There Goes Grumpy Uncle Pat, Making Sense Again

As someone who grew up watching Pat Buchanan on political talk shows and then slowly starting to back away from him because he was just a little too extreme, it is now kind of humbling that he keeps being right all the time. When everyone else was writing off Trump, Buchanan was still banging the drum for The Donald. I used to snicker a little when I read his stuff, that Pat is just so out of touch!

Now he just keeps on making sense and it is kind of irritating. He is like the grumpy uncle who comes to family get-togethers and rants about politically incorrect stuff and is generally embarrassing but keeps being right. In his latest piece What a Wall Says to the World he writes:

It is not only that illegal migrants take jobs from Americans, that they commit crimes, or that so many require subsidized food, welfare, housing, education, and health care. It is that they are changing our country. They are changing who we are.
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In 1960, we were a Western Christian country. Ninety percent of our people traced their roots to Europe. Ninety percent bore some connection to the Christian faith. To the tens of millions for whom Trump appeals, what the wall represents is our last chance to preserve that nation and people. 

To many on the cosmopolitan left, ethnic or national identity is not only not worth fighting for, it is not even worth preserving. It is a form of atavistic tribalism or racism.

Not only is (White) ethnic or national identity not worth preserving, it is a moral obligation for the Left to destroy it. What Pat fumbles here is that the Left doesn't hate all ethnic or national identity, just White and European ethnic identity. I get that he can't or at least won't say that at places like the American Conservative, although he implies it, but I am quite sure he knows this to be the case. I don't know if the wall will do what we hope it will but I do know that it is better than not doing anything at all while illegals overrun entire cities and eventually entire states.

It is not just a wall on the Mexican border but also includes the need to manage who comes to this country in general.

I wish more people would look at Europe and see what happens when the tiny Muslim population suddenly grows and starts feeling their power and expressing their resentment toward the very people who have given them shelter. Sure 100,000 extra Muslims in a country the size of the U.S. can kind of blend into the background but as we keep letting them in pretty soon they start to take on self-identity that is opposed to the land they live in. Dearborn, Michigan is a prime example where Muslims have a sizable population and are already trying to create a Muslim environment in the midst of America.

A nation without a concrete identity and without borders is a nation that is doomed. Do we really want to take everything that makes America a place people want to live and others want to come to and throw it away?

The SJWs Are One Of The Best Recruiting Tools We Have

Rod Dreher writing at paleo-con journal The American Conservative posted something I found fascinating, Creating The White Tribe. It is basically two comments from TAC readers that express exactly what I have found in my own experience and journey, that the constant White bashing by the Left is pushing many people who formerly would never have even entertained some of the ideas of the alt-right to start giving them serious thought. This is from the second excerpt (emphasis mine):

I remarked to my wife a couple of weeks ago that witnessing the left’s histrionics for the past several months has made me more racist, more sexist, and more homophobic than I ever would’ve been otherwise. Now, I don’t like that about myself, and I try to self-critique and keep in check some of the more knee-jerk impulses (I must strive for Christian charity above all else, of course), but that’s obviously way more than the left is willing to do. What the left doesn’t get is it’s turning people like me—reasonably moderate, go-along-to-get-along types—into full-blown reactionary radicals. Ideas that I once would’ve rolled my eyes at I’m now willing to give a hearing. I don’t think I’m some paragon of rational thought and self-control by any means, but it concerns me that if I’m willing at least to entertain some of these ideas (critically and deliberately), what about the people who embrace them more impetuously or because their circumstances seemingly leave them no other option? If the left wants to make this all about tribes, I’m siding with my own tribe. That means the Church above all else, of course, but it may come to mean some of those other categories, too. What follows from all of this cannot bode well.

Boy, that sounds familiar! I want to re-emphasize that second bold line above:

If the left wants to make this all about tribes, I’m siding with my own tribe.

Unilateral disarmament in this cultural struggle can only end in a diminished White race and eventual functional elimination of Whites as a distinct people. For some people that is a worthwhile goal but I think if push comes to shove, an honest answer from most White people would categorically state that this outcome is bad for them, their family and the world.

