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Thanks for asking, let's see if I can clarify.

I base some of my idea of Soviet America on James Burnham's "The Managerial Revolution", written during WW2:

"What is occurring in this transition is a drive for social dominance, for power and privilege, for the position of ruling class, by the social group or class of the MANAGERS (as I shall call them, reserving for the moment an explanation of whom this class includes). This drive will be successful. At the conclusion of the transition period the managers will, in fact, have achieved social dominance, will be the ruling class in society. This drive, moreover, is worldwide in extent, already well advanced in all nations, though at different levels of development in different nations.

There is, in truth, not a formal identity, but a historical bond uniting Stalinism (communism), Nazism (fascism), and New Dealism. Against differing developmental backgrounds and at different stages of growth, they are all managerial ideologies. They all have the same historical direction: away from capitalist society and toward managerial society."

Soviet America is the form the Global American Empire is taking at home, where the country is ruled by an managerial/technocratic/aristocratic/cultural elite and it's defined as having 1) Potemkin elections, where the Party decides the candidates and no matter who you vote for, power is never threatened and policy rarely affected, with all politicians having more or less the same (approved) beliefs and ideas; 2) having ideological loyalty oaths to the Regime (in our case DEI) as a way to weed out opponents and dissidents and keep them from gaining any sort of power, esp in re employment and college admission; and 3) most importantly, having all this fortified and the population both addled and pacified by a nonstop full-spectrum program of propaganda, where the Party and its leaders and its reigning narratives (all of them centered on vague platitudes like Progress or Hope or Love) are painted as enlightened, necessary, the natural beliefs any Good, kind person should hold, with the opposite being any dissenters or opponents become Emmanuel Goldstein (Trump, Elon, Jordan Peterson, Canadian Truckers, up to and including Matt Taibbi) and deserve nothing but hate and scorn—all this amplified by rage and anxiety-inducing algorithms.

Other aspects include mass immigration, secularization, divide-and-conquer tribalism, and the assault on our civil liberties (painting free speech etc as "dangerous" or "hurtful"), but I've already gone on too long. Hope this makes sense.

Aug 24, 2024
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