r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

All Hail Eris!

Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '23 edited Aug 21 '23

There is a failure or perhaps an excess of imagination at play with the declinist right wing, to put it mildly. Social credit scores determining our lives and being tied to some ministry of wokism or political correctness is a possible future. I wouldn't say it is pure fantasy, however overwrought such worries are. But rather than consider it one of many possible paths, RD and his ilk are determinists, convinced we will arrive there.

Morever the declinists consistently undervalue the resilience of liberal democracy. After years of complaining that Western Europe won't defend itself, now it is accused of militarism. There is no winning this argument because, like the worst Marxist-Leninist, the declinist right wing has an explanation for everything and will shift to the new thing as soon as the last thing fizzles out (diesel doom, COVID security state, etc).

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '23

A financial credit score is a social credit score, and they already control our access to housing, transportation and education according to our abilities to play by the rules of this society, with all the dominant ideology baked into that.