{"id":15427,"date":"2021-07-31T16:56:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=15427"},"modified":"2021-07-31T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:56:43","slug":"curtis-yarvin-talks-about-regime-change-and-how-it-can-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/curtis-yarvin-talks-about-regime-change-and-how-it-can-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Yarvin Talks About Regime Change and How it Can be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a non-paying reader of Curtis Yarvin\u2019s substack page Gray Mirror.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/graymirror.substack.com\/p\/for-the-times-they-are-a-changing?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzU3ODc2MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6Mzk0MTk4NDEsIl8iOiJUZGtOYSIsImlhdCI6MTYyNzc2Mjk0NywiZXhwIjoxNjI3NzY2NTQ3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDk3NjYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.zYMDNVEOk25zq2Pty6UYn5cIXR5kTqt2clwipb7o5Yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His latest article<\/a> was a response to a journalist named Damon Linker at the The Week becoming upset at the content of a discussion between Yarvin and Michael Anton in an American Mind podcast.\u00a0 Apparently, the idea of these two men discussing the idea of a monarchical government for the United States is so beyond the pale that Mr. Linker started getting the vapors.\u00a0 Meanwhile, roving mobs of masked thugs burning down police stations and private businesses is just good old democratic horse trading to him I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Yarvin uses Linker\u2019s outrage as a jumping off point to go into his hypotheses about what will and won\u2019t work at reforming American government.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll paraphrase these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The only choices with respect to the present regime are leave it alone or replace it completely.<\/li>\n<li>To replace the present regime we will have to elect a president and allow him to assume absolute power.<\/li>\n<li>The process of making this change can be completely non-violent.<\/li>\n<li>That the actions embodied in these hypotheses are just as practical as any other reform program being contemplated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I recommend reading Yarvin\u2019s essay.\u00a0 It is worth thinking about.\u00a0 The present oligarchic regime is extremely powerful and has figured out all the angles for rigging our elections and even ignoring the leaders we do manage to get elected.\u00a0 Yarvin may be right about the need for a total reset.\u00a0 The part about it being violence free is the thing I have my doubts about.\u00a0 Read it for yourself and tell me what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a non-paying reader of Curtis Yarvin\u2019s substack page Gray Mirror.\u00a0 His latest article was a response to a journalist named Damon Linker at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2062,2063,864,3204],"class_list":["post-15427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-curtis-yarvin","tag-mencius-moldbug","tag-michael-anton","tag-regime-change"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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