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What If We’re Not Doomed

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How many times have pundits (including my humble self) declared that we are already irrevocably tobogganing down the slope toward the decline and fall of the American Empire?  Probably too many to count.  And it’s not as if there isn’t a lot of dysfunction everywhere you look.  I won’t go through the litany.  It’s almost endless but all we have to mention to provide an undeniable example of societal rot and insanity is the spectacle of the American Medical Association embracing “gender affirming” treatments for minors including hormone therapies, mastectomies, hysterectomies and castration.

But what if things are about to improve?  Suppose the Trump administration is followed by the Vance administration and during this reprieve from leftist lunacy the country gets its financial health back to a greater extent.  Let’s go with that scenario.  People have enough money to buy houses again and raise kids and plan for the future.  What would that look like?  Of course, I have no way of actually knowing but let’s play the game and throw out some ideas and see if it leads us somewhere.

First off, I think it’s important to say what it won’t look like.  It’s not going to look like America in the 1950s or even the 1980s or 1990s.  The adults and children today; the millennials and the zoomers are very different from my parents’ generation and mine.  They’ve been propagandized in school and through social media to despise the world from those olden times.  They’re ashamed of their parents and grandparents and want to conform to the norms they’ve been taught.

Some of this can be seen in the situation playing out in New York City’s mayoral race.  The last two mayors have been liberal Democrats and under their administrations all the improvements in quality of life and safety gained during Republican mayors have been lost and the city is on the verge of collapsing into chaos.  So, what do the people there want in the next mayor?  A communist!  Now this is just an example.  There are others.  A similar radical is running for mayor of Minneapolis.  So, there is no lack of evidence that the millennials believe insane things.  Now it is true that there is precedent for people who believe these things being gob-smacked by reality and changing their minds.  Maybe that’s what we’re going to see.  It happened to the baby boomers in the nineteen seventies and eighties.  Maybe it’ll happen again.

But regardless, things will be very different.  I believe there has been a breach between the older America and what will follow.  It will not be the monolithic culture.  It will be several, or possibly many separate cultures.  Identity groups have been spawned and they will not disappear.  Ethnic and locality identities will develop and they will complicate social cohesion.  Hollywood and other purveyors of cultural content won’t be able to put out one product that resonates with everyone.  We already see that.  The multicultural experiment with superhero movies and other content have fizzled because people recognize they’re being handed a narrative to cheer for someone else’s team.  How many teenage boys want a female superhero beating up on much larger men as the template for the movies they are being handed.  They just stay home and play video games that allow them to control the narrative.

So, America might recover and even thrive.  But it will take generations for it to coalesce into a common identity.  In the meantime, we and our descendants will have to look out for our own interests, forming alliances and voting blocks where advantage exists.  There may even be a shining city on a hill.  But on the next hill may be a hellhole.  And that’s just the way it’ll have to be.

Penny Portraits in the Crowd

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“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”  That Dickens had a way with words.  He could turn a phrase that people are still using a century and a half later.  And the characters he created; Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Mr. Micawber, The Ghost of Christmas Present, Uriah Heep, Wackford Squeers, Jacob Marley and all the rest.  Some fully fleshed out and some mere pencil sketches but all highly evocative of the world that Dickens created from his London and the world view he imagined within it.

I could really use his gifts right now.  I have about three days of awfulness ahead of me and really nothing to write about.  Or rather my brains are too scrambled to produce a coherent essay from the experiences I’m immersed in.  And there are all kinds of characters.  Some would make fine character sketches, with their stereotypical behavior and odd tics.

Today I briefly met people of all stripes.  Young and old; rich and poor; Left and Right; apparently normal and obviously insane.  Like a kaleidoscope, they flashed by with just enough time to reveal some small facet of their personalities.  And consistently, the most interesting people are in the middle.  They’re not the weirdest or the best dressed.  But they’re always the easiest to talk to.  They’re the most American.  And they’re the easiest to deal with.  The elites are always disconcerted when they have to deal with other people one on one.  It’s all such a bore.  They just want to pay someone else, “to take care of all that.”  And the opposite pole; the broken people are all over the field.  They’re angry or crazy or just too confused to be understood.  You can pity them and wish they could be helped but at this point we can barely help our own.

