TIME TO WAKE THE EFF UP! (2/2)

Not you, fascist-tolerant, fascist-adjacent, committed racists, and reactionary modernists such as Thiel and Musk and Vance.

You have thought about the Counter-Enlightenment, organic nationalism, various implementations of it in 20th century Italy, Spanish, Japan, and Germany as well as post-modern varieties in the Russian Federation, China, Hungary, and Iran, and studied it in depth in the writings of folks like Carl Schmidt, Julius Evola, and Alexander Dugin.

You've thought and read about it. Joined collectives with like-minded (and, in some cases, highly armed) others, and have made and COMMITTED TO your decision.

And now you are taking bold, decisive action to achieve that vision in Western, liberal democracies - bolstered  by the phenomenal success of your movement's capture of the White House in 2015 and the subsequent capture of one of the two major political parties in America.

And you are poised within striking distance of doing it again A MONTH from now.

I applaud your seriousness, your industry, and your no doubt willingness to die for what you believe to be a just cause (even if Donald Trump and the other grifters and political opportunists at the top are not).

No. You are not the ones to whom I speak.

I’m speaking of those who would default on their civic responsibility to learn, to think, and to make the MUCH SMALLER SACRIFICE, of VOTING to support Harris / Walz and the Democratic party in this election (with or without the holding of one’s nose) because you can’t bring yourself to vote for a Black woman Democrat (or possibly ANY Democrat).

Or maybe because you harbor some ridiculous belief that NOT VOTING AT ALL is somehow an alleged morally significant symbolic non-act - as if you haven’t learned this late in life that we are ALL morally implicated in the results of our decisions whether the decision is made to ACT or to DO NOTHING.

And that often the only choices we have, particularly with the tough decisions, are all BAD choices with some being MUCH WORSE than others (though, as a Republican, I don’t think that is the case in this election - seems cut and dried to me, at least if one wants to live in a democratic republic under the Constitution).

So wake up. Vote for Harris.

And then let’s all GET TOGETHER (whether one is a non-violent reactionary or Reagan conservative, on the one hand, or a non-violent socialist, liberal, or progressive, on the other) and deal with our respective grievances in the public square and under the rule of law.