An often-ignored lesson of the Roman Empire is that exhausted institutions can stagger on for a long time on inertia. As long as there is nothing ready or able to replace it, the thing can carry on like a shuffling zombie. The Crisis of the Third Century should have collapsed the Roman Empire, but there was nothing around to replace it, so it could finally right itself enough to stagger on for another two centuries. Even a terrible imperial order was better than no order at all.
The same can be said for American conservatism. It has been dead as an intellectual endeavor for a long time, but it staggers on, trying to play the role for which it evolved in the latter quarter of the twentieth century. The audience for its content is limited to the nursing homes and retirement villages of America. Even in Washington, where it has functioned as a usefully idiotic opposition to the people we call the left, it has fallen on hard times. Conservative Inc. no longer has a raison d’etre.
Superficially, the decline of American conservatism is a remarkable thing, given its status at the turn of the century. Despite the Clinton years, conservatism still seemed to be driving the conversation in Washington. The failure of the first two years of the Clinton administration looked like proof that America was a conservative country and Conservative Inc represented the center of American politics. Today it is a terminal patient living out its last days as relatives look at their watches.
A level below the surface, there is the claim made by the people we still call the left that conservatism lost its reason to exist at the end of the Cold War. The argument they made back then was that Conservative Inc primarily existed as an opposition to communism, at home and abroad. The death of the Soviet Union meant conservatism no longer had an enemy. It was the dog that caught the car. Unless it could find a new purpose, it was following communism into the dustbin of history.
At the time this seemed true enough, but as we know conservatism easily found new bogey men abroad and the people we call the left were happy to produce new sticks for conservatives to chase domestically. We got the war on terror, the police state, and the old bogeyman of racism. What the fall of communism did was remove the veil of ignorance so we could see the true purpose of conservatism. It was the usefully idiotic opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy.
The trouble is conservatism was too good at the role of easily beatable opponent, which is why Donald Trump rose to power in 2016. It turns out that they got so good at being an easily beatable opponent that a flippant real estate mogul and reality television star was able to steamroll through the party’s A-list candidates and did so in a way that discredited the institution they represented. Conservatism was a house of cards and Trump was able to huff and puff and blow that house down.
While it is true that American conservatism is dead as an intellectual and organizational force, it still maintains its institutions and access to billions in donations. The reason for that is nothing has come along to replace it. There are efforts underway to fill that role either as willing punching bag or loyal opposition, but so far Conservative Inc. has kept a firm grip on the money spigot. As long as they have access to billions, they can play the political version of Blanche DuBois for as long as they like.
Nothing lasts forever and you get a sense of it in this post from one of the minor zombies shuffling about the cobwebbed halls of Conservative Inc. It is a version of the point-and-shriek we got from the usual suspects when Tucker Carlson had Darryl Cooper on to talk about historical narratives. We get the ritualized emotivism these guys always put at the top of their posts to let their masters know they are not going to be any trouble and then it is the standard attack on Candace Owens.
What the post reveals is that these people do not see what is coming next. The reason Tucker had Cooper on his show was not to make the case for why Churchill was a villain, but to open the conversation about the official narrative of the Second World War and by extension the American century. In other words, the point was not to provide an alternative history or answer reasonable questions about important events of the official narrative, but to legitimize questioning of it.
The official orthodoxy of this moment rests on the official narrative of the twentieth century and America’s role in it. It is what permits the toppling of statues and the desecration of graves. The narrative of the American century has allowed for a rewriting of the American story in such a way that it not only justifies the official morality of this age but forbids the questioning if it. Once people start questioning the story, it is not long until they question the point of the story.
Candace Owens is not an intellectual or even a serious political actor, but she is enormously popular with the sorts of people who used to follow the lead of conservative stars and who want to believe they are standing on the moral high ground. People like Candace Owens not only validate their oppositions to the fruits of the official narrative, but she also makes them feel good about questioning the narrative itself. Questioning the official narrative strikes at the cultural heart of the regime.
The writer of that post does not understand any of this because he lacks the intellect and the necessary curiosity. The reason conservatism got so good at being an easily beatable opponent is they selected for the type of people who enjoy being on the losing end of every fight. Critical to the slave morality of conservatism is a blinkered shortsightedness focused only on the immediate goal of currying favor with the master, or at least gaining her sympathy.