Probably the most pleasant moment was when a young woman with two children came in.  A boy and a girl, respectively six and five years old.  The kids were engaged in a low-level battle that you could tell must have been their continuous state.  The mom just grabbed each of them with one of her arms and carried them along like two bundles of firewood as they still tried to reach each other to battle.  I said to her, “Those are both good ages.”  And she laughed but nodded her head and said, “Yeah they make my day fun.”

A little while later a very well-dressed man came in pushing some kind of very expensive looking wagon that contained two little boys.  They were somewhere in the age range of four to six years old.  The two boys spent every minute throwing things out of the wagon onto the ground.  And the father dutifully retrieved this jetsam almost continuously.  Finally in utter exasperation he started yelling and threatening to withhold their toys.  But they ignored his threats and continued to toss these items overboard.  And completely defeated he handed back the ejected items with an expression of utter resignation.

And then there was the freak show.  Blue hair, large metal rings drooping down from the nose and various other facial piercings.  There was a lot of weird squawking and involuntary noises along with strangely discordant singing.  There were parents with grown children who seemed to just accept whatever weirdness escaped from their progeny.  And then there were even cases of multi-generational weirdness.

When you look at a cross-section of our society it’s easy to see that things have changed for the worse.  But it’s also clear who will survive and who isn’t going to make it.  What Dickens could have done with this crew.

American Tribes

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It’s fair to say that divisions are sharpening between several political groups in this country.  The first group represents the point of view of the cultural elites.  Now this group has any number of names.  Some people call them the managerial class because they fill the ranks of the upper echelons of corporate America.  They run the private corporations and public institutions.  They were educated at elite schools and colleges.  They believe that they are the natural leaders of this country and they have a very low opinion of the rest of society.  And they think the constitutional order is an encumbrance to allowing them to remake society according to their plans.  This group has the most power and they have become adept at using “divide and conquer” techniques to prevent anyone from wresting power from their hands.  They wholly control both the Democrat and Republican parties and use these puppets to confound anyone attempting to change the status quo.

Another group are those who have seen through the elites’ puppet show and are now completely disillusioned with all aspects of the government.  They are waiting for the revolution.

A third group are those who describe themselves as civic nationalists.  Many of them are aware of the puppet show but have hope to see the elites’ grip on power ended.

And then there are those who are client groups of the elites.  Large majorities of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and LGBTQ individuals follow the elites’ lead on almost every question or issue because they are given special consideration by the elites to maintain their hold on the system.

The question I have is whether the political polarization will lead to cultural and identity shifts in these people.  Up until a decade ago, more or less, almost everyone in this country considered themselves Americans first and foremost.  I don’t think that is any longer true.  Barack Obama made it a very large part of his agenda to stir up animosity against white people within the black population.  And that has borne bitter fruit.  And this has been reflected in the elites as an anti-white ideology that we now call woke culture.  And this woke ideology in turn has sparked in the disillusioned group I described above an antipathy against American identity as a flag-waving trap.  They have rejected the idea that Americans of different races or even different ethnic backgrounds constitute a cohesive nation.

So, on the Far Left you have a rejection of the history and people who were the basis of the country and on the Far Right you have a denial that disparate groups represent a people.  And then you have everyone else in the middle trying to figure where all this leaves them.

Now finding myself in that middle I wonder whether the two outside groups will get their wish and tear this country apart.  And will it be torn in two pieces or three?  I feel somehow that the middle by itself could make a country that would be closest to the idea of what America was a hundred years ago or so.

I think the middle would be happy going back to what we had back then.  We could all celebrate the 4th of July and Thanksgiving together and leave it at that.  We could still pledge allegiance to the stars and stripes.  Although if the outside groups decide to peel off a few states for their areas we’d have to renumber the stars somewhat.  We’d speak English and teach our kids about Christopher Columbus, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  But maybe we could skip Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  And we could go back to getting along as best we can amongst each other without reparations or affirmative action or pretending that perfect equality and perfect racial harmony are things you find in the real world.  We could make that work pretty well.

