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Dollyboy's avatar

I find it strange that how I feel, how my thinking on so many things aligns neatly with the Trump administration's position on geopolitical affairs. I feel that my position has barely altered but the world now shifts to meet me - not entirely of course because that would be weird but now I hear leaders saying what I have been yelling at screens for the last four years. It's like mentally coming home or something... a relief really.

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Ok, thank you for sharing this. I always appreciate hearing new information, and even if I don't agree with someone, I welcome other opinions on these kind of issues.

I don't dispute there are globalist elites or leftist elites anymore than there are elites on local levels and on the right. I only point this out because this argument is being used to divide nonelites to fight a war on behalf of two (and really within those two, multiple factions of elitists). It's same history repeating itself over and over again.

I do find it offensive for JD Vance to claim education and professors are the enemy when he: 1. Attended one of the most well connected and established Ivy League law schools in the country which allowed him to obtain his current position of power. 2. Continues to promote voices of Ivy League professors at one of the other major institutions. 3. Also promotes the ideals of people like Curtis Yarvin, who is not part of an established institution, but born to parents who were part of one, and may have represented the epitome of liberal elitism that the entire neoreactionary movement seems to rebell against. I have a hard time not feeling like this is almost a 50+ year long rebellion against his own parents that he's trying to spread to others who really should not be able to relate to this man's lofe circumstances or the things that led to him feeling this way. Vance is actually from a very similar background as my own, and I feel that his own exposure to liberal elitism and being outcast by those elites (which I also felt when I became the first in my family to get a degree, even at a public university) has led to his willingness to join up with men like Yarvin in an attempt to feel like he fits in.

The same opportunities Vance used to "pull himself up by his bootstraps," rely on the institutions hes dismantling. I agree they could use restructuring, but to dismantle completely will rob many of the same opportunities he was provided. I almost feel more anger towards Vance because it seems more of a personal desire to fit in with people who were handed what he had to work so hard for, whereas Yarvin seems to be rebelling to the environment he was born into without really comprehending the reality of how many people like Vance exist and rely on the system he wants to destroy. The system that only allowed certain men from certain connected families to even obtain an education, and left almost no possibility of merit based social mobility.

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