Like the Roman Empire, conservatism staggers on, mostly on the fumes of past glory, but the signs of collapse are showing. In the third century, it was the slow decentralization of power that foreshadowed the end of empire. In this age, it is the slow awakening from the myth of the twentieth century that foreshadows not only the end of conservatism but the end of the regime itself. That is the thing about collapse. The master does not see it coming, but neither do the slaves.
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“In this age, it is the slow awakening from the myth of the twentieth century that foreshadows not only the end of conservatism but the end of the regime itself.”
Okay, stop beating around the bush. What is this Mythos des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, and why does its demise betoken the end of the regime?
People are going to get super upset about this, but once you begin questioning aspects of WW2 you aren’t going to stop.
Even if one leaves the official victimology of The Holocaust® untouched, which is highly recommended because in many places to do otherwise incurs risks to career, finances or even one’s personal liberty, arises the sticky problem of the fact that (horrors!) other groups died too. In fact, in the millions. [Clutch at pearls]. Gasp! It looks like it only gets worse….tens of millions! No questions, please, about our ally the Soviet Union and how many of its own citizens it disposed of well before WW II was even on anyone’s radar.
What puzzles me is why that mythos justifies the toppling of statues and the desecration of graves.
It is because the honored and the buried are white. There is no subtlety here.
But the mythos of WWII and the American century was not anti-white. The bona fide anti-white narrative commenced in the second half of the sixties. In fact, I’d probably argue that this postmodern narrative began competing with the WWII mythos at about that time or maybe a bit later, and eventually supplanted it. Of if it didn’t supplant it, coopted it. Just spitballing here.
But “my grandpa,” “my uncle,” “my dad” made the world safe for democracy by fighting the evil notsees. If I had a fiatbuck for every time I’ve heard/read that . . .
If I had a fiat buck for every time someone said he heard somone say that, and lost 10 fiat bux for every time I’ve actually heard it said, I’d be a very rich man indeed.
Its interesting how you and mr derb disagree on this point. For the record you are completely correct Z. The current order is utterly rotten and for it to be razed to its foundation, the founding myth itself must be overturned
O think it’s time for derb to acknowledge the fundamental unfairness of his famous MacDonald “the Jew thing” essay. I was of the same sentiment back then as well. But it aged like milk, not wine. Dern does himself no honor by not retracting that old hit piece, which is what it was
Zman’s echoed his thoughts nearly word for word for some reason. Which I for one am grateful for, it’s about time *somebody* in this thing of ours managed to take a principled stand against antisemetism. Won’t someone save those poor chosen’s feelings?
I remember. I didn’t quite agree there. The JQ is not the answer to everything but it’s become perfectly legit to look at if reality is your bedrock and it’s content is not the empty set either
The JQ answers the question of who is sovereign, makes the friend/enemy distinction, and reduces everything else to either a detail or a distraction.
But this invaluable hueristic does not appeal to intelligent people who wasted their time on math or computers or libertarianism and still think they they are smarter than everyone else.
Social reality is horseshoes and handgrenades, not digits after a decimal.
“[I] think it’s time for derb to acknowledge the fundamental unfairness of his famous MacDonald “the Jew thing” essay. “
What specifically, if I may be so bold?
“the founding myth itself must be overturned”
Depends on how you feel about “myth”. I’d also note that is it’s so bad, why are our enemies so dedicated to erasing our past as well?
Would that I could upvote 100 times…
Well said. post-America was and is an imperial project. It is aimed at creating a global mercantile imperium. It will be controlled militarily by full spectrum dominance on the seas with a master control in space. It will be controlled ideologically through full spectrum information control. It will be controlled regionally through racial patronage networks and switching between anarcho-tyranny and harsh repression as the situation dictates. Conservatives were there to pretend defend America and its natos. The frog has boiled. Now we go our own way. Should opportunity arise once we are strong enough to ally and bargain with real… Read more »
I think the imperial project is unraveling in real time. Ukraine is the focal point right now in figuring out if GAE can push around the other big guys. GAE is not doing well
I can’t think of an empire that wasn’t good for business. Even the USSR made some men stupid rich, even if their assets were technically state-owned. You can abolish private property, but it doesn’t seem like you can abolish trade or traders.
