A
commenter at Steve Sailer's observes as much:
Social
conservatism, which is largely concerned with morals legislation, is
essentially dead, and has been since the Supreme Court Lawrence decision in
2003 (as Scalia correctly prophesied.) Thus anyone could have predicted the
victory of SSM, and the discovery of all manner of rights in terms of
sexuality, since, apparently, one’s membership card in LGBTQQIV2A is the only
self-identification that means anything (not race, not religion, not language,
not culture: just with whom and how you like to have sex: this includes
asexuals of course, the “A” above: there’s another one for Allies.) So Ross can
just give up on that. The same pertains to third trimester abortions or
anything else, because virtually any attempt to police human conduct (except
the ingestion of drugs, of course) can and will be carried into an argument
about our innate right to do whatever we want.
Hawkish internationalism is also a dead letter, since we just had a decade or more of foolishly prosecuted wars, and one can (some cynically, I suppose) claim that with the most pressing issues for the DOD being the extension of selective service registration to women, and the integration of transgender drill instructors into the the Marine Corps Recruit Depots, it is highly unlikely that there will be any non-foolishly prosecuted wars in the near or far future.
Free market economics is also dead, since the American economy has already been heavily socialized by a variety of government controls, restrictions, and, most importantly, benefits, which the citizenry (at this point) cannot live without.
So Reagan is dead, so is Reaganism. The only question is what can we do to improve the lot of regular Americans, materially, and what can we do to generate some kind of purpose for our people and our nation.
Hawkish internationalism is also a dead letter, since we just had a decade or more of foolishly prosecuted wars, and one can (some cynically, I suppose) claim that with the most pressing issues for the DOD being the extension of selective service registration to women, and the integration of transgender drill instructors into the the Marine Corps Recruit Depots, it is highly unlikely that there will be any non-foolishly prosecuted wars in the near or far future.
Free market economics is also dead, since the American economy has already been heavily socialized by a variety of government controls, restrictions, and, most importantly, benefits, which the citizenry (at this point) cannot live without.
So Reagan is dead, so is Reaganism. The only question is what can we do to improve the lot of regular Americans, materially, and what can we do to generate some kind of purpose for our people and our nation.
The
correct approach is not to attempt to save, or fix, the United States of
America. As I noted back in 2004, it's dead. It is no more a true nation than
Yugoslavia, or South Africa, or the Austro-Hungarian Empire were.
The long term American focus should be on successfully doing what the South Africans failed to do, which is peacefully dividing the empire between the various nations. This will no doubt be difficult for many to accept, but it is what is going to happen anyway, and the sooner that "conservatives" understand that this is the only way to preserve the actual nation, as opposed to the mythical "proposition nation" which is now based on nothing more than Magic Dirt Theory, the more likely it is that they will be able to come away with something sustainable.
The very great irony is that the combination of multiculturalism, feminism, and propositionism is collectively less societally viable than North Korea's insane political economy. North Korea is a totalitarian nightmare, but it has indubitably remained Korean, in fact, more Korean than England is English or Germany is German.
History demonstrates that a nation can survive evil kings and nightmarish ideologies, but may not be able to survive what many, if not most, in the West today consider "progress". One really should be inspired to completely reassess one's ideology when it is observably more societally destructive than Juche.
The long term American focus should be on successfully doing what the South Africans failed to do, which is peacefully dividing the empire between the various nations. This will no doubt be difficult for many to accept, but it is what is going to happen anyway, and the sooner that "conservatives" understand that this is the only way to preserve the actual nation, as opposed to the mythical "proposition nation" which is now based on nothing more than Magic Dirt Theory, the more likely it is that they will be able to come away with something sustainable.
The very great irony is that the combination of multiculturalism, feminism, and propositionism is collectively less societally viable than North Korea's insane political economy. North Korea is a totalitarian nightmare, but it has indubitably remained Korean, in fact, more Korean than England is English or Germany is German.
History demonstrates that a nation can survive evil kings and nightmarish ideologies, but may not be able to survive what many, if not most, in the West today consider "progress". One really should be inspired to completely reassess one's ideology when it is observably more societally destructive than Juche.
