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Political Beliefs and Constitutionalism

A long personal map of constitutionalism, free speech, empire, and American political theater.

Let me be clear here about many of my political beliefs and opinions:

For one, I am a free speech absolutist. I am a constitutionalist. Yes, I am serious about this, I really love this Republic and I think that we need to follow the constitution and the path laid out to us by our Founding Fathers. I love America, I think America is the greatest country in the history of Earth and is going to be the Sumeria of the future, Plymouth MA is Ur and Boston is Assur

I do not believe democracy exists at the Federal level in this country, I do not believe it has existed since, and this is crucial, the CIA killed JFK and the intelligentsia became the ruling class of this country. Because of this, I think pretty much all politics are shows, play acting, circus meant to keep us from revolting. I believe that the powers that be wanted Biden to win, and I also believe they wanted Trump to win, I do not think Trump and Biden are actually that different, I believe they're both just personalities put up there, actors, basically. I need to be very clear that I ardently believe this, this isn't a passing thought, I truly truly believe this and it is very important for my entire understanding of "politics" and this country.

I thoroughly believe the two-party system is evil, and that it is designed to make those who are capable of abiding by the party lines into crusaders, and those who aren't capable of doing so into the pit of demoralized culture. I believe the two party system is religious, both religions do whatever Langely says, at the end of the day, but they differ in how they operate culturally speaking, how they convert and keep their members in line. It is a church.

I believe most people who are involved in politics, sectarianism, are under a spell of mass psychosis, I believe 99% of the time that they are victims, and that they need help to break out of those psychological vectors of control. This is why I do not believe in "He is right-wing so he must be excommunicated from society forever", frankly I think this just isolates these people more, makes them more crazy, and makes the cultural and societal issue worse. The same can be said about crazy unhinged left-wingers as well, but lefties are uniquely more psychotic about their purity pearl clutching when it comes to 'association', this itself is another form of control and division that keeps the country divided and squabbling amongst the working class.

Now let me be clear now that I've talked about American politics not being real. I am, functionally speaking, a Socialist, you might even stretch to call me a Communist, this is true. I think that America is a project that can only end in Socialism or Communism, I believe that Proto Pre-Marxist Socialism is essentially the groundwork of our Republic, and it is our future. I believe very strongly in the protection of our wildlife and nature, but at the same time I also demand our right to live in nature without rent seeking. Traditionally in our culture wasteland and commons was reserved for those who wished to opt out of the rent seeking of modernity, we need to bring these back, it would solve the homelessness problem, and once we stop destroying homeless people's stuff every 3 days for lulz these people will finally be able to get stable enough to either become healthier and less dependent on drugs, and perhaps rejoin society if they want, or they'll be able to be a good member of their community and help bring it up. This is what I call the "Favela Pill".

Socially speaking I am also more on the left. I think transgenderism is caused by biological causes. So what is the cure? Give them HRT. Simple as that. Biochemical dysphoria is real. Informed consent is the gold standard. I have the same thoughts about homosexuality as well. There's nothing wrong with it, and it is genetic/biological, just standard biodiversity that makes humanity interesting. No need to pearl clutch over it.

I do not think porn is bad or evil, I think the professional industry itself is bad, but I do not think porn itself, or the act of masturbating is bad. If you have an unhealthy relationship with it, and you're mindful of that, then stop, but not everyone does, men and women alike, there is no one size fits all here. Everyone has different neurosis, and becoming a crusader doesn't make you healthier or your relationship with sex healthier. Let people enjoy things and do what they want, you people who want some sort of austere sexless society are deranged.

When it comes to speech like I said, I am a free speech absolutist, I think political correctness is evil, I think it is fine to say bigoted offensive jokes, I will even go so far as to say it is often pretty fucking funny, call me childish if you want, I don't really care. This is part of why the right wins when it comes to children and teenagers, they like laughing at edgy shit, so they'll gravitate towards the group that allows them to be edgy, it is important to remember that for 90% of people their edginess is not a reflection of their actual deeply head socio-political opinions. Part of why the left won in 2008 is because they learned how to be edgy, back then the Republicans were the woke ones who would cry and try to cancel you if you made 911 jokes or jokes about US soldiers being killed in the Orient, I was there, I remember. All of these cultural things are cyclical, it goes around and around and around. Nothing ever changes.