I am seeing more and more of this, people starting to ask questions and make statements that as recently as 3-4 months ago would have been unthinkable. To paraphrase Admiral Yamamoto, the SJWs and the "Women's March" have awoken the sleeping giant of White America.

We cannot be content to just allow our culture and even our people be eradicated. I hold little hope for the Trump presidency as a stand alone success because of the erratic personality of Trump but the election itself and especially the post-election response has done more to awaken White America than almost any other catalyst. The question now becomes how we respond to those who, like some of Rod's readers (and for every two who write in I bet there are hundreds more silently reading and watching), are starting to give a serious hearing to our ideas. We might never get another shot like we have now and if we blow it because we are too concerned with being clever or edgy or if we spend all of our time on in-fighting and territory struggles we could miss this opportunity and consign Whites to the ash heap of history. If that happens we will only have ourselves to blame.

The "What Would We Do Without Illegal Mexicans" Fallacy

The topic of immigration reform and enforcement is one that generates a lot of noise and not a lot of rational thought. What about the poor children, the families "ripped apart" (because of the illegal actions taken by the adults)?! Christians in America have a Gospel obligation to support illegal immigrants coming here and staying here (no we don't)!

Perhaps the most obscene lie we are told is that we absolutely need these Mexican and other illegal immigrants because they "do the jobs Americans won't do". If we didn't have illegals, who would pick our veggies and cut up steers in meatpacking plants and care for our landscaping and clean our offices? This is a great tactic, even if it is dishonest, because you get to suggest a greater work ethic for illegals and imply that current American citizens are too lazy to do certain jobs.

It is pretty clear that the U.S. does not suffer from a lack of low-skilled employable people to fill low-wage and less desirable jobs. While it is true that we are woefully unprepared to replace a lot of skilled trades jobs in the future thanks to the "everyone has to go to college and get a four year degree" nonsense, it is absolutely not true that there simply are not enough people to do the jobs that the illegal aliens do.

For example, under the gross incompetence and criminal malpractice of the Obama administration, we have seen a plummeting of the workforce participation rate. Granted some of this is due to a ballooning population of older Americans who are in retirement but by any measure there are just a lot of able-bodied Americans who are not in the workforce.

I wish this were because more mothers were staying home to raise their own children rather than subcontracting the often thankless task of parenting to others. It is not. There were tons of reports about a startling and dangerous trend that made the news in 2016. The New York Times published a story in October titled Millions of Men Are Missing From the Job Market.

Economists have long struggled to explain why a growing proportion of men in the prime of their lives are not employed or looking for work. A new study has found that nearly half of these men are on painkillers and many are disabled.

The working paper by Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist, casts light on this population, which grew during the recession that started in 2007. As of last month, 11.4 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 — or about seven million people — were not in the labor force, which means that they were not employed and were not seeking a job. This percentage has been rising for decades (it was less than 4 percent in the 1950s), but the trend accelerated in the last 20 years.

Think on that for a second. We have more than one out of every ten men of prime working age, between 25-54 which mostly eliminates college students and early retirees, some seven million men who are not doing anything and not trying to do anything. This is more significant than the unemployment rate which essentially covers people out of work but looking. These men are not even looking for work. That is an average of 140,000 per state. Many of these are probably on disability, and many of those legitimately so, but according to this report a lot are also hooked on painkillers.

So we have tens of millions of Americans of working age who are not working. I would be willing to bet that even when you allow for people who are legitimately disabled and those who work outside of the normal employment world and don't show up in the numbers, there are still millions of Americans out of work.

On the other hand, we have an explosion in the welfare state. It is without question that the number of Americans and the percentage of the population that are at least partially dependent on the government for some or all of their livelihood is growing. I would say it is also obvious that this is intentional but that is a different topic for a different day. According to a 2014 story from cnsnews.com in 2014 over 100,000,000 Americans were receiving some form of welfare:

What did taxpayers give to the 109,631,000 — the 35.4 percent of the nation — getting welfare benefits at the end of 2012? 

82,679,000 of the welfare-takers lived in households where people were on Medicaid, said the Census Bureau. 51,471,000 were in households on food stamps. 22,526,000 were in the Women, Infants and Children program. 20,355,000 were in household on Supplemental Security Income. 13,267,000 lived in public housing or got housing subsidies. 5,442,000 got Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. 4,517,000 received other forms of federal cash assistance.

