Not only was this election a loss for Romney and the Republican Party, but it portends a permanent shift to a more center-left national consensus. The country has been changing for a while, and the large dependent class that makes up the Democratic coalition–government workers, welfare cases, single moms, etc.–has now grown to the point of being a majority. More and more states are past the tipping point, such as Iowa or Florida or Ohio, that were once in play. Further, the fact that an economy this bad and a President with this mediocre results could win without seriously moving to the middle and with an opponent that made the case forcefully for fiscal restraint is a bad omen.
We have lost this election, and we will lose elections to come. Any revamped Republican Party that abandons core issues like immigration reform or abortion would not accomplish very much that is worth being enthused about. The damage has been done and in motion since the 60s with the decline of the traditional family, the growth of leftist Third World immigrants, and young people that are thoroughly indoctrinated in liberal thinking starting in kindergarten. Any future victories would be Pyrrhic at best, as any authentic conservatism will be missing from the national debate.
I don’t blame Romney the candidate. He was as saleable and capable as any other. This goes beyond “get out the vote” mechanics. The country is not the same. It is more liberal, less wealthy, less enterprising, and less traditional than ever. This is our future.
Worse, middle class whites are becoming a pariah class. We are openly mocked, hated, and resented by the Democratic coalition, and we are less numerous than before. We face blatant and open oppression and triumphalist hostility by the dependent coalition of the Democratic Party. Status-whoring leftist white fellow travellers will soon realize they are, at most, useful idiots whose chief function in life is to be productive and have small families so the legions of poor, fecund, and irresponsible welfare dependents can continue to live their lives without paying for most of the costs they incur for themselves and impose upon the broader society.
Further, Obamacare is a bad omen for all future elections. It will make every election a referendum on hot button issues of entitlement, whether birth control or mammograms or nursing homes. More and more wealth will be siphoned off into healthcare for the poor, and more and more drags will be imposed upon the private sector.
In short, we are doomed. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. Only permanent decline. The only hope for conservatives is to try their best to carve out some space and some institutions in which to transmit their values to their children and leave a flicker of civilization burning for some future, reformed generation after America endures some unbearable and inevitable economic and cultural crisis. Like the 9th Century monasteries of Europe and the samizdat underground universities of the Soviet Union, we have to “live not by lies” and not accept the goodness of this state of affairs, even as we accept its apparent inevitability. And we must steel ourselves for continued harassment, oppression, and the meltdown of a once great nation that we could rightfully call our own.
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Mao once famously said that: “Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.” He was only partly right as applies to the short-run. Long-term, lasting political power comes out of the end of a tube, alright, but a softer and more flexible one. Demographics is destiny–as Chief Seattle alluded to in his famous farewell speech–but we have done it to ourselves via allowing a slo-mo invasion of our southern borders..
It’s for the best really. Any people who don’t have the honor or backbone to defend themselves and their posterity deserve to be swept away. Maybe a few decent whites will be able to establish some kind of Orania settlement.
I agree with Nihilist. When I first encountered the HBD-sphere and, inadvertently, swallowed the red pill, so to speak, I focused on the trouble that lower-IQ blacks and Hispanics would cause the country going forward.
However, I quickly came to see that blacks and Hispanics weren’t the problem. Of course Mexicans and Central Americans move here in droves. Why wouldn’t they. Of course blacks blame whites for their problems; psychologically, it’s a lot easier to blame someone else for your failing than to admit that you – and your people – simply lost the genetic lottery.
At some point, it hits you. Wait a minute. White people conquered this land easily. And white people could take it back in a heartbeat. Our organizational skills and disciple would make any fight with blacks and Hispanics an almost sad massacre. Just a hundred years or so ago, white guys were stone killers, by far the scariest people on the planet. To see them heading your way meant death and subjection.
Now, we cower in our suburban houses, afraid to even admit publicly that blacks and Hispanics aren’t too bright. (Trust me, a whole heap of trouble will come your way if you simply state the FACT that blacks score lower on any test that measure intelligence. You don’t have to even speculate on why, just acknowledging that fact will get you into some serious social trouble.) We shame and ostracize any of our people who dare to say that they are proud to be white and would like to see that unique – and amazingly accomplished – culture survive, while encouraging every other group to show pride in their race.
