The Revolution Is
So, the first non-white, the first non-American, and the most extreme leftist ever has been elected President.
What did you expect?
After all, the established forces of “American” society have been promoting the glory of the non-white and the foreign for two generations now. The educational system has cut off most of the rising generation from what used to be America, and from Western civilization. America is the land that invented advertising and public relations. Our political discourse now consists entirely of image and its management. It began with Teddy Roosevelt and was perfected with television and Jack Kennedy. Obama’s election merely registers a final triumph of affirmative action and the final mutation of the citizen into the TV-watching shopper.
Somehow, I don't think this is what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had in mind. Or the men of Omaha Beach. The American experiment in liberty and self-government was founded on the understanding that the state, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. For the new American electorate the state is the beloved Nanny who keeps us safe and warm and binds up our scrapes and bruises. Socialism? You get Wall Street approved "socialism" with either party.
This election is not so much the triumph of a bad economic system as of something much worse—Cultural Marxism. Socialism is merely a disease of the purse. Cultural Marxism is a disease of the soul from which there is no recovery. Part of the ruling class can still be rallied to put brakes on the progress of socialism, but the entire ruling class, long before this election, had already crawled on all fours to render submission and gold to the destroyers of culture. Imagine how different the election and our future would be if the Republicans had had the courage and intelligence to represent real America rather than pretend to. The main predictable accomplishment of the Barack Hussein Obama administration will be the institutionalisation of the aggressive Cultural Marxism that already dominates the schools and media.
This is what happens when people put more value on their purses than on their honour, confuse personal profit with patriotism, and lose knowledge of the past and ability to take account of the future. America made its choice at Appomattox and the rest is merely interlude before the last act, in which the republican dream of the Fathers is dismembered for good.
On the upside, seldom does evil get such a well-deserved reward in this world as has been administered to the Republican Party. Restores one's faith in the essential soundness of the universe.
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Actually, I think this election, while certainly suffused with gauzy talk of "change" and "hope", is really a referendum on the consequences of political and policy failure. The GOP deserved to be thoroughly thrashed for its incompetent, corrupt and destructive reign of the last eight years.
As for Obama, whatever ideological criticisms one may wish to make of him, he gives every appearance of being restrained, self-disciplined and circumspect in temperament. That is what our Presidents used to be before eight years of a self-indulgent, corrupt narcissist followed by eight further years of an incurious, shallow, intellectually dwarfed, untalented, and superficial man.
Dr. Wilson,
I am pleased to see someone put the ax to the root of the victory, which is cultural and not political. "Socialism is merely a disease of the purse. Cultural Marxism is a disease of the soul from which there is no recovery." This is as fine and comprehensive of a statement as can be said in a few words to describe the contemporary condition of America's illness. The disease is so advanced that health is not even a memory in the patient's now demented state. Exisitence and life describe two different aspects of our brief time on earth and the most that can be said of current conditions is that Western Civilization still exists in small pockets of our country, but has hardly any influence in that country's life. It reminds me of Frost's poem the Oven Bird, " who knows in singing, not to sing."
THERE is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. 5
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all. 10
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
A college professor friend of mine is constantly saying of his students, "Young white people do not have the racial prejudice of their parents and grandparents. It's the most positive development of my lifetime."
I tell him that his students do have prejudices. In other words, they pick up the white self-loathing from the Cultural Marxist indoctrination. I also informed my liberal friend that this "tolerance" he is so proud of, is a one-way street. Nonwhites will very often not return it. My friend was surprised by this argument. It had never occured to him.
How does one move forward in this life among the ruins that compose this cultural milieu? It becomes impossible to espouse an alternative view without fear of reprisal and alienation. Let’s face it: the situation is bleak.
I am truly surprised that David N's friend remains his friend after offering up a perfectly accurate insight, which is so anathema to today's prescribed cultural orthodoxy.
I forget who said it first, but "the people will get what they voted for- good and hard!"
That was Mencken, Mike.
I suspect that we will hear less and less of presidential abuses of power once THE ONE has taken over the White House. Not that it won't be happening. I look for it on a grand scale. It just won't matter anymore because he is a leftist and there are no enemies on the left to the decrepit American elite. Much like the use of the term "white minority government" which I used to hear EVERY night on EVERY news station (referring to S. Africa or Rhodesia) ended almost overnight as soon as the black thugs obtained power. By the way, I understand that Obama's first act as President will be to walk across the Potomac.
