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October 28, 2020 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

During the Obama years a guy named Steve Sailer put together a plan whereby a Republican could not only run for president, but actually stand a chance of winning by capturing a larger percentage of the white vote. The big planks he suggested were:

  • The restriction of immigration
  • Trade protectionism
  • Law and order
  • Affordable family formation

These planks went on to be popularized by Ann Coulter and then scooped up by Donald Trump for his candidacy. That’s why I always tell people that Steven Sailer may be the most influential commentator no has heard of as his philosophy, unlike all other conservative commentators of the day, actually got a president elected.

However Trump also represents something else that Steve Sailer had pushed during the Bush II years that Sailer himself had given up on by the time Trump was elected: Civic Nationalism. The idea behind CivNat at a high level is that there is some common ethos that can be put together to keep all of America’s tribes together, basically that a nation can be formed around a core set of rules with which everyone agrees.

A major component of CivNat is a complete immigration lockdown. This goes beyond traditional red-team/blue-team disagreements on the issue, because if someone can just import more people to their team to score a win, then CivNat, and thus “America” in general, has no meaning, it’s just a landmass that people are warring over, not a nation. Now, Trump has done more harm than good in this regard, but the rules for Civic Nationalism are hard rules, while the rules for appealing to whites are “soft” (immigration freeze versus, I don’t know, cutting down on the number of H-1B visas); the point being that he cannot run as both, although that is exactly what he is trying to do.

Now a core issue in this regard is the fact that CivNat is a failure. There is no core set of rules and people like Ilhan Omar would import all of Somalia to the North American land mass in order to score a win for herself and, if there’s anything left, her people. Concern for other people on the landmass doesn’t make the list of things that she’s worried about. Trump’s inability to understand this fact is making what should be a slam dunk running against a criminal pedo with dementia into a struggle. He needs every white person he can to show up and vote for him, but he still insists on running as a CivNat that can appeal equally to all people (well, he might have the “equally” part right, just not in the way that he imagines).

Part of the issue may be that he might not have a choice: the office of the presidency has proven to be weak to the permanent bureaucracy of the inner party. For proof of this fact one need look no further than the fact that the inner party nominated someone who has trouble remembering the name of his wife. If the office held real power to determine the path of the inner party, is that who they would nominate? They obviously have no concern at all for who fills that office as, to them, that’s not who runs the country anyway. Perhaps the best Trump can do in such a circumstance is push as hard as he can where the inner party will let him while nibbling at the edges of their mile-thick rule book.

Unfortunately this has led him down a path of not only not running the “Sailer Strategy”, but in some ways running against it, as a failed CivNat. He’s a great verbal bomb thrower which gets his supporters worked up, but then his justice department locks those people up while the oligarchs ban them from “polite society”. His immigration achievements are mostly hot air along the lines of, like most of his accomplishments, “not as bad as”. His Supreme Court picks are of the “Sandra Day O’Conner”* variety who will vote for something close to the status quo and maintain the polite fiction of adversarial ideological politics.

Still, if nothing else he has removed the mask of what the country actually is, to the point that there’s anecdotal stories of people wanting Biden in just so that they can pretend the America from their memory still exists. However, it doesn’t, and living a lie does no one any favors and merely makes the day of reckoning that much worse. Despite his failings Trump is not “one of them” and in a good way and his accomplishments, while few, are notable. Even beyond all that, it’s worth voting for Trump because, if nothing else, it may be the last time we’ll be able to vote for a president that isn’t like Biden, or (any)Bush, or pretty much every other national pol: just a placeholder to keep the oval office warm while the inner party marches the country into the landfill.

*In working on this bit, I noticed that Sandra Day O’Conner is actually still alive. Were she as soulless as the vapid Jewish lady who recently passed, she could still be on the court ready to celebrate her 40th anniversary on the job in less than a year.

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Chinese Democracy

October 20, 2016 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

In China they do have some low level elections, but typically it’s a choice between two party approved apparatchiks so the point seems kind of lost on westerners.  What’s the point in voting when the result is already preordained?  As well, what effect could such voting have on the general lawlessness in the upper echelons of Chinese society?  Although China currently has a premiere, diktats typically come out of the black box of the Politburo to be rubber stamped by their Central Committee (it wouldn’t even surprise me they pass laws only to find out what is in them later).