But what I wonder about is what would the other two groups look like in fifty years.  I get the idea that the elite state would have some serious problems.  I look at California and New York and I see real dysfunction.  And I can’t figure out what their culture would be like.  Without the people in the middle to demonize I’m not sure how the elites would be able to confuse their client groups into not attacking them personally.  After all, they are the richest and whitest people of all and they are responsible, according to their logic for all the grievances that the other groups have.  It’s going to be pretty hard to change that opinion.

So, I see the elite state as like California only worse.  I think it’ll either rethink all the woke nonsense or it’ll collapse.  But either way it’ll be a sight to behold and a cautionary tale.

 

Now as for the disillusioned, I’m trying to imagine what their country would be like.  First off, it’ll be very white.  That’s a given.  I’m guessing it’ll be well-organized and won’t have a very good basketball league.  And it will have a very efficient border patrol but maybe not the best restaurants.  Just kidding!

Will it have a 4th of July celebration and Thanksgiving?  Maybe.  Will it be a republic, a monarchy, an oligarchy?  I wonder if they know?  From what I’ve gleaned they’re not so hot on democratic forms of government.  Maybe someone from that side could give us a thumbnail sketch of their idea of a good government.  Of course I’m not being fair.  Humans have failed at maintaining a prosperous stable form of government at all times and places on this planet.  Why should the disillusioned be held to a higher standard?

But if I had a choice of which group I’d live with it would be the middle.  Without the elites provoking the client groups I think that we could have a very decent country.  I happen to believe that there are differences in intelligence and temperament amongst groups of people.  But the business of society is making up rules that can be applied across the great swath of human variation in a way that most people could agree was fair.  After all, even within an almost homogeneous group like a neighborhood of people who all came from the same village in the old country you will have some very smart individuals and then you’ll have the village idiot.  But the hope is that even the idiot can find a job where he contributes, maybe he’s the street sweeper or he walks dogs.

This idea that everyone has to be within one standard deviation in intelligence doesn’t seem necessary.  So, I’m willing to live in a heterogeneous society as long as I’m allowed the freedoms that the constitution provides and the people running the show are honest and competent.

I wouldn’t want to be in Neo-California.  That place will be a nightmare and the rules are unfair and crazy.

And I couldn’t live in Asgaard.  I’m not nearly white enough nor hard-working enough.  Way too much Italic influence.

So put me with the mutts.  If we can manage to maintain the system that the English put together for us two hundred and forty years ago, we could have a little slice of heaven on Earth.  Or maybe I’m totally wrong.  What do you think?

New Identities and Myths

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The Left has gone to great lengths to tear down the American Identity and its Myths.  By foisting identity politics into the center of the culture and openly destroying all the historical icons; The Founding Fathers, various heroes and even the institution of the family; they’ve snapped the bonds that united the people living here.  Now this was done intentionally to encourage strife between people based on race, sex and sexuality.

And to a very great extent they’ve been wildly successful.  I can attest to that personally.  They’ve managed to make patriotic allegiance to the current regime in Washington look like a sad joke.  And they’ve drained the joy out of sports, fraternal organizations and even the Boy Scouts.  Even many mainline Christian denominations have been infected with woke hatred for what this country used to be.

Wildly successful.

So, all that’s true.  They’ve smashed the culture down to the ground.  But at the same time, that means we’re free to build from the ground up.  We can keep whatever we want from the old.  We can toss out whatever no longer suits us and we can add in whatever helps us to build a new identity and new myths.

And I’m sure it’s already happening.  When the Left rejects the Fourth of July and embraces instead “Juneteenth,” it allows us to take ownership of the Fourth and make it what we want it to be.  Maybe it can have a double meaning.  It looks back to the original founding of the country but now it can also stand for a new declaration of independence.  We can declare ourselves independent of the coercive guilt that the Left tried to force on us.  We can begin to build our own organizations and platforms and companies that serve our needs.  Eventually we’ll build a new political party that will replace the Republican Party too.