4@ MJK"How does one move forward in this life among the ruins that compose this cultural milieu? It becomes impossible to espouse an alternative view without fear of reprisal and alienation."
Be not afraid and don't put your trust in Princes. Loneliness is a mood, God is the reality. A Marine Colonel leaving six children behind before Gulf War I, once said to me, "It was difficult for him but he really believed that where ever he went, God went with him." Everybody will eventually test the faith of that answer:
"now, or at the hour of death." Amen
Robert - Beautifully stated, sir! AMEN and thanks for the sentiment...
Since the results came in last evening, the phone in The League of the South office has not stopped ringing. Apparently, at least some folks understand what is going down. Also, our website--www.dixienet.org--is getting record numbers of hits.
My wife just advised me that on a local country music radio station alleged comedian Pauly Shore was commenting on the election and said that it was good that Obama was elected because he was a "great leader" like.......John Lennon! Wow. And I thought I was going to have to live through the 1960's only once. Maybe he was thinking of the other Lenin. Of course, being the astute political philosopher and analyst that Pauly Shore is I suppose I shouldn't just blow it off.
[quote]Pauly Shore was commenting on the election and said that it was good that Obama was elected because he was a “great leader” like…….John Lennon![/quote]
BWAAAAAHHHHHH!
4@ MJK asks how the professor remains my friend. He likes to talk to me because he says I have more knowledge of history than his liberal friends do.
The professor is probably not altogether happy today because of the ballot iniatives banning "same-sex marriage."
I don't always agree with Prof. Wilson but here I do most emphatically. Well put, sir.
Regarding the just deserts received by the Republicans, it is a great shame that didn't include Lindsey Graham. I don't follow the politics of South Carolina closely but I thought it clear that Graham often voted against the interests and wishes of the majority of his state. He even went so far as to call those opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens "bigots."
Speaking of John Lennon. An elderly woman, with whom I used to converse, once asked me what the difference was between John Lennon and Vladimire Lenin. I responded that I didn't know. She told me "Well, Vladimir Lenin was the first Premier of the U.S.S.R., but John Lennon was a bigger communist..."
"He likes to talk to me because he says I have more knowledge of history than his liberal friends do."
That should tell him something.
The tools which Obama has inherited, some having been created by the Bush regime and other pre-existing ones having been well sharpened by the Bush regime, included the Patriot Act with all of its attendant edicts, homeland security which fereralizes and militarizes many duties and functions of our society, the increased federalization of education and the further socialization of the financial and commerece sectors of the economy.
I expect Obama to move very quickly on his agenda, which will likely include some variation of the following:
1. Very high taxes on guns and ammunition. (He supports the 2nd amendment.)
2. Federally clearning the way for suits against gun and ammunition producers to be sued for damages resulting from the use of firearms. (He supports the 2nd amendment.)
3. Implementation of the "fairness doctrine" in radio, effectively shutting down the one place were conservative voices or at least allegedly conservative voices are heard.
4. Federal laws and regulations which will limit the growth of home schooling and which will tighten controls on private schooling.
5. Hate-crimes legislation, which, depending on its wording and the cadre interpreting it, could shut down radio programs, church services (Don't preach Romans 1), and even websites such as this one.
There are, I am sure, many more. Those which have come to my mind are scary enough.
"non American"?
there's plenty to criticize about Obama and what he represents, some of which was touched upon in this piece, but I'd love to hear what qualifies someone as "non American"?
full disclosure: I cast a write-in vote for George Washington and John Adams.
"Federal laws and regulations which will limit the growth of home schooling and which will tighten controls on private schooling."
I doubt they'll do that but they'll drag my bullet-riddled carcass out of my house with CNN filming it all before my daughter sets foot in a public school. My sons too, but especially my daughter!
They can't make the taxes on ammo high enough.
It is certainly true that we are in for "interesting times," as the Chinese say when referring to political turmoil and oppression. I don't think we should have any illusions about the coming horrors that an institutionalized and police-backed Cultural Marxism will have for our individual freedoms and lives.
