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A popular topic on this side of the great divide is how the conservative movement managed to conserve nothing. Despite having billions of dollars and popular support, they managed to lose every fight. In most cases, they never bothered to fight at all, instead opting to preemptively surrender. The prevailing view is a cynical one in that it is assumed that their failures were profitable for the movement men. They got lavish lifestyles in exchange for being reliably losers.
There is always some truth to these cynical claims, but it does not explain why millions of well-intended white people signed onto the movement. Even today, after all the failures, conservative rackets like The Daily Wire, Prager U and Turning Point USA attract large audiences and rake in hundreds of millions. According to its last publicly available tax return, TPUSA raised $40 million in a year and paid its president, Charlie Kirk, close to half a million dollars.
In fairness, the bulk of the money that flows into these companies is institutional, corporate and oligarchical. National Review gets money from the tech giants, who also give money to the grooming gangs promoting crossdressing. The gatekeeping role of conservatism has been their most lucrative grift. Even so, the conservative movement has always enjoyed more support than it has earned. Given the record, it should be dead now but it staggers on.
That means it is more than a well done grift. Conservatism offered something to typical white people beyond practical politics. One clue is in this post on the American Greatness site. It is about Harry Jaffa, one of the leading intellectuals of 20th century conservatism, who is credited with founding the Lincoln cult. There is an effort to re-popularize Jaffa and his ideas, as a way to breath life back into the corpse that is the conservative movement.
What Jaffa offered conservatives was a way to attach themselves to the creedalism that came out of the war experience. By centering conservatism on the Declaration and Lincoln, conservatives could not only embrace the creedalism promoted by progressives during the war, but claim to be a purer form of it. After all, if conservatism is rooted in the Declaration, then the conservatives have as much of claim to creedalism as the the so-called Left, maybe even a better claim.
Now, Jaffa’s argument was always nonsense. There is little evidence that the Framers viewed the Declaration as their foundational text. The Constitution should be proof enough, but the Federalist Papers end all debate. The long public debate about the new constitution makes only a few passing references to the Declaration. The debates during the drafting make no mention of it. The Declaration was an expedient political statement, not the foundation stone of an ideological movement.
This was obvious when Jaffa was selling this stuff to desperate conservatives looking for a way to steal the moral high ground from the other side. Willmoore Kendall was one person not taken in by Jaffa. Mel Bradford was another. They understood that Jaffa was simply adapting the progressive moral framework created in the war years, so that opponents of the New Dealers could participate in politics. The result was a weird cult of Lincoln that lacked an alternative moral grounding.
Despite the irrationality of it, conservative creedalism was powerful magic. Middle-class white people, unhappy with what they were seeing from the political and cultural elites, had an antidote to progressivism. They could still have the rules and order that normal people expect, but also feel they were defending the ideals and mission of the country, as stated at the founding. The religion of America was faith in the ideals of America and the best way to make the faith real was conservatism.
This is why conservatism had no answer for multiculturalism. The best reason to exclude people from alien societies is they are not like us. When you firmly believe that anyone can be “us” as long as they get misty when reading the opening lines of the Declaration, there is no good argument against open borders. Openness becomes a prerequisite, as the only way aliens can become “us” is if you let them in, which opened the door to generations of social experimentation.
It is also why conservatives had no answer to the assault on private association waged by progressives in the last century. Excluding woman from a social club, for example, was tantamount to excluding women from the American dream. Any organization that did not allow access to everyone, based on objective criteria, was deemed to be un-American and therefore against the law. Creedalism required the end of free association and conservatives had no choice but to nod along.
It is also why suburban white people have been so slow to break from conservatism, despite getting little in the way of practical accomplishments. Conservative creedalism provided a vision of the future and validation for the present. Suburban white people, seeing nonwhites repeat lines from the creed was validation, but also presented a vision of a future in which everyone lived like Americans. Our ways were not just tradition or custom, but a template for all mankind.
This is a good lesson for those thinking about what comes next. Humans are believing machines and they will commit themselves to a set of beliefs if those beliefs offer a vision of the future free of some unwanted bit of the present. The people we insist on calling the Left are simply true believers, funneling their instinct into secular fads as a way to feel validated, but to also focus on the glorious future. Their natural instincts have been hijacked by ideological opportunists.
The alternative vision to crossdressers waving their genitals around the schoolyard is not a spiffy new graph showing IQ differences. The antidote to progressive lunacy is not appeals to the magic of the marketplace like “go woke, go broke.” The way to defeat the prevailing orthodoxy is by presenting an alternative moral order with a vision of the future that promises salvation for the intended audience. Conservative creedalism failed to do that, so it must be replaced.
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I just completed a road trip with a close friend who is still clinging to creedalism, although slowly coming over to our side. Were he not a friend from childhood, his maintained faith in the system might be enough of a reason for me to no longer hang out with him. In addition to his creedalism, he’s a bit of a goofball into conspiracy theories. When I say “conspiracy theories” I don’t mean things that are true that our rulers label “conspiracy theories” in order to hide malfeasance. No, I’m talking about a faked moon landing and chemtrails, stuff like that. Every time I tried to bring up something real, something with a smoking gun involved—like Epstein or Covid—he begged off. I guess conspiracy theories are fun, until they’re true, at which point they become kind of a downer.
This quote by Shirley Jackson is relevant: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” The question then is to provide a dream—something sacral—that isn’t poisonous to our people.
I think the seeds of pro white stuff that is positive and forward-looking rather than negative and backward-looking is starting to take effect. You’re seeing more and more respectable whites who have good families and practice solid trades and possess good skills advocating for their right to defend themselves and their posterity, and keeping smiles on their faces while doing it. I don’t even know if Stormfront still exists, and the potbellied, closet homo Colonel Klink types like Matt Heimbach seem to have mostly disappeared. The only time you’ll literally see someone flying the swastika these days is when they’re on some fedgov payroll.
