Usually, when you seek to take over something, you try not destroy it in the process of acquiring it. For example, if you’re trying to rise up the ranks of an organization, you don’t want to discredit the organization in the process. What’s the point of rising up the ranks, if the post you finally attain has been made worthless? This “conservative” instinct becomes stronger once you have gained control of whatever it was you were after. Now it is yours and you do what you must to protect and increase its value.
For example, when the Left took over the institutions of the American ruling elite, they were careful to not destroy them in the process. They destroyed the people in their way, for sure, but they were careful to avoid damaging the institutions too much. In fact, they worked to increase the power of the government, the schools and the colleges once they gained power over them. Today, logic says the Left should be extremely conservative, not wanting to alter anything, for fear of diminishing the power of what they have.
That’s the curious thing about what we are seeing from the Left. They have a firm grip on all of the institutions of the empire. They control the mass media. They control the administrative state and the education system. Global corporations are now run by people deeply invested in virtue signaling. The days of the Left having to pressure big business to do their bidding are long over. Big business is the vanguard of the Left now. Despite this, the Left is running around trying to scramble all of the rules.
When you’re in charge, the rules are your friend. After all, you get to write the rules, pick the people who enforce the rules and pick the people who interpret the rules. That is one of the best perks of being in control of the institutions. The people in charge of the empire should be the great defenders of law and order, as the rules work in their favor. Instead, everywhere you look, the Left is trying to destroy the authority and legitimacy of the things they control. It’s as if they are trying to burn down their own house to spite us.
A good example is the two big fake news stories this past week. The first one was an obvious put up job by some hack political operators. There was no way it could hold up under scrutiny. Left-wing media should have attacked it in order to maintain what little credibility they have on these issues. Similarly, they fell for the story about the teenagers and the Indian protester. Official media should have been all over debunking that story, as that would have made them look responsible and humane.
Instead, they helped egg on the feeding frenzy. Even if the facts were as originally presented, normal people will always take the side of a kid over an adult in a situation like this. It’s not as if the kids were a gang of blacks attacking an old man in the subway. They just stood their ground and peacefully protested on behalf of their issue. More people were red pilled by that story than by all the alt-right internet memes combined. The media frenzy was suicidal, self-destructive and avoidable.
Now, it could simply be the case where their fanatics on social media make it impossible to put the brakes on these feeding frenzies. A left-wing idiot posts fake news on Twitter and within hours it is retweeted a million times by other left-wing idiots. The speed of the process makes it impossible for the more sober minded media operations to react in a timely fashion. Before they can react, the fake news has rocketed around the internet and the debunking of it is well under way.
That’s not the case in other areas where you see the Left damaging their own cause. For example, they are undermining the law in an effort to swat at flies. Two years after Charlottesville, left-wing lesbian lawyer Roberta Kaplan is asking the court to manipulate Federal law so she can harass alt-right activists. Her scheme relies on reinterpreting old laws aimed at the KKK to terrorize people who attended the rally. Kaplan is a billionaire and she is suing people who don’t have two nickels to rub together.
This is not strictly an American issue. In Canada, two left-wing professors are suing a student, because the student shared a Jordan Peterson video. This video was so upsetting and triggering to the professors, they went on a crazy rant about Peterson on social media. They now fear he may sue them, so they are suing the student in an effort to shift the blame onto her. That sounds insane, but given the state of the courts in Canada, it is not out of the question that the student loses the case.
The only possible outcome of this sort of lawfare is to convince people that the law is a fraud. The only way a legal system can function is if the people think the law is both rational and predictable. Even if people don’t like the laws, they will obey them as long as the law is predictable. If left-wing lawyers manage to subvert the law by getting left-wing judges to sign off on what amounts to state terrorism, the law becomes the enemy of the people. The value of controlling the law and the courts declines.
Even if you want to put this sort of stuff aside as the actions of rogue individuals and mindless idiots on-line, think about some of the policies the Left is championing. One big item on their list is the normalization of open borders by debasing the value of things like driver’s licenses. States with left-wing government are in a rush to issue driver’s licenses to illegals. This will result in so much fraud that the picture ID will lose its value. All levels of government count on those ID’s being mostly accurate.
It’s not just for the benefit of foreigners. New York State is now offering a third option for biological sex. A big part of how the state keeps tabs on the citizenry is having their personal information, usually through the driver’s license process. How long before the body dysmorphics start demanding they can describe themselves as they feel they should be described, rather than their actual description? Cops will be looking for people claiming to be dinosaurs, having licenses with pictures of a T-Rex on them.
When you start to tabulate the radical agenda and the ad hoc activity of the Left, the most obvious conclusion is there is little coordination. The people at the top have lost control of the monster they created. They dream of creating a coalition of non-whiles, over which they will preside, so they can control the empire. The trouble is their coalition is always reminding the other side that such an arrangement will be a catastrophe. Again, the Left is mostly just radicalizing white people now.
The other conclusion is the radicalism of the Left has no limiting principle, so it has to spiral out of control. Like the Khmer Rouge, the logical end of this new radicalism is an orgy of self-destructive violence. That means it will not burn out on its own as happened in the 1970’s with student radicalism. This round of radicalism is for keeps and the Left will not stop until they are stopped. That’s going to put an end to civic nationalism and any thoughts of restoration. Whatever comes next comes after the final conflict.
