The Conservative (especially Cold War Conservative) argument about history and government basically looks something like this:
“Franco and Stalin were both dictators who concentrated political power in themselves and silenced anyone who disagreed with them in the process. And against this, the only non-totalitarian alternative is a constitutional liberal democracy with checks and balances and a comprehensive list of individual rights.”
You can really substitute “Franco and Stalin” here for basically any form of government that existed prior to the American Revolution, or at least the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
I’ve seen some classical liberals make exactly this argument. Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, and Justinian were all Woke Right.
And as stupid as this sounds, there is an underlying premise here. The assumption is that the most important question is how power is stricter or divided up. The concentration of power is therefore evil in the mind of the modern Conservative. Whether that power is exercised for Marxism or against it doesn’t really matter.
Unchecked executive power, the Hobbesian Leviathan, the Schmittian sovereign who decides on the exception, it’s always evil. It’s the principle thing these people wage eternal war against, even more than Marxism itself.
But the Conservative is wrong. And he is wrong because he has constructed a world where power can be permanently destroyed.
It can’t. Every political order ultimately rests on someone possessing the authority to decide in the exceptional case. Liberal constitutions have never once eliminated the concept of sovereignty. Just ask Abraham Lincoln and FDR.
What liberal democracy does is merely disguise sovereignty until it steps back on stage the moment it’s needed to sort out a crisis. But even absent a civil war or a depression, it doesn’t vanish. It’s just usually possessed by the least accountable and unelected aspects of the Federal government, the courts and the bureaucracy.
What that means is there has never been a state in history that doesn’t possess absolute power. It’s just that this absolute power is typically never wielded on a daily basis.
The question is not whether someone or something will concentrate power. The question is who or what is concentration power, and towards what ends?
Mostly right BUT there is I think a purer belief which is more revolutionary and utopian - the Thousand Year Reich trope. Basically if a Great Man restructures society in every way you can create inertia. FDRs Regime is 90yrs old.
It seems to me that the Franco stan right-wingers who view the Franco experiment as a failure because it was followed by a liberal-left regime are too liberal-left themselves.
The implicit belief seems to be something like: if Franco had been successful, he would have so ingrained the values of Falangismo in The People(tm) that they would have prevented the liberalism or at least put serious brakes on it.
But it seems to me that if you’re reactionary you believe that degeneracy is simply the default state of human societies and all a Great Man can do is temporarily hold the forces of chaos at bay, and that is plenty Victory.
@Uncommonsince76 Yes. A balkanized Brazil but with the promise (unlike there) and some memory of a once better civilization. But you left out our illegitimate elites! They will without doubt be happier than ever until the Regime finally implodes.
The reality is there are no more moderate solutions for Americas future….
-Jews will still want to fleece the goy and get them to die in foreign wars.
-Blacks will still want reparations and will never be satisfied in a White as dominated society
-Indians will continue to push H1B visas, tech replacement and ethnocentrism
-Mexicans will continue sending money back home, while destroying blue collar wages and social norms.
-Arabs will be used by Jews to justify anti Arab hatred and more middle eastern wars, while they themselves create more ethnic enclaves in America.
-Actual White Americans want everyone deported and their country back.
Even if you could stop the bleeding tight now, (like an immigration halt, which you can’t in our beautiful democracy) these fundamental divisions will continue to grow, not decline.
Deportations and denaturalization were and still are the most moderate solutions… as those options dwindle, tribal warfare is a certainty.
Whether White people choose to survive or not, there will be blood.
It’s not like some leader is going to rise up and unite every ethnic tribe all over the earth. The only thing holding America semi together is a an illusion of prosperity backed up by trillions of dollars of debt… once that illusion falls, the hunger games begin…
Yes. But correction: FDR was indeed a fascist Sovereign movement leader of a Communist oligarchy (ala Stalin).
When he died the Communists seized that Sovereignty and have ruled since.
@Crime_Penguin A lot of our society's problem is most girls would rather do this (and be better at it) but they instead took all the actual remainder of jobs (fake and real) and slotted them into all of them.
To even begin to understand elite finances is mostly impossible because there are so many potential sources.
The only obvious ones are when they work for monopoly corporates or own private equities (which is the most common).
Foreign, forget about it.
It’s interesting that el Sayed could afford to become a non-practicing physician and yet somehow he reported $700k in income last year even though his wife is in a low paying specialty and he’s a ‘public health official.’
Did we ever figure out where his money comes from?
I guess you just have to resign yourself to the fact that we’re going to have all of these inscrutable elites with foreign financial connections populating our politics. We’re not going to know how they support themselves or have a full accounting of their social connections. Leftist politics in particular seems friendly to political aspirants who operate with this extra layer of opacity.
@juicystar1908 A lot of Indian males do this at work. If you walk by their desks they will always frantically switch browser tabs.
Document it for 30-60 days of time (date/time noticed), report it, get them fired, and they lose their VISA.
they’re basically hollowing out russia and ukraine of its men to make a nice big entry point for millions of indians because india has an excess of unemployed young males it needs to offload so they don’t cause problems at home and so they can send back the remittances the indian economy uses to stay afloat btw
The English writer Evelyn Waugh once remarked "The Conservative Party have never put the clock back a single second".
He said that in 1951.
We've been dealing with this problem for over 200 years. The victorious Allied powers half-heartedly tried to undo the entire Napoleonic Wars and the French Revolution at the Congress of Vienna, but only a handful of people like Metternich truly sought to restore the old world.
Not even the restored King of France Louis XVIII wished to completely undo the Revolution. He eventually dissolved the Chamber of Deputies because its ultra-monarchist members were "more royalist than the king".
The history of the Right since the French Revolution has been one of constant betrayal directed against their own side, because those who make up the Right have long since lost the inherently spiritual belief that they possess the divine right to rule.
The Left has not. That's what "Progress" is to them. It's the modernist version of the divine right of kings. They constantly press forward, even in the face of overwhelming public or institutional opposition, because they are utterly convinced that history is on their side and history alone grants them legitimacy, no matter how many appeals to "the will of the people" they may make for propaganda purposes.
Ok but... Like these are the only people corporations hire now other than Indians & assorted DEIs. The Regime is waging war on American men everywhere, and on the civilization they seized control of.
We KNOW you Abdul. We know you hate us. It burns hot enough to melt the steel of The West. It simmers every day as resentment.
We knew you at Salamis, at Hattin & Acre, at Toledo, Tours & Wien.
But we've naught for you but WAR.
You are going to lose. And we are going to win!
He hates it because it's full of white people and, as a community that's full of white people, it's beautiful, well kept and full of things the rest of America is being deprived of by demographic change. It's not hard.
@ThomBrady5 Yes. Those groups were used as excuses (& what they think is irrelevant!)
I believe US is Anglo Dutch colonial Republic. (I'm neither). Also irrelevant.
What matters is elites replacing us w foreign clients must be destroyed. I welcome all who agree. We can chop it up later.
Holy-- this picture is evocative of the Regime. White boomer hiring some GirlBoss to be his "Chief of Staff" (Gelfond runs IMAX the Regime's large screen propaganda organ!) Every company is like this
These are the "mentors" you hear about; she'll be CEO or sinecured soon.