Way back in the golden times, when Barack Obama was president, it became obvious that Team Obama had no affirmative reason for his administration. Everything they did was tied to some past grievance. It was like they were working form a long list of boo-boos the Left had suffered going back to Reagan. Every initiative seemed to be linked in some way to what the Left perceived to be a failure. It was as if they had a secret list of grudges that they were determined to avenge.
For example, the Iran policy never made much sense on its own. The so-called conservatives tried to scream “communism” at it for a while, but that did not make it any more rational. Then they claimed that one of Obama’s controllers had personal ties to Iran, so she must be an anti-Semite. In reality, the Iran policy was about the old wound from the Carter years. The old lefties around Obama blamed that for Reagan winning in 1980 and sending their world into a tailspin.
The Russia policy was another example of how an ouchie from the 1980’s still haunted the minds of Team Obama. Given how the Left has made Russia the universal bogeyman it is easy to forget that Team Obama was determined to make Putin a trusted ally in 2008. They had Clinton present Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a red button with the English word “reset” on it. You see, they were going to do relations withy Russia as they always should have been done.
The entire first term of the Obama administration was built around settling old scores like this from the last quarter century. Even his signature issue, health care, was overwhelmed by the need to address the sleight from 1993. The final bill was rooted in two objectives. Getting something passed, thus avenging the 1993 failure, and spiting the people they believed were responsible for the original failure. The final bill looked nothing like what the party promised for decades.
It has long been a left-wing slur that all opposition to them is reactionary. Their opponents are not trying to solve problems or address some truth, but instead they just want to rollback reforms and return to some imaginary past. The more cynical want to rollback reform so they can continue to exploit the masses. The Left has always used the word reactionary as a way to dismiss opponents. By dismissing the person, they felt they could dismiss their objections.
What has happened over the last several decades is that the American Left has become completely reactionary. It has no purpose for holding power other than to hold power and prevent change. You see this with Team Biden. They have party media organs run stories like this one about Russia. You see, Biden does not have to be in control of his faculties when dealing with Putin. He just hates the man and that is all that is needed when dealing with Russia.
The Left is the moral center of our democracy, so as they have grown increasingly reactionary, everything orbiting around them has followed. So-called conservatism has not had a new idea since the Contract with America. Instead, they just rhetorically oppose whatever the Left is saying at the moment. Of course, that is always limited to economics and war mongering. Conservatism stopped being a cultural force in the 1980’s, so it has nothing to say on those matters.
In fact, you can probably look at the bizarre cultural fads whipsawing American society as a reaction to the collapse of conservatism. Into the 1980’s, the Right actually opposed the Left on cultural matters. They never won, but they did fight. The conservatives quit on their stool in the 1990’s and ever since the Left has been poking them with one more bizarre fad after another. “Seymour, try poking them with the tranny stick. Maybe that will get them to fight back.”
The only thing that matters to the so-called conservatives is making sure their racket keeps them in the lifestyle they feel they deserve. That is why they never muster a discouraging word about anything. To question the status quo is risk their position, so they are intolerant of any dissent. Both the official Left and official Right are now in a defensive crouch. The razor wire fencing, which remains in place, and the soldiers guarding it, has become a symbol of our reactionary ruling class.
American liberal democracy has reached an end point. It was built around a Hegelian struggle between two sides that believed in the same promised land. One side was always straining at the leash, trying to rush forward. The other side was on the other end of the leash, being pulled forward by the enthusiasm of the other. In Buckley’s formulation, one side was the train, and the other side was standing in front of the train yelling stop, but never really meaning it.
That struggle ended at the end of the Cold War. With the end of the long twilight struggle with communism came an end to the long struggle within the dynamic of the American ruling class. Now they are literally just a collection of old men haggling over old sleights. The one thing they agree upon is nothing can dare threaten their status atop the system, even the collapse of the system itself. Otherwise, they are now defined by what they oppose and what they used to oppose.
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The collapse, though undoubtedly painful, can’t come soon enough. The absurdity that envelops us top to bottom and side to side is suffocating.
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It’s all so tiresome.
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It’s funny how a random Chinese businessman in Africa became the spirit animal of American Dissident Whites.
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Thank gosh somebody finally explained Iran.
Everything about this article makes perfect sense. The muscle memory of institutions is fogeys trying for a do-over or to keep in clover before the clock runs out, we forget how old the advisors are. It’s all they know how to do and they’re too old to retrain. Glory days.
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> The conservatives quit on their stool in the 1990’s and ever since the Left has been poking them with one more bizarre fad after another. “Seymour, try poking them with the tranny stick. Maybe that will get them to fight back.”
The majority of Republicans now support Gay Marriage. The majority of Republicans will support trannies in ten years time. The next batttle, the pedos, will determine whether there will even be such thing as a family unit anymore or whether the conquest is complete and children will just be economic units raised by the State.
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I am reminded of: Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
Something similar should happen in all government legislative bodies starting at the top. Something more harsh than merely overturning tables though. Hell, the so called insurrectionists did no more than that and look what it got them. Might as well go all in.
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> Might as well go all in.
