Note: The weekly post is up at Taki. This week it is about the school system in Lagos and how it relates to right-wing politics. I had some additional thoughts on the subject, which are posted behind the green door on the form of song.
In the West, the state tends to reserve its harshest punishments for those who break the law on purpose, with malice of forethought. The murderer that carefully stalked and killed a guy who insulted him at the bar gets a longer sentence than the guy who flew off the handle and killed a guy in a bar fight. The underlying assumption is that the former will kill again, because he chose to kill, while the latter is unlikely to kill, because he did so only under unique conditions.
This seems obvious at first blush, but there is a counter argument. The guy who flew off the handle and killed another man is not a rational person. He killed for no reason, while the other guy thought about his crime. Would you rather be in a room full of people who can fly off the handle at any time and kill you or in a room full of men who kill under specific conditions? In other words, committing a crime on purpose may not always be worse than committing a crime through negligence or impulse.
This is why so much of a criminal trial is about the motivations and the circumstances of the crime versus the plain facts. The verdict and the punishment are about public morality, not the facts of the crime. The guy who thought about his crime before committing it may have had good reasons to commit the crime. While we do not want people taking the law into their own hands, we can understand it in the cases where the crime comports with the moral code of society.
This sort of moral puzzle turns up in our politics. Last week the House passed an election “reform” bill. The point of the bill is to nationalize the chaos and fraud we saw in many states during the last election. The game of “pallets of ballots” showing up in the middle of the night will become a 50-state phenomenon. The Democrats think that because they have anathematized any discussion of election fraud, they can now institutionalize it at the national level.
The motivation for this is the salient question. Some argue that it is so they can win every election. This will give the Democrats and presumably the institutional Left absolute power. Others argue that the Left already has absolute power over the institutions, so the better explanation is ideology. They truly believe they are in a twilight struggle against the enemies of democracy. These reforms are part of the battle against the dark forces that allegedly subverted the 2016 election.
For most right-leaning people, the first answer is more pleasant, so it is the default option, even though the latter answer is more logical. Right-leaning people have been conditioned to think about politics in practical terms, even though left-wing people view politics in partisan terms. Conservatives just cannot let go of the belief that people operate from material self-interest. This mode of thought also leaves open the possibility that the Left is correct or at least partially correct.
This conundrum gets to the heart of the problem with the political system. It has always been a trick played on the majority. By convincing the majority of white people that the Left is always acting from cynical self-interest, the implication is that there is a deal to be struck. If the facts are made clear, then the Democrats will be reasonable either to avoid being seen as acting from cynical self-interest or because they see their interests lay in a bargain. Deal making is the highest virtue of the Right.
This gets back to the moral question at the start, Conservatives have concluded that logical evil is better than illogical evil. Part of their reason to exist is to sell the claim that the Democrats and the Left are rational actors, rather than partisans. They can promise to cut a deal with the rational actor, no matter how cynical the motives. There is no deal to be had with the partisan. The only deal to be made with a partisan is one that he sees as advancing his partisan interests.
Just like the motivation question regarding murder, the morality of the choices is not always clear when you look at the whole picture. The default position in politics is that the Left knows it is acting in bad faith. This self-awareness can be used to cut a deal, but why would anyone want to cut a deal with them? At least with the partisan, there is some chance they can be tricked into thinking a deal advances their interests or maybe their interests actually have a positive outcome.
If you go back to the beginnings of conservatism, it started with the premise that the other side was irredeemably wicked. If you watch Reagan’s speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater in 1964, Reagan sounded like he was talking about pure evil when he describes the politics of the Left. It is partisanship from the Right, in which he reduces politics to good guys and bad guys. More important, he excoriates his audience to be the good guys and be a partisan. That is the point of the speech.
