One of the more interesting developments of the last half dozen years is the collapse of the old neoconservative order. By the Bush years it was no longer possible to question the presence of these people at the heart of conservativism, but a little over a decade on and the neocons are happy to exclude themselves from the Right. More important, they seem to be unambitiously antiwhite now. That was always the subtext of paleocon criticism of them, but now they are happy to confirm it.
It is as if someone blew a whistle that only the neocons could hear, and they abandoned their former friends on the Right. Look around conservative media and it has been like a weird form of the rapture. One by one they have disappeared from Fox News, National Review, and other conservative outlets. They have quietly tapped into hidden wealth to start up new outlets like the Bulwark and the Dispatch. Others have moved onto the pages of far-left scandal sheets like the New York Times.
The thing is this departure has not just been a change of direction for them or an adaptation to new reality. These new sites are not an effort to build a better mouse trap or find new intellectual freedom. In fact, they are not trying to influence right-wing discourse at all. Instead, they are at war with their former friends, desperately trying to prevent anything like a right-wing from emerging from the tumult. They are anti-Trump, anti-populist and most important, anti-white.
Again, this was always the claim from critics. The first generation of neocons started out in life as Trotskyites and transformed into conservatives when the Left started saying nice things about their ancient enemies. There was also the Israel question. The Left was siding with nonwhites, like Palestinians, while the Buckley crowd was happy to side with the Israelis. The neocon phenomenon was a marriage of convenience for the first generation and has suddenly become inconvenient.
Neoconservatism has not collapsed, of course, as they are like a drug resistant virus or an invasive species. Short of a nuclear holocaust, there appears to be no way to eradicate them. Given the track record of the neocons, they should have gone to the trash heap of history a long time ago. They are responsible for the worst presidency in modern American history. Somehow, as if by magic, they have found new hosts and carry on as if everyone else is to blame for their failures.
What is most amazing about all of this is the mask dropping. Back in the Trump years, Jonah Goldberg amplified every left-wing criticism of Trump. He was also enthusiastic about calling Trump voters every left-wing epithet he could remember from his days working for Ben Wattenberg, the old Bolshevik TV presenter. Bill Kristol, of course, sounded like one of screeching harpies from the Daily Beast. His bizarre outbursts and predictions suggested he was having a psychotic break.
It was not just an over-reaction to Trump. The mean old orange man is gone and there is no rapprochement between the neocons and their former friends. If anything, the neocons are getting more aggressive. This post from Cathy Young is a good recent example of the neocon war on the conservatives. She manages to weave together the familiar paranoid delusions about antisemitism with left-wing conspiracy theories into an indictment of conservatives as hypocrites.
It was not so long ago that Cathy Young pitched herself as a right-libertarian, posting at Reason, National Review, the Federalist and so forth. Everything about her was a fraud, including her name, but she was able to fool Conservative Inc. The fact that she warms herself on a large rock every morning should have tipped them off, but conservatives are not known for noticing these things. Still, her shifting into an antiwhite bigot at war with conservatives is a telling transformation.
The question that naturally arises is why have they suddenly abandoned the old host, despite not having a new host? Perhaps the assumption is that after a clear separation they will be welcomed by the Left. This is something a pupa stage for them. The next stage is the imago when they will mature into left-wing warmongers. Many of them do still pose as conservatives at left-wing tabloids like the Washington Post. Jennifer Ruben and Brett Stephens are two examples.
Of course, there is the possibility that intellectual decline has hit them hard. Read the first generation neocons and there is no missing their intellect. These were smart and shrewd men with the animal cunning of revolutionaries. Their descendants, in contrast, are obnoxiously dull-witted. Bill Kristol spent his life as a freeloader, cashing in on his father’s reputation. Jonah Goldberg made armpit noises as the house jester for National Review, before declaring himself an intellectual.
This is something that cannot be dismissed. David French is the house intellectual at Goldberg’s Dispatch. Tucker Carlson nailed it when he said, “David French is a buffoon, one of the least impressive people I’ve ever met. Only in nonprofit conservatism could he have a paying job.” This is true across the neocon spectrum. Recall this is a crew that seriously considered running Evan McMullen for president. For those in need of some clown horn, here is more on that topic.
