Solid analysis as always. However, this is just more non-constructive criticism of the dissident right discussion du jour. Going all the way back to the summer of 2020, here is a list of regular Highly Respected arguments: "National Divorce is bad." "Cold Civil War is bad." "Retreating from the cities is bad." "Not going to college is bad" "We don't blackpill here, we only whitepill" "The only way forward for us is victory" and on and on. There is never any realistic, actionable advice for how to make even a gradual improvement. At best, there is "plan trusting" advice about getting excited about some Nationalist politicians having promising results in primary and general election polling, along with "Our ideas are being discussed more openly than they ever have before".
But my question is, are the Elections even real any more? Was the 2020 election stolen, and if so, was the 2022 election legitimate? The IQ Supplement on the 2022 Election aftermath just took at face value that there was no election chicanery and Republicans just lost fair and square in all of these close elections, probably because of Roe v Wade being overturned, and despite multi-decade highs in inflation and crime. We are told that clearly the American people care more about abortion than their retirement accounts getting cut in half, and all this must be true because the election results say so!
What specifically do you want your readers and listeners to do, to make this country a better place?
So the radical left certainly has plans to seize the homes and 401Ks of white people who oppose wokeness. In case you forgot non-leftists are all "domestic extremists" and fascists and in the aftermath of 1/6/2021 the left wing Democrats put forth a bill that would seize the assets of their political enemies. Major institutions now routinely discriminate against whites with impunity. Wells Fargo has announced that they will not offer home mortgages to white applicants
On top of all of that we are being demographically swamped. But I guess I've vote harder for centrist cucks and run for local school board which is usually the advice that Scott gives to all political problems.
Scott says we must make our country something to be proud of again. Ok, please use that 187 IQ and tell us how that can be done when half the nation hates the old America because it was supposedly racist, sexist and homophobic and slaughtered billions of Indians.
The only part of this I take issue with is that the Left is explicitly anti-American. I think that's on the way out. Yes, there are those who still burn the flag but the vibe I get from normie leftists is pretty MLK-ish: they think that, now that the left has an iron grip on the culture, they are making the American promise come true. Diversity, open borders, reparations, all that stuff is not (to their mind) anti-American but instead it's Who We Really Are. This is also what motivates the bizarre fixation with the Confederacy from people whose families came here in the 1990s - right-wingers r the real anti-Americans. We wuz Yankeez. Otherwise, this is spot on, and the comments dissenting from it only strengthen your case. ("Voting doesn't work! What else are we going to do? I know: do something a billion times more difficult than voting, only with no popular support whatsoever!")
A debate worth having, which I often have with myself. Perhaps when you consider the target of propaganda to be the most fervent, motivated dissidents, rather than clueless milk toast boomers watching football and answering surveys, the calculus changes and the dark horse of wignatism cannot be discounted.
Scott, I know you vaguely touched upon this in your piece (great piece btw), but what about those on the right, specifically the DR who support Russia, China, or any other 2nd/3rd world power to "own the American Regime." I use to subscribe to that sort of belief but as I have evolved intellectually and ideologically, I find that sort of belief to be nihilistic and edgy. Shilling for another country to own our leaders comes across to me as unpatriotic and disgusting as an American (Magic American is how I'm described on the census). But what are your thoughts on this belief and how does it contribute to the RW-Anti-Americanism you described in this article.
Solid analysis as always. However, this is just more non-constructive criticism of the dissident right discussion du jour. Going all the way back to the summer of 2020, here is a list of regular Highly Respected arguments: "National Divorce is bad." "Cold Civil War is bad." "Retreating from the cities is bad." "Not going to college is bad" "We don't blackpill here, we only whitepill" "The only way forward for us is victory" and on and on. There is never any realistic, actionable advice for how to make even a gradual improvement. At best, there is "plan trusting" advice about getting excited about some Nationalist politicians having promising results in primary and general election polling, along with "Our ideas are being discussed more openly than they ever have before".
But my question is, are the Elections even real any more? Was the 2020 election stolen, and if so, was the 2022 election legitimate? The IQ Supplement on the 2022 Election aftermath just took at face value that there was no election chicanery and Republicans just lost fair and square in all of these close elections, probably because of Roe v Wade being overturned, and despite multi-decade highs in inflation and crime. We are told that clearly the American people care more about abortion than their retirement accounts getting cut in half, and all this must be true because the election results say so!
What specifically do you want your readers and listeners to do, to make this country a better place?
So the radical left certainly has plans to seize the homes and 401Ks of white people who oppose wokeness. In case you forgot non-leftists are all "domestic extremists" and fascists and in the aftermath of 1/6/2021 the left wing Democrats put forth a bill that would seize the assets of their political enemies. Major institutions now routinely discriminate against whites with impunity. Wells Fargo has announced that they will not offer home mortgages to white applicants
On top of all of that we are being demographically swamped. But I guess I've vote harder for centrist cucks and run for local school board which is usually the advice that Scott gives to all political problems.
Scott says we must make our country something to be proud of again. Ok, please use that 187 IQ and tell us how that can be done when half the nation hates the old America because it was supposedly racist, sexist and homophobic and slaughtered billions of Indians.
The only part of this I take issue with is that the Left is explicitly anti-American. I think that's on the way out. Yes, there are those who still burn the flag but the vibe I get from normie leftists is pretty MLK-ish: they think that, now that the left has an iron grip on the culture, they are making the American promise come true. Diversity, open borders, reparations, all that stuff is not (to their mind) anti-American but instead it's Who We Really Are. This is also what motivates the bizarre fixation with the Confederacy from people whose families came here in the 1990s - right-wingers r the real anti-Americans. We wuz Yankeez. Otherwise, this is spot on, and the comments dissenting from it only strengthen your case. ("Voting doesn't work! What else are we going to do? I know: do something a billion times more difficult than voting, only with no popular support whatsoever!")
A debate worth having, which I often have with myself. Perhaps when you consider the target of propaganda to be the most fervent, motivated dissidents, rather than clueless milk toast boomers watching football and answering surveys, the calculus changes and the dark horse of wignatism cannot be discounted.
Time to warn the masses about a Hugo Chavez 2 and not a character act like Schwab.
Scott, I know you vaguely touched upon this in your piece (great piece btw), but what about those on the right, specifically the DR who support Russia, China, or any other 2nd/3rd world power to "own the American Regime." I use to subscribe to that sort of belief but as I have evolved intellectually and ideologically, I find that sort of belief to be nihilistic and edgy. Shilling for another country to own our leaders comes across to me as unpatriotic and disgusting as an American (Magic American is how I'm described on the census). But what are your thoughts on this belief and how does it contribute to the RW-Anti-Americanism you described in this article.