lead to concent concentration camps, you know, mass imprisonments. Eventually, we might even see some kind of genocide or final solution here. And we shouldn't fool ourselves that's not possible because it's happened in many places around the world when people didn't even imagine that was possible. And some elements on the far right, you know, are really already talking about this, you know, implicitly. Sometimes they joke about it or quite explicitly, you know, for instance, Curtis Yarvin, who is, you know, JD Vance quotes him a lot.
Um, Peter Teal has supported him and so on. Jarvin has joked about turning the underclass into biodeiesel, quote unquote, joked. uh Brian Kil Kilmeid, I don't know how to pronounce his name actually, the Fox and Friends co-host, he recently joked that or proposed that he wasn't even joking actually, uh that maybe we should um think about involuntary lethal injections uh in other words, murder for the 800,000 homeless people in the US. I I just want to say that actually uh I mean I live in the middle of New York City and homeless people can be annoying and aggressive and so on, but I actually really appreciate them and you know a lot of them had very hard lives and you know they had maybe had a lot of discrimination and and sort of economic factors working against them. Maybe they were drug addicts or alcoholics or whatever.
But a lot of them actually have a very uh you know kind of encompassing understanding and way of being and a lot of insight. And it makes me very sad that um we've reached a point in our in our discourse that you know that that these people like Kamed and and Yarvin have the feel they have the right even if they think it to express such uh antihuman um uncompassionate kind of possibilities. And you know, I really feel that if we're going to get out of this, we really have to the social media and the internet really support kind of these destructive tendencies of, you know, wanting to push outrage, you know, to greater and greater volumes to be more and more histrionic to get likes or whatever. But we really need to get back to our innate feelings of kinship for others and our compassion for others. Um I would say so yeah I mean kil kil kiliati having not was later compelled to offer uh a lame apology but he didn't actually lose his job as a result as a lot of people lost their jobs recently over the whole Charlie Kirk thing.
So, like you have a black woman columnist or editorialist for the Washington Post, Karen Atia. Uh, and she was fired because she made some comments, not even in a editorial, but on on Blue Sky after Charlie Kirk's death. And among the comments that got her fired, she said, um, part of what keeps America so violent is the assistance that people perform care, empty goodness, and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence. That's a pretty reasonable comment. Um, but yeah, it seems like we're living at a time when certain truths can no longer be spoken easily or without um having potential consequences. And we're really seeing on the sort of Christian right, you have men I've started to follow more and more uh like uh Matt Walsh, who made that very popular film uh What is a woman?
Jack Pobiac, author of the horrible book Unhumans. Uh Nick Fritus, I just discovered. And they reach, you know, millions of followers on social media, including there's I'm sure there's many Russian bots there and Muskbots following them. But they these guys are all framing the battle with what they call the quote unquote left. And even their battle with middle-of the road Democrats as a kind of holy war. And they're calling the left a secular religion that needs to be annihilated or obliterated that they can't even, you know, have any communications anymore. And yeah, Pobiac in his book calls leftists and and even liberal democrats unhumans. They don't need to be treated like real human beings.
And he praises Pinter's helicopter killings in that book. And that was where um Pinish just took dissident, people he didn't like up into helicopters, then threw them threw them out and killed them. And unfortunately, Van uh Pobiac in this book says that that's a good plan for America. And both JD Vance and Donald Trump burped this book with Vance calling it a good plan for America. So that that's kind of where they're heading, you know, unfortunately in in a in a pretty quick pace. And you know, they're doing that also as you know, the economy comes apart. And um yeah, I mean I've talked in a lot of my Substack newsletters um about uh how you know there really seems to be an intentional uh plan to destroy the American economy and ruin the middle class.
And that's kind of what the tariffs are doing and so on uh as a as a way for centralizing oligarchic control much the way Naomi Klein wrote about it in her book shock doctrine. And um yeah, that that's really, you know, a lot of people on the left on the liberal columnists are like, "Why are they doing this? This is crazy. Trump's just out of his mind." But actually, it all makes sense. Like these totally irrational tariffs make it impossible for, you know, non-billionaires and non- huge corporations to to navigate and a lot of them just lose their businesses or close. And we're already seeing the bankruptcy of a lot of farmers.