The other possibility is that neoconservatism was always a long con, but it has finally run out of road. The disastrous Bush years brought this reality to the fore and the neocons had no willingness or ability to answer for it. Eric Hoffer pointed out that mass movements in America end up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation. In the case of the neocons it is just a racket now. They are happy to run the pro-Israel racket as long as it keeps them in the lifestyle they believe they deserve.
Regardless of the the causes, the slow death of neoconservatism is a net positive for right-thinking people. The reason conservatism was a disaster is it cloaked anti-Western sentiment in liberal principle. The neocons were always the quintessential wolf in sheep’s clothing, so their departure offers clarity. That is, the people on the Right can now think in terms of their own interests, rather than the interests of esoteric principles or carefully cultivated and ennobled outsiders.
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“they seem to be unambitiously antiwhite”. think you meant “unambiguously”
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Very deft that you can name a certain tribe without explicitly doing so.
What happens when a parasite or virus can’t attach to a host? There’s only so much grift in a nation I hope.
Anywho, balkanized America continues at a slow and steady pace.
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i will say this, the hebes in the US are in for a rough ride. they have exactly 0 support here now, after all their shennanigans, and are actively being hunted in the streets. i personally don’t waste much energy on the JQ, but younger people bear them an intense animus. once again they have fouled the nest and will be forced to find a new place to fuck up. good work boys.
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They ALWAYS wear out their welcome
They are just obnoxious repugnant people, and that’s their good qualities
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Color me shocked – another Jew taking a non-jewish name to hide their jewishness – and then bashing legacy White Americans.
Is it truly anti-semetic to point out or recognize jewish influence everywhere, not only in our (former) country, but the west in general? Is it deniable that they have outsized power in all of the “power” centers – politics, media, academia, corporations etc., with which to push their agenda?
Perhaps, the self purging of the neoclowns from the true conservative right is the beginning of the end for all of that (((influence))).
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They still have the Mike Huckabeey and other members of the sect pushing the “Christians and Jews” bullshit. Steyn is the secular equivalent.
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“Judeo-Christian” is one of their most prolific and successful branding elements of the chosen PR dept.
I first saw it in 1990 in my HS physics class. The teacher had written on the chalkboard “this class operates on judeo-Christian principles” or some such. I didn’t know what it meant even as a young Christian man myself, but it struck me as odd and disquieting.
The fact that the teacher turned out to be a communist and psychopath was completely unrelated I am sure.
Now every time I hear it it is a cue to disregard what comes next as subversive and/or intellectually dishonest.
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I have noticed a few people I follow changing their use of that term in the last year or so. Some conservatives simply used it in an unthinking way, not thinking about how deep the historical antipathy has run between those two groups and how justified that antipathy is.
I remember when Bill O’Reiley was pushing that phase too
It evaporates when people take a second to realize how unrequited the sentiment is. Guys like Shapiro are happy to use the term when they mean something like: the Jewish heresy that is Christianity.
No, they still have a ton of institutional support. We’re way out on the fringes, here.
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not any longer. a tipping point has been reached — and crossed. they are being pushed off college campuses, and out of political support positions, out of screen writing jobs, etc etc. they are done here. like i said, no one is on their side here. plus they are in the way of the chinks and hindus.
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Well, if things really go south they can always head to Israel, a country for which they shill and have divided loyalties. Another chance, if you like.
For me, a native Englishman, I have only one home. As for you, Mr American (I assume). As I told a South African some months back: at least you had an out.
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There is a lot of evidence for the intellectual decline argument. I remember when Cathy Young decided to attack Steve Sailer for something and thought he was the owner of VDare. The reason they keep staggering along is that they have always had a ready supply of suckers to keep them flush with cash. Goldberg, Steve Hayes and French got $6,000,000 in startup funding for The Dispatch. When Kristol was pitching David French he should run for President, he told French he had donors ready to provide $25 million in funding for overturning ballot access laws. McMullin’s campaign had way more cash than it had any right to see. Eventually they will run out of true believers, but I thought that day would have come already. I don’t see any reason why globohomo would pay good money to keep these people around.
