Last week I was listening to the Friday morning Power Hour podcast that the ZMan produces.\u00a0 And during the discussion he mentioned that he was surprised when a particular civ-nat pundit who was usually very mainstream normie-con started exhibiting a lot of the talking points that the ZMan associated with the dissident right perspective.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think ZMan was very specific about the exact context and exactly how far to the right this fellow had gone, but I guess the change from the pundit\u2019s usual rhetoric to this new point of view was sufficiently great to merit surprise.<\/p>\n
I found this interesting.\u00a0 Usually, ZMan is extremely dismissive of civnattery.\u00a0 He finds their points of view hopelessly na\u00efve and foolish.\u00a0 So, his surprise caught my attention. \u00a0Now what exactly the details of this change were, I can\u2019t say.\u00a0 But what I assume was that this pundit started using the vocabulary of the dissident right.\u00a0 Maybe he used a term like anti-white racism or just anti-white as a description of someone on the Left or some policy.\u00a0 Something like that might surprise coming from someone who has up until now avoided racialist terminology.\u00a0 Maybe it was a comment about the dishonesty of the establishment Republicans and their phony struggle against the Left\u2019s policies.\u00a0 Or maybe it was an opinion against the war in Ukraine.\u00a0 But whatever it was it\u2019s part of a trend that is no longer possible to ignore.\u00a0 The normies, a lot of them, are waking up.<\/p>\n
I have a theory about why the Dissident Right has been at the cutting edge of the awakening on the Right.\u00a0 I think many on the dissident Right have their roots in the blue-collar working class.\u00a0 And that is the segment of White America that was impacted first by the policies and prejudices that the Left and their minions installed during the last fifty years.\u00a0 It was the working class that had a ringside seat for the Great Society upheavals with welfare culture destroying the schools and neighborhoods that they inhabited.\u00a0 And it was the working class that were the first and hardest hit by the off-shoring that went hand in hand with the globalization program of the Left.<\/p>\n
And so, the most discerning of the working class were able to express the things they saw and they became the vanguard of the Dissident Right.\u00a0 But now that the whole program of the Left has emerged the white-collar workers and the entrepreneurial community have been impacted and now the intelligentsia.\u00a0 Even leftist journalists can see what\u2019s happening and recognize the Orwellian nature of what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 In that environment it makes sense that even the blindest of normie-con pundits would stumble onto the truth.<\/p>\n
Now the funny thing is that even tripping over facts doesn\u2019t mean that unanimity will break out between the Dissident Right and the people to their immediate left.\u00a0 The folks on the Dissident Right talk about a river that they cross that separates them from the rest of the Right.\u00a0 And that difference has more to do with their beliefs about the incompatibility of different ethnicities and races of people.\u00a0 And they see this as part and parcel of the problems that are afflicting this country.\u00a0 And they don\u2019t believe that the possibility exists for different types of people to live together under one set of laws even if it were fairly enforced.<\/p>\n
Currently the dissidents and those on the other side of the river just shout back and forth at each other and shake their fists because it\u2019s an academic question.\u00a0 The administrative state, since the 1960s, has used things like affirmative action and other forms of discrimination to stir up animosity between various communities.\u00a0 It\u2019s currently illegal to hire people based only on their individual talents.\u00a0 A quota must be filled regardless of whether qualified applicants can be found based on race and gender.\u00a0 If this ever gets fixed then we could find out if the Dissident Right is correct in their belief that different people can\u2019t coexist amicably.\u00a0 Until then it\u2019s just speculation and we can stay on separate sides of the river pointing at each other and maybe chucking pebbles across from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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