Up until this moment in time, the vast majority of right-wing people operated from the assumption that they were in the majority. They were part of the silent majority that did not make a racket in the streets. The Left and their associated riffraff went out into the street and bellowed like lunatics because they never had the numbers. They had to be loud and intimidating in order to get their way. When they went too far, then the great silent majority would awaken and put them in their place.
They also operated under the assumption that numbers still mattered. If the majority got motivated and turned up to vote, they would win the election and that would make a difference to the politicians. Right-wing politics was all about mobilizing the voters and winning a majority. They did not have to worry about changing minds. They had to focus on getting the word out so the majority would turnout. It was the Left that focused on convincing people into going along with their schemes.
This not only applied to elections, but to all areas of politics. The expression “go woke and go broke” is rooted in the assumption that business has to respect the customer or face the wrath of the marketplace. If management takes to Twitter pushing left-wing nonsense, it was assumed they would pay for it. A television program that decided to offend its viewers would see its ratings decline. Right-wingers were the majority, and they were operating in a political marketplace.
Whether this was ever true does not matter, as it is not true now. That silent majority is now a permanent minority. Further, the political marketplace no longer exists. You are not allowed to speak your mind to your fellow citizens, unless your opinions are approved by the managerial class. They are also making sure that your choices at the ballot box will be limited to their approved options. Even if you find a way around it, the magic of mail-in ballots will guarantee the outcome in advance.
What this means is the new age of managerial authoritarianism will require a new brand of politics that fits the age. All of the avenues of the old system have been closed off or corrupted, so they serve the ends of the regime. Mass censorship monopolizes the public space by the organs of the ruling class. Systematic ballot stuffing closes off the electoral route. Even the courts are a dead end. A court that claims the Founders wanted special rights for men in drag is no friend of the people.
From the perspective of white populism, all politics must now be irregular politics as conventional politics has been closed off to us. The Right has to move away from the mindset of the majority to the mindset of the put-upon minority. That means engaging in unconventional tactics. When you cannot participate in conventional politics in order to advance your interests, your choices are clear. You either submit and live the lie that is conventional politics, or you rebel and live outside the lie.
This is why boycotting elections and threatening the Republican Party from the Right must be part of the new political toolkit. In the old politics, it was always about the people running the system, not the system itself. The focus was on getting the right people elected. In the new politics, this is reversed. It is about the system, not the people running the system. The GOP is part of that system. Attacking them is part of weakening a system that makes war on us.
This has a strategic value, as well. The Left has always looked at the Republicans, along with their enablers from Conservative Inc., as an electric fence that keeps the white majority inside the system. Attacking the GOP forces them to choose their friends on the Left over their former constituents. It reframes politics as insiders versus outsiders, rather than one group of insiders versus another, with the white majority looking on like spectators, hoping for a good result.
The hardest part of this new mindset will be the idea of being ungovernable. This is the opposite of what most right-wing people have been conditioned to think. In the old way, the good citizen plays by the rules. In the new age, the good citizen is always looking for the chance to throw sand in the gears and undermine the rules. The dissident is always looking to drive up the costs to the managerial class by making them expend resources to compel compliance with their rules.
A simple example of this is the “It’s OK To Be White” flyers that create havoc from time to time. A few dollars’ worth of material and an hour of time results in a week of left-wing handwringing and the cops wasting resources on it. Someone adding “And neither do black people” to a yard sign that reads, “Hate Has No Home Here” does real psychological damage to the managerial class. It mocks their morality and their control over public attitudes. It is activism with a very high ROI.
The main point of politics for dissidents in any sort of authoritarian society is to develop and maintain an atmosphere of pressure on the regime. As ugly as it looks, those troops, barricades and razor wire fencing in Washington are a great result. A ruling class living inside an armed camp is one that will eventually burn through its emotional capital and begin to make mistakes. Ideally, the ruling class stays behind those barriers, fearing that the people on the other side are ungovernable.
Another thing we must do is abandon solution-based politics. For generations, the white majority has been conditioned to think in terms of solutions. In this new politics, there are no solutions. There are tactics that advance the interest of dissidents, which are primarily the weakening of the regime. The solutions in the demographic age can only come after the collapse the liberal democratic order. All politics now are about creating conditions in which rational politics can return.