We have that many people who are on assistance of some sort but we are told that we need illegals because they do the jobs that "Americans won't do"? It makes sense that if people were not being provided with an incentive to not work they would be more willing to do jobs that illegals do because they wouldn't have much choice otherwise. People make choices all the time. If I am given the choice between a steak and ham sandwich, I am usually going to take the steak. If someone else is offered a choice between staying home to play video games while receiving government benefits or losing those benefits and having to earn a paycheck working in tough conditions in a meat packing plant, which do you think they will choose? I wouldn't choose that, for me work is part of my identity and I was raised to see work as something to be sought out, not avoided, but that is yet another example of what happens when we try to manage a nation using one set of principles (the European Protestant work ethic for example) when that nation has a large population that doesn't believe in such guiding principles.

So I don't care to hear that we need Mexicans to do work that American won't do. Americans will do those jobs if you take away the incentive for them to not do those jobs and in doing so they gain both valuable work experience as well as a sense of pride (hopefully). I know plenty of Americans who will do whatever they need to do to provide for their families. If I had no other choice I would cut up hogs or pick vegetables or clean office buildings if that is what I had to do to provide for my family, a sacred obligation and privilege I have as a father and husband. I would imagine that many other Americans who share a similar background would do the same.

We don't "need" illegal aliens to do the jobs Americans "won't do". We need to eliminate the means by which so many American seem to think that they can sit on the sidelines while the rest of us work to support them and while people violate our laws to work in their place. If the lower class constituency of the Democrats suddenly find themselves competing with illegals for jobs that they need to pay for rent, food and other necessities, I guarantee you the immigration conversation in this country would change dramatically.

Shut Up White People!

At the DNC Chairman candidates forum, some guilty, militant quasi-White broad named Sally Boynton Brown says her job is "shut other white people down" when they have an opinion. That comment drew applause and nods of agreement. Tell me again two things:

a) Do Democrats ever want another White person to ever vote for Democrat candidates? Clearly not. Their entire political strategy is to pack the U.S. with non-White voters and get them to vote Democrat with the promise of "free" stuff paid for by White tax-payers. Wealthy White liberals who can afford to live in gated, guarded communities will be fine but the rest of White America will be left at the mercy of others, told they have to pay for every service and be grateful for the privilege.

b) Why should White people think that trying to placate racial minorities will ever lead to harmony when it is clear that only complete capitulation and self-subjugation by White people with ever satisfy the forces of multiculturalism?

If we don't stem the demographic doomsday coming soon, there will cease to be a voice for Whites in America and those of us who remain will be bled dry, financially at first and literally at some point.

A Bit About Me

I figured it wouldn't hurt to put some basic information about me to give the rare reader that accidentally stumbles onto this page some insight as to where I am coming from. Hopefully as my writing improves and I get on more solid footing more people will intentionally come here to read my ramblings so I expect this to be a "living document" as I work out what I am pondering and I plan on moving this to a perma-linked location.

Without divulging too much in the way of personal information, I am a middle-aged White guy who lives in the Midwest and I have been married for quite a while. We have a large family, more than pulling my weight in the quest to stave off our impending demographic disaster.

Here is why I am as of right now on some issues of note. I am still in the process of forming my positions on some of these areas that I previously didn't permit myself to think too deeply about.

Faith

Nothing really matters more to me than my faith. When I identify as a Christian, I don't mean that I go to church on occasion or that I was "baptized" as a baby or that I mark "Christian" on surveys. I mean that I approach every topic via the lens of Scripture and my faith must inform everything I believe. I not only own a Bible (actually quite a few of them), I also read it regularly.

This has also been my biggest stumbling block to work through as I begin exploring topics of nationalism and racial identity. This is way to complicated an issue to bullet point but it is something I have thought a lot about, well before I started blogging in this new venue. In short I think that a lot of the common platitudes thrown around in Christian circles on issues of race are driven by poor exegesis, general Biblical illiteracy and heaping helpings of misplaced White guilt.

