Charlie Kirk’s “prove me wrong” routine looked like debate, but it was theater. Stagecraft built to divide, not to dialogue.

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Why Do We Hate Poor People? – Part 6 is live.
Because someone always benefits when they’re blamed.
Contempt for the poor isn’t natural. It’s maintained—because it serves a purpose.
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#poverty #blame #politicaleconomy #inequality #austerity #why

New post: Why Do We Hate Poor People? – Part 5
Because the poor learn to hate themselves too.
Shame doesn’t just come from outside. It gets taught, repeated, absorbed.
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#poverty #shame #selfblame #inequality #socialcontrol #why

New post: Why Do We Hate Poor People? – Part 4
Because media and culture teach us to feel contempt.
Before we learn to question poverty, we learn how to feel about it.
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#poverty #media #culture #representation #stigma #politicaleconomy

New post in the series:
Why Do We Hate Poor People? – Part 3
Because blame is a tool of control.
When poverty is framed as a personal failure, the system is left off the hook.
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#poverty #blame #politics #scapegoating #socialcontrol #inequality

Why Do We Hate Poor People? Part 2
Because we’re told the system is fair.
Meritocracy frames poverty as failure, and success as proof of virtue. It leaves no room to question the system itself.
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#meritocracy #inequality #poverty #politicaleconomy #bootstrapmyth

Why do we hate poor people?
New series. Part 1: Because poverty has always been treated as a moral failure.
From Calvinism to the Poor Laws to modern policy discourse, blame moves downward.
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#poverty #politicaleconomy #meritocracy #socialpolicy #blueskywriting

They’re not changing the rules. They’re changing what counts as a rule.
New from the Project 2025 series: Legal Engineering.
How compliance systems are being redesigned to enforce ideology by definition.
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They’re not just rewriting laws.
They’re rewriting the language that shapes what government can even see.
New from the Project 2025 series: Command and Consensus.
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Neutrality isn’t the goal.
The new civil service model rewards alignment, not expertise.
New from the Project 2025 series: The End of Equal Administration.
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Emergency powers aren’t going away. They’re being built into normal governance.
New from the Project 2025 series: how crisis authority is being recoded for permanence.
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They’re not privatizing the state.
They’re constructing a new one in parallel.
The latest in our series on Project 2025 is live now: Parallel States.
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This is part of a series on how Project 2025 reshapes public life through administrative control
This entry documents how cultural authority is being remade through state systems
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#Project2025 #AdministrativePower #CulturalGovernance #TheOneBigBeautifulBill