But most important we’ll create new myths to replace the old ones that have been shown to be obsolete.  These things will be the hardest of all to replace.  The hardest one to lose was the myth that all Americans were brothers.  That despite all of our differences and squabbles when the chips were down, we would all band together to fix problems and strive to make America the shining city on the hill where our children would inherit a better and richer world than we had.  But the Left has burned that dream in the streets of the George Floyd insurrection.  We are not one nation and the Left is not under God and liberty and justice is not for all but only for the favored ones that the regime elects.

So that’s what we’ll have to do.  We’ll make our own rules and our own ways of working with each other and against those who hate us.  And we’ll come up with stories that explain how things work in the new world we now live in.

Maybe it won’t be a single new identity.  The days of a single culture or even a couple of cultures may give way to a host of different identities.  I could see the Hispanic people dominating the Southwest and the Northeast remaining as the old New England identity mixed with a hodge-podge of things added.  The Old South might rise again.  But what won’t happen is a return to what was.  You have to believe in a myth to keep it alive and the old American myth is as dead as a dodo.  And no amount of flag waving or exhortations for God to bless America can bring it back.  The Left buried it and they’ll have to live with the consequences.

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 06DEC2023 – Identity

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Sounds ok to me. I am Germanic on dad’s side and Blackfoot on mom’s side. Of course there are various flavors melted into both sides. Dad’s side brought war brides home with them occasionally. Mom’s side has a small dash of Irish. She said an Irish mountain man couldn’t outrun one of her female ancestors. Dad’s side has a dash of Scottish and two dashes of undetermined Native American blood.

As a halfbreed I’ve experienced both acceptance and rejection from both races. Me and my brother look more like dad and sis looked more like mom. Go figure. So some natives think I’m an apple (Red on the outside and White inside) while some Palefaces considered me ro be another Red Nigger. Ya just have to let it roll off your back.

Being in both camps, most Black guys accepted me. After all, very few of them are African Black and have some Honky in their family trees. Other mixed folks get along as well. Very few Americans can claim pure ancestry if they’ve been in the US more than 3 generations. Even those who do so claim would likely be surprised by a DNA test. As soon as the Mayflower set sail from England people were fooling around ‘tween decks. Humans will fornicate with just about anybody. Even Strom Thurmond had a Black mistress for decades and a child with her.

So us mutts have a proud heritage of our own. We tend to be healthier due to a thing called hybrid vigor. Embrace your varied ancestry. After all, there’s nothing you can do about it.

As for the nation, I believe we need more Whiteish babies. Also we need to eject all the illegals who have bum rushed the border to provide Democrats with more voters and brown shirts. After all, look what happened to a good deal when the Palefaces were let in 416 years ago at Jamestown.

I also believe as the Founders did. Only those with a stake in the election should vote. No letting people with no property voting to raise property taxes. The masses will vote themselves bread and circuses as they did in ancient Rome and are doing so today. They can demand spending on their support by wealth redistribution, which is fancy robbery. When you rob from Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul’s vote. AOC once said that taxes are the price you pay for living in a civilized country. Wrong. Taxes are the bribe you pay to stay out of prison.

What’s My Identity?

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People in the dissident right are fond of quoting Singapore’s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew as saying, “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.”  Now I understand the rationale when it comes to a place like Singapore.  The cultural and social views of the Chinese, Malay and Indian populations are strikingly different and in a zero-sum game where losing means living in a society that would be highly antagonistic to your way of life, I could see how voting your “race” would be critical.

But how would that relate to the United States?  It seems to me that the popular culture is currently so strange to me that it couldn’t get any stranger if this became a Latino or Chinese majority society.  But in fact, what I notice is that younger, assimilated Latino and Asian Americans mimic the same weird standard culture that their white American friends use.  All of them use a sort of hip-hop patois that seems to have been formulated on TikTok or some product manufacturer like Nike.  Well, I can’t imagine anything more alienating than that.  So, I’m not sure what I should expect from the majority minority (or is it minority majority) future we’re waiting on.  In fact, because the worst proponents of anti-white bigotry all seem to be really pasty white, I can’t make up my mind how I want to fit into this scary future.

My experience has been that most of the problems with minorities in the parts of American life that I have had experience with occurred because the government (or schools or corporations) run by white people decided that affirmative action was a good idea.  Even in the terrible situation we find ourselves in today with the urban black underclass committing unsustainable levels of property and violent crime we could still improve our situation immeasurably if we just put an end to all forms of affirmative action and reestablished equal treatment under the law for everyone by getting rid of all the protected classes we’ve invented.