Um, and that'll allow for, you know, private equity and investment firms to buy up those bankrupt farms and consolidate uh ownership of over the nation's food supply, which uh is pretty terrible. And sadly, those farmers in places like Nebraska and Alabama all voted for Trump. Uh so they they've kind of brought this on themselves. And you know, what can you say? I mean, um, you know, once once again, um, the the right-wing, you know, as I've discussed also in my work, has has really learned framing, and now they've taken over a lot of the of the media in a way that's uh, it's hard to figure out how to deal with that.
So, yeah, it's hard for me to understand the rights rage against, you know, the secular left or whatever. And I mean, you know, basically, sure, I mean, identity politics was kind of an overreach and so on. I didn't like woke, you know, cancellation culture and so on. Um, but it it seems like the pendulum has swung kind of too far in the other direction. And you know, somebody like Walsh or whatever, they have such a deep hatred of any focus on climate change or global warming. Um, you know, but this already affects all of us. I mean, it's super warm in New York right now and um we're seeing more floods, you know, you know, all all these impacts of climate change, more droughts and so on.
So, and so obviously these guys are funded by you know the Heritage Foundation or all the arms of Ko and Peter Teal and you know the Koch brothers and so on and um you know they're also yeah they're they're they're for whatever reason they are you know rigidly um holding the line that climate change is a hoax and ignoring all the science on it and it's very it's very depressing. Um, and you know, they're they're sort of banging their chests all the time uh with these videos that get so many views. But if you really look at these people like Walsh and so on, I would say they're they've locked themselves into these rigid mental prisons and they've thrown away the keys and they're they're strutting around in these cages. You know, they're beating their chests. They're thinking they're masters of the universe when they're really like trained monkeys.
They're they're bought and sold tools of the oligarchs who, you know, are also, you know, trying to amass private wealth uh by lying to the people. uh and you know maybe some of them believe it uh and they're they're you know they're funded by the right-wing and they're you know they're all using this sort of Christian fundamentalism you know Christian fanaticism to keep the masses of the people indoctrinated to such an extreme degree that they'll actually support you know the sort of oligarchic technocratic facet fascistic control over all facets of of US society even as this um technofascist thing destroys their own capacity to survive as we're now seeing with these farmers across the US. So, I feel when you hear somebody like Kyad, how you pronounce his name, make this kind of slip of the tongue about the homeless people, I I always feel that maybe it's not accidental. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I feel like the right is constantly putting out these trial balloons to see how far they can take things, how far they can push the envelope of discourse further to the right. And their goal is to keep these kind of masses who are kind of hypnotized and entranced by this media toward deeper levels of authoritarian mind control and the normalization of things like ethnic cleansing, you know, mass incarceration camps, deportations, genocide.
And as of as of this moment, I can't identify a strong enough countervailing power in American society able to stop this. Although there are other forces at play and I think we do need to acknowledge those and explore those and and sort of support those. So yeah, I'm very concerned about this sort of fury and in a sense this underlying bloodlust on the right. And I know they keep repeating that the left to blame that that the left is the violent and oppressive side. Uh but you know that's also they're bullshitting, right? like the Trump regime just pulled a report that was you know put out by the Department of Justice uh last year called uh you know what the National Institute of Justice Research tells us about domestic terrorism and that report exposes what we all know which also been just confirmed by more shootings this week.
The vast majority of domestic terrorism is caused by right-wing extremists mostly white Christian men. The right's constant attack against the left or what they're meaninglessly calling Antifa. There's no organization called Antifa. This is just made up. Uh this is an essential part of the right strategy. Uh and it's something that has been defined as Darvo. Uh Darvo stands for deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender. Jim Stewart writes about this very well in mind war, his extremely important newsletter. And we all should educate ourselves about these tactics, share the knowledge with them, so that we get more media literacy around the types of tactics they're using and why they're so hard to sort of counteract.
So, we know the US has around 900 billionaires according to Forb's uh most recent list, and at least 70% of those billionaires, I imagine it's actually more, the billionaire families are backing Republican right-wing candidates according to estimates because those right-wing policies benefit them in the short term. So the right-wing has financial support from a huge majority of the country's billionaires. They've had these vast sums over many decades to develop rhetorical and persuasive techniques and also these sophisticated scops like QAnon. Uh and at the same time they've also learned to co-opt and imitate all of the media strategies that used to really work well for progressive media. So for instance, somebody like Walsh has sort of slick punk rocky kind of graphics or you know slacker rock graphics and these were once kind of we the hallmarks of progressive liberal media and stand-up comedians used to support a left-wing progressive ideology for the most part.