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Conspiracy theories are useful in that they undermine the deference to authority that our system is built upon. Which is why tptb get so apoplectic about them.
So i’d encourage him in those and gradually introduce real conspiracies to him.
IME people that believe some such theories is nutty ones are more open to others, including real conspiracies. In that way the crazy ones are a kind of gateway.
BTW. The moon-landing faked photos conspiracies theories could be true.
It’s entirely possible that the US government staged photo ops of the moon landings to build support for the program because the actual pictures were either low quality or damage in some way.
If that sounds far fetched, i point out that we’ve all seen NASA videos of probes flying by some planet, asteroid or comet, whatever. All of those are computer simulations, ie cgi. Those are presented as reality – although when pressed they admit that they’re simulations. It seams entirely plausible that they did the same at the start of the space program in a clumsy, half assed way. And there is plenty of examples of government’s lying to prevent exposure of some trivial event, that doesn’t matter all.
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Saying that the american conservative movement conserved nothing is wrong on a couple of accounts.
Beginning with the nature of that movement. It was always an alliance of several disparate groups – which can be seen as differing cultures. The dissident right is mostly people who were from the “cultural conservative” camp – with roots stretching back to Scotts-Irish settlers in the 17th century. The people that managed and organized the conservative coalition were economic conservatives – primarily concerned with protecting their wealth and privilege – with roots stretching back to the oligarchs of the 19th century.
The latter conserved exactly what they set out to do. Even if that required throwing their erstwhile cultural conservative allies under the bus.
Its important to be cognizant of that reality because successful going forward without some “oligarchs” is probably impossible. But care and vigilance needs to exercised to prevent a recurrence.
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This was something Rush Limbaugh would harp on *way* back in the early nineties in that the left has it easy in that all their groups (at the time) wanted “more government”, it didn’t have to be good, it didn’t have to deliver what they wanted, it just had to be “more”. OTOH conservatives, generally wanted “less”, but it was made up of a dozen or more groups that wanted it “less” in their own particular way so no force (outside of sometimes the 2nd amendment groups) could be brought to bear to enforce their vision.
That’s the “generous” reading, back in the ideological age. Now that we’re in the demographic age it doesn’t even matter.
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If our currency collapses, many of these political issues are going to resolve themselves. As I write, I note that Japan is now openly buying Russian oil with rubles.
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Well I’m not going to sit here and do nothing. Recently fighting back with tools to win back my country,
Joining Crowder’s Mug Club
Buying a Jeremy’s Razor subscription from Daily Wire.
and when one presents itself, a nice cruise vacation on the USS National Review cruise ship.
This all typed in my office with my prized photo taken with Sen. Tim Scott and myself hanging over my desk.
What will you gents do?
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The Declaration was never intended to be a revolutionary egalitarian or inclusive document. To the contrary, it was a conservative document citing the rights of Englishmen from the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Sure, it mentions Locke’s natural rights, but the key phrase is “that to secure these rights, governments (PLURAL) are instituted among men.”
In other words, other races and cultures have a natural right to institute governments to secure their rights according to their own circumstances. Jefferson was specifically trying to secure the rights of the English Bill of Rights, most of which later ended up the American Bill of Rights — freedom of speech and the press, jury trial, right to bear arms, etc.
The biggest refutation of the Jaffa/Lincoln “creedal” thesis prioritizing the declaration is that Jefferson, the author of the Declaration, recommended in Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) that Negro slaves be repatriated or colonized and not admitted to the American body politic.
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I did a bit of looking into David Petraeus and his backing of the New North America. Shallow Patriotism was preyed upon by these types that decided we needed to build a weird China in order to compete with them.
Our education system also failed miserably. The Declaration was a list of grievances made for the non-British Continental powers to grant the colonies rebellion legitimacy surrounded by propaganda to inspire the rebels to war and let them know that the elite were pledging their life to the cause. All men are created equal was a slight at hereditary monarchy/aristocracy and a preamble to the inequal application of justice and law between England and the colonies. It was about equality before the law. Turning it into an egalitarian creed is one of the great accomplishments of the media and one of the great academic failings of all time.
I think presenting a template for this new platform to replace Creedalism is a great topic for a post or a show. It is time to put forth a proposal or two and make it work.
The Regime’s war on white America provides ample places to build in practical platform planks. The hard part is going to be the more general, aspirational aspect of it. I suspect it a statement that America is fundamentally a civilization built upon ancient and modern European civilization and built by people of European descent. America is European and Western Civilization of and for its people.
This puts a stake in the ground. This is what we say it is. If not, then it is illegitimate to our 200 million plus people. The regime has already declared it illegitimate. The book write and TV/Internet pundit class will then be forced to declare a side. They claim to be for Western Civilization, force them to claim for us or the other side. We also need one of our people to develop our Prager U. It is a travesty that Prager is providing an alternative education system for our people. We need to get moving. I suspect Middle Eastern power vassalage is just fine with the Prager/Shapiro group. We need to make that not good enough for our people.
Just some thoughts. I would love to see you do a show on this.
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Reading about that artist from Austria lately and what struck me is that he was a decent organizer. The organization that he helped build was actually a parallel government and therefore when the time came the transition to a National Socialist government was not a transition into the unknown with institutions just no longer in place.
Now granted in todays America our rulers are not going to let a completely parallel government exist but we have to find ways to build our own institutions of some kind.
Maybe that’s just a local county government for now, maybe we can salvage some states? We must homeschool, private school, or get control of our local public schools. We need to build some local elites that can hire locals.
It’s going to start with localism and community if we are to survive and build again.
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