In poll after poll and in vote after vote what is happening all across the West is that youth is turning away from the Establishment. It is most marked among young Western men but it is also happening with women. Meanwhile, it is getting to be that the older the voter, the more likely to be Left…including among older voters who used to vote for ostensible Right parties in the past. None of this is too shocking – the youngsters see a dying world and don’t like it – and young white people especially don’t like the part they are being assigned in it: the evil ones who must be punished for the alleged sins of their elders and ancestors. For the older folks (call it 60 and up), it also makes sense they are going Left – the Left is defending the system the old folks grew up in and in which they became well off. They still watch TV news, of course, and sincerely believe the drivel put out there. But it is to youth that we look – because the future belongs to whoever is there. That ain’t you and me, fellow old folks!
Today I saw a video clip where King Charles III of Great Britain, visiting Canada, issued a “land acknowledgement” before his speech before the Canadian parliament. Basically, this was the King asserting that Britain and all her works were a crime. If he had an ounce of courage he would have abdicated before making such a hateful statement. But, he’s old and this is what the Ruling Class told him he has to say and that its an evil statement is neither here nor there…it is how he gets to remain King. Nothing quite so typifies the Boomer, does it? But one thinks about the heroic people of Britain’s past and you almost weep over it all – whatever one might wish to say about Sir Garnet Wolseley, when he burned Kumasi it was to clear out a nest of slave-traders. Today Charles would probably go there and apologize for that.
Another thing I saw today was a news report that 80% of Britain’s Down Syndrome babies are being aborted. One of the great achievements of Christianity was to end the practice of killing “unfit” children…but with the destruction of the Christian character of the West the barbarism has returned. Putting these two things together made be rather disgusted with quite a lot of things. I don’t want to be allied, for instance, with people who kill their children or insult their own past. And I don’t want the domestic versions of these people to have a say in how we’re governed. You see, I quite like living in a world where I have rights and I carry out my responsibilities and my property is protected, criminals are punished and weirdos aren’t allow to destroy the public square. Basically, I’ll see how Trump does: if he’s able to push through the necessary reforms, then I’ll be ok. But if the Establishment manages to stop him, then I’m seriously looking for a Sulla or Caesar.
And in that, I’ll be siding with youth – because youth has very little patience with or respect for the “norms” or the Establishment. They see through the scam. They are also, though, badly educated so they do, from time to time, fall for other cons as long as they are anti-Establishment cons. This is a problem and I’ll see my goal – if it comes to it – to guide youth away from these aberrations. And they can be guided it: I know it because I’ve already done it. They do listen to reason. You’d better have it all down pat! Answer for every objection! But if you do have knowledge and some patience you can reach this discontented youth…which is filled with a desire for freedom and is generous to a fault. But I won’t fight them on things I view as non-critical. They are youth and it is their world they are building. I offer my advice and my encouragement, but I do not offer myself as a leader. They’ll have to find their own.
I do see this as a time future historians will view as the breaking point – the end of one era and the start of another.
Ancient: European and Near-Eastern civilization to the Muslim conquest of Syria (638).
Medieval: Muslim conquest of Syria to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648).
Modern: Treaty of Westphalia until today.
But the Modern Era is rather done. Nobody believes in the basic assumptions any longer. Too many lies and too many crimes…and, in the end, it didn’t even work. We see outrages against basic human decency and civil rights and we joke that the Constitution (the highest human expression of the Modern Era) will break out of its case any minute now and save us…but those charged with applying the Constitution are too stupid and corrupt to defend it. So youth sees it as useless and seeks something else…just as they seek for something else regarding all major issues and events. I don’t envy them their task if we do ultimately fail – and let us hope that this last, desperate hope we elected last November turns the tide.
Many years ago on this blog I pointed out there are two types of courage: physical and moral. Physical is obvious: a person is willing to place themselves in harms way to obtain some end. Moral is a little bit different and is actually the more sublime: it is doing the right thing regardless of the personal cost. We are all amazed by physical courage and we rightly honor the soldier who charges at the enemy or the firefighter who charges into the burning building…and, indeed, the world would not survive if we didn’t have that sort of courage. But vastly more important to civilization is moral courage.
Seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? Actually, it is very hard. Remember what Solzhenitsyn was saying – you can’t partake in the lie. Doesn’t say anything about lying, of itself. You don’t have to utter the lie to partake in it. All you have to do is go along with it. The bravest person is one who won’t partake in the lie.
Trump’s biggest sin right now, in the eyes of the Establishment, is his refusal to partake in the lie. It is especially infuriating to his opponents who are allegedly on the Right. On the matter of immigration, we’re all supposed to partake in the lie that immigrants – legal and otherwise – are almost entirely honest people who just want to help build the American Dream. And, given this, to boot them out is something that should be done rarely and only for the very worst actors. As JD Vance pointed out on X, however, this is an absurdity: it is telling us that one President could facilitate 20 million arriving in a short time without any vetting and once they’re in, the next President has to provide a trial for each of those people before deporting them. As Trump has pointed out, it would take more than a century to hold hearings on all the illegals in our country. It simply can’t be done if they are to be deported…and that is the lie we’re contending with here: the Establishment doesn’t want them deported, at all. Not one single illegal.
The Establishment wants us tied up in knots over is so that by the time Trump leaves office, only some trivial numbers have been deported and then we can get back to normal where they’re just flooding in, never to leave. They’ll lie and say all sorts of things, but their actions reveal their lie. And in the past, the GOP partook in the lie…also pretending to want to fix immigration but actually just wanting it to remain an endless flood of illegals who are never deported. Trump will not partake in the lie. He’s calling what it is – and the American people by and large support him in it. And it is infuriating the Establishment.
There is no doubt that Trump has physical courage after Butler, PA. I hope never to be shot at but if I ever am, I hope I show a tenth of the aplomb Trump showed that day. The man has a yard of guts. But in his refusal to partake in the lie is his real courage. And it isn’t just on immigration. All up and down the line – the cutting of USAID, the demand that Ukraine negotiate for peace, the taking the gloves off on the Houthis, his defiance of China’s paid “free trade” lobbyists…on and on it goes and on issue after issue, Trump will not partake. He’s calling it all what it is and demanding that we stop lying…stop doing stupid things because liars will profit off it. This, alone, secures President Trump’s place among the great ones of politics. If he can actually accomplish even a fourth of what he’s set out to do, then the list will be Washington, Lincoln, Trump…and, don’t forget, both Washington and Lincoln also had that moral courage which is so rare to see.