One final thing: When it comes to historiography, the 'grand teleology of Western Civilization', you might wonder where I stand, and let me be clear: I am a Whig. I think Tories, conservatives, those that fight for monarchy, the aristocracy, are misguided at best and evil at worst, and I believe that the Tories and people like them are the majority of people on the modern Left and Right, somehow, for whatever reason, they have had a somewhat completely silent ontological victory on the way people in both parties see history. Perhaps I am the last Whig, but I see myself as part of the gentry and thoroughly opposed to monarchism and technocracy and aristocracy and even nobility. I am capable of seeing the romanticism in these things, I like almost all Americans of European descent have aristocratic and noble blood, but I believe that doesn't cut it for supporting their regressive and freedom denying institutions.

Where do I fit historiographically? History is a struggle between Liberty and Tyranny, I am thoroughly on the side of Liberty, in every case, where ever it may be. However it is quite hard to truly say, to make up some sort of word, so I'll ask ChatGPT, here is their response:

"Your worldview aligns strongly with the Radical Whig tradition, blending it with left-republican socialism, proto-commons-based egalitarianism, and a teleological belief in historical progress toward civic freedom and social justice. You fall into a lineage that sees history as a continuous struggle between liberty and oligarchic/technocratic domination, where republics repeatedly risk capture by elite classes unless grounded in material equality, free speech, and civic virtue.

You also incorporate influences from proto-socialist agrarianism, Leveller egalitarianism, and Progressive-era republican socialism, culminating in a modern reinterpretation of America as a revolutionary Whig project destined (teleologically) for socialized economic justice and re-established civic commons.

Directly linked to figures/traditions like:

Transitional Radical Whig / Commonwealth Tradition

The Commonwealthmen (18th c. English Whigs emphasizing corruption vs. virtue)

The Country Party opposition writers (Trenchard & Gordon, Cato’s Letters)

The Radical Enlightenment tradition (Spinoza, Turgot, Diderot – liberty as teleological force)

Revolutionary-era American Radical Republicans

Thomas Paine – anti-monarchy, universal rights, quasi-socialist republicanism

Samuel Adams / radical Sons of Liberty – anti-elite republican vigilance

Left-Jeffersonian agrarian republicans (the yeoman + independence ideal)

Shaysite/Jacksonian radical democrats (before being co-opted by reactionary currents)

Early Socialist-Republican Fusion Thinkers

William Godwin – anarchistic-progressive Whiggism

Robert Owen – communitarian socialism within a progressive teleological frame

Chartists (workers’ democratic republican tradition, influenced by Paine & Levellers)

Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian republican socialist progressivism)

American Civil War & Reconstruction Radicalism

Radical Republicans during Reconstruction (Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner)

Early Radical Protestant / Anti-Monarchical Roots

The Levellers (John Lilburne, Richard Overton) – radical equality, consent of the governed, attack on aristocratic privilege

The Diggers (Gerrard Winstanley) – common ownership of land, agrarian communitarianism

Algernon Sidney – republican martyr opposed to monarchical tyranny

James Harrington – civic republicanism based on economic equality and anti-oligarchic balance

Abby Kelley & Frederick Douglass (abolitionist republican-progressivism tied to egalitarian social theory)

Early Black Republican social thought, tying civic freedom to material equality

19th–Early 20th c. Progressive & Socialist Republicans

Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward – socialist teleological future of the American Republic)

Henry George (common land + republican anti-monopoly economics)

John Dewey (democratic socialism as republican civic participation)

Eugene V. Debs (American socialism defended as fulfillment of the Revolution)

Modern Left-Republican / Anti-Technocratic Thinkers

C.B. Macpherson (possessive vs. democratic individualism in liberal-republican thought)

Sheldon Wolin (inverted totalitarianism; republic corrupted by technocratic elite rule)

Philip Pettit (neo-republican anti-domination theory)

Christopher Lasch (populist civic-republican critique of technocratic elites)

Contemporary echoes relevant to your synthesis

Eco-socialist commons movements (Murray Bookchin’s social ecology via republican democracy)

Communal autonomy / favela-style mutualist urban republicanism (David Graeber’s anthropology of self-governing radicals)

Post-liberal left-republican decentralists advocating for socialized material independence"

Thank you for your attention to this matter~