[FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

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Proximity to Evergreen has been interesting. My interaction with Evergreen graduates and students indicates Bret Weinstein is simply traumatized and his story biased. But it's all hearsay to me.

Maybe there's an argument that the left is actually *competent*, whereas the right (in this country) is mostly buffoonish (excepting elites like Peter Thiel). I'd disagree, though. Having tried to follow the neo-reaction movement as it emerged from the rationalists (e.g. Yudkowsky -- and I suspect Robin Hanson), I think there's a significant risk the *next* right-wing President we have won't be a buffoon at all. Add to that the relatively Machiavellian players like Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, the puppet masters at the Federalist Society (who I think put Gorsuch and ACB in front of Trump), the Cato Institute, etc. and you've got a pretty significant set of non-buffoons working toward authoritarianism ... even if they don't *say* that's what they're doing. Compared to those Dark Lords, the left intelligentsia seems too scattered to do anything but *stumble* into it.

I fear tyranny no matter the style, left, right, lowest common denominator mediocrity, rejection by the Cool Kids ... all of it.

On 11/8/20 12:06 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Still, Trumpers’ fear of the far left is something that has given me a “huh” moment, particularly when endorsed by Weinstein and our own Dave West.  Glen, living in the NW, might have insight on that. 
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> But, somehow, “enriched intellectually” misses the point. It’s not what that person can do for me, it’s what we might accomplish together. 


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