141 thoughts on “The Death Of Conservatism”

1. American Conservatism was more about conserving wealth, status, privilege, and connections than heritage, tradition, values, and convictions.

   Such a shallow ‘ideology’ was bound to fail when prestige came to be determined by subversive Jews. Today, if you want to conserve your status, you have to embrace globo-homo.

   American Liberalism is dead for a similar reason. It’s not well-thought out but based on conceit of being ahead of the game, more evolved. It vapes on vanity of being ahead of the rubes. Like conservatives, most liberals don’t or can’t think on their own and just look for cues from the authoritative source, which is again Jews.

2. Gotta disagree with you here Z.

   American Conservatism inc didn’t fail at all. They succeed brilliantly.

   In the only dimension that they cared about.

   Which was preserving and extending the wealth of American oligarchs.
   The billionaire class has done fantastically well over the last forty years. The working class not so much.

   And really, that is what “conservatism” was after. All the rest, the moralizing and traditionalism were just a marketing pitch to get the rubes’ support in protecting the leaders wealth. That’s why they always “lost” on the issues that mattered to their voters, even as they won on the financial stuff. Paul Ryan said publicly that the capstone of his career was the tax cut signed by Trump. That’s a blatant admission of my premise. The few cultural victories along the way were purely accidental – expanding gun rights and overturning roe – which completely embarrass the oligarchs.

   The dissident right needs to accept the reality that we were all conned by conservative inc into supporting their goals. They got what they wanted and we got the shaft.

3. Majority-minority is another grifter’s term to normalizing dispossessed every right formally you had

   You either majority who has custodianship nor minority who politically and socially can’t accomplish nothing
   Don’t call Jewish people as majority-minority group
   Jews in America are simply a foreign-oligarchic group

   Majority-minority nonsense is more retarded than rainbow nation used by Desmond Tutu
   You either white country or non-white country
   There is no rainbow nation because everything is black as Gupta looting shenanigan

   https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/how-the-gupta-brothers-hijacked-south-africa-corruption-bribes

4. What’s the name of a 30yo communist opinion ?

   Answer : an actual conservative opinion.

   • (I chose my pseudonym in the glorious era of 2016…If I could, I would change it)

5. The chews pick and place your puppet leaders long before you or they appear at a voting booth.. Its all kosher theatre, as ugly, demonic and sad as anything else on talmudvision. When you print the money, you call the shots.. Put the freemason muppet out there for the goyim to bicker over…while they rob you blind, fuck you in the ass and murder your kids.

   • I don’t know about the Saxon just yet, but it sure does sound like the Potato Kneegr0w is beginning to hate.

     BOO-YAH!!!!!

6. Zman,

   I think you are painting with too broad a brush. The purple haired freak working the register at your local Dollar General is a true believer, but Biden isn’t. He has no religion other than the church of Biden. I think that has always been the problem with organized religion. The leadership must be just as concerned with the organization as they are with the religion, but the followers are free to just be religious. This means the leadership will always be less religious than the flock.

   • DFCtomm: “The leadership must be just as concerned with the organization as they are with the religion…”

     Now work the omnipotent power of the Passive Aggressive Industrial Complex into your thinking, and you’re got a slam-bang PhD dissertation in Sociology rot thar.

     Sadly, the Passive Aggressive Industrial Complex is now so powerful in the academy that I doubt you’d be able to find a thesis advisor who would sign off on it.

     Although I have to admit that the professional psychology literature [the stuff which the plebes never encounter] is shockingly honest about many of these phenomena.

     If you could frame it as a multi-disciplinary work, you might ackshually be able to get it published.

7. Convincing grillers that he was one of them, cared about them, shared their values, was Dubya’s greatest political accomplishment. Say what you want about the left, and certainly this only happened because Dubya was an R, but at least they were able to see him for what he was. Conservatism was already dead at this point, here we were getting to the part where the dancing on its grave began, both by Dubya’s band of neocons, and by the left which was now ready to receive a major dose of the Mind Virus from Chicago Jesus in the form of “Change!” Which was needed to vanquish this obviously fake and corrupt conservatism which they could see the nature of clearly, even if the right was still in denial.

   In a world of grillers “conservatism” (never mind what that means) can rule forever but 20 years after Reagan’s amnesty it was no longer a world of grillers. Thus “conservatism” whatever it was, whatever it had been, whatever remained of it, had too much opposition to ever again be viable….. even if it were to reform itself into what it was supposed to be. The brand, by then, was poisoned. And justifiably so. Unfortunately, the Mind Virus, proceeding apace, came to define what is good as being the opposite of the good things conservatism claimed to (but in actual fact didn’t) stand for. Welcome to Clown World.

   So now we get to Chicago Jesus’ crusade against the one thing conservatism did manage to (somewhat) conserve: Gun rights. After the plandemic, with a straight face, he is touting Australia as a model. And this is seen as sensible. I miss the good old days when ex presidents faded away into obscurity.

   • Democrats Presidents since Carter have not faded away. If anything, they became more powerful (and more wealthy) out of office.

     Yes, the grillers were totally had by dubya.

   • “Dancing on the grave” is the best and most succinct description of our current political environment.

8. There was a thread where Ann Coulter made a joke about blacks not tipping, the left outrage mob ensued, and some guy posted how it was actually Church-going Christians who were the worst tippers, and blacks were just wonderful. He got about 30k likes.

   Now, it’s clear most people who liked it knew it wasn’t true, but since it hurt the perception their enemies, they were more than willing to pile on. If the tables were reversed and in some strange dimension blacks were better tippers, you know all of Con Inc would denounce their colleagues and say how terrible this sort of lying is instead of piling on.

   • This reminds me of when Conan O’Brien went to Haiti and posted a selfie to show how wrong Trump was for calling it a shithole

     • I remember that. I busted out laughing because you can see in the background the fence separating the resort from the rest of Haiti. It is clear that the vegetation on the outside is cropped as if by goats. This signal is most apparent from aerial or satellite imagery of the border boundary with the Dominican Republic: 2-legged African goats on one side and mestizos on the other side who understand perfectly well that it is retarded to destroy one’s own habitat.

       All this ‘data’ stuff passes completely over the heads of the retarded left. I wonder if creatures like O’Brien are goats inside their heads just like their worship objects, the signal obscured because enough normal whites remain to keep them from completely spinning out of control.

     • Haiti has the most valuable real estate on earth.
       After the 2010 earthquake the Clinton Foundation raise some $5 Billion for which they were able to build 6 houses.

   • ” it’s clear most people who liked it knew it wasn’t true”

     Doesn’t this fall under what Zedman was saying about not taking the left seriously?

9. Your remarks about “emergent behavior” a few shows back really stuck with me. Only the core of the Left need be True Believers, many on the fringes may indeed be opportunists. Lying opportunists, true, but not necessarily dedicated to The Cause. Case in point: A friend of mine is a political consultant who works mostly with Democratic candidates and issues. He’s definitely not a lunatic, but in the end that’s who pays his salary.

   • People will justify anything for a paycheck. It’s very disheartening. “Doctors,” whose motto is supposedly “do no harm,” will cut off the penis of a little boy for coin while other “doctors” will spend their life killing babies. The business class sold out their country for coin. The people who make fools of themselves on cable TV do so for coin. Money may or may not be the root of all evil, but you can certainly buy an awful lot of evil for it.

     • I think the here was an old slogan that went something like the “business of America is business”. Today it’s more like the business of America is killing and degeneracy.

       • And big business pushes the missiles and the butt plugs like a steroidal hybrid of David Frum and Dylan Mulvaney.