There was a guy in Texas who was forced to pay for his son’s transition, instigated by his insane ex-wife. What they are doing to this boy is something legitimately worse than flat-out murdering him.
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We have learned to believe the society will manage these sorts of thing. It turns out that we need to go back to a time when families managed things themselves: from personal threats to our safety to insane and murderous women, these things cannot be left to society to manage.
This new system is, not incidentally, tagged as criminal. We need to come to grips with that. Like the meme says: I’m not telling you to think like a criminal, I’m telling you that if you want to win, you are going to have to think like a criminal.
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Seems that it is more than old men arguing over slights. Since the oligarchs took over the left, it is marching to the dual tunes of the Great reset and traditional concerns of the tribe over destroying white societies and culture. Each step of the way brings them closer to those twin paradises on earth: Covid, demonizing the weather, demonizing whites, flooding white societies with people who hate them or at least view their relationship with whites as a zero sum game, getting women to hate men, low birthrates, dramatically increasing mental illness, silencing all opponents, perpetual wars for Israel. In some ways there isn’t much new (many of these were done during Weimar and the Bolsheviks) but the cumulative impact is taking us to the brave new world
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Back in the Clinton years, I used to joke that we could solve most of America’s problems by repealing the “titles of nobility” clause in the Constitution. Imagine what grief we’d have been saved, had we merely created Bill and Hill Lord and Lady Cornpone, Duc et Duchesse de L’Arkansas! Bill could have his prima nocte rights with the local squires’ daughters, Hill could have the peons doffing their hats to her in the streets, and they both would’ve died in happy obscurity.
That’s a lesson our great-great-great grandchildren, should they want to give “civilization” another shot, must grasp. Nobles have a sense of themselves as nobility; that’s what keeps them from blowing the whole system up. “Meritocracy” always ends with a class of people, like our current overlords, who are totally dependent on The System, yet somehow someway are suicidally invested in the idea of themselves as perpetual outsiders, fighting The Man. (That they themselves have been “The Man” since about 1982 is a mere fact; facts are irrelevant in the face of identities).
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Yeah, I think that’s a new point to me. People at the top of the “meritocracy” got there by fighting against all odds, man! Could it be their own self-image is stuck at being an outsider, even if not really true?
A noble, on the other hand, got there because some ancestor did something spectacular. Maybe he could also do something spectacular, but if not, he is still born to that role. He doesn’t need to imagine himself as fighting the system, if anything, he is looking for ways to fight for it.
Again, the wisdom of the old ways comes out: it really is in the interest of society to reduce the leveling effects of everyone wanting the same thing.
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“Ol’ Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won’t stop runnin’ no way to slow down!”
Some flautist once sang that lyric, and it damn well applies to most anything about these hell-bent-for-disaster days. In a way, it’s a good thing. The sooner the train derails, the better.
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“..Driving that train, high on cocaine
Trouble ahead, trouble behind..”
it’s not just thieves stealing the brake handles, it’s also too many of our “elites” succumbing to whatever addictions they have, whether chemical or behavioural addictions.
“…When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead,
Feed your head, Feed your head…”
You nailed it. Everything now is reactionary. As the system continues to collapse, the reaction will ratchet up. A rather anodyne report this week was that the FBI had asked a newspaper for a list of people who had clicked an on-line link to a story about the insurrection a/k/a as an old folks’ rally marred by a state-sanctioned murder of a young White woman. The Left really needed a right-wing bogeyman to keep the target off its back. That’s gone now as people see conservatism as the grift it always was, and now look at the Left as a ludicrous failure. The Ruling Class is looting at an accelerating rate and the Dirt People are sneering and laughing at them. No, it will not end well.
As an aside, a point about Obama’s Iran deal that always gets overlooked is how much money was on the pallets and how Black Ops were used to avoid any financial disclosure about how the funds were obtained and…how much. The odds are nil to zero Obama and his team didn’t scrape a substantial sum from what was finally delivered. Johnny Kerry hardest helped.
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So Obama-spite’s why they’re working hard on bringing back Carter’s double-digit inflation_? Reagan crushed it and that slight must be avenged_? Makes as much sense as any other explanation on offer.
And here I thought this move was all about crushing YT’s 401k, making debt serfs of us all. There’s no chance that any conceivable, even Weimar level, inflation could get rid of the national debt. So that can’t be the purpose, can it_?
Alternative hypothesis: This is how Biden’s handlers are planning to keep his promise to cancel student loans. I must say that Jimmy Carter did me a solid in that regard back in the 1970’s. When I graduated college in the late 1960’s, I owed half a starter house. When ole’ Jimmy was done with the dollar and it came time for me to start paying following my service and grad school deferments, I owed 5 or 6 mortgage payments, tops.
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We are dead in the water until we agree on morals and ethics, and restore our families. Without them or any values, everything is on the table, and ‘smash-and-grab’ is the order of the day.
We point fingers at our leaders, but that finger inevitably points back at us. We elect those psychos and morons, we sit idly by whiles they cheat, and as long as there’s food on the table and something good on TV – it’s all good.
We can either restore our values and morals, or someone will rise and force theirs upon us. A country can’t run like this.
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