Conservative Stockholm Syndrome
Since the election, we have witnessed among Republicans much teeth-gnashing, soul-searching, and blame. Much of the blame-throwing, unfortunately, is directed at the base.
Among the scapegoats are members of the Tea Party. Michael Barone — one of the many Washington pundits who grossly miscalculated the presidential election outcome — blamed Tea Party “wackos, weirdos, and witches” for Senate losses while speaking at Hillsdale College.
Since exit polls showed that non-whites and young people overwhelmingly voted Democratic, the reaction has been that Republicans need to work harder to attract those demographics, specifically very broad categories of blacks, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans as well as young people aged 18-29.
While a Pew Poll last December revealed that many more Americans identify themselves as conservative than liberal, the breakdown according to the demographic groups shows a divergence among these demographics in opinions about socialism. While only 24 percent of whites viewed socialism favorably, 55 percent of blacks did and 44 percent of Hispanics did. Favorable opinions of socialism have an inverse relationship to age: the most support comes from those aged 18 to 29. Forty-nine percent of young respondents gave a favorable rating to socialism, while only 34 percent of the 30 to 49 age group did, only 25 percent of the 50 to 64 age group did, and a mere 13 percent of those above 65 did.
Liberal pundits like Jay Bookman herald such trends and predict “the future of capitalism will not look like the past.”
What will this capitalism be like?
I think the repackaged former Obama Special Advisor Van Jones sums it up in his new book, Rebuild the American Dream. Jones, who was responsible for allocating $80 billion in “stimulus” funds for “green energy,” quietly left his position after Glenn Beck exposed his communist roots, his support for cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, and his signature on a 9/11 “truther” petition.
In his book, Jones repositions himself as a basically conservative family man (before he makes scurrilous, unsubstantiated charges against Tea Party members and revises history). He highlights his parents’ conservative ethic of hard work, and his Southern and Christian roots. He emphasizes his father’s advice about uplifting the black community through jobs. He downplays his youthful radicalism and tags onto the idea of the American Dream.
The American Dream for Jones, however, is rebuilt with government assistance. While he sidesteps the question of why the free market itself has not produced “green jobs,” he nonetheless rhetorically puts the emphasis on skill training, jobs, opportunities, and revitalization of blighted neighborhoods — with which most conservatives would agree. Again, the primary difference is that Jones sees the government as being the entity that creates the jobs, an idea which we know will result in failure and massive waste of tax dollars.
Jones’ vision is one that appeals to naïve young people, who increasingly seek careers that combine financial success with “social justice.” Even those majoring in business show a growing desire to work for the government.
“Conservative Stockholm Syndrome”
This is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to RINO’s, but now and then you find it in a little dog.
In many ways, Conservative Stockholm Syndrome is a kissing cousin to ‘Oslo Syndrome:Delusions of a People Under Siege’.
One must consider the parallels at a very serious level. To be sure, Jews have a reputation for being significant over achievers, highly educated and successful to boot. Many are. In fact, the out-sized proportion – of the smallest minority group on this bleeding planet – has won more Nobel prizes than most other nations, including the largest. Nevertheless, they are blind as bats and dumb as posts, when it comes to beating back their enemies.
In no small measure, their ritualistic mea culpas are not only counter productive, but they are indeed the by products of Oslo/Stockholm Syndrome!
Don’t believe this blogger. Fine. But do believe Dr. Kenneth Levin. As such, see this -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/23/when-does-delusional-thinking-become-a-pathological-illness-more-us-rabbis-support-obama-than-in-2008-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
And replace Jewish with Conservative and it is the same sickness.
Enough self flagellation! Maspik! Stick to your guns.
I can attest that colleges teach virtually nothing about communism these days. Most college students haven’t a clue about Mao, Marx, dialectical materialism, Stalin or the gulag. Why? Marxist teachers.
That is why we sent our kids to conservative Christian universities. We did not want to waste our money & actually wanted them to learn something.
“While only 24 percent of whites viewed socialism favorably, 55 percent of blacks did and 44 percent of Hispanics did. Favorable opinions of socialism have an inverse relationship to age: the most support comes from those aged 18 to 29. Forty-nine percent of young respondents gave a favorable rating to socialism, while only 34 percent of the 30 to 49 age group did, only 25 percent of the 50 to 64 age group did, and a mere 13 percent of those above 65 did.”
This is the greatest danger the republic faces today. Unfortunately, I think the last election proved that socialism has won in this country. More and more people in this nation want “free stuff,” or at least feel that they are entitled to it. Once that group of people reaches 50%, you’re done. As the soon-to-be defunct Newsweek magazine said a few years back, “We are all socialists now.”
