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Donald Trump finally got the attention of Republican leaders the other day when he said that unless they addressed the 2020 election shenanigans, his supporters will not bother to vote in upcoming elections. This got the usual suspects out to denounce him as a Hitler plotting to do Hitler things. Regime media was flooded with boilerplate articles about how there was no evidence to support his claims. Some Republicans were sent out to denounce him for his dangerous rhetoric.
This little bit of drama is interesting in that it suggests that some portion of the electorate is making the next logical step. If you cannot get what you want at the ballot box, either because the vote is rigged or the choices are false, then why vote? If those conditions are true, then voting becomes self-sabotage. When you vote, you are endorsing the process and its results. Voting in a rigged election is, in effect, validating the rigged process and the people rigging it.
The fact that it has taken close to a year for anyone to reach this next logical step in evaluating the last election shows the power of conditioning. Everyone has been conditioned since childhood to believe that voting is a requirement of citizenship and not voting is therefore an abdication of duty. You cannot complain about the system if you do not participate in the system is the logic of democracy. The only acceptable participation is voting for one of the two parties.
It is a bizarre logic when you consider it. Popular entertainment is full of plots where the star is faced with two bad choices and refuses to accept them. Instead, he creates a third choice to save the day. Every business school trains students on how to think beyond the choices on offer. “Thinking outside the box” is considered to be the hallmark of the modern entrepreneur. People like Elon Musk are celebrated because they allegedly refuse to accept the conventional answer.
Only in politics is it that no one is ever allowed to question the options put forward by the two political parties each election. This exception to the rule of thinking outside the box is necessary because the system requires it. For example, if “none of the above” was an option in most elections, that would often be the winner. This is why it is never an option on the ballot. Otherwise, even the dullest Republican voter would begin to think that maybe he should have another option.
Of course, one of the weapons that the system has always used to prevent people from thinking outside the box regarding politics is hyper-partisanship. “If you don’t vote for more of the same, the other side will win.” This was the standard line from people like Jonah Goldberg in the Bush years. Staying home was a vote for the other side, so you had to hold your nose and vote for the Republicans. It was effective until 2006 when the odor was so bad that no amount of nose holding was possible.
The neocons conveniently forgot about that in 2016, but they went to great effort to avoid saying they would boycott the election. Even they saw the danger of unleashing that option on the system. Conservative Inc. was mortally wounded when they could not explain how their boycott of Trump was not an endorsement of Clinton. They were either voting for what they said was evil or they were boycotting the election, something they said was morally unacceptable.
That last bit has always been a lie. Boycotting elections has been a part of democratic systems since forever. During the Cold War, the United States government would encourage boycotts in places being subverted by communists. Alternatively, the protest vote has always been a part of the American system. Organizing people to throw their vote away on a ridiculous option is just another form of boycott. You are forcing onto the ballot the words “none of the above”.
Getting back to Trump and his boycott claim, he was never more than a wrecker, which is what the times require. He will never organize a boycott or even completely endorse such a campaign. He will talk about it. For good or ill, if he talks about something it becomes news. Just mentioning the idea of boycotting the midterm is more than enough to normalize the idea for unhappy voters. Sitting out, perhaps loudly sitting out the election, becomes the best way to participate.
If you look at the upcoming midterm, there are maybe 25 seats that are genuinely up for grabs with another 25 that might tip that way. The Democrats currently hold 220 seats and the Republicans 212 seats. The seats that will decide the House will be won with just over 50% of the vote in those districts. In other words, even a poorly organized boycott could prevent the Republicans from getting the House. It is a low cost, high reward strategy to send a message.
Now, even a highly organized national boycott of the midterms, where Democrat voters join in will change little in terms of policy. The people who control the two parties will remain in control. What changes is public perception of politics. This system requires the broad public to think voting matters. If they come to see that voting is just ceremonial, a play put on to keep them pacified, then the system cracks. At the minimum, it brings the system to crisis.
There are no easy answers to generational problems, but normalizing the idea of a boycott helps create a morality outside the prevailing orthodoxy. If 20% of people think that boycotting the system is the moral choice, they are in effect rejecting the morality of the established order. It is a peaceful revolt. Once people get used to revolting in their minds, they can revolt against the system. Normalizing the revolt of the mind is a prerequisite for any challenge to the prevailing order.
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“If you don’t vote for more of the same, the other side will win.”
Yeah, that old trope. I mentioned it here the other day, but this was one reason that normal conservative types at some point thought that not voting was an endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn and his ‘radical’ Labour supporters… yet the biggest piece of government overreach happened under a ‘Tory’ watch. So what if Jezza whacked up taxes for ‘the rich’ (whomever they are); maybe, just maybe, he wouldn’t go all sissy over a virus. Although he probably would’ve, still, it is (or should be) incredibly instructive to the eyes of the normal person.
If you’ve got a politician problem, just import more Somalis. These boys go direct to action… just ask David Amess.
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Speaking of revolts, in Chicago, it is quite possible that Mayor Brillohead will start stripping officers for not logging into the city portal and giving their vaccine status. They have created a new category called “No pay, non disciplinary “, which is equivalent to saying, we’re not gonna fire you, were just not gonna pay you.
Mind you, they’re not doing this for being Vaxed/unvaxed, they’re doing it because people aren’t letting the city know their vax status.
It’s against the rules, as there is no language in the CBA, but no one ever said that the government has to, you know, play by the rules.
CPD is the canary in the coal mine. Over 40% of the membership can walk with a pension today.
It will be interesting to see what transpires.
Also, the news is reporting the events as a labor strike. Disinformation in real time.
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A Soviet-style judge has used her kangaroo court to place some kind of muzzle/gag order on the Chicago FOP leader that was making YouTube vids to advise his membership what to do.
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You are correct.
Motion to have Brilloheads’ former partner recuse herself is being heard as I type.
Will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
Wonder who will blink first.
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A good line to use on normies on this issue, “the people condemning you for being reluctant to vote for more of the same all voted for Evan McMullin in 2016.” They will never hold themselves to the standards they use for us. Although a few like Jonah Goldberg were so delusional they thought McMullin could win. I wonder if National Review still has his column posted on how if McMullin won Utah the House could be persuaded to elect him.
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Just checked, of course National Review wouldn’t remove a gem like this:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/10/evan-mcmullin-president-possibility/
Only in Conservatism, Inc. is it possible to still have a career after writing something like this.
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The fact that he has an audience of any size is depressing.
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“McMullin, whom I’ve met several times, is an earnest, patriotic, and brave man who spent nearly a decade serving his country undercover in the CIA.”
