Dissidents tend to think of politics as the driver of social change. Elections have consequences, as the winners get to shape public policy, which guides the cultural evolution of society. There is some truth to it, but in reality, politics, as in elections and campaigns, are the product of social change. The real action is upstream where attitudes are formed and morality is structured. Convince people that something is morally wrong and this belief will turn up at the ballot box.
This is why the ruling class maintains a death grip on mass media. This is their primary vehicle for shaping public attitudes. Convince 70% of the public that wearing a rag over their face is a good idea and suddenly they are open to a wide range of claims by the politicians in the next election. They will support the side pushing for more restrictions and mandatory vaccines. It is the art of the nudge, which is the primary weapon in a modern liberal democracy. It’s rule by suggestion.
This is why success in dissident politics lies in getting people to question their assumptions about politics. The current example is the assumption that the only way to effect change is through voting. Lots of people who agree with dissidents on most things keep voting harder thinking that will get the result they want. These people are so convinced of this they often get angry when the truth is pointed out to them. The power of bad ideas is a wildly underestimated force in politics.
Another bad idea that has haunted the Right for generations now is the idea that the media should be independent. For as long as anyone reading this has been alive, conservatives have been moaning about liberal bias in the media. They are not wrong about this observation. Even media that positions itself on the Right tends to parrot the party line on important issues. Go on Fox News and suggest the restoration of free association and they have you arrested.
The thing is though, the issue is not bias. The real issue is the nutty idea that the media could or should ever be independent and neutral. This has never happened since the printing press and it never should happen. In liberal democratic politics, all participants are partisans, which means all media must be partisan as well. Therefore, independent and neutral media is media that does not exist. This is why right-wing media tends not to exist, as it is trying to be neutral and independent.
A similar problem exists with the courts. For generations the normal people in America have been lectured by conservatives that the courts must be independent of politics and be neutral in the application of the law. How an explicitly political institution, one defined by our politics and maintained by the political system, could be independent of our politics is never explained. The fact that the court has never been independent is an important fact often ignored by dissidents.
The truth is, what we really want as dissidents is a court packed by people who think we don’t go far enough in beating back the darkness of liberalism. The same is especially true of the mass media. This is one reason the Left has won every battle with conventional conservatism. They convinced their opponents to hold up independence as an ideal for media and the law, while they wage a savage partisan fight. A good bad idea is one that the other side accepts and you ignore.
Of course, this is the key bad idea that has been at the heart of American cultural decline for generations. The Left fully embraces partisan politics, while decorating it with the frosting of objectivity. The Right, in contrast, embraces objectivity while decorating it with the manure of righteous contempt for partisanship. One side appeals to reason, while promoting superstition. The other side works hard to make the reasonable side feel like a trip down to the local solid waste disposal plant.
Being right about things should matter, but what should always matter more in politics is advancing your interests at the expense of the other side. The ultimate goal of politics is to wipe them from the field. If that means being wrong, deliberately wrong, then that is the cost of being right in the end. This is how all right-wing politics should function, but instead it obsesses over minutiae and squabbles about how many angels can dance on the head of the free market utopia.
A simple mental exercise is to imagine what would happen if tomorrow 90% of white people saw freedom of association as a sacred and inviolable right. Your right to decide with whom you associate and with whom you do not associate is so important that speaking against it is a disqualifier. All of a sudden, racial set asides take on the morality of pederasty. Anti-racism sounds like mental illness. Simply correcting one terrible idea would radically alter our politics.
This is the power of bad ideas. One terrible idea, like anathematizing free association, can have enormous downstream consequences. It is why effective politics needs to aim further upstream and attack those bad ideas at the source. Getting people to question their assumptions about voting, for example, rattles the system at its foundation, because the foundation of the system is bad ideas. Start to erode the power of those bad ideas then suddenly politics becomes a different game.
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“If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.”
-Charles Peirce
I hope you didn’t mean Charles P. Pierce, the ex-sportswriter now-shitlib hack! But that doesn’t sound like him.