On the other hand, we should take a grim satisfaction from the good, hard kick in the teeth that the centrist and accommodationist Republican Party and its neocon puppeteers received. I'll bet the little frat-boy yuppies at National Review are weeping and wailing. And at Commentary they are probably on the phone to Tel Aviv, desperately asking for new orders.
Yet it remains eternally true that trials and tribulations are often the via dolorosa to ultimate triumph. Perhaps the coming four years of garbage will serve to toughen us for a more decisive battle. Remember Nietzsche: "What does not kill me, makes me stronger."
Dr. Hill at #10 has offered the only comment that calms me somewhat after having cast a ballot for Chuck Baldwin and wondering if I did the right thing by doing that and not voting for McCain. We live in a county that is about 50% black and have already encountered some unpleasantness from them in public places today.
Maybe this debacle will wake up a few more people to the truth of our history and the truth of what's been going on for about 160 years more or less.
May God give strength and wisdom to us all, but especially to those in leadership positions like the League of the South, the secession movements and other like-minded folk.
"I’ll bet the little frat-boy yuppies at National Review are weeping and wailing. And at Commentary they are probably on the phone to Tel Aviv, desperately asking for new orders."
New Orders:"Clean out your offices, blame everything on Pat Buchanan and his crowd of crazies and apply for new jobs with the Democrats as centrists."
Apropos the Obama agenda, I suppose it will include his promise to repeal the ban on partial birth abortions. More and more, it seems, we are consolidating a cult of death in this nation. Anti-abortion propositions in Colorado and South Dakota were defeated. Meanwhile, in Oregon and Washington, propositions were passed that would grant a person the right to a physician-assisted suicide. We will have four more years of "legalized" abortions. And, we are blowing people to pieces over seas. If I didn't know better I would say we are living in hell.
"Well-deserved reward?" Unless the Nuremburg principles are false, no reward for the perpetrators of an unjustified war of aggression that kills a million people is well-deserved unless it involves the use of rope. Like Oliver Twist asking for gruel, I say "please, universe, could we have a little more soundness?"
#10 As well it should Mr. Hill, and make sure they get a copy of the latest "Magnolia." A marvelous edition laying waste to the notion that the LOS will rise to the bait of the left's racial taunts, and instead it will swat them cleanly away along with their racial bigotry. The Kennedy's book "Why Not Freedom" should sell very well in the coming years.
American education in the future?
"A Soviet teacher must be guided by the principle of the Party spirit of science; he is obliged not only to be an unbeliever himself, but also to be an active propagandist of godlessness among others...Skilfully and calmly, tactfully and persistently, the Soviet teacher must expose and overcome religious prejudices in the course of his activity in school and out of school, day in and day out."--F.N. Oleschuck, 1949 (Secretary of the League of Militant Atheists)
In one sense we are not as lucky as the Russians, since our "Party spirit" is not science, but multiculturalism. The study of science might actually lead to some truth. I don't even think our multiculturalist and relativist masters have the guts to be atheists. That would require doctrine and dogma. They sure don't make totalitarians like they used to.
#18. Non-American: in this case someone whose father was a visiting citizen of a foreign country. Curiously, amidst all the hoopla, Obama has zero connection with the long history of African-Americans. Of course, a foreign President is simply another sign of empire---it is not possible in a republic.
Mr Frum says this morning that the GOP party needs to change:
"the question for the GOP is: Will it pursue them? To do so will involve painful change, on issues ranging from the environment to abortion. And it will involve potentially even more painful changes of style and tone: toward a future that is less overtly religious, less negligent with policy, and less polarizing on social issues. That’s a future that leaves little room for Sarah Palin – but the only hope for a Republican recovery."
For a real belly laugh read the rest http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/DavidFrum.html
The basic theme is, " Joe the Plumber has turned his back on the GOP, and now the GOP must turn his back on Joe." You can't make this stuff up.
Ladies and gentlemen,
As I posted on an earlier thread, so I post again.
In light of the Obama electoral and cultural coup d'etat, we are down to three choices and only three:
1) Mass suicide
2) Armed revolution
3) The Fatima Consecration
From what I've read on several alternative news websites and fora, many Americans are seriously making plans to emigrate to other lands. Costa Rica, Ireland, Iceland and Malta have been mentioned.
Some others, in their hearts, believe that God has abandoned them big time because of the election. And I fear they will end it all, for they have lost heart and don't want the upcoming regime to persecute them. They don't want to be martyrs or slaves, and have all but lost hope of escaping Hell after death.