This is the great challenge in fashioning an alternative to conservatism. The starting point must be that the Left, however defined, is unreasonable. There can be no bargain with them, because bargains are between reasonable parties. The point of right-wing politics is not defending the established order from left-wing attacks. The point of right-wing politics is to dispense with the moral distinction made by conservatives and focus on removing left-wing politics from society.
It is tempting to dismiss the recent past, particular that of the conservative movement, but there is a lesson to their failure. Whether by choice or by subversion, they moved from the original partisan position to a bourgeois rationalist position. Dissident politics must return to the original position of the Right, armed with the knowledge that anything undermining that binary view of the Left is as evil as the Left itself. The solution to conservative obsequiousness is right-wing radicalism.
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The time for discussion is over.
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Yeah I don’t talk politics (except here). Everyone has chosen a side and team A won’t allow team B to live in peace. So what happens now is fate, karma, God’s Will, whatever you want to call it.
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Nothing changes unless and until White women wake up to “Race Realism.” Don’t hold your breath.
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Disagree, they will follow the men. Getting the men off their fat asses is the problematic task one faces.
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Bingo. Asking women to lead is like asking men to breast feed.
Women are biologically designed to follow the tribe’s rules because for tens of thousands of years, they needed the tribe to help raise their children and to protect them if their mate died.
White men need to create an alternative tribes, a tribe powerful enough to protect its own. White women will then miraculously changed their political views overnight and join that tribe.
The problem isn’t (mostly) White women; it’s White men.
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Exactly.
If every white man showed up jacked as fuck, highly racist and ready to wife up and put a baby in a white woman tommorow, white women would change right away.
Sorry, to many obese, cuck, soy, and leftist white males. Not to mention the idiot pump and dump fuckboys coming from the other side like RooshV. It’s not surprisingly they don’t have the tingles anymore.
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Obviously you haven’t looked at the massive female presence in leadership positions in government and education.
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All we are saying, is give war a chance. All we are saying….
Just “Imagine”.
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Despite the howling of the left, conservative white people, and especially American conservatives just want to grill. Evangelical Christians just want to preach. Cake bakers just want to bake without pressure from homos and trannys.
So for people like us, it’s hard to understand where their hatred and motivation comes from. We (had) quite a nice society and yet they ruined it – not just (((them))), there are plenty of true believer, hateful gentiles. And we let it happen, because grilling is easier than action.
You’re right, our first mistake is trying to find something rational behind it. They are evil, they are the devil.
When somebody is coming at me with a knife, I don’t stand there naval gazing about what his motivations are – it’s fight or flight. It should be the same racially and civilizationally – when somebody tells me they hate me, my people, my heritage, and want me dead, we must take it at face value, neutralize the threat, and prepare for the future.
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“Despite the howling of the left, conservative white people, and especially American conservatives just want to grill.”
It’s a funny old thing, B125. At the weekend, and mindful to break all mickey mouse lockdown rules, I was at my parent’s abode for dinner. My father railed about people who had came to view their property, as they’re selling: “They’re all bloody pakis!”. He is well aware of the demographic change, yet he still reads ‘The Telegraph’. In fact, some months back he bought me copy. The front page story led with the lines ‘Following the tragic death of George Floyd…’. Still so much faith in the old institutions. We can but try, The Devil indeed.
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Yes, the cognitive dissonance is massive. Even worse in Canada. And I see people complaining all the time.
“Housing is so expensive!”
“Why are there no good jobs?”
“Why is it impossible to find a doctor?”
“Why is my (white) son still living in the basement working minimum wage even though we paid for his degree?”
And yet the only party who was against mass immigration (and wanted only a slight decrease), the People’s Party got just 1% of the vote in 2019. Theyll keep voting liberal because “immigrants are hard workers who come here for a better life” and “dude weed” and “CBC says X is rayciss”.
For your parents, I’d say hold off until you find a white family and then sell at a below market price. But I also recall you saying it’s a declining area, probably only Pakis are going to be moving in anyways. Sad.