But what about the idea that I am better off sticking with my own kind?  The truth is my own kind doesn’t exist.  I’m a mutt.  Both my parents’ ancestors came from Southern Italian stock.  There is absolutely nothing standard about that population.  Just within my siblings I have a mixture of blue, hazel and dark brown eyes.  Hair (where it still exists and isn’t gray) is either dirty blond or close to black.  Skin color varies from very light to olive.  There are tall and short people and a whole slew of intellectual and personality traits exhibited.  I grew up in an Italian ghetto of Brooklyn.  But my neighbors included Irish, Jewish, Polish and Russian people and to be honest it wasn’t like the Italians were some quantum leap closer to me personally than the other types.  In fact, in grade school, my two closest friends were a German kid with ash blond hair and a kid whose parents were Irish and Italian.  A lot of the Italian kids I knew in the neighborhood (not all of them of course) wanted to be mafiosi.  Later on, they found out the hard way that they weren’t.  But they wanted to be and this made them extremely unpleasant neighbors.

Now growing up in Brooklyn in that time I was well aware that there were black and Latino neighborhoods where I shouldn’t go.  These were dangerous because the inhabitants were welfare recipients that existed in a lawless environment.  But as I grew up, I went to school with and worked with black and Latino New Yorkers that were just regular people doing their jobs.  Some of them I got along with and some I didn’t.  A lot like the various varieties of “white” people I lived among.

And in the engineering field over the last thirty some-odd years I have worked with lots of Indian and Chinese people.  Like their white counterparts some were good people and some were real jerks.  But once again, all the trouble I’ve seen surrounding them has had to do with attempts to satisfy affirmative action.  In fact, the most egregious cases seemed to be attempts to have women, mostly white women (and strangely mostly blonde white women) promoted above their levels of competence.  So once again this reinforces my thoughts about affirmative action.

So, to drive this home, who are my people?  Are they random white people that include most of the woke young people?  Are they Americans of Southern Italian ancestry?  To be honest, I think my people are people who identify with the culture that was forged in mid-twentieth century America.  They grew up believing that they could raise their families in an America that was based on working for a living and obeying the rules.  It was a simple place where regardless of race or ethnicity they respected the Founding Fathers for setting up the Constitution that guaranteed us freedoms and allowed us to live together without chaotic violence or poverty.

Of course, opening up the borders to millions of poor immigrants that won’t be assimilated into the American culture is an obvious disaster that must be stopped.  But the problems have been purposefully exacerbated by the Democrats and their shock troops like Antifa and BLM.  Now that the Supreme Court has begun reversing some of the affirmative action judicial decisions maybe things can get straightened out.  And after the borders are closed and the illegals sent home things can get back to normal.  Or maybe they won’t.

 

But honestly, I still feel that anyone can be on my team if he just tries to follow the rules and doesn’t tell me I’m the cause for all his problems because my skin is a light shade.  Anyone who can’t accommodate those two things isn’t on my side.  So, I hate to say it but my identity is American.  I hope that doesn’t sound too lame.

Cold Thoughts

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The weather has turned cold.  There was some sun today but temperatures were in the fifties.  We got out for a walk and there was enough to do around the house but for some reason I couldn’t get a handle on anything interesting in the news.  I guess things will have to percolate for a while.

I watched an old John Barrymore movie called Counsellor at Law.  It was really pretty good.  I hadn’t seen it for a few years and I even forgot the ending.  It had all the stock characters for a movie taking place in 1930s Manhattan.  And it occurred to me that the despised European immigrants that were the downtrodden denizens of the criminal courts in this movie have moved three generations later to the position of despised oppressors of the new downtrodden.

But the funny part is they did this without ever being rich or powerful in between.  Our parents and grandparents struggled to become good Americans in the hope that their descendants would get to live in the working and middle classes by following the rules and believing in the civic nationalism that said that a man was judged by his deeds and not his pedigree.