       • I might add “grifting” and “grafting” and make it The Four Scootermen of the Apocalypse.

     • True. And, alas, it seems to be the free marketers who are most in love with filthy lucre. Perhaps their ideology is just a fig leaf for their mindless greed.

       • Ostei Kozelskii: “Perhaps their ideology is just a fig leaf for their mindless greed.”

         Didn’t we do that just yesterday, with the discussion of Leo “EARLY LIFE” Strauss and Alyssa “EARLY LIFE” Rosenbaum?

       • The real value of “free markets” is in the fact that to some degree at least they reward the most productive.
         All the political alternatives reward those best at politics, they are rarely the most ethically sound.

   • Marx himself actually talks about this distorting power of money; how it can distort morality and distorts what is strong or noble. A worm with money can be a demi-god, while in a more natural state he’d be a worm.

     Money as a corrupt element is a tale as old as time. Selling out your family, your people, you soul, your God.

     But I get it; there is a reason for this. Money buys a lot. The amount of work, time, and drudgery that is required to have a decent home and life in the world is staggering. People naturally will sell-out when confronted with an opportunity to get rich vs the 9-to-5 for 30+ years.

     • Things I could never figure out. I agree with most of lefty’s premises, but her conclusions are usually insane.

       Righty has sound logic, but his premises are usually stupid.

       Good premises + sound logic = good conclusions. It isn’t that hard! It’s why I entertain conspiracism to a not-insignificant extent. Even if the average person really is that mixed up, you’re going to end up with a small number of people running things.

       In fact, that’s probably the state of affairs, and conspiracy is necessary to maintain the appearance of popular rule.

10. Not only did conservatism not conserve anything, it didn’t solve any problems either. Because according to the left, traditional societal norm conservation and/or problem solving is immoral – it’s not fair to consider blacks as different from Whites. It’s not fair that women can’t have abortions on demand. It’s not fair that fags aren’t allowed to marry. It’s not fair that a boy or girl who thinks they’re the opposite sex can’t become one. It’s not fair that anyone in the world can’t become American legally or not. Instead of saying tough F-ing s***, conservatives have no answers to the above other than gnashing their teeth and saying, ok, but this is the last one/time…

    • usNthem: Conservatives have no answers because they share the left’s basic moral imperatives. If we are all equal, and 50% + 1 = ‘the people’s will,’ then all else flows from that. There is no room for argument or discussion, let alone biological reality.

      Any man who cannot accept the ineluctable reality of biological differences (between the sexes, amongst the races, etc.) cannot be reasoned with nor trusted.

      • “Any man who cannot accept the ineluctable reality of biological differences (between the sexes, amongst the races, etc.) cannot be reasoned with nor trusted.”

        I got an email the other day, from a longtime friend, a democrat, and he mentioned doing something with his oldest son.

        I was kinda shocked, because I was not aware that he had had another boy out of wedlock.

        I was only aware that he had had a daughter and then a son.

        But after ten or fifteen minutes, the lightbulb suddenly lit up in muh glacially-slow mind, and I realized: His daughter [the older child] must be formally transitioning to male status.

        And he now describes her as being his “oldest son” [i.e. older than her younger brother].

        That realization was like getting smacked in the head [or whacked in the gut] with a baseball bat.

        It took my breath away.

11. I’m absolutely convinced that I grew up in a completely different world than the rest of you. Just for reference, in my world, the sky is blue, the grass green.

    “Conservatives” have always had a major emphasis on values. Falwell’s Moral Majority was not centered around marginal tax rates or Fed funds rates or the absurd homo economicus strawman. The debate about abortion was never about profit and loss. Nor gay, well, anything. 2A was never about whether it was more cost effective to have an armed citizenry. Internet censorship of porn was never based on evaluating someone’s business plan.

    Even where you are tangentially correct, tax cuts, you are more wrong than right. Yes, there were those who argued efficiency, but the primary argument that propelled the Contract With America was that it was your money, dammit, but government was a necessary evil, so government should steal as little as possible. Heck, that was Gore’s Reinventing Government schtick.

    Point being that somehow Conservatives got redefined away from morals and principles and traditionalism. And whatever the source, it certainly was not grassroots.

    • The moral conservatism movement of the 80s and 90s was undermined by the seemingly limitless prosperity which AINO enjoyed during that time, a historically exceptional economic state of affairs which assuredly we will never see again, but it lasted so long people thought it was normal. Why heed those old wet blankets when you could do the exact opposite of everything they said while watching your 401k make a moonshot

      • Jeffrey Zoar: Genuine conservatism was undermined long before the ’80s and the Moral Majority. Certain groups had been at work destroying the cultural and moral consensus of heritage America since the late 1800s, but the killing blow was the ‘globalist’ myths and consensus that emerged from the rubble of WWII.

        • A good case can be made that a major inflection point was WW I: by 1918 the old dynasties of Europe were gone, the USSR was brand-new, while over in the USA we had the shiny new Federal Reserve. A lot changed in 1914 or so, and I’d say not for the better.

          But yeah, add twenty years and you’ve got the Great Depression, FDR, gold confiscation, and eventually, unprecedented growth of Federal powers WW II.

          Even for the oldest of us, a lot looks “normal. It’s hard to believe that (for example) in your father’s/grandfather’s/great-grandfather’s time, you could legally buy a full auto machine gun nearly anywhere in the USA and take it home on the trolley. Not many years prior, you could have bought all the cocaine, morphine or similar drugs in nearly any apothecary in the land. Don’t get me wrong; the modern world has many benefits they didn’t have back then. But a lot has been taken away too.

12. Great post. As an example of how far conservatism has fallen, I as a former civnat/patriot/free-marketer/constitutionalist find myself sounding more and more like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. That is, if they really meant it, and weren’t just fake/gay grifters. At this point, I would be fine with:

    1. Cutting the military budget from its current level of $900 trillion down to say China’s at under $300 trillion, or Russia’s under $100 trillion. White men should sit back and let the trannies and minorities get blown up in shit-holes so the neocons can play global chess.

    2. Taxing the hell out of the rich and corporations, given that they are all on the Left. Yes, I know this is bad economics, but fuck it. How about while we’re at it, we break up all the monopolies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Oh, and reign in Big Pharma. You know, like liberals have been screaming about forever.

    3. Defunding the police in major cities? Knock yourself out. Throw in the CIA and FBI.

    4. Abortion? Fifty years of fighting to repeal Roe v Wade so blacks now have to drive a few hours to abort the future of their race? Not much more I can do about it.

    5. Bankrupt the country with unlimited spending? Whatever. There is no political representation for responsibility.

    At this point, I believe in my family, my neighbors and my local community to the extent it supports my people. The rest of America is just an economic zone with various tribes jockeying for advantage.

    • DLS: Bravo, Sir. Sincerely agree.

    • We certainly live in interesting times, do we not?

13. I don’t know whether “moist robots” is original, but it is being stolen. Spectacular turn of the phrase or use of it.

    That aside, it is mistake to discount the raw cowardice of conservatives. Not only do they want to engage on a level that is foolish, they are afraid not to do so. The brilliant line, now a cliche, that “conservatives didn’t even conserve a little girl’s right to use the bathroom without being molested by male perverts,” falls shorts. Conservatives originally didn’t preserve the rights of little white children not to be raped, assaulted and annoyed by blacks at schools…and then it got worse:

    They were too afraid EVEN TO DISCUSS little white children being raped, assaulted and annoyed by blacks at schools.

    Yes, conservatism is circling the drain in part because it thought politics were a debate, but it is going down for the last time due to pure cowardice with a healthy dose of corruption. Never has a lame ideology more richly deserved its death.

