What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.

[ZiprHead]

Nancy MacLean, author of an intellectual biography of James McGill Buchanan, explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.

"When the Supreme Court decided, in the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education, that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Tennessee-born economist James McGill Buchanan was horrified. Over the course of the next few decades, the libertarian thinker found comfortable homes at a series of research universities and spent his time articulating a new grand vision of American society, a country in which government would be close to nonexistent, and would have no obligation to provide education—or health care, or old-age support, or food, or housing—to anyone.

This radical vision has become the playbook for a network of people looking to override democracy in order to shift more money to the wealthiest few, historian and professor at Duke University Nancy MacLean argues in her new book, an intellectual biography of James Buchanan called Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.* Buchanan’s life story, she writes, is 'the true origin story of today’s well-heeled radical right.'"

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-architect-of-the-radical-right/528672/

More about Buchanan and his place in the rise of the modern far right.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

In my way of thinking there is no endgame and there is no far right. There is only capitalism.

 

[untermensche]

IMO many people on the right (US right) are consumed with themselves and consumed with money.

All they really care about is keeping their money.

They do not want to pay their debt to society.

So they pretend all is not dependent on society.

 

[BH]

They think they own everything, or at least everything that is important and allows the weilding of power. In the name of property rights they can be the lords of society and the masses their feudal serfs. With no government willing to act on behalf of the public they are basically the judge jury and executioner of anyone less on the total pole than they are.

And I guarantee all of these people claiming to be uber libertarian who are well off, once and if they get hteir way, will without shame turn to government coffers anytime they feel they need to. Since they by that time will control all the media (no more NPR or BBC type programs) they simply will not tell you.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

The end game can vary according to the ideologue. But generally it is a sort of fantasy libertarian world with almost no government and no "welfare state". Social Darwinism on a grand scale. It is a species of utopianism. The closest we can see to any place on a large scale where this sort of system is in place may be in Russia with it's free for all kleptocracy and it's oligarchs. Where everybody else struggles along more or less. Ayn Rand run rampant. The thing is, in the late 1800's and early 1900's America tried this libertarian type system and it was a notable failure in the end. Leading to the rise of progressivism.