One of the greatest tricks Americans have ever pulled is convincing themselves and the world that we are not ideologues. At worst, we are the defenders of Western liberalism, which is never described as an ideology. Unlike communism or fascism, it is seen as a set of obvious conclusions arrived at through reason. If anything, the American way is considered a practical antidote to the problems of ideology.
This has always been nonsense, but we have believed it for so long that no one thinks much about it anymore. The closest we get are critiques of liberalism from neo-traditionalists, as if we still live in a liberal age. In reality, America is an ideological state and has been for a long time. The ideology has evolved to suit the times, but the core features have remained unchanged since the 19th century.
This is one reason for the current crisis. The age of ideology is coming to a close, but the United States, especially its ruling class, remains trapped in the age of ideology—like a dinosaur stuck in a tar pit. While other major powers think and talk in practical terms about practical problems, the United States continues to think and talk in explicitly moral terms about abstract concepts.
That is the show this week. It is an exploration of American ideology and the factors that made it possible. This is a topic that could fill up several more shows, so this episode is just a quick summary of the material. I could easily do at least one show on how the two great industrial wars warped the American perspective. The Cold War could be at least one episode, probably two, so this is just a starting point.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- American Protestantism
- Nationalism
- Progressivism
- Judeo-Puritanism
- The End Ideology
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I I’m really off topic. But points here about academics could be made if conservatives about race: The most dispiriting trait of the professional scholars is not their consensus about Shakespeare’s identify, but their refusal to admit that there can be any room for doubt. Realizing very well how little is known about Mr.Shakspere of Stratford, they should at least allow for an agnostic middle ground. It is one thing to say that the testimony in favor of Mr.Shakspere’s authorship remains, on balance, more satisfying than all the arguments made against it. It’s quite another matter to concede nothing to… Read more »
Even when I was young and dumb, I couldn’t believe the gall of COH-lin Powell saying in front of the UN that we aren’t an empire wanting to invade other countries. Peak Bush years.
And cuckservatards still consider Powell as part of the IKAGO holy trinity (Sowell, Thomas, Powell).
When did the American ideology become spreading homosexuality and feminism around the globe? I know that this is in part with liberalism, but at some point you had politicians and officials saying explicitly that America was in these countries to turn the women into feminists and the men into homosexuals. At some point we went from Proposition 8 to the State Department flying “pride” flags outside embassies, thus, for all practical purposes, making THAT and not the stars and stripes our official national symbol.
When we “won” WWII. USA now stands for ‘Usury, Sodomy and Abortion’. One of the many joys of living under ZOG.
No, that is when the seeds were planted, but this idea that we need to occupy Afghanistan forever so girls can go to school, or that the State Department’s primary mission is to support homosexual parades – this is very new.
As you say, I think the seeds were planted long ago, and these ideas get doubled down on as time goes on. Seems to be a human tendency to take things to their logical conclusions. Tech, particularly social media, has sped up this doubling down immensely in the past 15 years.
The confluence of post-modernism and radical equalitarianism required a constant search for new causes and ways to destroy the old order. The lunacy of radical feminism and perversion/transgenderism kind of made them the last frontiers and an endpoint. To answer your question, I think these causes, such as they are, probably came into their own with the advent of gay “marriage” in 2015. I also think the embrace of these insane notions has led to a post-ideological moment and things are going in the direction of a naked who/whom (see my earlier comment).
It might just be as simple as a naked who/whom. Prop 8 seemed to usher in a type of liberal vengeance where they decided to use the power of the state to impose their values on the proles. Of course that took time to work through the system but when it was done, it was all there and that train has no stops. Telling the proles’ sons that they were actually girls seems more like punishment than anything, in this context. Likewise with immigration, people voted for immigration restriction and the system responded by flooding their towns with Haitians (in… Read more »
Yeah it really ramped up with WW2 because so many women took war jobs, in the absence of men. That got them away from the family hearth and into the expectation of careerism and independence . . . and soon, under preferential conditions.
As for the explicit exportation of feminism and homosexuality to the world, I’d say it became Primary Policy mebbe 30 years ago.
The emancipation of women might have been one of our greatest mistakes. We have a mural of a race-swapped Rosie the Riveter in a town near us, when we know the obvious reality.
The gals fell right into the jewish feminist movement and now we have Girl Bosses in positions of power.
Z: “the United States continues to think and talk in explicitly moral terms about abstract concepts”. I hate to disagree with Z on this point, but what Elon & DOGE are discovering is that Amurrikkkun Leftism was nothing but a very sophisticated money laundering operation designed to suck trillions of fiat shekels out of the United States’ Federal Reserve, and into the grubby little paws of (((Geneva & Zurich & Tel-Aviv))). The leftist-faux-moralism was simply for show. None of it was organic nor sincere. Leftist-faux-moralism was simply the fig leaf necessary to keep the goyim from noticing that their Treasury… Read more »
If you ask me, it’s the logical endpoint of liberalism, which I understand to be the idea that everybody has a valid perspective, at least in some sense. Everybody has a piece of the puzzle, so you have to be inclusive to grasp the problem in total. Again, follow that logic, without limits, and eventually you’ll be asking Satan for advice lol.
For whites, the impetus towards liberalism was the belief that a person should never be judged, or suffer consequences, for a trait that one did not choose.
