Boomer Cons

Guest Post by The Zman

During World War II, there was a great debate among the Allies about the use of bombing raids against German cities. Collateral damage was the concern. The Germans built their munitions plants near population centers. There were those in the high command who said that if the Allies used aerial bombardment against these facilities, then they would be no better than the Germans. It would be much better to maintain their principles and lose than win and be judged as morally equal or even similar as the Germans.

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Of course, that never happened. There was some debate about the morality of certain tactics, but only in so far as they would result in retaliation. That was the lesson of the Great War. The use of poison gas, for example, just resulted in the use of gas by the other side. As Greg Cochran pointed out, the Soviets may have resorted to germ warfare against the Germans, but fear of retaliation certainly shaped their thinking. If they used biological agents, it was out of desperation and covered up after the fact.

The point here is that in war, the first priority, the overriding priority, is winning. You do that first and worry about morality later. Principles are the things the winners create after they have secured victory. Principles are the way in which the winners consolidate their gains after victory in a war. Imagine if the Civil War had gone the other way and the South had won. Would anyone today tremble at the accusation of racism? Obviously not, because the victors would have had no reason to make racism a mortal sin.

The obsession with principle has always been the central defect of what the kids now call “Boomer Conservatism.” The BoomerCons accept, without argument, the principles and moral framework of the Left and then they try to out-righteous the other side in a pointless game of virtue signalling. It is the basis of the DR3 meme. Even if you are able to “prove” that the “Democrats are the real racists,” all you have done is prove they are right and that racism is the worst thing ever. Even if you win, you end up losing.

And yes, I know, not all Boomers think like this and many younger people fall into the same trap. Lots of young people like the Rolling Stones and The Who, but it is still Boomer music. The cultural upheavals going on today are due to the cultural upheavals that went on yesterday, when the Boomers tossed over the culture they inherited and created the prevailing orthodoxy of today. All of us now live in Boomer Land, which means we live in the moral structure created by the Boomer generation.

Now, the folks with the tricorn hats and “heritage not hate” signs can be forgiven for not seeing the folly of their tactics. They came of age when the general consensus said that the goal is a color blind society. If the bad honkies would just open up their hearts to the black man, all the race stuff would melt away. It was all nonsense, but a whole generation was raised on it and now they struggle to let it go. For most Boomers, egalitarianism is their heritage, so it is understandable that they cling to it.

Of course, the libertarian boomers have turned their love of principle into a ready excuse for not getting into a serious fight with the Left. You see it in this post on the American Conservative.

This month, three conservative protesters rushed onto a New York City theatre stage—and briefly into the national spotlight—enraged by the mock-execution of a character dressed to look like Trump. As a New Yorker fond of civilization I was alarmed at this barbaric behavior because this is how cultures unravel.

Well, that’s how culture wars work. Each side tries to impose their cultural preferences on the other. If you are in opposition to the prevailing culture then what you seek, by definition, is an unraveling of the culture. That’s how you win. Otherwise, you confine yourself to tactics that will never work. For guys like Todd Seavey, principle is a coffin they think will give them comfort as the Left lowers them into the grave.

Again, the Boomer generation can be forgiven for clinging to their principles even if it means defeat. They came into an America that was the colossus, standing astride the world as the defender of freedom and the exponent of economic prosperity. The principles they inherited were cooked up by people who conquered the world. America in the 50’s and 60’s was a society that was sure it had things figured out. If you were ten years old in the early 60’s, truth, justice and the American way made perfect sense.

The last fifty years, however, have proven to be a cultural disaster for America, one that will have to be addressed by the coming generations. In order for that to happen, a counter culture must form that is willing to be called unprincipled as they rush the stage or shout down the people with the megaphones. What ponytails and recreational drugs were for the Boomers, fashy haircuts and race realism will be for the next generations. The young who are rebelling are rebelling against those vaunted principles the Boomers cherish.

The only way a counter culture gets any traction is if it is indifferent, or even hostile, to the prevailing morality. There are two types of principles a people live by. There are those that precede their demise and those they create after they triumph. The people desperately clinging to their principles, lecturing those willing to do what it takes to win, will be buried with those principles. The winners, meanwhile, will be busy crafting a new morality. That’s the lesson of history. The people with a future get to write the past.