So, a true outsider then.
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Nobody ever leaves the CIA. McMuffin was the CIA candidate.
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Sorry Z Man, I ought to say that further, I think the idea of a general boycott would be good for our souls, but infuriate wokeists of all stripes. “How dare you not vote!”, “People died for this right! Women died for this right!”; you know, in the same way maskholes get incredibly annoyed when you don’t play ball.
Sorta like they need to see you visible affirm their choices, because they are the ‘correct’ ones. I see no reason to offer my vote to people who at best don’t ever deal with anything I care about, and at worst passively or even actively hate my white bottom.
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If they died for this right, then they threw away their life more than I’m throwing away my vote.
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“The 2020 election was rigged!”
“We need to win back the house in 2022 or the Dems will have complete control!”
Ordinary citizens need to see the conflict between these statements.
One might also ask them what Rep control of the House has prevented the Dems from doing so far, or what all those Trump-appointed judges have achieved, or what their beloved party thinks of them, but those are additional layers of abstraction.
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That’s the base of it, for anyone saying I should vote: what’s in it for me and my people? Is the GOP trying to right the wrong of the hundreds locked away in the DC gulag? Are they speaking of the evils of BigMed? (Or hell, BigAnyone?) Do they want to pass laws to protect their nominal supporters from persecution?, etc. Add in the fact that the GOP house members helped rubber stamp federal red flag laws I have to wonder why anyone would show up to vote for them, even if it mattered.
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“Vote harder” is the Griller version of the Left’s mantra about Big Business. I’m sure you’ve all seen the meme: “The government is controlled by Giant Corporations. We need more government regulation, to protect us from these Giant Corporations.”
This is why I call this pathetic excuse for a country the Autistic States of America. So many people seem unable to “think” in anything other than really simplistic binaries. “Electoral fraud” is Bad, but “voting” is Good, and therefore, by some principle of “logic” I’m not nearly spergy enough to understand, the one cancels out the other, and voting harder in a rigged system un-rigs the result.
(and yeah, I know that’s unfair to people who actually are autistic, but it’s the closest I can get).
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Severian: I still just mutely shake my head when people wax rhapsodic about voter ID. Sure, you show a driver’s license and it says you’re Fitton Ngoy from smalltown, USA. Your voter registration matches. Instant, honest election.
Except NO proof of citizenship or anything else was required when said Ngoy registered to vote. Absolutely anyone can get a driver’s license anywhere in the US today, and that’s really all you need to register to vote. Even as meaningless as citizenship status is today, it has been utterly irrelevant at the voter registration level for many decades. And Jane Normal still thinks “voter ID laws” will save her.
I’m a big fan of voter ID laws, but only because they’re a useful tool with which to beat the Left — “yes, I totally agree, poor minorities are far too stupid and lazy to be expected to do the tiny bit of legwork necessary to get a government ID card… except for their vax card, of course.”
Not that the Left is in any way impacted by this, of course — “cognitive dissonance” not being a thing in their world — but it does help to drive home to Normie the utter futility of engaging with these people. You can’t argue someone out of a position they were never argued into, and you can’t argue a toddler into (or out of) anything. The Left are just overgrown toddlers, and any tactic at all that helps Normie realize this is to be embraced… so I love me some voter ID.
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A similar case happened with the original boycotts, back in Colonial Times. The original nonimportation etc. agreements weren’t very effective, economically. Setting aside for obvious reasons the more, ummm, vigorous responses to things like the Stamp Act, the various boycotts are worth looking at, for the reasons you describe. Economically they were a pinprick at best, but politically they showed that the whole mercantile system was bust, at least on the Colonial end — the Crown needed the Colonies far more than the Colonies needed the Crown.
A voting boycott, even a small one, would work the same way. The political class needs votes, any votes, to validate their existence. Just as a king whose knights won’t ride out to battle on his behalf is just a weirdo in funny clothes, so a democratic politician who can’t get anyone to vote, for OR against, is just a bad community theater actor, declaiming xzheyr lines to an empty auditorium.
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As stated we have manufactured consent but most know now that we have manufactured votes also. I wonder if not voting will produce vapor votes. Still, I’m done. I only restarted voting since 2016.
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Obvious fraud would be even better, from our perspective. A Democrat winning with 100% of a tiny number of votes cast would be great… but a Dem winning with 95% of some huge number of votes cast would be even better. And yeah, I know, if they were smart they’d produce some remotely realistic pattern of “vapor votes”… but they’re not smart. Look at Brandon, the Most Popular President Ever, who won with the Most Votes Ever Cast. That’s the level of intelligence we’re dealing with here.
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London was more interested in India than the Americas.
Honest question…
What is the best approach? Just not visiting the polls? Visiting the polls and turning in a blank ballot? Visiting the polls and voting for a ridiculous 3rd party or write in?
I am leaning towards showing up and turning in a blank ballot, but not sure what might be the best way to demonstrate withdrawing consent.
I’d reason that not turning up would be the better option. Compleatly withdraw. That time you spend queuing up with paper Americans could be better spent tending to your cucumbers, acquiring a skill, or preparing for violence by state actors.
Of course, getting a tasty sandwich would also be a better use of your time.
That said, if the polls in your area are full of ‘our type’ of people, you could do a bit a probing whilst waiting. But definitely a ‘No’ to queuing with Chan, DeVonTray, Ranjeet, Okigbo, Afshar, Gomez and Lin Dinh Dong.
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OrangeFrog: You just described what it was like when I suspended my ‘no voting’ vow and voted for Trump. And it reinforced how absolutely imbecilic it was for me to take the time and trouble when I knew – I absolutely f&&king knew – that my single vote would go into the pool of votes cast by Chan, DeVonTray, Ranjeet, Okigbo, Afshar, Gomez, and Lin Dinh Dong.
Even those pushing ‘vote locally’ fail to accurately account for the personality type and work/financial background of anyone who succeeds in politics to the point of getting his name on the ballot as the representative of one of the two parties. It starts with money and backing from the establishment and never changes. It would bankrupt the average man to run a campaign in America, even for state rep, without massive backing from big money and big name and the organizational backing from the party apparatus.
I used to vote for a guy who was our rep in the Texas legislature. He had money and I read he had greater ambitions, but when I grilled him personally (accidentally bumped into him when he was out campaigning and shaking hands) he sounded genuine, to the point he gave me his business card and welcomed any challenges or questions. And in the beginning, his votes were fairly consistent and he at least had my respect.
