If you haven’t noticed, our side has been losing consistently since 1988. We can win midterms, but we do nothing with them. Call ours Hannibalic victories. After the Carthaginian’s famous slaughter of a Roman army at Cannae, he failed to march on an undefended Rome, prompting his cavalry commander to complain: “you know how to win a victory, but not how to use one.” And, aside from 2004’s lackluster 50.7%, we can’t win the big ones at all.
Because the deck is stacked overwhelmingly against us. I will mention but three ways. First, the opinion-making elements–the universities and the media above all–are wholly corrupt and wholly opposed to everything we want, and increasingly even to our existence. (What else are the wars on “cis-genderism”–formerly known as “nature”–and on the supposed “white privilege” of broke hillbillies really about?) If it hadn’t been abundantly clear for the last 50 years, the campaign of 2015-2016 must surely have made it evident to even the meanest capacities that the intelligentsia–including all the organs through which it broadcasts its propaganda–is overwhelmingly partisan and biased. Against this onslaught, “conservative” media is a nullity, barely a whisper. It cannot be heard above the blaring of what has been aptly called “The Megaphone.”
Second, our Washington Generals self-handicap and self-censor to an absurd degree. Lenin is supposed to have said that “the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” But with an opposition like ours, why bother? Our “leaders” and “dissenters” bend over backward to play by the self-sabotaging rules the Left sets for them. Fearful, beaten dogs have more thymos.
Third and most important, the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle. As does, of course, the U.S. population, which only serves to reinforce the two other causes outlined above. This is the core reason why the Left, the Democrats, and the bipartisan junta (categories distinct but very much overlapping) think they are on the cusp of a permanent victory that will forever obviate the need to pretend to respect democratic and constitutional niceties. Because they are.
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The sacredness of mass immigration is the mystic chord that unites America’s ruling and intellectual classes. Their reasons vary somewhat. The Left and the Democrats seek ringers to form a permanent electoral majority. They, or many of them, also believe the academic-intellectual lie that America’s inherently racist and evil nature can be expiated only through ever greater “diversity.” The junta of course craves cheaper and more docile labor. It also seeks to legitimize, and deflect unwanted attention from, its wealth and power by pretending that its open borders stance is a form of noblesse oblige. The Republicans and the “conservatives”? Both of course desperately want absolution from the charge of “racism.” For the latter, this at least makes some sense. No Washington General can take the court–much less cash his check–with that epithet dancing over his head like some Satanic Spirit. But for the former, this priestly grace comes at the direct expense of their worldly interests. Do they honestly believe that the right enterprise zone or charter school policy will arouse 50.01% of our newer voters to finally reveal their “natural conservatism” at the ballot box? It hasn’t happened anywhere yet and shows no signs that it ever will. But that doesn’t stop the Republican refrain: more, more, more! No matter how many elections they lose, how many districts tip forever blue, how rarely (if ever) their immigrant vote cracks 40%, the answer is always the same. Just like Angela Merkel after yet another rape, shooting, bombing, or machete attack. More, more, more!
This is insane. This is the mark of a party, a society, a country, a people, a civilization that wants to die. Trump, alone among candidates for high office in this or in the last seven (at least) cycles, has stood up to say: I want to live. I want my party to live. I want my country to live. I want my people to live. I want to end the insanity.
“… charge the cockpit or you die.”
Ken;
Yes the battle is lost but progressives were not the sole reason. IMHO Conservatives have never had a clear philosophical message that they could communicate. On top of that they never truly combated progressive strong holds like education and media.
What will likely correct this defeat will be capitalism’s inevitable collapse. As many here have pointed out it will be very ugly. I am preparing for this inevitable end and won’t make much effort to avoid it. I will worry more about family and how they will survive all this.
Progressives will not take responsibility for what will happen. Hopefully people will see through the BS.
being a true conservative requires a level of morality that few possess these days. as abtrapper said conservativism has been dead in Canada for 75 years, my life span, he is correct. CT the message of conservatism is freedom, freedom of the individual and if that is not clear then the people are not intelligent enough to be free. they want someone to think for them and hand them back some of the money that they have worked for. I have seen very few politicians in this country that I have had any respect for, the majority are buffoons and fools much like the electorate. we are on a course that will cause a great deal of pain for people yet very few can even be bothered to think past their own gimmie attitude. I do not see it ending well.
“… charge the cockpit or you die.”
This thread, and too many of the responses, shows exactly why “conservatives” keep having their asses handed to them, time and time again.
In the expression above from Kate, progressives would say, “Hell yes, lets grab the controls and take this puppy where we want it to go!” Conservatives sit over the wing or at the back of the plane and say, “eh, we all doomed anyway, so we might as well enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts.”
Conservatism is dying because most faux cons couldn’t give a damn, and are too cowardly to fight their way back (including many of the “stalwarts” on this blog), and on this thread.
McMaster calls Trump a “buffoon”, but who’s the real buffoon? Trump, using his own money and his own resources, and no political experience, owns this campaign. Too many #nevertrumpers and faux conservatives have already surrendered, even before the battle has completed. Most of these don’t deserve to win. Relishing the “we told you so” wake seems more important to most of them.
So I ask them, “Where are you going to run to? There’s no place left to cower in.”
“The Left and the Democrats seek ringers to form a permanent electoral majority. They, or many of them, also believe the academic-intellectual lie that America’s inherently racist and evil nature can be expiated only through ever greater “diversity.” ”
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sounds like the mentality on display over here in Germany where I am; diversity and immigration= good; any kind of nationalism and objection to diversity=bad
You can read it between the lines in the newspaper articles and hear homage paid to it in every utterance coming from politicians’ mouths and see it every day in the programming of the state-run TV (ARD/ZDF).
An article in die Welt yesterday (after the major election win by the AfD party)was about just that: how current nationalist movements are similar to racist movements of the past.
“They, or many of them, also believe the academic-intellectual lie that America’s inherently racist and evil nature can be expiated only through ever greater “diversity.” ”
Lord Sacks had an interesting article in the Telegraph on how civilizations die:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/06/falling-birth-rates-could-spell-end-of-the-west—lord-sacks/
In he mentions how western civilization is dying because of the low birthrates and how the attempt to substitute the lack of native Europeans with immigrants will fail, because they cannot pass on European culture.
“McMaster calls Trump a “buffoon”, but who’s the real buffoon? ”
The real buffoons are the ones who can’t see that recklessness most often results in wrecks.
So true … so true. And this IDIOT nation has given him the ability to do it. To ERASE all the good that America has done by the blood of our citizens. I expect Obama to occupy a prominent place in HELL.