Gutting Voting Rights Act Just 1st Step in Far Rt Plan, End Democracy: Techno Feudalism 'Dark Enlightenment'

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- 'Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy,' by Nicholas Powers, Truthout, May 16, 2026. ⚖

- Curbing access to the ballot brings us closer to the far right’s techno-feudalist dream of a “Dark Enlightenment.”
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(PHOTO: A voter casts his ballot at the Kent Free Library during the Ohio primaries on May 5, 2026, in Kent, OH).

The girl smiled and pointed at the “I Voted!” sticker on her forehead. Her father took a selfie with her outside the voting center. Hours later, New Yorkers danced and honked car horns to celebrate the election of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. The street parties reminded me of when Barack Obama won the presidency after eight years of Geoge W. Bush, or Joe Biden against Donald Trump. You could feel the people sigh in relief.

Now, six months later, it’s hard to imagine such elation after an election — not after the right wing’s latest act of legal warfare on democracy with the Supreme Court’s further gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Not wasting time, Republicans in Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina redrew maps to end Black-majority districts immediately after the decision. Next, the Virginia Supreme Court cold-stopped Democrats from redistricting four more seats to fight Republican gerrymandering.

Even before the Supreme Court ruling, the Trump administration had the FBI raid a voting center while pushing the SAVE America Act. The legislation, currently stalled in the Senate, would erect high walls to voting — such as demanding a passport or birth certificate, rather than just a driver’s license. It could cut off more than 21 million Americans from voting, including the poor, married people with changed names, the elderly, and people of color.

After the Supreme Court ruling, grief swept our community. On the phone, my friend, a Black activist, cried. I heard the fear of a 21st-century Jim Crow regime. Could we see legal resegregation? These fears obscured the real future that the right wing is trying to build: the end of democracy. The far right wants techno-feudalism, or what some of its members have dubbed a “Dark Enlightenment.”

Right-wingers believe that now, as multiple crises pile up, is the time to strike. They think the billionaire class will fund this future even knowing Americans don’t want it.

And we, the people being pushed out of democracy, need to know what it is being planned in order to stop it... - More,

https://truthout.org/articles/gutting-voting-rights-act-is-just-first-step-in-far-right-plan-to-end-democracy/

- Dark Enlightenment, Wiki - Ed.

The Dark Enlightenment, also called the Neo-Reactionary movement (abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and reactionary philosophical and political movement. It can be understood as a reaction against values and ideologies associated with Enlightenment, advocating for a return to traditional societal constructs and forms of government, such as absolute monarchism and cameralism. The movement promotes the establishment of authoritarian capitalist city-states that compete for citizens.

Neoreactionaries refer to contemporary liberal society and its institutions as "the Cathedral", associating them with the Puritan church, and their goals of egalitarianism and democracy as "the Synopsis". They say that the Cathedral influences public discourse to promote progressivism and political correctness, which they view as a threat to Western civilization.

Additionally, the movement advocates for scientific racism, a view which they say is suppressed by the Cathedral.

Curtis Yarvin began constructing the basis of the ideology in the late 2000s, drawing upon libertarianism and Austrian economics along with thinkers such as Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Thomas Carlyle. Nick Land elaborated upon Yarvin's ideas and coined the term "Dark Enlightenment", applying it to his accelerationism as a means to achieve a technological singularity. The movement has also received contributions from prominent figures, such as venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

Despite criticism, the movement has gained traction with parts of Silicon Valley, as well as with several political figures associated with United States President Donald Trump, including political strategist Steve Bannon, Vice President JD Vance, and Michael Anton. The Dark Enlightenment has been described as part of the alt-right, as its theoretical branch, and as neo-fascist. It has been described as the most significant political theory within the alt-right, as "key to understanding" the alt-right political ideology, and as providing a philosophical basis for considerable amounts of alt-right political activity.

University of Chichester professor Benjamin Noys described it as "an acceleration of capitalism to a fascist point"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

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1. They will fail

If we elect enough courageous Democrats who will kill the filibuster and expand the court in 2029.

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2. Agree, think positive. People need to wake up, get involved to preserve democracy. Thanx for posting,