Such massive events as these can either strengthen and toughen the human heart or shatter it to pieces. There will be a lot of shattering in the days to come.
John McLk was just doing his job as a born loser, conceding the election before the debates were even over. "maverick" means libtard.
#27 It looks like Sarah Palin is going to be the scapegoat. Silly me, I thought this election was about the Iraq War and the corruption of Wall Street. But at least Mr. Frum sounds honest in that the GOP should quite pretending to be interested in social and cultural issues, and be overt about its support for Wall Street, multiculturalism, and globalism. Principles hardly matter to them, just so long as they can find jobs.
western voices world news says we should continue exploiting the Obamatard affirmative action presidency to garner more support for European-Americans.
Dr. Wilson is correct: Obama is black, but unlike his wife, shares no common roots with the African-American community and its collective history.
A year ago, the line was "he ain't a brotha". The black community was with Hillary - then Obama started winning.
But I'm still not buying the "non-American" bit. What of his mother and her heritage?
"Restores one’s faith in the essential soundness of the universe." And the next episode is the further economic rise of China to world pre-eminence, with the yuan -- possibly backed by gold -- as the world's reserve currency. Obama will continue the Bush regime's turning of America into a second-class country. Americans soon are going to find out what it's like to have their economic destiny controlled by foreigners.
Sounds like National Review is no longer a conservative publication, or one that believes in conservative principles. The GOP lost because it never really had any principles to begin with. It just pandered to a different crowd. Once it had the ring of power, like Gollum it mutated into something hideous!!!!
According to a radio news broadcast which I heard this early evening, the good folk of Kenya were taking the branches of trees to the grave of Obama's father and chanting to his grave, "You have sired a king!"
Out of Africa has come our king, high and lifted up.
George Ajjan @30:
Mr. Ajjan, to be an American is to be connected to its culture, its traditions, and the nation of people who founded them, and to have a common cause with them. This takes a few generations (on BOTH sides and ALL branches of one's family) of living on the land which the American people occupy, being a citizen, and immersing one's self in the real and authentic practices and customs of the American nation. Notwithstanding the fact that there is no single American nation and never was, Mr. Obama does not fit any of these categories. His roots are in Kenya and Indonesia, and his immersion was in the poisonous culture of hatred of middle-class white America and cultural Marxism both of which are firmly established on the campuses of Columbia and Harvard and the streets of Chicago.
Now the GOP will get a very just reward for their crimes against the American people, maybe not the most just reward, which would be execution for treason, but it is a just one nonetheless. This is the time, my good friends at Chronicles, to finish off the GOP once and for all by starting a grassroots revolution to abolish the party and replace it with a real opposition party to the Democrats.
I though the main difference between John and Vladimir was that the latter could carry a tune
Dr. Wilson's point--"Curiously, amidst all the hoopla, Obama has zero connection with the long history of African-Americans,"--is precisely what I have been pondering throughout the entire span of the primaries to now.
Mr. Bruce, you are correct, but National Review has not been genuinely conservative for a long time now.
David Frum is a hilariously twisted figure. I was astonished to hear a nugget of truth with which I agree on CNN, this from Ed Rollins on Lou Dobbs, noting that Karl Rove was indeed the architect of a realignment--for Democrats.
The neocon scapegoating of Sarah Palin, from David Frum to David Brooks, has been nauseating and tedious, much like the entirety of these concluding years of their wishes becoming policy.
Where are the women on these posts. They are so important, as part of todays politics?
The Гимн Советского Союза would make a fine new national anthem for the U.S.S.A.; we just need to change the phrase "O Party of Lenin" to "O Party Of Lincoln."
In searching the "alternative conservative blogosphere," I have to say that at least conservatives have not lost their sense of humor. I laughed out loud at The Western Confucian's post. Granted, I have been drinking heavily for a few hours.
The new anthem has already been written. The Internationale couldn't be more fitting.
You know, I don't know why you Southerns are so steamed about how we Yankees are running the country. You could declare independence, after all, imitating the events of 1776. You could call your new country something like -- let me see -- the Confederate States of America. You could locate the capital in one of your fine towns, such as Richmond. You could write your own Constitution. And, really, you wouldn't even need an army. The United States government has always had good relations with its neighbors, such as Mexico, Canada, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua. And besides, democracies never to go to war with one another.
