A Modest Proposal

Let me begin this piece by saying emphatically that I absolutely abhor communism and its primary champion in this country, one Bernard Sanders. I shouldn’t need to say it, but it bears repeating, due to the…unorthodox…nature of this piece, which is the fleshing out of a conversation I had with a good friend. As it turns out, an ideology and its leader can be complete anathema to a man and yet that man can find value in that leader’s triumph. Allow me to elaborate.

It should surprise no reader of this blog, particularly anyone who reads my work, that the time for political solutions to the problems of this country has long since passed. No, that is not an incitement to violence (sorry, FBI Agent Bob), nor an encouragement to go bowl patrol. That’s an even less productive course of action than believing in our inefficacious political system, as I and several others have already detailed previously. No need to repeat ourselves.

What I mean is: Lincoln’s Empire is dying. Inertia and the Federal Reserve (or more accurately, the petrodollar) are all that’s left holding the moldering corpse together. While it is true that the battle lines are dramatically different than they were in 1860, if one holds to the sophomoric Republican vs Democrat mentality, there exists a divide that cannot be bridged in the people of this empire. I dare not call it a nation, because it is not and never has been one, not even when just about every white person on these shores was an Englishman.

However, go beyond this infantile form of analysis and bring Christ into the equation, and the division starts to look a lot more like it did in 1860. Which is to say that Yankee and Midwestern Republicans (and forget the coastal ones) are not reliable on matters of social conservatism, which in the mind of this author, is the only form of conservatism that matters. Southerners (and our kindred spirits in the southern rim borderlands of the Midwest, who are not to be confused with the crypto-communists of the northern parts of those states) can disagree on matters of economics, welfare, foreign aid, and all other manner of worldly concerns, but where we are all the same is that we all bow our heads before God.

In a functional polity, that is, a nation-state, we could argue about these temporal issues in a civil manner. There could be a healthy debate about the proper role of government and it would not descend into the vitriol one sees on Capitol Hill in Washington, though admittedly that’s mostly a show for the true believers watching on TV. The impeachment fiasco is a prime example of this: hyper-partisan hackery which obfuscates what is truly important. My team versus yours, that’s all that matters! Never mind that neither team supports Christ, and thus, like all empires before it, the United States will fall (praise be).

Get to the point, Whitlow, you palaverous fop! Alright, alright.

There has been no shortage of debate about whether Donald Trump is a good thing or a bad thing for the people of the South. My position has been made clear, at least in terms of the long game (recap: he heightens political and social division, which is good for those of us who desire an independent Dixie). In the short run, he has failed at nearly every turn, sometimes through his own boneheaded inattention to detail and disinterest in the nuances of imperial politicking, others through the calculated perfidy of the party of Lincoln. Which is to say nothing about the obstinacy of the Democrats.

Whether or not Donald Trump really *wants* to change the way things are done in Washington is irrelevant: his words speak to people who do. And despite his myriad shortcomings, his sycophantic base believes that St. Donald of New York (tongue planted firmly in cheek) has been thwarted in his efforts at reform because of the aforementioned backbiting Republicans and the intransigent Democrats. Regardless of the fault in the reasoning of this smol-brained political analysis, it does retain some utility. That is, people who are fans of Donald J Trump are starting to see that there is no political solution to the problems that ail the United States. This is something we can and should work with.

Secession, once a dirty word, has become much more palatable to the average person. I know, because I’ve been banging that drum for much longer than Trump has been a thing, and I’ve been getting better feedback, even from people I had previously irritated to no end by talking about the failures of the Empire and the need for its dissolution.

Which brings me to my buried lede. People on the Right now understand, at least on some level, that politics have failed. They may not know why, and they may blame the wrong actors, but that is of secondary import. The fact that civil war and secession are topics that the “legitimate” media now discusses, rather than just fringe weirdos such as us (nyah, Tucker, we were here first, dammit), is a major development. California’s post election mewling aside, this remains a one sided phenomenon as of yet.

The Left couches the talk in terms of a violent reaction by the Right when the Left once again takes the reins — and they will, whether that occurs in 2020, 2024, or some time beyond. The mainstream Left cannot foresee a reality in which the Far Left joins the calls for an end to the Empire. In reality, all those reds need is a little push.

It is certainly true that these…people…were dealt a harsh blow in the Democratic political primary in 2016, when the powers that be congealed behind the demonic Hillary Clinton to the detriment of one Bernard Sanders. But because it wasn’t their man who lost, they didn’t lose their faith in the political process, writ large, just their faith in the Democratic party, which is a positive first step. I have heard ad nauseum from his supporters how Bernie could have beaten Trump and how Bernie would make things all better and that he’d fix the mess of the Clinton-Bush years and deliver on the failed “promise” of Barack Hussein Obama.

Before you go guffawing at their naivety, remember that a lot of the anger the Dissident Right has toward Trump is rooted in the fact that many of you believed he’d do what he said he would. I liked him for his entertainment value, and hey, if he got a couple things out of a hundred done, still better than Hillary. But mainly, he’s here to make me laugh as the plane goes down. He is to trolling what the string band of the Titanic was to stoic professionalism.