For them, after infiltration it’s win-win. Remember, the main goal of CultMarx is to destroy, specifically to destroy white/right institutions. Look at the two possible outcomes: (1) They infiltrate an institution and then use it to promote their own ends: win. (2) They infiltrate an institution and then intentionally or unintentionally destroy it: win. Take an only semi-serious example: Star Wars. The J-Left took it over and decided to use it simply as a mouthpiece for SJW propaganda. If that works, win. If fans hate the new entertainmo-prop, and it destroys the series as a work of popular art (which… Read more »
This comment is the perfect addendum to thezman’s piece. On the right we keep looking for logic and reason, when the left is only concerned about destruction in the belief it will usher in some distant utopia. As a real-world example, many years ago my family attended an Anglican parish that went hard-left. The clergy drove many people away with constant PC sermonizing (e.g. Islam is superior to Christianity – which is an apostasy if you are an actual believer in Christ, but I digress). My family left and we watched from afar as donations fell, people left, the clergy… Read more »
See also:
— Boy Scouts
— US military
The hard work of building replacements is upon us.
Same thing drove me out of the Presbyterian Church.
We’re now at the point where your take is largely spot on but it probably didn’t start out that way. Up to maybe Obama’s first term lots of lefties and their organ grinders believed they could simply replace us and our institutions would continue to chug along improve even. It was a kind of cargo cult crusade. But things haven’t worked out. Their incompetence has forced them to seek new explanations. So now it’s because of the lingering dark magic of YT. Everything he’s touched has been curse by privilege and structural racism. So it needs to be dismantled in… Read more »
>I’ve heard people are lobbying Japan to take in more immigrants.
That is certainly the case. And they’re going after the young over there too. A Japanese friend reports that her high-school son’s class was assigned the topic “Should Japan accept Muslim immigrants?” as a debate topic, and it was hinted that the only correct answer is “of course we should”.
Not that I am a fan of either franchise, but Star Trek has also been taken over by the same people. All hail STD and Michael Sue Spock.
I think Calhoun’s “rat utopia” experiments are the only social science studies worth anything, because that’s where postindustrial human society is now. I saw it early and often, living and working in a college town. College towns are the closest thing in this world to utopia. I’ve written extensively on this — how nice it is, living where even the most exotic taste is catered to 24/7 and you can stroll the streets at 2am in complete safety. And yet the Left — which controls everything in a college town, has an unlimited budget, and even sets admission requirements —… Read more »
Hey, are you the Rotten Chestnuts Severian? I just found your site recently. Brilliant.
But do you know what would be mega-super-useful? Some kind of “greatest hits” page. I wish I had the time to binge-read your stuff all the way through, but I don’t.
I am, yes. And thanks! I will try to do that.
I’m not going to log in to your site via WordPress to comment, but you know, the “spherical cow/chicken” joke has a much longer lineage than what you say in the latest post there.
*snicker* Eye, that IS funny in a wonderfully nerdy way
Great blog. Bookmarked.
I’ve been thinking that this is not at bottom about good or evil, right or wrong. It’s about a vast and growing pool of bored, over-credentialed, rodent-like humans who just need something to do. There are just too many of us, and not enough critical work needing done for survival.
That’s just it. I don’t know if it’s the red pill or the black pill, but it seems to be a baseline truth about people: We just can’t handle prosperity. We need a certain level of drama in our lives — we’re evolutionarily optimized for eustress — and if we don’t get enough, we’ll manufacture some. The better off you are, the more stimulation you need — a White guy up the holler, or a Black guy in the ghetto, has a cheap and easy supply of drugs with which to sate his drama addiction. The Bill Kristols of the… Read more »
Hi Severian! Also just found you at Rotten Chestnuts, and thanks for your good and hard work. I’ve though for years that the human race spent 100,000s of years evolving to work hard just to eat and stay alive. Now life is not as hard as ancestors, we have too much free time on our hands, (Calhoun’s Rat Utopia), we are not up against survival, and there are no consequences for bad decisions, i.e. death to cull the ranks of stupidity and infirmity. Not sure that we need drama as a species; rather, we just need to be kept working… Read more »
Drama, or do we just have too much free time? Prior to the industrial revolution, the common man work sun up to sun down and perhaps got a day off on Sunday to sit in church. The aristocracy had the free time and they seemed to be stirring things up steady state I’ll admit.
It’s not drama we need, it’s purpose. Purpose comes from adversity. Drama requires little more than low character. IMO.
“It’s not drama we need, it’s purpose.”
That just made my day. Thanks.
Been having a bit of angst, as I see this life as the fortunate chance to do one thing, one thing only. Again, thanks. Never Quit.
How about killing two birds with one stone, drama and purpose.
Day of the rope, in mine craft of course.
J.W.
You’re absolutely right about purpose. Being an Eric Hoffer ‘true believer’ is one long, fruitless search for purpose.
But purpose can come from serving God rather than one’s need to search for drama to give life meaning.
Meaning and Purpose ?? (Nod to V. Frankl)
What gives me hope is that as the two parties eventually sort out into the party of color and the party of white, the POC will eat their own. None of these races like each other. They may be united in knocking down whitey, but beyond that, it’s chaotic infighting and dysfunction. Meanwhile, the pale party can regroup and will at least be capable of competence, if not excellence, once we shake off the brainwashing of white guilt and start looking out for our own interests.
I read your comment to my co worker. Her response “Yeah, if we’ve got any left after narcotics and not breeding anymore!”