This guy is now our Texas rep in DC and he voted, among other things, for ‘Juneteenth.’ If he ever had any integrity or if I was merely a fool for thinking so (probably the case), he has none any longer. He in no way represents me, my beliefs, or the interests of my family. Voting ‘locally’ gave him his foothold. The same pattern can be discerned anywhere one cares to look. Thinking one has someone ‘good’ or ‘our guy,’ whether on the school board or city council, is deluding oneself. They all start the same way and they all end up the same way – with wealth and power that they will do anything to retain.
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3g4me-
All pols are like this.
Once upon a time new NY gov Hochul was praised for her pro-2A stance.
Now look at her.
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Standing in front of the polling place with a sign “Voting is for retards!”
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There some truth to what you’re saying, but it’s not 100% accurate.
One of the reasons that CA has turned into a third world shithole is that conservative people checked out of the electoral system in the early 90s. Leaving the field to dems. Which in turn became increasingly deranged.
I’d say the real problem for the right i this country is two fold.
First it doesn’t have any affirmative agenda. It’s hard to get what you want for any paradigm when you don’t know what you want in the first place, and don’t try to get it in the second.
The second even larger problem is that the right – the white Anglo American culture – is too individualistic, which makes collective action all but impossible. The metaphor of herding cats is appropriate.
The left wins because the stick together and keep pushing, forever. They’ll take a little victory and immediately start pushing for the next, even if it takes a decade or more to advance the ball again. The right in contrast spends most of its time sniping at each other. Comes together infrequently, usually at a point of crisis, and acts like it’s all or nothing at that exact moment. Usually resulting in nothing.
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I am starting to think the left wins because it’s the agent of an invading foreign force that uses democratic politics as its vehicle. The right doesn’t defend because it doesn’t see the invasion for what it is, instead they see it as the normal political process. And if it is an invasion what can be done about it? The democratic government has taken all police and military powers for itself and it itself is the invading entity; there’s nothing left to defend against it.
Call it colonialism by another name. The power behind the left has nothing to do with democracy, it just uses democracy as a vector of attack. The winning response that saves us and our lands will be undemocratic and unfortunately illiberal. Voting is a poison pill.
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That paradigm is entirely consistent with my observations that the right doesn’t know what it wants and sucks at collective action to get it.
Ultimately, the problem is with us, not them.
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The biggest difference I see (assuming it isn’t all just a show anyway) the Dems will use power, the GOP simply fears it. For mostly ill, the Dems do things when they get in power, the GOP does everything it can not to accomplish anything.
BTW. If voting didn’t matter at all. The establishment would not spend so much effort in demoralizing the right and energizing the left. They also wouldn’t continually drift left. They’d be interested in stability, even if only for their own sake.
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At this point I’m convinced voting is just there to provide the thinnest smokescreen of legitimacy to the fraudulent American political selection process.
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If elections didn’t matter at all there would not be any sturm and drang around them.
Elections were held and didn’t matter at all in the Soviet Union – and there was no drama around them.
That there is so much drama indicates that they do still matter here. That doesn’t mean that they are entirely free and fair or whatever. But there not completely pro forma either.
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or it’s all manufactured drama.
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Elections are only important in that they draw all the political energies of the Right into a futile activity. Remove the attraction of inane electioneering and people might start to engage in genuinely political acts.
The drama is part of the scam
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Exactly the opposite. The drama is needed to get the average Joe to believe it does matter. If it really mattered, no drama necessary to gin up interest because, well, it would matter.
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What’s that got to do with voting? They want to demoralize you because that’s what you do to an enemy, they want you defeatist and apathic.
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“They’re are enemy”
You can’t win if you don’t show up for the fight.
The American right has adopted the ethos of Scott’s highlanders of running away from a battle. That might ensure survival, at least in the short term, but it’s no path to victory.
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There’s no path to victory by “voting harder.” The last election should have proven that.
“They want to demoralize you because that’s what you do to an enemy”
Voting in elections you can’t win due to mass immigration and demographic change does that. Worse, you legitimize your loss and quell your own side by participating.
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You should listen to Uncle Adolf instead of Mel Gibson: “As long as we’re gaining adherents, confrontation is not in our interest.”
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Basement Joe and the team running him are now threatening Navy SEALs:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-threatens-make-unvaxxd-navy-seals-repay-their-training-costs
I’m sure Joe can cow them into submission by challenging them to a pushup contest and threatening to wrap 6 feet of chain around their heads.
Corn Pop was a bad dude!
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This is how they push system pigs to our side.
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If I ran the book I’d set the over/under on “SEALs who under any circumstance are convertible from /theirguy/ to /ourguy/” at one guy, and I’d have a thousand shills bet the under.
Uniform man turned terror-rightist by trauma of disillusionment is *their* fantasy character. Their fantasies are all stupid.
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They’re practically begging for a coup.
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Still don’t get it. I made the point last week about how I don’t understand why they’re now pushing normal white people *off* the plantation.
Seems much worse for the system to have a bunch of pissed off, unemployed white guy Navy Seals with nothing to lose, than to have them roped into servitude with promise of pension and promotions.
That really goes for every white guy. I’m being pushed out as well. If I were President I would want people like myself working inside the system rather than hating it from outside.
Maybe they really are planning on exterminating us and the death camps are coming sooner than later… that’s the only situation in which their behaviors make sense. Then again maybe they’re just crazy.
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Perhaps they are looking for a repeat of the Vendee. They certainly seem well-prepared to manipulate any protest to conform to their narrative. Hence rape-victim fathers become domestic terrorists.
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They believe whites have become so domesticated that whites will never hit back no matter how much they get abused.
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I made a commitment to never voting republican again after senate republicans unanimously voted to make Juneteenth a holiday. I’ve seen nothing since that would convince me otherwise. It’s clear the republicans exist solely to gatekeep their own side on behalf of the left. There are countless other examples, like that moron senator from Indiana who embarrassed himself on Tucker Carlson embracing BLM because Chuckie Schumer might get mad at him otherwise. If republicans get power again, they’ll do nothing in our interests, just more tax cuts for Google and lobbying for Middle Eastern wars.
If this is a choice between a slow and a hard boil, we might as well give in and get it over with. Enough voting to stave off the inevitable. Bring it on. No more of the lesser of two bad options.
I think the next step is to have local and state republican parties disassociate from the national party, which is coming anyway as demographics will soon turn national politics into a retread of California’s one party politics. Why vote to legitimize that? That’s how we’ll get a real third party.
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In other words, even a poorly organized boycott could prevent the Republicans from getting the House. It is a low cost, high reward strategy to send a message.
The message that the establishment would receive from such an outcome is that the alt right is irrelevant and that the Biden Reich is on the right track.