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Anyone on the Right who has debated Lefties on issues like gun control and criminal punishment quickly realizes they were dealing with people who are as Reagan put it, irredeemably evil. I noticed back in the 80’s here in California. The buggers just hated white people for having the means to defend themselves and wanted to strip them of it. They coddled criminals so as to make live hell on ordinary whites.
Look how the Left runs their cities – they run them the same a band a lunatics would. DeBlasio, Garcetti, etc. Have turned decent cities into utter hell holes.
When the Left gains control of churches, they tear them apart and drive away the members.
When they control a school, it’s turned into a shit hole for whites.
We are not dealing with people with a difference of opinion, we are dealing with truly evil people who wish to tear civilization apart.
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The Upper Middle Class White kids who went to university in places like Wisconsin and New York graduated in the late 60’s early 70’s as committed Marxists.
They then moved to the Golden State and joined with California’s homegrown elites for lucrative jobs in Media and Government . These Ruling Class locusts destroyed the state and are now working on finishing off the rest of the country.
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This is outstanding, and exactly right. In the words of Duncan MacLeod, “There can be only one!”
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Fictional character? You can do better. Here is Patton as a palate cleanser:
“we’re not interested in holding [conserving] anything except the enemy’s balls. We’re going to hold him by his balls and we’re going to kick him in the ass; twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all the time”
“The point of right-wing politics is to dispense with the moral distinction made by conservatives and focus on removing left-wing politics from society.”
Globalists control all the institutions, kinda hard to initiate a night of the long knives under such circumstances.
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Good article. Those of us on the right have no interest in appearing on stage in a political production co-starring Lefty. We prefer to be the stage manager, the writer, and the director combined. And if Lefty and his brother Neocons don’t like it, tough shit.
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The solution…..is right wing radicalism.
The problem with that assessment is the Right has to admit it is being punched in the face, before they will do anything about it.
Purposeful cognitive dissonance will prevent the rank and file righties from a sling action.
I agree with you Z. The biggest problem is they won’t/can’t see/admit that they are getting smacked with a 2×4.
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From taking action
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Correct. And in the next election, rather than relying on the courts, the fraudsters at the polling stations should be run down and lynched – in a peaceful demonstration similar to those of BLM and Antifa.
The sad fact is that the courts are infested with lefties, and will never be fair and honest until they are removed. Until there is some deterrent, these guys are just going to keep getting worse.
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Yes, I came to this conclusion as I watched the police in Minneapolis flee their building, and then as the mob was pushing into the White house.
But I talk to normie. I say they are our mortal enemies. He says no, they can be reasoned with. I think this comes from some arrogance that the U.S. is the “greatest country in the world” instead of just our home that we have a right to.
No, normie then started talking about election reform, and I tuned out.
The only thing our enemies understand, for lack of a better analogy, is a knee on the neck.
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By THE courts, you really mean THEIR courts. We don’t live in our country, we live in theirs.
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Next election? What’s the point? At my various internet haunts I’ve been pushing the message that Con. Inc. is dead, finished, kaput. Boomer normie cons push back, but only weakly. Bannon and crew have begun to fire up the Trump 2024, china-bad talk. Ahem, good luck bois. I watch AF and NJP carefully. We will see. Interesting to contemplate how many fathers and sons have lost a son or father to opioid overdose. Wonder if anything happens when they become clued in on those responsible.
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The problem is the average conservative has been a constant line of programming from people like Limbaugh, Hannity, etc going on for 40 plus years that the Left is merely misguided, stupid and not evil. Even Trump was selling that crap to his followers and still does. Even after the Left the dumb mofo out of office.
The good news if you can call it that, is that the Lefts open declaration of war on Whites is waking normies up that the Left really, really hates them, their kids and culture. And that the Left cannot be bargained with.
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“The solution to conservative obsequiousness is right-wing radicalism.”