The party’s rule is absolute and it tolerates no competition.  This leads to all manner of laws concerning the environment, labor, taxes, etc. to be selectively applied to those viewed as “unfavored” (i.e. not a member of the nomenklatura). Barring that, the party labels any dissenters (or those that they feel labeling as such) as traitors to the revolution.  Even if these people are not detained, they will be drummed out of “polite” society, with their careers and livelihoods ruined.
A large portion of the population (perhaps not a majority, but enough) favors this system since they feel that they are in on the scam being run by their elites.  They report any activity that they view as subversive and would gladly and openly vote for the corrupt elite that makes the lives of the rest of their countrymen so miserable.

Of course even in a country like China it’s dangerous for the elites to wield such violence, so the violence of the state is absolute.  It goes without saying that no one can own a firearm, but as well all press outlets echo the party line, telling people what they should or should not care about.  If something does happen to break out of the party echo chamber it is squished after a set time in order to ensure that party rule is no being openly doubted.

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In other news, this isn’t bad: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152024526021/i-wake-you-up-for-the-presidential-debate. The only thing that I’ll fault it for is the final line that mentions “policies” since in this election cycle (and quite possibly all future Federal elections) has nothing to do with any sort of policy debate. 100+ years ago Intellectual political debates in the U.S. were all the rage, now we’re like many (all?) other nations where we argue over the scraps that the oligarchs let us keep.  The left are witting fools in this since they want to be on the side of the oligarchs and get first choice at the trough.

For instance, people take issue with the cost of medical care, housing, cars, education, etc. or the paucity of wages, but never the system that led to those issues to begin with.  What I hear 99.9% of the time is how the knobs on the system might be better tuned so that it’s wretchedness might not be so apparent.

I itch to post these rants to Facebook, but it’s a dead end.  Thinking about a future with no student loans, no medical insurance, and no need for monkeying with the minimum wage because what we need is affordable by nature is too much.  Whenever I tell people that producers have to offer their product at a price that the consumer can afford, I feel like the Lawrence Fishburne character in The Matrix, but everyone takes the blue pill.  The “blue pill” works until it doesn’t, which it’s close to

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Candidates

August 11, 2015 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

Way early and way late at the same time, I need to write it down lest I forget myself!

