I read a lot of so-called "dissident news"—the new Samizdat, if you will, for our new Soviet empire. (NOTE: Because of that, I won a bet I made in late 2016 that Trump would win. I was one of the few who was not surprised. My friend had to buy me dinner. And it beats being wrong because you've been deliberately misinformed, even without the benefit of an exotic beef tips and hummus meal.) Some of what I read is quite interesting, and I can link to it directly. Some of it loses much of it's potential audience due to its rude nature, so sometimes I take a piece and clean up its language and repost it on my own blog. Sometimes, it says stuff that while empirically true, challenges the identity of nice-guy LDS and other Christian readers, who therefore reject it because of the existential threat to their own concept of self and their identity. The following article, about liberalism as a cult which is losing its grip due to the rude intrusion of reality, qualifies as both the second and the third type. I'll clean it up from the second point of view, but the third point of view will have to stand or fall on its own merits. A lot of people won't like what it says in that regard, but as I said, it's empirically rather unassailable in most respects whether you like it or not. The statistics are readily available for those who desire to find them.
And for those who aren't bright enough to understand what that means; keep in mind that even the Lamanites were valuable to God, and he was pleased with their conversion and valued their souls as much as that of the Nephites. But even
after large numbers of them converted, they remained apart from the Nephites in the land of Jershon, and even from their own unconverted brethren, because of their separate identities. Later, when the Nephites became wicked and the Lamanites more righteous, the Lamanites still practiced segregated living conditions, and Samuel the Lamanite, after preaching in Zarahemla, as it says in Helaman 16: 7-8 went back to his own homeland. "
And as they went forth to lay their hands on him [Samuel], behold, he did cast himself down from the wall, and did flee out of their lands, yea, even unto his own country, and began to preach and to prophesy among his own people. And behold, he was never heard of more among the Nephites; and thus were the affairs of the people."
Just as different families live in different houses as part of the same peaceful community, different nations and peoples are at peace with each other when they live in different homelands, so they can practice the culture that best suits them without molestation or interference from others. Anyway, without further ado:
Witnessing The Death Of A Religion
April 11, 2019 by CH
How often does a generation witness the wholesale death of a religion? Not often, I’d guess, but it’s happening now, livestreamed and hashtagged in real time. The religion that is dying is Equalism, the doctrinal tenets of which are:
- the races are biologically equal
- the sexes are biologically equal
- any inequality between the races and sexes is proof of heresy, cultural corruption, discrimination, and White male animus, but certainly not of innate, evolved biological differences
Modern White liberals are fervent disciples and proselytizers of Equalism. Their xenophilic devotion to the Word of ZOG is total. Nothing to date has shaken their proclaimed faith, not even the death of their own children at the hands of the Exalted Other.
Note that I wrote “Word” of ZOG, not “deed”, because in practice, in their personal lives, liberals quite often betray their beliefs, and just as with any guilty soul liberals have constructed mountains of rationalization and sophistry to reaffirm their faith and prostrate themselves before the altar of their grotesque god.
Zealots who have lost the will to tolerate or “forgive” apostates are often the wildest transgressors of their stated beliefs. They project their own self-flagellating shame and guilt onto nonbelievers, because it’s a lot more fun to flagellate infidels.
Religions usually die genocidally or from low fertility leading to attrition of followers. Rarely do religions die from conversions. (What typically happens is that the converted leave behind hardier believers, by a process known as “boiling off”.) Sometimes religions are demographically altered via conquest or adoption, but even then the essential nature of the religion continues reverberating in its new form, and the closer the religion’s adoptive followers are, genetically and hence culturally, to its founders, the more generationally durable the religion’s essential nature.
We wait to see how the liberal religion of Equalism will die, but die it will, as must all Lies that can’t hide behind supernatural deniability. The liberal religion is entirely earthly; it has no sustenance from divine provenance or guidance. When earthly reality collides with liberal equalism belief, there’s nowhere for the liberal to find succor. She has no heavenly God to affirm her beliefs. She has had ¡SCIENCE! to comfort her, but real science has not had her, not for a long while. If anything, science is now the Equalist’s serpent, offering poison fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Race and Sex that she bites at risk of banishment from Gentrificationland.
So she must find comfort in Ideology, and in the ululating embrace of her all-too-human Affirmation Allies. Her Father then, is her ego, her Son of Man her purified POC, and her Holy Spirit her unassailable virtue.