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They’ll probably stay forever. To a lot of these billionaires, funding people like French and Young is financially equivalent to a normal guy subscribing 5 dollars a month to the Patreon of a Youtuber he only watches a couple of times a year.
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You’ll also notice none of these jokers will have a Firing-Line type debate with any sort of dissenters regarding foreign policy. Their ideological bubbles are shrinking rapidly, along with their influence.
One can see why. Robert Barnes, while not full neo-con, had an hysterical temper tantrum after a debate with Fuentes regarding Israel. When your talking points are so weak that a 22-year old can easily hold his own, your movement is dead.
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What Fuent was saying the other day, although common to us, is not common to normies out there
If normie starts hearing legit criticisms of Israel and ((()))) the damn could break and fast
Hallelujah
And I was not a big fan of nick, but he is growing on me. Kudos to him
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I saw a clip of Barnes saying something along the lines that Israel is not an expansive state. There are only two ways you can say that. One is you are missing a chromosome and the other is you are a sociopath.
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I don’t know what the lad Fuentes said, but in any conversation regarding Israel’s Neighbourhood Watch Programs, I get the feeling that many I know I are screaming to say that they don’t care… but they’ve not got the confidence to do so yet. In any case, this is one subject that I am happy to open my bigoted mouth over. I don’t give two hoots. Genocide? Not my people. Oppression? Not my people. Potential world war flashpoint? Not with my people.
Most recently, I have taken to asking ‘What these events mean for whites?’ which often meets with confusion. Still valid though, any beef we stir up with Israel will affect the people I care about – albeit in some indirect way (i.e. incessant propaganda on the TV that they have not had the will to switch off). Not our beef.
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My biggest concern is that this Palestinian alliance with the left is part of a broader media and university campaign to “convert” enough dumb Americans to the Palestinian side. Then we know what follows: waves of Palestinian refugees seeking their freedoms from Israeli oppression
So for me, I would want Israel to eliminate them altogether. But of course Israel would never do that because they love being cruel bastards but they can never finish the job. Plus it looks like Russia has put a little bit of fear into them and to place nice.
Wonderful. Just frigging wonderful. Get ready for Little Palestines in every major metro
But I hope I’m wrong
The sane approach would be to eliminate the source.
It’s not Palestine that gets raw copies of all the NSA data collected, including all on Americans, Every Judge, Politician, Media baron etc. and you.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents
Or doesn’t that concern you?
Back in the Bush years, Jonah Goldberg amplified every left-wing criticism of Trump.
This needs clarification, did Goldberg work for the Bush’s between 2015-2020?
Trump wasn’t a dragon on anyone’s political radar when Bushy boy was in office.
Just a thought. ✌
Didn’t he get his start only because his mom was lewinsky’s confidante?
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Goldberg started life working for Ben Wattenberg, a far left PBS presenter. Then he did a turn at AEI and then he landed at NRO.
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Making armpit noises as house jester… Man, what a turn of phrase.
Yes mom and baby boy made all the chat show rounds together, especially Larry King. Little did I know at the time a major con was coming.
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I think he meant “back in the Trump years.”
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If I were a smarter man, I’d write something about the inevitable result of closed feedback systems (maybe “OODA loops,” if I was feeling like Keyboard Commando). Conquest’s Law says that any organization not explicitly, constitutionally right wing eventually becomes left wing, but I think there’s a corollary that explains at least as much as the original law: The primary concern of any organization that doesn’t have to sell its output on the open market inevitably devolves into: keeping the organization’s members from realizing how ridiculous they are.
