Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Liberals want to win the victory they can’t achieve at the ballot box by using their cultural power to systematically marginalize and exclude Normal Americans from every aspect of society – and we can’t let them. From the business world to Hollywood, we are seeing them react to their utter repudiation in recent elections by trying to intimidate us into silent conformity as the price of us being allowed to participate in the non-governmental institutions of society. We must therefore have a two-part response to this act of cultural warfare – not only must we get right back in their smug little faces, but we must also build our own cultural institutions, ones that they can’t control.
The militant Normals built this country; they can build their own institutions too.
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Now, of course we can’t always build parallel institutions right away. Sometimes we need to force the existing ones to behave. Social media platforms like Twitter (in which I own stock) and search engine institutions like Google are so humongous that they are difficult to replicate (but Gab and engines like Duck Duck Go are trying). The fact is that social media is becoming our society’s primary public forum, and excluding conservatives is essentially excluding conservatives from participation in politics. That’s unacceptable, meaning we will not just sit there and accept it.
So when the social media companies start deplatforming conservatives, and engines like Google start up with antics like listing the GOP’s ideology as “Nazism,” we need to respond to their exercise of their power with the exercise of our own power – via our elected representatives. A GOP bill requiring social media platforms to explicitly and clearly explain their content policies, to disclose to banned people their exact violation, to provide a rapid, meaningful appeal process, and to provide for lawsuits (with fee awards to prevailing plaintiffs) to remedy violations is just the first step toward a regulatory solution.
The Fredocons will whine that this is not a conservative solution. Oh. Well, we tried submission and that doesn’t work for us. My conservative principles include fighting fire with a firestorm. Don’t want none, don’t start none – if you exercise your power, we’ll exercise ours. I don’t want to do it, but the two choices are 1) open, free, and unregulated platforms, or 2) platforms regulated to protect our rights. Maintaining platforms that exclude Normals is not an option. So, choose wisely Silicon Valley.
But for most institutions, we have alternative options that don’t necessarily involve leveraging our government power. When companies start deciding they want to modify our behavior by refusing to do business with people the libs hate, like NRA members, we can boycott them. We can also choose to support businesses that don’t disrespect us. There are lots of banks that don’t discriminate against those exercising the Second Amendment. By supporting companies that respect us – and not patronizing ones that diss us (like Dick’s Sporting Goods) – we are effectively building parallel institutions. But we can also create our own businesses from the ground up.
And we need to. Who isn’t sick of Starbuck’s and its insufferable limo lib condescension? There’s a space for a coffee house chain that doesn’t tolerate druggies, vagrants, and bums – “I’ll have a venti hobo with an extra shot of bindle.”
How about someone starts an objectivist coffeehouse chain called Galt’s? You can order, but the barista will make you a cup of fancy joe according to his personal vision of what your drink should be, and if you complain he will give you a 50,000-word lecture on how he won’t ever compromise his heroic java artistry. Plus, not just conservatives will love its restroom policy. Who’s in Galt’s john? Paying customers only!
Insurgent coffee houses can distinguish themselves from woke bean water joints by welcoming all Americans, not just the ones who are assimilated into the Samantha Bee hive mind. That goes for every kind of business. How excited would you be to patronize a company that has the mob show up and says, “Yes, some of our customers are outraged by what [whoever] said. We sell [whatever] and we think you can make up your own mind about politics. We are not excluding anyone. Thanks!”
Hollywood is likewise willfully alienating customers by taking sides. Think what you want about Roseanne herself, but her show touched millions of overlooked people – and the show employed hundreds of people who are now out of work. Solo, which was not woke at all, was wokeness-fatigue collateral damage because many of us expected it to be another boring lib lecture with ray guns after the last three iterations of Jedi Girl Ghostbusters in Space.
Luckily, technology is breaking down the barriers to entry into the entertainment field. Networks are no longer gatekeepers – heck, they are barely relevant. We can make our own entertainment, and we need to. How about Adam’s 12, a gritty crime procedural with conservative superstar Adam Baldwin as the grizzled leader of a dozen elite cops and prosecutors? The best part would be how the criminal always turns out to be the gangbanging scumbag everyone originally thought was guilty, instead of having the hackneyed Law & Order twist where the villain is revealed to be the rich businessman, the conservative radio host, or the pro-life activist. You know, just like in real life.
Or perhaps we could do a show about a guy on a mission worthy of Superman – patriotic actor Dean Cain starring in Dean Dean Cain, about the new conservative head of a liberal arts college fighting for free speech and campus carry against student SJWs and a commie faculty led by a bitter, lonely gender studies professor played by Alyssa Milano. Yeah, she’d take the role – she needs the cash.
