The newspaper reader says: this political party will ruin itself if it makes mistakes like this. My higher politics says: a party that makes mistakes like this is already finished – it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Well said Fred!

You may think the same already, but I’ll just write here that the differences between the writings of Mr. Anton and Mr. Lowry are not so much across a divide between intelligent and stupid, but more likely across a divide of brave and cowardly.

I’m not sure if many regular Americans will see either of the columns you discussed, but I believe we are split along a divide ourselves with or without reading these 2 pundits. It’s a much bigger divide than that one between the Founding Fathers and King George.

That all said, I’ll read Mr. Anton’s column tomorrow. Mr. Lowry can go screw.

Frederick March plays the President in “Seven Days in May,” a film about an imminent takeover of the country, which March is against. March says to his assembled advisers: “This will be the plan of procedure.” And then he specifies the actual conduct of the plan of procedure.

Also in the film, another scene. Kirk Douglas insinuates to Frederick March his knowledge of the severity of the threat. March replies: “Do you have anything against the English language?”

Anton? Derb? Anyone?

The writer of this Op-Ed is arguing that Republican anti-crime propaganda is not racist, just legitimate policy criticism. That’s a fair thing to argue.

The only real game-changer would be say it is race-ist and to redefine race-ism properly.

Ism means belief, and race + ism should mean belief in the reality of race and racial differences, plus the need for racial consciousness.

What’s the difference between ‘race-ial’ and ‘race-ist’?

Some will say race + ist is white racial supremacist, but ‘ism’ doesn’t mean any such.

If something is ‘ial’, its acknowledgement leads to ‘ism’.

If reality is spatial, you better be spacist because spatiality is real. We need to believe in the reality of space, which would make us space-ist.

If reality is racial or race-ial, once we take notice and believe in the reality, we naturally become race-ist.

-Ism follows from -ial. -Ial is as things are, and -ism is a conceptualization of the -iality.

The left-right dichotomy doesn’t exist in the West, it is Zionist Jews on both sides. They use the media to divide and conquer.

Vdare endlessly talks about Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, South Asians, so they must be smart about race, yet they never mention Jews, who are behind the discord, nor ether fact that Jews control politics and media and have engineered the low quality of both.

Don’t vote Republican or Democrat, vote Green or Libertarian, not with the expectation they win, instead knowing full well that each vote for one of those 2 parties is a giant middle finger to the system that indicates you took toe and effort to muddle their election show that you don’t even have confidence in.

Not voting doesn’t upset them, they engineered the media to get intelligent people apathetic to politics. And voting Republican or Democrat means you are just a rube taken in by their spectacle to, because you are.

tell everyone to vote libertarian or green depending on their politics.

The total failure of HBD to penetrate the white smart fraction will be the downfall of America.

Google just deleted a photo I saved on my mobile of Putin with lots of schoolboy footballers., 🙄🙄🙄

I like to look at race issues through the lens of Thomas Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed. Sowell describes America as consisting of the Anointed, the Benighted, and the Mascots.

Ruling-class whites are the Anointed, therefore we cannot be wrong because we are Anointed by History as the priests of justice.

Therefore if, say, blacks kill other Americans at about ten times the rate that whites kill other Americans it must be the fault of the Benighted.

It couldn’t be the fault of blacks, because blacks are ruling-class Mascots.

Of course, what can be said of the RNC can be said of the DNC, can be said of the USA. That they’ll all fail, or are failing. But I don’t think that’s what really worries people. Because I don’t think there’s enough people left to even care in the first place. What really concerns them is that they don’t know what to do next.

It’s not that they can’t predict what those who hate the United States in general, and White people in particular, are going to do. They’re doing it. No. It’s that those who don’t hate the United States in general, and White people in particular, can’t predict what they will do.

This is what has always struck fear in the heart most individuals and probably all groups, ie; not knowing what to do next. It’s the price they have to pay for their obsession with stability at all costs. They become maladaptive. Literally. Too concerned with making their behavior more predictable, they make it less free, and so can’t adapt to a changing environment fast making both their most cherished beliefs and themselves as irrelevant as a giant pile of rotary phones.

That’s what you get when you stubbornly refuse to question your own beliefs and foolishly believe yourself to be totally adequate in the face of any and all situations. In short, Pride Before The Fall. The illusion of total adequacy. Strong convictions and the belief-systems they support tend to do this to people. And now we’re back to why the RNC, DNC, and USA will all fail, and not just them. Because this certainly seems to be a human problem.

