#jdvance – Before We Were White

Back when America was great [North Carolina, 1933]

“I think the rejection of the American family is perhaps the most pernicious and most evil thing that the left has done in this country.”

“Why have we let the Democrat party become controlled by people who don’t have children, and why is this just a normal fact of American life that the leaders of our country should be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring, via their own children and grandchildren?

“These children are the future of this country and yet the parents who have them actually have no advantage in our democratic process,” Vance said. “They have a smaller voice in some ways – in very many cases – than the people who don’t have any children at all. The children who come from these families have no real representative in our democracy.

“Why don’t we change that? Now some people will say this is radical and this is crazy. The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to 16-year-olds but let’s do this instead: Let’s give votes to all children in this country but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.”

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The incoming US administration will refuse point-blank to face up to incipient climate catastrophe caused by first world over-consumption of resources in an overpopulated world.

Instead, the quotes above are the “vision” being put forth by the vice-president elect.

Put bluntly, he and his billionaire technocrat backers are speaking about using legislation and social engineering to force the women of the USA back into a position as “breeders” and stay-at-home mothers.

And what are these electorally empowered “breeders” expected to achieve? Other than a simple increase in GOP votes?

Why, a reversal of the demographic trend toward a “brown” or more ethnically mixed USA.

A “white” evangelical Christian family with 8 children and a stay-at-home mother would have a far greater say in elections than a working couple with one or two children.

As far as this writer is aware, there is no constitutional impediment to the implementation of this frankly insane idea.

Revenge of the nerds?

Why is J. D. Vance misrepresenting his ethnic background?

1) Because he’s a man with limited knowledge of his own family?

or is it because:

2) If he admitted his ancestors were once “not quite white” Appalachians, he would have to confront the real historical reasons for transgenerational poverty there?

or maybe:

3) By claiming to be “Scots-Irish”, he gets to claim a White Christian Nationalist identity which goes down well with a certain bloc of voters?

4) Or is Vance and his entire bootstrapping “Hillbilly” persona a construction crafted by shadowy multi-billionaire Libertarian puppet-masters who have been

grooming him for power?

The answer is probably “all of the above”.

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Peter Thiel, one of the co-founders of PayPal, has had a profound influence on Vance’s fast track political career, seeding him millions of dollars to launch “Narya”, before funding a successful campaign to win his US Senate seat in 2022. No one in American history has occupied the office of vice president with less political experience.

Vance is also being cheered-on by Elon Musk of X and Tesla, and Jacob Helberg of “Palantir”. “Palantir” is a Big Data mining and analytics company founded by the above-mentioned Thiel which services Big Business and governments – a powerful tool for politicians hoping to micro-target voters, identify points of dissent, and keep tabs on “enemies”.

These people are Libertarian in outlook, which essentially means they support complete deregulation of Big Tech and other mega businesses.

It is fascinating and simultaneously terrifying just how many of these Silicon Valley techno-feudalists have framed their outlook within fantasy worlds like Tolkien‘s “Lord of the Rings”, or on role-playing games like “Dungeons and Dragons”.

Over the past 50 years, any teenager prone to pondering “Big Ideas” eventually landed on Libertarianism as their pet political ideology for a while. Most teenagers with even an iota of humility or social empathy eventually outgrow Ayn Rand and dumb Libertarian ideas, realising that it is nothing more than a fluffed-up, right wing version of anarchism – minus any social conscience.

Men like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are essentially teenage boys who became rich enough to live out their adolescent fantasies well beyond puberty:

“My own sovereign territory on Mars!”

“Being cryogenically preserved in the name of immortality!”

“Controlling the fates of nations!”

“I bet Susan back in high school wishes she had gone to the prom with me instead of Josh!”

By funding and grooming a man like Vance – an underclass kid desperate to outrun his class origins – these creepily weird teenage-brained boy-men are within a whisker of being inside The Oval Office.

Think of Putin and his inner circle of oligarchs and you begin to see where the US under Trump, Vance, and the Tech-Bros would be heading.

As Vance himself stated while sucking-up to Trump earlier this year, a new administration would like to “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people”.

He would be happy to deny election results if they don’t turn out well for the GOP this November. He is also on record as saying he would not have certified the results of the 2020 election – at least not until various swing states had been allowed to submit “alternative” slates of presidential electors.

He’s also willing to fall into line with Trump’s plan to cut taxes for the already hyper-rich.

He has advised Trump to defy the Supreme Court if it rules him as acting unlawfully in firing executive branch officials.

He’s ready to take away from women the right to a safe and legal abortion – even in cases of rape and incest. He has even toyed with the idea of blocking interstate movement of women suspected of seeking abortions in places where such care is still legal. Just begin to imagine the levels of surveillance and invasive scrutiny required to enforce such a regime…

As for international politics, try this from a 2022 interview with populist rabble-rouser Steve Bannon:

“I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another”.

Even if we set aside the lack of humanity in allowing a democratic nation to fall to an autocrat, Vance shows a profound ignorance of the danger of allowing Putin to gain control of a country which acts as a bread basket to much of the world. Or maybe Vance’s “handlers” are happy to divide the world into zones controlled by autocratic regimes (as aspiring autocrats themselves)?

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Social media is by nature a place for short-form articles, so we’ll just leave these names for your later investigation:

Ajay Royan, Marc Andreessen, Steve Case, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, Ray Dalio, Vivek Ramaswamy, Colin Greenspon, Scott Dorsey, Ben Horowitz.

All of these big money players (along with Donald Trump, Jr., Tucker Carlson, and of course the aforementioned Peter Thiel) have had a role of some kind or another in the rise of James Donald Vance [Bowman].

The only massive tech businesses which Vance has expressed a negative opinion of are those he accuses of “censoring” conservative voices.

“We are in a late republican period…If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

That’s right, fake hillbilly. Even a lot of conservatives are still uncomfortable with the idea of the USA as a dictatorship.

If you’re lucky, you’ll be dropped like a hot potato by Trump. He’s starting to think maybe you’re not smart enough for the game he’s playing.

Oh well. Maybe you could get back to your real roots, J. D.

Before your soul shrivels-up and blows away.

*bad weird, not good weird

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