This raises the thorniest of problems. The late Robert Novak used to say he loved his country but hated his government. In a post-national world ruled by a dictatorship of the managerial class, there is no country to love. Patriotism, like civic nationalism and clean elections, is a museum piece. Instead, you love your cause, you love your people, and you are willing to work with anyone that helps you fight the tyrants. In a world of “us versus them”, abstract concepts like patriotism have no place..
As a practical matter politics now must be a daily rebellion. Like Havel’s green grocer, being a dissident means living in the truth and every day is a war to pull a brother out of the lie that is modern America. It is defacing signs that say we are all in this together and littering managerial areas with reminders that they are surrounded. It means denying them your virtues by refusing to cooperate and only going along with their edicts after they have expended resources to compel you.
It is to live and let them know you live in a constant state of insurrection and that as long as you do, they can never rest. The people on the other side of those barriers live in fear of the people on this side of those barriers. They can no longer trust the men guarding them, as most of those men live on this side of those barriers. They are paranoid and afraid of the noises on the other side. The politics of this age are all about turning those institutions they control into prisons.
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Ok, but what’s the end game? After the resistance has succeeded, what does the world look like?
different than it does today, and that’s enough for me.
How about we focus on the task at hand and not get ahead of ourselves.
The end game is to create a place where it’s OK to be white. Better yet, a place where whites are privilaged.
The 1950’s, if we’re lucky.
I’ll settle for a place where we’re not flooded with foreigners, where we have plenty of decent-paying jobs where a man can raise a family, and we don’t send our boys off to war in far away places that aren’t in America’s interest. How’s that for an end game?
Often times, someone here will say “best ever” to one of your posts. And I always (silently) disagree. Because I have read all of your posts, and compare each new post to the full corpus.
This, in my un-humble opinion, is not only your absolute best post, but your most important. Bravo sir, bravo. Heading out to get some roses to throw on the stage 🙂
Don’t you think “Rules for Radicals” is now appropriate? It worked in getting Left wing radicals to be the norm, why wouldn’t work for us?
I’ve long recommended guys on our side read this book. You don’t need to adopt the spirit of the enemy but you should understand his motivations and tactics, and if necessary be willing to use them. You can enter a fight with gentlemanly honor, but if your opponent brings a knife, you’ll only get stabbed and bleed out a loser. If you somehow survive and find yourself in a rematch, your opponent might bring a gun this time. You and your honorable fists are dead. We need to learn from our losses. We need to understand the opposition so we… Read more »
What’s the plan for taking over Education, Media and Hollywood?
The main reason it doesn’t work for us is that we have nothing moral with which to shame the Leftists. Used to be that “Christianity” was the moral framework so you could get a little mileage out of calling them godless heathens but now, godless heathenism is the norm and they have no moral compunction. So we have no lever to move them the way they do us. The own public morality now.
They’re shameless and immoral, but proud. That’s why mocking them is so effective. Rub their noses in their inferiority.
My neighbor and I have taken down our American flags. In my case, because It could be an identifier of a Trump voter. For the same reason I have no NRA or Georgia State flag stickers on my Classic (old) Durango. When I mentioned taking the flag down to my wife, she said she’d been concerned for some time. My neighbor has put up a “Red Tide” flag instead, but that’s ok.
In turned mine upside down.
I have one also as well as a state flag that I used to put up on holidays etc. I’m now seriously considering burning both. They don’t represent anything to me anymore.
I’ve been telling friends and neighbors that I purposely won’t be voting anymore. Each one of them is a little shocked and ask why, sometimes laughing a bit (usually uncomfortably). I simply tell them that I no longer believe in the system and not just because of the election. I tell them one party hates me and the other party doesn’t care. I’m no longer wanted or represented in the government so why should I vote, which is a sign of legitimacy. I’ve be pleasantly surprised by their faces. They seem genuinely shaken up by my decision, which, like I… Read more »
Since May I’ve flown a 13-star Betsy Ross flag, as I decided the 50 star flag represents a corrupt, disgusting government and no longer represents freedom and liberty.
The Betsy Ross flag represents freedom and liberty.
me too.
It’s not meme-worthy, but my recent mantra has been: Showing up in Charlotesville didn’t scare our rulers (Hell, they used it to their advantage). Not showing up in Georgia did. Ditto with all the other “We the People” delusional marches. The Capitol Protest will probably be called the Capitol Genocide by the end of the month.
