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+# Wealth, Capitalism, and The Economy
+
+_Published 2025-03-04_
+
+Warning: Spicy Take to follow 
+
+I've only been alive *after* Reagan took office and systematically began
+dismantling the Federal government, so my lived-experiences are already
+fairly biased before I can even start talking about how "things used to
+be." Others have [explained this][1] ([archive link][2]) at length, so
+I'll defer to them on the background.
+
+What I think is missing from today's _understanding_ is that modern
+conservatives aren't "conservative" anymore. The republicans -- the
+group that is currently in power -- are deeply weird, unserious people,
+who couldn't be bothered to "perform their own research" if their lives
+depended on it. (And yes, actually, their lives _do_ depend on it.)
+
+What they've done instead is adopt the stance of your stereotypical
+15-year-old American boy: 
+
+- Remove all measures of transparency and openness
+- Claim as much authority and unilateral power as possible
+- Be deliberately, absurdly reductive and obtuse about things you don't
+  like
+- Argue for nuance and empathy for things you do like, especially
+  yourself
+- Act without regard for feedback, opinions, or justification
+
+This isn't conservative or liberal. This isn't democrat or republican.
+This is willingly-ignorant, stupid even versus... every one and
+everything else.
+
+How did we get here? Again, see the background link above, but I would
+like to take it one step further: 
+
+> Every illiberal, non-progressive government and political entity is
+> the cause of economic, bodily, and social harm.
+
+You can't be a conservative and "do good" because the conservative ethos
+goes against the definition of "doing good things for people." To borrow
+a quote from someone else, the response to the Daily Wire and all these
+provocateur mouthpieces should have been: 
+
+> "What is a woman?" Don't know and don't really care -- let's act in
+> the way that causes the least suffering.
+
+If that's not your stance, you aren't worth the skin you're in.
+
+[1]:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0
+[2]:https://www.gluecode.net/videos/MagaResentmentReaganTrump.mp4