  • Hillary Clinton: Quite possibly the worst candidate the Democrats could have found to run.  The personality of a porcupine combined with the moral code of a heroin junkie.  Her one notable, and now dated, attribute is that she’s still preferable to Obama.
  • Bernie Sanders: The one democrat who is not afraid to call himself the socialist that he is.  He’s late to the game in realizing that unlimited immigration is incompatible with his socialist dream.  Unfortunately for him the rest of his party party is even later and haven’t reached that conclusion yet.
  • That guy from Maryland: How did a Democrat forget that it’s all about the blacks?  Black, black, black, black; that’ll learn you O’Malley.  He could have stuck to his guns, but that would have automatically made him a Republican hate mongerer.
  • Jim Webb: He’s a Democrat?  Well, as the only common sense choice in the Dem grouping his fight is pointless.  It would be interesting though to see the Repugs run Jeb against him and then when Jeb wins all the Dem states and Webb all the Repug states the single party singularity would be complete and the utter pointlessness of American Federal elections would be cemented in place.
  • Joe Biden: Creepy, dimwitted Joe’s best attributes are that he’s neither Hillary nor Jeb Bush, which is more than enough to win.
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A weak slate of Dem candidates has drawn out every would be contender in the Repug field which is, in my mind, pretty strong, in no particular order:
  • Bobby Jindal: He made a name for himself by running as “not a criminal” in Louisiana and has somehow excelled there to the point that he’s found much success.  I like Jindal and in another age he’d have a better shot, but being the biggest fish in a little pond that will end up in the R column anyway isn’t enough to attract attention.
  • Lindsey Graham: If America wants a gay Democrat for President they’ll just vote for Hillary.
  • Rick Santorum: His policy positions are OK, but he tends to play up the religious aspect of his beliefs, a sentiment which gave us the nasty Big Government Religious Charities from the ‘W’ years.  If someone wanted to destroy religion I can think of no better strategy than joining it at the hip with the government.  All that aside, Santorum’s biggest fault is that he wouldn’t even be able to reliably deliver Pennsylvania to the Rs.
  • Rick Perry: This guy still doesn’t know what he’s trying to do, methinks.
  • Mike Huckabee: Basically a ‘W’ clone, but without the charm and political acumen.  A better pundit than a presidential candidate, which isn’t saying much.
  • Rand Paul: In my mind, the only candidate in the whole list who knows that we’re broke and that the Federal government cannot be trusted and isn’t afraid to say so.  Despite his rather odious immigration positions he makes my short list, though my guess would be that he’s reached the zenith of his political ability as a Senator.
  • Donald Trump: He is the knife that the long ignored GOP base is using to stick in the ribs of the Chamber of Commerce controlled GOP elite.  So long as the GOP elite insist that they’d rather get stabbed with a knife than acknowledge their woeful leadership, they will continue to get stabbed with the knife, possibly up to and including them getting stabbed to death.  Of note from the Sandmich, Trump is a real estate developer which makes his “evil” potential possibly even higher than that of Obama or Hillary. 
  • Marco Rubio: Tying his ship up to the sinking rocks of Graham and McCain may have just been a dreadful mistake by a rookie senator, but I’d like to see something where he admits that this may not have been the best idea.  Instead I get the faint impression from him that the “base just didn’t understand”.  Oh we understand Rubio, now go away.
  • Scott Walker: Walker has a brief, though impressive resume and the best immigration stance of any of the candidates* and my personal first choice of the bunch.  The fact that he could probably deliver D state Wisconsin to the R column would make his presidential fight a bit easier.  My only concern is his lack of action in regards to the illegal “John Doe” investigations in his state; he seems to have that ‘W’ belief that the system will properly work things out.  No it won’t, the system is out to get you and will consume you, it’s inherently broken and some cynicism is in order.  As well, his strong stands may make winning Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania rough.
  • John Kasich: A clever Twitter commentator noted that John Kasich is an endangered species: a moderate Democrat.  He’s had budget success in Ohio basically from many one time cash gimmicks that will leave a smoking crater in our budget long after he has left office.  His potential cannot be underrated however: his political capital in Ohio is strong and along with his policy positions he would stand a strong chance of putting all of the midwest sans Illinois into the R column in the general election which would make a near insurmountable hurdle for whoever was running as the Dem.  My guess right now is that he’s the GOP establishment choice after Jeb inevitably blows up.
  • Jeb Bush: Whatever.
  • Chris Christie: Congrats on the weight loss!  If he could deliver the northeast in the general his candidacy might be of interest.  That feat is extremely doubtful though and he would need to depend on many states whose voters couldn’t be bothered to show up to vote for Mitt who was a better candidate than Christie.
  • Carly Fero..Firo…F…Fiorina: Her years in backstabbing board rooms have served her well since she is quick on her feet and is always looking for an attack; as well, her knowledge and ability has won her proper accolades.  However, since there is no prayer of her pulling California into her column in the general, she’s a candidate without a country and I seriously doubt that she’d be able translate her big-business-California-elite persona into a candidate that people elsewhere in the country will vote for.  Her recent statements that seem to favor government data slurping don’t help her cause.
  • Ted Cruz: His back and forth with Huckabee in the debate proved that Cruz is not divorced from reality like much of the party leadership.  Like Rand Paul, he has picked all the right fights in the Senate and hasn’t backed down which makes him endearing.  Unlike Paul, he doesn’t have the libertarian baggage and is a bit more electable.  I should point out though that his stance on H1-B visas may be the worst of anyone with the possible exception of Rubio.
  • Ben Carson: Ben Carson seems like a great guy, but good guys finish last in this race.
It’s worth pointing out that the next President is going to face some very, very hard times in an era where 99.9% of our elites are the worst elites in modern history and the FSA (free-shit-army) making up half the population.  This makes Trump somewhat more appealing because the future President will have to ignore what s/he’s being told, a lot.  However my rankings are something like:
  1. Walker (a proven record of ignoring conventional “wisdom”)
  2. Ted Cruz (a proven conservative who is realistic about many of the challenges that we face).
  3. Carly/Paul/Trump (all of whom have endearing, though differing attributes that put them outside of the regular party hierarchy). 
That’s all fine and good, but how about candidates I won’t vote for?
  1. Ds/Graham
  2. Kasich
  3. Bush
  4. Christie
  5. Rubio
  6. Huckabee (who loses out for being clueless more so than having bad policy positions (which aren’t all the great either), but I would suppose a Huckabee/Biden debate would be pretty entertaining; it would truly be a sign of the end times as those two would spend hours getting everything wrong about crap that no one cares about).
* It’s a bit of a misconception that Trump has the strongest law and order immigration stance, at least on paper, but in fact Santorum’s is followed by Walker.

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