Charles Sanders Peirce. Along with W.V.O. Quine and William James, one of America’s top philosophers.
Would someone explain this quote? I don’t get it
I may be wrong, but it sounds like he is saying if you go with free speech absolutism, society itself will turn to PC speech codes to police it anyway, and it will be even more restrictive because it will have a moral impetus behind it.
Yup, thanks to Cal, I had to read it again, and c.matt is correct.
Yet, this fine-sounding pomposity is both right, and wrong.
If Cardi B is free speech absolutism, why is Cardi B also the moral terrorist setting speech codes?
This illustrates that the power of who can ruin your life is more important than some bland, universal philosophy of ‘freedom’.
3rd reading: wait, I got it.
If zealots are allowed to lie without fearing for their life and the lives of all their family line, they will become the overseers and masters.
In a way, it explains why the right rarely persuade. An over the top way of saying:
If people can’t force you into their bullshit group think with violence and other brutal methods (grosser forms of constraint), then they’ll guilt trip the hell out of you (moral terrorism) – ‘You don’t believe all women! Monster’, ‘How dare you say we shouldn’t wear masks! Monster’… Naturally, if you want to be considered part of polite society and not shunned, buy our bullshit (uniformity of opinion to be secured).
Right. Peirce is saying majoritarian opinion, whether confected through suppression of free speech or via more organic processes, is ultimately coercive and hegemonic. I’m not certain I agree with him, but that’s the crux of his argument.
Being right about things should matter, but what should always matter more in politics is advancing your interests at the expense of the other side. The ultimate goal of politics is to wipe them from the field. If that means being wrong, deliberately wrong, then that is the cost of being right in the end.
Indeed. Yesterday, I was idly wondering when the media will begin to pump out “of course the Democrats cheated; this was a struggle against OrangeMan. OrangeMan!” stories.
How long before we see these? A year? 5 years?
I think the cheating will become manifestly obvious by the spring; everyone I know accepts that the outcome was complete and utter horseshit. People are openly joking about the election in a more or less resigned fashion. Can the media actually admit to the cheating though? A lot of consequences to that.
The next step is shoving Biden aside. There’s a reason why there’s reporting all of sudden on the Biden Family’s criminal behavior.
Biden’s speech after the Electoral College vote indicates they will never admit it. He is pushing the narrative people rose up in record numbers to support him and vote out Trump.
Of all people, he pretty much has to say that publicly.
I’m just waiting for the media to start acting like Biden crushed obama in vote totals. My guess is they have had a meeting with Obama saying Look, just go along with it.
but even so, it’s got to sting Obama to have the world led to believe it. He might in fact slip up and out come the truth. And the universities will have to act like it’s true and have classes on the most amazing campaign ever and how to replicate it 😂
could be beginning of the end of something. You can only lie so much.
Obama will get over it once Harris pushes Biden out and he can pull her strings.
If Obama really wants to run things, he’ll keep Biden around as long as possible. Obama’s people are all over Biden’s appointments. Harris is a tool of Silicon Valley, another power center in the Dem constellation.
Biden is like some kind of retired Latin American Supreme Court judge a military junta puts in “charge” after a coup.
Like that dude USA put charge of Afghanistan, Karzai
Obama was pretty lazy when he actually did run things. I see him more of flitting in periodically to get some attention but ultimately he’s too slothful to do the work of “power behind the throne” guy. He’s more schtick than substance.
“You can only lie so much.”
May itself be a lie. If freedom is the freedom to say 2 plus 2 is 4, then we no longer have much freedom. 2 plus 2 is 5 and diversity is our strength. Truth is whatever the Ministry of Truth says it is. Biden won the election, you can keep your insurance if you like your insurance, no new taxes. BLM, WLM – not.