Robert Bruce@32
Mr. Bruce, National Review has not been a conservative magazine since the mid-1980s, and perhaps even earlier. William F. Buckley made a conscious decision to direct the magazine into total subservience to neocon ideology, and the result is the vampiric shell that goes under the old name.
The most obvious signpost of this change was the firing of the very articulate, perceptive, and popular Joseph Sobran, at the behest of Buckley's new neocon allies in the other journals of opinion. This was a very sordid and underhanded move, Sobran being dismissed solely because some of his opinions didn't please the AIPAC lobby and the Podhoretzes. The second was the quiet blackballing of Pat Buchanan, after he too began to question some of received notions of "centrist" conservatism.
Murray Rothbard claims that this process had an even longer gestation period, going right back to the magazine's founding in 1955. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it is certainly true that there always was an imperialist, Save-The-World tone in much of NR's rhetoric during the Cold War. Such rhetoric easily morphed into the neocon nightmare of Mandatory Enlightenment Liberalism and Secularism for Everybody.
But the larger issue is this: Buckley always arrogated to himself the right to police the conservative movement, and to discipline or excommunicate anyone whom he felt was a little too threatening to his personal ideals of aristocratic politesse. Revilo P. Oliver was eased out, the Birchers were declared anathema, James Jackson Kilpatrick was compelled to abjure his segregationist convictions, and even Frank Meyer got flak from Buckley because he once dared to question our national apotheosis of Abraham Lincoln. How many times did the loathsome Harry V. Jaffa appear in NR's pages, hurling invective against any conservatives who dared question the ideology of equality?
Today, the magazine is a sick joke. I say this as someone who subscribed to NR from 1964 until the early 1990s, and as someone who worked with intense conviction in Buckley's mayoral campaign of 1965, and in his brother's senatorial campaign of 1970. There was a time when NR was a real voice for real conservatism.
That time is long, long gone.
#17 Robert Peters....
Very high taxes on guns and ammo...
Mr Obama advocates the redistribution of wealth. Therefor all state property belongs to we the people. Rather than paying purchase and taxes, we need merely to take what we need, from those who have much and still more.
Mr. Obama would surely approve. As would Morgan, Mosby and Forrest. And besides, we would probably get better weapons than what we get today over the counter.
Further, we of the South have good experience dealing with revenuers. Whats not to like?
Cheer up, dear Friend. The grey clouds will part and the sun will shine again. Forward the Colours...
This thread really underlines the impotence of the traditional right and why the Obama-wing of the Democratic party can look forward to many more victories.
Self-pity, snide remarks, self-righteousness, solipsism, complacency.
One looks almost in vain for people who think that actual engagement is as important to politics as thinking and writing, who have a policy agenda that addresses key issues with some imagination (the graduated legalisation of illegals, without guaranteeing them a vote, and freezing immigration for a generation or more), an attempt to enthuse voters by connecting with them as a populist (like Obama - some paleocons have as much contempt for ordinary Americans as any stock Manhattan liberal, and yet are outraged when the people don't vote the paleo way!), and who appreciate that in an age of mass media the skilful use of slogans and advertising is - however little you may like it - an inseparable part of politics.
No, leave that all to the other guy and then bellyache when he wins.
Brock H. @34:
I don't see how your definition fits Peter Brimelow, Srdja Trifkovic, and others who have featured prominently at "A Magazine of American Culture".
My ancestors decided that they didn’t want to be part of a country that benefited a few at the expense of the rest and, so, left to create their own country. But they were not allowed to this. Through a war that included bombing of unarmed civilians, deliberate starvation of women and children, plundering and pillaging on a scale unknown to the civilized world, they were driven back into the union at the point of the gun. Thus, they were denied the right to self government. Now, as “prisoners of state”, we proud descendents can watch the continuous descent into darkness of this forced union up close and personal.
Received this as email:
Obama at one time or another has supported:
(A) Reparations. Redistributing money from European Americans to blacks, mestizos, and Asians.
(B) Criminalizing white parents who refuse to let their children practice miscegenation.
(C) Using "hate crime" laws to silence any criticism from European Americans.
(D) Using Third World immigration to overwhelm European American majorities.
(E) Expanding anti-white affirmative action programs