RadixJournal - July 21, 2023


The Coming ＂Holy War＂

Topics
liberal hegemony holy war
Hosted by
Richard Spencer
Mentioned
Politico Stalin
The Age of the Holy Spirit Barbenheimer

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

131.41

Word count

971

Sentence count

59

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

8

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about why AOC is not a communist and why she's not a socialist. I also talk about the deep state, and why the right is the real threat to democracy. And I talk a little bit about AOC.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I think the right, as negative as they are and is lacking in like clear policy proposals, in a weird way and in a kind of horrible way, they have the vision.
00:00:19.160 And so let me try to prove what I'm saying.
00:00:25.620 So as we know, there's been a general trend of like liberal hegemony.
00:00:33.740 There's liberal hegemony in academia.
00:00:37.060 There's liberal hegemony in the media.
00:00:39.400 There's liberal hegemony to a large extent, maybe not quite as much in corporate America.
00:00:45.260 There's I could go on.
00:00:46.920 And so the conservatives aren't entirely incorrect when they say that like, you know, the liberals are in charge.
00:00:56.420 They're the deep state or whatever.
00:00:58.260 And there's some interesting studies of like voting patterns by profession.
00:01:04.140 And so, you know, I can go back and look it up and just, you know, take my word for it at the moment.
00:01:11.900 You know, if you're a corporate manager, if you are working for the government, if you're working in a university, et cetera, you are a liberal.
00:01:21.360 If you own a small business, if you work with your hands, you're much more likely to be a conservative.
00:01:28.340 So there's a class dynamic at play there that is actually really significant because institutional power is what it is.
00:01:38.640 It's institutional power.
00:01:40.360 Getting rich, running a small business, you can go buy a jet ski, but you're not really impactful on the culture at all.
00:01:52.240 In fact, that that person working for $30,000 a year at an art museum has more cultural impact or a journalist working for the same amount for Politico or whatever has more cultural impact than a guy with 10 million in the bank and three jet skis at his lake house just is what it is.
00:02:17.560 It's maybe a real serious blind spot among conservatives that they are kind of more interested in that type of life as opposed to being an institutionalist.
00:02:29.480 So the liberals are kind of defending liberalism.
00:02:35.940 And one of my criticisms, and in fact, I've even gotten fairly caustic or poisonous with some of my criticisms of these liberals are just wringing their hands and fretting about conservatives.
00:02:51.920 Like, in a way, conservatives are pushing the envelope.
00:02:57.620 Liberals are worried about, you know, J6 was a threat to democracy and Trump's selection is a threat to democracy.
00:03:06.220 And, you know, some of these conservative gatherings just get out of hand.
00:03:11.380 They're basically just fretting over, like, the conservatives being raucous.
00:03:17.260 But the question is, what is democracy?
00:03:20.320 What is it exactly that you're protecting?
00:03:22.980 What are you putting forward?
00:03:25.260 You know, what is this threat?
00:03:26.900 To what is this threat?
00:03:28.660 I guess I could.
00:03:30.980 And the reason is, is that liberals are kind of the conservatives at this point.
00:03:35.940 They are managing and maintaining liberal hegemony. 0.98
00:03:40.240 And the conservatives are the ones who might be dumb and, you know, politically violent and crude, et cetera, et cetera. 0.98
00:03:53.320 But they're the ones who are kind of directly confronting it. 1.00
00:03:56.340 They're the ones now talking about a fucking holy war. 0.98
00:04:00.340 You know, I mean, you can't against the deep state or against the enemies of Jesus or whomever. 0.98
00:04:05.840 But, like, you can't really put it more pointedly than that.
00:04:10.860 And so, you know, the left at some point had, you know, the Soviet Union as an embodiment of utopia, as the end of history, as something to shoot for. 0.85
00:04:25.280 Before that, it had a kind of idea of utopia that it could imagine.
00:04:30.720 And now it's really bereft of those things.
00:04:33.300 You know, like, isn't it in a way kind of like overly complimentary to say that AOC is a communist or a Marxist or something?
00:04:45.100 You know, she sounds a lot like a liberal who's, I don't know, more favorable towards labor unions.
00:04:54.120 She sounds kind of like a, I don't know, suburban white girl who thinks trans is kind of cool or something, or drag queens are cool. 0.90
00:05:08.380 Like, there's no there there.
00:05:10.180 There's no, like, Stalin would laugh at an individual like this.
00:05:14.220 And, you know, to be fair, I'm not even completely hostile towards AOC.
00:05:18.480 I think she's fine.
00:05:20.900 But an actual leftist who understood himself as in a revolutionary scenario would just laugh at this bourgeois pretender who claims to be a leftist or who's leading the left or whatever.
00:05:37.720 And so the liberals, precisely because they're in charge, don't really have a motive or a kind of revolution.
00:05:49.360 Now, the conservatives, there's no doubt that they have next to no policy promotions. 1.00
00:05:56.200 Their rhetoric is stupid and nuts and their rallies are dumb, whatever. 0.99
00:06:05.220 But they're the ones actually pushing for some kind of paradigmatic change, whether it's a national divorce, whether it's a holy war, whether it's, you know, firing half the government, whether it's a banning abortion everywhere. 1.00
00:06:25.400 Whether even in the online space, whether it's, you know, sending women back to the kitchen and converting to medieval Catholicism. 0.98
00:06:35.460 I mean, I don't support any of these things, but, and many of them are kind of LARPy or silly, but there's something, there's something there.
00:06:45.660 There's a there there.
00:06:46.600 They're not just defending an establishment.
00:06:48.460 And so I do think that, like, at the end of the day, if we are headed towards a chaotic situation, which I think might very well be the case, I do think it's going to be like all of these dumb energies that in many ways we make fun of.
00:07:06.500 I think that they will, you know, I think that they will, like, impact, they're going to, they're going to be the ones, they're going to be the aggressor, they're going to strike first.
00:07:15.720 They're going to be the ones who are pushing for some radical change of some kind to the liberal status quo.