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Jared Yates Sexton

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Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Political Adviser: The Change Campaign

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Jared Yates Sexton is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. .. more

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Dec 17

The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.

If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.

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A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward

Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12h

We do, people just don’t realize they’re part of it and they’re not being represented.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12h

Watching your team fall to it because of some random dingers and then ground ball after ground ball after ground ball is soul crushingly maddening.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13h

It’s important to realize that while the GOP went full fascist, there was a concerted, relentless, and obscenely well-funded campaign to pull the Dems to the Right.

They became the conservative party and the project isn’t even close to being finished.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13h

When stories start popping up in multiple outlets saying liberals are warming to MTG or Nick Fuentes, and they’re not, it’s probably a good thing to start asking why.

And then, remember that Bush Era Republicans and the Cheneys were embraced and then liberal think tanks got funded by the Koch’s.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Yeaaaaaaaaah

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like the post-war order and its institution were set up to legitimize and hide neo-colonialism and now that capitalism requires overt fascism there’s not even a need to hide it anymore.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Just find it interesting that every neoliberal institution supposedly meant to “shepherd” and “protect” these countries while raiding their resources and economies aren’t so much as stepping in with America.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

I’m just waiting on all the Neoliberals who spent years communicating white supremacist smears about so-called second and third world countries not being able to sustain democracy or being susceptible to corruption to step up and apologize, but I’m not holding my breath.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

And now, to arrive at a crossroads where these unimaginative and untalented tech buffoons have run out of ideas after one failure after another and everything rides on their latest failure of an idea, one that will destabilize and wreck society, is just another gut punch.

I hate these fuckers.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

And it’s bad enough we have to deal with fascism, but having it driven by an incompetent idiot like Yarvin who basically can’t be bothered to do anything besides ramble about antidemocratic ideas he briefly read about on Wikipedia is infuriating.

It’s all shoddy and embarassing.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Watching Thiel hold multiple hour lectures in which he tries and fails to weave together the incoherent bullshit someone has fed him to make him feel like a savior so he’ll donate millions to their projects is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen. Truly, truly pathetic.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

The tech oligarchs thinks he’s brilliant because he walked into a casino rigged to let him win with every pull and is so narcissistic it never occurs to him that the entire system was shifted in their favor and so none of this was ever real or earned in the first place.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

The average tech oligarch has no reading comprehension, prattles on constantly about ideas that are half-baked, fails at practically everything that isn’t propped up by free money, and are so stupid they read plagiarized fascist ideology and fall in love because it’s just inflating their egos.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

These assholes aren’t messiahs or super-geniuses. They’re weirdos who were in the right place at the right time and were all ruthless enough to fuck everyone over they ever knew and shameless enough to build cults populated with other antidemocratic weirdos. It’s infuriating.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

It’s endlessly depressing watching all these tech oligarchs try and convince themselves they’re geniuses instead of people who just happened to benefit from capitalism requiring their products and then the entire political and banking system gassing them up with with free money and tireless support.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

And it's almost like what we're experiencing with capitalism requiring fascism to continue its consolidation of wealth in the face of breakdown is something we've seen over and over again and that the wealthy's insistence on repeating patterns has brought us to the brink again.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know, maybe not a good thing that consumer spending is being completely driven by a billionaire class, jobs are being shed at breakneck speed, and the entire economy is resting on a historically large and precarious bubble.

It’s almost like capitalism is inherently self-destructive.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

It was inevitable that, without needed change and reform, the War on Terror would swing back to America

It’s the march of capitalism and its reliance on hidden and then overt authoritarianism. We can see where this is going by looking at what we did to others, and so we must band together with them

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

It’s fun and not at all disturbing that the fascists and tech oligarchs who control this country are all absolutely marinated and cooked in brain rotting conspiracy theories and pseudo-ideological drivel.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

As I said in the article, unless we do something to address intentional scarcity and declining conditions, we may very well look back on the Trump/MAGA era as the precursor to something much more dangerous and destructive.

We have work to do. A lot of work.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

The schism within MAGA is an opportunity, but it will only help openly fascist movements and projects unless we fight to change our status quo, which helped create this problem in the first place.

Failing to do that likely means something even worse after Trump.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

We’ve seen how this has been solved in the past. America’s fascist movements were stopped when a political movement began addressing the material conditions that fueled the radicalization.

Choosing to just hope these disenchanted supporters vote Democratic gets us nowhere.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Add in tech tools that increasingly pipeline Right to Far Right ideas, and that they’re controlled by oligarchs who openly disdain democracy and human dignity, the odds of ex-MAGA supporters moving toward fascist opinions and projects is increasingly likely.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

There’s always been a ton of contradictions in MAGA, including religious zealots who live in cultish adoration and those who see Trump as a useful idiot.

The former group includes fascistic tech oligarchs and fascist groups that want to go well beyond liberal democracy and Trump himself.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not a coincidence that growing schisms in MAGA are coinciding with the growth in popularity of Far Right personalities and communities that are explicitly fascistic.

The anger that animates MAGA is shifting toward more overtly antidemocratic and authoritarian sources.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

It’s true that some MAGA supporters are losing faith in Trump and expressing frustration. But evidence and trends suggest they’re flocking to explicit Fascists and growing more radicalized.

We can’t just sit back and hope. We have to fight.

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Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump

Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5d

You cannot reason with a fascist. You can’t endear yourself to a fascist. They will turn on everyone, including their own family, their allies, their sycophants and collaborators.

Fascists hate themselves and they hate the world. This doesn’t stop unless it is stopped.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5d

Framing it as Trump simply going after his political enemies is misleading because to a fascist every other living person is their political enemy.

You’re his political enemy. You just haven’t been identified yet.

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

New #StartMeUp 👅 podcast with @jysexton.bsky.social.

Every time I talk with Jared, I'm wiser. We discussed how acts of kindness & helping others in your community can be powerful tools against fascism. And he highlights the resilience of the human spirit.💙

Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/140831...

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