This is what, in not so literary terms, I have been telling close friends and family. Like most rightists, they like to at least be seen to ‘think logically’, but are probably just too afraid to embrace their partisanship. When discussing the issue of wokists – be they sitting MPs, film stars or TV ‘personalities’ – I have began asking people if they can imagine themselves having a conversation with said wokist. I then ask whether they think they’d like each other. Usually, they confess that there would be a mutual dislike; to which I then add: yes, but they really hate you.
As so many often repeat here it is well worth remembering that, regardless of the public image these people may have, there is a sizeable chance they hate your rube-ass!
“Would you rather be in a room full of people who can fly off the handle at any time and kill you or in a room full of men who kill under specific conditions? ”
The latter my dear. The latter. Every single time.
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Yeah it’s like being in a room of Blacks vs. Mexican cartel killers.
The blacks are liable to attack you for the smallest perceived offense, or sometimes no reason at all. The cartel killers will most likely do absolutely nothing to you unless you’re a non-corrupt LEO or in a rival gang.
Either way, in my society both groups would be deported ASAP.
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“The blacks are liable to attack you for the smallest perceived offense, or sometimes no reason at all.”
Indeed. I am not aware that Colin Flaherty has made any attempts to document Mexican-on-white mass attacks; presumably because there just are not that many of them.
I have never felt safe around large paxx of blaxx, even if they’ve had the vaxx. I have seen a few, and heard of many, instances where such swarms just descended to cause chaos. You may find the late Lawrence Auster’s update of John Derbyshire’s rules rather interesting (though like me, you probably already knew ’em!):
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/022463.html
The great thing about Auster’s work here is that he specifically links to an article detailing where the corresponding rule was broken… with violent consequences. It is funny and terrifying.
That said, the UK does have a black problem. But the US has it real bad. Does Canada have such an issue?
I learned this one the hard way:
10(g) Be extremely guarded when expressing any negative views about blacks. These should only be shared with family members or close friends whom you know to be like-minded and trustworthy. Unless you are completely independent of mainstream career considerations, never post such views on the Internet under your real name.
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Interesting. My grand scope of obsession with blacks and minorities is two-fold:
1) sociopathic guilt of Whites for perceived group sins against “minorities” which came about because:
2) heresy and wickedness of Liberalism and Whites attempts to apply Liberalism to other races.
This point was driven home in the first year of law school when two stories were contrasted: The first story was that of Roswell Gilbert, who carefully and meticulously planned the mercy killing of his wife of 50 years to end her horrible suffering on the one hand, and that of some lunatic who flew off the handle and tortured and then slaughtered a young couple in ways that would make Torquemada queasy on the other. The premeditation component never made much sense to me after that.
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There is of course the fact that the careful, determined, patient – yet righteously raging – gentleman is a pain in the arse of any government. Far more of a threat to them, I’d wager, than some clueless oaf with a short fuse.
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Like Ron Paul? He was zero threat to them.
Mr Hun. I was unaware that Ron Paul had planned and/or executed any, ahem, militant aggressions.
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Ah, I misunderstod the meaning of “the careful, determined, patient – yet righteously raging – gentleman”.
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The 1964 version of Reagan was dead on.
The other terrifying thing about that speech is how terrible government waste and intrusion was back in what was a golden era in many ways.
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Despite the wastefulness, US debt has been decreasing from the wartime highs of 106% all the way to low 20s. Now the debt is back to wartime levels, but the trend is opposite and the top priorities of your elites are looting and pushing degeneracy.
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But first we must pry the normiecon away from the TV and the Oprah interview of Harry and Megan.
The true right is up against a media complex more powerful than at anytime in history creating zombies of our people.
Never the less we will prevail.
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This is one of your best articles. In particular, it should be emailed to Normie friends and regular conservatives.
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The country – and, really, whites – are like a married couple that is tired of arguing. We went to counseling, and it didn’t help because you realized that you simply don’t like each other anymore. You don’t have the same values, same hopes for the future, same anything.
