Guest Post by The Zman
Today is the big pro-gun rally in Richmond Virginia. The rally is in response to the gun grabbing proposals by the newly ascendant Democrat party in the state. For the first time in a long time, Democrats gained control of all three branches of government in the last election and immediately set about implementing their fantasy agenda. Their first order of business was a series of vindictive, retributive proposals aimed at the normal population of the state, starting with guns and gun owners.
What’s going on in Virginia is a glimpse of what is coming for the country as a whole as we descend into the multicultural paradise. Virginia was a solidly normal state over the last seventy years. The politics were usually uneventful. Most issues were controlled at the local level. The state government was limited and usually run by the sorts of people, who thought that was a good thing. Once in a while a colorful governor would get his name in the paper, but otherwise politics was sober minded.
Decades of immigration have done to Virginia what it did to California, with the addition of massive Federal growth in Northern Virginia. Manufacturing and agricultural concerns have championed the importation of millions from Central America. Government has imported people from all over the country into Northern Virginia. The result has been the same sort of political shift we saw in California. The sprawling urban areas control state politics, which means the Left controls politics.
Like California, the normal population of the state did not think much about the massive influx of non-white immigrants. No one thought about the long-term impact of a million or so left-wing suburbanites from liberal strongholds moving into Washington suburbs for their government jobs. Anyone who mentioned it was hooted off the stage, if they were even allowed on the stage in the first place. It is only now that the link between demographics and politics is becoming obvious.
This dynamic where the newly arrived take over state politics will be something we see all over the South and Southwest in the coming decades. While whites will remain the majority in some cases or the largest minority in others, white solidarity remains forbidden, both practically and spiritually. As a result, the usual suspects will divide the white vote making whites the least powerful group in these states, even as the newly ascendant non-whites pass explicitly anti-white legislation.
You see some of that with the Virginia rally. The organizers are more concerned with looking good for the far-Left media covering the event. They have been telling participants to not bring things like Confederate flags to the rally. The 2A people still think abiding by liberal morality is paramount. Inevitably, the FBI will have some of their crisis actors at the event, so the media can get photos and video. The organizers will then invest their time apologizing for it.
This is a great example of the challenge dissidents face in dealing with the mass of white people in America. On the one hand, the civic nationalists make optics more important than the message. The racists and old school race-realists look at these events as a chance to reinforce the walls of their ghetto. They show up in their silly outfits waving flags in order to offend, rather than persuade. Both sides are simply acting out their Progressive conditioning.
That’s what makes effective activism difficult. These gun proposals by the Democrats are clearly aimed at spiting white people. There’s no practical point to these laws, other than to stick a finger in the eye of the sorts of people who don’t support the Left. The attacks on AR-15 ownership, for example, are about sticking it to white people, who are the people who own these sorts of sporting guns. That should be the salient point, but the emotional conditioning of whites makes that difficult.
You’ll note that there is no longer any discussion of crime on the Left with regards to gun grabbing. Even they have accepted the fact that gun crime is largely a black problem and now a Hispanic problem. Blacks and Hispanics shoot one another with handguns, not expensive sporting rifles. Despite this, the victims of these gun grabbing proposal would rather gnaw off their own arms than admit it. Generations of conditioning in anti-racism have had their desired effect.
Make no mistake about the intent. The newly formed ruling class of the multicultural South and Southwest will first disarm the white population. They don’t care about blacks and Hispanics shooting one another. They do hate white people. That’s why Virginia wants to forbid the private transfer of firearms. That’s the obnoxiously dishonest “gun show loophole” nonsense. It is the precursor to licensing and then confiscation. When every gun is accounted for, they can easily be confiscated.
Another thing you see in Virginia that will apply to the country at large is the stubborn refusal to accept reality. The people organizing resistance to these gun grabbing proposals still think America is a rule-based society. They think if they carefully abide by the rules and mobilize their supporters, they can win the political game. There’s that old civic nationalist blind-spot regarding their enemies. They think they can reason with the other side. The other side will be unmoved by all of this.
Another important angle to this is the silence from Conservative Inc. over what is happening in Virginia. Site like National Review and the Federalist have not talked about it much at all. That’s because Conservative Inc. is staffed by the urbanite bugmen that staff Progressive operations. They think guns are scary, so the issue is not relevant to their project. They are more concerned about getting Twitter followers. It’s another reminder of which side they will ultimately support.