The real question now is, do we have courage? Will we take that simple step and not partake? So far, MAGA is standing firm…and seems to be gaining in support, especially among the young (don’t doubt the joy people feel simply at seeing a politician actually do what he said he’d do). But every day and all day the Establishment is whispering in our ears…”just this one lie, partake in it. Just one! It won’t hurt. You want to be able to say you don’t support Trump all the time, don’t you? Come on…just one, little lie!”. We have to stand firm. We have to show some guts, ourselves. To show that we have the moral courage of a New York billionaire former-playboy Real Estate tycoon.
This shouldn’t be hard. But it will be. Because once someone starts telling the truth, lots of people get mad and start to do really horrid things to the truth-tellers…and the truth-teller’s friends. Brace yourself! And stay strong.
One of the objections to MAGA Tariffs is, “who wants to work in a factory?”. It is usually delivered with snark by someone who probably doesn’t know how to change a tire but it is also a real issue – and not nearly the only one we have in re-shoring production to America.
A couple days ago on X I saw a post by a guy who described the time he decided to build a steel mill. Surprisingly enough, he didn’t have too much problem on the tax and regulatory sides. It was there, of course, and some communities do NIMBY such things to impossibility, but the pragmatic facts of life are that some community is going to welcome your mill with open arms and knock down barriers to construction. No; his problem was that he couldn’t get the machines in America. That is, the tools that allow you to make steel.
One thing our Knowledge Workers don’t know (well, one of the very, very many things they don’t know) is how complex industrial processes are. Another guy on X did note that most of these Knowledge Workers would be reduced to drooling confusion if they tried to do the math he does day in and day out to get engineering projects completed. There are, for instance, a large variety of steels and they are all made with different elements added at different times to get the desired results. It takes thought, planning and skill to get this done. And, of course, the right machines. None of which are made in the USA these days.
Imagine that – the USA used to be the world’s premier steel maker and when WWII kicked in we massively expanded our productive capacity so that at the end of it all, we produced more war material than the entire Axis combined – equipping our own large military force on a lavish scale while also sustaining the military forces of our allies. Can’t do it these days, guys. We can’t even try to do it. We can’t make the machines to expand production and we don’t have sufficient people with the basic skills to install and run those machines. We can attend a 2 hour powerpoint meeting discussing our diversity targets, but not much else.
So, the question is actually two-fold: who is to work in these factories and how are we to obtain the skills for the work to be done?
We’re probably going to have to import some skills. That is, if we find we simply don’t have enough skilled people (and we almost certainly don’t) then we’re going to have to shop for them around the world. But, don’t get upset – this is not like importing Third World peasants as we’ve been doing. We’re looking for people with know-how who are willing to become Americans. Like if we want to build a shoe factory in the USA, might be smart if we just pinched a couple shoe factory foremen from Vietnam. They’d probably be delighted to come. Same thing with people who know how to make machines to produce steel and so on and so forth. Once we have the people with the skills, we can then really set to work. But with what workers? I might be ok with a Vietnamese guy running the shoe shop floor, but I don’t want to import the workers from Vietnam. I want Americans working there. How do I get them?
Positive and negative incentives. We’ll tackle negative first.
We have huge numbers of fit people on welfare. Another huge pool of people isn’t fit because it is drug-addled. We must disincentivize the ability of people to sit on their butts swiping the EBT cards…and also disincentivize the ability of people to wander our streets in a drug-induced haze.
Whole bunch of ways to do this – first off, get rid of EBT cards. Why in heck are we making it easy for these people? Paper food stamps. Next, food stamps are only good for basic staples: meat, vegetables, bread, milk, cereals. That’s it. You want a coke? Not with the stamps. You want some cheetos? Not with the stamps. For goodness sake you aren’t using your welfare benefits to go to a restaurant. And while you’re on it – I want you harassed beyond reason to get a job. If you can’t find one after a period of time you’ll be called in to do grunt work cleaning streets and so forth. Nobody gets to sit on their backside getting fed unless they are physically incapable of work. And all of this stops if you do one, simple little task: get a job.
Secondly, stop letting bums be bums. No, you can’t sleep on the streets. No, you can’t be unwashed…so dirty that you could be used as a Walking Dead extra without makeup. No, you can’t be drunk or high in public. And we’re going to harass you even worse than the welfare bums…you’re going to be rousted, ticketed, and spun six ways to Sunday…until you sober up and get a job. Sure, we’ll help. For the welfare bums there will be skills training – including such things as housecleaning and managing finances. For the druggies there will be treatment to get off the sauce. But for both the primary thing will be to make it a gigantic hassle to not have a job. You get what you pay for: right now we’re paying for laziness and druggies. We’re going to have to start paying for sober workers.
Now, some positive reinforcement! For our druggies and welfare bums, there will be a skills deficit, especially early on. Keep in mind that for some welfare people, they’re third generation or more – its been a long while since anyone in the genetic line held down a job. Point blank: these people are at the start only going to be marginally employable and simply won’t be able to make enough money. That’s where we step in and say if you are showing up your 40 hours a week and doing the best you can, we’ll make up any difference between income and basic cost of living. We’re not just helping these people – we’re trying to build a culture of work and responsibility so the kids of these people will start on a higher level and need ever less support to get rolling.
For others – especially youngsters – it is a different set of incentives. Like this: if you are willing to go to college to learn a technical trade (like, say, architecture) then if you’ll work part time in construction while going to school, we’ll free ride or at least heavily subsidize your college tuition. We won’t do a thing for people looking for a “Knowledge Worker” degree…but if your goal is a career where you actually do something, we’re going to help you out…and you’re going to learn the nuts and bolts of how things are done in the real world. The basic thrust here – and people can come up with other incentives – is to make it smart to learn how to do things. To make, mine and grow things. Heck, I’ll take a willing kid out of the ghetto and send him to a college to learn agricultural science while having him work the fields nearby for an existing farm. Think about what we’re totally getting in that exchange. He’s no longer in a place that produces druggies and gangbangers, he’s replacing the illegal working the fields and he’s learning both the theory and practice of agriculture which is going to turn him into someone who is tremendously useful in improving American agriculture going forward. On and on like that.
It is not snap of the fingers and America is Great Again. It is going to take some work. Some thought. A willingness to fail and then just start all over again with a new approach. The first step is what Trump is doing – Tariffs and cutting government waste. That is going to prove the easy part.