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Election boycotts are a tried and true method of delegitimizing the ruling regimes of many despotic countries. Once people vocally check out of the system, more extreme measures like civil wars, independence movements, and coups become possible. Voting in elections you can’t win only serves to legitimize them while quelling the opposition.
“One of the reasons that CA has turned into a third world shithole is that conservative people checked out of the electoral system in the early 90s. Leaving the field to dems.”
That isn’t really true. Republicans can’t win in California due to demographic change. “Voting harder” won’t make a difference when the state has actually seen a total decline of White Caucasians by approximately one million since 1980 while the state has massively increased the number of non-Caucasians.
Donald Trump won almost exactly the same number of White votes in California as Ronald Reagan did when the latter won the state; Donald Trump lost California to both democrats in landslides. Almost the entirety of the difference was due to demographics. The same fate awaits every current Red State in the near future. Georgia, a Deep Southern state, is already now a blue state. So is formerly red Virginia. Florida and Texas are up next, and the reason is almost entirely demographic.
“The second even larger problem is that the right – the white Anglo American culture – is too individualistic, which makes collective action all but impossible. The metaphor of herding cats is appropriate. The left wins because the stick together and keep pushing, forever.”
I agree with that statement. It’s possible conservatives simply lack the cognitive tools to deal with this new multicultural world and are doom because of it.
For example: I was watching Razorfist last weekend. He’s a YouTuber Millennial (maybe gen x) and fan of Donald Trump. He perfectly encapsulates the cognitive deficiency of so many conservative types. I believe he and the chat discussed the SouthWest Airlines situation — pilots not showing up for work to protest the regime’s vaccine mandate. But then, of course, they eventually started ranting about unions and collectivization. It never seems to dawn on many older conservatives that there is power in group action, which is why the SouthWest Airlines pilots were successful.
SouthWest Airlines pilots coordinating their actions en masse is why they were successful. That’s a lesson Leftists don’t have to be taught. They know it instinctively, which is why they are so successful. They work in groups and coordinate boycotts, protests, strikes, and walkouts all the time. They also work with each other to blacklist conservatives from many industries, which is why the entertainment and news media industries are so far left.
Downside of unions = inefficiency < Power conferred to the masses by collective action.
If the right controlled every union in this country, we could collectively walk out of the job and we’d get our way on basically every issue. But being right about some ridiculous economic dogma is so important for some that they can’t see the potential benefit elsewhere.
Here’s an article that discusses why the Left so easily beats the Right:
TL;DR: Leftists are more politically active, refuse to compromise with the other side, are willing to punish the other side, and work in groups while Rightists do none of those things, so they lose.
Note: this is a huge blackpill for anyone who thinks democracy is the solution. Studies show conservatives will always lose in such systems.
Cardinal Preferences Explain Why All Institutions are Woke.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-is-everything-liberal/
And, the difference between liberals and conservatives is likely biological (genetic): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052970
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That isn’t really true. Republicans can’t win in California due to demographic change. “Voting harder” won’t make a difference when the state has actually seen a total decline of White Caucasians…
CA voted Republican through the mid 90s. in 94 it enacted a proposition by a wide majority that restricted illegal immigrants civic participation – that was struck down by the courts.
Following that court intervention a lot of conservative people gave up on the voting as pointless – as is being advocated here. And things quickly got much worse. The one time they came together was 2003 to eject gray davis and elect the outsider Schwarzenegger – which obviously didn’t work out – largely because he was an outsider and didn’t understand the system or how to reform it. Sort of a proto Trump.
Since then, there has been a downward spiral – no grand resolution as the boycotters hoped. Today, reform is even further outside the overton window than it was in 94 or 2003.
Takeaway – boycotting the system does not work on a timescale of 25-30 years. Maybe it will work over a longer horizon, in which case your great great grandchildren can start rebuilding from the collapse. But it won’t happen in our or our children’s lifetime. No matter how much you wish otherwise.
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“CA voted Republican through the mid 90s.”
… then the changing demographics made it practically impossible for the GOP to win, outside of the one exception — Schwarzenegger (elected on the basis of his celebrity).
California demographics. Spot the difference between when republicans could win that state when they suddenly stopped (1988 was the last GOP presidential victory).
1970: 70%+ White
1980: 66%
1990: 57%
2000: 47%
2010: 40%
2020: ~35%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California
The rest of your post just amounts to “vote harder.” It won’t work. How many negative results does one need to demonstrate that point?
“Yes clearly wishing harder and bitching online are the path to victory.”
Let’s “vote harder.” I’m sure that will make a difference. All hail governor Elder.
“Voting harder” won’t make a difference…
Yes clearly wishing harder and bitching online are the path to victory.
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The other good thing about the Southwest pilots’ strike is that they found a choke/pressure point the Marxists would notice, which is something they have used to great effect over the years.
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“The message that the establishment would receive from such an outcome is that the alt right is irrelevant and that the Biden Reich is on the right track.”
One would think that conservatives voting in elections and losing in landslides would do the trick even better. You did everything you could and still lost, so they’ll figure the people have to be on their “right side of history”. You’re just an irrelevant minority unrepresentative of the majority public in such a system.
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Election boycotts are a tried and true method of delegitimizing the ruling regimes of many despotic countries.
Name one where that led to an outcome the boycotters wanted, that wan’t part of a larger scheme by a foreign intelligence service (read CIA or KGB).
Name one republican presidential candidate who has won California since 1988, then ask yourself if “voting harder” is really likely to make a difference the next time when it hasn’t in nearly a quarter of a century.
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There’s a “meta” issue here though: most whites still feel that self-organizing is not only unnecessary, but wrong, because they think their concerns can be addressed within the system via the ballot box. Something that would go a long way towards improving our situation is the group realization that strategy is nothing but fantasy.
Ironically then voting might matter as we could find the candidates who fear us more than our enemies.
I’ve mentioned to few people that I will choose to not vote. It definitely has an effect. Beyond the usual “if you don’t vote, you can’t complain,” you can see that the concept of purposely not voting has simply never crossed their mind.
Sure, some people don’t vote out of laziness or indifference, but to thoughtfully and willfully chose to not vote something that they’ve neither seen nor heard about. It makes people think. Now, whether they think it’s crazy, I can’t say, but it does make them think.
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I would encourage people to be situational about it. Go vote for men like Mo Brooks or Paul Gosar if you have those options and leave the rest of the ballot blank. There are maybe 10 or so Republicans in Congress worth voting for. If you have decent local and state candidates vote for them too.