In the 1930’s the Left set out to gain control of all the institutions of our culture. They have achieved their goal. With control of the school system, they control and shape the minds of each new generation of children which, it seems, leave the school system as children in adult bodies. This fact alone cements the Left’s control of politics into the future.
Garet Garrett’s book : “The Revolution Was” dealt with the takeover in the 30s.
But yet we STILL have conservatards saying ” the commies are trying to destroy the Republic ! “.
LOL.
I work around crazy left wingers, I especially know the executive level left-winger. And the thing is, it’s not that they’ve lost control of the monster, it’s that they don’t even recognize it as a monster. It doesn’t even register in their brains as a monster, even though their ideology is like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors. I blame nepotism. Institutions don’t age well, as we have some very old ones. The best and brightest critical thinkers can no longer survive in these institutions. An open position is not really open. Everyone knows that it will go to… Read more »
The actual left is dead. Its successor is the post left, and the all the post-left knows is Id. Its a parasite that has evolved to exploit the weaknesses of anglo liberalism. The post-left cant build, it cant create, it cant govern. It can only dominate, plunder, subvert and destroy. It will replicate uncontrollably, and consume its host. Then it consumes itself. That its nature.
The dog has caught it’s tail and is eating it!!!
What comes next is national disintegration. We don’t belong together. Never did.
Yes, never did. Being forced together is the cause of disintegration. Separation is the way forward.
You will seek to destroy what you wish to rule, if by doing so it enables you to rule. This seems totally obvious to me. Leftists are driven ONLY by their immediate quest for power; that is it. They could give a flying F**k how they get it or what they have to do to get it, or what remains after they attain power. Once they obtain power, they will reorder any and all institutions – destroyed or otherwise- to cement their hold on power and material wealth. Since their goal is personal power and wealth, there really is no… Read more »
The left has to descend into madness because it is a radical religious movement. There is a standard desire among such adherents to seek greater purity and punishments for non believers. This is exploited by any huckster who wants to quickly gain status and power. The devotees normally would be easier to keep as a block because they know their futures are dependent on the party. Without it they can’t compete. However, since the coalition of the fringes hate each other there is bound to be bloody infighting once they come closer to cementing power. There is another twist that… Read more »
It’s also important that back in the 1960’s, the Maoist/Trotskyist New Left defeated the Stalinist/Deng Old Left. That’s a lot of what the 1960’s were actually about; Conservatives were actually pretty marginal to the whole situation. So we get “Permanent Revolution” and struggle sessions instead of Socialism in One Country, a la the New Deal/New Frontier. For Maoists and Trotskyites, there is no limiting principle, until either 1) the country implodes or splits; 2) a right-wing coup occurs, or 3) a Stalin/Deng figure arises, and stops the spiral in an orgy of killing. Which is most likely is an open… Read more »
You nailed it! Having watched my commie parents, the ball went from the hands of Stalin to Herbert Marcuse to Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals of which Obama and the Hildabeast are devotees. Throw in the Hydra of new action Maoists, Central and South American Marxists, African Marxists…there is now no limiting principle. Nihilism and destroy the oppressor old colonialist powers and traditions. Permanent continuous revolution using third world people.
just like the french jacobins, the nazis and the commies rat on and devour each other. all we can do is hope this occurs.
Re: ” The only possible outcome of this sort of lawfare is to convince people that the law is a fraud. The only way a legal system can function is if the people think the law is both rational and predictable. ” The left is doing their best to destroy the law here in the US as well. What appears to be happening is an across the board effort to destroy any rewards for obeying the law. I don’t know what they think they’re going to gain from this – but it’s definitely there. Here in MA, we’ve got a… Read more »
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even… Read more »
Two ways I see this:
a. Destroy every institution, including the law, and you have destroyed America. Mission Accomplished.
b. Subvert the law: enact so many laws that every citizen is a criminal, and then you can imprison anyone you need to (such as those who post to dissident websites), without having to admit to the world that you are holding political prisoners.
Here in CA we have a compliance rate of about 5% with the assault gun laws. Most people just quietly refused to comply and the cops rather than kicking in doors at 4 AM and starting a shooting war with whites, say nothing. In regards to the Alt-right. It’s politically and socially irrelevant. It’s lacks a relevant message that resonates with the people who would be most attracted to it – blue collar and middle-class whites. And lacks a platform as well. Saying Democracy is bad and we need a dictator is not a selling point. It’s a NPC script… Read more »
Regarding normalization of open borders, Colorado authorized drivers licenses for illegal aliens a few years ago. Paired with our motor voter law, any applicant for a drivers license could register to vote in Colorado while applying for their drivers license. No citizenship (or even residency) check is required, so when Juan Valdez shows up at the DMV with a Honduran ID to get his Colorado drivers license he can register to vote with no questions asked. Leftists maintain that there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud by illegal aliens in this system. This is correct, precisely because there’s no way… Read more »
Interesting. I’ve said for years, but mostly to deaf ears, is that voter fraud detection is not the point. If the integrity of the process is suspect—because it can be easily demonstrated to be possible to cast illegal votes—then the system *is* broken. WRT voting, appearances are everything. If my state passed a process such as CO, I’d hang it up wrt voting.