Perhaps after the euphoria of their Ding Dong The White Witch Is Dead celebration starts to fade and reality sets in, as it always does, people throughout the world, or some of them at least, will begin to grasp the pattern behind the failure, and as they do that failure will spread globally. Not that the pattern of failure will start, but that the pattern that’s already there will be recognized. Simply because it’ll be impossible to miss. There’s certainly a lot of evidence for this for anyone who cares to look.

Put bluntly, what will be recognized is that the human race itself is a biologically maladpative species.

This explains why even the most powerful countries in the world today are so dependent on propaganda and censorship. To borrow a phrase from Steve Sailer, not just antiwhite, anti-American hatred, but propaganda and censorship as well, is the crazy glue holding those countries together, in terms of their foreign, domestic and economic policies (though you’d think people that powerful, like China and Israel, for example, wouldn’t be so fearful).

But again, maybe total global collapse isn’t such a bad thing. Perhaps, paradoxically, total collapse is our only chance for survival. Well, for some at least. Obviously not everyone’s going to make it. But let’s face it folks, the gap between those who say they care about the world and those who actually do is very great indeed. Perhaps there are none. Besides, we’re all going to die eventually anyway. So why whimper?

For some, maybe most, this state of affairs is too much to overcome, because it’s too much to bear. But for more courageous spirits it might represent an opportunity. It very well may be.

In any event, if it’s true that Things fall apart because the centre cannot hold, then The readiness is all.

““Vulnerable communities.” Which communities are those?”

Anyplace violent criminals can travel to. Between stolen cars and public transit, they are actively mobile, always casing for easy swag to steal and soft people to attack. You think you can move away from them and their evil acts? They will follow.

Conservatives have done nothing for decades except put up phony opposition to the Jewish left before ultimately surrendering in addition to punching right and tone policing the right. American politics is kosher right vs. kosher left with the kosher left being the Harlem Globetrotters and kosher right the Washington Generals.

2. White-on-white crime = standard American jurisprudence.

Kyle Rittenhouse received standard American jurisprudence but only because his assailants were white. The case shouldn’t even have gone to trial based on the facts but social justice and political wokeness has now superseded the Constitution so it did. Had Rittenhouse shot and killed (he missed) the one black rioter who tried to attack him chances are he’d be in prison right now as well as facing “civil rights” charges for defending himself against a violent black rioter.

“Instead of jailing fewer black criminals in pursuit of “equity,” we should be jailing more in pursuit of safe streets and equal justice under the law.”

That sentence is a bridge too far to me.

It sure reads like JD is advocating taking race into consideration in deciding who goes to jail. I doubt that is what he actually mean to say but I AM pretty sure it will be interpreted that way and offered as proof that JD is a racist.

What’s wrong with just saying that people who break the law should go to jail regardless of race? Is that considered “race denialism”?

I’m sure that TPTB will be appalled and aghast at such a blow to their power and legitimacy, assuming that they noticed your raised semaphore–and assuming that legitimacy means anything to them. Your slanted pinkie–oops, giant middle finger–is sure to indicate to the Septic Tank Creatures that it’s time to fold ’em, before the whole structure implodes. Better yet, let’s all eleven of us conduct our own write-in campaigns. That’ll show ’em.

Rich is a decent guy so far as personal character is concerned; but he is Establishment-GOP down to his boot-heels, and keeps a set of salad tongs close to hand.

This makes no sense. He’s a liar, a coward, and a cuck. So, what kind of personal character does he have?

If anything, his ‘decency’ is what makes him so weak, a GOP version of CucKen Burns, another ‘nice guy’.

Guys who are so mindful of being ‘nice’ and ‘liked’ tend to lack personal character. They are suck-asses, and that’s why Bill Buckley chose him. Lousy Lowry is a suck-ass whore.

The only way Nat Review can redeem itself is by running with the cover:

IT’S THE NI**ERS WHO ARE ROBBING, RAPING, AND MURDERING, AND HELL YEAH, WE ARE RACE-IST ABOUT THE TRUTH!!!!
with of course the sub-heading, “But we appreciate righteous negroes like Thomas Sowell because they don’t think or act like the ni**ers.”

If the imposition of criminal laws were racially neutral in practice and whites and blacks were punished equally for committing the same crimes under the same circumstances (the nature and severity of the offense, prior criminal records), far more blacks would be in jail and prison and far fewer whites would be jailed and imprisoned.

Not nearly enough violent recidivist black criminals are in prison and far too many whites, including first offenders, are in prison for nonviolent and often victimless and malum prohibitum felonies.

Instead of jailing fewer black criminals in pursuit of “equity,” we should be jailing more in pursuit of safe streets and equal justice under the law.

“Corrections” is a hopelessly left-wing enterprise. Try the workhouse, the pillory, chemical castration, exile, or other, actually effective, punishments.

