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Radical Leftist Scum · January 28 · 14 min

This is Not Normal

In this pilot of Radical Leftist Scum, Valdet lays out why the current moment in U.S. politics isn’t just “polarized” or “messy” – it’s structurally authoritarian, and we’re being trained to treat it as background noise, We dig into how book bans, anti‑trans legislation, attacks on workers, and open corruption get framed as “controversial bills” or “both sides” drama, and how that framing keeps people confused, numb, and supposedly “neutral.” Using psychology, leadership theory, and the mechanics of propaganda, we decode how moral panic, culture‑war outrage, and normalization work together to make the unacceptable feel routine. This isn’t civility politics. It’s clarity. If telling the truth about power makes us radical leftist scum, then fine – we’ll be very precise, very informed scum.

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In this pilot of Radical Leftist Scum, Valdet lays out why the current moment in U.S. politics isn’t just “polarized” or “messy” – it’s structurally authoritarian, and we’re being trained to treat it as background noise,

 

We dig into how book bans, anti‑trans legislation, attacks on workers, and open corruption get framed as “controversial bills” or “both sides” drama, and how that framing keeps people confused, numb, and supposedly “neutral.”

Using psychology, leadership theory, and the mechanics of propaganda, we decode how moral panic, culture‑war outrage, and normalization work together to make the unacceptable feel routine.

This isn’t civility politics. It’s clarity. If telling the truth about power makes us radical leftist scum, then fine – we’ll be very precise, very informed scum.

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