Race

Believe it or not, I don't hate anyone. That makes no sense in our culture. Unless you bow and scrape at the altar of multiculturalism, you obviously hate everyone. Regardless of the dichotomy of unquestioning acceptance and obsequiousness versus outright hatred that our culture demands we accept and form every conversation through, I simply don't hate people because they are a different race or ethnicity or religion. I can prefer the company of people I share a common heritage and common values with and not automatically hate people who do not have that in common with me. I can also dislike aspects of other groups without hating them and even say that some cultures are superior to others in objective ways. None of that is hate.

Racism is the contemporary boy who cried wolf. When everything and anything is racism, pretty soon most people see nothing as racism because it is a meaningless term. In fact the result has been the precise opposite of what the public intent of pummeling the American people with White self-loathing and collective guilt is supposed to lead to. Instead of creating a perfectly flaccid society that stands shame-faced in line to pay reparations to people who were never slaves by people who never owned slaves, this constant drumbeat has instead made people so tired of being called a racist that they stop believing it. I am prime example of this. By indirectly calling me a racist over and over the forces of forced multicultural compliance have actually immunized me from caring about it and now I feel free to speak my mind because it just doesn't matter if leftists think I am a racist. In other words, if they are going to call me a racist no matter what I do, unless I abandon every shred of dignity and intellectual honest, then why should I care what they think at all? Hunter Wallace put it well in his post, The Real Racists Suffer From Negro Fatigue:

Rod Dreher’s readers are clearly suffering from an advanced case of Negro Fatigue. What is the diagnosis of Negro Fatigue, you ask? It isn’t *hating* black people so much as it is a feeling of exhaustion. It’s like you tried and you are done. More than anything else, it is a feeling of total indifference among White people to whatever radical black activists like Ta-Nehisi Coates or John Lewis are agitating about on any given day. Are you rolling your eyes when you hear ‘Civil Rights Icon’ John Lewis or ‘Civil Rights Leader’ Rev. Jesse Jackson? If so, you are coming down with Negro Fatigue.
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John Lewis & Co. have maxed out the ‘racism’ card. They have spent their moral authority. It won’t be transferable to the next generation of ‘civil rights leaders’ like Ta-Nehisi Coates, DeRay and Talcum X Shaun King. White America has too much Negro Fatigue after eight years of Barack Obama. The Alt-Right is only the canary in the coal mine.

That is pretty accurate. Many, many White people have long instinctively understood that blacks and Whites are different, just as Asians and Hispanics are different from us and from each other. We also largely know that there are some pretty troubling and common characteristic among blacks, including a propensity to crime, especially violent crime, lower average IQs, serious issues with lack of impulse control, a willingness to take from society rather than to contribute, and on and on. When I was younger we talked about these issues rather openly, if in an admittedly less than subtle and nuanced fashion but as we have grown older these issues, which are still at least as serious and common, are shoved into the shadows so that it seems perfectly reasonable for the Department of "Justice" to focus on alleged police misconduct and abuse of power in Chicago (which undoubtedly exists as it does in every manifestation of the Federal government) while at home White people read about the DOJ report and wonder why the primary concern is not blacks murdering each other by the hundreds. Of course we don't say anything out loud. Even in my own home for the longest time we would often make a comment when blacks were predictably involved in some heinous crime and then sort of try to pretend we didn't actually say anything at all.

All that to say that while I don't hate anyone for their race or ethnicity or religion, not hating them does not require me to unreservedly and enthusiastically embrace everything about them. I do expect to write a lot about race because it is the biggest divider and the most serious issue we face, even after 8 years of a (half) black President or perhaps it is more accurate to say because of 8 years of a (half) black President. The normalization of sexual deviancy is a close contender in second place but race is still the greatest issue, not least because the shifting demographics in the U.S. mean more racial tension in the coming years while there is only a finite pool of perverts, homosexuals, pedophiles, etc. although I will grant that they are increasingly bold, vocal and capable of extreme viciousness.

One last rather sweeping statement. I am increasingly convinced that the various races, especially blacks and Whites, inhabit different worlds while supposedly living in the same country and that this cannot be solved by diversity training but rather by accepting and embracing our differences even to the point of being separate from one another.