But all three parts of that Trinity are conspicuously falsifiable. Destructible. Her virtue is belied by her superzip residence. Her purified POC is exposed as a charlatan upon close contact. Her ego…very strong, tough, but not impregnable….lacks any transcendence and is vulnerable to mockery and ostracism. Her ego is killable, which means she will do anything…ANYTHING…to guard her ego against the killing blow.
If the leftoid equalist’s ego is god, then don’t expect a peaceful surrender to apostasy. Any tentative steps toward reformation will be met with zealotry, bordering on zaniness. The death of the equalist’s god is akin to the death of the equalist herself. If her Ideology is her Identity, then abandoning her Ideology is abandoning herself, and all she has been, and believed, and perceived of herself for her entire life. Metadeath.
Remember, she has no succor in a divine being or a divinely inspired Word. She has nowhere to console herself when her ego dies; at the moment of ego death it’s the illimitable void for her, preceding her corporeal death. She will be a walking zombie, softly muttering liberal platitudes to a tiny coterie of the Ego Dead who mutually bolster each other’s self-conception as the world moves on from them.
So how do we know we are witnessing the death of the liberal religion?
By their screeching.
By their despotic overreach.
By their enthusiasm to burn the heretics at the stake.
Believers of the European ancestry persuasion whose religion is unchallenged, or who have an unknowable divinity to whom they can subordinate their egos, are generally good-willed toward nonbelievers. They may defend their beliefs when insulted, but they won’t hound their interrogators and try to destroy their lives. Their belief is strong and therefore sturdy against attack.
Contrast with White liberal believers in Equalism, a socially constructed religion which is daily challenged, and before which liberals cannot subordinate their egos, because their ego is their god. They lash out in a lunatic rage (what I call “wokebursts”) at heretics, chasing them from the public square and impoverishing them with the assistance of the State and Corporate priest caste. Liberal equalists lash out at heretics not because they strongly believe, but because they begin to doubt.
It’s the creeping doubt which drives them to tyrannical inquisitions against nonbelievers and skeptics. Liberals aren’t secure in their faith. They secretly, subconsciously worry that they have hitched their wagon to a false prophet. Their religious insecurity brooks no challenge or heresy, because it is paper-thin and fragile, and must be quarantined from even the cuckiest incursions of skepticism.
When one defends a fortress made of gossamer, the best defense is to prevent a single enemy from taking up arms against it. Once the enemy has amassed, it’s too late; the fortress will fall in an instant.T his is where equalist liberals are today: in that limbo between unchallenged rule and overrun by those who would cast off the shackles of freakqualism. The Lib Limbo is dangerous. It is Orwellian, dictatorial, oppressive. Evil. Now is when the brave dissident risks it all, running into the teeth of a Societal and State apparatus that has maxim guns pointed at him.
The liberal knows the maxim gun is the only thing between losing her religion and continued rule over her Fake Fiefdom. She will aim all her whiny firepower at the scattered dissidents to prevent an army forming on the horizon. Desperation compels her to a malevolence that would have shocked her in tidier times when her power was uncontested.
Along the theme of this post, Patrick McDermott wrote a good post titled “How White liberals will wake up“.
White liberals can be maddening. They proceed through life happily proclaiming their devotion to progressivism, completely oblivious to the brewing demographic dangers on the horizon. Indeed, most polls show them doubling down on their beliefs in the era of Donald Trump. If you try to warn them, they will stare at you blankly. If you are a friend or relative, count yourself lucky that they still tolerate you and your beliefs.
I’ve gotten that blank stare from liberals. It’s the look of someone whose brain function temporarily stopped; a glitch in the wetware triggered by unauthorized inputs.
As for doubling down, yes that’s what ferocious believers in a discredited religion do, when renouncing their faith is the only alternative. There will be many more wokebursts before this religion has loosened its grip on the liberal heart and mind. There may even be the ultimate wokeburst: war.
White liberals are neither evil nor irredeemable.
Oh, I wouldn’t be so sure of that blanket statement…
The road to perdition may be paved with good intentions, but most of them will awaken before we get there. Our collective struggle will be difficult, but they will be standing with us when we emerge on the other side.
I like McDermott’s optimism, but it’s more likely that the White liberals “standing with us” on the other side will be markedly fewer in number than the ones standing against us during the journey there.