I believe the facts: Whites are intellectually and behaviorally superior to blacks. If more whites would accept racism as being logical and truthful, then Jews and white liberals would have far less power over us racial realists.

The problem is the both the Green and Libertarian parties are even MORE dedicated to the globalist policies that our corporate masters demand. Does either party oppose open borders? Endorse race realism? Denounce the transgender agenda? A few brave members may oppose US aid to Israel, because Palestinian rights, but you can be sure they’re totally marginalized. I know, I’m an ex-libertarian.

I like to quote Vox Day: racism is not a sin.

I used to listen to the national review podcasts because they were well spoken, and I suppose bc I could find nothing better to hear. Then after January 6 I heard the English guy—not sure which is which—say that January 6 was an event as bad as 9/11! Haven’t listened since, will never give them another penny. That’s when they crossed from suck ass cucks to traitors in my book. I understand they have to stay within certain bounds to remain in news stands, and there is an advantage in that as a gateway element, but there was no need to cross over to the enemy like that.

Voting for either green or libertarian would send a strong message.

As for libertarians and open borders, I think open borders would be a problem that solves itself in a nation with nation wide castle doctrine and no firearms restrictions and string property rights. I think Guatemalans will think twice about entering a heavily armed country with legal concealed carry and a libertarian minded justice system, plus the abolition of drug laws. Also they wouldn’t get too high of a wage.

The current system is anarcho-tyranny where Japanese with college degrees have to fill out paperwork and get a company to sponsor them then wait for the government to process their work visa in order to work in the US. while the US hands them out like candy to Haitians, Venezuelans and Central Americans merely for being from shithole countries.

my larger point is that libertarians and greens winning votes is a big loss of legitimacy of the system and deep state.

recently the libertarian Mises caucus took over the libertarian party so start looking into it again.

I just can’t imagine what a brain dead, unimaginative, bloodless person votes for Democrats or Republicans, to the point of getting emotional about it. only a complete fucking retard would vote Dem or Rep.

But I can’t advocate not voting since that sends a message of consent to the system. so vote Libertarian or Green. of course there are other things you can do like organise and spread the word, but if you can’t do that at least vote to send a message that you have no confidence in the duopoly.

Good for Anton for raising the question of properly resisting tyranny. ConInc. won’t do it.

Then after January 6 I heard the English guy—not sure which is which—say that January 6 was an event as bad as 9/11!

Could be referring to the number of lies told.

Does Michael Anton Get It Wrong Calling for Revolution as Sole Virtuous Option to Tyranny?

In the September 26 issue of the online American Greatness website, former Trump presidential advisor Michael Anton poses the question of “What Does Fidelity to Our Founding Principles Require Today?” Anton answers that “revolution” is the only response to the current Leftist tyranny running the country in opposition to the long-standing conservative norms of “passivity, the civic religion of turning the other cheek, bending their knees and enduring the beatings,” as virtues “forever”. Anton cites the liberal-stereotyped evil political thinker Niccolo Machiavelli as the rationale for such revolution:

Anton: “For there is no recourse to a higher principle of law, then there is no other choice. To borrow from Machiavelli, the ‘effectual truth’ of conservative pusillanimity (timidity) about the right of revolution is perpetual self-subjugation to tyranny. (Machiavelli’s) “weasels, compromisers, mediocrities, and losers”.

What Anton omits is any discussion of the current ongoing, world-wide class war at the base of such tyranny and what Machiavelli had to say about such class “tumults” (see Michael Lind, The New Class War, 2020. For the class conflict in the city-state of Florence, Italy in the 1500’s was not that much different than todays. But Machiavelli advocated a much different way to overcome class conflict than merely tyranny on one hand and revolution on the other: deception. However, Anton curiously doesn’t even touch on another option to resolving class conflict, even though he is known as a Machiavelli scholar bar none. But Anton’s mentor to Machiavelli was Leo Strauss of the so-called conservative Claremont Institute, who, in Machiavellian fashion, wrongly made Machiavelli out as irreligious and a teacher of wickedness.

The ruling class in Florence in the 1500’s were the business merchants who opposed the super-rich Ottimati (Optimates: Medici’s, Borgia’s) who both opposed the Popolo (the People). The cessation of its class battles would not be realized until three centuries later. We need to be reminded that the Popolo finally did take up arms against the oligarchs during the decline of the Roman Empire. As in Florence, the current tyrants don’t even give off a Machiavellian perceptual appearance of virtuousness, to wit President Biden and his dual-citizenship cabinet with no loyalty to the Constitution. Class hatred by such tyrannical rulers engenders solidarity in one’s own social class but ruination for the state.