Today we have this sort of Rogan spear with a vast number of right-wing ideal ideologues and operatives who are constantly attacking like LGBT and trans rights and so on. So the right has figured out, you know, how to burrow into and kind of assimilate and imitate every cultural and media sphere while the other side is is in very much in retreat. And the right still strangely pretends they're the underdogs even though they're now controlling all three branches of the federal government and they've consolidated so much of the media landscape. Uh right-wing media now dwarfs kind of liberal or maybe we want to say like neutral media. I never found CNN or CNBC or any of those things very MSNBC very very you know left let's say and this is going to get much worse because you have the Trump and Musk ally Larry Ellison founder of Oracle buying Paramount which owns CBS among other properties uh and he's going to give all of that a right-wing spin.
Uh Ellison may also become the majority stakeholder of Tik Tok in the US which will then be under the algorithmic control of the right as Twitter is now under Musk's control. I can't open Twitter without seeing all this right-wing stuff, even though I don't subscribe to Musk or any of these people. So, this ongoing media cons consolidation is extremely important and far more ominous than let's say the token reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel due to public pressure. Although it is important and it's one of the levers that the public has is economic boycott and um yeah, so it's important that that did happen. But um Fox News has had a tremendously destructive impact over the last 30 years, partly to the government permitting monopoly consolidation of local media.
And if you go back to the telecom communications act of 1996, which sadly was passed by neoliberal Clinton, it permitted media companies like Fox to own a number of local TV and radio stations in the same city. That wasn't allowed before. And Fox used this change in the law to buy clusters of stations in major markets. And then it had more stations under its control. It could run the same shows across all of them, maximize ad revenue, and it put smaller independent stations out of business. And this led to more consolidation as they folded. And yeah, Fox became the default in many cities. And then, you know, it learned how to kind of exacerbate, you know, kind of its hold on people through fear and so on.
I mean, Fox has poisoned the minds of many millions of people here in the US, and it's really contributed to the to the sort of really depressing degradation of social discourse that made a Trump possible or maybe even inevitable now when we look back. And we know that many Americans as they get older, they become more passive. They become bored. They're sitting in their homes with maybe, you know, stale relationships or marriages. They don't have community. They don't much collect con connection. And so they're absorbing whatever entertains them or just holds their attention for a moment on the television. So Fox, you know, kind of learn how to keep stimulating the amydala.
So these kind of entranced viewers keep themselves in a state of fear, frustration, and anger. And that state in itself, like any state, can become an an addictive state. And uh so we all know also the problem with algorithmic capture via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so on. So I'm not going to get into that again here. And the problem is that like any addiction, you need bigger hits to maintain yourself in a stable state over time. So Trump developed uh a reality TV show style of politics. and he has to constantly up the ante uh as in a TV show and and provide sort of crazier stunts and more debased spectacles, you know, such as his recent racist attacks on democratic leaders using AI slop, you know, like uh and yeah, really a new level of degradation which everybody kind of noticed.
Uh the media critic Neil Gabler wrote a great series of essays about how Trump is doing this. And Gabler has noted that Trump makes quote entertainment not governance the very purpose of government. Or to put it another way, he reconceived government from its traditional role as a system to guide the nation and to a highly untraditional one as a vehicle for his performance, which is just as reductive and terrible as it sounds. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a stroke of perverse genius as well as the basis for so many of his other perversities. Suddenly, government wasn't boring anymore. And this seemed to tickle his supporters.
Suddenly, government commanded our attention. So that's kind of what you know Trump's sort of unique brand of you know sociopathic narcissism and his reality TV TV show kind of manner you know have created this circumstance um and uh what what's very concerning about it you know particularly as Trump is going into a more and more sort of cognitive decline without any capacity for empathy fixated on vi vengeance and seeking to constantly increase his own wealth and power um you know what's going to be the limit on on on on this person. Um there's a very real danger that as Trump continues to lose his grip. He might even in intensify global conflicts you know as entertainment you know could be a standoff with Putin for instance you know who's another sociopath until ultimately we're reaching a kind of zero sum game where nuclear conflict nuclear war becomes in the cards and maybe even ineedable inevitable um and you know because we're in a situation where this Trumpist political ideology demands endless emergencies you know their brand is crisis and these have to become more and more dire to turn the focus of political tension back on him and keep everybody from noticing the economic breakdown that's happening. And yeah, we're seeing already these consequences are going to have a lot of consequences, maybe irreversible consequences, not only just for democracy, but for human beings and the planet as a whole.