[ed. Many are called, but few are chosen. Re-read the last third of Alma and all of Helaman and Third Nephi up until the arrival of the Savior. It won't be pretty]
Understanding how white liberals will change requires first understanding how their minds work.[…]Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, first proposed in 1943 by Abraham Maslow, explains human motivation as the product of a variety of competing needs.[…]Two of the needs in this framework are particularly important for understanding white liberals: self esteem and love / belonging. These needs can be evolutionarily traced to our status as a social species.
McDermott goes on to write that as long as White liberals’ Physiological and Safety needs are met, they will focus all their mental and emotional energy on satisfying their Self-Esteem and Love/Belonging needs, and that this is why Right-wingers can’t dissuade liberals from their Equalism religion using logic and reason:
In today’s Western societies, anti-racism has come to be viewed as the morally correct position and racism as the ultimate evil. This creates substantial incentives for conformity in our racial views and rewards status-seeking behavior (sometimes referred to as “virtue signaling”) on racial issues. In those cases where this dominant moral paradigm conflicts with an individual’s other needs, such as the desire to live in a safe neighborhood, rationalizations provide the necessary cover so that white liberals can avoid guilt and cognitive dissonance while simultaneously engaging in hypocritical behavior.[…]As challenging as these barriers may seem, however, it gets worse. Research has shown that human beings are highly resistant to facts that challenge their core convictions. They will seize on any information that confirms their preexisting beliefs and if their beliefs are challenged, they will simply ignore or disbelieve the source. Stronger challenges to core beliefs can even backfire, causing people to double down on their original position.
Troy Campbell, a researcher on the topic, explained it this way: “As causes become our identity, we don’t just believe we are right anymore; we need to believe we are right to maintain self-worth.”
The Missing Ingredient: Fear
Liberalism’s close ties to its own version of morality – combined with the universal human needs for self-esteem and social belonging – make this an exceedingly tough nut to crack. But crack it will. How do we break through these barriers? The answer can be found near the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy: the need for safety.
To change White liberal hearts and minds, attack their stunted amygdalae.
Most white liberals will not be convinced by rational arguments, no matter how strong or well-supported those arguments may be. They will only be convinced by threats to their basic safety. This, in turn, points to the real barrier. Most white liberals do not feel threatened.
Two points. First, I’m not certain liberals *can* be convinced by threats to their personal safety. Part of the liberal psychology is a twisted masochism streak, a sort of cognitive Stockholm Syndrome by which liberals come to identify with their own insecurity, considering it a good thing in their lives. Related, I’ve seen liberals almost glow with smugness when describing the hazards they face living in the urban playground. They are proud of their powerlessness and lurking victimization.
Second, it is true that most White liberals don’t feel viscerally threatened by encircling Diversity™…yet. Gentrification and segregation in microcosm have done a great job insulating liberals from real fear. This insulation CAN be breached if the Diverse Hordes become numerically preponderant, but we aren’t quite there in the places where it would do the most “good”. The rapid gentrification and relocations of vibrancy to the exurbs of the past fifteen years has succeeded in putting off the “Escape from New York” awareness level needed to scare urban White liberals straight back to sanity. Lower White liberal fertility and later marriage has also had a delaying effect on the return of liberal sanity, because they don’t have to concern themselves with “good schools” until a couple of decades spent in the anonymous sex hedonistic plunderdome has fully marinated their dismissive, sanctimonious attitude toward racial reality.
This gets to the danger of allowing liberals too much power to control the discourse. In general, liberals are less forward-seeing that are non-liberals. If IQ tests could measure foresight and ability to see long-term consequences from present-day actions, conservative Whites would blow away liberal Whites. Perhaps you wouldn’t even have to control for class or education to see this disparity.
The White liberal perception of reality can thus be reduced to a narrow range of “the black guy I know is cool” and “oh, it’s a shame about that murder, but it happened in a different neighborhood and he was stupid to walk around there at night”, which naturally leads to “yeah, let’s invite more Vigrants into our country because they’d all be cool and chill and it torments those awful White nationalists!”.
In contrast, the White Right-winger perception of reality is more inclusive of future possibilities and fallouts from current experiences. The Right-winger knows “one cool black guy” is not a stand-in for “30 millions blacks” and that a murder in another neighborhood could just as easily have been a murder in his neighborhood, which leads to “it’s not a good idea to bring more antagonistic foreigners into my country which I have to bequeath to my posterity”.