And now we are told that all that was a mistake.  Everything they did and we believed in was wrong.  All that talk about freedoms and inalienable rights was just a dodge.  It turns out that the Communists and the Fascists were right.  Power comes from the barrel of a gun.  We have no more right to freedom and happiness here than we did back in the old country where some patron or mafioso decided who got to work and who got to starve.  In fact, at least back in the old country there was some sense of loyalty even toward the peasants by those in charge.

So, we’re all expendable now.  Just a bunch of spare parts that are no longer needed in the new American economy.  A giant game of musical chairs where they turn off the music and there’s no place left for you.  It seems to me this explains why the Latinos are starting to gravitate toward the Republican party.  They’re basically the new version of the southern Europeans of a hundred years ago.  They came here expecting to work their way up and now they’re seeing the same dead end.  And they’re figuring out that the Democrats aren’t the party that helps families.  They’re the party of trans-gender indoctrination for their kids and of working women with no time for raising families.

I was reading Putin’s speech about the absorption of the Donbass regions into Russia.  It was very long and had a lot about Russian history and the fall of the Soviet Union.  But there was also a lot about the West.

I’ve copied some sections that I found interesting:

“In fact, they spit on the natural right of billions of people, most of humanity, to freedom and justice, to determine their own future on their own. Now they have completely moved to a radical denial of moral norms, religion, and family.

Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. I now want to return to what I said, I want to address all the citizens of the country – not only to those colleagues who are in the hall – to all the citizens of Russia: do we want to have, here, in our country, in Russia, instead of mom and dad there was “parent number one”, “number two”, “number three” – are they completely crazy already there? Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed on children in our schools from the primary grades? To be drummed into them that there are supposedly other genders besides women and men, and to be offered a sex change operation? Do we want all this for our country and our children? For us, all this is unacceptable, we have a different, our own future.

I repeat, the dictatorship of the Western elites is directed against all societies, including the peoples of the Western countries themselves. This is a challenge for everyone. Such a complete denial of man, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, the suppression of freedom acquires the features of a “reverse religion” – outright Satanism. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ, denouncing the false prophets, says: By their fruits you will know them. And these poisonous fruits are already obvious to people – not only in our country, in all countries, including for many people and in the West itself.

The world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, they are of a fundamental nature. New development centers are being formed, they represent the majority – the majority! – of the world community and are ready not only to declare their interests, but also to protect them, and see multipolarity as an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty, which means to gain true freedom, a historical perspective, their right to independent, creative, original development, to a harmonious process.

All over the world, including in Europe and the United States, as I said, we have many like-minded people, and we feel, we see their support. A liberation, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is already developing within the most diverse countries and societies. His subjectivity will only grow. It is this force that will determine the future geopolitical reality.”

Now I have no illusions about Vladimir Putin.  He is a cold-blooded killer.  He will use whatever means he needs to achieve his goals.  He was the architect of the Second Chechen War, a brutal conflict.  He is a Russian partisan.  He has no love for America.  And yet most of what I copied above from his speech is demonstrably true.  Our government is erasing normalcy from our society and substituting a sick twisted anti-human creed.  The family is denigrated and mocked.  Freedom is being erased as a hate crime.  Prosperity for most people is being outlawed.  Even Vlad the Impaler can point to us and name our sins.  They’re that mortally clear.

It’s a cold, kind of bleak day, but I found illumination in an old black and white movie and the words of a modern-day autocrat.  The United States has abandoned the principles that made it great.  It has broken faith with the people who fought for it and believed in it.  It remains to be seen if it can be prodded back on the high road again.  But at least I found a little clarity.

Even the Hopeless Narcissists Are Waking Up

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How horrible must things now be if someone as addicted to make believe as Bill Mahr says that things have gone too far?  Bill Mahr had a monologue on his show where he tried to explain to his audience of cretins that if America now has a different national anthem for black people, then the Left has revived segregation all on its own.  Apparently Mahr thinks he still lives in a world where the Left cares about fairness or even sanity.  His point is that if we let every race or ethnicity have its own bubble then we would no longer be “one nation indivisible.”