I’d go so far to guess empire is about business, at the end of the day. Another reason I’m a civ skeptic.
Speaking of the Roman Empire, and how it dragged on for a while, Laurent Guyenot wrote a fascinating book about the first first millennium AD. It’s titled “Anno Domini” and the thesis is that what historians believe to have been about 1,000 years between roughly the death of Caesar Augustus and the year 1000 AD, was actually a little over 300 years, and that several historical events have been duplicated and placed at different times thereby adding about 700 years into our history books, years that never actually occurred.
Heard that too, utterly bonkers. We’re not dependent on written sources for our history, you can track history back, year by year, with dendrochronology, dating buildings by the tree rings in the timber.
Sounds like Anatolii Fomenko’s New Chronology. It’s bollocks, of course.
Contemporaneous societies with written language existed, and that is fatal to the theory.
I heard a very similar claim about Biblical timelines, that a 600 year period was duplicated, that is, used twice with minor variations to flesh out the ‘history’.
I wonder if that’s related, perhaps some odd little literary niche being adapted.
The Regime thinks everything is a TV show, so I remember The West Wing had a token conservative character. He was the gentle wrongthink memorial to the enlightened center-left government. He merely reminded the Bartlett administration that conservatives exist, somewhere, and could be kept around, in small numbers of course, like that funky old TV stand that your mother gave you when you got your first house but it doesn’t match any of your decor, but you can’t bring yourself to throw it away. It doesn’t match anything, but it does remind you when your mother was a comfy presence… Read more »
I never watched it, but that show did a lot of damage. It convinced a generation of young lefties that is what the political process should look like. Not that good things were happening before it, but it made the whole process less serious and accelerated decline.
Conservatism isn’t an ideology. It’s a delaying tactic. That’s why conservatives never manage to conserve anything.
Yep. We olds tried and failed to come up with something to oppose the progs. It’s high time for the whippersnappers to come up with a replacement. At least before they end up in the nursing homes, too. We can’t do everything for you your whole lives.
I mean, crap, the best idea they’ve come up with so far is ConInc 2.0, now with Charlie Kirk and extra BoomerHate.
muh muh genarayshun (me) deserves all the extra boomer hate. period. what exactly did any of my dope smoking draft dodging asshole compradres do to resist anything but temptations. hmmm? voat hardurr? cuck to some bitch who moaned about how unfair everything was? what exactly was it “we olds” tried to do to resist (and failed) with the progs? “well, i voated”. lols. meanwhile, the fine wasp dude in the comment about the library thing was feted at the local chamber and GOP fundraiser back in the day by all the ‘pub voaters… . lols. karma is such a bitch,… Read more »
Gotta get over the Nazi business, quit letting Hitler be a stumbling block. It’s about identity. Conservatives don’t conserve, because they’re afraid to open the door to who they are. Lefty thinks Hitler is hiding in the shadows, Righty thinks he’s within. So conservatives settle for money and ideology— and lose.
Realized I misunderstood Steve and deleted the post.
Brilliant essay. Here are a couple examples that underscore the point. Of course they are published by one of the organizations that has huge sums and is still fighting for the Constitution and American Way of Life. https://americanmind.org/salvo/social-justice-and-the-right/ ^^^ I actually corresponded with this guy a bit back. He was starting to broach the anti-White topic at a time that it was not uttered in the mainstream. I wrote him and made a case for the critical importance of calling this what it is and going on the attack. He wrote me back with some smug colorblind merit excuse that… Read more »
I was in a local library about two weeks ago. I overheard an elderly man — well, older man; I couldn’t see him yet — asking the librarian for a private space for a “meeting I want to have.” He had the voice of a confident still-somewhat healthy 70something. I heard her lead him to a table, which he didn’t like, and then to another, which he did. As they went from one table to the other, they passed by, and I saw and recognized him from my youth — well, my 20s. Local businessman, Izod Polo shirt, TopSiders, half-moon… Read more »
If there is any justice at all, a pack of Cholos will visit that bastard one night.
