Democracy, and any system where transfers of power are peaceful, such as a Republic, require that the elite play by the rules, for limited stakes, thus require a virtuous elite. We no longer have the necessary conditions for democracy or a Republic, and restoring them would require recreating a virtuous elite, a project that takes generations. As Front Page Magazine observes: If they win, Antifa and BLM will be used …
The real election platform
The 2016 Republican Platform consisted of what little red meat still remained within the Overton Window – the biggest chunk of red meat being to prohibit transporting minor “children” over state lines for abortions without the consent of their parents – which is not all that red, and which, of course, they ignored, and instead funded Planned Parenthood, an organization that not only transports minor daughters over state lines for …
The color revolution playbook
I have been reading the color revolution playbook. It is phrased in politically correct lies, so this is a translation. A powerful elite faction backing the color revolution Lawfare to protect criminal acts by that elite faction and their mobs Loud denunciation of the sovereign Tight discipline and strong organization of the color revolutionaries Much noise that the election result gave an outcome different from that which it appeared to …
The shots heard around the world.
The cold civil war is turning hot. What always happens is that authorities take sides. And different authorities are taking different sides. As things get hotter, expect mass arrests of normies in blue state cities. I do not expect high altitude bombing of cities and mass artillery barrages until 2024 or so, but escalation has been happening steadily, dramatic escalation just happened, and escalation will continue. Vox Day has long …
Yes, but ideas usually do rule
This is a reply to “Ideas never rule“. Ideas never rule, in that it is always a human backside on the throne. Ideas always rule, because no man rules alone, so he has to maintain cooperation over a group of men considerably larger than close kin can supply. Men rule, but how do they rule? Through guns, ideas, and fashion. Ideas are more powerful than guns, and fashion more powerful …
War is coming
The Democrats are openly planning to openly steal the election and launch civil war when the election result is disputed. This is unlikely to be the final decisive conflict that I have long hoped for (the dead body of the Roman Republic continued its death spasms for sixty years after large scale political murders and large scale military violence, rather than the consensus of the elite, became the principal method …
The three magic words
Civilization is collapsing, the revolutionary political crisis is approaching, but, worse than that Heartiste has stopped posting on game, and Roosh has turned tradcuck. So even though I have sworn this is not going to be a game blog, and my life has demonstrated times without number that no end of men are better qualified to post on game than I am, I guess I will have to step into …
State of the left singularity
Preamble, to get those not yet darkly enlightened up to speed Leftism is entropy in the apparatus of state. Leftists ally with far against near, in the struggle within the state. The driving force of leftism is a holiness spiral. The state is a synthetic tribe, so the state always has, furtively or openly, a state religion, so leftists struggle for power by endlessly adding new, ever holier, stuff to …
The left vision of the Eschaton
The left want to immanentize the eschaton. How exactly? What will the immanent eschaton be like? This is to them a minor detail that can be dealt with after they have swept away the old order, like the Khmer Rouge plan for revolutionizing and radically increasing rice production. The Khmer Rouge had, unlike our left, a vague glimmering of plan: They would revolutionize and radically increase rice production on the …
I told Scott Alexander
I told him, your friends are your enemies, and your enemies are your friends. A few hours ago, he shut down his blog, Slate Star Codex, because the New York Times came after him. Every year I have lived, it has been getting crazier, faster and faster. If Trump fails to become Caesar Augustus, Scott Alexander will not very long afterwards be killed by those he regards as his friends, …