An axiom of this age is that the Left always projects onto others the things that it is either doing or planning to do. A good rule is to listen to what they are saying, assume the opposite and then try to piece together what they are doing. It is the Opposite Rule of Liberalism and it is an iron law of modern life. An obvious example is their howling about election interference. As soon as they started howling about Trump colluding with the Russians, you knew that it was the Left colluding with someone to rig the election.
This is due to something Eric Hoffer noticed about people who join causes. The fanatic is driven by self-loathing. They are attracted to causes, because it allows them to swap their hated identity with that of the group. It’s also why they tend to jump from cause to cause, often contradicting previous opinions. Progressivism is a secular religion that is really just a dog’s breakfast of causes. Today it is all about trannies, non-whites and the never ending vagina monologue from white women, held together by a hatred of white men.
The point is that you can often get a sense of what the Left is up to by watching where they are casting the accusatory eye. That’s why this story is interesting. Fake twitter followers is a well know phenomenon. It’s fairly obvious that many B and C level media personalities buy twitter followers. It would not be shocking to learn that lefty sites like the Daily Beast and Estrogen Post buy followers for their contributors. Are there really close to one hundred thousand people following this person? Seems unlikely.
Anyway, the fact that the NYTimes is focusing on fake YouTube views when their cult is waging an all out assault on dissidents on-line, probably means that the view counts for lefty YouTube stars are fake. Just how fake is hard to know, but given the “by any means necessary” attitude of the Left, there’s no reason to think they would be restrained. Keep in mind that the NYTimes was buying traffic from Chinese click farms around the same time they started reporting on the phenomenon of fake followers in twitter.
Perhaps more ominously, this post from the Carlos Slim Journal, demanding Trump be dragged from office and hanged in Lafayette Park suggests the Left’s war on civilization is just getting started. Most people will focus on the rank hypocrisy and dishonesty, but the real focus should be the warning. The Left organized a wide scale conspiracy to rig the last election. The FBI and DOJ are currently running a wide scale conspiracy to hide their ongoing efforts to remove Trump from office and stonewall Congress.
As much as our side jokes around about Pinochet, it is the Left that may be plotting a coup in order to install an authoritarian government. Just look at the organized effort to ban people from the financial system. David Horowitz has just been un-personed by MasterCard and Visa. In the modern age, if you want to wage a civil war, gaining control of the banking system is the first step. Then you take over the internet. Without money or a means to reach a mass audience, fighting back in a civilized way is impossible.
That last bit is important. Most people are willing to fight the good fight until it means coloring outside the lines. That’s the water’s edge for most of the people the Left sees as their enemy. It’s why the Left is always trying to provoke or invent a backlash. It provides them with cover to scare the normies and use any means necessary to “defend our democracy!” As is always the case, the Left seeks to turn civilization’s virtues into vices they can exploit to undermine society. Your reasonableness is their best weapon.
The thing to understand with the Left is that they are reactionary. Team Obama came up with the scheme to rig the last election and when this became apparent to Team Clinton, they reacted by howling about “Russian hacking.” In other words, they immediately began to project their own hated activities onto others. Remember that it was the Left that started the Fake News idea, only to have people point out that the lefty news organs were nothing but fake news. The same was true of the AstroTurf chants over the Tea Party.
What all of this most likely means is that the Democrats are quietly working on their plans to impeach Trump as soon as they gain control of the House this fall. They have upped Pelosi’s Thorazine dosage so she does not blab about it during interviews, but the Left can’t help but get ahead of themselves, hence the NYTimes post. The plan is to impeach Trump in 2019 and then count on the NeverTrump loons in the GOP to join in and force the Senate to remove him. Given the nature of the GOP, this is a good bet.
This is a bit of a meandering post, but the basic point is that it is a mistake to take the Left’s chanting at face value. It’s not just that they lie. Ideologues always lie. It’s that they are psychologically incapable of concealing their actions. Again, that old self-hatred gets the better of them and they start dropping hints via projection. For two years now, the Left has been trying to convince us that Trump is a dictator, who plots with foreign agents to “harm our democracy.” That should be read as a warning about what comes next.
That’s what puts the Left’s howling about a civil war in perspective. They have been waging a civil war on the rest of us for a couple of years. They have normalized the idea of using public companies to strip people of their right to participate in public debate. They have normalized the idea of stripping people of employment due to their politics. They are now the proscribing people because they hold the wrong opinions. Banning people from using breathing is next. The only thing missing is a coup and a dictator.
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The assault on David Horowitz really makes it clear that “the war on cash” is really “the war for total control”.
“A good rule is to listen to what they are saying, assume the opposite and then try to piece together what they are doing.”
I get that, but are they really that smart? I recognize there are true conspiracies, but for the most part leftist & conservative blather is just that … blather. So when we listen to Ocasio-Cortez we can’t assume there’s anything to piece together. They’re playing checkers, not chess. (Apologies to checkers players.)
You should probably have read the rest of the post. Banning people from the banking system is not blather. It’s real. YouTube has threatened Stefan Molyneux’s ability to make a living. That’s very real.