Even though the Marie Antoinette movie is not so great, this scene beautifully encapsulates how not participating delegitimizes the enemy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FriOch58Wms
Better get to Building those Communities of your people and for your people…It’s amazing what a little discomfort can do to get people out of their slumber…
Remember what happened to Ruby Ridge and Waco?
And then there were those who built and went on undetected. We can be those bugs who crawl under the carpet and multiply…
And there will be more discomfort to come. Diversity and Inclusion seminars forever. Refugee resettlements in your area. Blacks getting free houses down the street. News of people just like you getting fired and blackballed from ever working again because they got caught saying the wrong word. Etc. Etc. It’s coming – and faster than I would have thought. Colorblind CivNats can no longer hide. They are being forced to either grovel forever or begin thinking of how to resist. Sadly, many (hell, most) will choose to grovel, though like a drug addict the other side will demand higher and… Read more »
Another thing dissidents need to do it s figure out their first principles. Do you believe in equality or hierarchy? If the latter, do you believe that hierarchical society should be based on mutual duty between classes or mutual exploitation? Should religion or state be the foundation of moral order? If religion, which one? Should the formal order of government be monarchist, aristocratic or democratic? What issues should be a matter of public interest and which should be private? If you want equality, want a moral order based on state power with a democratic government, well you’ve got it. There’s… Read more »
Principles are for winners. We have won nothing. Once we win, then we can craft all the principles we like to justify our victory. Right now, we have demands. Free association. Free and open elections. Free speech. Access to the financial system. And so on.
The problem with ‘poking the bear’ with “It’s Okay to be White” signs and other pranks is the ruling class has the ability to destroy a person’s life and we do not have the resources or networking to ensure people doing this get good lawyers and money for when they inevitably lose their jobs and face jail. Literal terrorists in the left get a cushy job in Academia. Until we can get organization enough to ensure that whatever the powers that be throw at a person, their livelihood and family will be intact, making the ruling class’s threats ineffectual, it… Read more »
If I wore a “I love Stalin” shirt to work, no one would dare say anything to me. But if I rolled in with a MAGA hat, I would face financial ruin. That’s real power, and as much as I hate it, we would do well to respect it. We should be under no delusions of the scope of Lefty’s Will to Power.
Agreed.
If MAGA guy got fired, and the right hired a battalion of lawyers to go after the company while MAGA guy got six figures in crowdfunding for his troubles, we’re entering a new game.
Absolutely agree with this post. Society functions mainly because white people cooperate and follow the rules. It only takes a tiny number of us to completely flush it down the toilet. For example, in my city they stopped prosecuting shoplifting because it’s racist. Technically you don’t have to pay for anything and nobody is going to stop you if you just walk right out of the store with your items. Obviously this only works because most of us still pay. Just don’t pay. I know it seems like anathema to shoplift but that’s the whole point. Society is oriented around… Read more »
this will in fact drive chain stores out of your community, which should be the goal. this is going on in SF right now; Rite-Aid has effectively abandoned the city (shutting its stores there). Soon you will have no pharmacies or grocery stores in that shit hole.
Only do it in corporate stores though like Target, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Costco etc…
my neighborhood is already drowning in garbage/litter i hate it and don’t want to add to it, plus nobody would see my litter as making any kind of statement. would much prefer to create small, quiet pockets of order/tradition/beauty. Sort of like Orania. if Boers can sustain an Orania in a hostile place like South Africa, we ought to be able to create white-friendly havens here. They could be “intentional communities” organized around a filter like religion or philosophy, to keep out unfriendlies.
Anyone who aspires to being ungovernable must start by purging the propaganda machine – the TV. It is the choke chain of population control.Anyone who aspires to being ungovernable must start by purging the propaganda machine – the TV. It is the choke chain of population control.
It creates the perception of a perpetual state of crisis that blinds us to opportunities of breaking away from the state’s control of our reality – that of being hopelessly oppressed with no hope of freedom.
Who watches TV under the age of 50 anymore?
I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that a senile, corrupt old man and career politician has been installed as potus AND controlling all levers of power. This dirtbag government (as well as dirtbag companies) disdains us at the least, if not actively hates us. It’s going to be a long dreary slog, but chucking sand in the gears in one fashion or another may at least create some moments of joy – as well as interacting with those of a like mind.
