When Democracy Eats Its Own Ass: The Schmitt-Yarvin Diagnosis of Liberal Fuck Rot

You know what really grinds my gears: The fact that two dead-eyed theorists from different centuries diagnosed, in their own LSD drug addled brains, why our entire political system is one giant shit-stained circle jerk, and we're still pretending the emperor isn't buck-ass naked and looking for a blowjob.

"The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy." - Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political

The stench of liberal democracy's decomposition fills every fucking corridor of power, and if you want to understand why Donny TurdChomper and his silicon valley ass-kissers like Peter Thiel treat liberalism like a communicable disease, you need to mainline the toxic cocktail of Carl Schmitt's Weimar autopsy and Curtis Yarvin's techno-fascist fever dreams. These two intellectual grave robbers didn't just diagnose the patient - they performed the fucking autopsy while democracy was still twitching on the table.

Picture this: You're standing in a slaughterhouse where the walls are painted with constitutional amendments, the floor is slick with the blood of "rational discourse," and the air tastes like copper-free democratic failure mixed with the sour milk of progressive tears. That's where Schmitt and Yarvin meet - in the visceral recognition that our entire political system is one massive cope, a collective delusion maintained by people too chickenshit to admit that someone, somewhere, has to actually make decisions that matter.

The convergence of these two philosophies creates a toxic brew that burns through your nasal passages like ammonia mixed with bleach. Schmitt, writing while democracy literally collapsed into fascism around him, saw the liberal order as a walking corpse that didn't know it was dead yet. Yarvin, typing away in Silicon Valley's glass towers, sees that same corpse now zombified, stumbling through the 21st century, spreading its infection through every institution it touches. Together, they form the intellectual spinal cord of the new authoritarian movement - one that doesn't hide behind traditional conservative rhetoric but openly declares democracy a failed experiment that needs to be put down like a rabid dog.

The political implications hit like a sledgehammer to the temporal lobe. When Donald MunchShitChute weaponizes the friend-enemy distinction - "real Americans" versus the "deep state," the "patriots" versus the "radical left" - he's not engaging in crude populism. He's channeling pure Schmittian realpolitik, stripping away liberalism's makeup to reveal the bruised and battered face underneath. Every rally where he points at the press pen and calls them "enemies of the people" is a master class in political theology - creating the sacred community of the faithful against the profane other.

"In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville

But here's where Yarvin's poison enters the bloodstream: The Donald of Dumpster isn't just attacking enemies, he's attacking the entire fucking operating system. When Thiel writes that "freedom and democracy are incompatible," he's not making some academic observation - he's declaring war on the fundamental mythology that keeps this whole shit-show running. These motherfuckers understand that democracy doesn't fail because of bad actors; it fails because the code is fundamentally corrupted, like trying to run a nuclear reactor on Windows 95.

The political theater becomes even more grotesque when you realize how deliberately they're implementing this playbook. Every "stolen election" narrative, every "deep state" conspiracy, every attack on the "fake news media" - it's all straight from the Schmitt-Yarvin fusion reactor. They're not trying to win within the democratic system; they're trying to expose its contradictions until it fucking implodes. When Trumpty MouthAnus stood in front of the Capitol on January 6th and told his mob to "fight like hell," he wasn't speaking metaphorically - he was invoking the state of exception, the moment when normal legal order suspends itself and raw sovereign power emerges from the chaos.

The GOP's transformation into a full-blown authoritarian cult makes perfect sense through this lens. They've abandoned any pretense of policy debate or legislative compromise because, as Schmitt understood, these are just liberal theater. The real political act is the designation of the enemy - and holy shit, have they found their enemies. Immigrants become invaders, teachers become groomers, doctors performing gender-affirming care become mutilators. Every marginalized group gets transformed into an existential threat to the body politic, because without enemies, there is no political theology, no sacred community of the saved.

The psychological implications burrow into your brain like maggots in roadkill. Both Schmitt and Yarvin understood that humans are tribal animals dressed up in suits, pretending that parliamentary procedure can overcome millions of years of evolutionary programming. The average voter's brain literally cannot process the complexity of modern governance - we're running paleolithic software on problems that require quantum computing. Democracy asks people to make rational choices about shit they can't possibly understand, then acts surprised when they choose based on who makes their amygdala tingle.

"If fascism came to America, it would be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." — Sinclair Lewis

The psychological warfare runs deeper than mere propaganda. It's about rewiring the fundamental circuits of how people process political reality. When you've been fed a steady diet of friend-enemy distinctions, your brain starts to crave that hit of righteous anger like a fucking addiction. You need your Two Minutes Hate, your daily dose of outrage, your regular reminder of who threatens your existence. The liberal promise of peaceful coexistence becomes literally incomprehensible - like trying to explain color to someone who's never had eyes.

This is why QAnon and similar movements spread like herpes at a swinger's convention. They provide the psychological framework that democracy supposedly lacks - clear enemies (the pedophile elites), clear friends (the awakened patriots), and a decisive moment of victory (the Storm, the Great Awakening, whatever the fuck they're calling it this week). It's Schmittian politics for the extremely online, where the state of exception gets crowd-sourced through Facebook groups and Telegram channels.