I am not sure this is just things spinning out of control. There seems to be a sense of the people pulling the strings, not the thuggish antifa or the dimwit Democrat Congressional freshpersons or anyone like that, but the intellectual and financial powers behind the progressive jihad, desiring to burn the whole thing to the ground so they can build anew atop the ashes, with themselves ruling of course. I suspect they have overplayed their hand and that the maelstrom of diversity and resentment they have unleashed will end up consuming them as well but again these people are… Read more »
It is starting to be pointed out that the French Yellow Vests don’t represent any particular political affiliations or demands. They have simply been excluded from the “polite” big city society, and are basically treated as if they are non-citizens (you know, the “deplorables”). There is no solution to the Yellow Vest phenomenon, other than one side or the other culturally folding their tent and slinking away. We seem to be arriving at the same situation here in the U.S., without the shorthand of the Yellow Vests. There is no clean solution to the problem. When one side fails to… Read more »
Over the weekend, half the tweets on my twitter feed were about outrage over the media’s take on the Catholic kid- Indian man situation. This looks like a significant incident, like something snapped, and now there are a lot of pissed-off normies who are starting to understand what’s coming for whitey.
Normies understand that you don’t go after kids.
Good post. Dovetails niicely with your posts about Progressivism being more of a religious movement nowadays. One thought about the Left’s control of our institutions: The internet makes those institutions less important so now of course the Left will go full censorship on the internet. Fighting that is going to be THE issue going forward.
“….the logical end of this new radicalism is an orgy of self-destructive violence…”
I suspect when that occurs they’ll receive plenty of assistance with that “self-destructive violence.” Not that we’ll have any choice about having to deal with the metastasis.
This is why I fear it’s much closer than any of us suspect. Everyone saw the first Civil War coming… but at the same time, no one did. Nobody expected the events that actually did happen, and even as 50,000-strong armies were fighting it out in the field, more than half of both countries were swearing up and down that it would never come to violence. The wrong video going viral, and….
Sev; Maybe it’ll kick off like where France looks to be headed. In a sub-thread two postings ago started by Karl Horst, it emerged that: – The big driver of the spreading yellow vest protests in France (and now elsewhere) turns out to likely be the many petty (and costly to a prole) oppressions that the French State visits on those who must drive to live. – Parisians and the elite are largely immune. They have mass transit that conveniently serves them. – The new ‘diesel tax for Gaia’ was the straw that broke the camel’s back, not the sole… Read more »
For the US, my guess is the old taxation (and disenfranchisement, imprisonment, terrorization, persecution) without representation trick that kicked off the first revolution will be good for the second. Circumventing the bill of rights; packing the supreme court; abolishing the electoral college; disbanding ICE. Once the Marxist-Bioleninists are (officially) back in power, the backlash will be ferocious. They will put this in place to ensure the heartland is rendered forever impotent to express their will, then go on with the usual purge and exile that accompanies all the Marxist takeovers we’ve seen in the last century. Gloomy – but at… Read more »
A key feature of many of the anti-gun measures passed in the pass few years has been the mass civil disobedience. NY, NJ, CT, Boulder, the compliance rates have been miniscule. In Boulder one brave fellow published an op-Ed stating, in short, “I will not comply. Come and get me.”
Will non-compliance morph into willingness to use guns to protect gun rights? It seems more likely than it ever has before.
But unless there is organization behind it, a few guys getting shot over refusing to comply with TVGROs won’t make a difference.
When? When the emotions – probably not reason – say “there’s nothing left to lose”. If reason were to say it, it would be Unintended Consequences.
Thanks Al. Your digest of that previous thread is a valuable comment in its own right. The comparison with George III is quite apt, and gives me a deeper insight into both the present situation and the historical precedent. Years ago on his podcast, John Derbyshire coined a term for the tendency of authorities to busy their police forces with concentrating on the low-hanging fruit of nuisance violations by the otherwise law-abiding, rather than maintaining order and protecting life and property. (E.g., I’ve known neighborhoods where armed robbery and worse run rampant, but there’s no dearth of cops around to… Read more »
It’s called anarchotyranny.
To be sure, Doc. But I’m imaginging a word that, when people hear it, they’d angrily say, “Yes, THAT’s what I experience at the hands of police.”
The terms I envision—“Easy-pickings” or “creamskinning”—don’t quite do it, but they’re on the right track.
Chris;
How about ‘Banana Republic Steady Shakedowns’_?
Or, as the Mexicans call it, ‘the bite’ (la Mordida). As in (translated) “(La Mordida) Bribery, the shame of Mexico”.
Honest muckraking Mexican journalists used to condemn it. They may still. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Ayala_Anguiano
That has possibilities. “Sh*thole shakedown”?
Sadly, it’s the reality we’re moving—or rather, being moved—to.
Not a suggestion for the correct naming, but it does reek of a bastardization of the ‘broken window’ concept. That concept was meant to demonstrate that the police should not and would not overlook even minor crimes because it leads malcontents to continue testing more limits. It was not a strategy for prioritizing law enforcement resources.
I know I’m in the christendom and dissident right race realist sphere of right-wing blogs, but I just thought I’d jump in at this mention of broken windows to interject that the reduction in crime in inner cities correlates with abortion, which hit the black and especially what would have been single motherhood and unwanting mothers, noted in the book Freakonomics.
” Even if the facts were as originally presented, normal people will always take the side of a kid over an adult in a situation like this. ”
This is what made me so angry. I never watched the video and never actually read any details about it, it was just so clear that all the leading minds of the day, the intellectuals, the learned, the moral superiors, would have been happy to perform a 213 month abortion on this boy and that pissed me off.