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If a specific candidate is openly critical of the GOP or openly opposes immigration, I could see voting for him. However, this only proves my point.
You have to first stop voting for traditional GOP candidates for the GOP establishment to notice when you do come out for candidates that appeal to whites.
Force the GOP to choose between dying as a party or changing. I seriously doubt that they will change since their donors don’t want it, but if that’s the case, we need the GOP to die anyway.
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“. If they come to see that voting is just ceremonial, a play put on to keep them pacified, then the system cracks….”
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Does it, now.
Perhaps you weren’t paying attention in the last election? If you don’t vote, some low IQ black baboon will do it for you. DEAD people voted.
From where I sit, this is just polishing a turd called apathy.
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I know you have stated this position often but I suggest you take the longer view.
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I hope you are right and I am wrong, David.
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For me the turd is being ruled by a foreign hostile tribe and voting is the turd-polish.
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If G.W. Bush has taught us anything, it’s that Con Inc. presidents are even worse than Democrats. At least Obama never pretended to be our friend.
Like has been said several times, The federal government will become just like California, and it’s just a matter of whether it will take ten years or thirty years. Democracy has never been a winning system for the traditional right, and it’s time our side primed themselves for something new.
Yes, it will mean 20 years of pain, but it’s better than 50 years of slow boil where your male children will end up getting mandated estrogen shots, for the science.
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I’d rather see us spit on our hands, hoist the black flag and start slitting throats, Chet.
You cannot run away from what’s coming. They are going to come after you. And your kids.
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I know. I also know voting is a massive time sink that will not save is from what is coming this way. Only an explicitly illiberal institution will.
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That low IQ baboon is going to vote in any case. Several of them. They wait to see how many votes the opposition (such as it is) gets, then manufacture enough ballots to “win”. Your vote is going to be cancelled, one way or another.
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Right.
So we walk away and let them do it? And then we do…. what? Set up a parallel system of some sort? What happens when the noggers and jews and commies decide to subvert it too?
You cannot complain about the system if you do not participate in the system is the logic of democracy. It is a bizarre logic when you consider it.
Yes, mindboggling: you knew the rules going in, you signed on the dotted line, you promised to obey whomever the electoral process put in charge and now you’re out in the streets with your placards and your bullhorns, demanding special, extra-democratical consideration?
No, you only have a right to complain if you don’t vote.
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Exactly. If you vote for a candidate from a party that literally never does anything about the issues that you can about – immigration, the Dems bashing whites, etc. – even when they control the House, the Senate and the presidency, then you have no right to complain.
The GOP did everything in its power to thwart Trump. If you vote for any Republican who isn’t openly against the GOP leadership (which is none), than you have no right to complain.
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I will vote in local elections if I have a decent choice for mayor, city council…..I might also vote in state elections if I think it could keep my state somewhat sane.
As for Federal elections?
They can go pound sand.
The Federal system is too far gone and neither national party has my interests in mind.
Not voting is a legitimate way to protest a system that does not represent us.
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Mmmm. Others have said it more eloquently than I but this is my take. I won’t vote anymore because my vote will be negated by some vibrant person in Wayne county. Simple as that. Couple that sentiment with the whole “… if we get the house back we can do X!” Along with “… if we get the Senate back we can do this!”. Lastly “… Trump will be able to appoint supreme court judges!” Here we are, Obamacare remains, and the supremes were not even going to hear any a case about voting irregularities. I/we have given the Republicans plenty of opportunities and they have not reined in spending, repealed Obamacare, or have done anything that merits a vote for them.
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There’s also the constant drum beat of “if we win, we can get back to doing X, Y, and Z!”. Come again? I don’t want to go back to anything. I’ve got great memories of the 80’s, but that’s not going to do much good for my progeny.
Another approach that would be delicious is blatant ballot stuffing. It doesn’t even need to be illegal, but just a lot of people running around who are a *tad* pushy about who you should vote for. With mail in ballots, if you can get the poor schmuck to sit with you and the ballot, most will go-along to get along with whoever you *persuade* them to vote for.
Make it an emotionally painful experience.
While none of them want to lose their place at the trough, I don’t think they give a damn about winning the house or being in the majority. In fact their job as designated losers is easier when not in power.
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Remember when they voted to repeal Obamacare 80 some times and the couldn’t repeal it when they had power?
Dumb move. Gave away the game.
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Wasn’t John McCain’s last official act the deciding vote to save Obamacare? I remember they were so sloppy his website still had links to old press releases about the need to “fight Obamacare”.
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They have people casting ballots for the infirm or dead, they skim off third party votes into their tally via computerized voting machine algorithms, and they are importing millions of illegals to vote or at least use they names under which to vote. They only thing that your casting a vote against them does is it that it may force them to pull up a truckload or two of nameless filled-out identical ballots in the middle of the night to make up any unforeseen deficit they face in an election they want to win. Without your voting, they can just declare they won in a more timely fashion. Whether you vote or not all depends on if you want to see them exert a little more effort to be declared the winner.
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This is my approach as well. Like putting the ball in play in baseball or taking a shot on goal in soccer/hockey, voting will test the abilities of our adversaries and the more pressure the more likely they make a mistake.
Let’s not kid ourselves and assume that the Uniparty is omnipotent like the frickin Matrix. What we are up against are a bunch of midwits who have to oversee the operations of a lot of vibrant riggers. There will be cracks eventually.
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Careful what you wish for. The Republicans are the Stupid Party, but compare the US Republicans with the Canadian, Australian, and NZ politicians. Most of you can still do things like own guns legally, go to restaurants / theaters without proof of vax, go to church, and cross state lines (can’t do that in Australia, the most locked down country in the world). In the rest of the Anglosphere, the “right wing” parties have identical platforms to the leftist parties. Imagine Bernie Sanders vs. Pete Buttigieg (right wing) vs. Ilhan Omar.
There is not even a debate about mass immigration, CRT, or endless lockdowns here. It’s just accepted as a fact.
In other words, Republicans still have limited utility. I’m not under the delusion that we can vote our way out of this, that Republicans are on our side, or that they can ever be reformed. But you will pay a steep price for abandoning the side that promotes your interests *some* of the time.
A two-pronged approach is necessary. First of all, keep bullying CivNat cucks, and Republicans mercilessly. Do not give them an inch of space, and if they promote your interests reward them with a vote. For instance, DeSantis and Abbot banning vaccine passports. Don’t worry about Red/Blue stuff, just vote for the Republicans who do semi-useful things.