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“Even if you are able to “prove” that the “Democrats are the real racists,” all you have done is prove they are right and that racism is the worst thing ever. Even if you win, you end up losing.”

I don’t agree with this at all. 1) How does it prove racism is the worst thing ever? and 2) If you prove the democrats are the racist ones, you can show their reasoning as faulty as hell and that the are not only racists but evil, false and fake stirrer uppers. In affect exposing them as the most vile of politicians that all of the races should despise.

No, you win and win big.

I believe I do get your drift as far as tactics and morality go though.

razzle
razzle

— “I don’t agree with this at all. 1) How does it prove racism is the worst thing ever?”

It doesn’t. You’re missing his point entirely. All the progressive wants is for you to accept their premise that racism is bad enough of a thing to get upset about (aka “worst thing ever”).

From there they will deflect deflect deflect no matter how firm the evidence is that they are racist and keep you mired in an ever circling toilet bowl.

Gator
Gator

Exactly. Rather than making whatever point you were making, you are wasting time arguing over what you said was racist or not. It is a tactic they use to dominate the conversation. Nothing is discussed anymore, other than defending yourself against this accusation. Its the sole source of their power, their magic ring. Its also easy to take it away. Just ignore these accusations.

A. R. (Rich) Wasem
A. R. (Rich) Wasem

Just counter with – “Yes, but I’m an equal-opportunity racist”.

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

“racism is the worst thing ever” – BullShit.

Races are NOT equal.
Cultures are NOT equal

Judge by actions, not by words.

razzle
razzle

He was saying racism isn’t the worst thing ever… but even if you DO prove a progressive is a racist they will still take it as a victory because you are accepting *their* premise regarding racism and will still avoid accepting responsibility for their racism.

The only way out of the fingercuffs is to be unabashedly tolerant of racists and racism in front of progressives.

Ricky Moore
Ricky Moore

Arguing with normies is retarded. Their opinions are irrelevant. Elites control everything, always will, and only force and money will get you there.

Anonymous
Anonymous

When the current conflict, a conflict of civilization itself, is over, there will be no losing or winning side after.

There will be only one side left, the other being totally eliminated and no longer here.

This is the beginning of the final conflict on Earth and there will be only one side remaining when it is over.

Choose your side now before it is chosen for you, there is no middle or third side to choose this time.

Mike Murray
Mike Murray

I’m a Boomer, and you are correct, “not all Boomers think like this”.
I’m one of “those willing to do what it takes to win”.
Unfortunately, most of the country has no balls, no sense, and no will to win.
As a former Jarhead, and one of those citizens with a red neck and a blue collar, I wasn’t raised to suffer fools gladly. If I had a PC bone in my body I’d break it myself.
I must admit, I am sick of being lumped in with the worthless nitwits of my age group.
Maybe a new word is the best idea to separate the goats from the sheep Boomercon is not bad, but how about Boohoomer?

RiNS

Boohoomer.. that’s a great one.

I’m stealing that one.

Mike Murray
Mike Murray

You are welcome to it.

Ricky Moore
Ricky Moore

America is doomed and was always leftist and should be broken into a thousand countries. Secede or die, this shit was always a bad idea. The Constitution was a big government, left wing, easy coast Banker scam.

rhs jr
rhs jr

I’m sure your imagined morality debates about murdering Poles, Jews, Russians, English etc were very common and beneficial in Nazi Germany. Likewise with the very open and beneficial debates we are having here about Reverse Discrimination, Destructive Marxist Ideology, and the left’s blood boiling hatreds and crimes.

BB

The victors in the civil war didn’t make racism a mortal sin.The liberal leftist Jews that control the media did starting in the mid 80s.The Jewish subversives also developed ” Critical Theory ” and Critical Race Theory ” that hijack the debate about by race calling anyone who disagrees a racist.

Ed
Ed

STFU, Zbitch.

AWB

Correct, the Ashkenazim Joos who want to rule the one world order.

Most of us are aware of UN Agenda 21, but to have a one world order, national sovereignty must be abdicated. Trump is the upset bid in their plans, and I don’t think we’ve seen yet to what lengths these joos will extend, or whether they’ll retreat until a more opportune time. In much the same way the Devil retreated from Jesus in the wilderness. The Trump as savior analogy rolls on. Get on board or get left behind.