As things get hotter, people like this might find themselves dying in a moment of explicit terror as karmic retribution.
A read hard-case to his fellow whites trying to make it in America, and an enabler of the erasure of those self-same whites. He sounds like a real cutie-pie, alright. Poetic justice would be that Ecuadorean introducing Terwilliger to his maker.
Interesting
also interesting is the use of the present tense. Mr Updike had far more influence on popular modes of writing than he ever gets credit for.
Sadly, Churchians just like that come in all ages. I joke about it being a mind-virus, but it sure acts like one. Once some denomination (any, really, but very prominent in Jewish. Lutheran, Methodist, Catholic, (including Eastern), Anglican, Pentecostal, etc., and maybe especially atheist) get that asylum bone in their maw, they can’t let it go.
The only partial solution is for the uninfected to self quarantine into various traditional subsects. The final solution is probably going to take some cleansing fire or something.
Do gooders are a dangerous critter to have running around
rabid dogs and other dangerous critters need the triple S treatment.
I noticed a thing with older people I knew (friends’ parents) about 10 years ago…they seemed to grow a lefty conscience, where before (when I knew them as middle-aged people) they were normal, suburban center-right people. Suddenly they got all misty about civil rights and immigrants.
Of course, as Trump got elected and Covid blew through, they did all the predictable posturings. Now they’re Kamala voters.
Dementia works in funny ways
I think many olds–especially women–were guilted into atonement for their racism in early life. Atonement came in the form of being super, extra-nice to negroes they encountered, and perhaps even voting Dem occasionally. I call it the Oprah Effect.
You’re touching on my theory that the root of all the political turmoil these days is immigration. If they hadn’t let that get out of control, there wouldn’t be nearly as much turmoil as there is today.
When people understand that the duty to defend a community falls on every man, then bastards like this will no longer feel safe as they go about the business of aiding the genocide of our people.
The problem is, so many “communities” no longer exist. Many of them got replaced by “abstract communities” based on thinking and not proximity. People now live in zip codes and not actual communities. Every single year more than 2% of all “Americans” make an interstate move and never stay very long. Everyone is from somewhere else and plans on moving at the first opportunity. You cannot build a community with a bunch of strangers who don’t plan on staying anyway.
We’ve got those infesting every level of money and power in my town, Ashland, Kentucky. They’ve allowed all sorts of tramps to be transported right here, where they adorn every street corner begging, camping out in the woods here in town, and they love to live in the basements of empty houses. There’s also an art gallery on Winchester Avenue where they love to go, as well as the Highlands Museum. These are Democrat institutions, for they’ve already had the chicks with d!cks putting on their shows, and reading to their children as well. The attendance to either has massively… Read more »
Reminds me of that video floating around of that factory owner in Springfield lauding the superiority of the Haitian invaders over his local people, as if people in his local community would owe such a sleazebucket scoundrel anything.
Does his surname have a Green-, Stein-, or -berg in it?
I seem to recall a character in one of Dickens’ novels who had zero compassion for the downtrodden in her native Britain but when it came to the destitute and deprived of foreign lands (the more foreign, the better) she was all too willing to contribute her time and money.
Look at the story about the Haitians in Ohio. The factory owner came out and said that he prefers Haitians because they “show up on time and aren’t on drugs.” Of course Richard Hanania, desperate to get approval from the ruling elite, blasted this out. But look, this is how it is. These old relatively wealthy local scions are not our friends. They don’t like White people any more than the bureaucrats running these operations in DC do. They want Whites gone just as much as anyone working for Mayorkas. He gets cheap labor, treats them like crap, and relies… Read more »
Traitorous business owners like that sleazy Springfield factory owner get cheap compliant workers who will quietly accept rock bottom wages and lousy working conditions. The Wokies get plenty of welfare clients to shower money on and virtue signal to each other about. The Democratic machine gets a new cheap voter base that’s less demanding than blacks. Unlimited mass immigration is the lifeblood of the Left today.