Nobody challenges much of anything anymore. That’s why the despotic push keeps doubling down, the mass compliance encourages it. I just had a conversation with the gas company workers outside changing all the lines in the neighborhood. I asked why are they wearing their masks outside while digging. They said it keeps them warm and since this has been going on since March, they are used to it. God help us, working white men no less.
We have a long road ahead of us.
Here in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, we’re required by law ($300 fine) to wear masks outside, even if we’re 6 feet from people. Needless to say, I don’t comply when walking my dog. However, at work we very much have to follow the rule.
The strange thing is that white areas seem way more covid neurotic than shitholes like Los Angeles
which makes me think that whitey is going to have a very hard time ever keeping control of non whites. I remember when the mask orders first started and I was filling up at a gas station and it was usually me and pear ass Laquisha in spandex getting out of her beater to buy smokes as the only ones not wearing masks. Still seems to hold true.
In the Toronto area, the spread of the virus is almost uniquely attributed to the ‘black and brown’ populations. Latino, South Asian, and black neighborhoods perfectly overlap with the heavy cases of COVID. And in all honesty I say good for them, I know that none of them care about this horseshit.
Badwhites, rednecks, christian conservatives and country folks also seem to be ignoring the rules which brings me hope.
They are going to lose control of their monster, no question – the only concern is that they might destroy us along with themselves.
Don’t you love the way people will jump off the sidewalk when you walk their way maskless? Out here in the 413 we have masked bikers, drivers, walkers, joggers, and even golfers. My gym has just said one has to wear masks on the aerobic machines. I cut two slits in mine, one for the nose and one for the mouth.
Oh- and did you catch “Tall Deval’s” obviously made-up story about the couple that caught the Covid?
I will say I jerk my mask off at every opportunity but yesterday I walked outside into a stiff cold wind and thought boy this thing actually feels good in this wind.
But I get the point.
I keep seeing this sentiment expressed as a regret, when it really should be a divine opportunity. If the average white person will accept things this unquestioningly it means they’re ripe for herding onto our side. Many of us, myself included, instinctively cling to the idea that we can rationally convince the left and the normies to come down from the clouds. This year has proven once and for all that the hard work of making our case is unnecessary. Once the trickle becomes a torrent, they will willingly go with the flow
Someone once said that the Republican party was nothing but the trailing shadow of radicalism. You’re seeing this play out right in front of your noses.
I always liked this one:
democrats want socialism yesterday, republicans want it in two weeks
never gets old
or the old German expression speaking of the Green movement, “:the green tree has red roots”
I think a savvy campaigned aimed at cord cutting among normies would probably detoxify them at least as much as convincing them to withdraw their consent via voting. Some of those ‘useless’ graphic design degrees could see service in pamphlets drafted by the kinds of kids who came up with the “It’s Okay to Be White” idea to highlight the benefits of escaping from cable. It needn’t be “negative identity” 1.0 stuff about how the Jew is teaching our daughters to date Negroes (obviously true, but it’s unsavory for normies to hear that stuff unvarnished). Show the other things that… Read more »
I’ve wondered how much damage a generation of fathers and brothers idolizing african sports players on the TV has done to white women’s psyche.
I remember growing up, in my mind, blacks were the cool guys who made rap music and were good at sports, and white guys were the dweebs. I barely knew any blacks, I don’t know how it got there! Turning off the TV is a great way to cut out this pernicious influence.
Zman, how is the book coming along? I haven’t heard you mention it for a while now.
Interesting Z brings this up. Just yesterday I wanted to read up on Perdue. In his wiki there are three photos of him, each with a different Supreme Court pick, Gorsuch, who looked actually a little frail to my surprise, and Kvanaugh and Amy Coney. Everyone is all smiles and chummy and clubby like they’re at a social mixer It becomes impossible to escape the idea that these are not the people who would ever challenge or buck the system. and incidentally. Why do all portraits of politicians have them smiling. Like they’re supposed to be our best friends or… Read more »
Speaking of the courts, rumors are flying around that they are all squishing because they are getting death threats.
