Progressive Whites

Guest Post by The Zman

Yesterday’s gun rally in Richmond Virginia was a great success, at least as a public relations item. You can tell that by the relative lack of interest by the Left. Nothing about the event fit into their narratives, so it had to be ignored. Fanatics see only that which confirms their fanaticism. In this case, they wanted to see white supremacists dressed in Klan robes and Nazi regalia, terrorizing poor black bodies, while Antifa battled them in the streets. None of that happened.

The question that never gets mentioned in all of this is exactly why the newly ascendant radicals in Richmond are attacking gun owners. If you look at what they are proposing, none of it has much practical value. All the talk of confiscation is belied by the actual bills they are producing. One limits handgun purchases to one per month. Another bans private sales of regulated firearms. One vindictively targets the NRA shooting range in Northern Virginia. These have no practical purpose.

The answer here lies in understanding how American Progressive’s view society and their role in it. Contrary to popular opinion, the people behind this stuff are not communist, motivated by Karl Marx. They are not controlled by hand-rubbing lizard people living in a secret volcano. They are not triumphant browns. The people pushing this stuff are white people. There are a few Jews and browns tossed in, but the main body of the Left is still white and formerly Protestant.

The white American Progressive has always imagined society as a fully enclosed community, that is judged as a whole. A popular slogan among them is that “society is judged by how it treats it weakest members.” This is an explicit expression of communal judgement, which is the traveling partner of communal salvation. The white Progressive looks at society as an organism that moves forward as a whole. If some parts lag behind, the whole thing slows to a halt.

Further, the white Progressive believes in the unitary reformer. That is, the reformer is not just focused on one area of society, but the whole of society. Even if their efforts are in one area, those efforts support the whole community. A reform effort that does not promise to move the whole of society forward is of no interest. For white Progressive reformers, society is the flock and they are the shepherds. Anything that threatens their effort to guard and guide the flock must be eliminated.

It is this spatial understanding of the world that helps explain these largely symbolic attacks on the Second Amendment. In the hive mind of the white Progressive, people who own guns are outside the domain of the righteous. Therefore, they must be marginalized from society. Much in the same way they anathematized smoking, white Progressives seek to make owning a gun disqualifying. Symbolically, these measures are aimed at putting gun rights outside the whole of society.

This territorial thinking is why Charlottesville remains an important symbol for white Progressives and why Richmond will be erased from their memory. In the former, the righteous chased the threat to the flock from the field. The physical place of society was literally reclaimed by the good guys. Richmond, in contrast, was when the dark forces of society were permitted to operated unmolested. The bad guys did not win. The shepherds were forced to hide their flocks.

There is another aspect to this. White Progressives are aroused by the thought of the Charlottesville riots, because the radical mind needs violence in the same way the body needs food. While many white Progressives reformers are sincere, if deranged, others are in it for the blood. They need to terrorize and attack the enemy. In the same way the bully needs to terrorize the nerd in order to be a bully, the white radical needs the enemy of the cause in order to maintain his identity.

Therein lies the other reason why Richmond will be forgotten, while Charlottesville will be a regular story in the 2020 election. It was there that the need to terrorize the enemy of the flock was fully actualized. They not only chased the evil doers from the field; they drew blood and they had a sacrifice. Notice they always remember the fat women, who died, but not the cops. That’s because she was a blood sacrifice to the cause, while the cops that died were just collateral damage.

This is how to understand these pointless gun grabbing efforts, as well as many other Progressive fads we see today. In Virginia, these proposals are like the winning side erecting a trophy on the field of battle. The good whites have recaptured the heart of the Confederacy, the home of the bad whites. They did not eliminate the enemy, however, as they are still out there in the counties that refused to support the Progressive reformers. The fight must continue.

This is why facts and reason have no effect on white Progressives. They see themselves as defenders of the innocent against the attacks of those who seek to destroy the whole by corrupting the weak. Against such delusions, facts and reason are wholly ineffectual. Appeals to their humanity, on the other hand, are infuriating, as it calls into the question the point of their existence. It is why they are most vulnerable to moral arguments. It cuts to their sense of identity.

Of course, the Left is not just white Progressives. There are other parts, but their motivations are different and mostly modifiers to the whole. These other groups operate from ethnocentric motives. Blacks want free stuff and easy access to white people, while Jews want what is best for Jews. The newly arrived non-whites want a short path to the material assets of the white majority. The bulk of the Left, however, are white Progressives, who provide the power and authority.

The thermal exhaust port of the Progressive death star is their sense of moral purpose, not factual accuracy or even the relationships between the tribes of the Left. The white Progressive sees contrary facts and internal divisions as challenges the righteous shepherd must overcome. Call into question the moral standing of the white Progressive and the very center of the Left begins to collapse. Self-righteous certainty of purpose is the main tent pole that holds Progressivism together.

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Apple
Apple

Join the “million gun march” on DC july 4th 2020. See facebook as details emerge.