This psychological clusterfuck explains why LGBTQIA+ folks become the perfect enemy in the Schmittian sense. They represent everything that threatens the homogeneous identity that democracy supposedly requires - the gender-fluid, boundary-crossing, category-defying existence that makes conservative brains short-circuit like a motherboard in a thunderstorm. When Donkey Trumpkins attacks trans kids, he's not just being a bigoted piece of shit (though he is); he's creating the enemy that defines his friend-group. The queer community becomes the living embodiment of liberal democracy's "anything goes" relativism that both Schmitt and Yarvin identify as its fatal weakness.

The assault on LGBTQIA+ existence operates on multiple levels of this theoretical framework. First, there's the obvious Schmittian dimension - queerness as the enemy that defines the boundaries of the "normal" political community. But Yarvin's influence adds another layer of fucked-up sophistication. In his "Cathedral" framework, universities and cultural institutions that affirm LGBTQIA+ identities aren't just wrong - they're part of a coordinated system of ideological control. Every gender studies department, every diversity training, every preferred pronoun in an email signature becomes evidence of the Cathedral's grip on power.

This is why the attack on drag queens reading stories to kids became such a flashpoint. It's not really about protecting children - it's about demonstrating that the liberal order cannot even protect its most basic claim to tolerance. Force liberals to defend Drag Queen Story Hour, and you've forced them to defend something that viscerally disgusts a significant portion of the population. You've created what Schmitt would call a "concrete situation" where abstract liberal principles collapse against the weight of actual human revulsion. The drag queen becomes the perfect symbol of liberal excess - someone whose very existence seems to mock traditional categories, performing identity as fluid spectacle rather than fixed essence.

The rot runs deeper than policy disagreements. Every drag queen reading stories to kids represents, in the fevered imagination of the Schmitt-Yarvin synthesis, the complete dissolution of meaningful distinctions - man/woman, friend/enemy, sacred/profane. The very existence of non-binary people fucks with the binary logic that political theology requires. You can't have a proper Schmittian exception if you can't even define who's excepted from what.

Trans athletes become another perfect wedge for this assault. It's not about fairness in sports - it's about forcing liberals to defend a position that seems to contradict basic physical reality to many people. Every trans woman who wins a sporting event becomes a propaganda victory for the Schmitt-Yarvin axis, "proof" that liberalism has become so detached from reality that it can't even acknowledge biological difference. The sports field becomes a battlefield where the friend-enemy distinction gets literalized - our women versus their "men," our reality versus their ideology.

The philosophical implications explode like a fucking atom bomb in a library. Both Schmitt and Yarvin recognized that liberalism is essentially a giant exercise in conflict avoidance - like a couple that won't admit their marriage is dead, so they just keep talking about the weather while the house burns down around them. Liberal democracy promises that we can resolve fundamental disagreements through "dialogue" and "democratic processes," but some shit simply cannot be voted on. You can't vote on whether trans people exist. You can't vote on whether Black lives matter. You can't vote on whether women are fully human. These aren't policy questions; they're existential declarations of war.

"The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion." - Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political

The philosophical poison goes even deeper when you realize how Yarvin's "Cathedral" concept updates Schmitt's critique for the information age. Where Schmitt saw liberal neutrality as a mask for particular interests, Yarvin sees it as an entire reality-construction apparatus. The Cathedral doesn't just hide power; it creates the very categories through which we understand power. Every academic paper on gender fluidity, every corporate diversity initiative, every Netflix show with queer characters - they're all part of the reality-manufacturing machine that makes liberal democracy seem natural and inevitable rather than contingent and fragile.

This is why Elon MicroPhallus's acquisition of Twitter wasn't just a business deal - it was a fucking declaration of war on the Cathedral's information monopoly. Every algorithm tweak that boosts right-wing content, every banned journalist, every reinstated fascist account is a deliberate assault on the liberal consensus-manufacturing machine. When Elon TeenyWeeny claims he's promoting "free speech," he's actually implementing Yarvin's vision - proving that whoever controls the infrastructure controls the discourse, and that all of liberal democracy's pretensions to open dialogue are bullshit once you own the pipes.

When Elon MicroPhallus promotes Yarvin's ideas on his platform (while simultaneously suppressing the voices of queer folks and activists), he's not just being a techno-dickhead with too much money and not enough sense. He's implementing the Cathedral critique in real-time - using his control over information infrastructure to prove that democracy is just oligarchy with extra steps. Every algorithm tweak that buries trans voices while amplifying fascist dog-whistles is a practical demonstration of Yarvin's thesis: formal democracy means fuck-all when informal power structures control what people see, think, and believe.

Mike BibleFucker and his congressional prayer circle understand this intuitively. They don't give a shit about democratic norms because they're playing a different game entirely - the game of political theology where God's law supersedes man's law, where the exception (divine command) overrules the norm (constitutional procedure). When they block legislation to protect LGBTQIA+ folks from discrimination, they're not participating in democratic deliberation; they're waging holy war against the forces of liberal dissolution.