Probably just another angle to this whole worked shoot.
yeah, when Amy was playing with her Barbie SCOTUS set and having justice Ken over for tea and Betty Crocker cookies, with two nutmegs in strollers to serve as her future adopted children, no crazed antifa doll was anywhere around.
They always get death threats. They are getting “squishy” because they are getting paid to get squishy. Do you think Soros money stops at the local and state?
Wait a second sir.
you mean girls softball coach Kavanaugh is not tough enough to stand up to Soros?
but in all seriousness, the way he went acted like a wronged woman at those hearings should have been a major hint
The fact that anyone in the GOP has his name as a potential judge should have been the major hint.
Oh, I’d love to see the Deep State’s financial records for the past 25 years.
I bet there are many interesting payment sources and accounts out there.
It is possible, but there is no reason to threaten the courts. They will do exactly what the State commands of them for no reason other than, as Z pointed out, they are political organizations. People just need to ridicule and ignore the courts to the greatest extent possible. The days of the cuck cries about “muh Supreme Court” went up in flames yesterday.
Speaking of the courts, rumors are flying around that they are all squishing because they are getting death threats.
they were probably accused of racism, the pressure of being called a racist was too much for them to handle
The bad idea here is the idea that you can get people to question their assumptions. As far as Karen is concerned, her fate and that of civilization rides on whether or not you wear a mask. By casting you as the villain, she becomes a dramatic victim AND a hero and is legally entitled to make you miserable. So it goes for Tyrone. Were it not for your racism, he’d have all the good things in life. So it goes for the queers, the feminists, the latinos, the american natives, the welfare queens, etc. The system may be buggered.… Read more »
Your remarks would make sense — if Republicans actually did anything to impede the Left. The GOP has proven worthless again and again. They had the Presidency and the Congress for two years beginning in 2017 and did precious nothing to reverse the rot in our civilization. Dissidents almost certainly suffered worse under Trump than they would have under Hillary. Electoral politics consistently shows itself to be a dead end. It sucks up tons of energy that could be more productively applied elsewhere. And it creates false hope that the wretched system can be salvaged from within. We need to… Read more »
How can they get anything done, W? Trump at least got the people talking about immigration, censorship, and the swamp. You saw what happened to him when he tried to move against them. He only made small, inconsequential victories because he moved on his own – with absolutely no support from the people. Now he’s fighting an obviously rigged election, and you guys just want to shrug and walk away, and leave him fluttering in the breeze. Call that what it is: the dissidents don’t want to do any heavy lifting. Call it shirking. Call it cowardice. And if you… Read more »
Dissidents almost certainly suffered worse under Trump than they would have under Hillary.
Kind of like a slave saying if you don’t piss off the master, you won’t get beat.
No, it’s more like saying don’t take a shot at the King if you are not likely to hit.
You’re putting words in my mouth. I think that it was good to vote Trump in for no other reason than he forced our enemies to show their fangs. I’m not suggesting that we should lay down and let the civilization wreckers do whatever they please. I am merely saying that the electoral route has not accomplished anything worthwhile. Feel free to demonstrate otherwise. When the slaves no longer countenance the legitimacy of the masters, things may begin to change.