A senile old man is not controlling all levers of power. The position never had that much to begin with. What power did Trump really have? I’ll admit his lack of cajones when it counted contributed to the little we got but as we have noticed, unseen forces exert much more power and influence.
How about tagging three annoying letters on everything?
F*Y*J*
(F—You Joe)
JWM
Someone came up with replacing president with resident every time one refers to the old meat stick.
I personally like pasting around town the following 8/12 x 11 poster with the meme “Everything You See Was Built By Men Supporting Their Families”
But that’s just grenade tossing. It may be fun but takes a VERY long time to have an lasting effect much like the long march through the institutions of the left. What we need is either 1. targeted elimination (picking them off systematically one by one) so they get the Fear of God instilled in their Satanic bowels or 2. Nuke the whole shebang in a figurative sense.
Whites are also conditioned to look for the big, decisive battle. The Western way of war is gathering a lot of troops for on each side and having some major battles, maybe even just one, to decide the conflict. But that doesn’t work when you’re a dissident. We need to give up that idea and embrace the Eastern Way of War, which is built on guerrilla tactics and wearing out your enemy. Time to give up the fantasy of some grand uprising of deplorables. Time to stay low, throw sand in the gears when you can safely, build communities and… Read more »
Show me your new “system”, Z. How does it work? Be specific and show your work? Dont be preposterous. The guy in the sundress is a much bigger problem than the courts. How, exactly, will your courts protect the public from guys like that? If you put stupid people with stupid problems before the court, it stands to reason that you’ll get a stupid ruling. I predict that if you kneecap the republicans, all you will do is empower the Donks who are much worse. In essence you are trying to use the system against the cheaters who aren’t bound… Read more »
Did the Founding Fathers write the Constitution before the Revolution?
This is the trap conservatives always build for themselves. They waste their time conjuring theoretical alternatives and then have to spend their time defending that theoretical alternative. Meanwhile, the Left marches from victory to victory.
If you really want to throw some sand in the gears, get off the W-2 labor system. Make them come after the money they want to take from you and your family’s labor. Certain ethnic groups have a long history of this and there are easy and creative ways to “not be fair” and “take advantage of gov programs in ways they aren’t intended”. Plus you get another benefit in that you’ll never have to deal with the crazy radical in the HR department.
An example of this kind of agitation is somebody recently painted a Pepe the Frog on a Bernie Sanders mural. Plenty of gasping and sputtering resulted, including the ADL declaring Pepe as an anti semitic symbol. On Fox News they showed a photo of it, but even blurred out Pepe, as if it’s a pornographic image. It’s funny to see the news anchors get all solemn and concerned about these kinds of pranks.
Z Man calls it Managerial Authoritarianism. No need for a new name for it, it’s flat out Fascism!
“turning those institutions they control into prisons”
I really like that idea.
so much diversity in biden’s administration
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsML_LSW4AM3s2_?format=jpg&name=large
there’s also this creature, wonder how many kids it ruined
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsGMQXyWMAQLFbL?format=jpg&name=medium
While we’re at it, it’s time to start voting for universal gibs, starting with universal health care. As it stands now, we’re the only group not getting it. If the treasury is to be looted, let’s get some of that money flowing our way. Same with anything the government is handing out. The response shouldn’t be “But muh deficits,” but rather, “Moar, moar, moar. And for our people too.” I, for one, am tired of being a sucker.
This post really hyped me up! One of the benefits with a Biden presidency is now we can act as we truly are: dissidents, a minority with our backs against the ropes and a mighty struggle before us. Its hard to not think of solutions during a struggle, but sometimes you need to concentrate on just one punch at a time. When you’re exhausted and facing a fierce opponent, you can’t get ahead of yourself–its best to remain calm and reduce each moment to the basics. If you are gassed out during a race, you concentrate on form, and breathing;… Read more »
Around the block from me there is a person with those “Hate Has No Home Here” and “Science is Real” signs in their yard. They also have one of those community library boxes in their front yard.
I think I should deposit a copy of Mein Kampf in it, or even worse, The Art of the Deal.
Essay of the decade right here. Thanks Z.
One thing I’d add to make it explicit: anger is OK. All the love talk on the right the last few years makes me want to puke. It’s emasculated. Not only will love not fix this, it plays into their hands.