Thanks for the call on the Joos. Might have missed it. When one looks at the chronology of the Devil’s efforts to blind the eyes of those who might be saved (2 Cor 4:4), you see the compromise of Christianity with paganism in the 3rd century by Rome in order to establish a state religion. The rise of Mohammedanism in the 8th century, and no mention of Ashkenazim Khazars who converted to Judaism until 1000 AD. The Ashkenazim didn’t rise until the 18th century when Rothschild became financier to the royal courts of Europe, from which modern history can trace it’s wars, as well as the Bolshevik and Chicom revolutions, the bloodiest democides in all of recorded human history.

It doesn’t take a genius to see the conspiracy, just one with the humility and wisdom to accept the natural conclusions.

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch has called me a Nazi and censored my posts on his site. Much like the liberal left likes to use the term, racist. Or Christians like to persecute those who disagree with their doctrine, or practice of Christianity. When one considers all of these man made conflicts all have the same source, and recognize who is the real enemy, then one can counter the enemy effectively, by the only effective means available, the truth of god’s word. The Devil withdrew from Jesus in the wilderness when Jesus could not be tempted. We, too, are able to resist the Devil, and he will flee (James 4:7). When Jesus returns, he will gather his body together, the church, and forever we will be with him. Every knee shall bow to him, and many things must pass before the resurrection of the just and unjust. The end of the Devil is prophesied, just as the first coming of Jesus was foretold in Genesis 3:15. Those who serve the Devil will as surely be destroyed by him, as he would all of God’s creation, given the opportunity, as evidenced by the Great Flood in an attempt to kill off the Christ line. Peace.

AWB

It’s interesting how loudly the boomers complained about being the first generation ever who would have it worse than their parents. They aren’t complaining now. They have it better than their parents, owed to a false prosperity built on exponentially expanding national debt, and have demonstrated a narcissistic disregard for subsequent generations. History books will write about the boomers generation as the most selfish generation, including LLPOH, if indeed, labels will even matter at that point.

rhs jr
rhs jr

AWB, to much Marx is creeping into your brain. We Boomers are just Americans born just after WWII just as whatever generation you are. The enemy is TPTB who flood their MSM with divisive ideologies and Big Lies. It’s my belief that TPTB have Plans to get all us Goy to hate each other and have a Civil War, kill us in FEMA Camps and with all manner of poisons, starvation, and disease. The Boomers had nothing to do with that because TPTP Plan started in the 1700s.

AWB

Perahps, but it was the boomers and Obama who failed to breakup the TBTF in 2008, and the subsequent correction will be 10x worse.

rhs jr
rhs jr

Do not think we Boomers wouldn’t have solved the leftist problem if we could.

AWB

No, I think the can has been kicked down the road as far as possible.

What most people don’t realize is the subsequent generations, generation x and millenials are just as populous. The baby boom didn’t subside.

It will be subsequent generations that will pay for the excesses of the boomer generation, unfortunately. However, the silver lining is we may be able to get rid of the Federal Reserve, pass a balanced budget amendment, and start mitigating $200T in unfunded federal obligations in the process.

curri
curri

Dems are only opposed to so-called “white racism.” (Broadly construed) They’re fine with every other kind of racism.

“During World War II, there was a great debate among the Allies about the use of bombing raids against German cities.”

BS, there was no great debate. Only a few fearless eccentrics with little clout made outspoken objections. See “The Bombing and Negotiated Peace Questions-in 1944” in James J. Martin’s book, Revisionist Viewpoints:
https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Revisionist%20Viewpoints%20Essays%20in%20a%20Dissident%20Historical%20Tradition_3.pdf

Ricky Moore
Ricky Moore

The USA was worse than the Nazis and Soviets, though, and it’s Boomer mentality to act like Americans imperialism was ever a good idea. America is directly responsible for woke bullshit, which directly proceeds from 19th century Social Gospel Protestantism. If you’re still in denial about this, you’re a Boomer. The USA is a scam, not a country, and I don’t care about what happens to normies at all.

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