In the end, the Virginia Democrats will pass what they like and most people will go along with it. The value to this side of the great divide is in opening up the 2A issue as another entry point to dissident politics. What’s going in Virginia would not happen in a homogeneous stable society. It is the inevitable result of cosmopolitan globalism and multiculturalism. White people don’t fear white people owning guns. It’s the people ruling over white people, who fear white people owning guns.
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“We the People” have forgotten or never knew this was organized and begun just after WW2 with the importation of hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans, primarily Jewish, under the Truman administration. It was opposed weakly then as it is being opposed weakly this time around. We are very late in the game; if we don’t stop the immigration NOW it will be over very soon. It could already be too late. We are talking about the original founders here and their original intent. The democratic party is a disease.
Nothing will ever change until there is some sort of systemic collapse, and change can go either way. From what my ruminations have determined the path to change starts with nurturing and accelerating the systemic collapse. When .gov can no longer support the welfare state and / or provide the services those that support it demand, then the slate will be wiped clean and the opportunity to implement change in the manner one wants will present its self.
Guns in the street while the system is functioning will only serve to harder TPTB and since they are armed with the ultimate fear machine – mass media – TPTB will conjure up their army of dependents, both rich and poor, who fear their gravy train is at risk. I see a successful revolution being fought not like giant beasts, but like termites – ubiquitous, ever gnawing at the foundations that support the whole corrupt .gov machine. Mass vandalism, neglect, and non-compliance is likely more effective at developing the environment from which change can occur than armed parades. Voting harder next time will do nothing – it is all theater. Destructive civil disobedience seems to be the most effective path to change, but is it possible to gather the millions of termites necessary for this outcome?
Ultimately a stretch goal, but then there is always luck.
“White people don’t fear white people owning guns. It’s the people ruling over white people, who fear white people owning guns.”
This is from Are You a White Supremacist and what really scares the politicians.
Wait, roughly 90% of trans-Atlantic slaves ended up in Brazil, the Caribbean, or Mexico so where is the outrage?
My US Army 800-plus man battalion was 75% black, and just 25% white plus other races, so the gun ownership as racism issue falls on deaf ears.
Florida is in very deep trouble. We almost elected the Communist Andrew Gilliam in 2016; and since then, the Florida Felon Voting Rights Laws were changed allow all Felons released to immediately become voters. We get about 1,000 new voters per DAY moving here and that will finally turn us Blue in Nov2020. Georgia almost elected Stacy Abrams; Georgia is probably lost too. The liberals will continue to crush Conservative’s Rights with their Jack Boots just like before 12Apr1861.
robert,
you’re correct but it’s much worse then that–remember all the puerto ricans who were brought over after the 2017 hurricane?
unfortunately,you then have to consider the republicans–bloomberg has given a huge amount of $ to the fl senate majority leader & he is promising that gun control will pass the senate,though it will die in the house–
with friends like these …
Well written and insightful. The seeds were planted by Obongo , you know, if Soros had a son guy. Ch ch ch changes. It is scary just to think this action was even necessary. Survival will become more and more interesting. The Msm is ‘my story my’ way only. Rough waters. Hope the rally made an impression on the empiricals I know it will be reported fairly.
No truer words…! It’s time for white people to go shanty-town.
From the street level view , otherwise known as the blind spot of the ruling elite, they have designed a working class that no longer saves for the future.
Gone are the days of pension and affordable healthcare.
At some point, those 30 and 40 year olds will realize their monthly health premiums will exceed their monthly rent.
It’s at this point, that a white person realizes he cant compete against any new arrival who doesn’t account for the true costs of living in this society.
Democrats and liberals will always steal your rights and your property by tyranny of government. That is what they do. They are communists who believe the government is the master of the people and that the people should be peasants and be subservient to the government. Democrats and liberals are more dangerous to the true American Citizens than any enemy outside our borders. Know who your real enemy is.
When the government fears the people, you have freedom. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.
When the government fears the people? The government is a system. Systems don’t fear. Your statements are just opinions. Don’t know what your point is with your comment that would stimulate anyone’s interest. Except mine.
It is always too soon, and always too late, to STAND UP AND REFUSE TO GO ALONG.