How cute!  After spending a century sledge hammering the country to bits, now they’re afraid that white people may realize that the other identities don’t consider themselves part of “America.”  Well Bill, it’s too late.  We know the score and most of us are well beyond caring whether they kneel to the “Star Spangled Banner” or stand in rapt attention for “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”  These people are not our countrymen anymore.  They’re just grifters looking for another payday.

What it does tell me is that Bill Mahr knows that the jig is up and the powers that be better start reeling in the crazy before the pot boils over.  Or maybe Bill is trying to hold onto the part of his audience that still believes that America can still fool most of the people most of the time.  Maybe he’s right.  Maybe there are still tens of millions of idiots who think all of us will just magically come together with Left and Right joining hands around the flag singing Kumbaya.

But even if there is a huge chunk of stupid people buying into this sad story, I think the portion that has awakened to reality is large enough to start making a meaningful difference.  When thirty to forty percent of the population no longer believes in the concept of a republic it’s a pretty good bet that that country is going to decline pretty fast.  I don’t think it will implode the way that the Soviet Union did in just a decade or two after its people gave up on it.  There’s too much money and resources in this place to force it into the ground that fast.  But it’s easy to see that this isn’t the same America as the 20th century version.  The Left got their way.  They’ve turned it into a land of factions.  And the people they are trying to disinherit will be the largest and angriest faction of all.  It may take another twenty years but what will be left will be a Yugoslavia.  And eventually that breaks apart.  Maybe that was their plan all along.  But when it does break up the parts will be different from the former whole.  There may be a place for each of the new identities.  Not that it will be a smooth transition.  There will be a lot of jostling.  But there is the possibility that mostly everyone will be happier than we are now.  My guess is the only ones who won’t be happier are the grifters who set this whole thing up.  Seeing all those people happy to be rid of them is sure to make them miserable.  But you can hardly fault me for smiling about that.  A question that I am still working out is whether I want to stick around for that whole messy civil war thing.  It seems like a bad idea.

But anyway, once the country has been busted up it will be appropriate to have multiple national anthems.  The only question is whether anyone will get stuck with “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Identity Politics and the Future of America

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Hat tip to Vox Day for a link to a well written article by a black conservative on why black people vote Democrat.  Here’s his link.  And here’s the article.

The author Lipton Matthews persuasively explains why it is very unlikely that Republicans will ever be able to separate black voters from the Democrat party.  Basically voting for them is a group strategy that provides rewards in an overall way.  This is despite the obvious failings or even awfulness of a Maxine Waters or Al Sharpton that even the black voters see.

This is important for white Americans to understand. In the presence of interest groups negotiating for their preferences you must do the same. Appealing to these interest groups in the old way as fellow members of a nation is no longer possible or even desirable.  They do not act in that way.  They do not believe in it.  You should not believe in it.  Instead we need to discover who we can and cannot cooperate with.  Whose interests mostly match up with our own and whose interests are to a greater extent opposed to our own.  A good example would be a place like Singapore.  It is a multi-cultural society that historically has found its ethnicities in violent antagonism toward each other.  In order to thrive it has been necessary to carefully define what behaviors are allowable.  Freedom exists but is also circumscribed by what actions would lead to chaos.

Our country and its freedoms were instituted with the idea that there would not exist differing populations in conflict with each other.  These freedoms cannot exist when powerful groups are gaming the system to discredit it.  Conflict and intimidation is what is being foisted on us.  Criminal behavior is being selectively allowed and the policing of criminal behavior is being attacked and criminalized.  Really the only question is whether an organized resistance will coalesce and provide relief from the attacks.

As the only group currently unrepresented by a political entity it has fallen to the Republican party to serve that purpose for white voters.  But in the future a different organization will emerge.  And this organization does not need to be exclusively white in its membership.  But those who join must need to see their interests as aligned with the interests of the white population of America.  Call it Traditional America.  Call it whatever you want.  But it is the group of people who don’t want to see George Floyd held up as a role model or saint.  It is the group that knows that putting ten year old children on puberty blockers and castrating them or removing their breasts is child abuse and madness.  I’m sure there are reasonable people of every race and ethnicity who would sign up for the platform that used to be called conservatism.  But what is important is that conservatives realize that in the present environment all of those things have disappeared and won’t come back if we keep playing the game under the old rules.