Post #1831397

If all you have is a blog, it's natural for you to think that you can effect regime change through blogging. But there's a very large step between 1. blog a lot 2. ??? 3. absolute CEO-king Culture matters. The US has had a de jure republic for almost 250 years. Even though the presidency has steadily moved to a more central role, it's one thing to have a literal KING in place. There needs to be a story there, and saying "we need to be more effective or the Chinese will win" doesn't really cut it. It took France almost 100 years to finally establish republican rule: revolution, Directory, First Empire, Bourbon Restoration, Orleanist monarchy, Second Republic, coup, Second Empire, catastrophic military defeat, Third Republic. Then we get narrow Pyhrric victory in WW1, defeat again, collaborationist dictatorship, 4th republic, de Gaulle gets fed up, 5th republic. Even today the French president has more power than in many other republican constitutions. How does Yarvin propose to remove the republican idea from American consciousness?