I saw it every day back in academia. And I mean saw it, literally — as in, one look at these people, and you know they have absolutely nothing to teach you. I wouldn’t let any Econ prof I’ve ever known run so much as a lemonade stand. I wouldn’t let a Literature professor write a press release. I wouldn’t believe a History professor if he predicted six o’clock at five thirty, etc., and the reason for that is, they’re all obvious buffoons. The way they talk, the way they dress, the way they act, they’re just ludicrous. Once you realize that the entire ivory tower system is designed to make obviously dysfunctional people think they’re normal, everything about it makes sense.
Same thing with the neoklowns. Just look at ’em. Seriously, image search “Max Boot.” The very sight of that guy makes me want to yell “Neeerrrrrdssss!!!” and go give the chess club a swirly.
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Boot still doesn’t hold a candle to Ilya Somin in the contest for “most hateable face.”
I’d never heard of this man, so googled him. You’re correct. I could devise a million and one ways of my sledgehammer making contact with his mug, each more pleasurable than the last.
Boot was a big deal back in the Bush years. Neocons hung on his every word, even though he had no accomplishments and had never even been a reporter. He seemed to go straight from grad school to opinion/editing at the Wall Street Journal. Even for a neocon he is extremely aggressive, Boot would probably consider calling his philosophy “invade the world/invite the world” a complement. National Review Online was full of fawning praise for him from about 2002-2006. In the last couple of years they had a falling out with him, when he called them racist and reacted like typical conservative Inc., members to that term. It was humorous.
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Heh. I had indeed heard of Boot, but not the other chap – Somin.
The fact that he’s a reliably wrong radical libertarian lawyer should just add zest to that, then.
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The Germans have a word for such a face: Backpfeifengesicht.
A face badly in need of a fist.
I believe Mitch McConnell is the possessor of the worlds leading example.
It’s funny how so many shibboleths like “you can’t judge a book by its cover” are actually the opposite of the general experienced truth. It would be interesting to make a “Book of Lies” to capture them for instruction. A sort of companion volume to the sources for Derb’s grade school copy book headings.
From Cathy Young, “To many, this is evidence that critics of Israel are specifically singled out for “cancellation.”
I can’t imagine why anyone would think that when Israel is the only nation on the planet for which US state and federal laws exist that prohibit government contractors from boycotting them.
It also probably has nothing to do with the fact that I can pretty much get away with anti-Black or anti-Arab/Muslim posts all day long at Instapundit but if I say anything that can be construed as even mildly critical of Israel or Jews there’s a hundred normiecons waiting to drop on my head like a ton of angry, ineffectual bricks.
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The fact that N Fwenties can have a semi-mainstream “debate” on the topic is quite a breakthrough
(I have to misspell his name, because every time I spell it correctly my post goes into moderation purgatory. Very interesting, but topic for another day)
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The hive mind lacks self-awareness. It is a weird form of self-absorption. While obsessing over their narrow interests, they fail to see their own failings. It is self-worship.
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Actress Gina Carano was fired by Disney and blacklisted for merely mentioning the word “Jew” in a Tweet. Actor Pablo Hidalgo, who worked on the same set as Carano, posted stuff linking Trump voters to concentration camps and Nazis, and he’s still employed. There are countless other examples I could give. Remember that reporter at the Guardian who was fired for making a joke about the West’s support of Israel? … of course, that ethnic lobby will cancel you should you cross them. The evidence is overwhelming.
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These people have no place in White societies.
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Jared Taylor’s one blind spot is with them
But otherwise I think Jared is great
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Jared does not have a blind spot for Jews. He just not an anti-Semite.
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And yet the tribe still hate him
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But for him to recognize, or heaven forbid, respond to their hatred, is anti-semitism.
funny dat.
I remember him being asked the question abut ((())) and he said, almost gleefully, that “They look white to me”
That’s probably all I ever heard say on the topic. And to me that was something of a, if not a blindspot, then at least a decision not to wade in those waters. I don’t blame him tbh. Limbaugh did the same.
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I have always liked Jared Taylor a great amount; and have never really seen him openly talk about this issue. But it never really caused me great concern. His main thrusts covered all bases: whites need to toughen up and take our identity and wear it with pride; and blacks, en-masse, are really a barrier to civilization wherever you find them.