I brought this up on X yesterday but I want to do to a bit more on explaining my tariff views – and, indeed, my overall economic views. So, here goes:
You’ve seen this picture of some variation of it, probably many times: the driving of the last spike in the Transcontinental Railroad. This was a major development in the growth of the United States – tying together the East and West and ensuring rapid settlement of the Great Plains. But what most people don’t know is that the rails used to build that railroad and the tires (wheels) on the trains in this picture were probably made in Germany, by Krupp. Here’s the logo of that company:
De drie ringen – the three rings. After the World Wars a lot of foreigners thought the three rings stood for Krupp cannon as Krupp was the premier gun maker for both the German Empire and Nazi Germany…but the truth is much more prosaic. Alfred Krupp was the first major German steel manufacturer and his firm struggled mightily early on. He did, indeed, realize his steel would be excellent for cannons and rifles but the military establishment of Prussia (his homeland) and the rest of Europe was skeptical of the newfangled thing, preferring to retain their cast-iron muskets and bronze cannon as tried and true (it was only after the astonishing performance of Krupp cannon in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war that everyone was sold on steel guns). What allowed Krupp to take off was two things: the exceptional quality of their steel and their invention of a new method of making steel railroad tires which produced a product superior to everyone else. The Krupp firm made so much money off the tires that Alfred Krupp decided to make three railroad tires his company logo – de drie ringen. Krupp’s rails and tires were so good that we Americans bought them in huge quantities. Krupp-steel was used to crisscross our continent with railroads.
But during all this time, we lived under a Protectionist trade policy. Sure, everyone loved the quality of Krupp products but they were expensive, as such, and then you had to pay the tariff to import them to the USA. Modern Free Trade nimrods would say we should have lowered the barriers to allow more Krupp steel in…but what happened was that the high tariffs induced American manufacturers to get into the game…by the 1890’s American-made railroad tires and tracks were only slightly less good than Krupp’s and being made at home and not subject to tariffs, were a lot cheaper. Boom: American railroads started buying American products. Here’s the key thing to remember: had we not had Protection, the American industries created to make railroad tracks and tires would have not come into existence. German labor costs were lower than American. The German product was better than we could produce out the gate. No tariffs would mean the German product would not only be better than we could ever make, but cheaper.
Now, think about this: had we not developed domestic railroad suppliers, what would have happened to us during the two World Wars when German imports were no longer available? We would have been in one heck of a bad situation…at a time when American rolling stock would be massively used, we would lack the domestic means to maintain and expand our rail system. Absolute catastrophe. Thanks to tariffs, we didn’t need German products. The loss of Germany as a trade partner meant absolutely nothing to us.
The economy, my friends, is not something to make your stock portfolio grow. It is what we do for a living – how we get our daily bread. Just think of all the things you use every week – by and large, everything you use should be made domestically if at all possible. We’re not talking luxury goods like an excellent French wine or some delicate silk fabric from the storied East…we’re talking about the bread and butter in your pantry, the pipes that bring water to your home and carry away waste, the gasoline in your car, the power lines that carry electricity to your house, the shoes on your feet, the shirt on your back. These are the things we need to do for ourselves…because in a crisis, nobody is going to do it for us. Point blank: the more dependent we are upon foreign suppliers for our basic necessities the more advantage foreign enemies have over us. And here’s another thing to consider – the US dollar is the global currency and nobody is going to want to dispense with it mostly because nobody trusts any other nation to hold assets…this has worked out well for us because we can print as many dollars as we like and buy cheap foreign goods with them…but in a real crisis, your wealth isn’t your money: it is what you can make, mine and grow.
Money was invented so that I don’t have to exchange a sack of potatoes for a bushel of wheat. It is a convenience – something standing in the place of me exchanging goods for goods because much easier to hand money to someone instead of the tedious transactions of a barter economy. But behind that money, you’d better have something someone wants. We used to back our money with gold, silver and copper…now we back it with “full faith and credit” which is meaningless support for a myth. If foreigners ever perceive that having US dollars isn’t the way to go – like, say, if we’re at war with China and not doing well – then they’re going to essentially demand goods for goods. Perhaps still denominated in dollars, but there better be something behind that slip of paper. And if we don’t make, mine and grow things? What then backs up our currency?
To have wealth, we must make – and to be safe, we must supply as much of our needs domestically as we can. This isn’t to say that trade isn’t beneficial. It is, in fact, one of the most beneficial of human actions. It is trading nations who always do best. If you ever wonder why Africa – where humans originated – never developed a high sub-Saharan civilization then look no further than Africa’s geography: outside the Nile, none of Africa’s major rivers are navigable year-round at distance. The African coast has hardly any natural harbors. Basically, deserts and oceans isolated sub-Saharan Africa from the main cross-currents of human development and so when Europeans first went into central and southern Africa starting in the 16th century, they found people who simply could not withstand superior European technology and organization. Had Africa been able to trade as readily as Europe, it probably would have developed similar to Europe. Lack of trade is a society-killer.
But Free Trade between nations is a myth – it has never happened and never can happen. If you brought together the two most honest nations and negotiated the most fair and square free trade deal, you still wouldn’t have free trade because each nation is working under a different tax and regulatory system. Each nation will also almost certainly have developmental differences which means they might be better at this, worse at that and so on back and forth between them. So even with the most honest approach, you still won’t have free trade – the internal differences between the trade partners will work out that one of them gains an advantage over the other. And here’s the spoiler: outside suckers like the USA (and Britain in the 19th century when they became the first nation to try Free Trade), nobody is honest. Everyone is lying, cheating and stealing to the largest extent possible. Bribes, subsidies, secret tariffs and bizarre regulatory mazes are designed to wring every last advantage for their side. Back in the 1980’s when we were all upset about Japanese car imports hardly anyone noticed that the reason the Japanese were able to dump their products in the USA was because their market was protected…not officially but through a maze of regulations and social constructs which essentially kept American automobiles out of Japan (in spite of Japanese loving every last bit of American pop culture and thus being primed to buy a Chevy). On and on it goes like that – Trump is right: they have been ripping us off.
But, as noted, even if they weren’t stealing, free trade is still a blind. Because even if a foreigner can make something for us better, faster and cheaper that isn’t the only consideration. Our people need to work. Our people need to have dignified jobs and lives. Our nation needs to be safe in a crisis. We need to be able to do things.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was partially collapsed in March of 2024 – officials now say they hope to have a replacement bridge up by the end of 2028. More than four years later! And if you really think a bunch of Democrats in Baltimore will meet that time line then I’ve got a collapsed bridge to sell you. It took less time to build the entire Golden Gate which is a bigger bridge. We’re currently constructing the USS Enterprise (CVN-80) which is a replacement for USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and the newer ship is going to take twice as long to build as the older even though there is no significant difference in tonnage or layout. We see things everywhere taking longer and longer and costing more and more – and, sure, taxes and regulations are playing their huge role here but it is also that we simply don’t make as much stuff as we used to so we’re dependent upon unreliable foreign suppliers and we’re increasingly using cheap, illegal labor which is totally unskilled (some of the new home construction done by illegals is atrociously bad). Suppose we got into a big war and needed to build lots of things very fast – as we had to in World War Two? Right now, we simply can’t do it – we lack the physical plant and the domestic skills.