We live in a surreal time, possibly unlike any time in history. (Even the Romans were still proud to be Roman.) As much as I hate to say it (I have two daughters), white people as we are now simply don’t deserve to be treated with respect. It’s like on the playground. Even a kid that is strong and capable of defending himself, if he doesn’t have the heart to fight back, sooner or later, the other kids will start picking on him. We’re that kid, except that we get weaker by the day and they get stronger by the day.
To be honest, I don’t read too many HBD-websites any more. It’s the same show over and over. If whites haven’t figured things out by this point (seriously, it’s been almost 50 years), they’re not to going to. I’ll keep my mouth shut and try to protect my family as best I can. The future will probably look something like Brazil or Mexico, and plenty of whites live fine in those countries. It’s not Mayberry, but whites can insulate themselves. I’m tired on getting into trouble for no reason. Nobody winks at me to say, Hey, I’m on your side. I’m not changing any minds.
Perhaps this is how every great culture ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. No one defeats them in some epic battle. They become successful, start worrying about status more than competence, let others (yea, I’m talking to you, gays and Jews) define their morals, become far more interested in personal gratification than building things, until, one day, they no longer have their old culture and their new culture – if you want to call it that – isn’t capable of holding a society together, much less defending it.
I’m kind of at this same point of checking out. Not only do I feel I change few minds, but it’s exhausting to bother and pay attention. I have some hobbies and interests and a good job. I’m not sure what future holds and I’m reasonably prepared for it, but mostly politics and even culture wars are a losing and exhausting battle. Maybe I should put my energies into art or a novel. This politics/culture shit is making me batty.
Get ready for secession sometime in the next 10-15 years. It’s inevitable, and it’s the only hope. As the French used to say “Speak of it never, think of it always…”
Mr. Roach, please don’t check out. Both the substance and form of your writing continue to nearly bring me to tears. You are so on point it’s astonishing.
But what about this, Mr. Roach?: Romney winning the election would not have changed any of what you write about. I’m still more in the camp that things the corporatist/old monied thing is the problem. Conspiracy theory “illuminati” type stuff. I don’t believe there is an evil cabol that is controlling everything, just that “too big to fail” banks are. Scalia sealed the deal by saying corporations have free speech too and can donate 50 trillion dollars to campaigns. Both parties are bought and paid for and there was no real choice in th election. Stated differently, Romney is really not too far to the right of Obama. Neither of them, and no president, can stop what has already happened, which you describe: brown skinned and darker peoples have ruined our country and our growing in numbers because they have 8 kids that they can’t afford while I have only 2 kids, because I have a standard for myself re: how much I need to be able to provide for them. I actually think things are going to accelerate and get worse MUCH FASTER than even you are saying. Well, you really didn’t opine on a timetable. But one can see what’s happening simply by leaving one’s home and going to the grocery store or McDonald’s (especially McDonald’s)–what you’ll see is black single mothers with their 8 ignorant near ape-level IQ kids running all around. Whereas people like me who *educate* my kids can’t afford more than 2 kids. Just think of the exponential effect in only 20 years or so…..4 times as many black boys are being born as white kids.
Sailer’s talked about how the GOP should focus on winning back the Midwest/Great Lakes region (including possibly targeting places like PA that the GOP hasn’t won in a while,) but the max potential there, provided the party doesn’t absolutely ditch everything it stands for, depends on how many old-line Democrats/Democratic leaners still exist and how many’re being replaced by true-blue leftists from the younger generation.
i can’t help but feel like the GOP is gonna try some extra-lame outreach to Hispanics instead though. of course going for the Hispanic vote is fine, i just get sick of this moronic amnesty-as-cure-all talk and unwarranted embarrassment that they’re the whiter party. who cares? A vote’s a vote.
I was upset over the election, particularly by the sleazy campaign Obama won on…but without engaging in false optimism, I do think the Democratic coalition is potentially less stable than it appears at the moment. we’ll see.
“The country has been changing for a while, and the large dependent class that makes up the Democratic coalition–government workers, welfare cases, single moms, etc.–has now grown to the point of being a majority.”
This reminds me of the Cloward-Piven strategy.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_opinion/Cloward-Piven.html
I don’t think Obama and Co. are specifically using this strategy, but the end resul is the same.