{"id":12135,"date":"2020-09-28T22:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2020-09-28T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:41:24","slug":"say-rather-we-arent-going-to-just-vote-our-way-out-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/say-rather-we-arent-going-to-just-vote-our-way-out-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Rather, We Aren\u2019t Going to Just Vote Our Way Out of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a well-known saying on the Dissident Right, \u201cWe aren\u2019t going to vote our way out of this.\u201d\u00a0 This is based on a combination of two facts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No matter how many times we won the Presidency and Congress by voting in GOP Establishment losers, nothing ever got better.<\/li>\n<li>Changing demographics will eventually produce a permanent Democrat majority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in a lot of ways they are right.\u00a0 The Republicans have been an unmitigated disaster at least as far back as George Bush the Elder.\u00a0 No matter where in the government we elect them to they immediately become liberals.\u00a0 Every Supreme Court that we supposedly dominate pushes the culture farther and farther to the left.\u00a0 This point has been undeniable up until the election of President Trump.\u00a0 Of course, you could also make the point that he isn\u2019t really a Republican but either way he\u2019s the first Republican in decades who actually has made a dent in the culture war.<\/p>\n<p>As for the demographics, they have a point there too.\u00a0 Non-white voters typically vote in higher numbers for Democrats than for Republicans and in a decade or so white Americans will cease to be a majority of the American population.<\/p>\n<p>For me this means that just voting is not going to win the culture war.\u00a0 But just saying we can\u2019t vote our way out and doing nothing is foolish.\u00a0 We need to find such men as Donald Trump who want to restore the culture to the things that we actually want.\u00a0 Whether we can elect them or not is to be seen.\u00a0 And it is not certain that we cannot form alliances of various ethnicities.\u00a0 Forging a coalition based on common interests with anyone of any background who wants to have membership in the middle class seems a much better fit than the current confederation of the outraged that the Left has cobbled together based on the myth of the evil white supremacist monsters that somehow is holding back the other more virtuous people of America.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes it will mean forming alliances based on common enemies.\u00a0 So, for instance, if both whites and Asians are discriminated against in school admission then it would be natural for them to form common cause to elect politicians who want to eliminate affirmative action in school and employment.\u00a0 Or how about recruiting women who have seen their daughters displaced on sports teams by men in sun dresses.\u00a0 Peeling women off the intersectional bandwagon would be a real coup.<\/p>\n<p>But all of these considerations will follow only if we get our act together.\u00a0 The important project is to kill the Left\u2019s propaganda campaign against normal America.\u00a0 Fighting back against Antifa and BLM and pushing back against all aspects of the progressive assault is possible, popular and critical to winning back our rights.\u00a0 And to accomplish those things not only requires us to vote, it also requires us to organize politically.\u00a0 It means we\u2019ll have to get off our butts and find out if there is a Republican party organization in your area and whether any of the members are actually on the Right.\u00a0 And if they\u2019re not, try to organize like minded folks to pick someone who is and run him for some low-level post, state rep or dog catcher or whatever.\u00a0 And if worst comes to worst run for the office yourself.\u00a0 And it means we have to find out about the higher echelons of the party and support good men and work against the rinos.<\/p>\n<p>So, getting back to the original idea, it\u2019s true that we can\u2019t get out of the hole we\u2019re in if all we do is vote.\u00a0 But the simple truth is that for decades all we thought we had to do was vote.\u00a0 We were blind and the people we thought were on our side weren\u2019t.\u00a0 But that\u2019s hardly a reason to say it can\u2019t be done.\u00a0 If we actually try, we may fail.\u00a0 But if we do nothing we certainly will fail.\u00a0 So, go down swinging.\u00a0 Do something.\u00a0 Who knows, you might surprise yourself and actually win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a well-known saying on the Dissident Right, \u201cWe aren\u2019t going to vote our way out of this.\u201d\u00a0 This is based on a 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