In order to maintain the irreducible minimum of required capacity, we’re going to have to Protect certain industries and trades from foreign competition, even if that competition is superior (usually it isn’t, though; just compare your garbage Chinese-made drill with that American-made one that you’ve had in your garage for 40 years). In food, we must not import any of soybeans, corn, wheat, beef, pork, poultry and dairy products. In industry we must make all our own steel and aluminum, all our own lumber, all our own trucks, trains, planes, all our own power lines and associated equipment…we must as far as possible drill, baby drill for oil and natural gas and build sufficient nuke plants to ensure a glut of electrical production capacity. And we must do this even if it ends up more expensive – but it won’t because here is the dirty, little secret the Free Traders don’t want to tell you…prices in the USA fell continuously from the end of the War of 1812 until the creation of the Fed in 1913. The reason we need to import cheap consumer goods is because the deliberate use of inflation to sustain the banking system has priced us out of our own economy. If we go to sound money (I’d prefer the Gold Standard, but lets go baby-steps here) and try to eliminate inflation (rather than keep to the Fed’s ruinous and insane policy of ensuring at least 2% annual inflation) then we will see prices drop year over year as increased capacity and productivity drive down prices at the consumer level. We can start getting actually rich again.
And as we produce again, we can really trade again – it isn’t trade if I send a billion dollars I printed up for Chinese goods. That is just robbery. Trade is when I send China a billion dollars worth of goods and I buy a billion dollars worth of Chinese goods. Trade reciprocity…actual trade. I get this, you get that. Not I get your substandard consumer good and you get my money which you use to buy bonds and political influence over my Ruling Class. The exchange of goods and services is trade…not slips of paper. And it would be honest trade – and if China won’t buy from us because they demand I allow myself to be ripped off, then they are simply barred from my market…which they can’t survive, so they’ll actually have to be honest about it. Sucks to be them. I don’t care.
And here’s something to consider – once you think about it, this all makes sense. Certainly makes more sense than blaming tariffs for the Great Depression when you’re completely ignoring the massive financial, social and material dislocations in the period 1914 forward by war, disease and revolutionary overthrow of long-established nations and relationships. Tariffs certainly didn’t cause the Depression – if they played a role in extending it then this was secondary to all the massive government spending which misallocated resources from economic need to political favor. We’ve been living in an economic dream world since FDR…and in a Free Trade nightmare since Bretton Woods in 1944. Our economy is hollowed out, our technical abilities are atrophied, our people have fallen into welfare dependency and drug addiction…while a certain class is happy to sit back and watch as long as their stocks go up 7% per year. Enough of this. Back to the real world. As Trump said, the operation has been a success…the patient is on the mend. It is going to hurt – but healing from terrible illness and injury always does…but we’re restoring ourselves to health.
Pity the poor Liberal, my friends: they are in a bad place right now. Let’s take a quick look over there – we have two types of Liberals:
Absolute lunatics. These are the people who are out there setting Tesla’s on fire and trying to tackle Trumpsters on the train (did you see that video? Hilarious when the Liberal face-plants).
The intellectual Liberal who sounds oh, so reasonable and just wants peace, love and freedom.
The trouble for both types is that Liberalism cannot exist in anything like a free society. This paradox stems from the underlying error of Liberalism which is the assertion that human Reason, uncorrected by Authority, is sufficient. Back there in the 18th century when the so-called “Enlightenment” was creating the first Liberals the phrasing went along the lines of “I will follow Reason wherever it leads”. This sounds like a good idea and maybe it even was a good idea to some extent…but while the assertion was made by people who asserted they would always come to the correct thing via Reason, the facts of history show us that Robespierre, Lenin and Hitler were able to follow their Reason to some rather surprising results.
I bring this up because one of the second types – goes by the handle Carl @HistoryBoomer – has a post on X who is trying to explain to us benighted MAGA/Conservative types why Liberals are fleeing to Bluesky – he says, in part:
“Leftists are leaving Twitter because they can’t take criticism.”
Imagine you have a favorite diner, but the new owner is a Trump fan. Trump posters, Trump statues, Trump menu items.
Eventually you tire of waiters saying “Hail Trump” and leave.
Many of you underrate the effect of Elon being 100% behind Trump and daily spewing pro-Trump propaganda (often pure lies). This isn’t just a pro-Trump guy buying a diner. This is a guy who spends 20 hours a day tweeting his love of Trump and his hatred of “corrupt” Democrats.
He’s then got this chart showing that Musk’s account is popular, as are other Trump and pro-Trump accounts. So, you see, its just too much Trump all the time! It isn’t healthy. And, darn it, he’s going to have to leave if it doesn’t stop…presumably to retreat to Bluesky.
Have you been to Bluesky? I opened an account when it became a thing right after the election and I maintain it – because by checking it once very few days I can quickly discern the talking points of the Liberals. It is all there is over there – nothing but the most mindless Liberal propaganda. And it is just like Twitter was prior to Musk purchasing it. No real dissent…just endless repetition of the talking points. It is depressing. Mind-numbing. But it is the only place Liberalism can exist.
For the most part, Liberals don’t even engage in debate. We see it here when our resident Liberals show up from time to time – they just want to come here and put out the talking points and get furious when we don’t respond to their talking points in a way which allows them to just keep repeating the talking points. Forcing them to think and defend their position is something most Liberals hate. But even those who want to take a stab at an intellectual argument always fall back on departure if they can’t censor, and censorship if they’ve got the power. This is because they can’t defend their positions.
Don’t get me wrong, they think they can. They think they’re both smart and well-informed. Very sure of themselves. And so, for instance, a Liberal who is in love with the idea of high speed rail might come around to point out how awesome high speed rail is and how Europe and China are pressing ahead with this wonderful, Green tech which makes travel fantastic because they once took the bullet train from Paris to Brussels and we’d better get moving on this or we’ll be left behind by the world!
To which we respond: a high speed train from Los Angeles to New York would take nineteen and a half hours…if it was non-stop and there were no problems. And has anyone ever built a high speed rail crossing something like the Rocky Mountains?