The kid was white, had a MAGA hat, and was at a pro-life rally – that’s enough for the Left. What’s really been disgraceful in this mess has been the initial reaction of the “Right” to blame the kid. They are trying to walk this back now (as are some of the members of the saner Left) but it’s too late. What a worthless bunch of losers.
It’s been remarkable that the cuckservatives and center-left figures were forced to back off. But forcing the far-left off will be much harder. The narrative has shifted to:
-Covington HS apparently once had a rapist on the basketball team
-Covington HS doesn’t have enough black students/staff
-Students apparently wore “blackface”
A lot of the anger here is coming not from Amerinds, but from blacks.
I can imagine. The problem of course is that the fallacious argument being made is one of moving the goalposts. I try to ignore those, hope others are wise to this tactic as well.
What is going to trip up any attempt at a total victory is the kids performing the “tomahawk chop” when the Philipps crew started drumming. I highly doubt this was intended as demeaning, but AIM-types are virulently hostile to such activity and find support in the sycophantic press.
No doubt the far Left won’t back off – they never do. These guys are still convinced that the Duke Lacrosse players were guilty, that Havan Monahan raped some chick on a bed of broken glass, and that Trump is a Russian agent. Hell, the older ones still think that Alger Hiss was framed. If you are waiting for these people to admit that they were wrong, you’ll be waiting a long time. Better to just ignore them.
Cornering them into saying “Red hats are a Klan hood” has been a nice touch.
Switching to blue hats for 2020 would be a nice troll.
Or put a blue check on the back of each red hat.
Another piece of TrueCon crap that I’m getting tired of is the discussion as to whether this Indian guy was a Vietnam Veteran or not. What the Hell difference does that make? If Audie F***ing Murphy got up in your face banging a drum, you’d have the right to slug him. Even if this Indian guy won the CMH, that just makes him “a brave guy who was acting like an asshole” – my Dad knew a lot of these in WWII. Of course veterans should be respected for their service, but that doesn’t make them sacrosanct or anything. And… Read more »
Don’t discount the power of a potential “Stolen Valor” incident. The progressive stack cannot defend that.
Bah. The old coot has a career of calling out ‘racism’. Just another SPLC-type plant, a crisis actor working for law groups and journo-lists.
A paid sh*t-stirrer, posted there with his “Black Israelite” buddies. So convenient.
(Heh. Best tweet: “Patriots beat Redskins”)
The high school is Covington Catholic, NOT a public high school. It was interesting to hear Bill Cunningham on the radio last night. He was born in Covington KY, just across the river from Cincy, and is a Catholic. He is furious at the Mayor of the city and the Catholic Archbishop for immediately jumping on the kids for their imagined misdeeds. Have the two Republican Senators from KY, McConnell and Paul, weighed in on this? I hope somebody in the Republican Party fights back against this malign misrepresentation of what actually occurred.
I see this as nothing less than a Clash of Civilizations on a biological level. It is the “r’s” vs “K’s” with the r’s being represented by the world’s r driven totalitarian regimes who established themselves among the low IQ cultures where they thrive. There is no reasonable way to end this conflict any more than there is a way to raise a cohort’s IQ, no panacea, no paradise, no utopian solution. The r’s want you robbed, raped, enslaved, and genocided because that is the only path to biological supremacy they have. Parasites do what parasites do and only a… Read more »
I keep thinking this is, and will be increasingly a white vs. non-white confict, but then I realize there are a lot of “r” (r-K selection theory) white people out there. That’s a problem.
It is getting to the point where nice white boys like those at the Lincoln memorial are going to have to be ready to physically protect themselves. Black men in general love taking swings at white people, much less insane black isrealites hopped up on fake grievances.
The problem with any trial about Charlottesville is that it will likely be heard in a court that as left wing as the Sodomite Kaplan. As we saw with the Fields trial, the fact that his car never touched the dead, morbidly obese street crazy wasn’t relevant. The state of Virginia poured millions of tax dollars to put overwhelming evidence, much of it fraudulent, before a jury that wanted to convict. I have first hand knowledge of the many attacks upon the marchers, that had a valid venue permit, and who did not plan to attack anyone. So far, every… Read more »
Anyone catch the national review getting into the action?
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/ai9rli/nicholas_frankovich_national_review_the_covington/
These sniveling cowards managed to slander kids that were supposedly on “their side”. This lovely little piece of white hate was published by NR, was featured on the site for a day, and then deleted and memory holed. We know national review is controlled opposition, fine, but they have become so nutty they themselves as a “conservative” institution have become sjw/leftist converged. They can’t even do the paid conservative shill act correctly anymore. Fucking nuts.
It’s no longer out of the ordinary to admit that the next Dem administration will have an agenda to revoke tax-exempt status from any “discriminatory” Christian institutions. One will have to wonder the logic jumps needed in the courts to avoid targeting Jewish institutions. That would probably be the minimum action, obviously the left would prefer to simply ban non-approved religion from being promoted to minors, as is the law in China. But the coalition politics may prevent this, assuming that a Kamala Administration still has the pretense of elections.
You’re kidding, right? There are no Jewish institutions because all the sometime Jews are now just as secular as the Quakers, Unitarians and Episcopalians. Apart from a Neocon fringe, they mostly consider support for Israel to be an embarrassment. Basically white ethnics with WASP pretentions.
Hmmm…
HappyAcres @HappyHectares:
“Coffee this morning with a college administrator. My friend is your typical Californian far left moonbat.
