The curtain closes on the 2nd act, you remain hopeful for a happy ending while I can’t ignore that the elements shown are all most potent when used in tragedy.

I don’t see who occupies elected office as influencing when the financial crisis hits. I do think it will coincide with a rise in communists but the more the masses associate them with the failure (thus why putting a leftist’s leftist in charge is important) the smaller their movement will be (the cathedral as a whole will remain, this isn’t the left singularity).

As for our next ride I see things naturally moving back to a more local orientation without Washington being able to buy influence on credit. While we like to give Nyan a hard time about his Phalanx project it actually is the right mindset since making meatspace localized networks with good men is a smart way to prepare. I do like the idea of the antiversity (in the decentralized shared learning sense), couple it with cryptocurrency and that urbit thing Moldbug is working on. There lies a potentially global system ready to fill in the hole left by the dollar and even supplant the university credential system permanently weakening the cathedral. Even if it doesn’t catch on globally, it could provide a wider economic structure to help the local Phalanx type groups exit in place (tech that bypasses the need for trust is the path to patchwork).

Anyone want to play devil’s advocate and lay out a scenario where centralized authority is maintained or tightens without the dollar? Nonfinancial collapse SHTF scenarios?(someone could detail how the culture war turns hot a la vxxc2014, I’m still skeptical on that)

At worst, voting for the lesser evil is stalling. But stalling is good. We should want people to have as much time to rethink their views as possible. It takes time for people to deal with the loss of face associated with changing their views. It takes time for fools to die off and for their children to learn to curse them. It takes time to develop meaningful alternatives.

Speaking of meaningful alternatives, what do we have to offer the supposedly newly open-minded voters after a collapse if we don’t like, for example, the Australian constitution? What fraction of us here take Anissimov seriously? Moldbug’s cryptographic locks? Before we scuttle the ship we’re on, we need to figure out where our next ride is.

It’s the old R.L.Dabney traditionalism about the role of “northern [that is, mainstream] conservatism” in American (and, thus, the demotic “free world”) politics, and thus the role of outer-party activism.

I mean one doesn’t *have* to come to that conclusion and be NRx, I suppose, but it is one of the defining features that *most* NRx hold that conclusion, and one (among a number) of reasons why democracy is considered non-functional.

Anyhow point is if one reached an NRx position in at least part based on sharing that conclusion, then no, the last thing one would do is vote for the outer party. One would actually be more likely to vote for the inner party (if one were dragged to the polls and compelled somehow to vote).

Of course, there are a lot of intelligent people who do not share that conclusion, and some (a distinct minority) who ought to be considered NRx do not share that conclusion, but it is a distinct minority position in need of stalwart defense rather than just assertion. IMO.

It has worked out fine so far, thank you.

“all True NRx should vote Team (R) unironically.”

I couldn’t possibly imagine anything more ironic than a bunch of anti-democrats voting.

“Instead, I claim the right to say”

What do you think this is? A democracy?

Jokes aside, best of luck, honestly. I think it is irrelevant whether you vote or not anyways, so do whatever makes you feel better.
After all, that’s what we all do.

Allowing disgust with democracy (or anything else, really) to drive one’s behavior makes you little better than an animal.

Don’t be so modest. Your language is hardly the only thing about you that’s crass.

The leftist insistence upon profanity in the face of good-natured pro-social behavior is truly a sign of its satanic origins. Wallow in what you will; I’m having another son in June.

I strongly endorse your voluntary disenfranchisement.