And please spare me the argument about some of the people in Romney’s 47% being Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamp, welfare, veterans, or Federal pension recipients. That argument may be true, but it also is irrelevant. All of these people still either depend on or demand a government check each month and will vote for anybody who will keep the process going. It doesn’t really matter that they paid into the system and it doesn’t really matter that both Democrats and Republicans so mismanaged Social Security and Medicare that both of those programs are about to go bust. These people still want checks every month and they will vote for anybody who will guarantee them those monthly checks.
And let’s not even talk about the hard-core takers in this country. Many people, especially illegal immigrants, come to the United States for the benefits and the government handouts. Don’t believe me? Just go to California and see how much that state has to pay out each year to deal with illegal immigrants. And even many “legal” immigrants there have family members who come here who are not legal. When all of these people eventually do become citizens, they will continue to vote for the party that guarantees them the most “free” stuff, and that party has traditionally been the Democratic party. If you honestly think that hispanics will vote for Republicans in droves if only they supported immigration reform or amnesty, dream on. Ronald Reagan GAVE them amnesty and it did not make a big difference in how hispanics voted, and that was with a booming Reagan economy as well. Face it, the vast majority of these people will only vote for the real, hard, “free” benefits that can be delivered to them each year, and that is always the domain of the Democratic party.
But the most disturbing trend with the above figures are the number of young people that are now comfortable and supportive of socialism. Even though socialism goes against everything in our own Constitution, our far-left teachers, universities, public schools, and faculties have done their job well in indoctrinating our kids into believing that socialism is the only “humane” way to go. Forget the fact that our Constitution has made this country the most powerful nation on this planet. Forget that. According to these monsters, we will only be a “humane” and “enlightened” nation if we become more like France or Great Britain and embrace socialism. Van Jones, MoveOn.org, the Daily Kos, Media Matters, all of them understand the value of propaganda (just like Stalin did) and know that if you really want to take over a country, you take the long view and indoctrinate the children. I just wonder how many of these same teachers, universities, and public schools teach about the power and strength of capitalism and all of the many benefits they have bestowed on to this country. I’ll bet you not many of them have, and THAT is why we are where we are today with young people. If they have been taught from Middle School to hate or at least be leary of our current form of government, it’s no major surprise that they will embrace whatever panacea is handed to them by far-left liberal grade schools, high schools, and colleges.
So are we screwed? Maybe. I’m really not that optimistic. The way you hear elite establishment Republicans talking today, our only hope is to become just like the Democrats and “reach out” to hispanics, blacks, and single moms, which basically means we have to show that we can offer as much free stuff as the Democrats to get their votes. And I doubt these same people are going to want to hear lectures on how free-market capitalism will improve their lot in life. They want money and benefits NOW and are not interested in the philosophies of John Stuart Mill or Alexis de Tocqueville. And people like Obama are more than willing to give it to them to advance their socialist agenda.
I don’t really know how you fight that line of thinking. Heck, given today’s youth and the number of Americans either getting money from the government or working FOR the government, I don’t even know if Ronald Reagan could get elected today. Our only hope may be in creating a party like the Tea Party and get rid of the establishment Republicans. At least the people in the Tea Party stand for something and would give Americans a reason for taking back Congress from the socialists. We already have the House, so now we have to focus on getting control of the Senate with good candidates, like Rand Paul. If we can do that, at least we can stop a president like Obama from implementing is entire socialist agenda. I think that’s the best we can hope for and that makes 2014 very, very, important.
A good story will capture the immagination much better than real numbers. Consider that Jesus taught a lot through parables.
What if in Oct there had been a short video, preferably longer, but even a short video summing up what happened in Bengazhi as an action video. We tie the Ambassador as a loved son (and the other members who died as sons and fathers). Then show the villian who wouldn’t help … who refused to exercise his ‘national command authority’ to send in the help. Show sodiers in Sicilly grounded and un able to move, show the one former seal who disobade and went to help, etc etc.
I think the fictional Julia story resonated wiht those who see the Gov’t as helping. We must begin to tell stories, compelling stories, first on youtube, later wherever will take them that are stories of how peopel are crushed by the gov’t. THAT is how we fight them.
“The leader is Martin Luther King, Jr., whose method of taking to the streets is now seen as the preferred method of political change.”
No one values writing letters anymore. Whites now live in low crime suburbs, where you can’t march even if you wanted to. Voting was the last use of force possible for whites, and it’s nothing now.
