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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Here's a taste of their plan.

"Unaccountable federal spending is the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening. Nearly every power center held by the Left is funded or supported, one way or another, through the bureaucracy by Congress. Colleges and school districts are funded by tax dollars. The Administrative State holds 100 percent of its power at the sufferance of Congress, and its insulation from presidential discipline is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf. Members of Congress shield themselves from constitutional accountability often when the White House allows them to get away with it. Cultural institutions like public libraries and public health agencies are only as "independent" from public accountability as elected officials and voters permit."

"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not apolitical Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters ofwomen. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders.

And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered. In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children's education is a simple one: Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice-a goal all conservatives and con- servative Presidents must pursue. But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents' rights as their children's primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, princi- pals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds.

The noxious tenets of "critical race theory" and “gender ideology" should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country. These theories poison our children, who are being taught on the one hand to affirm that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral status while on the other they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women.

Allowing parents or physicians to "reassign" the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end. For public institutions to use taxpayer dollars to declare the superiority or inferiority of certain races, sexes, and religions is a violation of the Constitu- tion and civil rights law and cannot be tolerated by any government anywhere in the country."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"...they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women.".

What in the great gobbledygook fever-dream ramblings is this shit?

[–] Domille 29 points 1 year ago

It is a cryptic way of saying they want us all to get back in the roles that benefit them...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The word salad is designed to evoke emotion, not to be understood. The faithful already know the rules, plans, and ideals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Religion. Creatureliness and givenness is a direct reference to creationism and is meant to be a conversation ender. No matter what it is you want, they can say God didn't intend it and that's the end of the conversation unless you want to discuss your hatred of God instead.

Of course it's only certain people who only speak from self serving intuitions who get to decide what is natural and what is the creators will. Somehow it's always something that serves their own ego, imagine that... almost like God is some bullshit they made up to distract from their lack of good arguments.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Half of that shit doesn't many any sense. These people are straight up just saying a bunch of bullshit that sounds fancy, but is still bullshit.

The Administrative State holds 100 percent of its power at the sufferance of Congress, and its insulation from presidential discipline is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf.

  1. wtf is "the Administrative State"?

  2. "Sufferance of Congress" what?? That's what Congress decides. Additionally, Republicans currently hold the power of the purse. They also held both chambers in Obama's last years and for Trump's first two years. They didn't do shit about whatever the hell "the Administrative State" is.

  3. "its insulation from presidential discipline" What are they even talking about‽‽ What the hell is presidential discipline?

  4. "is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf." The Constitution clearly states the structure of our government and the responsibilities of each branch. Also, wtf is "the Washington Establishment"??

I can't even get through the first paragraph. This is complete non-sense.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wtf is “the Administrative State”

It's the part of the government that regulates things like business that used to be regulated by private entities like trade associations and guilds. When congress established regulators for banks and for food and drugs and environmental policy, the private associations that used to regulate those things didn't like it much- they saw it as a usurping of their domains. When today's right talk mad about the 'administrative state', they're telling you they want to hand regulatory authority over banking right back to the banks, environmental decision-making to the people who will save money by dumping pollution in the drinking water, etc.

This is a long and well-sourced primer on the history of the democratizing of regulatory authority in the modern democratic state, one that also discusses the rapid reversal of that trend we're seeing today

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing that prospect.org link, I wish this could be turned into a made for TV series on YouTube, presented by Mr. Beast, Mark Rober en Tyler Hoover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would pay money to see that done! The subject is really not talked about in our schooling well enough; we hear a lot about how throwing off a monarchy meant we now have a legislature and a president, but the transition from colony-under-king to republic carried the judiciary forward as a largely feudal institution.

Under feudal/colonial rule, it used to be trade associations or guilds that would write rules to govern business conduct, but those typically required signoff from the local Lord/Governor's son (or deputy) to be enforceable- the switch to a republic meant there really wasn't an analogous executive signoff so it's not surprising that American corporate power would eventually forge private administrative authority into a sort of sovereign/antidemocratic right to rule their spheres... right up to the point that state and federal governments decided to impose regulation on them.

This conflict, between advocates of private vs public administrative rule, is one of the central threads of the conflict between today's oligarchy and American democracy and it gets far less attention than it deserves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! It sounds like they're coming up with stupid terms to create boogeymen and scapegoats so that their gullible followers would start hating them.

These developments have been described in mainstream policy discourse as “deregulation” and “privatization,” but those terms are misleading. The term “deregulation” suggests a reversion to a pre-existing system of nonregulation, a realm in which state authority is absent. But this is a fantasy. There is no pre-legal, law-free realm. There is always regulation, albeit sometimes invisible and private, and hence unaccountable.

I really liked this part of the article you shared because it points out their strategy of coming up with euphemisms that are straight lies. They're not de-regulating. They're changing authority over regulation from somewhat democratic bodies to privates ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It sounds like they’re coming up with stupid terms to create boogeymen and scapegoats

That's exactly what they're doing. It amounts to putting a misleading label on the thing and telling people what the label means instead of what the underlying substance is. Rhetorically speaking, it's 3-card monte and it annoys me so much

[–] atzanteol 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell is presidential discipline?

They want a dictator. But only if it's their dictator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same, but not in the White House :3

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

What the hell is presidential discipline?

It's the spanking they think daddies are supposed to give their misbehaving children to straighten them out. Yes, it's stupid as hell and it tips their hand to clearly show they are already in the mindset of resorting to punishment vs. reason and thinking of the president in the mold of a king vs. a public servant with deliberately limited powers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Someone’s woke!

/s

[–] Domille 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally want to throw up after reading this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women

They are really trying to make it sound like there's intelligence that went into this

[–] prole 6 points 1 year ago

Seriously. The sad thing is that it works (see: Jordan Peterson). Stupid person's idea of how a smart person speaks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. That's all about individual freedom. Get rid of the oppressive police state instituted by the left, yeah!

These people are serious, folks. Unless sane people wake up, pay attention, and act, we are screwed!