Whammo – argument is over. The Liberal will not address the practical difficulty of building a high speed rail and that ends it…the Liberal might keep repeating the talking points for a while but is totally incapable of actually defending the position…because it is indefensible. Because there is no need for a nationwide high speed rail system in the USA. We like our cars. We like flying. You might be able to successfully build high speed rail for a few well-traveled corridors (Los Angeles to San Diego, DC to NYC, eg) but there’s just never gonna be a guy who wants to get on a train in LA and arrive nearly a full day later in NYC – he can be there is six hours by plane.
And it does go back to Liberalism’s initial error: that Reason alone is sufficient. Never has been, never will be. There must be an Authority which is outside of our control – something which tells us that certain things are always right, certain other things are always wrong and we are to simply conform ourselves to this. The seeming oddity of this is that it is liberating – once you know the rules, then you can do all sorts of fun and interesting things….like have a really cool give-and-take-argument over an issue where at the end of the day the best idea emerges victorious and everyone with any sense bows before it. My example about high speed rail was just to take a rather low-key issue…but it is like that on every issue.
Abortion is good. People are born in the wrong body. Migrants always improve the community. Muslims are never the bad guys. Black people can never be racists. Women are paid less than men. Funding a program means you get your desired result. Lack of funding means you will never get your desired result. Roads are Socialism. All of us have seen this – these assertions and many others, all made with vigor and not one of them defensible on the merits. The least push back on them and the Liberal has to censor you or retreat if censorship isn’t possible.
And that is why they hate Musk – sure, the DOGE stuff is a huge thing and supporting the Bad Orange Man is an outrage…but the very worst thing Musk did was allow criticism of Liberalism on X. It is intolerable…because Liberalism is indefensible. Trust me, if they could win an argument with us, they’d be having arguments with us day in and day out. They can’t so they don’t. Vast contrast to us on the Right who are arguing amongst ourselves all the time and we really do have diversity…we don’t agree on everything. We’d be bored to tears if we all did.
So, the Liberals are retreating – to their intellectual ghettos like Bluesky and MSNBC. This is good – we’ve got them on the run. Any of them worth anything will stay and eventually abandon Liberalism. Not necessarily all Liberal views – because some sorts of Liberal views are defensible (even if most of us on the Right still think them mistaken). But anyone of intellect and honesty is going to leave the Left…it is a dead and boring thing. A new dawn comes…the mind is being freed from Liberal bigotry.
We do have to think long-term a bit. Our immediate need is to gain control of the government, de-fund the Left and set the stage where freedom and logic have a shot at winning. But the bottom line is that political success in a democratic Republic requires that the people feel like they’re getting advantage out of you being in power. This mostly translates into how are they doing economically.
Trump economic policy, carried through, will go a long way on this – we might be in for a rough year but the cessation of inflationary spending, the tax cuts and the regulatory easements will lead to rapid economic expansion. That’s good and if it comes soon enough it might even allow us to win – or at least hold our own – in the 2026 midterms. But we have to be cognizant of the fact that last November 75 million people voted for a talentless, ignorant person of zero accomplishments. A good number of those voters are just hate-filled, Democrat bigots – not reachable by us no matter what we do. But the fear is that a flip of just 1.5 million Trump voters means we lose. Think of the catastrophe we’d be stuck in right now if Harris was in office. We dodged a bullet – and we need to think of ways to ensure we dodge it going forward.
And the seeds of what we need to do are right there in the election results – Trump did better than any GOPer ever among traditionally Democrat constituencies. These people voted for hope: a hope that Trump would revive the economy and give them a shot. If we don’t deliver on that hope we’re doomed – but if we can deliver even better than expected, those voters might start to come over to us in droves, leaving the Democrats in the position of the GOP 1932-1952. Think of all the Democrats accomplished in that 20 year period we were out: total transformation of the USA. We can do that, too; if we have the power.
Lots of people will have lots of ideas on this and here is mine: an Urban Homestead Act.
All through the big cities we see swaths of totally abandoned residential and commercial land. You’ve seen the videos – just totally blighted buildings (when they’re still standing). Testament to a different America 60+ years ago when our urban cores were places of work and hope, not death and despair. I know what you’re thinking: not another urban redevelopment plan! It isn’t! Promise! Those old liberal urban plans were merely giveaways to cronies…if anything concrete was accomplished it was either useless or merely catered to upper class urban liberals (you know – building an arts center…places to display garbage liberal art and it is all staffed by well-paid liberal foot soldiers). I have something else in mind: to turn decayed neighborhoods back into thriving communities. Turning abandoned factories and stores back into thriving businesses. Here’s the nutshell of it:
The federal government does a survey in a city (let’s say min population has to be 100,000) and if they determine a certain percentage is blighted (I’d go with something like a figure equal to 25% of the blighted land in Detroit), it is seized under eminent domain and becomes federal land (not exactly what was intended with this provision but after Kelo totally reasonable, and what we’re doing is actually good). We don’t overly interfere with local zoning ordinances (except in such cases where they are just liberal NIMBY urban planning trash) – if it is zoned residential, it remains that. So, too, with commercial and industrial zoning. The government clears away the completely useless buildings, cleans up those buildings which are still usable (even if they need work). The resultant properties go into a pool and at fixed times and places, American citizens (only citizens, and never corporations) can stake a claim to the properties…just like the old Homestead Act, if you stay on it for five years and develop it (you know, build or repair the house; open a factory up in that industrial property, etc) then title is transferred to you.
First thing: this will cost. Probably a lot. Not in obtaining the property – under eminent domain the full market value has to be paid but we’re talking here about de-facto abandoned property. We’d have to draw up some rules on that but a rule of thumb would be if the city hasn’t collected property taxes on it for, say, five years before it is seized in eminent domain, then that is abandoned property – it has no legal owner. Sure, there would be lawsuits on it…we’d win them. But the real expense comes in clearing/cleaning the property. But that, my friends, is the first step in giving benefit to the people…this would open up a huge number of low skilled jobs in areas of highest economic blight. Anyone can haul away trash. We just created some jobs – sure, government funded, but still private sector (various contractors would obviously be employed here) and just in cleaning up the mess, that will start to improve the areas we’re working in.
Second thing: making sure we’re not screwing ourselves. One thing is to make sure that the corrupt city governments don’t get their greedy little fingers in here. That’s part of the reason to federalize the property…but it can’t stay federal forever and I don’t want, say, the mayor of Chicago licking his chops at how much property taxes he’s going to be able to collect in five years. So, such property after transfer of title remains federal land for twenty years – federal land, no local or State taxes on it. The provision against corporations getting the land is because I don’t want corrupt political machines in the cities setting up fake corporations to stake a claim and then in five years just selling it off at whatever price after Uncle Sam picked up the tab for cleaning the land. This act is for people, not for governments or corporations. After the title is transferred then what will happen will happen…but the connected are not taking this thing over.