I think the only way to fight the kind of socialist thinking we are talking about is with one or two VERY simple concepts, that can break through the skulls of the vaunted “low-information (aka “stupid”)” voters the Democrats have so gleefully acknowledged won the election for them.
We need to hammer away at these simple concepts as the economy and nation goes into the free-fall that so many of us are correctly convinced is inevitable, and that is probably worth forcing now rather than later. Hammer the one-two punch of their world collapsing around them, and these two simple concepts.
So, here are the two simple statements that conservatives not only have to say, but say over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again –
1) YOU ARE BEING LIED TO, AND HAVE BEEN FOR DECADES! (By the MSM, academia, and the culture)
2) WHAT YOU ARE LIVING RIGHT NOW IS NO ACCIDENT. IT IS TOO BIG TO BE AN ACCIDENT (q. Ayn Rand). THIS WAS DONE DELIBERATELY, METHODICALLY, AND WITH PROFOUND MALICE AFORETHOUGHT.
Keep hammering and hammering and hammering at these two very simple, and 100% TRUE!!!, ideas, and I am betting they will sink in.
And if they don’t, we are probably doomed beyond redemption anyway, so we might as well try.
And you must give a name to it, otherwise there’s no “target to freeze, isolate, destroy” (Alinsky).
“International Communist Conspiracy” worked before. But now it’s much bigger with many more top echelon organizations and individuals both public and shadow worldwide. And it has 170 year old, well developed epistemology upon which to draw — since the Russian “realism” or nihilist movements.
It needs a name, and I’m not up to the task.
How about -
‘The Socialist Establishment’
I thought it had a name: the New World Order.
Or does that sound like hysterical paranoia these days?
Please use “free markets, free minds” instead of the word invented by Karl Marx: capitalism.
And even more basic Private Property.
sure the republican party leadership is more left then some democrats that the term RINO is already obsolete.
the main reason romney lost was the obama machine cheated big. really really BIG.
while not a fan of romney he would have been a better president …hell Putin would be a better president then the cheating lying obama …who has yet to prove his eligibility.
those who argued it was a red herring or a diversion are the ones who allowed obama to hold office in the first place. all the media and “conservative pundits” who dismissed the eligibility requirements are the main ones responsible for the the fraud who presently occupies the WH.
the entire GOP needs to be replaced with conservatives. 100% of them …the democrats are just doing what democrats do but why vote for a republican who does what democrats do?
Observations:
Conservatism wins every time it’s on the ballot.
Moderation loses every time it’s on the ballot.
Liberalism cannot withstand an ideological debate.
In 2008, the GOP ran away from an ideological debate and lost.
In 2010, the TEA Party candidates ran ideological campaigns and cleaned up.
Conclusions:
The 2012 election turned out the way the GOP Establishment wanted.
The GOP Establishment would rather lose than have to govern according to Conservative Principles.
Which, of course, is borne out by the fact that the only time the GOP Establishment gets animated is when they are attacking Conservatives.
Conservatives have to understand that they are disempowered outsiders now. They are the counter culture to the New Left Zeitgeist.
They better start acting like it.
And White Europeans need to organize to fight the demonization and ill treatment.
Everyone has to adjust to the New Left Establishment, Zeitgeist, New Normal….not to accept it, but just to realize that it is the Ascendent and Ascended Zeitgeist, Establishment…and adjust tactics and strategies accordingly.
I am not sure I could vote for anyone whose favorite rap artist is Eminem. If it was Arrested Development or some kind of positive message rap I could accept that. Eminem, really? I’m not sure I like Marco Rubio anymore.
To win elections, the Republican party must appeal to Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians. So say the pollsters, who have divided the American people into races, polled the races to learn their racial desires, and have persuaded the politicians to use the state to fulfill their racial desires. There are two words to describe this: racial socialism.
The appeal of racism and socialism to the darkest, vilest desires in human nature is undeniable. The power of racism and socialism to the human heart and head is apparent: the success of the Nazi, Democrat, and Communist parties is demonstrated.
And, so say the pundits, pollsters, and politicians to win elections, this must become the guiding philosophy of the Republican Party as it has become that of the Democrat Party.
This is a complete repudiation of the American people. No one questions the division of the people into races by the pollsters and politicians. The racial categories are the apex determinant of voter interest. There is no “enlightened electorate,” no “human rights,” there are only competing races with racial interests, each with its own racial rights. People do not wish to be free, work hard, and be self-reliant; they dream only of the power of their La Raza and wish to despoil and plunder other races.
There are, however, two more powerful appeals than racist socialism, which is why the Democrat/Nazi Party seeks to crush one and co-opt the other. Malcolm X himself said it: “I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color.”