Most [White liberals] do not see a civilization that is crumbling around them or a brewing threat on the horizon. They see a thriving economy and a skyrocketing stock market. Yes, race relations are not perfect, but they think those problems will sort themselves out as soon as we solve the challenge of poverty and get rid of Donald Trump. Immigration is beneficial. There are no meaningful differences between people. Trump voters are just suffering from irrational phobias and “white anxiety.” Times are good. What on earth is there to be afraid of?[…]The sad reality is that few people who are living in a bubble are able to see it until it pops. The rare iconoclasts who are right too soon are usually viewed as social outcasts and misfits. The liberal bubble is about to pop, however. The signs are all around us.
Number one sign: the social media censorship and boycott swarms of any public realtalker.
The coming awakening of white liberals, which in the United States will probably occur over the next decade, will be primarily due to five factors.
Meat and potatoes time. McDermott lists these factors as “instinctual ethnocentrism”, “growing direct contact [with nonWhites]”, “cultural threat”, “explicitly anti-White rhetoric”, and “political threat”.
He thinks political threat holds the most promise for waking up White liberals,
The fifth factor, political threat, may be the most important because, unlike the others, it cannot be avoided or ignored. The principal source of this threat is the nation’s changing demographics, which are empowering minorities and shifting the Democratic Party sharply to the left.[…]The reaction of white voters to such hard-left ideological swings is well-established. Two of the most left-leaning presidential nominees in modern history, George McGovern and Walter Mondale, were trounced at the polls. More recently, moderate Republican gubernatorial candidates have a solid track record of defeating far-left Democrats in deep blue states. What accounts for this? Many white liberals, particularly those with high household incomes, are not as far left as they think.
White liberals may not feel threatened by the left today, particularly with Republicans controlling Congress and Trump dominating the news on a daily basis, but that will change in the coming decade. As the nation changes, the mainstream media and social media companies may try to clamp down on opposing views, but they are unlikely to repress the emerging voices of the far left, who will do far more to open the eyes of white liberals than conservatives ever could. They are our unwitting allies.
If you thought Trump 2016 was a bellwether, wait until Trump 2020. That’s the election which will tell us if White liberals are salvageable or if we have to go our separate ways.
One idea that needs to be a part of this discussion is the premise that White liberals may very well be *ethnically distinct* from White conservatives.
Albion’s Seed gets into this, and the basic theory is that America was settled by four different strains of Anglo Whites, which persist to this day in voting patterns, habits, moral outlooks, and social organization preferences. If so, then White liberals possibly see themselves as *ancestrally* distinct from White conservatives, or at least feel it in their bones even if they don’t consciously acknowledge or express it. A feeling like this could mean that White liberals convince themselves that White conservatives are just as “alien” to their way of life as are nonWhites. It isn’t true, but the narcissism of small differences and the liberal striver mentality of not wanting to be associated with “downscale” White cousins (and being embarrassed by downscale White culture and politics) empowers White urbanites to hold tight to their hatred of and bitterness against White flyovers.
And, of course, no discussion about White liberalism is complete without a mention of the disproportionate contribution of those [very special] “White” liberals, who are in fact racially distinct from goylibs and goycons. (If you’re feeling charitable toward the Jews (why would you extend them that which they rarely extend you, tho?), then you could substitute “ethnically distinct”.)
How will we know when white liberals have changed their views? It will probably not be immediately obvious. Most will not publicly proclaim their shift. There will instead be occasional calls for bipartisanship and arguments against the growing tide of identity politics. And then there will be silence as former liberals say less and less, daring only to whisper among friends about their growing concern about the direction of the country.
Ideally, the liberal ego slowly and peacefully conforms itself to the coming Train of Truth. Catastrophically, the liberal ego snaps suddenly, convulsing our shared nation in a festival of reckoning.
Over time, it is not unrealistic to assume that voting patterns at the national level will begin to mirror those of the South, where white support for Republican presidential candidates commonly reaches 80-90 percent. In the long run, however, it will not be enough. Demographics are still political destiny.
Does anyone outside of dissident blogs and besides Ann Coulter, Tucker Carlson, and Stephen Miller understand the absolute certainty of this ugly truth?
The Soviet Union, one of the 20th Century’s two superpowers, was destroyed by its adherence to an ideology that ignored human nature. It should not be surprising that the world’s other superpower might also be destroyed by an unrealistic ideology, in this case one that willfully ignores the world’s long history of ethnic conflict.
Diversity + Proximity = War.