Some incentives:
Aside from being property-tax free for a total of twenty five years, I would also make the labor and material costs of fixing/building on the properties tax deductible. Full ride on it – whatever you spent to get that house or factory into working order, write it off your taxes…and you can allocate those costs over a twenty year period (you don’t have to take the write off in one year…you spent, say, $100,000 on it, go ahead and spread that tax deduction over five, ten or twenty years as seems best to you.
For contractors actually doing the work (as most of it will be) profits from such work are taxed at half whatever federal rate you pay on profits. Massive incentive for contractors to get into this…and pass at least part of the savings on to the customer. So, too, with materials sold to people building on the Homestead properties – you sell lumber then the lumber you sell for this is taxed less. The key here is to kickstart the thing – to make everyone want to jump in. And, of course, the goal was two-fold from the start: to revive these blighted areas, and to provide an increased market for goods and services. Because then the final step here: all materials used in these properties must be American made. We’re not doing this so China can sell us more drywall (some care will have to be taken here – if there is some aspect of this that is genuinely not available in the USA or not available in sufficient amount then we can grant some easements on this requirement…but just think about what is needed to build any structure and you know that 90%+ of it is easily obtainable in the USA). Think of the ripple effects in the economy as more lumber, nails, drywall, ducting, glass, wiring and on and on and on have to be made in the USA to rebuild America.
Anyways, that is the basics of my idea. Sure it would actually need refinement and there would be lots of nuance based on local conditions but the basic concept is to get Americans to rebuild America using American materials for the benefit of Americans. And I’m sure other people will come up with other ideas or improvements to this one. But we need the ideas. We need to talk about them. Send them along to those in charge or who have influence. Even if its just a tiny bit…that is how things are supposed to be done in the USA. Bottom up – the people are the prime movers, the government just clears the decks. And if we do this – and a hundred other good ideas as well – we’ll leave the Left out in the cold. They can’t come up with positive, helpful ideas – because they hate the USA and Americans. They don’t want us doing well – they want us punished for our sins, real and imagined. But as long as they can talk a game about helping, their message will resonate…if, however, we show the people that we’re helping, all the talk in the world won’t change the result.
The latest effort to derail DOGE has been to have moderate Right (not specifically Never Trump) people write despairing pieces about the failure of Conservatives to deplore Elon Musk’s serial adultery. He has 12 confirmed children, a social media influencer claiming number 13. They tie this into Trump’s sexual past and throw up their hands (a little dramatically) wondering just how we can do anything when those in charge of the movement are sinners? This effort is clearly orchestrated by the Left – which doesn’t care at all about morality but they will wipe their butt with their own flag if it helps them.
Rely on it, if we made an effort to codify morality into law, these same Right voices would rise in opposition to us on Libertarian grounds. The only people morality applies to, in their minds, is us: we have to be perfect and if we ain’t, then we don’t deserve to have power…or, indeed, anything.
To make it clear: adultery is a sin. Fornication is a sin. Horrible, bad sins which can destroy a human soul and condemn it to everlasting damnation.
But so, too, divorce and birth control. Working on the Sabbath. Not going to Mass on Sunday. Do you get what I’m saying? If we are to base our politics upon what is considered a sin in Christian theology, then we’re going to have a very different political organization. And one that won’t win anything. To be sure, winning in politics is not usually the most crucial consideration. We Christians are in the world but we are not supposed to be of it and we are supposed to, as far as possible, meekly live within the political structure trusting to God that things will work out. And for the most part, that is what Christians have done – it has been a long time since anyone really insisted upon any distinctly Christian policy in American politics. But things are different now. We’re not fighting for mere political power. We are fighting for our very lives.
We Christians are to accept martyrdom if it is thrust upon us. We aren’t to seek it out but if we are placed into the position where we can only live by denying God, then it is time for us to die – and joyfully so. But our prime duty here is escape if possible. Just as we are to avoid near occasions of sin, so we should avoid, if we can, situations where the choice becomes apostasy or death. That is what we’re trying to do here. I know it sounds perhaps a bit melodramatic, but it is win in politics right now, or die. If we lose and have to die, so be it – we trust in God. But let’s try not to lose.
We have to fully grasp what we’re up against. Remember, when the Palestinians sent in rape/murder squads to Israel, the global Left supported the Palestinians. They still do. Even today they are still out in the streets waving Hamas flags and calling Israel the bad guy. Think about that. They also sincerely believe that a human being can be born in the wrong body – and that anyone denying this is malevolent. They believe that punishing criminals is wrong. Not kidding about that: they are all in for “alternatives to punishment”…because they have internalized the idea that crime only happens because of injustice. We joke about saying “society made me do it”, but they really believe this to be the case…and so “society” needs to be punished. These are not reasoned, logical positions. They are not just false, but obviously false…and yet tens of millions of people in these United States of America believe it all and given that they further believe the world will die if they don’t get their way, we have the recipe for massacre.
Keep in mind that the whole basis of Nazism was stupidly wrong – ultimately based upon the belief that the Jews were an organized, malevolent force in the world deliberately out to destroy the civilized people – ie, the Aryans. This is no different from the modern Left believing that we are an organized, malevolent force deliberately out to destroy the planet. The Germans bought the Nazi argument and at least 40% of the American people have bought the Left argument. It won’t take much for a solid majority to get behind “born in the wrong body” and “that hamburger is killing the Earth!”. And people who think that the world will end if they don’t prevail are not noted for holding back…once you get that idea fixed in your head that only total destruction of the enemy allows you to survive, you’ll do anything to get your way.
I am not here in this year of 2025 trying to preserve Christian morality – we lost that fight decades ago when we didn’t oppose the completely insane idea of no-fault divorce…when we seriously went along with the idea that a promise made to God and Man can be annulled by a judge. At that point, the slide down into Elon Musk having 12 or 13 children from a large number of women was kinda baked in. And, on the whole, this is actually far more human than the Left which wants to trans kids they don’t abort…and suicide them if they wind up depressed teenagers. At least Musk is making babies and wanting them to get on a path towards a useful life. Better if he wasn’t nailing everything that will sit still for five minutes…but if I’ve got a choice between a world where people are bumping uglies with wild abandon and having buckets of children and another world where they lop off healthy body parts and then suicide the result…I know what I’m choosing. And I did just mention the suicide thing, didn’t I? Really think about that – the Left thinks it is good if people can have taxpayer funded “doctors” kill them if they’re feeling out of sorts. They don’t even call it a necessary evil any more – they call it good. Positive. A great outcome. Yay death!
