Good overview and analysis, good references to follow up on.
The oligarchs are running the asylum
As someone (over)active on the Net since ARPAnet in the mid-Seventies, I know these guys and these ideologies. I tasted their words and thoughts and banged heads with them. Beware. Be very wary. I and some friends have paid a price.
On Usenet in the Nineties I argued with someone who proposed a mechanism to financially reward those who assassinate government employees because they are “agents of the State”. This was prior to the blockchain and bitcoin, but what was proposed would work well now that these exist.
Know that a lot of thought over decades created the mileau that JD Vance rises from. He is a hothouse flower purpose-built for a takeover in the aftermath of the bulldozer that is Trump. Do not mistake him as just an awkward nerd. He embodies the adage “put all the wood behind one arrowhead.” Bathing him with billions of dollars and propping him up with the long term organization of the Heritage Foundation, et al creates something never before seen in human history.