    • Democrats NEVER criticize their fringe element figures like Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson Lee. When someone on the right says anything even slightly controversial conservative “leaders” fall all over themselves to be the first at the microphone to “disavow” their colleague. Congressman Steve King of Iowa said that White people had a right to exist and his fellow Republicans stabbed him in the back.

      • What’s fringe about Maxine?

        • You’re right, the Left is so far out there that there really is no “fringe”.

          • There was a young woman named Inge,
            Who went on a binge with a dinge.
            I can’t breath a word
            Of what really occurred
            But her cunt has a chocolate fringe.

    • I think “moist robots” was originally from Scott Adams, who actually believes it.

    • > I don’t know whether “moist robots” is original, but it is being stolen. Spectacular turn of the phrase or use of it.

      I originally heard it from from a Scott Adams book. Not sure if he is the originator though.

14. Most of this dead accurate Z but must point out when your opponents actually ARE evil, insane child rapists you can at last simply recite facts , mind you with passion and venom;

    “ Conservatism lost to men in sundresses demanding to wave their genitals in the face of school children. They lost to people who think Hitler is hiding under their bed. They lost to childless middle-aged women drunk on Twitter…”. < THE FACTS

    The Time of Facts has come 🤣

15. Like other commentators, I admire Z-man’s post but wonder what the way out is. I’m beginning to think that a white ethnonationalist form of Islam might be it–there are already Black Muslims, so white not White Muslims? I know Islam has some significant downsides, but I don’t see much in the way of other solutions.

    • Polygamy, and by extension cousin marriage, are arguably worse for a society than rampant perversion.

      • Apparently you can have both under Islam. At least some of them have the reputation of pederasty. I don’t know if this is one of those hush-hust shameful secrets or if it’s just black propaganda spread by non-Muslims. I guess Allah will forgive much. Just be sure that your little sister is pure, or else you will have to get the boys together and stone her to death. Wouldn’t want to dishonor the family.

    • Organized Christianity in the West has been subverted and is definitely too weak currently to battle the evil that unleashed upon us.

    • There already are white Moslems. In fact, they have their own nation–Bosnia.

    • Islam is universalist just like Christianity is. Using Islam or Christianity as a vehicle to promote ethno-nationalism is an bad fit, and maybe heresy.

      If you want a white ethnostate, you’d need to leave major religions out of it, or at best turn one of them into a cult. Like Jehova’s Witnesses, but call it Jared Taylor’s Witnesses. Where Jared’s writings are grafted onto scripture. The Gospel of Jared. Something like that.

      The Mormons, come to think of it, could have been it. But they cucked in the late 1970s.

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17. “When you think people are moist robots, you stop believing that people can be evil, which is how evil triumphs.”

    “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
    -The Usual Suspects

18. “As America descends into tribal politics…”

    Perhaps we are seeing the beginning here in AZ. Kerri Lake’s case (improper election methodology) was again toss’d by the Court. Lake showed that 300k ballot signature verifications were done in *less* than three seconds each! Even showed that such verifications were illegally done by poll workers from home. With one worker averaging 1 second per verification—about as fast as one can hit the approve button and the next ballot appear on the screen. 🙁

    The Court’s reasoning was that AZ law does *not* state a rule for signature verification wrt time spent in the verification process. Only that the signature be “verified”. Yes, there are guidelines for matching signatures—but no time limits imposed, how can there be? Certified signature experts testified that it is not possible to verify a signature match in less than three seconds. These experts were *not* contested by the State! The fix was in. The judge maintained he has no choice but to dismiss the case, of course ignoring the “reasonable man” standard for judging verification efforts.

    This (Court subsequence) I predicted long ago. However, Lake has now announced a “ballot gathering” movement for the Rep’s in 2024. She has basically said, “…if that’s the way they play the game, we can play the same game, only better…”

    She is subtly calling for (or at least many will interpret it as such) as doing whatever it takes to win the next election—even if the rules are to be bent or ignored. As I’ve stated, the enemy sets the rules of engagement, not us. The only way to eliminate a corrupt system is to make it not worth while to engage in such corruption. In this case to offset the advantage of such corruption on both sides.

    Whether the Rep’s are up to it is an entirely different question. As noted, Conservatives have a bad habit of allowing their virtues to be used against them. The crazies they are up against have no scruples nor fear of law. It is also of great help in that the “high ground” of political election control is in the crazies’ hands.

    Fun times ahead.

    • I will be attending what may be the final meeting of an immigration restriction group of which I am treasurer. I have tried to convince the other members to manipulate political rules to advance the cause, write under pseudonyms when writing Letter to the Editors etc… and they all recoil in horror that I would suggest such underhanded stuff. Instead they insist on talking to politicians, testifying before legislative committees, putting up a booth at the Republican convention… I have fond regard for these folks but they are hopelessly lost in the past, and can’t let go. I hate to break their hearts, but I have to tell them they are wasting their time. A government that steals elections and summarily executes people who protest the theft, will not be changed by a handful of well-meaning boomers trying to work within the system. If we were to have any meaningful impact we would be crushed like vermin. The American Government hates us.

    • “Whether the Rep’s are up to it is an entirely different question.” Spoiler alert: they are not. And even if they were, it’s much harder to pull off in 100 counties with 10,000 voters each, than in one city with a million voters, a corrupt DA and a few cheating poll workers.

19. Mired in the 1980s sums it up. Like it or not, liberalizing the economy, tackling crime (which had greatly increased thanks to the 1960s) and standing up to and defeating the Soviet Union were all good ideas. Thereafter….nothing. Conservatives’ rejection of Buchanan in 1992 demonstrates they were done.

    By then, immigration was a problem (yes, I know, it was Reagan who granted amnesty); the now liberated corporations began outsourcing; and then there was political correctness. Conservatives’ failure to actually go to war against the last in the manner they had against communism is why many of us use pseudonyms: conservatives failed to make free speech a civil rights issue (something you need to do, if you want to win an argument based on fact and logic as the Z Man says conservatives wanted to do).

    So here we are. The question is, what comes next?

    • Separation, nullification, secession, and war.

      Not necessarily in that order, as the neocon fanatics may try war first, as a way of avoiding the other three.

      • Agreed but thats only if we are incredibly lucky. We would need a great leader to arise to lead us to war and then have to actually win that war. The prize for second place is death and slavery. I don’t see that happening. The White race outside of Russia is finished.

      • I sometimes ask liberals why they wouldn’t want us to simply go our separate ways. Wouldn’t you want to be free of the deplorable Nazis you are forced to share a country with? They look at me like I have two heads. They just can’t quit us. They know their lives would have no meaning without us. Like the Joker who needs Batman. They want to watch the world burn, but they need us to keep putting out their fires.

        • Not just putting out the fires, but preventing them in the first place. Someone has to maintain the infrastructure that gives them clean water, light, heat and air conditioning. The current state of South Africa demonstrates this is not something their pets can do…

          • This is more “the left are actually driven by material comfort / money / power” thinking

        • In my experience the average libtard thought process is more along the lines that human society would approach utopia if evil people (right wingers) weren’t mucking it up throughout history, doin’ the slavery and gay-bashing etc. Rightwingers are almost by definition the cause of all problems.

          Right Wingers aren’t allowed to escape because they’d just be doing evil elsewhere, and if they prospered it would be due to exploitation or theft from the have-nots. In which case they deserve severe punishment again anyway.