For my own safety’s sake, I must defeat these people. Because I am not like them, I don’t want them jailed or killed. I will allow them to remain in their personal delusions…but I must do everything I can to remove them from all power and influence in the world. I will go pretty far here, including to eventual disenfranchisement and confiscation of their wealth if that proves necessary to stop these insane people. But for right now, I think that if we can de-fund them that will solve most of the problem…my conviction is that these insane beliefs are only given credence because subscription to them ensures well-paid sinecures for those willing to push the lunacy. Don’t ever downplay the power of a dollar sign in front of a morally and intellectually weak person. Much is written in the history books about how the German generals went along with Hitler even when it was clear his military commands were leading to disaster…much less is written about how Hitler secured and retained that compliance: money. He simply bribed his senior leaders to go along…and go along they did, only concerned about keeping their place at the trough. So, too, the modern American Left. And if we take away the money…if nobody is paying them to be insane, then there’s a strong chance they’ll stop being insane. And Musk is leading the charge in taking away their money.
Do I trust Musk? No. The default position on anyone with a great deal of money and/or power is mistrust. Trump gets trust now because he’s proven himself in the face of terrible odds to be on my side. Musk? Well, he’s doing some good things but so far the chips haven’t really been down…he hasn’t had to choose between his own happiness and the good of the people. The Left is pushing that way and he’s probably going to be forced to make that choice. We’ll see how that goes. But, meanwhile, he’s doing what I want – except too slowly and being far too nice to the Left. I want what he’s doing put on overdrive. Musk is a tool. He’s useful right now. If he remains useful then I’ll keep backing him – but the minute the tool is broken or proves ineffective, I’ll drop him like used chewing gum.
And here’s the kicker: once I defeat these insane people and restore a world where truth is the basis of action, then I can start to revive Christian morality – or, indeed, any moral code. People who think that abortion is good are not going to be converted to Christianity with ease. Heck, just getting them to stop being raving lunatics is a herculean task. But if they are no longer paid to believe that abortion is good then they might stop actually believing that abortion is good…and that will open them up to the prospect of understanding that being a good person requires a strict moral code enforced by law and custom. But this is all for after: after the Left is defeated. I can’t get there from here – I must first get rid of the lunatics. Then I can talk.
The quote is attributed to Napoleon and it is very much in line with his thinking. True enough even if he never uttered the exact phrase. But, what does it mean? That a leader should go off and be lawless and claim as justification that he’s saving the country? Well, we get that on the regular right now. The world has always been filled with such de-facto assertions. But Napoleon wasn’t asserting a national policy for his government – he of the Code Napoleon knew that law was crucial – but simply making an observation. Keeping in mind that he had turned out the Directory in a coup…to the immense joy of most French as they were, by 1799, sick to death of endless Revolution. I believe that this is the sense in which Trump is working.
The law, from the Constitution on down to the lowest county ordinance isn’t a suicide pact. We cannot, of course, have a civilized society if we don’t have laws. But the law can become destructive of its own ends – like, for instance, when we have people asserting that the 14th Amendment secured a right for foreigners to illegally enter our country and give birth to citizens. If the law explicitly said that, then only an insane person would abide by it – and everyone who violated it would be saving the country, and thus violating no law.
Another example – the law clearly states that Hunter Biden is pardoned for all violations of federal law from January 1st, 2014 until December 31st, 2024. And that, by law, ends that. But it isn’t at all just. It isn’t what the law is for – the power of pardon isn’t intended to get your drug-addicted son off from his serial violations of laws. And, so, while it would be a technical violation of the law to now rake over every action of Hunter’s starting on January 1st, 2025 (he will break the law again; there is no doubt about that) and then throwing the book at him, it would be just. You see how this works?
Personally, I think what Trump has done here is fire a shot across the bow of those in the country who are willing to go along with Democrat efforts to hamstring the Executive. We know what the Democrats are doing and why – and that is fine. But nobody else should be helping them at all. If, for instance, the Supreme Court decides not to intervene in these ridiculous lawfare cases against Trump’s Executive actions (or just delays action based on some absurd adherence to established judicial procedure), then Trump will wait a while…but then act. The laws we have on the books that are supposed to protect us from unjust government actions are not there to allow well-funded Leftwing activists to stymie via lawsuits actions by the duly elected Executive. You are not being oppressed if your federal meal ticket is taken away and no host of Leftwing judges can make it so.
And, in the end, if Trump does act against a court order after giving fair time for it to be worked out, then he will be saving Law. Keep in mind that if the Lawfare actually worked – if it actually prevented Trump from doing the legal things he was elected to do – then it would go into the public mind that the law is useless. Even downright evil. If working within the system and winning fair and square by the book gets you nothing, then you will seek other means of getting what you want. Trump won the election. The Republican Party won the election. The MAGA voters won. And when you win you get what you want. That is the rule. And they’d better darn well get it – or things will start to happen that nobody likes.
In an attempt to make us all feel bad about MAGA, a Democrat operative pointed out that a 71 year old Burmese refugee in Thailand died the other day because the NGO providing her oxygen ceased service because Trump shut off the USAID funds. There were a couple problems with this:
@Oilfield_Rando pointed out that the CEO of the NGO makes $2.2 million per year. You’d think he could have kicked in for an oxygen tank or two.
An American lady in North Carolina died of hypothermia on January 6th, 2025, after FEMA failed to help her. No Democrat rose to condemn Biden over this. Bottom line: they don’t care about people dying. They only care about political power and the dead lady in Thailand, they think, helps them gain power. Think of how hard they had to look to even find this out?
The conflict in Burma (called Myanmar by the current pack of thugs running the place) has been ongoing since 1948. It is an entirely senseless ethnic conflict that no civilized people would tolerate – and we note, with great care, that under British rule these conflicts were suppressed because killing someone on account of their ethnicity is barbaric and stupid.
As we are now closely reviewing all the foreign aid, we must also address the underlying reason for foreign aid. Why, at the end of the day, do we do it? After all, outside sporadic international help in response to natural disasters, until the mid-20th century foreign aid just wasn’t a thing. A couple reasons are given for it:
Humanitarian. Can’t let people die. This, of course, is true. If we can in any way prevent an unnecessary death, we should do so.
Global power. If we don’t provide the aid, then someone else will and we’ll lose influence over crucial areas of the globe, placing ourselves at a disadvantage.