They don’t have to be smart (if they were, they wouldn’t be leftist). They just have to be successful.
Despite this being an ideological age, our leaders are pretty non-ideological. People today are merely gravitating towards the strongman who reflects their beliefs, even if that person is incompetent.
This pretty much is like what happened towards the end of the Roman Republic, as both sides gravitated towards violence and rulers increasingly ruled less by civility and more by strength. Who now comes as a Julius Caesar to finally wipe out the Republic, whether left or right remains to be seen.
The “unpersoning” of Alex Jones and David Horowitz, the firing of James Damore — it’s all very disturbing. Unmistakable portents.
Oh they have plans for us. Does anyone remember when Prince Charles let slip that he believed the vast filthy shanty towns of Mumbai represent “ideal neutral carbon-emission communities”?
Z – You have discounted the Trump effect. Unlike all the other players, he has no motive IMO other than restoring our country to its pre-60’s swing left.
None of the usual suspects on the right and/or left know how to deal with him. Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I think he can do it, especially since the left have no bench. Their “leaders” are all doddering and the younger set are wild-eyed hysterics.
Love your take on things.
As I read the post, Z is predicting where the left is trying to go and estimating that they have a real chance of pulling it off. But it does not say that they will succeed. I dont think Trump is made of the real dictator stuff (helicopter rides, firing squads, barbed wire camps etc). But I do believe he’s a brawler and he has many brawlers with him. I think our side has decent chances as well. That might actually make hot CW more likely, that neither is in a position where they obviously have to back down? But… Read more »
There is no “bench” on any side of the fracas. When one side falls, it will be swift but messy. Nature and politics abhor a vacuum.
Im not so sure about the swift thing when differences are so entrenched and we are talking about hundreds of millions of people.
“Without money or a means to reach a mass audience, fighting back in a civilized way is impossible.” But of course, people will fight back when their existence is threatened, and if “civilized” means are blocked, we know what that leaves. Peaceful division of the United States is the only way to avoid Civil War. People who say that this “can’t” happen need to be aware of all the other “impossible” things, both good and bad, that have happened in the last one-hundred years. It’s either peaceful seperation or civil war. There simply are no other alternatives. By 2020, almost… Read more »
The left will have to be the ones that decide to leave (Catalonia, Scotland) a right-wing secession will be far more difficult. For all of the anti-white hatred among South African blacks, black opinion is virulently hostile to partition. Nor does the South African government appear to be interested in getting whites to leave, given the capital controls on foreign exchange. What they appear to want is whites reduced to a “high class serfdom”, where BEE ensures you can’t get a job, and if you start your own company you have to give free majority equity stakes to black managers… Read more »
You’re average normy still doesn’t get how much these people loathe us. There is no reasoning with them and unfortunately most of us don’t have any real defenders. Trump has done far more than anyone else could possibly or want to do but it isn’t much. His first public deportation is a 95 year old German guard. On the deplatforming and attack on peoples finances and livelyhoods, just lip service. Hey Sessions, where are you? The culture has to be captured and realigned. For us little people, small insurrections is about all we can do. From there new movement leaders… Read more »
“Today it is all about trannies, non-whites and the never ending vagina monologue from white women, held together by a hatred of white men”
Vagina is no longer an inclusive term. It should be” the never ending front hole monologue”
Peter Fonda refers to it as a gash.
The ongoing coup to remove Trump is driven by a cabal of Progressives, Deep State politicians/bureaucrats, major news media, and social media technocrats. They are playing for keeps and, as with all Collectivist insurrections, they will go violent fast and furious once they have seized power. This is why the 2nd Amendment remains their greatest obstacle. However, there are better ways to meet this threat than a hot civil war. Remember, they are bullies, not warriors.
Become a Progressive, infiltrate, gain power, “grow” in office. It is a slow process, but it worked for them. No reason it can’t be reverse engineered.
They bet on total Chinese style content and surveillance. Camps for 20 million White Male deplorable and no ability to buy anything, get in a bus, plane, train, have a driver’s license etc. Think Xianxing Province as the model. Most of it is in place courtesy of Zuck.
The hammer is anarcho tryanny. All crime agains Whites is legal aka the Purge. The Atlantic is already pushing this see Peter Beinart.
The Atlantic is owned by the widow of Steve Jobs. How exactly was that fortune built…Chinese slave labor and the transfer of technology to the Communist Party police state.
Yes yes! That’s exactly how it is! That rule is also true of individuals. Certain people, typically those trying to maintain an illegitimate authority in professional settings, project in this fashion also. I find it useful to observe it in professional settings, but it’s usually just frustrating because you can’t do much about it. In addition to simple psychology of a thief always expects a thief, I think it has a preemptive quality of “if I am accusing you of this, how can you accuse me of it?”
The media is pushing the false narrative that Peter Strzok was fired from the FBI because of negative comments he made about Donald Trump. The reality is that only right-wing dissidents are punished for their opinions.