So imagine my surprise when he complained that workplace white-bashing was out of control. “It’s no place for old white men,” he joked.
But something’s changed.”
Everyone calm down.
The “absent” dissident right isn’t absent at all. We are calmly standing by, primed and ready for when the lid pops.
When that happens, the leftists will become extinct in a few months. Until then, we’ll just watch them self destruct if that’s what they choose.
“Left-wing (billionaire) lesbian lawyer Roberta Kaplan…”
— Would you state your name for the court, please?
— Roberta Kaplan.
(long pause)
— No further questions.
The sad thing is that almost everything the dissident right has done has failed to gain traction. The last half decade of the culture war hasn’t been the Right winning, it has been the Left losing again and again.
Given that the dissident right is still forming up, that’s like saying the rookie ball player has failed to meet expectations before the season has started.
Almost five years since Zoe Quinn and the five guys. One hell of a ride.
From what I’ve seen the dissident right is made up of quite a few people who for some reason just can’t bring themselves to follow a left wing that has gone completely off the rails. So they’re suddenly calling themselves “dissident right”. If the left suddenly cleaned up their act and shifted their beliefs back to something from say the early 60s – suddenly much of the population of dissident righters would disappear and be back to voting Democrat. It’s why I keep saying: seems like a lot of the protesting is coming from a root of people realizing that… Read more »
Calsdad: Yeah, a lot if Dissident Rightists started out somewhere on the Left. Many of us have serious reservations about capitalism. It’s capitalism, after all, that’s behind the globalization that’s destroying Western civilization. But I think you’re off base talking about whites voting themselves free stuff. I remember the early 1960s and even the late 1950s. There wasn’t a lot of free stuff around. People didn’t expect free stuff and they didn’t get free stuff.
Well that’s is where one of my fundamental disagreements comes from. Since I see a lot of these dissident righters coming out of being disaffected leftists – they have carried forward their crap belief system and as soon as you say “capitalist!!” – they go into spasmodic protest mode. Sorry – but I have seen and do see socialism/communism etc – as far more of a threat than capitalism is. Since the socialists RELY on government power to enforce their agenda – and always have , and have ALWAYS stated as much ……. I am forced to wonder if this… Read more »
Throwing off The Enlightenment (TM ) is a monumental task.
You can’t replace something with nothing.
I dunno TB.
What are your numbers for the blog, Z? Are they still climbing? One would wonder how Derb and the other dissidents are doing too.
I am quite alright with the radical left destroying itself. Saves me from having to do it. I think their fall is a foregone conclusion – we need to concentrate on replacing them afterward, and how to go about it.
Good point Glenn. There needs to be a coherent philosophy and organization to replace them when they implode, otherwise things will continue as they are now—the Left retreats, the Right steps in and stabilizes things, then the Left regroups and round 2 begins. There needs to be a knock out and that won’t happen without a substantive change in our thinking.
You seem to assume that the left will not take everything, is included with them when they take it all down with them
Glenfilthie. Perhaps you’re right. Perhaps the Left will self-destruct. But they’ll have destroyed a lot of the infrastructure of Western civilization while they’re doing it.
I wish it were a foregone conclusion. But everywhere I look, I see leftist victories, and conservatism losing ground.
This point was made in the article. And the dissident right will continue to not have to gain traction because the left is doing it for us. All we have to do is stand to the side with a smug ‘I was right all along’ smile on our faces. These forces have a momentum of their own now.
It’s like tennis or ping pong. All you really need to do is keep returning the ball, they will eventually make enough errors trying to beat you that they end up beating themselves.
That is a facecrime and you will be arrested for it.
“That means it will not burn out on its own as happened in the 1970’s with student radicalism. ”
I would offer that student radicalism did not burn out. They all became professors, admins and NGO leaders. They are still with us today, albeit with one foot on the banana peel.
The Right’s biggest mistake was being suckered into a world view that eschews authority. I get the concern, murderous Left Wing states killed hundreds of millions but the worst of the Right Wing states, say Pinochet? These places were decent places for normies to live and even in the worst of circumstances , very people died or were hurt/arrested or anything else. if the Dissident Right is willing to embrace authority it can easily build a nation worth living in And note this means authority across the spectrum, control of trade, immigration, marriage, arresting people like drug dealers pornographers and… Read more »
Just an observation:
A decade ago today was still a banker’s holiday. Now every medium and large Corp is in hard lockdown mode.
President’s Day will be business as usual.
Another Happy Acres @HappyHectares gem:
“We celebrate National Negro Day by not working.”
Look at gay pride. It started as Gay Pride day. Then it became Pride week. Now we celebrate anal sex for a whole month with complete corporate saturation. The conquering coalition is replacing celebrations of the vanquished with their own
What is strange and confusing
about the ‘Left’ destroying the
institutions they have gained power
over?
They are comnunist (Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist) revolutionaries.
The fight for the power they
now have, and continuously covet, has never been interested in the ruling institutions where it now resides.
It solely craves the power, in the pursuit of furthering a communist revolution.
Slash-and-burn politics, like primitive agriculture. Running the herd off the cliff, like primtive animal husbandry.
Remember Communism from the beginning through to now continues to shape-shift and is a many headed Hydra. This is to confuse people so they point in dozens of directions. This is to overwhelm the system then on to nihilistic destruction . From the ashes the first revolutionaries to rise with the strong man will be lined up and shot. That leaves the strong man and his unquestioning minions.
