rant · moment 14 of 27
Democracy Hasn't Worked and the Radical Center
from #216 - A Good Deal | The Tim Dillon Show · #216
3 min
Tim floats the thesis that democracy/the republic has failed, contrasting street radicals (BLM/Antifa and ethno-state gamers) with a citation of Dave Smith's point about how disconnected the moderate elite center actually is.
- Tim's thesis: democracy has not worked—put that out as a starting premise and work backward from there.
- The U.S. is not actually a democracy or a republic anymore, but an oligarchy that's also failing.
- BLM and antifa types knocking over restaurants are nuts because their actions have no logical path to an equitable society.
- The actual goal should be changing specific laws to maximize opportunity, not broad 'eat the rich' rhetoric that never works.
- The other side of eat the rich is just authoritarian socialism run by corrupt leaders who destroy everything—historically what always happens.
- You can actually do pinpoint things like eliminate the carried interest loophole on Wall Street instead of trying to change everything at once.
- People on both extremes—antifa smashing brunch tables and right-wing ethno-state gun enthusiasts—aren't going to run a real great society.
- Comparing the options: seventeen-year-old gamers wanting to bring back the monarchy versus fat non-binary women from Seattle—both bad for society.
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