Once you’ve managed to get whites to think about their identity, and adopt a healthy dose of race realism, they’ll be more than prepared to meet other ethnic threats (jew, black, or whatever you fancy) on their own terms. If jews must be in our society, then one must be wise to their ways and their in-group loyalties. You counter that with loyalties of your own.
Of course, I don’t presume to speak for Mr Taylor, but this is how I always saw it. I would imagine a man like that is very well aware of the role jews play in society.
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You can do better Zman, those “europeans” masquerading as the chosen are the biggest “anti-semites” of them all. The only ones on earth still given a pass and fully funded for participating in modern colonialism.
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Sorry, that doesn’t explain his total avoidance. It may be smart and prudent but it doesn’t have anything to do with “anti”
Obviously. Their ambitions regarding White destruction are boundless.
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That was supposed to be a reply to McHungus about Z typing unambitiously when he most likely meant unambiguously.
“Regardless of the the causes, the slow death of neoconservatism is a net positive for right-thinking people.”
Maybe I’ve just been burned too often when I thought smart people had put an end to something and they really hadn’t, but I don’t think neoconservatism is dying. Many thought communism was a goner when the Berlin Wall came down and Boris Yeltsin started having his vodka delivered to Leonid Brezhnev’s old office. But as long as there is human nature, there will be envy and there will be communists and parasitic neoconservatives, who as you will recall sprang from an infestation of Trotskyites, as Buckley and Reagan congratulated each other on making allies out of a bunch of liberals, who tasted the power Reagan and the Bushes gave them and it became their life force. As long as you have Republican presidents appointing them to positions in the White House (Trump and Bolton come to mind), they ain’t going anywhere.
The Chi-coms figured out that a tiny group of elites can’t level people financially and remain in power, so they let statist capitalism rip. The commies in the West finally caught on and, given their need to subjugate whites, ingeniously are now using race more than economics as their trowel. Communists have shown they can adapt and survive in perpetuity. Their spawn, the neoconservatives, could prove just as hardy.
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As Zman pointed out that Eric Hoffer pointed out – mass movements in America end up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation. Neoconism is certainly a racket – with perhaps an admixture of cult and corp.
My other comment posted a few minutes after yours sums up my sentiments. Unfortunately, neocon spawn will likely prove to be more hardy than cockroaches, or the crabgrass in my backyard.
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The high-profile neocons during the Bush/Cheney era were members of the “Project for the New American Century” (PNAC). After PNAC was dissolved in 2006, it was replaced by the neocon “Center for a New American Security” (CNAS) with a similar agenda. Both organizations are/were CFR affilates, dominated by CFR members, including Cheney, Bolton, Wolfowitz, Flournoy, Campbell, etc.
Some have compared this network to the mythical Hydra. The tentacles of the monster come and go, but the controlling center persists.
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The new-cons are war mongers and Israel firsters.
Their turn to anti-communism happened when the Slavs took control of the Soviet Union and the American left become doves.
IOW they’re not inherently hostile to communism – as long as their tribe is running the show.
Jennifer Rubin is a glorified mommy blogger, and former Hollywood entertainment attorney, who was placed at Commentary, IIRC, to give her enough experience to justify putting her at The Washington Post. They wanted her there for her ideology, not for her experience on topics totally outside of her purview. Rubin has no business offering her opinions on anything as they are not informed by experience, education, or track record.
During her first six months at the WaPo, she wrote endlessly about Israel and Syria, trying to bait republican congressmen into demanding an attack on the country; some republican congressmen privately labeled her a member of Likud in response. She wrote practically nothing about the interests of actual republican voters. Essentially, her commentary seemed to be mostly about supporting Israel and attacking that country’s perceived critics, when she wasn’t busy mocking Sarah Palin as a rube or supporting immigration and low taxes for corporations.
