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Michael Anton, one of the smartest men in politics today, known for his essay The Flight 93 Election which came out in September of 2016, released this book about two months ago. It was an extremely enlightening read and I think thoroughly makes the case for why corporate Republican party politics created the far left and why it's essential we flip to a full on populist pro-labor party, like yesterday. He Also analyzes the left wing woke coalition, why it suffers from internal contradictions, and explores possibilities for how it might fail, however it is Anton's assertion that in the next few election cycles, demographic shifts will lock republicans out of power. Anton writes this regime takes the form of the one party rule in California, with an uber rich information technology and corporate class raping the wealth of the middle class and cementing their power with a combination of grievance politics and constant importation of third world voters. Anton does not appear to believe this coalition will be permanent, although it can be managed for a long time. He supposes a potential fate of America is a long term byzantine empire type of collapse where the empire collapsed over centuries with the leaders being unwilling to act as long as they remained in power during the decline.
The book is organized into 8 chapters
Chapter 1) Explains the long decline of California from being a society where one working class married man could live in a detached house with two lawns, two cars, multiple children, and send his kids to LAUSD, one of the best districts in the nation, by the 1990s this society was totally gone, crime and violence and public order offenses make most of urban California unlivable, the LAUSD he describes as "tantamount to child abuse" (on a side note, my girlfriend who went to public schools in a barrio neighborhood agreed with this when I was discussing this book with her) He describes the insane housing prices for unsafe and substandard housing, the abolition of a law mandating english be the language of primary education in schools, and how California's society has become the most unequal, with tech barons paying nothing in taxes while the burden is put on the middle class. Illegal immigrants drive down wages while the kids of illegal immigrants with no memory of the poverty their parents left feel resentful because they're locked out of a visible opulent life style. He makes the case this is coming to all of America
Chapter 2) Describes the constitution of America as intended, this is a long chapter and for brevity I will skip it
Chapter 3) Describes the current regime in America, where the left has fully seized control of the institutions. examples of political bias abound, like a jury forewoman on Roger Stone's trial who was allowed to sit despite having denounced Stone on social media. he makes the case this is an extra constitutional state, where there are no more political questions, only what the professional managerial elite who are educated and concentrated in coastal cities want.
Chapter 4) Describes the ruling classes and their muscle. This is largely those with elite education, who concentrate in certain jobs in Banking, Finance, Technology, and the Professional Managerial Elite of the bureaucracy. They have found their muscle in disaffected minorities and malcontents. And also the children of elites who feel they would've joined the civil rights movement if only they born in the correct year, and their resentment at this cuases them to invent new civil rights causes, like the inalieable right of a "woman" with a penis to change in the shower with little girls. This coalition is fraught, and Anton argues that if at any point members of the coalition begin to view their masters, ie the big neoliberal capitalists as their true enemy and not the "deplorables" it will fracture
Chapter 5) immigration. Anton Argues immigration should be limited. He is highly critical of the romantic myth of the Ellis Island immigration, insisting it was bad for America. He cites American involvement in foreign affairs like the Irish troubles as a result of importing immigrants more loyal to their ethnic culture then the republican ideals of America. He insists there was no mafia in America before Italian immigration. He further argues that a nation if a compact, and it is perfectly legitimate for those already in the compact to refuse new members and this is strictly a political and not a moral question. He argues that if the majority of Americans don't want more immigration, even if the only reason is bigotry, then we dont need to admit more immigrants, which I agree with. He cites numerous left wing writers as openly writing the point of mass immigration was to destroy American sense of community.
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The book is organized into 8 chapters
Chapter 1) Explains the long decline of California from being a society where one working class married man could live in a detached house with two lawns, two cars, multiple children, and send his kids to LAUSD, one of the best districts in the nation, by the 1990s this society was totally gone, crime and violence and public order offenses make most of urban California unlivable, the LAUSD he describes as "tantamount to child abuse" (on a side note, my girlfriend who went to public schools in a barrio neighborhood agreed with this when I was discussing this book with her) He describes the insane housing prices for unsafe and substandard housing, the abolition of a law mandating english be the language of primary education in schools, and how California's society has become the most unequal, with tech barons paying nothing in taxes while the burden is put on the middle class. Illegal immigrants drive down wages while the kids of illegal immigrants with no memory of the poverty their parents left feel resentful because they're locked out of a visible opulent life style. He makes the case this is coming to all of America
Chapter 2) Describes the constitution of America as intended, this is a long chapter and for brevity I will skip it
Chapter 3) Describes the current regime in America, where the left has fully seized control of the institutions. examples of political bias abound, like a jury forewoman on Roger Stone's trial who was allowed to sit despite having denounced Stone on social media. he makes the case this is an extra constitutional state, where there are no more political questions, only what the professional managerial elite who are educated and concentrated in coastal cities want.
Chapter 4) Describes the ruling classes and their muscle. This is largely those with elite education, who concentrate in certain jobs in Banking, Finance, Technology, and the Professional Managerial Elite of the bureaucracy. They have found their muscle in disaffected minorities and malcontents. And also the children of elites who feel they would've joined the civil rights movement if only they born in the correct year, and their resentment at this cuases them to invent new civil rights causes, like the inalieable right of a "woman" with a penis to change in the shower with little girls. This coalition is fraught, and Anton argues that if at any point members of the coalition begin to view their masters, ie the big neoliberal capitalists as their true enemy and not the "deplorables" it will fracture
Chapter 5) immigration. Anton Argues immigration should be limited. He is highly critical of the romantic myth of the Ellis Island immigration, insisting it was bad for America. He cites American involvement in foreign affairs like the Irish troubles as a result of importing immigrants more loyal to their ethnic culture then the republican ideals of America. He insists there was no mafia in America before Italian immigration. He further argues that a nation if a compact, and it is perfectly legitimate for those already in the compact to refuse new members and this is strictly a political and not a moral question. He argues that if the majority of Americans don't want more immigration, even if the only reason is bigotry, then we dont need to admit more immigrants, which I agree with. He cites numerous left wing writers as openly writing the point of mass immigration was to destroy American sense of community.
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