In other words, the point was not to provide an alternative history or answer reasonable questions about important events of the official narrative, but to legitimize questioning of it. Excellent point and you have identified the actual reason behind the silly panic. The genie is out. A prominent blogger today linked a very recent Foreign Affairs article that calls for modified internationalism that is repackaged as semi-isolationism. As the blogger noted, the main goal of the article is to tell people what to think in a new way that still maintains imperial control. After the squalling and squealing subsides over… Read more »
I wouldn’t be surprised to see articles from Time and Newsweek appearing about how eating housepets is good for the environment!
That stage of the dissembling is known as “yes, it is true, and a good thing!”
The flatulence of FiFi and Fido will turn Gaia into a living hell, sure as shootin’.
Who invented herbivores, anyway? They can’t be natural with the way they upset the environment.
The correct narrative and solution: The economically/nutritionally at risk migrants need increased EBT and then they will be able to access the same prepared foods as the privileged white people, provided they don’t live in a food desert. Better fund an NGO to “address” that. NPR, please send me a payment, or at least a tote bag, for my idea.
Some have hoped that liberal women will turn against massive immigration if it puts their beloved cats at risk. I hope so, but remember that strident feminism suddenly became submissive when the topic turned to black males and their treatment of women. Suddenly these outspoken feminists became meek and quiet, except to blame white supremacy.
When black people eat their cats, will they somehow blame white men? (I bet my sister would.)
Change cat to a synonym and the “Cat Ladies” will be 100% in favor of a cat eating Haitian invasion. Ducks are out of luck.
You are a bad thinker. Nicely done.
Well done.
These are the grandchildren of the “Ton Ton Macoutes”…nothing changes.
Yep. The same women and feminized men who rail against “Climate “Change” go silent when it is pointed out that mass migration makes it worse if the theory is correct. Better to melt under a scorching sun than to be seen as racist, of course.
That’s about the size of it. The pavement apes can do no wrong, even when they sin against every commandment in the Leftist catechism. They are the Left’s immaculate deities.
Funny you should mention that. I think the only thing Newsweek prints anymore is adopted animal stories, or at least that’s what comes into my Google feed from them all the time. It’s just a brand name now.
You have a google feed? The horror.
I don’t know if I called it by its correct name, when I open up a new tab on chrome, it shows me a bunch of stories. The ones from Newsweek always seem to do with adopted cats.
Switch to Brave already. If you trust them, you can even do a direct link into Tor if you want to do something naughty.
Not only do they not see the collapse coming, but they don’t perceive the anger boiling below the surface. When the rubber band snaps, the backlash is going to be shockingly violent as well as unexpected. And this is by design. There is a meme floating around the dissident internet that goes “first the traitors, then the invaders” and its being passed along by men who are professional in the art of violence. Methinks they won’t know what hit them, which is a mercy of sorts.
In the mid 1990s, there was a brief wellspring of genuine civic duty in the Republican party, manifested in the “republican revolution” of 1994, effected by Reagan Republicans who actually believed in what they were pushing. This is why, to this day, many on both the left and right still refer to Bill Clinton as “center right” or even as conservative. He was never any such thing, but this GOP congressional majority forced him in that direction, and like the good politician he is, he took credit for the popular things that they forced him to do. This dynamic lasted… Read more »
Yeah, “Gingrich” Republicanism was killed by the OK City bombing and the 95 government shutdown. That was when I first started to think we might lose, and began my long, slow journey to the dark side.
It seems to me that those shutdowns demonstrated that few voters were willing to shut down the government for the sake of fiscal responsibility. They really didn’t mind unlimited borrowing against their children’s futures.
A different population of voters might have chosen to let the government close. I wonder if the country had kept its original standards for who could vote if the result would have been different.
I think it’s past time to retire the trope that ‘good people’ are “corrupted” by DC. No such thing as magic or tragic dirt. They are corrupt people to start with who are further and willingly corrupted by electoral and party politics long before they get to Sodom on the Potomac. That’s the only type of people the system selects for.
Presented that way, quite plausible. I’ll have to think on it. Thanks!
Maybe I’ve been reading too much of Ron Unz’s American Pravda. That post reads like a reader’s digest version.