The second prong is accepting that in the long term this isn’t enough. Demographics alone prove it. That’s why IRL organizing (even with just a few friends or family), sabotage of the system (sand in the gears), and the creation of parallel societies is so important. Vote Republican for breathing room, but the real work is done at the community level. So when the one party state eventually happens, you’re better prepared.
Rage quitting and accelerationism is a nice fantasy, but that just leads right to a gulag. We have to be realistic and work with what we have. Republicans are not the worst thing ever – but you can’t expect them to solve your problems.
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I totally agree. GOP is our last hope for western world. Trump is not very clever on this matter. Just considering how the GOP have evolved from a neocon bunch of retards Bushists to a clearly trumpian movement.
Not voting and let the dems vote for a federal control of elections ? Crazy.
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we are way past that, already. your maginot line is archaic.
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Way to completely miss my point. Are you trolling?
The GOP *is not* the last hope, only hope, or any hope at all.
But they can be used as useful idiots while Dissidents do the real work behind the scenes.
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there is no big right-wing party as equal considering lockdown and pass.
More and more Trumpians wins GOP primaries.
More and more civcucks left the party (Rodriguez, Ohio)
So, no, I’m not trolling. I think not voting is the express way to suicide.
I would have not say that if the GOP was still Romney-Bush-McCain.
(But I disagree on your “Demographics alone prove it” pessimistic theory. I think a lot of latinos and a significant minority of black workers will vote more and more GOP. Even Rudy Teixeira admit it. The democratic coalition can’t survive with a so big rule of crazyleft “educated” white people)
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The critical mass of crazy upscale whitefolk does make the Democratic Party unstable, but it doesn’t threaten them if these crazies have nowhere else to go.
Nobody has proposed a serious alternative that would siphon off these college-loving boogie Democrats (clearly now including ex-Republicans in the millions). The Green Party is clearly too down-market and stinking of patchouli oil, but in other Western countries they make a real problem for whoever is the center-left major party.
Maybe it’s because I came from the left. I have still some leftists tropes. Not voting is insane for me, as it is insane for every leftist.
At the opposite, I have very often see right-wingers having the incounscious desire for “glorious defeat”. I’m not at all like that.
LATINOS VOTE MORE AND MORE GOP
GOP IS MORE AND MORE POPULIST
Not voting for it NOW is insane.
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*bougie
Incidentally “Boogie Man” is a fun documentary about Lee Atwater.
Since the end of the Clinton impeachment Southern GOP office-holders have become more fashionable and sensitive to the manners of enlightened rich wokeocrats, something I was assured (by Northerners) was impossible at the time. Nancy Mace or Madison Cawthorn is a prototypical social-climber GOP box-ticking hire in the New South now. They have mostly shaken off the anti-telegenic (teledysgenic?) DGAF ambience of the Jesse Helms days. Also I realize it is unfair to accuse Cawthorn of social climbing but my newspeak capabilities failed me at the moment
There’s no reason to believe that when we have decades of elections that prove otherwise.
“The democratic coalition can’t survive with a so big rule of crazyleft “educated” white people.”
I think it can. We’ve seen time and again how easy it is to whip up racial hatred and get people to vote on the basis of “our side vs. theirs.” Emotion is often enough to overrule logic in democratic systems. Thus, Larry Elder was painted as an Uncle Tom “black face of white supremacy” and the democrat was returned to power.
That’s how the people of Venezuela returned a disastrous Hugo Chavez back to power after he wrecked the country (“our social class/ethnic proxy vs. theirs”). That’s how the people of Zimbabwe returned Robert Mugabe to power in a democratic election after he destroyed the place with his land seizures and resultant hyperinflation (“our race vs. Whitey”). This is how Gavin Newsome just won his recall election in a landslide (“this is our territory” — Kamala Harris).
Will racial minorities really ever vote for the White party? I doubt it. For example, both C. Rice and C. Powell voted for Barack Obama, twice, over the White republican candidate when both were former republicans. Those supposedly race-blind republican blacks chose to vote for their racial representative over principle. Millions more will make the same choice in the future.
One day an unpopular democrat who should lose will win a presidential election on the back of racial block voting because those groups would rather have their guy in charge than vote for the hated White other. This will come as a huge shock to the few remaining civnats.
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There is something to what you say. And multiple approaches are certainly possible, short term. But in the bigger picture, delegitimizing the system is the best means of bringing it down.
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I don’t think so.
Here in France, on our last municipal elections (very popular, some decades ago), near 70% of people didn”‘t vote.
Result : nothing new happened, and crazy green leftists had take control of big cities, avoiding quasi-litteraly cars from the cities.
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Most French voters are still French. And, perhaps ironically, the non-Caucasian vote was one of the key differences in the current French president being elected (nearly all Muslims — a growing demographic — voted for him).
Normal White Americans simply don’t have enough people to win presidential elections anymore. It’s getting to the point where this will become true in some European countries soon. The right will be permanently locked out of power due to racially motivated, anti-Caucasian voting. Who wants to legitimize that?
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This just happened in Canada too. There’s been 2 elections in a row where the “Conservative” party won the popular vote and vast majority of land mass, but the Liberal party won more seats.
The non-white voters, particularly black, Sikh and Muslims are now so numerous in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal that there are enough seats there to carry the Liberals to victory. Hindus and Chinese might vote Conservative a little more but still break Liberal overall.
So despite having a far left platform identical to the Liberals, the “conservatives” still lost because of demographics. If you are white or rural, you have no voice. Sadly most boomers and rural people don’t understand this and they were mindlessly clamouring to “vote out Trudope”.
This is a good example of when one shouldn’t vote.
And if more people voted how would it have been different? Perhaps France is different, but I don’t know, for example, why anyone in New York City would bother voting ever.
That’s Trump at his best. Actually running things, maybe not so much.
Have to say, I’m still voting locally, where the cost of shenanigans is perhaps too high for the reward. Still believe in town hall democracy.
Nationally I couldn’t care less at this point. Washington is making itself irrelevant anyway.
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They struck gold with the ballot stuffing and they know it. It will continue and nothing will change unless that is addressed and fixed any way possible.
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It can’t be fixed. They control it. They have no motive to “fix” it. As far as they are concerned it’s working fine.
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I’d disagree that they control it. As z has pointed out here, it seems unlikely there’s some grand conspiracy that the party is involved in for ballot stuffing. Instead, they take away all safeguards and say to their fanatics, “Now don’t do anything” [wink]. It’s like the shoplifting in San Francisco. They took away consequences and said, “now promise not to steal things.” Then the people take care of the rest and act as expected.
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Exactly right.
And even if nobody shows up to vote, reports in the regime media will be record turnouts and mandate for the victors. 80,000,000 votes! Complete with county by county breakdown and fancy colorful maps.