If you haven’t figured it out, what I’m getting at is that there’s a decent case for the argument that those of us who support the dissolution of the Empire ought not to be backing the least bad option, which is to say Broland Skrumpf, but rather we ought to consider backing the worst one. Bernie Sanders.

I know what you’re thinking. Whitlow has gone full alt-rightard. Never go full alt-rightard. But hear me out.

No, I am not idly discussing backing a socialist for the sake of supporting socialism. Socialism is cancer, even when you throw the word “nationalist” in front of it. This is not Yang Gang 2.0. Rather, I am wondering what might happen if Bernie won.

Prior to 2016, Senator Sanders made considerably more sense on the issues which matter to me on the national stage. He was pro-gun and frequently (and accurately) described the open-borders epidemic as a corporate plot to subvert the wage base of the United States. Marxists are rather adept at pointing out the problems we face. It’s their godless, bloodthirsty solutions wherein the problems lie.

But then…..he ran for national office and could no longer rely on the lily-white electorate he enjoyed in Vermont. The national audience cannot tolerate dissent on these two dogmatic points. Blacks and Hispanics have to be catered to. As a result, he cucked hard on guns and on immigration. A President Sanders is unlikely to revert to these positions, but crazier things have happened. Hell, it could be an “only Nixon could go to China” thing. It matters not, there are other reasons to entertain this idea.

The same forces which have arrayed themselves against Trump would do the same to the Senator from Vermont. The establishment Democrats do not want his brand of communism. They prefer the Chinese model, which offers them total control and opulent comfort. Bolshevism is a dangerous and short-lived beast. I’m referring to the blood-soaked changing of the guard among the leadership that occurs periodically, because Lord knows these elites don’t care how many of the rabble they have to kill. The risk to the person of a member of the political class is something that just won’t do for those who seek to be hegemon for life. Maoism though? Now you’re cooking with gas.

In fact, I am of the opinion that the reason the Democratic party is allowing the inmates to run the asylum, both on the many primary debate daises and in the form of these ludicrous impeachment proceedings, is that they’re seeking a hard reboot.

In 1972, still reeling from a contentious primary (sound familiar?) wherein the farther left would-be successor (Humphrey) to the man who, at that point, was the farthest left president in history (Johnson) was defeated by a Populist Republican (seriously, quit it with the déjà vu), the Democratic voters turned to an outright socialist in George McGovern. The result was that Richard Nixon won re-election in a landslide and the socialists were put back in their cages for a time, sent to toil away behind typewriter keyboards at the New York Times and the Atlantic magazine.

The Democratic party would not run on a leftist platform again until 2008, preferring to demonstrate their so-called moderate tendencies. That isn’t to say that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton didn’t move the ball forward for the Left, but they both ran as good ol’ boy Dixiecrats, minus the “racism.” Which is why they were the only two Democrats after the exile of the Southern Democrats from the national party to win national office: Dixians were personae non gratae at the dinner parties and fancy soirees of the Democrat bigwigs, but they could not yet score an electoral victory without us.

Socialism was seen by the establishment as a loser in 1972, and the establishment sees it as a loser now. The difference is that the electorate was 89% white as of the 1970 U.S. Census. Drunken paramour murderer Tedward Kennedy’s repeal of the immigration ban in 1965 had not had time to bear fruit. The Democrats could still be reasoned with, because they were still almost entirely white. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, et al may *think* they can shove what the modern Democratic party has become back into the closet, but they’re tilting at windmills. The New New Left is here, and they’re brown, queer commies. Get used to it.

We won’t know the official results of the 2020 census for months, but the population will dip below 60% white. For this reason, the socialists aren’t going anywhere. The racial grievance brigade isn’t going anywhere. The alphabet soup of venereal disease, drug use, and sodomy isn’t going anywhere. Earth-shattering defeat chastens a white electorate. There was never again a Goldwater running as a Republican (sadly) and there hasn’t been a McGovern until Bernie. But the polyglot rainbow that is the Democrats of 2020? No way. Frankly, a McGovern or Goldwateresque beat down is impossible in this diluted white electorate.

Why? Because nearly everyone is going to vote for the same party they always do, except for maybe some white Minnesotans/New Hampshirites. White people in very white states are starting to get the message about what the Democrats think of them. It’s slow in coming, as it was in Dixie in the 1930s onward, but there has been movement on that front. Of course, the non-white voters will not be swayed by the absurdity of the Democratic party, because handouts are the paramount concern. The craziness is largely to appease the dwindling share of woke white people. As the browns are now 40% or more of the population, this is the major reason that no matter how insane the Democrats get, they won’t get blown out. Best case for Trump? He picks up MN, NH, the rest of Maine, and Nevada, for a total of 23 more electoral votes to raise his count to 329, potential faithless electors not withstanding. A platform like this in 1972? The Democrat wouldn’t even have won his home state.