Perot took my vote from Bush and Pat Buchanan was freely given it. He (Buchanan) lost and I decided to expatriate once again, but for the last time. I was gone in ’98 and have stayed gone. The rural outpost to which I retreated is now growing by leaps and bounds: urban retirees and remittance men (and women), in some cases trust fund hippies with kids named Anubis and Kali who go to the Waldorf school. The upside is they all need water wells, so my son, who has a water well drilling biz, has a 12 client backlog, oil… Read more »
Slick Willie was rumored to be CIA. What do you think?
I remember an article, probably from the Atlantic Monthly, published after the Dick Morris inspired Clinton’s welfare reform act of 1996 (or “welfare deform” as the lefties liked to lament). It claimed that the liberal policies and institutions that had been allowed to develop in the US were because we felt we had to prove we were really the nice guys compared to the commies. But now we had nothing to prove and it was going to be open season on all the social programs and progressive policies, etc. If the author had a crystal ball though, they wouldn’t have… Read more »
After Mass on Tuesday, I stayed for lunch and I was talking to the people at my end of the table, it is an extremely conservative parish, tlm, age range was early gen-x late Boomer and the slightly off daughter of one of them. When we realize September 11th was the next day we did the obligatory where were you when and then the daughter asked “so do we know what happened?” and no joke all four of us just shrugged our shoulders, it was so spontaneous it was almost funny. Narrative collapse is real, these people would have all… Read more »
I was DoD at the time, as were most most of my friends, some as contractors. ALL of us got warnings about Israeli ‘art students’. It is crystal clear with 100% certainty based on the MASSIVE Israeli espionage operation (1) inside FUSA that one of two things is true: either the Israelis knew about the impending attack and told no one or the Israelis knew about the attack and forewarned our government who then chose to do nothing. Either is plausible. (1) Also recall the numerous Israeli ‘moving van’ companies. A whole bunch of those operations were rolled up, then… Read more »
Heh
I only remember where I was because I pushed aside the business and took a long overdue vacation with my family.
I leave for three fucking days and you can’t hold things together without me?
The things that Cooper and Candace are saying are leaks in the regime’s dam of approved thought. What Trump said in 2016 about rapists and criminals crossing the border was also a leak. Same with his recent comment about pets disappearing in Ohio. More leaks are appearing, and it’s becoming a bigger effort for the regime to fix.
That was brilliant by Trump, by the way. I was asking all the people mocking Trump if they have been paying attention the last 8 years. Trump always throws out something that sounds ridiculous and maybe was exaggerated. Mainstream sources pick him apart and mock him, and slowly but surely we find out that Trump was on to something. Same pattern repeats over and over.
Obama, ironically, did the same. It was David Plouffe, I think, who called it “stray voltage.” Since Obama was a sacralized race, it was celebrated back then. It is a smart marketing tactic.
Complete information control made them lazy and careless. Amplification of the cat consumption in a slipshod effort to make Trump and Co. look bad simply draws attention to the invasion.
The Republican party really hasn’t had a reason to exist since 1876, when they finally gave up on military occupation and “Reconstruction” of the Confederacy. Ever since then, they have been ideologues in search of an ideology, but not having the stones to be truly counterrevolutionary in over a century, much preferring to be obedient lapdogs.
“The master does not see [a collapse, crisis] coming, but neither do the slaves.”
Fiction might seem an odd place to glean useful historical lessons but here goes. One of the books I studied in Spanish Lit, an example of magical realism, was Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World.
The narrative takes place during Haiti’s revolution. If one was in the previously favorable (for a slave) position of serving Massa in his home, come the revolution, those slaves’ life expectancy dropped quickly and suddenly. It greatly increased one’s odds of survival if one could pass as a field hand.
I’m noticing the Europeans took a stand, albeit small, against Israel for terrorizing the Palestinians. This was followed by Germany taking a stand against unfettered immigration and tightening its borders. Is it that showing some moral courage regarding the former gives one authority to tackle the latter? Is something in play? I ask because we all hear lots of bellowing from conservatives about unchecked immigration in American towns yet none of them has a word to say about Israelis doing to the Palestinians what the Haitians and South Americans are doing to us. I mentioned this also a few days… Read more »
All American political discourse is bought and paid. Those cutting the checks want pro-Israel, anti-immigration rhetoric to counter the pro-Israel, pro-immigration rhetoric.