      • The nullification has begun in small ways. In open defiance of Federal law, marijuana has been partly or fully legalized in many States. The Unviersity of California reportedly is going to hire illegal aliens in violation of existing (I assume) Federal laws. Although these two examples are traditional Liberal/Blue agenda, I for one champion any move to strengthen States’ rights, although that phrase hasn’t (yet?) regained the connotation it had oh, say in the mid-20th century 😀

        On a less happy note, I suspect any Red/Conservative “fuck you” to the Feds will not be received with the same acquiescence apparently shown to potheads or wetbacks employed in government office.

20. The cons NEVER played hardball with the libs. Maybe they were never supposed to, I don’t know.

    Reagan would say things like, “it’s not that our liberal friends are dumb, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” This was a light critique of “fellow Americans” who hold the same noble ends, but just believe in different means. This was NOT the case. The libs were enemies and they ALWAYS spoke of the right as the enemy in not unclear terms. They didn’t call us their misinformed friends, nor did they care if a rising tide would lift all ships. They wanted their ships up and ours way, way down and drowning. They wanted us dead and gone; as we can see plainly today. And even today, cons want to give a tearful kiss on the cheek to the left who batters them.

    The cons were all controlled opposition, autists who were convinced charts and data would convince people, and well-meaning cowards who thought America could stagger on successfully without ever confronting the loudly declared enemies within. Perhaps it was impossible to confront. The media was controlled and the interests of global capitalism line up with the libs.

    “the libertarian idea that people are motivated by rational self-interest.”

    This idea shows how autistic libertarians are. Grown-ups understand that at base people are motivated by malevolence, greed, violence, sex and gain at the cost of others. This is what a proper society would control and direct into productive means. That, unfortunately, stopped happening a while ago now because of “individualism.”

    “Politics is always about friends and enemies and those are defined on moral terms.” Sing it!

    “Politics is so nasty and feral because the opponents see one another in moral terms.”

    The antecedent to even the so-called morality, is just the brute fact of POWER. Someone’s gotta have it and take it; there is no “teacher” to parcel it out fairly for all the children.. Conservatives have always been scared of this fact and just live a made-up a fantasy that they are noble cause they just want to problem-solve and grill.

    “The reason that the demand for Nazis exceeds the historic global supply is the Left always needs villains.”

    This to me is a Rosetta stone of history. Since RIGHT NOW with my OWN EYES I see that a Nazi would be some normal guy who meekly says the border should be controlled and that he’s not sure if toddlers should be sexually mutilated. Therefore, how can I possibly believe that the actual Nazis were these unreasoning monsters who gassed everybody, fed them to bears and eagles, and wanted to conquer the world so they could make more lampshades out of people. They’ll accuse you of genocide while you’re in your backyard grilling!

21. Zman is an extremely smart guy and therefore has a tendency to over-philosophize these matters. He also remains too wedded to the irrelevant dichotomy of Democrats/Republicans (a distinction without a difference, if ever there was one).

    Conservatives failed because they operated by a defining value that guaranteed their failure. Conservatives adopted the same fundamental ethos that animates progressives: (something I call) the Convenience-First orientation. This is the planted axiom that that which produces the greatest benefit/comfort/convenience at the lowest effort/cost is automatically superior to all other potential alternatives. Regardless of all the principles and values conservatives delusionally claimed to hold dear, they consistently prized convenience above all else — making them no different than progressives. Turns out that Convenience-First favors ever greater progressivism in perpetuity. The Trans-mania we see today is simply one of its most recent manifestations: it’s simply more convenient for folks if they can identify as whatever they please, irrespective of any pesky biological realities. And it will be inconvenient for you to disagree with such zirs and zeds, as that causes unneeded friction. Convenience-First inevitably sets the lowest common denominator (in both intelligence and sanity) as the benchmark to which all of society must defer.

    • “Convenience-First orientation”

      Great point! I never thought of it from a convenience perspective.

    • There’s nothing efficient or convenient about people having ambiguous genders or bespoke pro-nouns, and especially then needing to tip-toe around establishing what they are and using them correctly in a sentence. Your example works against your premise.

      This is a silly theory.

22. This is a marvelous essay. In delineating the decline of conservatism, however, I would note a couple of additional points. First, during the Cold War, conservatives were–with a certain amount of justification–fixated upon defeating global communism. This monomania, alas, allowed a viper to batten right under their feet. This serpent, the postmodern New Left, was and is nothing like the Marxist Left, but was and is even more lethal and malicious, and it conquered all of America’s institutions while conservatives were off in Vietnam and El Salvador slaying commie dragons. The conservatives rid the nation of remote demons while allowing the devil himself to possess it from within.

    Second, after winning the Cold War, conservatives lost their moral raison d’etre. They were reduced to waging bloodless battles over tax policy, deficits and guns, but were entirely unequipped to wage war upon the Left’s cultural deformations and maledictions. Because conservatives ignored the New Left three decades, they were incapable of confronting it. And, in a state of hopeless perplexity, conservatives made a few irritable gestures before accepting, without exception, every abomination the Left put in place.

    So, here we are. The Left is the unquestioned hyper-power, and conservatives are a pointless appendix. This is how we’ve found ourselves languishing in Insane Clown World.

    • The Conservatives did a Faustian bargain with the Trotskyite devil – the Neocons. When the Cold War was over, much of the apparatus of domestic tyranny had been put in place. Chalmers Johnson documented this very well in his trilogy. (Color Revolution; Phony Patriotism; Coordinated inter-Anglo spying on the populace; MIC; Accepting the Keynesian premise of spending equals economic growth …; News Media taken over by CIA and turned into PsyOp against the American nation.)

      This cabal openly admitted the Cold War wasn’t fought to defeat communism, but to create an empire and make themselves rich. Mourning the loss of their purpose, they authored the PNAC document, that prayed for a new Peal Harbor. Magically, they got that event. They formally turned domestic America into a surveillance and police state. The biggest test of if Americans were sheep or lions was the transformation of our airports into eradicators of the Bill of Rights.

      They learned that if you give Americans a shopping mall after the security line, they’ll gladly perform useless humiliation rituals to get on an airplane to fly around and send each other pictures of food taken in the deracinated nowhere-villes of no longer distinct, globohomo capitals and tropical destinations. The Republicans erected that domestic tyranny apparatus and then handed it to whoever is really behind Obama, and let his rabble of blood libelists in on the war on The American Nation.

      It is the NeoCons who are a cabal of rats that jump from ship to ship. For decades they sailed on La Conservatoriana. When they had eaten it to the bone and the populists came up from below, they jumped over to La Progressiva and they seem to now be set up for decades of total control where they let their hair down, take off the mask and get their parade of buffoons to Finish The Job.

      We have to pray that Putin’s defending the GAE partitioning of Russia has succeeded – not for love of him or Russia, but because that domino would allow the GAE Ponzi-conomy to thrive for decades. Putin’s defense of his border as color revolution staging ground may be the accelerant that destabilizes the GAE’s Clown Imperium so that our posterity has a shot at a better future.

    • I’ll admit that I did not see the Left’s takeover of the Fortune 500 coming. I subscribed to the old bromide that business is business and you don’t mix politics and religion with business. Each company that they now control has an annual budget that exceeds the GDP of the majority of the 195 countries on the planet. That is an awful lot of power at their disposal and they have not been reticent to use it.

      • This gets back to the “presumption of abundance” that I keep going on about. Things were so good, for so long, it came to be seen as normal for it to be that way, and unimaginable for it to be any other way. So management was free to adopt bad business practices in the name of Changing The World because what could it hurt? The decline generally happens too slowly for the error to be self diagnosed.