Here’s a brief accounting I once did of her first six months at the WaPo (her blog, Right Turn):
45 posts on Israel, 21 posts on Iran (hostile), 13 on American Jews, 18 on taxes, 91 on Foreign Policy (overwhelmingly hostile to Syria), 3 praising democrat Joe Lieberman, 22/19 Obama / Obama White House (disproportionately accusing him of being weak for not attacking Syria, Iran), 47 on the federal budget, 77 on the 2012 campaign … and a plethora of other categories at a much lower level — Virginia politics, Senate GOP, Sarah Palin (mocking), immigration (supportive), etc.
Notice what concerns Rubin and what does not. Also, ask yourself if any of that stuff is a top priority with republican voters. It’s almost like Rubin is a plant purposely inserted to control the narrative for the Right. It’s not like she has any particular experience with any of this stuff considering her background. It’s not like she represents any large demographic the way someone like Rod Dreher at TAC does. So, was the WaPo trying to offer commentary from a large segment of the public or were they trying to control the narrative through promoting an approved gatekeeper?
How many real experts could the WaPo have gone with, instead?
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Die neocon scum!
(updating: ‘die yuppie scum’ meme of days of yore)
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Everything I need to know to understand the neocons is explained in Culture of Critique. Tangential to the topic but I really have no where else to take these thoughts. I grew up with Star Trek ideals and visions of the future but over time became disillusioned or perhaps disabused by maturity, some degree of historical literacy, and direct experience and observation of human nature. I still think about where the trajectory of human existence might be going but it is depressing to contemplate unless you enjoy envisioning various permutations of The Apocalypse. Predicting where we are going is one thing but it is less difficult to say where we aren’t going and you can safely exclude anything like the ideals envisioned in the mid 20th century. A timeline of history envisioned as waves on a scale of societal achievement. The technical achievement waves have a monotonically increasing baseline but human nature is unchanging and the valleys of social organizational achievement descend into troughs that have brought us our most horrible periods of mass murder and inhuman cruelty. The depths of those troughs increased each time by the amplifying factor of the technical advancements.
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The seventies crushed whatever idealism I had left. All I have ever been able to do is warn people (they hate me for that), and get as much as I can out of life before the doors slam shut (and they hate me for that, too). Living well is the best revenge on lefty.
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Same here Epi. While not knowing it back in my salad days, I was always a dissident. Your last sentence is spot-on, for we all know that Mencken’s adage about the Progitans is equally true: they worry so about someone out here having fun.
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The Neocon “brand” was originally all about putting fancy intellectual packaging around Goldwater conservatism and Cold War policy. After finishing the Soviets, these guys were “brand managers” without a product. The GWOT was developed to keep all these knuckleheads employed.
After the GWOT disaster, they faced an existential crisis. They could own the disaster, but they were never going to accept the blame. So they pivoted to fill the only available shelf space : anti-Trump Globalism with a “conservative” flavor.
Unfortunately for the Neocons, this is a very narrow niche product. The White world has moved on to other existential domestic problems and the Left has plenty of “Globalism” products already on the shelf. So I don’t see much of a future for the Neocons and the DR has much bigger fish to fry.
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The neocons put such a bad taste in my mouth that my young dumber self actually scribbled a circle for John Kerry of all people.
I was ignorant back then, but I could literally see satan himself when that clown Bush would bloviate on about massacring brown people for my freedom, hating on French Fries, creating a worthless bureaucratic groping agency, and my favorite of all, subtly warning me “if your not with us, you’re with the terrists’”
My first time getting off my ass and actually voting, they had me that pissed, up until then I could have given a rats ass less about political theatre. Yes, I could see that the shrub and his mechanical hearted puppeteer were pure evil, yet I thought the preppy riverboat rambo would be a better choice.
Only thing I can give those parasitic bastards credit for is moving me over to the good side of the amerikan divide. Although lately, I’d really rather not care, than be aware, but that ship has sailed.
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An interesting article and your timing Z is – as usual – amazingly uncanny. I forwarded and article on the current wave of the redrawing of state lines to a cousin of mine whom I would place in the above-mentioned category. Since he is firmly in the camp of the people that you mention here, his response to the article I sent him was interesting, as he sounded like the usual suspects in that he carried on about how this is “dangerous” and how the authors line of thinking, really wasn’t thinking at all. He then attempted to impress me with quotes from various “true” historians (He graduated from William & Mary and as such likes to trot all of this out.) and kept using phrases like, “No reputable historian”, as well as, “No serious author would ever.” that type of thing.