They already work around the clock to manufacture legitimacy for the stolen 2020 elections. They will continue to do that in the midterms and beyond.
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OT: colin powell dead from the coof. fully vaxxed, too. bet it was the jab that killed hime.
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I’m so happy X2
1-because he was vaxxed
2-because every men and women involved IN FAVOR of the wars against Saddam’s Irak should die slowly and painfuly.
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Are we chalking up Powell as a pro-war malefactor now? I’d argue he was worse than the openly neocon frat brothers, because he only signed off on it, seemingly out of pique, after his peers at Turtle Bay “dissed” him. Powell should’ve resigned as soon as it was apparent that Cheney would get his way.
C. Rice was of course, did much worse than Powell as the follow-up act. Meanwhile everybody says Gates was obviously more competent than Rumsfeld but isn’t this due for revision? The best thing you can say about him is the Chinese fire drill in Afghanistan was pushed off not just to the next President but the next one after the next one.
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At the time I thought Powell may have been too stupid to realize that he was being played. That’s not to forgive anything, or say that he was a great guy otherwise (he wasn’t) but I seriously doubt that he, say, wrote any part of that spiel that he pitched at the U.N.
He’s on the grand tour of hell right this minute and about to be pushed, by Satan himself, into the lake of fire.
I fell in to a burning lake of fire
I went down down down…..
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It will be interesting to see what the regime comes up with for the narrative on this one. If he had the booster, they will have some real problems coming up with spin even their faithful followers find credible. If he had not taken the booster, that will most likely be their go to line. I would like to hear what the doctors gave him. Although as an 84 year old cancer survivor, he may not have been helped by anything.
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Bingo
He had one foot in the grave, another on a banana peel.
If he was given the booster, I highly doubt the media will allow that to be articulated.
Why would anyone think we would get a straight answer?
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https://www.foxnews.com/health/colin-powell-covid-complications-vaccine-medical-experts
Judging by this, the narrative is to use this to push the boosters.
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Haha. They are never going to say whether he had the booster or not, just go straight to the propaganda. Powell was probably vaccinated in January so any benefit he would have received had long worn off by now. It doesn’t matter what happens, boosters forever!
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The only good Neocon…
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I had put 2 comments on theamericanconservative.com, against propaganda for a war for Taïwan.
Those comments have beeen cancelled by the site.
Conservatives are a POS.
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The early management theorist Mary Parker Follett advised organizational leaders to follow the Law of the Situation. A robust effort aimed at understanding one’s situation does not automatically suggest the right path but it is a constant risk for heuristics-prone humans to let principles and axioms get in the way of a simple understanding of the situation.
So what’s the situation, Kenneth?
You often speak in a pragmatic way about sound organizing. But I am not persuaded that your boycott notion is of much value given conditions at hand.
I am not saying that a boycott cannot be effective. But you need to say more about how and why a boycott moves the ball forward.
You are the first to acknowledge that your side is at present far from a majority in electoral terms or that it is close to comprising “the people” in a raw political sense. So how would your call for a boycott, sent out to a relative few, connect up with others? Would it be meaningful in terms of amplifying a message or would it be more like a tree falling in the forest? There is I think a very large risk of the latter.
It is tempting to be cynical but there are things now going on that suggest a vast middle is losing faith in the mainstream–Hispanic voters against a policy of no borders, mothers at school board meetings being called domestic terrorists, Southwest pilots stepping gingerly around what they are up to, with a whiff of general strike in the air. Additionally, there is a serious effort among MAGA types to gain control of the party from the ground up, and it is causing real concerns.
So the question is this: would a boycott amplify this or undercut it? I think it would probably undercut it. You may be jaded but most Americans have some expectations still for the system. Perhaps the events above will be enough to move a lot of Americans to a new place. Probably not. I think for them to get angry enough to go where you want them to go they will need to keep trying harder, forcing the Regime to be bolder and bolder about pulling the rug out over and over again.
There is not a zero chance of progress via the electoral system. I say we stick with it for several reasons. First, I don’t like the idea of conceding that the republican form should be put out of its misery. History suggests it is hard to like what may come next. Plus if the Regime overplays its hand there is some chance of electoral success. Finally, even if the Regime is forced to resort to open tyranny its opponents will only benefit if its operations are forced out in the open.
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Are you aware of any democracy which has ever voted its way out of such institutional and cultural rot as we are having?
I get the conditioning of not wanting to give up and vote harder for some new person or party (which doesn’t exist), but all efforts of reform have failed.
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“I am not saying that a boycott cannot be effective. But you need to say more about how and why a boycott moves the ball forward.”
An organized national election boycott may delegitimize the result — certainly a democrat victory in all presidential elections after 2024 — in enough minds to make it difficult for the regime to impose its will on the population. It makes more people open to resisting because they no longer put any faith in the system. They have no skin in the game.
Also, it makes the public more willing to consider alternatives like a national divorce. It may also force the regime to compromise once states begin reasserting state power because conservatives are then focusing on the local and community level.
Legitimizing sham national elections only ensures they continue with the same null results each time. Obviously, “voting harder” isn’t working, so what exactly is the harm in going another way? The worst that could happen is that you get the same results as voting (and losing).
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An organized national election boycott may delegitimize the result — certainly a democrat victory in all presidential elections after 2024 — in enough minds to make it difficult for the regime to impose its will on the population.
What makes you think the dems or progs or whatever give a shit about the opinion of their victims?
The last two years should be all the evidence you need that they don’t.
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What makes you think “voting harder” will make a difference? Why would the dems or progs respect your vote? Did they last time? But next time will be different, right?
Thank you for this post. You are the “classic” latte-drinking Normie that I often refer to in my comments. Your addiction to the Comfort First Imperative is so powerful that you will bend over backwards to rationalize suicide as the optimum solution. It is this mindset that becomes a precursor to official genocide and resulted in the deaths of over a 100 million innocents during the 20th Century. That is your superpower, the ability to persuade others that the Jim Jones’ koolaid tastes good.
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I recently spent a couple of days deep in the state of WV in a small town. Most families have resided there for generations. It was sad and surprising to see the Trump signs which still remain. His message resonated with so many White Americans. He had so many of us at beephole countries, build the wall and drain the swamp. We were all swept up in the glorious Trump wave. Then we were carried out into the middle of the ocean. Now many are floundering without a life raft. Those poor people struggling with skyrocketing inflation and family members dealing with opioid addiction understand that the election was stolen from them in the country they’ve been taught to cherish. It’s hard not to imagine that they don’t somehow understand that the entire system is rigged against them.