    • ‘[Conservatives] were reduced to waging bloodless battles over tax policy, deficits and guns, but were entirely unequipped to wage war upon the Left’s cultural deformations and maledictions.’

      Conservatives — who are mostly men — cannot confront much less overthrow the Prog Politburo largely because of a simple reason that nobody, including the OP, mentioned.

      Progressivism and the Modern Left are composed largely of women, and Anglosphere men (including Christians and ‘conservatives’) are submissive to women. I need only dwell in America and observe around me the behavior of married couples, court and office environments, classrooms . . . and the obvious truth is plain.

      America’s enemy within is the collective power, political and otherwise, of females. You can’t defeat that with politics, only with the religion of the Father. U.S. men will war against the Germans, Japs, Koreans, Afghanis and whatnot, but will not war against their own mothers, wives, daughters and sisters.

      However, as I have witnessed the past four decades, their mothers, wives, daughters and sisters will joyfully and effectively make war against them. Conservatism is Cuckservatism, without strong masculine foundations and leaders. Conservatism is submissive to the feminine imperative, and the female imperative IS the Left. That’s Cuckservatives always lose.

      • This is an enormous part of it right here. Those childless middle-aged women drunk on cheap wine, complaining about men on Twitter, are legion. They exist in very large number, much larger than any more than a few on any side of the divide care to look at. The members of this voter demographic get substantial extra credit if they maintain a herd of cats, the larger the better of course. Also, if the cheap wine is box wine, that’s a little more extra credit. With a big enough cat herd and enough boxes of wine, a woman not childless and/or middle-aged may be accepted in to the coven. I’m not certain about the exact rules on this. Trannies? No idea …

      • If anyone needs proof of women’s dominance, and man’s submission, I invite them to declare in mixed company: “Happy husband happy life” and watch the reactions. Of course no one will bat an eye at the more common reverse of this statement.

      • I don’t suggest anybody try Jeffry Zoar’s “happy husband happy life” experiment; the odds of such a simple statement actually ruining your life, counterintuitive/impossible as that seems at first glance, are actually substantial. Depending on the crowd you’re in, results can include getting canceled/unpersoned (Clown World shitlib version of run out on a rail), or perhaps criminally convicted (no evidence at all required) on some false accusation (Clown World shitlib version of hung from an oak tree). No, it’s best to simply let go of the false religion beliefs that have been drummed into us since birth, take off the blinkers and blinders, and then simply look and listen. Then you will perceive things, directly on your own, as they actually are, as Neo was able to do in the Matrix movie when he took the red pill (great metaphoric scene that was). No need to risk getting canceled, railroaded, etc.

        • Right.

          The fact that a man would be gang-crushed merely for making a non-feminist statement in company in America illustrates exactly who has the power and who rules.

          The Conservatives do not want to talk about this, much less reform it.

23. Today’s posting is jam-packed with hard truths, but ultimately avoids addressing the elephant in the room. Which is . . . what do we do about it? Find better magic words in service to yet another failed persuasion campaign. Or the old standby of vote harder, we’ll get em next time boys! Or the ultimate cop-out of “the Constitution will save us sometime in the future.” This last canard is the only thing that can rile a ConInc warrior to tangibly fight. Whenever anyone suggests actually fighting back against the madness of the Left, Dan Bongino will come to your house and beat you with his civility stick.

    Perhaps we should take heed of the sacrifice of the folks on Flight 93. Fanatics armed with box cutters slaughter an innocent flight attendant and force their way onto the flight deck, killing the pilots and seizing control of the plane. Passengers soon learn what is about to take place; that they are now riding in a suicide missile. Do they attempt to “persuade” the maniacs to desist – no, they do not. Do they rally behind a “vote-harder” mantra and attempt to vote their way out of the coming disaster – no, they do not. Do they heed calls for “civility at any cost” – no, they do not. What did they do? They gathered behind a beverage cart and then someone shouted “let’s roll.” And they did roll, and gave it their all so that others might live.

    And now a new breed of maniacs has seized control of the ship of state. And they are Hell-bent upon escalating the war in Ukraine into a nuclear exchange with Russia at any and all costs. Methinks it may soon become time to once again get behind the beverage cart.

    • I have come to question the let’s roll story. Too many lies, since then.

24. What took me a long to figure out was that conservatives – both politicians and voters – believed in the same morality as liberals.

    They believe in the blank slate and the sanctity of minorities. Once you accept that, you have no moral authority to challenge anything coming from the Left. Crime, immigration, trannies, you name it. You have to accept the Left’s view on everything.

    Black crime, has to be white people’s fault. Immigration, we’re all the same, so why keep someone out. Gay marriage, we’re all the same, how can you deny rights to some and not others.

    Related, conservatives failed because they couldn’t answer the simple but most important question of all: Who are your people?

    Ask a conservative who are his or her people, and he’ll answer proudly “Americans.” The fact that anyone can become an American never fazes him. The fact that blacks, Mexicans, Indians, etc., consider themselves first and foremost, black, Mexican, Indian, etc., and a distant second American, doesn’t faze him.

    When you have no people, you have nothing. You have no moral core.

    • “Black crime, has to be white people’s fault”

      Ain’t that the truth. Progressives blame slavery Mr Crow, conservatives blame the welfare state. Two sides of the “blame-whitey” coin.

      Yes, “conservatives” are low tax or warmongering progressives at heart. I just posted about that here.

      • Liberals blame a racist system for the ills of society. Conservatives blame culture and incentives.

        The real difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals can answer the question “Who are your people” whereas conservatives can’t. (Sure, they’ll say “American,” but that means nothing and even they can’t say what it means anymore.)

        Conservatives are so utterly worthless.

        • How would liberals identify “their people?” Wouldn’t the more generous of them say “Americans” while the rest would identify as one tribe or another and perhaps show some real or contrived concern for some other tribe?

          I’m reminded of an old girlfriend who said she was a “world citizen”.

    • With Mexican mass immigration, conservatives have always liked to proclaim that the newcomers are “natural conservatives.” Something about being Catholic and loving their family or whatever.

      • They say that because the alternative is too terrifying for them to contemplate. It’s escapism, just as everything about conservatism is escapism.

        • Yep, the R word. (gasp!)

      • “Something about being Catholic and loving their family or whatever.” This was always so stupid it is amazing anyone believed it. Politician A offers you free stuff, and Politician B says he shares your religion. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would say, “How does sharing a religion help me? Give me the free stuff.”

25. While all this is true, “Conservatives” believe in all of the moral principles of the “left.” The “Conservative Movement” is made up of low-tax progressives and war mongering progressives. Their alleged opposition to abortion is being exposed right now as a larp, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. They are feminists at heart and believe in baby killing. They believe in equality. I’m convinced most of them have a statue of MLK in their basement they pray to every day.

    To get into Conservative, Inc, you have to attend university and take the most progressive courses. The most common being law and communications. These fields are as bad as women’s studies or African American studies in their progressivism. Conservatism abandoning the university and K-12 was their worst and most impactful mistake of the last 80 years. Education along with the media are the factories of progressivism.

    • Yep, made the same point.

      At least liberals show a loyalty to their own tribes. Conservatives are liberals with no loyalty to their own people, and thus are far, far worse.

    • Re: abortion…

      This is where us dissidents need to agree and amplify, driving it to its ridiculous conclusion, which could also be advantageous for our people.

      I used to be staunchly pro-life. I regularly attend Catholic mass. I find the concept of abortion abhorrent.