What one person who's been doing a good job raising the alarm about the situation is Lawrence O'Donnell at MSNBC. Uh so for instance after Trump's really rambling barely coherent address to the US military O'Donnell noted that the emergency we face is not the government shutdown which is already happening but actually it's something much much worse than that. And I thought I would just you know read one of his quotes from uh from his uh presentation. The emergency that United States of America is facing tonight is an emergency the United States of America has created for the world. And that emergency is that the president of the United States and his public appearance today prove that he is mentally incapable and emotionally incapable fulfilling his constitutional duties as president of the United States.
In other words, there is no president of the United States as we knew it. There is no functioning intelligence, no functioning judgment mechanism within the mind of the current holder of the title. And that person is also the holder of the nuclear codes that could destroy the planet in seconds. And he is much to the horror of the commanding officers of the American military who had to listen to him today, the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the history of the world. Um, so yeah, I mean that's what Donald had to say. So, we can see that the, you know, political leadership, the people around Trump on the right are playing a very, very dangerous game at the moment, right?
It's like they're waiting for Trump to become such a liability or do something so overtly insane or just finally become mentally incapacitated so they can get rid of him and install, you know, 40-year-old JD Vance into that role. And that's maybe even more concerning because Vance is a more sophisticated intellect than Trump for sure, but he also obviously has severe liabilities, particularly a very uh negative charisma. People just do not like Vance. And that was almost certainly going to break up the MAGA cult. And they may, you know, you know, the best case scenario is they begin to realize that the sort of oligarchic control that's imposed is is is what what's actually going down.
But when Trump collapses and gets ousted, you know, or whatever, maybe three, six months, who knows, Vance is going to inherit all of those unleashed powers of the executive branch, the ability to attack US citizens, you know, destroying the Constitution, manipulating the elections. Um, and so we're we're likely to have an autocratic government controlled from behind the scenes by Peter Teal and Elon Musk with Vance as the frontman for a technocratic control system. that really seeks to establish a two-tier society like the Morlocks and the Elwis and War of the Worlds where you have a small group of oligarchic rulers and their henchmen with a vast multitude of the dispossessed. So that's why like this attack on the middle class and you know what what Musk did with X with Twitter where he was able to fire so many of the employees and still make it function you know with um AI and so on. Like that's what they're kind of looking at here.
You know um it's very interesting. I mean you know the question is is it going to work? Uh what are people going to do? Um you know it could still go in a lot of different directions. That's why I'm bothering to make this type of piece. So yeah, I mean a lot of what's happening now needs to be understood in terms of of a longer term strategy developed by Heritage and supported by people like Teal and Musk and Andre to lock up permanent power and control of the US. And we would also be very extreme naive to think that that actually is impossible here. You know, we've seen it happen in North Korea and Russia and so on.
Even though there are certain structural elements of American society that work against it. For instance, it's a very big country. It has a huge amount of wealth and it has a very diverse economy unlike Russia you know but uh we need to wake up right now and realize that in many ways what's happening is a worst case scenario for human freedom constitutional protections the rule of law you know the earth's ecology you know which we don't even talk about anymore and also a decent future for our children in a rapidly changing world Ken Clippenstein has reported on Trump's recent uh memoran random NSPM7 which is titled countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence. So this directs the DOJJ, the DHS, the FBI and others to investigate, disrupt and prosecute domestic terrorist organizations, quote unquote. So Clemenstein's article is very important.
I definitely recommend subscribing to him and I'm going to quote it at length. In NPM7, Countering Domestic Terrorism, Organized Political Violence, President Trump directs the Justice Department, the FBI, and other National Security Agencies and departments to fight his version of political violence in America, retooling a network of joint terrorism task forces to focus on leftist political violence in America. So this is a vast counterterrorism army made up of federal, state and local agents would as Trump aid Steven Miller said form quote the central hub of that effort. So yeah NBM7 directs a new national strategy to disrupt any individual or groups quote that fment political violence unquote including quote before they result in violent political acts unquote. So, as Clippenstein acknowledges, this means they're targeting pre-rime as in the film uh Minority Report.