A Bernie candidacy would almost surely keep those states in the Democrat column. But what of the push for an “electable” candidate like Biden or Buttigieg? Far from reeling the Democrats in, one of those guys losing to Trump would unhinge the Far Left further. If anyone other than Bernie or Pocahontas is the nominee, they’ll say it is because they weren’t Far Left enough. Weren’t anti-gun enough. Weren’t open borders enough. Weren’t pro-queer enough (which will be fun to see them try to rationalize if the nominee is indeed Mayor Buttplug). These are the same things they said after Trump upset Hillary Clinton in 2016. I know that is tough to imagine people being so delusional that Hillary is viewed as too far right, but they exist. Of course, if one of the two socialists is the nominee and Trump still wins, then it is because America is still too racist/sexist/anti-semitic to have a female or Jewish president. Commies do so often have an answer for every failure. Not a good one, mind you, but an answer.

But if Bernie wins…he will be stifled. Nothing he wants will get done, for the same reason that the most Far Left legislative planks of Obama were thwarted: the establishment does not want those things. Obama successfully utilized extra-constitutional means to forward his agenda, but in terms of legislation, he got almost nothing done. Even less than Trump has. But his record would be substantially longer than that of a President Sanders, whose presidential legislative successes will read much like his congressional record. They might let him rename a couple of post offices in Vermont. Leon Trotsky Post Office, coming to downtown Burlington in 2023!

Then, rather than having to hear the donkeys bray about how their nominee wasn’t enough of a communist, they might see that there just is no fixing this thing and maybe it’s time to pull the plug. But didn’t they make excuses when Obama failed to deliver? Obama was a man without a political past. Sure, he said the things lefties wanted to hear, but when he went about business as usual, it could be explained away. He wasn’t really one of us. He just pretended to be so that he could beat Hillary in the primary.

Sanders has been humming the same tune for 60 years. His bona fides for supporting the world’s worst political system are impeccable. If he fails to act, it won’t be for want of commitment to the cause. It’ll be because the same people who denied him the nomination in 2016 engaged in a soft coup against him. And all the sudden, the words of the Trump crowd won’t sound so crazy to the Sandroids. Down with the eagle and…up with the hammer and sickle? Doesn’t really matter to me what Yankees do. Let them go their own way. Let them support us going ours. Dixie will stick with the cross, thank you very much.

With the voices for secession rising to a crescendo on the Left and the Right, it is unlikely that the center could hold. No one likes Mitch McConnell nor Chuck Schumer. They are regarded as the lesser evil by the respective supporters of Team Pachyderm and Team Ass. But when the outsider wings of both sides proffer a future in which each goes his own way and determines his own fate? Those swamp gremlins are just an evil, not a lesser one. As I said, when among our own kind, we can have substantive discussions on economics and politics while holding fast on the issues of faith and morality that the supporters of Mammon (i.e. the national level Republicans) punt on.

Don’t believe me? Look at Louisiana and John Bel Edwards, who recently won re-election by 3 points in a state Donald Trump won by 20. The talking heads of the American Pravda say this is a rebuke of Trump! Louisiana has learned the folly of her ways! Blue wave part deux! It’s depressing that anyone takes such opinions seriously.

The reality is that the rapacity of Piyush Jindal, coupled with Edwards’ stance on social issues, was enough to make Democrat not be a dirty word in the Bayou state. Not in this election, anyway. Jindal (and much of the rest of the Louisiana GOP) is a Washington Republican. Edwards is a Louisiana Democrat. I’ll take the latter 6 days a week and twice on Sunday over a DC Republican. Give me Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) over either of them, but that’s not the point. The point is, these types of discussions are not possible at the imperial level. It’s either/or. Because at the end of the day, no matter how moderate or nuanced a politico might be in his personal beliefs, he’s voting with either Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell on 99% of issues. Which is something the people of the illegitimate state of “West” Virginia have yet to figure out.

Again, I’m not advocating for anything presidential candidate Sanders has said, other than maybe hang the bankers. Okay, I dunno if he’s said that or not, but I support it, either way. Rather, I see his victory as aiding the long term objectives of the Southern Nationalist movement.

Not only would his victory and subsequent stifling by both sides of the imperial denarius be demoralizing to his backers, but it would spur conservatives further into seeing just how doomed the political landscape is, given that a communist was able to win at all. Because it does not even matter to the normie how effective a legislator Bernie (or Trump) is. The words he speaks are all they will hear. Actions mean little, because it is much easier to blame the champion’s lack of action on someone else, as we see daily in re: Trump. I suppose that it’s possible that the thwarting of Bernard could steel Dixie’s loyalty to the Lincolnites, but that might be a chance we have to take.

Because while this might seem outside the box, and I’m not even sure what I’m going to do come primary time, but I know that if we keep hitching our wagon to the party of Lincoln, the time will come when there is a socialist who cannot be contained by the powers that be. Look ahead to say, 2065, when AOC is the age of most of the leading Democrat candidates now and the country is 65% brown. There will be no stopping the socialists. Any attempt at secession by the minority will be met with violence, because that minority will be expected to continue to pay the way of its parasitic numerical superiors who hate them. Just like in 1860.

Deo Vindice