Christopher Rufo deals in oversimplifications (he’s not dimwitted like James Lindsay, though), but he gets shit done and there’s a very real problem here. If you want to understand Harris’ worldview, then watch this collection of video clips Rufo shares in the above tweet (original to End Wokeness, an X profile I recommend you follow). Harris is telling you what’s in store for you and your family in these clips. She defines “equity” not as accounting for difference for equal opportunity’s sake (for example, keeping women’s sports for women). She means making everybody equal in outcome—despite the obvious fact that we are all different.
Harris wants to be your Handicapper General. Have you heard that name before? I am about to arm you with some potent weaponry against the collectivists if you haven’t. Find Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” and read it. Here, I will make it easy for you—just follow the link. I will also tell you about F.A. Hayek’s 1944 The Road to Serfdom and his 1960 The Constitution of Liberty. We have to make sure to use our vote in the most effective way to keep this woman out of office. You think Biden was bad; this woman will be an unmitigated disaster for free people everywhere.
In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek argues that central economic planning and government control over the economy inevitably lead to totalitarianism and the erosion, even erasure of individual freedoms. He warns that well intentioned efforts to achieve economic equality and social justice through extensive state intervention result in a loss of democracy and personal liberty. Have you heard? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Hayek contends that economic freedom is the foundation of personal and political freedom, and that decentralized decision making and open markets are the best safeguards against the dangers of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Hayek doesn’t object to social security and other interventions and programs to help and protect the vulnerable. He rejects the centralization of power in the hands of the corporate state, in administrative rule, and technocratic control—the very things Harris and her ilk seek. In other words, Hayek foresaw the emergence of the high-tech estate system of the coming neo-feudalism (hence the book’s name). No doubt Hayek’s book influenced Vonneguts’ 1961 story.
I assign my students a summary of The Road to Serfdom to read in my Freedom and Social Control class. It’s the second thing I ask them to put their eyes on—right after “Harrison Bergeron.” I also assign a chapter from Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. Perhaps it is this book that really got Vonnegut thinking (probably both). (After those three words, I have them read Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto, the forward to which was penned by yours truly.)
Whereas The Road to Serfdom is a polemic, The Constitution of Liberty is Hayek’s comprehensive treatise on the principles of a free society. He emphasizes the importance of the individual liberty, limited government, and the rule of law, with an emphasis on equal treatment.
Hayek argues that real liberty is freedom from coercion and that it is best preserved through a system of general rules that apply equally to all individuals. He critiques collectivist and interventionist policies, advocating instead for a framework where individuals are free to pursue their own goals within the parameters of a legal structure that protects private property and voluntary exchange. The book emphasizes the value of classical liberalism in fostering human flourishing. He’s right.
See, when you’re told that these leftwing maniacs are liberals, they are misdirecting you by misusing words. They want you to think that liberalism is a form of collectivism. Then you won’t want it and, by rejecting it, you reject the very thing that will liberate you and your family. Harris is not a liberal. She is in fact profoundly illiberal. Harris is a progressive. Progressivism is the authoritarian ideology of the corporate state, what Sheldon Wolin called “inverted totalitarianism,” which operates via a mass control strategy called “managed democracy.”
Which reminds me. There is one more Hayek book that should be on your “must read” list: The Fatal Conceit, published in 1988. Here, Hayek critiques the fundamental assumptions and ideological foundations of socialism, arguing that the hubris of socialist thinkers lies in their belief that they can design and control complex societies through centralized planning and the command economy. By dismissing the importance of culture and tradition, and the decentralized nature of knowledge, socialism inevitably leads to inefficiencies and the erosion of individual liberties. Once more, Hayek provides us with a powerful defense of classical liberalism and a warning against the dangers of collectivist praxis.
Democrats and the corporate media go on about “the threat to democracy” presented by Donald Trump and the “MAGA extremists” who represent the second coming of fascism. In fact, it’s the other way around. Kamala Harris and the progressive left, if allowed to prevail in November, will continued the managed decline of the American republic and the consolidation of political and economic power in the hands of the transnational corporate elite. They are building a world neofeudal order and your role is to be that of a serf. We have to stop it at the ballot box. Talk to your friends and family. Make sure they understand what’s at stake. Then vote like your life depended on it. Because it does. For without freedom, there is no life worth living.
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In local news (the authoritarian rot is at all levels): “Mayor [Eric] Genrich broke state and federal laws and violated the Constitutional rights of numerous citizens. His actions were so egregious that a federal court took the rare step of stripping Mayor Genrich of qualified immunity,” Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said in a statement.
A statement from LeMahieu says the settlement includes a payment of 200 thousand dollars from the City to cover legal fees and a public statement from Mayor Genrich indicating that he will not illegally record citizens in City Hall again. LeMahieu says the Mayor’s actions have cost the City of Green Bay more than 500 thousand dollars.
What an authoritarian little shit this mayor is. On top of his violation of the privacy rights of those he claims to represent, he flies the Pride Progress flag over City Hall in clear violation of the First Amendment (see City of Green Bay Violates the First Amendment and Flying Pride Again—Or Are They?). Democrats have no respect for civil liberties. At all.
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