      But, at this point I don’t care if my enemies want to murder their progeny. We’re playing for keeps now. Frankly, I’d encourage my enemies to have as many abortions as possible and prune their family trees down to the stump. AWFLs, non-whites, juice, do your civic duty and abort! abort! abort! for our democracy. People who get abortions are ghouls and irredeemable anyways, and I want their genes removed from the pool. My sons and my people will then inherit the future.

      Our enemies continually talked about how the overturning of Roe v. Wade will limit abortion access to minorities. Agree with them! There should be as much abortion access, if not coercion, as possible. I’d even pay increased taxes to fund universal abortion coercion for minorities.

      Agree and amplify.

      • It’s not about the pros and cons of abortion and which demographic is harmed or helped.

        My point was to simply point out that all the kvetching about abortion was fake and gay. They strongly opposed abortion because it was an issue they believed they couldn’t win. As long as unrestricted abortion remained the status quo, it was “safe” for them to oppose it. That made it easy for them to take a strong moral stance and endlessly fund raise and made a great wedge issue to get conservatives to the polls.

        But it was all a grift. They never actually opposed abortion, they supported it.

        Republican politicians LOVE being the powerless opposition. Complaining and fundraising to oppose “settled law” is the perfect position for the cuckold to be in. He can posture and crow about the evils of abortion while doing absolutely nothing to solve it.

      • I agree; abortion in and of itself is prima facie monstrous and satanic. I think it should only be legal in cases of rape and if the the baby has severe handicaps. But we shouldn’t kid ourselves about what it IS; it is the killing of a human life; not a fetus; not a clump of cells.

        Being pro-life only works in a community of decent upstanding people. People who want to build families, take care of their kids, value life, and don’t treat sex like some amusement park free for all.

        Once the pro-lifers start justifying their position so more R-selected monsters can have more spawn to harass and steal from us. . .I say fuggedaboutit.

        • In debates, I concede the rape/incest point rhetorically, and then ask if we can then agree that 98% of abortions should be illegal. It wins the argument, but as a practical matter you could never allow this exception since it would negate all restrictions. What proof would Planned Parenthood ask for that you were raped? A police report? A rape kit? What would be the objection to: “I was drugged and raped at a party three months ago, didn’t report it and can’t identify my assailant.”

          • Good point; I was thinking of an actual violent rape that happened.

          • That’s what the morning after pill is for. Any woman who is raped who could get pregnant could take an abortion pill. As it is, the hospitals offer women one of these pills if they are reporting a rape. I seriously doubt there are 100 cases of abortions because of incest.

            As you point out, if you make the exceptions, they negate the rule. But it is still a good way to sidestep the issue in debate or discussions with friends/family.

            This is the problem with leftists. You give an inch, they take a mile. The minute you stop “oppressing” gays, you get gay pride parades and demands to celebrate them. Our motto should be “TAKE BACK A MILE!”

          • DLS makes a very good point here. This is where the “childless middle-aged women drunk on cheap wine, complaining about men on Twitter” voting bloc – a very large and powerful one — comes in for the brazillionth time. Thanks to this voting block’s fastidious zeal over the past 55+ years, false accusations are now the norm, large enough in number to amount to an infestation. Worse, not only do the tradcuck, cuckservative Repulicucks go along with this, they endorse and sign on to believing and acting on each false accusation with verve and vigor, without any investigation or questions required (in fact this would be istismphobe). Because this is the actual reality we are enmeshed in, the rape/incest exception (or anything similar) would only result in increased false accusations, which because all would be believed with religious fervor, would result in the actual prevalence of actually-performed abortions … remaining exactly the same as it is now.

          • I threw in incest, but that additional inclusion by the Left is utterly sensationalistic. When has a women ever gotten pregnant by incest when it wasn’t rape? And the few times it wasn’t rape would be consensual, in which case it is just a regular abortion. I really hate the Left.

26. Conservatism was pointless after the last Reagan tax cuts in 86 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 89. Conservatives couldn’t even reverse Roe v. Wade until last year, when it was too late. And they refused to control the borders. The “movement’s” only function became purging Sobran, Buchanan, Francis, et al.

    • The PragerU coaster set (only $29.95!), of coasters emblazoned with the faces of famous “conservatives,” doesn’t feature anyone more recent than Reagan. Telling.

      It’s Reagan, Thatcher, Lincoln, and Prager himself, if you were wondering. You can put them under your PragerU coffee cup, only $24.95!

      • these talk radio guys always do well for themselves, that’s for sure. World keeps getting worse while they blather on about civ-nattery, but at least Prager can sell his crap.

      • When Prager came out advocating pornography, there was a funny Gab meme with a picture of him and a fake quote saying that porn didn’t hurt any of his three marriages.

        • Citation for Prager promoting pornography. After listening to him for years, I’ve never heard a word supporting this.

          • The filters won’t let me post links. Just Google “Prager on pornography.”

      • Dennis Prager is a top-level poster child cuckservative, a veritable king of the tradcucks! A few years back, PragerU uploaded a video by a “guest creator” hard selling marriage for the present day and age, and prodding young men to prioritize getting married ASAP. To do this, he utilized the father figure from the Leave It to Beaver show as his example to be emulated, pushing this as his main theme, over and over again, throughout the entire video. Not only is “example” somebody who never existed (an entirely fictional character), it is a fictional character from 60+ years ago!!

        No doubt Prager did this, utilizing a “guest content creator” selling a fictional character from 60+ years ago, because with all his own past divorces he can’t use himself as an example and make his own video speaking from first person experience, now can he? It’s amazing that even with his own personal life experiences, Dennis Prager is unable to perceive how often it is the case that men won’t get married simply because women won’t stay married (and the horrible state-sanctioned, jackboot enforced consequences of it).

        Part of me is so stunned by this level of blinkered denial and cognitive dissonance that I can’t even believe it. Of, then I remember: “Step right up and getcher’ PragerU coffee cup, for only $24.95!! Coaster sets are only $29.95!! ……

        • That one has been married more than once is not necessarily a disconnect wrt marriage. Your implicit implication is that Prager is a hypocrite. Marriage breakdown is a problem in this country as it leads to the dissolution of the family unit—the most basic structure of society. Whether Prager represents a good example of a marriage is entirely aside from this fact, nor have I ever heard him infer he is a good example in this regard.

    • Conservatives were worthless long before Reagan. Reagan himself was pretty worthless too. Reagan was a dedicated leftist. He signed off on amnesty. He blew up the budget. He failed to deal with social security. His failure to deal with SS is one the main drivers of the nonstop immigration into the US today. Though I do grant that Reagan is not the cause of the SS problem. It’s been a bipartisan effort.

      Reagan gets credit he doesn’t deserve for the collapse of the Soviets. It was going to collapse with or without Reagan and his 20 Dollar nails and bolts. He did nothing to stop the purge of the GOP of anyone with sense.

      He gets credit he doesn’t deserve for inflation. It was a Carter appointee (Volcker) who slowed the inflation. Reagan appointed probably the worst fed chairman of all time, Alan Greenspan.

      All of the worst people love Reagan. He is a hero of the neocons.

      One of Reagan’s 1980 promises was to end the newly created Department of Education. He failed to kill a brand new and very evil bureaucracy.

      Reagan had some good things to say about the role of government. Of course, he didn’t follow these things, he just said them. The 80s was largely a good economic time in the US and he gets a lot of credit for that. Once again, it’s credit he doesn’t deserve. The hollowing out of our industry began in force under Reagan.

      • Reagan was the best that was possible. He didn’t have the power to end the bureaucracies or fix SS; the president simply does NOT really run things. His amnesty was shameful and I’d have preferred the USSR was still here then that happened.