“the first revolutionaries to rise with the strong man will be lined up and shot.”
yeah, usually.
But it’s not always the commies coming out on top.. remember Khomenei and Bani-Sadr?
Bani-Sadr was the commie, and the mullahs purged him with prejudice, shortly after he helped them get rid of the Shah.
Good example NB of political human nature. This doesn’t pertain solely to new action commies. Didn’t Erdogon purge his generals and other toadies after consolidating power? Hell, I’ll bet the Aztecs did it. And ate a few to boot! Research history of Chaco Canyon and Hovenweep. And tasty, too! Ever wondered why the cliff dwellers built on steep cliffs! Nasty enemies, that’s why!
Yes, I remember. Turns out Achmedinijad was a mole who managed the young socialist Tudeh students’ union; he organized the impromptu hostage takeover of the embassy, after which all the Tudeh were rounded up and executed. And he went on to become President! Useful idiots indeed.
Roger all above.
Summer, 2019. Time for “Tet, Take Two”?
A lot of discontent is percolating below the surface and will erupt into open defiance once the chaos takes us to a tipping point (see Yellow Vest movement). When that happens, the Progressive elites will use State power to crack down on dissidents, beginning with the arrest of presumed leaders, then employing false flag incidents to justify large scale detention, and ultimately instituting emergency powers to enable persecution of non-conformists throughout society. This is a tried-and-true strategy for tyrannical success. We cannot beat that with talk, or voting, or militia action, or hot civil war. But there are very effective… Read more »
TomA, could you elaborate? Short of a hot conflict, the only method I can think of would be a massive revolt of civil disobedience—protests, strikes, sabotage. Can they arrest everyone? However, we see from Venezuela that even with starvation of half the population, the dIctatorial government remains in power.
First, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the incipient tyrannists and their instruments of power. The federal behemoth can crush anything it defines as a target (that is a strength). But they are not led by the likes of a Norman Schwartskof; rather, their leaders are more like a Mark Zuckerberg (that is a weakness). In a true face-to-face existential confrontation, the latter will piss his pants.
The left is flaunting and breaking God’s laws with open faced enthousiasm. This paints a big red target on every one of their heads. The Lord Jesus has a way when He gets angry.
“Like the Khmer Rouge, the logical end of this new radicalism is an orgy of self-destructive violence. That means it will not burn out on its own as happened in the 1970’s with student radicalism.”
EXACTLY what the Deep State wants.
Jonah, you may have something here. If there is blood in the streets, the population may just chuck Democracy and the Constitution in favor of strong man rule.
Think Sulla at the end of the fight between his faction and Marius’. The former set back up all the organs of the republic, but it could no longer stand on its own.
Primi—aw crap, and after a very good Roman Republic analysis by Z-man awhile back. I should have mentioned such an analogy. 🙁
The outline of that whole, long episode, the growing animosity, blossoming violence, violation of law (Marius’ successive consulships etc) and Sulla marching is his Army into Rome itself, and the remorseless violence …. it all struck me so hard those yrs ago as I watched similar preconditions fall into place here, too. I love / loved America — our nation, history, mythos and (many of our notable) people. I was a CivNat … but reading about Rome, particularly the period from around 100 BC through 88 and down to 44 and 19 BC — that began to cause me great… Read more »
Also don’t forget the prosecutions of men when they left office.
And martial law. Tanks in the street. And a strong man rising.
Why? That’s easy! They drank their own KoolAid. No one is beyond the reach of Forced Public Schooling, even the allegedly ‘private’ ones operating in a Total Regulation Society. Further elaboration can be found in Gatto’s Underground History and Rand’s Comprachios article. And “… ad hoc activity …”? Behind the scenes, two groups have almost fully played out the war against American ‘civilization’. On one hand, if Jan Irvin and Joe Atwill are to be believed, a C_A ‘weaponized’ anthropology project introduced rock’n’roll, the drug culture, free sex, feminism and etc to try to dissolve the bonds of family, community… Read more »
The “Class” of 1968 from outside the DNC is burning down its house in protest. The NPCs don’t realise that that Leviathan’s aim is to overwhelm the system, per Comrade Alinsky.
So Tiny Duck is now Jerry Corn?
Jerry craps Corn, and I don’t care.
Jerry Cornhole.
He never has his shit straight – and never makes any real points. So I think he just shows up because he likes the abuse.
No, he shows up for attention, and he gets attention. We feed the troll. Or he feeds us, with low hanging fruit. My suggestion for Z– Without blocking anything, just posting a do not feed the animals sign alongside the troll ought to get the message through. Or I can scroll by twenty comments as before.
I think Jerry Corn’s a hoot.
Catamite fever, baby! True romance blossoms on the Z-blog!
An alternative explanation for the behavior of leftist leadership is that they are so full of self-righteousness and blinded by ideology that they believe their narrative without question. “Those school kids may not have done exactly what was originally claimed but we know they are evil anyway.” No need for a correction.
Since they all only talk to each other, they are blissfully unaware that they’re losing all credibility. Do you think if you asked one of the loons on CNN or MSNBC if they are regarded as honest and credible that any of them would say no?
I had an ex congressman tell me that for government the most pernicious aspect of gay marriage will be when people realize that they can enter into contracual marriages in order to protect assets from various forms of taxation like when Romans began doing strategic adoptions.