We’ll start with number 2 here: global power. If we don’t, someone else will, to our detriment. Ok. Between 2012 and 2022 the United States provided about $2.8 billion per year in aid to Tanzania. That’s equal to 3.4% of Tanzania’s annual GDP. They should love us, right? I mean, if someone handed us a sum equal to 3.4% of our GDP every year, we’d probably like that guy. I know if someone handed me a figure equal to 3.4% of my annual income, I’d be grateful. So, how has this love worked out?
Tanzania has signed a $2.2bn deal with two Chinese firms to build a standard gauge rail link between the port of Dar es Salaam and a nickel mine in Burundi, Business Insider Africa reports.
Looked into who owns that nickel mine in Burundi and it appears to be a company called East African Region Group which is headed up by some sheik from the United Arab Emirates. We gave Burundi $69.7 million in 2024.
To nutshell, in return for $28 billion to Tanzania over the past ten years and nearly $70 million to Burundi just in 2024 we got…nothing. China gets to build the railroad and the Emirates get to mine the nickel. Oh, I mean, sure: there are more healthy workers in Tanzania and Burundi than there would have been without US aid and that’s nice…helps the Chinese and Emiratis a lot. I’m sure they’re grateful.
But at least we did provide the humanitarian aid, right? We can feel good about that!
Well, maybe not.
Not trying to pick on Tanzania here – in fact, I literally picked the country at random for the example here, figuring in advance that any African nation would have the same basic arc over the past 60+ years – but the bottom line is that it became independent in 1961 and in 2024, 63 years later, got $2.8 billion in aid from us. And a lot more from elsewhere (though I suspect that a lot of the non-US aid is actually just more US aid funneled through non-US NGO’s). Just what the heck have the people of Tanzania been up to all this time? In 63 years of American post-colonial development we went from an agricultural backwater to a significant industrial power (that would be 1776 to 1839) about to break out into major power level. And we didn’t get a dime in foreign aid.
Oh, wait. Perhaps that is it?
Americans are no smarter than Africans – people is people. Genius is rare and the average run of us are…average. Americans are not harder working than Africans. Americans are not morally superior to Africans. On the grand scale of things, a space alien examining an African and an American wouldn’t find a dime’s worth of difference between them. So, what gives?
The basic African story: independence granted by an exhausted Imperial power which just didn’t want to bother any longer (though people pump up the leaders of independence movements in Africa into some sort of super-human heroes); a colonially-educated, socialist-minded strong-man takes over and rules for ages (Tanzania was run by Julius Nyerere from 1960 to 1985) suppressing political dissent and trying to graft Marxist twaddle onto a subsistence-agriculture, tribal society. Debt, inflation and general misery results (in the best cases – the worst go Rwanda and genocidal murder)…along with buckets of foreign aid money. And don’t get me wrong here, as far as post-colonial strong-men went, Nyerere was pretty good…at least he doesn’t appear to have looted his treasury and he did (eventually) give up power (though basically to the one-party State he created and which persists today via bogus elections). It should be noted that Nyerere the anti-colonialist firebrand who is hailed to this day as one of the Liberators of Africa…died in a London hospital. All that time in power all that money spent…couldn’t even build one first-rate hospital in his homeland.
All we can really say here is that the aid is the problem – that it actually props up what is wrong in the recipient countries. Think about it: Nyerere’s policies were basket-case bad right out the gate…what kept his people fed sufficient to prevent bloody revolution was the foreign aid. The gifts of the First World. And so it goes in one Third World nation after another – a lousy, stupid and usually corrupt post-colonial Ruling Class makes a mess of things and then begs for aid to put a band aid over the failure. And we give and give and give and nothing really ever improves and on top of all that, we here in the USA don’t even get to exploit the material resources and cheap labor…the Chinese get to do that. How is this good? How is this considered moral?
I don’t want us to leave people to just die – but if people are just dying then we can’t just pass out the cash. We have to address the underlying problem…and that problem is going to invariably be the Ruling Class of the country where people will die if they don’t get aid. They’re either too corrupt or too stupid (or a combination of same) to run their country. I don’t care about offended patriotic sensibilities…if you will starve without my food, then when I send the food, I send my control over you. Because I can’t trust you’ll fix the problem. If we send aid, it comes with strict instructions not just on how the aid is used, but how the recipient country will organize itself going forward. And, hey, they can refuse the conditions…and the food. Their choice. Let the local strong-man rant and rave about American imperialists…I don’t care. But if he wants food rather than his people rising up to kill him, then he’ll do as he’s told.
As I’ve said on many occasions of late, it is time for us to enter the real world. To take things as they actually are, not as we might wish them to be. It is the only way anything is going to get fixed.
Things are changing so fast we can’t keep up with them all. On the matter of South Africa, my go-to has been an account on X, @ConCaracal. He’s a South African who has been grinding away trying to reform the increasingly racist South African government. Over the past few years, especially, the South African government has become increasingly strident in its hatred of whites. There are now more race-based laws on the books than under Apartheid. This shows that the primary complaint the ANC really had with Apartheid is that they didn’t have that power for themselves. It has been a fairly bleak battle for white South Africans and, indeed, South Africa recently enacted an entirely unconstitutional law to confiscate white-owned farms without compensation. This is the path Zimbabwe went down and so we all knew where it was going. And then, Trump.
Did you ever imagine you’d see the day that the American Secretary of State would call out Third World racism? We’re not supposed to mention this, guys. Remember, we’re the bad guys and we have to allow tin pot Third World tyrants do whatever they want. This was a gigantic earthquake in foreign affairs…and while it has caused little notice in the USA, it has been noticed in South Africa – as Conscious Caracal said:
The key take away here is the same for everything – we didn’t have to do what we were doing. All this time we’ve been bending the knee to Third World tyrant-thieves and we could have just called them out on it. Now, this doesn’t solve South Africa’s problem – the country is in horrid shape and the ANC does need it’s enemy (white people) to justify continued power. Its not like they can stop stealing from the Treasury, right? Keep in mind that the whole farm confiscation thing is absurd – the government of South Africa is the largest landowner in South Africa…if they want to pass out land to black farmers, they’ve got millions of acres to spare. But that doesn’t generate race-hatred. But pressure from the Trump Administration will be crucial in the fight to turn South Africa into a rule of law nation.
And on and on and on like that. We’ve been essentially destroying ourselves for decades, internally and externally, in service of some mythic belief that the US is the bad guy. That white people are the bad guy. That Christians (and, recently, Jews) are the bad guy. That the very creation of our nation is an unforgivable sin. And now it just stops…because we’ve got a President who doesn’t want to play that game. And it is glorious.
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