End It

 

I subscribe to periodic emails sent out by Chris Rufo. I  have one that I will quote and comment on. It was sent to me by Rufo on 3/13/24. It is entitled: Claudine Gay, Silicon Valley and Ending DEI Forever: A conversation with Mike Solana of the ‘Pirates Wires’ podcast.

 

Here writes Rufo (R after this): “Last week, I was a guest on ‘Pirate Wires,’ a popular podcast hosted by Mike Solaria. We talked about recent wins against the entrenched DEI bureaucracy, the strategies that are working, and where we’re headed. We explained how DEI has captured our most innovative, prestigious companies and why it has become the cause of our time. Fortunately, there are vulnerabilities in the system and we have begun to fight back.

 

 

“Dismantling DEI from the Inside:

 

Mike Solana (S after this): With the Claudine Gay situation,  you explained you were putting out the plagiarism story directly before a hearing, in an attempt to get her fired. You said this publicly, out loud. Whereas what we see from left-wing activists is cloaking. We all know what’s happening, but it’s cloaked in bullshit and weird semantic games. But you just straightforwardly say, ‘My goal to get this woman fired because I believe that she’s this DEI bureaucrat that I don’t like, and the way I’m going to do this is X, Y, and Z.”

 

My response: Rufo is straightforward; this obfuscating, this cloaking and weird semantic games just get in the way.

 

R: “Their usual attack on me, which I find very amusing and actually kind of fun, is ‘Christopher Rufo is a James Bond villain narrating his own evil plot . . . and it works every time.’ Everyone does this on the Left, but they pretend they’re not doing it. I’m doing it on the Right, and I’m explaining to people that I’m doing it.”

 

Solana: “Joy Reid coined this phrase for you—again, underlying how they’re really assisting you constantly. She says, ‘It’s really the Christopher Rufo theory.’ She handed it to you and thought it was a victory. There are only two things you’re allowed to be in the media: you’re either a neutered sock puppet that they smack around, or you are a supervillain—and that gives you all the attention.”

 

My response: all of this seems too much bragging and self-congratulations to me. I suggest a good influencer, with a noble cause, that is calm, factual and speak the plain truth to the public, in the long run, will win people over, not worrying about who gets the credit.

 

Rufo: “Some people cling to principles as a consolation prize. They’re happy to lose every  political fight. They’re happy to watch the schools succumb to critical race ideologies. They’re very happy to watch the state grow to the point now where the American state, as a percentage of GDP, is larger than the Chinese Communist state.”

 

My response: RINOS compromise when they should not, and mildly accept all defeats, though they are sure their principles were validated, though they were defeated. No more, we want to be right and victorious.

 

Solana: “It just does seem to me that you’re supposed to lose. That the expectation. That the polite thing to do: to not win. That’s been my experience with almost everything I’ve ever cared about in my entire political memory. Losing—not be on the wrong side of history, but by being on the wrong side of power.”

 

My response: The good people, the conservatives, must refuse to lose any long, and, as soon as they expect to be victorious, all of a sudden, they become more victorious.

 

People are born corrupt, lazy, passive: they naturally have no energy, will or activism to change something socially insufferable—they just whine and then live with it.

 

Where do the Leftists get their enviable activism, resolve and determination to win. We are in the active phase of the Marxist mass movement, so these true believers are fanaticized and electrified, honored to die for their holy cause, usually an evil cause.

 

People do not get so excited over good because we are not born very good, but, as individuating sueprcitizens, we can compensate by living as calmly resolved, energetic and unwavering opponents to fanatics and their holy causes. As we fight back, we will slow the march of Marxism down, and then then we can begin to win more and more.

 

“The Rightward Shift is Here

 

R: “Some of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world are now saying, ‘Hey, money is shifting rightward, influence is shifting rightward, in finance, tech, and venture capital.’ Are we living in a world where a dramatic single strike that removes a university president from office can change everything? No. We live in a bureaucratic world that changes slowly and has to be penetrated more deeply. But is it a symbolic victory that has real material and political ramifications? Yes.

 

S: “If the goal is to change the bureaucratic structure, America is bureaucracy—every facet of power at sufficient scale is bureaucratic. So if the goal is to alter that in some way, are you doomed to fail? Because the kind of people who are attracted to bureaucratic power and institutions are naturally left-of-center.”

 

My response: Rufo’s inside-the-bureaucracies reform is worthwhile and necessary, but it is not sufficient. Bureaucracies are more evil that beneficial, so we need our ultimate goals to downsize and right-size institutions, but we require individuating supercitizens to revolutionize bureaucracies in reach and depth.

 

R: “There is no immutable law that requires bureaucracies to be left-wing. But people within bureaucracies are cowardly. They can be silenced easily, pushed around easily, and recruited into the dominant ideology without too much trouble. Left-wing activists are brilliant tactically at manipulating guilt and shame, creating status hierarchies and incentives, and using issues (especially race and sex) to bully and cudgel people into submission.

 

My job is first to define the problem, then complicate the problem, then to fight back against the problem, and finally to vanquish, degrade and humiliate the opponents of what I’m advocating. And what I’m advocating is simply American greatness, American innovation and creativity, the principle of colorblind equality—the idea of having a hierarchy of merit, talent, and virtue, rather than one of victimology.”

 

My response: Amen.

 

R: “The game is not to change the whole bureaucracy and change everyone’s opinion at once. The game is to figure out whose opinions matter most, and to start there and work outward. When they see high-status individuals in tech like the ‘All-in’ podcast crowd, or Marc Andreessen, or others, who are legends in the field; when they see those signals shift, they have permission to change their own opinions. The big untold story is that the tech world has shifted quietly but dramatically to the right.”