I like every other good American obviously do not want leftists to take my shit. But the problem is we have a limited time frame before they take our shit anyway no matter what. We need the white normie to be a bit fearful right now and to feel some pain right now while we have the numbers for a possible counter attack in our culture. The left will give us that pain but the GOP is incapable of counterattacking as currently constructed. To have people capable of a counterattack in this current American culture we need them to have… Read more »
I am seeing 2A guys foaming at the mouth and brandishing guns at Leftie politicians. I am seeing businesses and families failing because of lockdowns. I’d say that if Normie hasn’t ‘noticed’ by now… he won’t until he is personally on that cattle car headed for the gulags. Usually the time to strike is when the iron is hot. But the DR is going to walk away…? He is looking at you to take charge just as you look at him the same way. Leftie is screaming about gun grabbing, white hatred, censorship, crushing taxes, social credit… and the DR… Read more »
No I am not saying walk away from the normie harmed by the current age. I am saying the GOP and the current political landscape will not protect nor fight for him. There are options for opposing the left that do not include staying inside our current political system. We in the dissident right are on the side of the current normal person who looks to the GOP to fight for him. We just think the current GOP will not fight or fight in a way that does any good other than keep the normal person from seeing other means… Read more »
I still feel something/ anything big needs to happen to shake this evil foundation to its core. And it needs to happen soon. Many people need to be held to draconian account for the psychological damage done to this country’s citizenry the past few years and particularly this year. These evil leftists and compliant “conservative” lapdogs are strengthening their grip and gradually changing hearts, minds and assumptions may be too gradual to alter or save anything in time. They all need to somehow be removed from any positions of power and influence.
Removing somebody demands thuggish worldview. People, who obeyed law entire life, will never ever remove somebody. Actually, this time I disagree with Zman. It is not about the ideas, it is about willpower. In deep heart, most of the people probably understand that everything is wrong but they are to weak to take action
There is a lot of merit to Osama bin Laden’s strong horse/weak horse analogy. People will assent to lies when they realize the strong horse will punish them if they do not.
Well, as Z has at least intimated, playing by the left’s rules hasn’t been working out. The time for taking off the gloves and replacing them with something that can be held has come. Unfortunately, with the mass covid hysteria all around and not dying down, the will to do what needs to be done does seem far fetched.
Was the nightly TV news the beginning of the idea that the press were free from bias? I have still even recently read stupid Boomer comments online about how Walter Cronkite was objective and didn’t let his own bias influence his reporting. It seemed to previously be understood that newspapers were biased as most major cities had multiple papers and the one you read reflected the opinion you wanted to hear. Did this change with Woodward pushing Watergate promoted by TV or did something happen prior to that?
Yes. Everybody aged 65 and above loves and misses Cronkite. It’s been said that the post-WW2 generations, up until the 1990s or so, were the first and possibly the only generations to expect fair and balanced news. (That expectation is dying hard, and there are legions of peoples that still think CNN is middle-road.) I think the slide into “info-tainment” began in the 1990s. I could pinpoint it at the Clinton impeachment.
I welcome the fact that our media is getting yellow again.
Heh. A project manager I used to know would constantly remind us of his worldliness; by referencing his time in the States. He would say things like: “You’ve got Fox News on on side and CNN on the other… Just extremes you know!”.
I thought: “Mate, if you think that’s extreme get down to your local pub.”
The ultimate goal of politics is to wipe them from the field. If that means being wrong, deliberately wrong, then that is the cost of being right in the end.
I never thought about this until I began reading this blog a few years ago
Sounds counterintuitive
but keep mentioning that Republican Party was the party of granting Laquisha freedom to steal your votes at Fulton county precinct and Tyrone to rape your neighbor’s daughter. At some point normie YT is going to get the message and RUN and want no part of it
worked for me 😇
Wouldn’t it be great if white people just walked away for a week. If all 200 million of us just took a vacation for one week it would be really eye-opening to the world but most importantly it would be really eye-opening to white people.
White people can’t take “a vacation for a week”, they’re on lockdown!
The Canadian province of Ontario is counting lockdown suicides as Covid deaths:
https://twitter.com/NatCitizens/status/1338226282698510339?s=19
This is beyond sick at this point.
That is absolutely shocking. You know I am typical gen-x, growing up when the structures of society were falling apart and jaded and cynical by the time I got out of high school and so it’s always been really hard to shock me, like the rest of my cohort, but this year has been a doozy. Its like I’m being hit by a cattle prod every couple of weeks
Interestingly the Premier of Ontario is also a “conservative”. I guess never ending lockdowns are a conservative value.