It was also depressing to spot the Amazon service center off the highway just a few miles from the town. The tentacles of destruction are far reaching.
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The current narrative from the GOP is that Trump cost them Georgia, which cost them the Senate, which handed total control of the government to Democrats. The GOP viewed that as an unforgivable sin. However, look at what is out there. The Dems can’t get their key legislation passed, the legislation they said was inevitable after they won Georgia. Inflation is out of control. The supply chain is still completely broken. People are dropping out of the labor market in droves. The COVID mess of 2021 is completely on the Dems, despite all media resources being corralled to blame unvaccinated yokels in red states. What would have happened if the GOP won? i suspect we would have seen a lot of “deals” of the sort Mitch put together to help the Dems recently, while the GOP went full-National Review and put their efforts into explaining to their base that we need to accept the full Dem program for the good of America.
I don’t know, if your goal in not voting is to withdraw your consent from this system and let the chips fall where they may, the Georgia special election seems to be a total, unqualified, runaway success and a blueprint for going forward. The current crop of Dems are neither smart nor competent, and the future ones, even less so.
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It’s almost like a dysfunctional and corrupt third world country. Kind of like any country with a large black and mestizo population.
I wonder what’s causing this…
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The GOP cost themselves the senate with their deficit hawk theatrics. They turned down that check only to lose the senate and get it anyway when the democrats took over. Then republicans went on to vote for a record defense department budget and more money for Israel.
The Taki article and today’s post are perhaps the two most important commentaries on current political affairs that has been written in the past century. Con Inc. is foaming at the mouth in their zeal to persuade Normie to vote R at all costs in 2022. Dan Bongino will even come to your house and personally beat you if you try to stay home, and every other DC grifter is on the floor jerking spastically in their purple-faced rage at the thought that voters may wise-up and shun the next election. And yet, boycott is likely to be the only hope for a peaceful change in our political life.
That said, the modeling suggests that it will fail because Normie is too comfortable in his latte daze to make such a leap of faith. As long as the printing presses roll and his paycheck cashes, he will toe the line and pull the lever. And the seminal lesson of 2020 is that the managerial class owns the vote-counting system and will manufacture any outcome needed to maintain the status quo. People will not (read cannot) accept the truth that the system is fatally broken until real hardship returns and they have no other choice but to face reality as it is.
The next hard truth is that the collapse is the cure. We must hit bottom before Normie can wake from his slumber. And then things will get interesting. When the time comes, wear the fog and act with focus and precision. It’s the only way to be sure, and frankly, the only way to actually earn a better tomorrow.
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Lolz, ball fanning a bit vigorously here, aren’t we?
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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The problem as I see it is not voting per se, but rather the dearth of our guys to vote for. I will never vote for a conventional republican again to be sure. On the other hand, here in Appalachia I could see one of our guys (a Jared Taylor type) winning a congressional seat. If clever and persuasive he could shift opinion more in our direction and maybe help his constituency. Certainly, an appalachain pol could effectively counter the white privilege canard. We are in a full spectrum battle, and I favor the approach of fighting on all fronts, all the time. We have the potential numbers to pull this off. So by all means get our guys in office. Also become regionally ungovernable. Disseminate propaganda. Create parallel institutions. For instance, a new version of the boy scouts that emphasizes martial and masculine virtues could be a big win. Z councils withdrawing from the political sphere, but to do what? I favor pushing on every front, hard and ruthlessly.
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Agreed with the post but not:
“Certainly, an appalachain pol could effectively counter the white privilege canard.”
This is playing on the enemy’s terms. “Proving” that you don’t have “white privilege” is like trying to prove you’re not a racist. it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t exist, and it’s not about whatever “white privilege” or “racism” is anyways, it’s about pushing an anti-white narrative.
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I disagree. Crawling thru your own ass to disprove that one is racist feeds into the narrative that racism (race realism, reality) is bad, the worst thing you can be. White privilege doesn’t have the same connotations. Z cautions against negative identity. Fine. But we are in a dog fight here. I say, stoke white racial resentment. Certainly, build upon, and trumpet, the vast achievements of our ancestors. Do both. The globalists/élites have purposely and systematically targeted my people for addiction, hopelessness, and death. I find myself angry with them.
https://t.me/Gobucs1030
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I choose to benefit people like me, they are more likely to benefit back. Their children and my children are more likely to mutually benefit.
Kith and Kin
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Let’s see if I understand this:
1) Boycott the vote.
2) ???
3) Profit!
Did I get that right?
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No, you did not. In fact, you missed the point so badly you should think about seeing your doctor. You may have a tunor.
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i think you mean tumor*
1) Vote in an election in which you lose in a massive landslide.
2) Have Joe Biden brag he got the most votes in history, so you don’t have any constitutional rights anymore.
3) FBI knocks on your door for opposing CRT.
4) You: voter harder next time (after you post bail), but you agree with the jailing because muh democracy and all.
4) Profit (but not after they use the unrealized capital gains tax to take your farm or home).
If voting was truly meaningful it wouldn’t be allowed. Notice that no vote was ever taken to legitimize the American revolution. Ballots weren’t cast to enable the Louisiana Purchase or the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii. Wars are never declared by the casting of votes. Picking the optimum septuagenarian to lead what was once the most powerful country on earth by counting the ballots of those who’ve never met the guy is sensible procedure, however.
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The main point of an election boycott movement is to make Facebook and Twitter ban an election boycott movement.
A hallmark of third-world government is mandatory voting – see Brazil. Turkey, Ecuador, Peru’ etc. We will live to see mandatory voting here in the US, especially if there’s a boycott. This is why a boycott won’t work in the long run. But it’s exactly why we need to have a boycott in the short run – to make these jokers beclown themselves.
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What’s the best evidence for our elections being fraudulent?
Of course, the biggest issues are the resistance to making voters show ID at all and resistance to clearing the voter rolls of ineligible voters.
In 2020, the best intuitive evidence was that everyone went to bed on election night thinking that Trump was going to win and then we woke up and found that just enough votes showed up in just the right places for Biden.
For me, two other videos: The vote counters locked the witnesses out of the building and taped pizza boxes to the windows to conceal what they were doing and the water pipe break that caused the witnesses to be evacuated.
Am I missing anything?
Unfortunately, none these are a smoking gun…
I have to say, it’s taken me a while to come around to this line of thinking. But the way Z frames it – legitimizing the illegitimate – along with the ludicrousness of the recent presidential selection makes boycotting all future “elections” the only way to go – for starters. Then the whole system needs to be brought down.