Steve
Steve

The big question out of Richmond for me is why didnt Antifa show up?
Was it because of the reporting by Veritas that would make them look like the instigators in any outbreak of violence?
The sharper minds here should ponder that question. I find it unnerving for some reason, after all it was a logical point for confrontation.
BTW Zman, I have to disagree about the Progressives being composed of few Joos. The bulk of financing seems to come from Soros and similiar scum. Needless to say, the media is owned by joos.
So why didnt Antifa show up?

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Too many guns.

Shotgun Trooper
Shotgun Trooper

Because they’d be on the BOTTOM of the dogpile, for once…

anarchyst
anarchyst

Actually Antifa DID show up. Antifa, as misguided as it is doesn’t want to see the guns that they will need for their “revolution” legislated out of existence. Antifa left their masks and other paraphernalia at home…smart move on their part.
You are correct about a large leftist jewish component being a part of Antifa, using the same tactics that were used in pre-WW2 Germany.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

How do you know AntiFa was there?

anarchyst
anarchyst

common sense…Antifa needs “the tools of their trade” in order to start their “revolution” (partly sarcasm), but it would not surprise me if they support the pro-gun movement.

mark
mark

At Least one Antifa Group Will Be In Richmond Supporting Gun Rights on Monday

I wonder if the two who broke into the Richmond Gun Store I was at came from this group. Having a background in retail Loss Prevention I was stunned the store didn’t have the small glass panal they smashed in with a cinder block, and crawled through, reinforced with bars. That was a missed no brainer.

There have been two gun store break B&E’s overnight in my area in the last six months. Everyone else is reinforcing their stores, putting in buzzer doors, panic alarms, and more cameras to see who is about to come in.

mark
mark

VV,

It is highly suspected, but not positively proven the two burglars who broke into the Richmond gun store I was at Monday morning, and stole 8 rifles before dawn (I posted about them on T4C’s thread in case you missed it) were garbed in the typical Antifa clothing from the video, and were a black female, white male young team?

MOLON LABE YA’LL!

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

I say it’s because progressives are lunatics.

Mygirl....Maybe

Progressives are collectivists. They are of the hive mind and cannot think for themselves, they need to be given a script that they can read and follow and they follow the script because actually thinking is hard and reality is scary. Progressives are, in reality, regressive. Ask one a question and you will note that they speak in pre-scripted sound bites. Nazi, hater, racist, cha cha cha…..

I read some of the twitter feeds from the leftists about Richmond. Mom’s Demand Action is an anti-gun group pushing for gun control and founded by…..cough, cough…Shannon Watts a day after the Sandy Hook ‘murders’ aka: another false flag.

“Moms Demand Action has established a chapter in every state of the country and Washington, D.C. and, along with Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Students Demand Action and the Everytown Survivor Network, it is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country with nearly 6 million supporters and more than 350,000 donors.”

Everytown for Gun Safety is created and funded by….Michael Bloomberg, the same little prick who paid millions to subvert the vote in Virginia to democrat…

“Everytown for Gun Safety is largely financed by Michael Bloomberg, who also founded the group. The organization works to “support efforts to educate policy makers, as well the press and the public, about the consequences of gun violence and promote efforts to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”

mark
mark

My sign:

A Socialist is just a Progressive in a Hurry!
A Communist is just a Socialist in a Hurry!

However, a Libtard is just a Libtard.

OUTSTANDING VID & POST.

Aodh Macraynall
Aodh Macraynall

Read this man and learn the nuances of leftism

JLW
JLW

I agree to a point regarding the motivation of the ‘useful idiots’ in the Progressive movement but they are being used and driven by a bigger agenda. Their notions just coincidentally fit nicely with what the Elite controllers want for all of us. A mongrelized, hive minded bunch of slaves with little or no ability to think or resist.

BB

This Zman is either a liar or
Intentionally ignorant of who started the left in the country and who puts up almost all the money for the left. It was and is Jews. Jews are behind everything in this nation that hurts white societies and Western Civilization.Anyone can find this information by doing a simple Google search.

Kevin
Kevin

BOOO!

TC
TC

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TC
TC

Progressive whites?

Mygirl....Maybe

….he doesn’t have to do squat, the states are working really hard to destroy the Second Amendment all on their lonesome. Trump did block a rule about letting lunatics have guns and he also banned bump stocks which he did as a sop to the anti-gunners after the Vegas Massacre.

“Trump Blocked a Rule That Made It Harder for the Mentally Ill to Obtain Guns
In December 2016, the Obama administration finalized a rule that would have added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and deemed unfit to handle their own finances to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The rule was written in response to the massacre in Newtown and the Obama administration predicted it would have added 75,000 people to the national database.

Both the NRA and the ACLU said the law violated the Second Amendment rights of the mentally ill without due process, and Congress quickly voted to overturn the rule, mostly on party lines. President Trump signed the measure into law in February 2017, with no public signing ceremony. Since then Trump has continued to say mass shootings are a “mental-health problem,” not a gun problem.”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/02/every-attempt-to-change-gun-laws-under-trump.html

TC
TC

Gimme a break. I’m pointing out that Trump is not the 2A savior some people think he is. The guy would fuck a snake if his masters told him to.

Mygirl....Maybe

Who are his masters?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I am offended that you would put a snake into a compromising position like that.

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