Equalism has been described as a “totalizing ideology”, which to me means conformism to it must be total or risk the wrath of the deranged priesthood and their mind-jacked foot soldier automatons. If so, then America’s anti-nature ideology of Equalism could just as assuredly destroy it as the Soviet Union’s anti-nature ideology of Communism destroyed its empire. Sad coda: The Soviet Union only lost ethnically different satellite states. The core Russia, comparatively homogeneous, remains and is by some measures growing stronger. In her eventual defeat, America would lose satellite *states* and *regions*. There would be Core Americas going their own way.
A comment from advancedatheist, including replies, deserves reposting here:
Working-class white American men tend to have more experience with blacks, Hispanics and other nonwhite groups because they compete for the same jobs and the same kinds of downmarket housing they can afford.
Whereas more affluent whites have the wherewithal to isolate themselves from having to deal with POC’s and their dysfunctions.
You can easily form misconceptions about the Other when you lack experience in dealing with them, so this can explain why better-heeled whites tend to hold unrealistic views about POC’s that blue-collar whites simply laugh at based on their daily reality of having to live among them.
One White-behaving POC can completely disorient a White liberal's worldview. So gullible!
UrbaneFrancoOntarian replies,
Completely agree. Growing up, I lived in a 90% white neighborhood. Very left wing, lots of nice white people. We had a few “people of colour” – the friendly Japanese couple down the street; the happy Indian family – even a mixed race couple! Beautiful! Everybody smiling and getting along.
In school we were taught that white people are bad because of our “racist” past. We should feel bad for racism and treat all races with respect. Well, that made sense to me. I didn’t see anything wrong with the 10% of wealthy, well-adjusted minorities in our area. Racism is so stupid, I thought. These people are just like me!
My white friends often snarked at our “lame”, “white” neighborhood. No diversity, no culture!
Then came university….
Indians, Muslims, Chinese, Arabs, Africans. Wow, what a mix! Amazing diversity and spice! That’s when I started waking up. In small numbers, these people are okay. But in large numbers, they are invaders.
More precisely, “in small numbers, these people are deferential. But in large numbers, they are rapacious invaders”.
They hate us. They don’t care about “Canada” – they want our money and our women. Hostile foreign invaders.
Petty fights. Religious/ethnic disagreements. Cheating, corruption and nepotism. Rap music. All kinds of degenerate things, 3rd world things, that I was sheltered from in my early, white, life. There is no culture, nor cohesion. Your skin colour, language, religion and ethnic group determines who you talk to and make friends with. Just like the 3rd world.
This is our future. More of them are pouring in every day. I see the future now, because this level of diversity will soon spill out into every corner of North America. They will make Mexicans look like great people, believe me…
I’ve tried warning people back home, but they just don’t believe me. “Well I work with an Indian and he’s a great guy!” “I had an Arab taxi driver and he was a great guy!”. More rationalization. Our blindness will be our downfall.
White liberals are in for a rude awakening, of course. But when that happens, it will be too late. Our country is already gone. We just haven’t noticed yet.
The race is between Noticing and Dissolution. Tragically, enough Whites won’t notice until it’s futile to notice. At least, that’s the way to bet.
TTSSYF responds,
So much of life is driven by numbers or percentages. Just as the human body can tolerate small amounts of unhealthy foods, so can an otherwise healthy society tolerate small numbers of dysfunctional or unassimilable people. Both the body and society would be better off without these unhealthful inputs, but they can at least tolerate them and still thrive. Also, in the case of society at large, there can be intense pressure on otherwise dysfunctional or unassimilable people to suppress their nature and conform to the norms of the dominant population and make their presence even less of an issue (e.g., the few blacks who work in a predominantly white company will hide their resentment, if not outright hatred, for whites and save it for when they are at home and can speak in ebonics with black family members and neighbors; the lone Muslim family in the neighborhood will likely be friendly to the kafirs, etc.). But once the numbers and percentages change, all bets are off. And I am afraid we are on a collision course with this reality, which began with our importing African slaves but was held in check by their relatively small numbers, and which has been ramped up and likely made inevitable by the changes in the immigration laws in 1965, with our now allowing over one million legal immigrants each year from the Third World.
Quantity is its own quality.
And quality is its own quantity.
One Somali will impose a burden that a hundred Dutchmen could not.
Numbers and nature are of the essence, so it’s the height of insanity that White liberals eagerly press the open borders to the Dirt World pedal to the medal. The unrepentant destruction of their homeland is apparently worth it to them if it peeves the Deplorables.
Well, they had better enjoy the feeling now, because the bill will come due and they are gonna get a sticker shock like they’ve never had before.