One of the purposes of Machiavelli writing his infamous book The Prince was not to teach evil, as current both conservative intellectuals and liberal movie makers and novelists believe, but how leaders could use the virtues of the people to achieve and maintain their leadership of the state during external wars or contentious internal conflicts. Machiavelli asserted that both classes lack the type of virtue necessary given the situation at hand in such class conflicts.

Anton accurately points out for example that the political virtues extolled by the People are passivity even in the face of near state-manufactured genocide and conversely tyrannical leaders abandoning even the appearance of virtuousness toward the people. As in 16th century Florence, both sides are, to use a modern term, “virtue signaling”. But each class champions the wrong virtues even for their own self-interest, let alone the endurance of the state. This explains why Machiavelli championed an absence of morality and embracing a pure consequential approach, for which he was dubbed as amoral, evil and “Machiavellian”.

Machiavelli: “Therefore, it is necessary for a Prince, if he wants to preserve himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it as necessity dictates” (Chapter XV, The Prince).

Virtuosity cannot be expected from the masses and equally cannot be maintained by tyrannical leaders. To this, Anton would probably agree as it is the thesis of his article. But is there is a place for deceptive practices between tyranny and revolution?

Current day American conservative leaders lambast “lying”, even when such might lead to a better outcome for all (see Rod Dreher, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, 2020). Machiavelli might say if the deception option is not taken, a leader will lose his legitimacy and the state will lose its sovereignty. This “Machiavellian” consequentialist stance is in striking contrast to classical political thinking, such as that of the American founders, embraced by Anton. Lest I be misunderstood, I am not saying, however, that Biden doesn’t lie enough. What I am saying is that hypocrisy and deception can sometimes work better where force or honesty doesn’t (see Ruth W. Grant, Hypocrisy and Integrity, 1997).

Machiavelli even wrote a play titled Mandragola (from mandrake root, a poison) where a wealthy couple, an old husband with a beautiful young wife, cannot bear a child. A middleman posing as a doctor arranges for a gigolo to sleep with the beautiful wife under a ruse and a child is conceived to the delight of all, irrespective of the immorality. The point of Machiavelli’s play was not to champion immorality, but that there are circumstances that necessitate deception. As Raymond Angelo Bellioti points out in his book Machiavelli’s Secret, Machiavelli never wrote the ends justify the means, but the ends might justify the means but only in an emergency. In all other normal situations, Machiavelli advocated conventional religious morality should prevail.

A lack of virtue can be excused if the state survives. The presenting problem with the Leftist Obama-run shadow government of Biden, is that the current tyranny obviously wants the state to fail and the Middle Class decimated. Biden keeps trying to make the People into second class citizens who have no Constitutional protections and can be criminalized, medically murdered, raped and murdered, or incarcerated with torturous physical punishment, all with impunity. This is why Machiavelli said that rule by Fear must ideally be bound with Love or neither will work. The deceptive Obama shadow government is heading toward civil war and failure but because it wants to destroy the sovereignty and legitimacy of the state. So, deception without seeking good consequences for the People, is likely to fail. There is no guarantee that deception itself, however, will succeed without a virtuous leader willing to sacrifice himself for the nation.

Yes, revolution and civil appears to be the only viable option. But is there a viable deceptive option other than the current destructive Obama-run shadow government?

In the propaganda battle leading up to the November midterms…

They’re not “midterms”, they’re regular Congressional elections, just like two years ago. Even Ron Paul makes this error.

What are mid-term elections, in your view? Whose “term” does “mid-term” refer to?

Whose “term” does “mid-term” refer to?

It refers to that of the incumbent president. Presidents are elected to four-year terms.

Elections to Congressional offices take place biennially. The entire House of Representatives faces election every two years, while Senate terms are for six years with one-third of the Senate facing election at each biennium.

In generally accepted usage, a “mid-term” election is one in which the incumbent president, half-way through his four-year term, is not on the ballot.

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Whose “term” does “mid-term” refer to?

It refers to that of the incumbent president.

That’s what makes the (pardon me) term bogus. We shouldn’t be making Congress subordinate to the Executive, even figuratively. World Cup-year elections are equal to Summer Olympic-year elections in every way. There is no distinction.

Those years divisible by four have the extra complication of cognitive interference from the presidential race, but that evens out with the Senate over time, and all the Reps are up every two years, so it’s irrelevant with them.

RadicalCenter is right to complain. (I’m assuming his ignorance was feigned.)

On that theme: if you had been in my kitchen Tuesday morning watching me scarf down my breakfast oatmeal

Oatmeal? Oatmeal is inedible without some cream and powdered sugar, with cinnamon optional. You ought to go light on all those carbs. I take it Mrs. Debyshire isn’t fixing you a Full English.