Uh he goes on to write um the Trump administration isn't only targeting organizations or groups, but even individuals and ent entities whom NPM7 says can be identified by any of the following indisha indicators of violence or propensity of violence. So get ready for this list if you haven't heard already. Anti-Americanism, whatever that means. Anti- capitalism. And we do have to remember this is a whole, you know, our country constitutionally is founded on freedom of speech, freedom to descent, freedom to have alternative views. And it's that ferment which has made America great and powerful in a way. Anti-Christianity. I mean that's just, you know, separation of church and state is basic to the constitution.
uh support for the overthrow of the United States government, extremism on migration, uh which means I guess not agreeing that we should be able to just toss out uh people who are here without due process or hearing or anything. Just whatever. extremism on race, extremism on gender, uh hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality, whatever that is. Um yeah, I mean, what is that morality in a country that was founded on, you know, the genocide of indigenous people and slavery and so on? It's quite uh what are those traditional views?
Uh so the the United States requires a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that fit political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts. Um that's what the report says. So this is like a clemency. It's a pre-rime kind of idea to prevent attacks before they happen. Um yeah, so this means monitoring political activity or speech as an investigative method to discover radicalism. Um and this is, you know, we got what we have to understand this is like a long-term strategy that they've worked out in gamed out. We have, you know, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, Russell Vote, Peter Teal, and their cronies.
They've they've, you know, taken the time to work out a long-term plan and they're really seeking kind of full spectrum dominance over the US, including the same level of control over the psychological and ideological mind space of this country that you find in ruthless autocratic regimes like North Korea and Russia. So, you know, the the Christian far-right and the techfocused nerd reich, you know, or the tech billionaires and so on. They seem to wear, you know, they wear business suits, you know, J Crew t-shirts, hoodies, they speak in American accents. They look normal, but underlying that, they have a ruthless agenda and an ideology that's really as extreme as the Taliban or North Korea or any other fanatic, you know, religious ideology that seeks control over a large population. So as I've also written before, one of the positives of this current situation is that it is very clarifying.
Uh we can see that the currents of white supremacy, Nazism, and the kind of crusader Christianity that led to the genocide and enslavement of many millions of indigenous people around the world, it never ended. It's now resurfaced in its most active and virulent form. The poet Amy Cesar noted that Nazism in in the 40s was a kind of internal recolonization when the tools that have been used to ex exploit and kind of like dominate the despised other concentration camps and all this kind of stuff get turned back against their own people at their place of origin. So with m with masked ICE ICE agents attacking immigrants and you know attacking Chicago housing complexes, you know, we're now fully in that situation. But there are a lot of reasons to think that the plan may fail.
Uh however, it's not going to simply fail on its own. We're going to need people here to awaken to what's happening and then find new ways to work together to, you know, subvert it, overcome it. And so ultimately we need a kind of purple revolution uh where everybody who's been betrayed by the government over many decades, you know, red and blue, people who don't have health insurance, people who've seen their, you know, their their profits siphoned up to the top.1%. We're going to have to work together to construct something new and better in its place. Uh but to do that it's going to require breaking the oligarchic oligarchic concentration of wealth uh which is definitely not going to be easy and you know once again a lot of people don't even know uh what's happening.
Um I agree with the analysis of AOC and others that this extreme overreach of the authoritarian power is actually a sight of weakness instead of strength. If we can think of this authoritarian thing as a kind of creature, we can see that this entity is really terrified of losing control over the situation and has unleashed. So it has to keep doubling down and it may be that it is set in motion forces that will lead inevitably to its own collapse. Historically we can see the fascist impulse as related to theatos the fraudian death drive. I mean, Trump and his cronies and their efforts to ruin, you know, truth and evidence-based reality and ruin our basic sanity for purposes of their power and control are maybe also seeking out the countervailing force or energy that can finally stop this thing, stop them.
And fascist regimes often end in really mass destruction. They often end with the demise of those who launched that enterprise. So, you know, we don't necessarily need to get to that point, but it is sort of tending in that direction. Um, yeah, maybe I'll stop there for now and uh we'll talk more in a later video.
Automatic transcript, lightly edited for readability. Originally published on the Liminal News channel.