Yes, religion. There are only two universalist religions: Christianity and Islam. Malcolm X could never forgive Christianity for liberating him from slavery, so he chose Islam. America should not choose Islam, but if America is to survive without being transformed into the racialist, socialist state of Obamunism, it must choose.
The Republicans must be come an explicit Christian party that appeals to Christians of all races. Or it will become an echo of racialist, socialist party of the Democrat Party.
Michael Barone blames the Conservative base?
Tell you what, Party Elders, try another “the ELECTABLE One” that passes Maichael Barone’s “smell test”, but is viewed with suspicion by the us TEA Praty types, and see where it gets you.
The only reason Mitt did as well as he did was that Obama has been so abysmally BAD.
But maybe the third try will do the trick, right?
And BTW…whatever the MSM is telling you about why they won the election…or we lost…DON’T BELIEVE IT.
Their agenda is OUR enslavement to THEIR government.
Even if an intellect as vaunted as Barone’s fails to see the obvious.
Pretty much what I have been thinking. I’m beginning to realize that liberals demonstrated far more street smarts than us: by stacking the educational system with union loyalists they have successfully seized the minds of our young through those teachers and in turn furthered their hold on the press. Our only way forward is to educate, which unfortunately will not show success for several generations. A few years back I decided not to pursue my PHD while in my 50s, something I wanted to allow me to teach at the college level. Then I realized who holds the power in most higher-learning institutes and decided that path would be for naught.
Lots of excuses, lots of blame shifting…lots of whining.
How’s about re-examining your supposed principles, standards, assumptions, preconceptions and premises?
Try this for a principle: Freedom and liberty for all American citizens. If any issue you support or defend lacks this underlying principle as a foundation, you need to re-think your position on that issue. related: freedom of association, freedom to engage in contracts, etc.
Note: This is where conservatives often go wrong, confusing and conflating their personal morality, ethics and religious beliefs for principles in the secular realm of governance. This is a secular nation, not a christian nation. There is a difference. Otherwise, we must decide which religion, denomination or sect gets to run the government and be done with it. State reglions always, but always, limit the freedoms and liberties of some or all of it’s citizens.
Note: Please research the definitions of ‘principle’, ‘standard’ etc. I don’t think they mean what you think it mean.
Currently, principles and standards of conservatives are often somewhat arbitrary. A current issue wrt the difference between religious sacraments of marriage and that of secular civil contracts is only one example of many. iow, according to many conservatives, civl contracts are ok, and freedom and libety os a good thing, but only if it doesn’t violate your own religious doctrines and teachings. That’s not a ‘principle.’ That’s moral relativism.
Principles are unchangeable, e.g. inalienable rights, freedom and liberty, etc.. Relativism changes each and every time, depending on context and interpretation.
Recommendations:
Stop with all of the moral relativism (includes blaming others for your own failures) and find some principles.
Stop conflating religious doctrines and teachings with secular politics.
Tell that to the Israeli Jews and then get back to me and what you are correctly identified as, as a result.
The republicans will never learn that in order to cure some severe diseases, you have to evoke the worst of it, bring it out into the open, image it, let it run a course.. so that it becomes obvious to everyone. All the repubics do is delay the inevitable destruction of the US. Let it happen.. when things get so bad that people have to move dead bodies from their driveway to go to the store, then they may wake up. STOP trying to fix what cannot be stopped. This is like pouring a jug of drano down the drain to fix what is a major plumbing disaster. Your efforts only cover up the disease of the demorats and the leftist scum that has infested the countryside. It may be that a real war is going to be needed.. yes, face it. This is a WAR.
Timeline Of Senate Democrats’ Refusal To Make Budget Plans Public
http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/budget-background?ID=b630d3bd-f985-4943-a87a-a746ecec6a51
“The societal shift allowed President Obama, in the third debate, to ridicule Mitt Romney’s fears about Russia: “The Cold War’s been over for twenty years.” Such implied charges of paranoia about communism obscure the very real threats now coming from Putin’s resurgent dictatorial regime. But Obama’s ridicule is typical, and it is intended to cut off discussion.”
Uh…no.
The threat is not from present-day Russia, which is content with managing its own affairs in its near abroad and has no interest in encroaching on any legitimate political or economic interests of the US.
But rather, the threat is from the leftovers of the former Soviet Union, including the entire left-wing infrastructure that gave rise to Barack Hussein Obama.
In that regard, both Mitt Romney and Obama were dead wrong.
What a shame we didn’t have any better choices than that.