To his credit it’s not as bad as it could be – he’s actually kept rural areas and smaller cities open for the most part while locking down the “diverse” areas ie. Toronto that are actually spreading the most cases.
But at the end of the day they’re all cowards.
They may be the only deaths assigned to Kovid-1984, while cynical beyond measure, that have merit. Just add “the diabolical response to” the diagnosis and you’ve got one of the few true statements uttered by “officials” in this evil production.
This never made sense to me and it is a great example of the right surrendering before they even show up to the fight.
There’s a difference between being partisan and completely gaslighting your readers. Readers will forgive you for the former but not the latter.
The issue is some right-wing pundits think it’s possible to sit on a mountaintop, being above it all, while being unaware that that idea is, in itself, a partisan view. Having no skin in the game just means you can bloviate whatever nonsense you want without consequence.
Moving beyond current politics, leaving the current GOP behind, change what we are looking at…I am starting to notice it more and more in normieville.
Bill Whittle is a normie. I kinda like his turn the back Schtick.
https://youtu.be/sOkMiZYWE6w
I believe it starts in the schools. You have some teachers put in the class room spewing their values with no debate. As time progresses the student becomes more brain washed into thinking the teacher is correct the world is wrong.
Not objecting to the nut jobs teaching our children and the lying propaganda used to teach our children along with allowing the media to swallow our children’s minds is at the heart of western civilizations problems.
This now requires great efforts in parenting because our cultural rot has progressed beyond just influencing our children. It is now about harming and possibly killing them.
Education needs to be freed from the government.
Freedom of association is an idea that we should and could hammer at relentlessly. Of course, the usual suspects will shriek in horror but that will only help to broadcast the idea.
Lolbertarians and “muh free market” types will oppose it bitterly but, fortunately, their numbers are dwindling.
It is ridiculous that some libertarians oppose freedom of association (FOA). FOA is about as libertarian an idea as there could be. But the spellbinding lure of Diversitopia has a way of seducing folks into abandoning their so-called principles.
Even some of the more sane Civil Rights supporters (mostly New Deal ethnics) had deep misgivings about negating the whole “Freedom of Association” thing, but they were tranquilized by being promised that it was only temporary; as we all know, restrictions on freedom of association will end the Monday after the promised Michigan election certification audit…
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION? Egads man! That’s one of those icky libertarian ideas. Has Mr. Z gone over to the dark side?
Yeah, a “libertarian” idea that not one, single self-identified libertarian will stand up for or promote. Not one.
I’ve been a libertarian for almost fifty years and certainly support freedom of association. As does every libertarian I know.
Do you think Ron. Paul would ever say I could exclude gays from my school? Or blacks from my store? Never
I live in the UK and have never met Dr Paul. I think that he would support your right to exclude gay, black or Martian people from your business or, indeed, your right to only serve gays, blacks or Martians. Dr Paul would make his own, possibly different, decisions.
One of my biggest beefs with libertarians is that they only ever stand up to right wing attempts “violate their sacred principles”
For example there are countless federal mandates that usurp states rights that they remain silent on, yet when it was suggested that Trump use federal troops to put down the riots, the libertarians suddenly all come out of the woodwork.
Well, good for you. However, the libetarians of my acquaintance spend every scintilla of their intellectual energy on “muh open borders”. When I ask them if they also support freedom of association, they fall silent or run away.
“Libertarianism”, like science or a constitutional republic, has been made over into a skinsuit, you oldthinker, you. It was right when we were White.
It’s been gutted by conservatives who cannot, ever, admit that they eagerly chase after the wrong targets. As do the Woke.
Why? Because bad ideas, like universalism, are empowered by virtue signaling.
So earnest are people to draw Daddy’s (“God”) and Mommy’s (“society”) approval, that we will beat the designated bad kids, safe targets who don’t or can’t hurt back.
Thus, we prove to ourselves, that we are the good kids- because we enforce the Rules.