You just want out.
The time for compromise is over. It’s either separate or dominate.
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exactly. The divorce metaphor is what I use with normie and lefty. Its no biggie. Divorce happens all the time.
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This is an easy to understand analogy with the advantage of also being true which needs to be pounded into the head of every normiecon with the capacity for reason. There’s no judgment or malice in it. We have irreconcilable differences. The least destructive solution is obvious.
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yes, oh, how they hate when people “judge”!
I disagree.
It’s more like, your wife invited random brown and black people to live in your house, and over time they become increasingly threatening and are now trying to kick you out of the house – and you’re the sole breadwinner paying the mortgage.
Kinda unprecedented.
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No I think J*ws in Europe are a similar phenom
Edit: and every time you threaten to leave, your wife threatens to sue you in court for false sex assault allegations, and the Browns and blacks block the door on her command.
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Citizen, apologies for ignorance in advance, but I have some questions:
One:
Has any institution, in the last 50 years, seriously put the idea of separation to the public? Or has it always remained outside of the mainstream?
Two:
At some point California was waffling on about breaking away, and it seemed to be the only state that was seriously entertaining it. Would you support such an initiative on the grounds that it may pave the way for other, redder, states to break away? Perhaps this would be a step toward some sort of separation?
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One:
No. Separation remains completely outside the mainstream; however, for the first time in my life, people are starting to talk about it in a not joking way, though not serious either. It’s beginning to creep into the deep, deep corner of possible realities, though still seen as an almost – the key word being “almost” – impossibility.
But there’s a literal infinite difference between a 1% chance of something happening and a 0% chance. Once something becomes even remotely possible in a person’s mind, it can grow.
Two:
California won’t break away. It’s mostly just silly talk from libs. However, I do like that they are talking at all. Again, anything that puts the idea of separation into the minds of people as something beyond fantasy is good for our side.
We need to build communities that someday (someday long after we’re gone) begin to gain some autonomy and later independence. The less that’s seen as impossible – from both sides – the better.
As the ole saying goes “Intent is 9/10ths of the law”
Well the moral core of the left INTENDs to destroy this nation from the inside out. They despise its history, its heritage, its traditions. They make no bones about it. They tore down statues of national icons this summer. They gratified government buildings, burned down private property. This was all done intentionally. It was well thought out. Yet it was not enough to wake up the normie.
Let normie grill. Lets get around to Right-Wing Radicalism!
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“They tore down statues of national icons this summer.”
This was the last straw for me. This showed me that they are not us, they are our enemies, our mortal enemies that want us dead. They want THEIR peoples’ statues, their heros statues on our land. They are screaming to us, that they want us out, they want us dead.
Normie will not accept this. They say its “hypocrisy” or they say, “Abe Lincoln helped the slaves those big sillies”…. or “If only they knew the brilliance of Calhoun”.
As I said in the words that got me fired: it’s time for the sword and the cage.
Hehe, totally worth it (sniff).
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“They want THEIR peoples’ statues, their heros statues on our land. They are screaming to us, that they want us out, they want us dead.”
That’s a great way to frame it. They tear our statues down, so they can erect their own statues to replace us.
Also, I’m sorry to hear you got fired. We need more men like you on our side.
“The Democrats think that because they have anathematized any discussion of election fraud, they can now institutionalize it at the national level.” An astute observation (among many) in today’s essay .
At this point, Dems will simply do anything to accumulate more power (rational, needed, or not). Like when Rockefeller was asked: how much money is enough? The answer – just a little more (or words to that effect).
When the need for more power gets down to the need to ban Dr. Suess, or Xe/Xer Potato head – the power is not needed, it’s just that it’s never enough.