Certainly Normal Americans would binge watch Nick of Time, where acting legend and bane of Twitter liberals Nick Searcy could play a conservative avenger who wanders the Red states, stepping in at the last minute to save Normal heroes like gun makers, born-again Christians, and people who work to support their own families, from oppression by wicked villains like uppity hipsters, angry atheists, and malevolent bureaucrats.
The truth is that the walls really are coming down – what good is a gatekeeper if you can just walk around the gate? Technology makes production accessible at a fraction of what it used to cost, and the ravenous Internet is starving for content. There’s nothing to stop us conservative from stepping in and doing it ourselves.
The same is true in the world of publishing. While some traditional publishers will take a chance on conservative books (like my Militant Normals, dropping in October and Derek Hunter’s excellent Outrage, Inc, out in two weeks), technology like Amazon’s Kindle and publishing on-demand has let me reach many thousands with my conservative action novels about America torn apart and patriots fighting back against tyranny. And more conservatives are taking advantage of this opportunity because they are being systematically driven out of the public sphere as the old players refuse to meet the needs and wants of the Normal Americans they hold in contempt.
The best solution would, of course, be a free market in which the cultural and commercial producers supplied content solely in accordance with demand – that is, where their goal is the laudable one of just making some bucks. After all, conservative money spends just like liberal money, so there’s no incentive to discriminate. Freedom happens when the motive is profit, not ideology.
But as we keep seeing, money is not the only motivation to those temporarily holding sway over our cultural institutions. They will take a hit in the pocket book to score their cheap little points against us. We need to confront that nonsense, hard, and raise the cost of liberal virtue signaling high enough that they will think twice before trying it. But we also need to build our own institutions, institutions that meet Normal Americans’ needs, not the needs of some Silicon Valley socialist or Hollywood pinko. And if we don’t, we may well find ourselves exiled from our own society.
Someone tell me what a “normal” American is, and what percent of the population still meets this standard.
Remember that “normal” Americans elected Obama twice, ran Hillary for President, and have put up and even encouraged attempts to remove Trump from office since the day he was elected and even before he took office.
Take a hard look at what America has become and tell me what “normal” is today, not something that used to be normal in bygone days.
Electing Obama twice and running Hillary for president aren’t what I would consider “normal” either. As far as trying to remove the duly elected President from office do you consider that “normal”? I bet you wouldn’t consider it “normal” if it were the other way around.
EXACTLY – another one of those “relative, generalized labels”. How about replacing said with “PRODUCTIVE”? Additionally, in so long as “Soros types” have the “where-with-all” to force the use of hackable electronic voting devices, the “CONgress” of legisTRAITORS will prevail.
“Who is in Galt’s john?” and “Samantha Bee hive” both were unexpected little gems that brought a smile to my face while reading. Well done!
I did a spit take over “Who’s in Galt’s john? Paying customers only!”
Conservatives have never conserved anything, so why would the backstabbing party of stupid be expected to build ?
Personally, I don’t relish a society structured solely around identity politics. It’s gauche, claustrophobic, miserably stressful, and a mockery of the transcendent. But damned if I’m gonna idly sit by as every other group looks out for themselves at my group’s expense. That’s a suicide pact. But the only way out of this inevitability is to restore Whites to demographic primacy in their homelands, from which perch Whites can safely and confidently eschew identity politics without risk of parasitic infection. My idea of a great country to live in: One that’s so explicitly homogeneous that these implicit identity conundrums never need addressing.
– Heartiste
While the Democratic Party is committed to anti-white positions, that swelling number of anti-anti-white whites is electoral gold for the Republican Party. Whether the Republican Party—also commonly known, let me remind you, as the Stupid Party—has enough sense and skill to mine that gold, is an open question. There are some hopeful signs from the White House, although that is of course not the same thing as the Republican Party.
– John Derbyshire
Affirmative Action Discrimination has now Metastasized to include all non-Communist. The Vampire Squid has it’s tentacles on you; the Bell Tolls for you. It is past time for he Deplorables to get off their couches and become Counter-Revoltionaries and Take America Back: For God, For Country and For The Children.
We reap what we sow and civic cucks like Schlichter sow nothing but bullshit. Muh melting pot.
” Of course, the post-1965 American performance has been even worse than their erstwhile “British brethren” in this regard. To this very day, most of you still don’t see any problem at all with tens of millions of fellow citizens born American in China, India, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, and Portugal. Many of you, I have witnessed, even claim to prefer them to actual Americans, so long as they mouth platitudes of which you approve. I, on the other hand, am firmly convinced that the planet-wide Migration War is going to make the death toll of WWII look like a mild pre-game stretch. Never will have large-scale human suffering been more avoidable or more well-deserved. Almost everyone, from the highest government Minister to the lowest mudshark, is culpable to some degree.”
