yarvin has been saying this since like 2012? it's just his thing you can ignore him. richard hanania has more of an impact, if you want to worry.
I'd say one of the major problems is that the voting system is built to de facto ensure a two-party system because it's a system in which individuals are voted for, with each race being a winner-takes-all for a single individual; as opposed to a system of representative voting. And a two-party system simply isn't able to represent the complexities of the world.
(This is of course in addition to other problems of the system which are also real.)
Eg one might like one party's position on the environment, but disagree with regards to their military position - it is not possible to find a party that represents how one feels on a multitude of issues. And even if you did agree with all a party's positions, parties change their positions - saying one thing and doing another.
And it has always been thus. One votes for a representative, who then votes on the specifics.
> And it has always been thus. One votes for a representative
In the US, yes. In many (most?) other countries, many votes are for parties instead. This allows for better representation.
If you think about that, if that's the best our democracy can do, then it sounds like evidence for Yarvin's position... until you think about it. Then you wonder, what happens if the non-democratic ruler was Biden or Trump or equivalent, and you can't get rid of them?
What we actually need is to fix the primary process.
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-w...
They've been talking about ignoring court rulings for years. Now they're in a position to actually do that.
It may well happen soon that they ignore a Supreme Court ruling. It depends how far they think they can push it.
Years before he was the Republican vice presidential nominee, however, Vance openly touted that influence.
“So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things,” Vance said on a right-wing podcast in 2021. Vance didn’t stop at a simple name-drop.
He went on to explain how former President Donald Trump should remake the federal bureaucracy if reelected.
“I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
This “piece of advice” is more or less identical to a proposal Yarvin floated around 2012: “Retire All Government Employees,” or RAGE.
~ https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24266512/jd-vance-curtis...
(drawn from the Vanity Fair 2022 piece)