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Yeah, I think this is an important point. Normie conservative sees 2016 as part of the normal ebb and flow of politics. You win some and you lose some, and Trump got lucky then, and maybe not in 2020 but, hey … better luck next time. This entirely misses the Lefty mindset. Lefty truly believed that with Black Jesus, the final victory was at hand. The truth of the Russia Hoax story was not the details, but the underlying faith that only malevolent forces could explain HRC’s loss. So while Mr. Normie Con continues on talking about virtuous process, Lefty is ruthlessly utilitarian, convinced that his purpose is so holy and virtuous (and self-evidently obvious!) that any opposition to it can only be through evil motives. Normie Con, too busy at work or being normal or watching FNC, has no idea of depth of Lefty’s faith. Normie Cons will be droning on about “that’s not constitutional” and the Founding Fathers as they are dragged to the Killing Fields.
willing to justify *anything* that produces its desired results, since in Lefty’s mind, their desires correspond with Ultimate Justice, Victory, etc. That’s why the Nazi imagery is so powerful for them – we’ve convinced ourselves as a society through a steady drumbeat of WW2 hagiography that the Great Crusade against evil justifies any means.
“Lefty truly believed that with Black Jesus, the final victory was at hand.”
I thought that too, in 2016. I imagined Lefty thinking, “but we won we had that nice qlack man in the White House! We were moving toward our perfect society! Trump ruined everything This cant be happening!”
I also remember an article back then about Brexit implying that the morons who voted for Brexit didn’t know what they were voting for.
But with Trump, its worse. You see, Trump CREATES racists somehow.
This is spot-on analysis. My late-dad could never take Leftism seriously, because he thought it was nuts. He was of the “just wait until they get jobs” mindset, a view that has obviously failed miserably, at least among the cultural elites.
I participate in a chat board among naval officers, kinda/sorta anonymous, with topics that range from the political to the very technically obscure. A recent lament is that every discussion lately seems to devolve into political ranting – which isn’t entirely wrong. I’ve tried to point out that it’s impossible to Just Be Normal when Lefty is committed to the post-modernist “The Personal Is Political” but there’s a sizable portion of that chat board that still wants to labor under the delusion that there can be some bright delineation between the personal and political.
My mom’s man-friend is the poster child of dorky, square CivNat-itude. He’s from old Virginia and I had to drive him through the NoVA area to show him that the Virginia he is from has been swamped by outsiders, and his Virginia isn’t coming back. But what sustains his CivNat-itude is his near pathological belief, I’d call it fantasy, that there exists some special rhetorical combination of words and hand-gestures where he convinces some Lib to see the error of his ways and converts him to CivNat-itude. It’s Prager Univeristy, writ small. But that fantasy *depends* on Lefty being reasonable, rational, willing to listen. Take that away, and the fantasy evaporates.
Ramz had a good way of framing this. He said they are simply not Americans, while we are. Whatever we think about the founding and John Marshal and Lincoln, nothing prevents us, the 40-75 million of us, to just say, “Enough” and, ahem, aggressively winning territory for ourselves. Separating those who are not us, from us, with “assertive” means.
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First step for Dissidents is to get petty and vindictive about everything. Then we can talk.
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I was walking around downtown Celebration, FL. They have a mask rule during street fairs. I refused to wear one and said to my wife “I plan to be ungovernable for the next four years.” People turned and gaped at me as if I’d screamed Nuck Figgers.
Make sure to read Z’s Taki post for this among other nuggets: “For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down.”
A New Tomorrow (cont)
The essential conundrum.
Do we cross our fingers and anxiously pray for an election miracle to save us? Easy to do when the couch is soft & the waistline large. But where does that lead? To a very high probability of disappointment and also a nagging doubt about being able to save yourself if the going really does get tough. Yes, you could invest your energy into seeking out the safety of the herd or just bury your head in the sand and hope that we muddle through yet again. But does any of that really improve the species? Is that the world you want to live in? We were built to move and prevail, not cower & whine. The choice is easy, but the path is hard. As it must be.