        I disagree that the USSR was just simply going to fall by itself; there was a MAJOR change in policy under Reagan toward the Soviets. I also think Reagan does deserve credit for the economic boom; but your point is well-taken that the hollowing-out had all ready begun.

        But in hindsight, it’s all pretty disappointing. Especially when you do a deeper dive and learn that Reagan was controlled by Lew Wasserman and MCA. But I give the Gipper points on making Americans optimistic again and surviving a CIA hit job. If the CIA wanted him dead, he must have done something right.

        • Carter created it, Reagan could have ended it.

          A lot of the boom of the 80s had to do with integrated circuits and computers. There was also the financialization of the economy which largely started under Reagan.

          Maybe it would have taken longer, but I think the SU would have collapsed on its own without Reagan. But like you said, knowing what happened, it might have been better for us had it not collapsed.

          I agree that he brought optimism to the country when just a few years before Carter delivered his “malaise” speech. The Boomers were still young and energetic, but leaving their adolescence behind them. For that, I suppose he does deserve some credit. But I think, in the main, he was not especially remarkable.

      • Ronnie Raygun also pushed through No Fault Divorce. Otherwise known in the court system as Men’s Fault Divorce.

        A Hollywood Leftie. Righties are so desperate they pretend he was a conservative hero.

        • This. Right here.

          Foundational architect of “our” present family law/divorce system and midwife to all the feminazi extreme leftist/Maoist features that seamlessly plug right in to it (a design feature from the start), now in place in all 50 states and pretty much all (formerly) Western nations (now provincial territories of the Globohomo Empire).

          Zman has, perceptively and correctly, pointed out Ronnie Raygun as the first carny president. Yes, her certainly was. Eff Ronnie “the Clown” Raygun. Eff him straight to hell.

          • Yessir.

            Nancy had tremendous influence with Ronnie. He called her ‘Mother’ all the time. [cringe]

            Ronald hung tough after he’d been shot and I admired that about him, showed some character and manliness. But like the vast majority of modern conservative and Christian men, Ronald was a cuck and a simp when it came to females. Stoopid Romanticist and ‘chivalrous’ nonsense still embraced this very day in the West. His ‘poor poor women’ policies led to disaster. Sigh.

27. Speaking of liars and grifters who will say anything and do something completely different, I stumbled upon this last night.

    https://www.seeker.com/videos/space-innovation/spacex-is-about-to-make-history-again-heres-how

    Look at the course of study that the, “Dr.”, pursued. Elon’s JEDIs include the first woman with a prosthetic in space.

    A fellow space company, Relativity, lauds its diversity on its website and calls out in a great search for, “Hyphenated Human Beings.”

    Could you imagine the American Government’s calls for pioneers looking for indigents to cross the continent or build the railroad, or call people with Phd’s in “education”, Dr? Well, here in the next great frontier, that is what they are doing. Notice this fits in with today’s theme, because it was the Republicans who always touted, “privatization”, as the means to maximize competence and minimize waste.

    Every single place a person looks in this drek to find valor, beauty, excellence, one has to avert his eyes. It crushes the soul.

    I warned people about Elon and his SpaceX diversity harpy.

    • Maybe he’s really into that stuff, but any space-company is almost wholly dependent on the regime permission for everything they do. You see the same thing with defense contractors and sub-sub-contractors: only those who are least pretending to be of the one true faith will be allowed in the temple.

      • Musk and the Feds are mutually dependent. If they want their big space budgets, but no longer have the brain power to run a space program, they need him as much as he needs them.

28. Conservatism failed because they were only allowed to talk about things that didn’t ultimately matter and didn’t threaten the rulers especially a certain malicious tribe.

    They could make the conservative case for war. The rulers like that.

    They could make the conservative case for reducing the role of government as long as they steadfastly didn’t reduce it.

    They could talc about crime as long as they didn’t mention race.

    They could make the conservative case for squashing free speech against holocaust denial.

    They could complain about foreign aid as long as they didn’t mention aid to Israel.

    • By giving or withholding funding, donors select the GOP candidates that the country ever even hears about. We never hear about politicians who don’t agree with the donors, because those politicians don’t get funded.

      If the donors of both parties agree on a particular issue, say, massive immigration, then there is no possibility of a candidate who opposes massive immigration to get the necessary funding to even become known to the country.

      • You are right that the donors select the allowable topics for the actors to address.

        There is also a moral system that prevents conservative candidates from addressing important issues. Everyone goes to the same type of country clubs, lives in the same neighborhoods and their kids go to same schools. Conservative media sites are usually owned or heavily funded by the same tribe as the left’s propaganda arm.

        It just wouldn’t do to say things that won’t play well there.

29. The left is ruled by religious zeal, but you sell that short at your own peril. Most of what we think of as science is an outgrowth of what’s now commonly derided as pseudoscience, but should more accurately be called protoscience. We only found out how to distill phosphorus because some alchemist kept peeing in a barrel in the hope of distilling the philosopher’s stone from it. Astronomers only had such thorough star charts to work with because astrologers before them had kept such meticulous records to predict good and bad omens for the kingdoms.

    Where the left makes a rational mistake but a strategic masterstroke, is in deliberately going from the scientific and rational back into the superstitious. Yes, despite their vaunting of “the science” and “progress,” and “the future,” they very smartly hit the deep and atavistic fear buttons housed in the limbic systems of their foot soldiers. That crazy commercial where the F-150 with the Confederate Flag is driving around, heat-seeking for kids in hijabs or Mexicans, earns ridicule from Mark Dice on YouTube, but the people watching (and voting and “polar bear hunting”) believe this stuff. Biden’s splenetic blather about white supremacists at Howard is a blood libel that stirs the innermost fears and desires of our enemies, dehumanizing us in their sight, making whites “Gooks” “Huns,” and the ultimate Other.

    Watch someone like Ocasio Cortez when describing white supremacy. Her eyes get wide, filled with wonder, and she gets a huge smile on her face, like an innocent kid crafting an answer to the question “Where do babies come from,” or a chieftain explaining to other cave-dwellers where the stars go to sleep when the sun comes up. Their power is in their tapping of that primitive, pre-rational wellspring, and crafting narrative from it. It’s very dangerous but very effective stuff. White people haven’t gone anywhere near that particular fount since the early 1930s.

    • That is a tremendous and unique insight, JJ. Well done.

    • Great comment

      We drive our enemies mad by simply existing. And sometimes we dont even exist but they are mad with just with the idea of us.

      And i kind of support them forcing us to be the “other”. I want to be other from the giant mass of diversity. Let them mix with themselves and worship satan but keep me out of it.

30. Today conservatives look nearly as ridiculous to me as those on the left. The political class of so called conservatives is obviously just in the game for money.

    We have the Governor of Idaho for example. He took the fed money for all of the covid nonsense, long after it was obviously nonsense. Idaho still runs ads for the vax, presumably the fed gov pays for this to be done.

    During his recent campaign in which he was reelected, he refused to debate his challengers. He stated that he did not need to debate because: ” The actions of his administration were unassailable.” The actions of his administration were indefensible not unassailable but the idiots here voted him in again.

    Voting makes no sense and has not for some time. I read a good comment somewhere a while ago. ” Democrats use money to get power. Republicans use power to get money.”

    • “ He stated that he did not need to debate because: ” The actions of his administration were unassailable.” The actions of his administration were indefensible not unassailable but the idiots here voted him in again.”

      I can’t judge because I’m not from Idaho, but we had the same situation here. A Dem gubernatorial candidate who did not debate and did not give interviews—and that for an open seat! She was also the Director of State elections and refused to resign upon running for the governorship. In short, she ran/oversaw the propriety of her *own* election!

