About this episode
The episode discusses the perception of Utah's political landscape and the alleged shift towards progressive values.
[This is a transcript — please excuse errors. Full audio recording above.] I’m hearing lately that Utah has Gone Woke. The puppet masters of every institution of power in the Utah conservative establishment are actually secret communists. Governor Spencer Cox is a communist. Also Senator John Curtis, Mitt Romney, the Church, possibly even the Utah Republican electorate itself. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems and building the human institutions that come next. Learn more here: Friends I know who know these people would laugh at this; not because Mitt Romney and Spencer Cox and John Curtis are all such swell guys, but because it’s just a total misread of where these guys are coming from, who they are, what they care about. But you can see where an outsider would get the idea. Ever since the church sponsored Prop 8 to ban same-sex marriage in California (and won, by the way), Utah has led the way in capitulating on basically every progressive cause they can think of. So you got the Utah DEI Compact, which they signed, and then, uh, recently reversed. You’ve got the Utah Compromise on LGBT discrimination, the Conservative Climate Caucus, which John…
People in this episode
Host: Bennett's Phylactery
Topics covered
- incivility
- Utah politics
- progressive causes
- LGBT rights
- managerial systems
Keywords
- Utah
- incivility
- politics
- LGBT
- managerial systems
- progressive
- conservatives
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Utah Republican, Church
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