I parried with “Then how would you explain all of these groups, as well as millions of disaffected Americans wanting breathing room from their Blue State oppressors if the people whose columns you read every week were correct beyond a shadow of a doubt?” He pivoted to something else and chalked up these disaffected Americans as being too stupid to move on into the 21st century, or something to that effect, just like that pathetic cuck French. His mind is simply not able to process the fact that the Buckleyites were wrong and that something new is beginning to take shape behind the scenes.
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He’s a “yesterday man”
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“He pivoted to something else and chalked up these disaffected Americans as being too stupid to move on into the 21st century, or something to that effect, just like that pathetic cuck French.”
I see this quite a lot as well. Yes, we should just glide effortlessly into the 21st with all it’s wondrous advances. No thought to tradition. Many people I speak to think that progress of this rapidity is inevitable, it isn’t. It just requires a will of the millions of disaffected to partake even less than they already have. Not that I can say we can reverse ‘progress’, but tradition should always – in my opinion – be the anchor around progresses neck, keeping her in check.
At the moment I am reading the book Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov (I have to classify him as a Cloud Person), which is meant to be a defence of AI – not that we really seem to have anything that can approach the way a human thinks. His tone seems to be much the same: it is happening, so you can either go with the flow, or get what’s coming to you. He seems happy with the speed of progress. Problem is, in our atomized society, few whites have the village level network bonds to survive this progressive onslaught. Community can help put a break on progress, especially if it is as self-sufficient as possible.
I may note that I am not against the adoption on new techniques, but I would very much like consideration in their adoption. Perhaps time to adjust, particularly for the Old Guard – but that does not fit in with our ‘everything now’ world. The Insta-Clown-World.
(((hidden wealth)))
Had to say it.
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“The fact that she warms herself on a large rock every morning should have tipped them off, but conservatives are not known for noticing these things.”
I really should know by now to not drink coffee while reading the day’s posting. Laughing out loud can be dangerous to my computer.
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The last line disturbed me. “The neocons were always the quintessential wolf in sheep’s clothing, so their departure offers clarity. That is, the people on the Right can now think in terms of their own interests, rather than the interests of esoteric principles or carefully cultivated and ennobled outsiders.” – Basically, because these people are gone, your average right winger is now free to think. But, lacking critical thinking skills, they only know what they’re told. So the next iteration will likely be more wolves, like the people behind Tim Scott.
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poor ace, he and his bunker mates are shrieking like sodomized baboons, about israel israel, israel! why any non hebe would comment or participate there is a wonder to me. just because it is so boringly monomaniacal.
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The demise of the neo-conservatives has been a joy to behold. Inveterate war mongers, they took positive delight in the destruction of human lives, including the death or dismemberment of their fellow citizens that sent to places of no real importance. Their future place in the Seventh Circle of Hell as suppositories in Satan’s anus is well deserved.
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And for Trump to bring on John Bolton, after all the above, was an incredible betrayal of his 2016 rhetoric. And that’s all it really was. Rhetoric. I’ll never forget the day Bolton, the vindictive intellectual midget, walked into the White House. This was about the same time Trump was betraying on his immigration policies. But that particular day was when he lost my support for good. Not that I was surprised he would eventually be a failed President.
This is also tangential but not totally unrelated and with apologies to McCarthy. The true coin of the human realm is coercion, physical and mental. These are the Doubloons and ‘Pieces of Eight’ throughout the history of human commerce, be it personal, local, national, international. Persuasion by lesser means such as appeals to reason are rightly recognized as poor substitutes, almost worthless counterfeits. The truly prosperous are rich in the capacity to coerce others whether it be through physical force or emotional / mental manipulation. At some point the leaders of a successful movement will have to embrace this metaphysical truth.