      Could it be however, that perhaps (?) you were the victim of the same “fortified” election process as we were?

      • I don’t think it was fortified here so much as people here just vote for the incumbent R. There were other options. One being Ammon Bundy. He had a little too much baggage and gave the conservative grand mothers the jitters.

        So, they reelected a crook.

31. Well, the core reason that conservatism fails, imo, is that it accepts the morality of the left; once you do that all you can do is drag your feet and push back timidly on specifics.

    But the right wing populists are unfortunately not much better. The European blogger Kynosarges had a succinct summary of their problem back in a 2019 post, which he believes has six major deficiencies:

    “Right-wing populists have no awareness of the depth of the [societal] problem and the necessity of a massive social transformation.

    Right-wing populists consider metapolitics irrelevant. They view our plight as strictly a matter of state policy, therefore solvable by the legislative and executive branches (which is understandable given point 1).

    Right-wing populists do not command parliamentary majorities or sole governments – neither in the past nor in the present, nor likely in the future. They are always in opposition or dependent on coalition partners who are not right-wing populists.

    The institutional corset of late liberalism narrows the factual scope for political action to such a degree that profound changes are impossible.

    Right-wing populists offer no grand designs for solutions because they lack a positive alternative framework beyond “liberalism without foreigners” (which is closely linked to points 1 and 2).

    Right-wing populists are objectively too slow even where they bring about changes. A critical comparison between the development of right-wing populism and demographics during recent decades clearly shows that this approach is impossible solely due to lack of time (ignoring points 1–5)…”

    Because of these issues, according to Kynosarges,

    “
[Right wing populists] have no concept of how to actively solve the problems of late modernity or liberalism. They offer no counter-culture that goes beyond reactionary ideas. They become almost apolitical when they merely retreat into their nation-state bunkers (typical for Poland or Slovakia). They lack a dynamic counter-ideal, and they are not at all equipped to propagate such an ideal to the furthest corners of the West (and beyond), as the chief enemy is (still) capable of doing.

The equation of our identity with the liberal state (e.g. the Federal Republic of Germany as the land of the Germans) inevitably leads to disappointments and at best to the realization that this state neither defends nor recognizes our identity, sometimes even destroys it. No Western constitution has a decidedly identitarian foundation, nor is there any trend in that direction. Anyway such a foundation would be incompatible with the self-concept of liberalism (universalism, egalitarianism, individualism) – the left is correct on that point! But right-wing populists believe that liberalism would only need a “right-wing” orientation to solve the problem, thanks to insufficient analysis….

Modernity can only be overcome with the experiences of modernity, not by an utterly impossible return to an earlier or pre-modern era. The profound change that is now necessary is not genuinely political but belongs to the cultural, metapolitical sphere. Such a counter-enlightenment or counter-culture requires – in contrast to the liberalist eclecticism of right-wing populists – a spiritual preparation for a new European myth that binds us to our oldest past and reconciles us with our future. Nothing less than such an attempt at European rebirth is our task and the most promising exit from political modernity.”

    From: https://news.kynosarges.org/full-speed-into-the-void/

32. Perhaps off topic, but local news (to Z man):

    https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/maryland-dad-beaten-to-death-after-group-attacks-him-over-middle-school-fight/

    Now, fights at an urban middle school aren’t that unusual. But when 5 thugs come to the kid’s home and beat Dad to death, I’d say a line has been crossed.

    Curiously, I could find no mention of the incident at the Baltimore Sun’s site, including Anne Arundel, the country where the incident(s) occurred on Friday 05/19.

    I stand corrected. By searching the surname of the victim, I find this:

    https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/anne-arundel/ac-cn-homicide-brooklyn-investigation-20230522-gjjv6v4vcrdwfihmsoe453c6ym-story.html

    It’s worth noting how little detail the Sun’s account gives.

    It’s almost as if they’re trying to hide something; the race of the attackers, perhaps?

    I did a quick search about Brooklyn Heights. It’s still mostly White but the black share of population roughly tripled to ~ 20% in past twenty years.

    I haven’t checked other DC area media, but given the likely racial dimension of this crime, I’m sure it’s a topic of water cooler conversation, even if it’s been spiked by the local media.

    • Ben: Pointed out that same story to my husband this morning. The man died of a ‘traumatic brain injury.” This, to me, indicates being kicked/stomped in/on the head. So yes, fairly obvious it was blaqs.

      But everyone thinks his own suburb is ‘safe’ and simply plans to keep his head down. Meanwhile, I can go days seeing no one but my husband. With him, the local wildlife, and the internet, I am content. And even when the internet goes, we will be fine where we are, far from the madding crowds.

      • Can’t tell you how many times such an attack has resulted in a simple assault accusation rather than an attempted murder accusation. If you are mobbed and hit the ground, odds are you’ll never get up. But Lord help you if, when approached by an enraged mob, you start to shoot the leaders and claim self defense.

        • Oh Yea!! The local constabularies will be along in short order to arrest you for your anti-revolutionary behavior.

          You won’t be getting out anytime soon.

    • Dad be lookin’ wigger-iffic.

      • And he’s got his sportsball shrine in the home, too.

33. “The question is, why did [conservatism] fail?” I think Uncle Ted provided the best answer:

    “The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.”
    – Industrial Society & Its Future

    That some of a guy’s extracurriculars include heinous destruction in no way debunks his basic worldview. Anybody can attach psychotic behavior to any philosophy they want; the philosophy nevertheless stands or falls on its own terms.

    • It’s hard to know if they were fighting a battle that could be won even if they did a (better) job. The fight to keep modernity from ruining society has been going on at least since the printing press with only very modest success via rearguard actions (as it’s impossible to know the future).

      How do we achieve technological success without having the victory defeat us? Perhaps conservativism’s big failure was in not even making an effort to find out.

    • Old Uncle Ted was right about far more than he was wrong about. People who think that his writings are just a bunch of Luddite ravings against technology should think again and give him a look. He actually had quite a bit of very intelligent observations about culture, politics and where our civilization was headed that have turned out to be true.

34. Sam Francis gets some much-deserved attention today for coming up with “Anarcho-Tyranny.” He also had a name for the Republican Party that he used often: “The Stupid Party.”

    • John Stuart Mill called out the stupidity of conservatives long ago.

35. I thought conservatism failed because it always fails? The minute we pick up the pieces of broken civilization, root everything and kith and kin once again, and start the process all over, we are just moving inexorably to where we are now.

36. There is no way to win or achieve some sort of dominance in this framework anymore, if there ever was. Lying, cheating and manipulating like the Left will not get us anywhere except to be the very same empty damned souls they are.

    Short of some sort of armed takeover and instituting a dictatorial theocratic control over the populace, we are destined for more of the same.

    Even our founders were not too optimistic about any long term success with the American experiment. John Adams: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

37. Indeed! Conservative friends still insist that there is always a rational, usually financial, reason for the Left’s demolition of America..It’s a form of autism…

38. “they cannot accept that these people believe what they are saying, they just assume they will stop saying it once they have money and power.”

    That’s because this is how conservatives behave every time they win. All the promises and supposed principles go out the window as soon as they are sworn in. “Read my lips” should be the party’s epitaph.

39. Powerful essay. The realisation that conservatism is a dead ideology is hard for most normies to accept. They still want to believe that we have a Constitution that protects citizens, and that the rule of law applies to all. Even with daily examples of this not being true, they prefer to live with the delusion because the truth is too hard to face.

    • I identify as a “Conservative Radical” these days, 😉

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