The coronavirus pandemic may have dealt the forces of globalism a serious blow, but the cause for our nation and people is far from over. And, for that reason the Right cannot rest; we must continue to push forward. While alliances are necessary, we must be mindful of who we take on as an ally. I’m not just talking about the idiotic, fedposting elements of the Alt-Right. They would rather meme themselves into a RICO indictment and are useless to any political movement. No, this time I’m talking about an idea that has been floating around for decades: that the anti-globalist Left and anti-globalist Right should put aside their differences and form one grand anti-globalist alliance that can squash globalism.
For as long as I can remember, this sort of thinking has been around. On the surface, it makes sense. This was particularly true during the Clinton/Bush years, when the forces of globalism seemed overwhelming in both parties. It got to the point where old stalwarts of both the Right and the Left, men like Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader, found themselves on the outs for opposing the new globalist order. And, a lot of men I admire fell into this line of thinking. This is why Pat Buchanan, who at one time stood outside his hotel balcony and pointed out hippies the cops had missed “rounding up” after the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago, had some praises for the 1999 WTO protesters in the “Battle of Seattle.”
Thirty years later, Buchanan saw those directing American trade policy as a greater threat to the core of the U.S. than a bunch of smelly hippies. Even Sam Francis, a man who declared that Ross Perot’s lack of interest in social issues doomed his candidacy in the mid-1990s, was only a few years later discussing the need for the anti-globalists of the Left and Right to drop the social issues that divided them in exchange for uniting to defeat the globalists. Fighting over those social issues would be pointless if the U.S. ceased to exist as it had historically. As a right-libertarian/paleoconservative college student, I tried to reach out to the socialist organizations on my campus for one reason- they hated the Iraq War. At the time, the excesses of the Left appeared to be small potatoes compared to Dixians dying in disproportionate numbers in a pointless Middle East war.
But as I have grown older, I now see such an alliance would be impossible to maintain. Now, we should try to convert as many as we can, be they from the Left or Right, as long as they’re genuine and reasonable nationalists. Rather, it is this idea of a grand alliance between the anti-globalist Left and the anti-globalist Right, while both camps maintaining their core ideologies, is a pipedream. Much of this idea rests on a false assumption about the anti-globalist Left – namely that they are anti-globalist for the same reasons we are. They are not.
The anti-globalist Left might be anti-globalist, as in they oppose organizations like the WTO, but they aren’t anti-global. More importantly, they aren’t nationalists. I have heard them call their own views: “post-globalism.” What I mean by this is that, while I’m a rightwing, anti-globalist, Dixian nationalist, my primary reason to oppose globalism is because of the negative effects it has on workers in Texas, Kentucky, or Alabama. This isn’t the case with the anti-globalist Left, even if they are from Texas, Kentucky, or Alabama. Rather, they are more concerned with people in Peru. Plus, they see Texans, Tennesseans, and Alabamians as forces of reactionary politics. Look, I wish no harm on Peruvians, but they are not my people; so, I will defer to Peruvian nationalists to defend their people, while I defend Dixie. But, that’s not the case with the anti-globalist Left. They would rather defend foreigners at the expense of their own people.
It would be one thing if the anti-globalist Left was dominated by men like Ralph Nader, someone who does have some nationalist sympathies, even if it is towards U.S. nationalism. It is why he, at one time, requested that corporations begin their meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance, a call that was later rejected. I’m not big on reciting the Pledge either. In fact, I haven’t said it since I was 18. We all know that the reason those corporations rejected Nader’s idea wasn’t because they didn’t want to pledge fealty to the Yankee government or because the Pledge was written by a socialist. They rejected the Pledge because they care more about making obscene profits than they care for the historic American people and their traditions. Context matters.
No, far from being led by an aimable man who defends ethnic joke books, the anti-globalist Left is dominated by those who absolutely hate the West and Dixie. Instead of the West being the world’s wellspring of progress and innovation, as well as, its source of light as was seen during the Age of Imperialism, the West is cast as a source of sorrow and contempt. Meanwhile, Dixie is the most hated and reviled nation within the West. There cannot be an alliance with someone who hates you and thinks the world would be a better place if you were erased. I do not care how much they opposed the Iraq War. I do not care how mush they hated NAFTA. Such an alliance cannot happen.
And trust me, I understand the temptation. Much of my politics was formed during the Clinton and Bush era when it really did look like trying to stop these stupid wars and “free” trade agreements were lost causes. So, to see a leftist tweet about his hatred of NAFTA or American foreign policy presents a serious temptation to form an alliance, as opposed to an alliance with a “respectable” conservative who thinks that an unemployed factory worker, reduced to being a Wal-Mart greeter, should just learn to code. A pox on both their houses.
Ultimately, our agreement with the anti-globalist Left is superficial. The chasm between us and them is simply too great for any real alliance to form. It may have been another matter during the 90s or even early 2000s when, thanks to that time period, there wasn’t a rabid hatred for the old culture. But, that is no longer the case. The old anti-globalist Left have either joined the Right, retired from public life, or died. And, they have been replaced by people who absolutely loathe old America, especially Southerners. Trying to convert them is one thing, but to think we can join hands, without that conversion, is madness.
-By Dixie Anon
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