Wasn’t there a State were such a marriage was attempted and denied? But yes, mom marrying daughter to pass on the estate sounds about right.
Gay marriage was the first of the dominoes to fall in a series. Polygamy, North America Man/Boy Love Association, I love my mummy and want to marry her, I love my dolphin (euwwyuck!), I love myself and want to marry me! Once it goes based on equal rights, it topples. This is what the old commies were angling for.
Big snowfall in Utah today and I just sat still. Boy, did I have extra time to bloviate! Quiet and white outside and stunningly beautiful. Heavy wet cement snow so much shoveling early tomorrow.
A woman here in San Diego chose the downtown train station for a mate (it is a nice train station…). Then another woman did as well, and there was a hellacious cat-fight as one of them got chased off the grounds. At least the “local color” news reporting of it is not taking it all very seriously–yet.
Double damn. Holograms, anime characters, and idoru sex dolls can’t compete with a train station.
Top that, Japan!
Range, I think gay marriage started as an scam to get insurance companies or Medicare to pay for AIDS, and to claim SS survivor benefits.
Hey Range,
If your stuck inside watching the snow come down tonight, the Woodpile Report is out a day early. Always a hoot, lots of good stuff, including quotes from Z.
Thank you. First glance grabbed my interest!
This is Utah! Got up early to shovel snow and discovered mystery neighbors had quietly shoveled the driveway and front walk. Love my Mormon neighbors and they love non-Mormon me. As F’d up and McCained as Romney is, they keep producing good folks. Cognitive dissonance has again descended on me! Life is messy.
Damn. I never thought of that! I could marry my nephew and pass on my assets!
So good I must repeat it.
Hat tip to 1Gandydancer, from yesterday.
“His name is Nick Sandmann and here is his statement on the matter:”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/20/us/covington-kentucky-student-statement/index.html
Doesn’t sound like lawyer-written PC cuck boilerplate to me.
I mean, this kid has it pitch-perfect.
I want to vote for him already.
Oh fudge. Cucks and collabos will hang first. For example, look at the red-pilled rage towards March for Life’s surrender. Ladies, you best move out the way:
https://mobile.twitter.com/March_for_Life/status/1087179994831507456
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/pj-instapundit/liz_shelds_morning_brief_no_maga_hats_for_you_and_much_much_more_it_took_about_a_day_before_a_m/#comment-4299918443
Haha! And from that thread:
“I did put Trump stickers on cars outside the houses that proudly announced that “hate doesn’t live here””
Reply:
“Awesome- they deserve to get tolerated”
(Plus, Gateway Pundit: “Elder” may be a phony “Vietnam war veteran”)
Has Mark Steyn been lurking here? He just asked what’s the point of conservatives if they agree with progressives and repeat their lies
If I had ten divisions of those kids, our troubles here would be over very quickly.
It’s an inherent problem with leftist activism that in order to be seen as a leader or at least in the vanguard, one must always be pushing the envelope. An activist rarely says: “OK, we’ve won what we asked for! Everybody can go home now,” or “No, that’s asking too much; we must be moderate.” Instead they must always find something new to be outraged about, some new demand to make. That fuels the purity spiral and eventually destroys the movement, one way or the other. I think the task of all anti-leftists is to figure out how to stop… Read more »
Vdare has had a number of interesting articles about the gross travesty called Charlottesville.
https://vdare.com/articles/unequal-justice-in-fields-charlottesville-trial-and-increasingly-throughout-the-left-s-america
https://vdare.com/letters/another-charlottesville-survivor-reports-being-menaced-by-antifa-gunmen-during-the-riot
My only concern about the dissident right’s place in the future is that there is no mega donor currently to help fund a lot of causes like Vdare and AmRen. Or is a mega donor for the dissident right an inevitable thing that will happen but will take awhile to occur?
The greatness of the minds coming out of the dissident right depends on the lack of a great donor or power to limit thought.
Lefty’s sobbing with impotent fury that these kids didn’t immediately kowtow to the powerful magic of the latest saint-of-color. That ol’ juju just ain’t workin’ like she used ta!
The reason it appears there is no limiting principle to the current progressivism, is because it has become a religion similar to radical Islam. Anything and everything is justified to further the righteous cause. You don’t see this on the right. Those pro-life high school kids were peacefully marching, not blowing up abortion clinics. The 60s radicals were ultimately constrained by their losses at the ballot box. However, today’s demographics don’t support such a pathway today. The only saving grace is that most of today’s SJWs are spoiled rich kids astroturfing their grievances. It’s possible that everday blacks, who are… Read more »
Well, I’ve never experienced spirit drumming or any other sacred Indian ritual, but I have been around a shit-ton of drunk Paiutes
It is not so much the “Law” is predictable, but that there is a Rule of Law, so that if X does what Y does, both X and Y end up being treated equally.
That, if anything, is what “equal” meant in the Declaration.
I saw the video of the Catholic school boys and the old Indian- but I’m unclear as to what actually happened. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Vince at Red Elephants has been covering this extensively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3tX0UKhUE
Long story short: More Fake News.
Lefties stirring up shit and then getting caught.
This is brilliant. I’ve added your blog to my bookmarks. I disagree with some of your observations, but am happy and enlightened by your arguments. Thank you.
The Left builds on shifting sand . . . Again . . .And again . . .And again. Like Terrence Mann said in Field Of Dreams, “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.” Well, and Jesus, and the Word of God, but the left doesn’t believe in them.