The religious dimension adds another layer of shit to this already towering pile. Mike JesusFluffer doesn't just oppose LGBTQIA+ rights on policy grounds - he sees queerness as literally demonic, a spiritual infection that threatens the mystical body of Christ that is America. This isn't hyperbole; it's the logical conclusion of Schmittian political theology. If sovereignty derives from divine authority rather than popular will, then those who violate divine law aren't just political opponents - they're enemies of God himself. Every pride flag becomes a battle standard of the armies of Satan, every same-sex marriage a desecration of the cosmic order.

The Visceral Truth: Why These Fascist Fucks Want You to Give Up on Democracy (And The Reason You Can’t)

Here's the motherfucker of it all: Schmitt and Yarvin point at democracy's wounds and scream "terminal illness" when what we're really looking at is a body fighting off infection. Yeah, democracy is hurt - beaten bloody by decades of corporate capture, gasping for air under the weight of its own contradictions, limping along on institutions designed for a world that no longer exists. But wounded isn't dead, and these authoritarian assholes want you to mistake injury for mortality because that's when they can convince you to pull the plug.

The diagnosis hits because it contains just enough truth to sting. When you watch Democrats means-test their way out of helping people, when you see them compromise with fascists while punching left at progressives, when you observe them defending institutions that clearly serve capital rather than communities - you feel democracy's fever, its delirium, its pain. But here's what these fascist philosophers don't want you to understand: pain means you're still alive, still fighting, still capable of healing.

Democracy isn't diseased - it's been fucking poisoned. Poisoned by the very motherfuckers who now offer themselves as the cure. They've spent decades injecting toxins into the bloodstream - dark money, gerrymandering, voter suppression, media consolidation - and now they point at the symptoms and say "See? The patient is dying! Better let us put it out of its misery."

But their cure - whether Schmitt's decisionist strongman or Yarvin's CEO-kings - isn't medicine, it's euthanasia. It's like a doctor who breaks your legs and then offers to amputate because walking is clearly too difficult for you. The attack on LGBTQIA+ existence isn't collateral damage in their treatment plan; it's the fucking point. They need enemies to justify their power, scapegoats to explain why their "perfect" system requires such violence to maintain.

The real tragedy is how they weaponize our legitimate pain. People aren't wrong to feel that democracy isn't delivering - it isn't, because these fuckers have been sabotaging it from the inside. They starve public institutions and then point at their failure. They corrupt democratic processes and then declare democracy itself corrupt. They create the very dysfunction they claim to solve, like an arsonist selling fire insurance.

What makes this particularly insidious is how they transform hope into hopelessness. Every trans kid denied healthcare, every drag show shut down by fascist threats, every queer couple denied services - these aren't symptoms of democracy's failure. They're symptoms of democracy under assault. The Schmitt-Yarvin synthesis doesn't diagnose illness; it spreads it, like fascist fucking smallpox blankets wrapped in philosophical sophistication.

Democracy doesn't need to be perfect to be worth saving. It needs to be ours - messy, struggling, imperfect, but fucking OURS. The alternative offered by the Schmitt-Yarvin fusion - implemented by shit-stains like Donald ShitEater and funded by motherfuckers like Thiel - isn't healing. It's a death cult that mistakes uniformity for health, silence for peace, and oppression for order.

Here's what these intellectual grave-robbers don't understand or deliberately ignore: Democracy's strength has always been its ability to evolve, to expand, to include more voices even when those voices are screaming in pain. Every expansion of suffrage, every civil rights victory, every moment when the previously excluded forced their way into the conversation - that's democracy's immune system working, not failing.

When LGBTQIA+ folks demand recognition, when Black Lives Matter fills the streets, when young people scream about climate change - that's not democracy dying. That's democracy trying to fucking heal itself, to grow strong enough to face the challenges these fascist philosophies insist it cannot handle. The noise, the conflict, the messy argumentative chaos they call weakness? That's the sound of democracy doing physical therapy, rebuilding muscle, learning to walk again after these fuckers tried to cripple it.

The choice isn't between a broken democracy and a functional autocracy. It's between a democracy that can still be healed and an authoritarian system that's necrotic from the start - dead tissue masquerading as strength. These assholes want you to trade your wounded but living democracy for their embalmed corpse of a society, preserved in formaldehyde of enforced homogeneity.

That's why they attack democracy as a disease - because healing threatens them more than death. A revitalized democracy that actually serves its people, that includes LGBTQIA+ voices, that addresses economic inequality, that takes climate change seriously - that's their fucking nightmare. They need you to believe democracy is dying because if you realized it could be healed, you might actually try to heal it.

So fuck their diagnosis, fuck their cure, and fuck anyone who wants you to give up on democracy just when it needs us most. Democracy isn't the disease - they are. And the treatment isn't amputation; it's fighting like hell to heal what they're desperately trying to kill.

And I’m a fucking tired, old trans woman, with a ticker that doesn’t work right. And I don’t know how much fight I have left in me……

Citations:

1. Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

2. Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Vintage Books, 2013.

3. Moroder, E. 2025 Dark Enlightenment: Curtis Yarvin and How to Hack the Deep State.