This seems like a humane aspiration until you realize that many immutable traits should limit your options. I hope that even liberals would still agree that blind people shouldn’t be pilots. (Is that hate now?)
Other races do not seem to share this impulse, but are happy to exploit it when arguing with whites. No other race has ever thought that homos should be tolerated or women be soldiers.
When Harry Truman, against the unanimous opinion of the State Department and military, recognized the criminal State of Israel…Jews have always been far left….
When i was a young blue-pill Normie Republican, I remember there were 3 insane things with the Dubya regime that cracked the matrix for me:
-he justified invading Iraq with the image of iraqi broads holding up there dumb purple fingers after voting
-he boasted about his regime gave the most money to africa (BOTSWANA!)
-post 911, he declared islam a “relgion of peace” but made it our respinsiblity to bring in more muslims than ever
The U.S. has been an ideological empire since 1917, when Wilson abandoned the Monroe Doctrine and declared that the U.S. must get involved in a European war against a country that never attacked us to make the entire WORLD “safe for democracy.” FDR’s “Four Freedoms,” announcing the rights to freedom from ‘fear” and “want” “everywhere in the world” were a corollary to the imperial ideology. After the American cultural revolution of the Sixties, that transformed into anal sex, abortion and transgenderism — plus Zionism — “everywhere in the world.” Difficult not to agree with the people who think that the… Read more »
“The U.S. has been an ideological empire since 1917…” That’s true as far back as you’ve dared to think, but remember Publius’ Federalist No. 1, esp. the first paragraph. AH very consciously promoted the reorganization of the “empire” (quoting AH) to which some class rebels had given birth only eleven years before by partitioning an empire. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world.… Read more »
The ideology of the United States, radical equalitarianism, is a nutty religion that has become too transparently insane to be sustained. It seems to be holding firmer in the West European and other satrapies, but at some point it will begin to die in those places as well. There likely will be a counter-revolutionary Julian the Apostate arise at some point to try to restore DEI, transgenderism and the other lunacies, but reality probably will win out. Trump arguably is post-ideological, but he also clings to the radical equalitarianism delusion at least in part. What follows him, though, will be… Read more »
Trump is an Enlightenment equalitarian, but the tribe of Usury Sodomy Abortion he works for is not. Please remember how this works, as it worked in the ancient past, and in the more recent past once liberated by White technology (deepwater sailing ships, Gutenberg, the British Industrial Revolution and petroleum…) The landed gentry (Aryans long ago, “Puritans” and “Masons” then, Postmodern communalists now) are the majority advancing, but they follow the beliefs of a parasitic minority…that minority leads the way of the advance. (Neocons, tech oligarchs.) Parasites are the software “drivers”. The ant is bigger, but the virus drives it.… Read more »
After reading the first 10 comments posted today, it made me think the following.
In a Darwinian sense,(meaning propagating the species; surviving), how does spreading sodomy, abortion, feminism, and other mental illnesses, aid in the cultures quest to survive?
People tend to think about the winners when it comes to evolution. There are far more losers in the game of life. Whites could very well be like the panda bear, in that we evolved down a dead end. Or, we are headed to a bottleneck, which has happened in the past. What emerges is free of the mutational load that lead to the bottleneck.
If you can get your competition to embrace the sodomy to a greater extent than your own group then it’s adaptive.
It doesn’t. What you describe is a cult/ure of Death. Really, a religion of death. And it sure isn’t new in human history, it just went global.
I’d like to shine some light on another aspect of the Catholic Charities situation from my professional experience. A big focus of this charity is bringing in foreigners, yes, but the other aspect that people probably don’t realize is that the funds the charity raise are in large part transferred to Real Estate companies/investors to house said foreigners. I’m sure you can surmise who owns a bulk of the real estate benefiting from these payments. Really calls in to question who this charity ultimately aims to benefit. Of course they’ll say it’s about helping the poor, downtrodden foreigners but in… Read more »
See my comment about keeping merchants in their place. Same exclusion must be applied to real estate speculators, land developers, property managers, and so on. This will be virtually impossible to do without a religion which motivates tradesmen, farmers, and laborers to resist the blandishments of the merchants and real estate people.
When I was a conservative, I bristled at China’s accusation that we were always at war from the beginning. But it was true. We have always been at war, whether on behalf of corporations or ideologies. What Z is telling me is that America has been judaized from the time jews entered the elite, and that our society has been warped by their ideas of social justice. Our wars were noble and just, as told by the greatest liars in all of history. Tikkun olam is good for the jews, especially when they rob us to pay for their generosity… Read more »
I don’t see the American Ideology of egalite, female supremacism, and homosexuality dying. I see some folks trying to kill it, of which I am one. But it isn’t ‘dying on its own’ that’s for damn sure. The first few months of Orangie Dos have given hope that America’s satanic religion uh I mean ideology somehow is expiring. I see little evidence of that, given that the Regime still controls all the institutions and the deep-state, or bureaucracy. USAID? Drop in the bucket. When one studies the history of the Jews in Scripture, one finds them in constant regression to… Read more »
When was the turning point? Several others made excellent suggestions, but I would argue that giving first amendment protection to pornography was an important contributor to the slide. Why didn’t this happen in 1850s or 1900?
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/352/380/