Immigration

Like virtually all Americans, I come from a family of immigrants, in my case, as is the case with most White Americans, European immigrants. My family and my wife's family came here in the 19th and 18th centuries. They came here on boats, legally and in the light of day. They learned English and worked and raised families. They did not sneak into this country, hiding from the authorities because they knew they were breaking the law.

Immigration is a multi-faceted issue. I am all in favor of creating very serious, criminal penalties for employing illegal aliens, perhaps a very stiff penalty for each alien in your employ the first offense and then 30 days in the local jail for the second offense. I guarantee that meat packing plants would stop hiring illegal aliens in a heartbeat if the managers and HR staff were facing a month in jail and a felony conviction on their record for doing so. The flips-side is the difficulty in stopping border crossers who often get sent back again and again with no consequences or who end up in detention centers on the American tax payer's dime for extended periods.

One of the biggest obstacles to keeping illegals out of our country is the seemingly endless supply of low paying jobs that "Americans won't do" so there is always demand for these illegals. In fact it is often stated that since Americans "won't do" these jobs, cracking down on immigration means no tomatoes for American consumers, no landscaping around homes or businesses and Chicken McNuggets that cost $10 per nugget. What I have always found weird is that we have all of these jobs that Americans "won't do" but we also have millions upon millions of Americans that we pay to not work at any job at all. How many men and women sit on the couch collecting government benefits and yet would laugh in your face if you suggested working in a work environment like a meat packing plant? It seems to me that if we a) have a high demand for certain kinds of jobs, so high that people risk arrest, deportation and even death to come get those jobs and b) we have an enormous surplus of labor that is currently doing nothing, both problems cancel each other out and solve themselves.

I don't know of anyone even remotely serious that is suggesting that we halt all immigration or that we send back people who recently legally arrived here. The immigration position most people seem to advocate is that we get serious about screening people we allow to come here, enforce the law for people who have overstayed their permit and be sensible in the numbers of people we allow in. This is a sovereign nation with legal borders, a nation allegedly founded on the rule of law. People who have as their first act in this country willful law-breaking have no place in America. I am not sure what to do about people who keep coming back repeatedly after being deported. I know what I would like to do about it but that would probably be considered inhumane.

The "Jewish Question"

This is a tough one because I haven't done enough research on it. I know that the JQ is supposed to be a make or break issue for a lot of people on the alt-right, etc. but it interests me less than questions of race realism, the ethnostate, immigration control, etc. Part of my issue is that as a generally conservative, patriotic American and especially as a conservative Evangelical Christian, the Jews are supposed to be our greatest friends. Israel can do no wrong, the Jews are God's chosen people, etc. For someone to question the disproportionate influence of Jews on Western cultural institutions or to suggest that maybe Israel is occasionally too heavy handed is tantamount to shoving a little old Jewish lady into an oven.

Like I said this is one that I haven't had as much time to think about compared to race and immigration.

Family and Gender

The "nuclear family" or traditional family or whatever you call it is one of the foundations of the White European society and culture. As it has imploded so has our culture. While the Negro social structure has been a dumpster fire since well before Daniel Patrick Moynihan's infamous report, more and more we are seeing White Americans adopting the same pattern of single mothers, deadbeat dads, generational dependency and general sneering dismissal of the importance of family. Girls raised by single mothers getting knocked up and becoming single mothers, grandparents raising grandkids, etc. are all symptoms of a sickness in our culture. Make no mistake, this is not unintentional. The effort to dumb down our society, to emasculate men and de-feminize women, to subsidize behavioral choices that were culturally shameful a few generations ago, the effort to separate children from the influence of their parents by storing them in government run propaganda camps/feedlots called public school and pushing moms into the workplace, all of this is a program designed to rot the core of our cultural foundations. Having said that, the greatest force for undermining the family is not public schools or atheism or feminism. It is self-emasculating men who refuse to lead their families. We have men like that, simpering and soft men who creep around our society and their own homes like house elves at Hogwarts, in spades. We need more men who act like men, like husbands and like fathers.

If the Alt-Right fails to champion the White family, it will be doomed to be just another flash in the pan movement.

