Friday, August 30, 2013

A fantasy question

I dropped some of my thinking on the comments box* over at Gay Patriot yesterday. Sort of a farewell to conservatism. Not, of course, to submit to Liberalism, but because conservatism does not seem strong enough to oppose it. Contemporary American conservatism is too infected with liberalism, especially their blind adherence to "equality" as a sacred trumps-all value. Their terror at being labelled "racists" --a lost cause-- and their consequent ritual worship of faux-Doctor Martin Luther King, the Black Trojan Horse, is emblematic.

The question behind my comments takes the form of a fantasy (as does so much of Ex Cathedra):



At a press conference some weeks after the 2012 catastrophe presidential election, Mr Romney is on the dais with the other heavies in the Republican Party leadership, Ryan, Boehner, etc. A young reporter gets up and speaks:
Mr. Romney, in the recent election, fully 90% of your votes came from White Americans. 90%. Nine out of ten. And just shy of 60% of White America supported you and your party, a clear majority of that race. And, if only White votes had been counted, you would have won about 40 states out of 50.
Why then, especially in view of our race's approaching minority status in mid-century, will you and your party not take this as a mandate and embrace the important role of being the only mainstream group who can advocate for our race, for White Americans?
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*PS. The comment, here:
I don’t comment much here, especially in the last year, because I can’t really call myself a gay conservative anymore and I don’t want to abuse GayPatriots’ hospitality.
Conservatism –and by that I do not mean the head-shakingly feckless and useless GOP–has come to seem to me just a rear-guard stalling and losing action hobbled by its acceptance of earlier forms of liberalism, including an attachment to the obsolete and pie-in-the-sky notion of a “colorblind society.” The only people trying to be color-blind are nice White people –The Most Foolish People On The Planet– who are blind to the dynamics of their dispossession and displacement. 
The desire to claim some kind of connection with an imagined color-blind MLK and his “dream” is part of it: conservatives’ terror of facing up to the insolubility of the race issue and forever trying to escape from the inescapable accusation of “racism.” (Which is just like trying to prove you’re not a witch.) 
90% of Mitt Romney’s votes came from White people. 90%. Because conservatives have renounced their original sin of “racism” –the Liberal equivalent of “witchcraft”– they are unable even to think of this as any kind of mandate to advocate for the only people who vote for them, instead pathetically “reaching out” to alien Latinos who resent and will never trust them. “Conservatism” has no electoral base at all outside Whites. The only people who acknowledge that are our enemies. Doesn’t make it any less true. 
“Dr” King –who plagiarized most of his PhD thesis, btw– led a movement that has slipped a knife into the heart of this nation, getting Whites to see themselves as without any moral standing or self-confident racial status, so that they can be manipulated into self-erasure, becoming a plundered minority in the land that their people created. 
“MLK” only cared about his own people. All his sanctimonious blather about “America” was just a means to an end. He has been stunningly successful, especially as a martyr: a once great nation commits suicide over the 13% who have proved themselves, in the last 50 years of vast sums spent and a huge networks of laws and entitlements for them enacted, unable to do much more than self-destruct and blame others for it. 
“Martin” doesn’t belong to you. He belongs to Barack and Oprah and Foxx and Sharpton and Jackson and the NAACP and the Black Caucus. Let him go and look for your own heroes. 
Barack Hussein Obama, twice elected by the “American” people, as loathsome as he is, is just a symptom of a much deeper collapse. “Conservatism” is wholly unable to fix that.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If the Republican Party is dead, what follows it? The Republican Party was founded by former Whigs. Who, is going to found the successor party?

And if conservatism is dead, what follows it? What is the political philosophy that will take up the mantle of liberalism's foe? Is the momentum of the libertarian moment we are experiencing going to carry us into a new political paradigm? Or will the-philosophy-which-must-not-be-considered, fascism, albeit in a less blood-thirsty form, experience an increase in popular support? Say, perhaps, something that resembles Franco's regime? Imagine my shock at a mural of Franco as a paladin in the national cathedral in Spain.

I'm not ready to write conservatism off just yet, Ex. If only because I don't see another sea-worthy vessel within swimming distance. And there ARE some people who are rejecting the liberal narrative.

Unless we are on the brink of a civilizational collapse event, in which case, batten down the hatches.

-Sean

OreamnosAmericanus said...

Franco was a paladin. Check out what the Communist "Republicans" were like. Were it not for Franco, there'd have been a Stalinist state in southern Europe.

Anonymous said...

It was my senior year of high school, in Church History, that I learned about Franco's "inconvenient" good points. Our textbook explicitly stated that his actions saved the lives of many priests. It seemed to take the tone, "better a fascist than a communist."

It was my first exposure to the idea that a governmental form other than democracy could produce virtue. And now I'm flirting with stratocracy.

-Sean

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