As for Europe, I do detect an opening to get out from under the Semitic yoke. Olaf has announced he will turn over Netanyahu to the International Court if he steps foot on German soil (I doubt it, but still). Relatedly, the steps against white replacement is out of fear that parties that actually might stop immigration are poised to win unless the United States interferes in their elections.
As much as I agree with a lot of what you say, do you really think some supra-national jurisprudence is going to save the day?
It’s scams all the way down.
Current American conservatism is just the liberalism of thirty years ago. America is a liberal country founded on liberal philosophical assumptions. The liberals always have the high ground and the “conservatives” know it. If you oppose liberalism, you are philosophically anti-American. Such knowledge is demoralizing for those who consider themselves patriotic (conservatives) and hinders their ability to oppose their more liberal political enemies. Each liberal victory is quickly rationalized as really being conservative after all (e.g., civil rights, gay rights, abortion, and the whole sodomitic agenda).
“Each liberal victory is quickly rationalized as really being conservative after all (e.g., civil rights, gay rights, abortion, and the whole sodomitic agenda).”
You know in the end, ditches won’t care who gets thrown into them.
Bertrand Russell observed that “Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.” Every person, society, and civilization lives by a set of myths that combine a few facts with a lot of wishful thinking. To question those myths is to endanger the survival of the person or group that depends on them. And since no human or human group is immortal, sometimes the moment arrives to question their sustaining myths. But we shouldn’t deceive ourselves about what will replace them: not hard facts, but… Read more »
Candace Owens gets away with what she says because she’s a black married to a White Brit (with some seriously fugly offspring) and thus personifies normie’s aspirational color blindness and melting-pot pabulum. That’s the basis of any ‘moral standing’ she may have. She is ultimately another gatekeeper, the very embodiment of White replacement.
save us white men, based black lady! We’re ever such bottom bitches!
conservatism, Buckley conservatism or Russell Kirk’s one are a deception and distraction that targeting white people
It’s talking about life is buy and selling, a deal maker, consumerism that makes you hollow men
Its also talk about individualism, there’s no collective interest in white because different class means different kinds
every talking point of conservatism exists to divide white people as individual
true conservatism is ethnic nationalism and collectivism which Chinese and south Korean practice
True.Conservatism may be dead but progressives also don’t have much to offer anymore. A new order is waiting to be born.
“It has been dead as an intellectual endeavor for a long time”
I question the entire concept of making this sort of thing an “intellectual endeavor.” There’s a trite old phrase in politics about how there isn’t a Republican way of picking garbage or a Democrat way of picking garbage. Practical over theoretical wins the day, not to mention that conservative “theory” is a lot of talk, but has accomplished practically nothing people want.
i think the fact that conservatism has exactly 0 victories for ll their huffing and puffing. but their dainty hands are oh so clean and pink.
From the web–
The teeth-grinding stupidity:
“If you want to identify a real problem, it will be constitutional illiteracy in our elected officials and in the voters that elect them.”
<<1) Elect at least a generation of conservative supermajorities in both chambers of congress. They have to be supermajorities…
2) We will have to elect a string of conservative presidents to work with the conservative congresses.>>
They were talking about pet-eating Haitians in Ohio.
Good gods almighty, these mummies think cannibals won’t end up bloc-voting for General Barbeque.
A bit off topic, but I had to comment about what Trump said about the consumption of cats and dogs in some parts of America. Just so your audience knows, it’s a fact they do eat dogs in Switzerland, more so by farmers in the Appenzell and St Gallen cantons. They have eaten dogs for ages, nothing new, and it’s completely legal to consume them under strict laws about how it can be done and who can consume them. However unlike horse meat, you just can’t sell dog or cat meat for public consumption. Fun fact; in 1993 an animal… Read more »
Switzerland: New home for the Haitians?
This article has been written thousands of times, word for word, just swap out Candance Owens and Nick Fuentes for whoever was the villain of the moment at the time. They don’t realize that nobody cares anymore. They blew up their operation after October 7th, when they kept spouting obvious falsehoods (about the decapitated babies, for example) about stuff that just happened, leading to people wondering what else are they lying about. It’s over. And even if every thing they have ever said and written is true, how does that give them license to commit genocide in Gaza? Why are… Read more »