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/06/they-fought-huns.html
“One grim Weltanschauung for this new era was well expressed by the Venetian nationalist demagogue in Michael Dibdin’s novel, Dead Lagoon: “There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are. These are the old truths we are painfully rediscovering after a century and more of sentimental cant. Those who deny them deny their family, their heritage, their culture, their birthright, their very selves! They will not lightly be forgiven.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Before the 1960s, in America there was a generally accepted set of societal rules. Men were expected to avoid coarse language, be relatively neat and clean in appearance (unless knee-deep in it mucking out stalls, and so forth); in public women were courteous and tried to appear as beautiful as possible, also avoided coarse language, and so on. Individuals were expected to observe _boundaries_ (see previous essay). There were expectations of appearance for public life, and they were stricter than those for private life. It tended to make some people feel oppressed, but it was a requirement for social interactions to avoid misunderstandings and hurt feelings.
Of course, not everyone did this; foreigners were expected to learn how, and tolerated until they did, unless laws and ordinances were violated. Public nudity was not a thing; you were expected to be covered from knees to necklines (yes, men sometimes went without shirts; but I have sympathy for the female argument that if they had to cover up, men did too. Fine, I’ll wear a shirt in public.)
On the one hand, the “liberation” liberated some things that needed to be. Women need not wear corsets and girdles if they did not want to, nor even pantyhose (stockings) if their outfits were otherwise decent. They need not wear makeup if they like the natural look. Men need to have reasonably arranged hair; they need to be covered from knees to waist at the very least, and from knees to neckline if the ladies are. Three-piece suits are unreasonable if not being rather formal; a shirt, sports jacket and slacks are plenty (especially in Houston in the summer!)
But somehow relaxing those expectations never ended. Both men and women exposed unreasonable amounts of skin in public, and created problems for those without enough self-discipline to control themselves. On the one hand, sex is wonderful; but on the other, sex without love is only good exercise (per Robert Heinlein). Is it really worth it to risk disease, pregnancy and long-term complications for temporary pleasure?
Public life is fraught with tension now; you risk terrible conflicts if you say the wrong words, touch the wrong person or even speak casually to a stranger. We need to generate some kind of public space behavior limits again, with withdrawal / expulsion if norms are violated. I don’t care if you’re queer or not, uncovered male genitals in public should be cause for jailing. Uncovered female genitals (unless breastfeeding, in which case quiet discretion should be practiced) should also result in a little jail time.
What you do in your own home is your business; what you do in public is not, it’s the business of everyone you interact with. I don’t want to watch the Castro St. parade, and I should not be forced to just to go to the store to buy groceries. Neither should minor children, religious believers or anyone else – keep it in your pants! WEAR PANTS for God’s sake! Or, more accurately, wear pants for the sake of public decency (another phrase nearly lost) – and keep your sexual practices in private. I don’t care if you do goats at home, and I really don’t want to know if you do.
This rant is already long enough – and I could carry on much longer. Get off my lawn, you naked (queer or not) abusive cursing intoxicated bestialists!
“Conservatives Must Build Their Own Culture…”–Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Kurt, ya got it wrong. It’s not a new Conservative culture vs a Neo Progressive Liberal culture that’s needed. What’s needed is a return to the culture exemplified by the American Experience from the foundations of the country. We need to return to the values that served the greatest number of Americans for over the last 200 yrs.
Culture is built over eons. It is the culmination of traditions found to be enduring over generations. It’s the playbook for the existence of a civilization. It creates harmony in a social infrastructure.
Aside from Money, culture is the indispensable ingredient that makes civilization possible. It brings order out of chaos. Culture isn’t an invention thrust upon mankind, but is the innate natural bent of mankind in his interactions with the family group and with economic interactions with others.
Culture is extremely important. It’s how we determine the ‘good’ and cast aside the ‘bad’. It is the historic record in mythic representation.
That is why the Marxist Liberal Progressives are intent on destroying culture. For the emergence of the “Uber” man, for the emergence of “Heaven on Earth”, culture must be destroyed and remade in the image of man as God. The new man will command the “tides to recede”. This is their goal, this is their delusion.
Is it any wonder why Middle Eastern immigrants are flooding in to European countries, diluting and destroying their culture. Is it any wonder why Antifa ( far-left and militant left which includes anarchists, communists and socialists) tear down historic flags, statues, and cultural icons. Is it any wonder why Christianity is under attack and the Constitution has been legislated into the dust bin of history as archaic and no longer relevant.
Without culture there is no lodestone, no guide for a civilization moving into the future and that should concern you.