Tribes. Whittle at his best.

…isn’t it kind of surprising how often Whittle “at his best” …is?

It kind of makes me think that either a) I’ve been reading Whittle “at his normal” (leaving me wondering what his best would even be like), or b) my understanding of what “best” is kind of needs a make-over.

Tribes

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So I’m not persuaded by any arguments whatsoever about holding course with the GOP. You can try and make ‘em. Maybe you can get me to change my mind.

It’s too late for that last part.

Frankly, I think the GOP is done. They no longer represent my cultural, economic, or social interests. Even when they win.

Agreed. 2012 was their last chance, and they failed. The Republican leadership makes no secret of their hostility towards social conservatives, libertarians, the Tea Party, or any other kind of genuine grassroots movement. They have no guiding principles whatsoever. All they want is a seat at the table of power, the same as the European “conservative” parties.

The Republican Party is hemorrhaging voters, and that process will accelerate. I predict that they will lose the House in 2014.

On top of that, our electoral system is thoroughly corrupt, from open primaries to lack of voter ID to unchallenged vote fraud. Even the UN observers thought it was a joke. Roll that around in your mind for a while.

What remains of the American middle class has no more chance of voting the Left out of power than the remnants of the Venezuelan middle class do.

…with Thanks to Steven F. Hayward in the Dec.3rd National Review,”O Fortuna: Victory and defeat are likewise impermanent”.

Because the more interesting question is: What is our course of action, when it really IS “too late”?

You see, that’s the rather obvious (I should think) weak point of the argument that froggie is making:

…once a majority of the US population—no matter how slim—has tasted the poisonous fruits of the State, they will demand the keys to the cornucopia and regard with disdain, scorn or hostility any soul brave or foolish enough to call it unsustainable and propose to lock the larder. The fact that you are right will not matter at all

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Some of us absolutely accept froggie’s reasoning.

We accepted it when Alexis de Tocqueville originally made it, actually. And some of us prefer it in all its myriad originals. We do know our history after all, after all.

We just didn’t think we’d see it.

But …some of us …are beginning to think that attempting to lock the paddock when the horse’s have all fled is a wee bit “too little, too late”.

At the least, it’s rather disingenuous as argument.

Granted, you might disagree that the point has been reached. But it seems counter-intuitive given the recent election results and Obamacare that at least those of us staring at an empty corral filled with nothing but horse poo might be “post-” froggie’s position.

And wondering what the hell comes next.

Surely I’m still open to persuasion that the bloody damn horses haven’t fled …but not one based upon froggie’s argument.

It’s not “defeatism” to recognize the battlespace has shifted.

Inferior forces can only win wars by shifting to a guerrilla warfare strategy.

The best damn tacticians in warfare history still all needed to recognize the facts on the ground.

Argue me that as raison d’être, and not some platitude about supposed defeatism.

You see, I accept we’ve …well, lost actually, if you will.

What I’m hearing from the GOP strategists and the party is not encouraging me to believe that they have the best interests of the middle class in mind, let alone Persons of Pallor.

So I’m not persuaded by any arguments whatsoever about holding course with the GOP. You can try and make ‘em. Maybe you can get me to change my mind.

But it won’t be based upon an argument of “staying the course” that is proving absolutely baseless as being an effective predictor of political outcome in the near term OR the long term.

Frankly, I think the GOP is done. They no longer represent my cultural, economic, or social interests. Even when they win.

Just so. I think I’m rather done, too.

O’ Captain, my Captain, wherefore art thou O’ Captain …

But not voting, or voting for the opponent, is nothing less than conservative suicide. I am sick and tired of arguing about this, and won’t do so here, because I’ve done it so many times before. I’ll let the dissident frogman do it for me (I have substituted a few political terms in the following, and you should substitute the word “conservative” for “libertarian”):

So hear this, Friends of Gary the Third Party and other Principled Abstentionists: by choosing ideological purity over strategic thinking, you’ve effectively hedged your own political future in the one competing force that is most capable of propelling you into irrelevance and oblivion—as we say in France: Bravo!

Just as in France, once a majority of the US population—no matter how slim—has tasted the poisonous fruits of the State, they will demand the keys to the cornucopia and regard with disdain, scorn or hostility any soul brave or foolish enough to call it unsustainable and propose to lock the larder. The fact that you are right will not matter at all. Just as they do in France, the people will ask for more and tout de suite, never realizing or willing to acknowledge that they are effectively cannibalizing themselves and their offspring—as we’ve been saying in France for quite a while: Après moi le Déluge!

Thank in no small part to you, Obama now has more time to multiply the locusts, thus depleting your future ranks. You shall keep fancying yourselves as The Smart Ones, when compared to those Neanderthaloid [RINOs] and Liberal Zombies, until one of you wonders aloud why the lights went off in the Libertarian cave, and hears only the echo in answer.

So showing white males the respect shown to groups whose intellectual achievements are, to be polite, all ahead of them, would not seem inappropriate.

…or something.

Pretty easy to look around and see the direction tribalism inevitably ends up at**. And civilization ain’t it.

At least, not a civilization that we’d recognize. Or want.

The Democrats …the rich and powerful of both parties, really …have a problem. Of their own making. Not that that is gonna make a snowflake-in-hell’s difference to the rest of us.

Once you’ve fed all the sheep to the wolf, what you gonna do when he gets hungry again?

Just sayin’.

I have a prediction.

Democrats of a certain “genetic ethnicity” will – at the last, when it’s too late – finally join the Republican party (you know, the party of Old White Guys). Almost all of the remaining free ones, at least. Their remnants left in the Urban Enclaves will be …hmm, how can I put this? – Do you think it’s okay to say “house slaves” without being racist, if you’re referring to Persons of Pallor of Northern European ancestry? Or would that be impolitic?

Am I just being a dystopian idealist today or what!

/lulz

I have another prediction.

Nope. Not gonna verbalize that one. Nosiree bob. Out loud, at least. That surely would be impolitic

On a different subject. Maybe.

Heh.

Time to ammo up. Before “they” tax rounds. (Which will be …oh, let’s call it two days …after the next Supreme Court justice is appointed.)

**See Rwanda, 1994. Hmm. Am I being too alarmist? – HAHAHA. I jest. Of course I’m not being too alarmist.

Frankly, since secession of Texas (and other states) ain’t gonna happen, if I was in my early 20′s, I’d be searching the world for the most conservative country with legal and cultural traditions most like the Anglo-Celtic ones that built the USA, and I’d move there if they’d let me in.

This country is going to Hell in a hand basket.