https://stormer-daily.rw/please-stop-talking-about-democracy/

Good article from Anglin. I learned some new words. I did not know what a 'hautology' was. (It's an idea from the past that asserts itself or haunts the present).

The motivation for the article seems to be all the recent polling data showing the widening gap between left leaning and right leaning people

A plurality of Republicans — 30% — described Democrats as “out of touch with reality,” while 25% claimed they were a “threat to America.” Another 8% see the Democratic Party as “immoral” and 4% said it was a “threat to me personally.” Democrats’ opinions of the GOP were similar, with 27% calling the Republican Party “out of touch with reality,” 23% saying they are a “threat to America,”

and the strange agreements.

The striking findings were reported in a Yahoo News/YouGov survey which found 55% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans said it was “likely” the US will “cease to be a democracy in the future.”

I like how Anglin cuts fluff and summarizes clearly:

But this split ultimately can be reduced to the exact same boring, obvious point:

The right believes reality is what it is, and you have to deal with it, and

The left believes man can be perfected and a utopia can be created on earth

The right, typically, wants to be left alone to figure out their lives for themselves, while the left believes that a collective utopian mission is necessary for society. That ultimately comes back to a metaphysical question: does man have a personal relationship to the divine? If so, he should be left alone to figure it out. If not, then the individual is a blob of cells irrelevant to the greater utopian project.

Of course: it is only a fraction of a fraction of the population that understands this dichotomy, and most are going on instinct. The core instincts surround two distinct spooks that have actual clear meaning:

Left: desire for hedonistic pleasures to maximize “happiness”

Right: belief in order to maximize “personal autonomy” Simply: the left is feminine, the right is masculine.

Women, and men with feminine spirits, do not have any conception of higher purpose, so the only thing they can think about is physical pleasures – their brains releasing happiness chemicals. Men with higher ideals understand that life is suffering, and the only way to live a meaningful life is to confront challenges and overcome them. To confront and overcome challenges, you have to be left alone, and free to confront dangers on your own terms.

Those remain the core drivers behind popular sentiments.