Gender is not something malleable or subject to personal choice or whim. It is the most basic biological fact as even a cursory study of the natural world would confirm. Likewise human sexuality is clearly defined, and is binary. With rare physiological mutations aside, there are men and there are women. The basic survival and perpetuation of humanity depends on this, it is how we were created and how we flourish. Homosexuality, transgenderism, pedophilia, the entire universe of sexual deviancy that denies basic human created sexuality and replaces it with perversions that at their essence deny the created order subvert and degrade the essential building blocks of European culture and it is therefore no surprise that family and traditional human sexuality are areas of life most under assault by the progressives and globalists who want consumer sheep instead of free men and women.

This is why I don't get the infatuation about Milo. Milo is amusing because he is so un-PC and makes liberals nuts because he is a protected class but I can't see how embracing him serves the cause. He is sort of like a court jester, he makes us laugh now and then but you wouldn't want him to marry the princess (or prince in this case). Anyway, if we lose the White family, the party is over. A culture with lots of White degenerates is not sustainable and not remotely appealing.

The Ethnostate

This is more of a placeholder because I need to think a lot more about this issue and read a lot more before I can start to make a reasonably informed opinion on it.

So that is just a few of my initial thoughts. More to come!

After We Deport The Illegal Aliens We Should Deport The "Celebrities"

Washed up slut-rocker Madonna was out trying desperately to show she is still relevant after all of these years at the Angry Liberal Chick Stampede For Abortion And Lesbianism yesterday in Sodom Washington D.C. Her entire claim to fame over the years came from being overly dirty and skanky, a talented singer who rose to fame and fortune not because she was talented but because she mixed her talent with tawdry lyrics and suggestive music videos. White middle class girls in the 80's could feel rebellious and naughty by listening to her music, just like White middle class boys in the 80's felt tough and edgy by listening to rap from N.W.A and Ice-T. Over the years she has become increasingly irrelevant as new pop tarts out slutted and skanked her, first singers like Britney Spears with her school girl outfits and then Miley Cyrus who performs simulated (I think they are simulated) sex acts on stage. At 58 and charging fast toward 60, Madonna can't keep up because she is just too old and unattractive these days so she resorts to the old female celebrity stand-by, shrill political comments. Yesterday she said something that if Toby Keith had said when Obama was inaugurated (did you know he was our first black President? Probably not, no one ever mentions that), Keith would have ended up in jail:

"Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But I know that this won't change anything."

So she doesn't blow up the White House, not because it would be wrong as the White House belongs to the American people and murder and property destruction is wrong, she doesn't bother because it wouldn't change anything. Gotta hand it to those progressives, they are so incredibly tolerant!

The contrast in media coverage is predictable. Just a google search of "Madonna" gives you this (as an aside, I feel like I should open an incognito window and get a penicillin shot afterward if I am going to google Madonna):

Yes, very powerful Rolling Stone. It is obviously edgy and brave to say exactly what people who adore you want to hear.

This comes after the Inauguration itself where thugs and unemployed nobodies with nothing better to do struck a blow for democracy by breaking some windows and sucker punching Richard Spencer before running away. Nothing says brave freedom fighter like some neutered "man" wearing a mask, hitting someone who isn't looking and then running away before Spencer knew what happened. Joke is on that guy, nothing he could have done would have given Richard more free publicity and probably a lot of page hits than hitting him on camera. It is weird how virtually all of the violence during the last election came from peaceful progressives and was inflicted on violent, intolerant people on the Right.

On the other hand President Trump tweeted this message this morning:

Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017

How odd. I thought Trump and his supporters were a threat to democracy and yet they are the ones being attacked in the street, women being spit on and attacked by other "women" at a "Women's March", people throwing stuff at ball attendees or punching people in the streets or breaking windows and setting cars on fire.

If I didn't know better, I might think that Trump and people on the Right, from neo-cons to Alt-Right folks, were the ones who were engaged in civil debate over actual ideas and the open-minded, tolerant, intellectual progressives were the ones trying to cause civil unrest and overturn the results of a perfectly legal election. That can't be the case though as everyone knows progressives are kind and loving and people on the right are all just wannabe Nazis.

THIS. IS. WASHINGTON!

OK this is just funny