Excellent essay. I occasionally follow your work & agree with some of your conclusions. But as someone who's views are a combination of socialism/libertarianism/anarchism (blame my background for this confluence) there are many times where I think we can respectfully disagree.
With that being said, I have questions.
1) how the hell is the DA gonna maintain/regain control of municipalities when more and more voters are growing wiser that when the DA talks of economic growth, it's growth only for those who live in (formerly white) suburbs and private estates? You can point to psyops but generating online content can only get you so far
2) do you really think independent candidates and Cape separatists are going to win council seats given the lengths some organisations will go to maintain control?
3) how do you picture this new dispensation? It's one thing to criticize the faults in our society, but it's entire different ballgame to come up with an alternative. If you don't have concrete vision of what things are supposed to look like, how are you gonna convince others to leave this paradigm behind?
I see exactly what you see. The DA are shaking hands with the devil here, and I really am no fan of it at all. I am hoping for a de facto devolution. De jure status will require permission from the international community, which I suspect shan't be forthcoming, and may be rather dangerous to pursue.
Cape nationalists have three parties, and several independent candidates in the pipeline. Whether it comes down to electoral politics or parallelism is the real question.
For my part, I tend towards favouring the organic over any kind of designs from first principles. You observe the natural shape of society and organise it along those lines, so that you don't disrupt vital community ties. I see good statecraft as more like gardening than architecture.
As for leaving behind old paradigms, its very much a case of "build it and they will come". I know of a few burgeoning opportunities, but we shall have to see where the future takes us. I'm keeping my eyes peeled.
"It's growth only for those who live in (formerly white) suburbs and private estates." What utter nonsense. It's growth for everyone who has a job. The fact that jobs are becoming scarcer is thanks to Marxist ANC policy, not the DA. Disclosure: I'm not a DA fan ever since they became ANC Lite.
"Taxation is aggressive." Compared to who? Finland?
Excellent essay. I occasionally follow your work & agree with some of your conclusions. But as someone who's views are a combination of socialism/libertarianism/anarchism (blame my background for this confluence) there are many times where I think we can respectfully disagree.
With that being said, I have questions.
1) how the hell is the DA gonna maintain/regain control of municipalities when more and more voters are growing wiser that when the DA talks of economic growth, it's growth only for those who live in (formerly white) suburbs and private estates? You can point to psyops but generating online content can only get you so far
2) do you really think independent candidates and Cape separatists are going to win council seats given the lengths some organisations will go to maintain control?
3) how do you picture this new dispensation? It's one thing to criticize the faults in our society, but it's entire different ballgame to come up with an alternative. If you don't have concrete vision of what things are supposed to look like, how are you gonna convince others to leave this paradigm behind?
I see exactly what you see. The DA are shaking hands with the devil here, and I really am no fan of it at all. I am hoping for a de facto devolution. De jure status will require permission from the international community, which I suspect shan't be forthcoming, and may be rather dangerous to pursue.
Cape nationalists have three parties, and several independent candidates in the pipeline. Whether it comes down to electoral politics or parallelism is the real question.
For my part, I tend towards favouring the organic over any kind of designs from first principles. You observe the natural shape of society and organise it along those lines, so that you don't disrupt vital community ties. I see good statecraft as more like gardening than architecture.
As for leaving behind old paradigms, its very much a case of "build it and they will come". I know of a few burgeoning opportunities, but we shall have to see where the future takes us. I'm keeping my eyes peeled.
"It's growth only for those who live in (formerly white) suburbs and private estates." What utter nonsense. It's growth for everyone who has a job. The fact that jobs are becoming scarcer is thanks to Marxist ANC policy, not the DA. Disclosure: I'm not a DA fan ever since they became ANC Lite.