That’s not completely fair. Lew Rockwell-style libertarians unapologetically support freedom of association. Murray Rothbard was a proponent of it. Are there a lot of hypocritical libertarians who oppose it? Certainly. But let’s not paint with too broad a brush. I say that as a former libertarian who sees numerous problems with the overall ideology.
You might want to get out more. 😉
This is why the ruling class maintains a death grip on mass media. This is their primary vehicle for shaping public attitudes. I have a somewhat different take although your general point is correct. The primary purpose of the death grip is to hide and filter information. Take, for example, the rampant black-on-White violent crime. It never sees the light of day. Whether they are telling the truth or not, about a fifth of the people who voted for Biden claim they would not have if they knew about his family’s corruption. Propaganda used to work, but it is far… Read more »
> Being right about things should matter, but what should always matter more in politics is advancing your interests at the expense of the other side. Carl Schmitt succinctly stated politics was the distinction between friend and enemy. You don’t reason with your enemy when they are threatening what you love. Your goal is to put a boot on their face until they scream for mercy. At that point you decide whether to go for rehabilitation, exile, or execution. For the people on the right who are too squeamish for that, it’s your own fault for letting these freaks and… Read more »
“Footfall” by Larry Niven
Boot on. Their face or. Aknee on the. Neck…
Conservatives like to larp that they are carrying the torch of those who came before, but they are incapable of either creating or maintaining the civilization they claim to love.
Governor Black Face in Virginia is moving quickly to eradicate the remaining Confederate monuments.
“Virginia’s governor is requesting $10 million to replace controversial statues in Richmond with inclusive art recognizing a diverse and challenging history.”Here’s what might replace America’s disappearing Confederate monuments (nationalgeographic.com)
What is amazing to me is the grifters now are advertising themselves as “Culture Warriors”. A culture war, as explained above, is explicitly *not* fought at the ballot box, but that’s all the grifters will agree to.
Fox was never “fair and balanced” they were always Republican partisan (which isn’t a good thing for us). They had a few token progressives on (Combes) but MSNBC had Pat Buchanan on.
There are so many times in recent years that I feel I’m on a raging river and people like me are just being swept down the rapids. Yeah, we might catch a good wave and surf it for a bit, but eventually the main current catches us and we continue to get carried downstream to oblivion. (I was a river guide to this type of metaphor comes naturally…) There are other times, like when I read essays such as this, that I begin to feel that I’m witnessing the beginning of a great movement. I’m our host’s age, so probably… Read more »
20 years. Is plenty of time for a revolution and a new country.
Meeting normal people where they are at and calmly pointing out the reality of present day America is going to be much more effective than beating them over the head and calling them idiots. We have an unprecedented opportunity to move millions of normies into our way of thinking so let’s not waste itm. Sober minded discussions will win us huge rewards.
Good advice. Fortunately, it is happening now.
Critical thinking skills innoculate us against the disease of indoctrination. Human instinct can’t be indoctrinated, so we should scan our meat suits for the survival codes of our ancestors and act accordingly. They knew their survival depended on working together for the good of all. The God they worshipped was a projection of the power of their own enlightment and strength. This is why our churches have been closed. It also explains our fellowship here.
We should resist the temptation of trying to rescue the trauma bonded GOP from its communist abuser, lest we share in her fate.
Not rescue it. Kill it, and wear its hide as a skin suit. The GOP skin suit comes with a good bit of infrastructure.
Conservatives oppose Liberals like the West opposes Islam. Weakly, if at all. And that is suicidal.
Paul Craig Roberts:
So much for “American democracy.” So much for the “American Rule of Law.” No such rule exists. Law exists only for the purposes of the ruling Establishment. Power, not law, rules in America.
wise man
Sounds as though Z-Man had a seance’ with Machiavelli and Lenin this morning. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mark you…
But seriously, to convince people of the value of freedom of association, is to persuade them that the so-called “Civil Rights Movement” was misbegotten, and ultimately must be rolled back. A worthy goal, but a monstrously difficult task.