Pretty much, except it's devoid of the overt racism/anti-semitism found in Diaries . Either because LaVoy genuinely wasn't racist (unlikely, considering the leanings of his followers) or, he was lumping the niggers in with those "liberals" and "marxists" who were utterly dependent on the Guvment stealing from hard working folk like him and giving it to moochers like them.
That seemed to be the overriding theme of the book, that only the rugged individualists like him, er, his self-insert Mary Sue, know how to work an honest day and the other 90% of the population are parasites propped up by a thieving state.
I (of course) can't find it now, but, there's a long discussion thread on this whole episode on another forum wherein one of the members found a copy of it and was giving out the juiciest parts. Like how the hero only sets off on his mission to recreate a "true" USA after his own family starves. Not because there's no food, but, because they can't bring themselves to "steal", and accepting the emergency rations the authorities are handing out would be taking from someone else because they were procured through theft, er, taxes....
Yes, the heroes family opts to STARVE instead of be propped up by welfare handouts.... and that's a GOOD and TRAGIC thing.
And, the authorities are clueless themselves, nothing but stupid kids and lefties from those liberal cities and universities who only took jobs with the guvment for cushy benefits and because the west sure is pretty, not because they know anything USEFUL, a National Park Ranger is found , lost and starving, because he, despite, you know, WORKING for a LIVING in said park, is as good as dead once the GPS in his truck shuts off.... they were only good at filling out forms and driving their Jeeps around hassling honest folk... thereby proving they were unfit to make a claim on "the peoples" land.
It's a mix of Randism and wide-eyed grade-school level naivety about the world and politics (You either work for a living, or ya starve, and if ya starve, you wasn't no use to anyone) that follows the horseshoe bend all the way around to becoming almost the same Marxism (down with class parasites!) that it fantasizes about triumphing over by being tough enough to survive when the power goes out and the machines printing everyone's welfare checks shut down. (Ironically, IRL, some of the occupiers got arrested when they had to leave and make a food run to Safeway, and ultimately lasted a month in conditions far far FAR better than any "total collapse into anarchy" scenario, so much for rugged survivalism)
A laughable but insightful window into the mind of a man who fashioned himself a folk hero, smarter and tougher than anyone else, and, when surrounded by cops and Federal Agents, thought it was a good idea to draw a gun..... to him, it was living out his ultimate fantasy. Whether he thought it would make him a hero, or a martyr, or he was too far gone to realize what was happening was turning deadly, it doesn't matter, it started with clownshoes, it ended with bullet-riddled clownshoes for him.