Sometimes I wonder if government is just a front for corporations and bankers and if all our politicians from both parties are merely puppets. Then I recall Bill Ayres craved a race war. Next I think of Prof. Panarin’s prediction of collapse, civil war and the break up of the U.S. I wonder if Russia really lost the Cold War or if it just went underground. I start thinking about propaganda and social engineering and online hate and fear mongering and talk about a strong man and muh constitooshun is useless and Pinochet and one side taking out the other.… Read more »
“An axiom of this age is that the Left always projects onto others the things that it is either doing or planning to do.” Sorry to be such a math logic hard-ass but I believe there is a point here: it should not be an axiom, it should be a conjecture or hypothesis. B/c, and this is why I am being so annyoing here, the latter are things one can prove (whereas axioms cannot be proven b/c they are the a priori assumptions of the system we then discuss). And I believe that is exactly what we should try to… Read more »
Btw, I am absolutely also a fan of Eric Hoffer. ‘True Believers’ is a must-read IMHO
“it is the Left that may be plotting a coup in order to install an authoritarian government.”
Unquestionably the case I believe (‘a very strong conjecture’ if you will, but I ll turn off the faculty lounge venacular now).
““An axiom of this age is that the Left always projects onto others the things that it is either doing or planning to do. Sorry to be such a math logic hard-ass but I believe there is a point here: it should not be an axiom, it should be a conjecture or hypothesis.”
If it’s an axiom, we act on it. If it’s a hypothesis, we set about trying to prove or disprove it. Which is more appropriate?
My geeky side probably ran off w a digression on ‘proper semantics’ there. But an axiom cannot be proven, it is an a priori assumption you cannot prove (within the system you then develop or analyze). If you KNOW it to be true, it is a ‘fact’ (or rather, if it IS true but then the issue is whether you ‘know’ it or not but again Im OTing). A hypothesis/conjecture is a suggested fact that has not yet been proven. I consider the statement, ie what the left accuses its enemies of doing is what it itself is doing or… Read more »
“Paging Aristotle’s _Rhetoric_; Aristotle’s _Rhetoric_ to the white courtesy phone.”
Saw this floating around the internet yesterday. That inner-circle of Clinton hacks actually did exactly what they are accusing Trump of.
https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/98yduw/connnecting_some_dots/
It is becoming ever more clear: someone is going to take the Julius Caesar path. Each side is nervously watching the other. Republican forms of government evolve into empires. Empires produce emperors. Since the beginning of the Clinton administration, the left has been making strenuous efforts to turn the military into a reflection of their social engineering goals. With a top-down structure to implement their racial/sexual revolution, they succeeded in transforming the military into something our fathers and grandfathers would not recognize. I believe they did this to ensure that large portions of the military would side with them in… Read more »
Empires produce emperors. And emperors produce bread and circuses, including feeding undesirables to the wild animals in the stadiums. And most people in the Roman Empire became slaves over time, due to debt, currency devaluation, and loss of income for the more menial jobs. Sound familiar?
A few weeks ago Z-Man had an article on what would trigger a civil war. A coup or obviously rigged election is high on my list.
Good insight in this post. Perhaps our side needs to spend more time thinking about what the terms “civilized” and “civilization” mean, as well as what the term “barbarian” means. Western civ was not imposed by our forefathers without the use of force. Best thing that ever happened to Afrika was colonization by western powers. it took 400 years of British rule to make India less of a shithole. Ok – so this is a life long struggle. Currently, the barbarians (leftists) are inside the gate. Time for us to start rolling back the darkness. Again. Carthago delenda est.
Btw, if we werent in it and it wasnt for real, current times would be one hell of an action-thriller novel or flick. Most interesting times since the Cuban crisis or maybe even WW2.
Things may get real sporty – 1862 without the convenient Mason-Dixon line. Roman Social War / French Revolution sporty.
Not to mention that the rest of the world largely depends on the US keeping sea lanes open, keeping China out of Taiwan, Europe dependent on US security guarantees etc etc etc. It could be quite a show… Preppers arent nuts, they just pay, in investment and time, a very different sort of insurance, that is cashed by reality itself, not a corporation. And one that, if to be realistic, is expensive in time commitment in particular I think.
Quite ironic that it is the left trying to squeeze our people out of the banking system. These are the exact same people that complain about the “unbanked POC” that aren’t served by the “institutionally racist banks”. (like food deserts). Our leaders should consider forming a Right-Wing Credit Union, as that places a stronger legal firewall behind it. Otherwise we are going to be reduced to postal money orders.
I hesitate after the futurist article, but I believe technology will be turned against the federal government and corporate interests. The eye opening book of my late teens was the “Army of Davids”. Using the Roman Empire Analogy, at some point edicts came out of Rome, and were promptly ignored. Are they going to try and starve the people in flyover country? Not very likely. Are they going to march into Tulsa OK? Again, given that the flyover country is heavily armed, unlikely. Energy? Flyover. Manufacturing? Flyover. There’s a reason the rabble rousing is contained to the coastal elite area.… Read more »
People understand the world as a narrative, a series of stories. The story of the wisdom and glory of multicultural and multigendered socialism has been boxed up and wrapped with a bow very neatly. The story of Trump and the deplorables as perverts, thieves, and all-around ne’er-do-wells has also been carefully assembled and told. Breaking the narratives will be exceedingly difficult.