A lot of American nationalism resembles what gets characterized as oppositional defiant disorder, which is a meme disorder that doesn’t exist. By and large, it amounts to antisocial behaviour elevated into a national personality.
The American character takes pride in excess: the sparklers, the explosions, the supersized meals, the grandiosity, the noise, the deliberate disturbance of the peace. Their enemies depict them as hideous, fat, grotesque people indulging in exactly these behaviours, and their first instinct is to own it. That’s bold, I guess, but in doing so they’re effectively admitting: yes, I’m an ugly, fat retard who takes pride in disruptive, individualistic, antisocial behaviour.
That isn’t an image I’d want to imbibe, co opt, or spin into a virtue. The prole drift of MAGA into an endless cascade of agitprop, slop, vulgar spectacle, and cultivated ugliness is disgusting. It probably alienates a whole lot of other right wing nationalists
While a relocation to Quebec is certainly more desirable than the destruction of this beautiful monument, the best solution would be for it to be restored to its rightful place in Orillia.
Champlain is not just the Father of New France but the Father of Canada. He is the man that made permanent settlement in Canada possible. He laid the foundation for everything that would come after him.
His legacy should not be sequestered to Quebec. All Canadians should know his name and story.
SAVE CHAMPLAIN
I tell you in all sincerity that I want to carry the coming general election in order to finish this great work, and when it is completed I shall be content to say with the prophet of old: "Lord, now let Thy servant depart in peace." -- The Premier at Sorel.
@KhanOfAlberia@FortySacks Missing the point. He's not saying that homesteading is bad, but the political strategy adopted by these groups has been ineffectual and misaligned with their stated desires and objectives. We need to move beyond populist individualism and embrace elite theory and nationalism.
@FortySacks @Tristyn_Jones1 It's not that populists are always wrong about what the problem is, it's that they don't understand elite theory so they misidentify causes and solutions.
Homesteaders, agrarians, and populists relying on “spreading awareness”, protesting, or Americanisms like “we the people” and “the silent majority” aren’t nearly as effective or influential as people think they are.
A deeply unpopular Laurentian liberal elite minority, one that increasingly LARPs as blue-state Americans and takes its cues from them, managed to transform the country against the popular will.
Over a roughly twenty-year period between the 1940s and 1960s, they spent decades scheming behind the scenes. They changed the flag, lured French Canadians into supporting them through the Royal Commission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism by promising greater national recognition of Canada’s French heritage, then dropped the whole thing almost immediately. They pulled the rug out from under them and basically said, “SYKE, you thought. Here’s infinite immigrants instead.”
In 1971 they pushed multiculturalism and the cultural mosaic, abolished assimilation while polling showed around 80% of Canadians opposed increased immigration. They later entrenched their ideology through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, stacked and empowered a judiciary that would future-proof it, formalized the project through the 1988 Multiculturalism Act, and gradually consolidated influence over the media, education system, and cultural institutions.
The result was a decades-long effort to indoctrinate Canadians into viewing their country as a post-national economic zone built on stolen land called Turtle Island, where Canadians don’t exist, but foreigners are just as Canadian as you and me borders are morally questionable, and none is illegal on stolen land.
This isn’t going to be reversed through awareness campaigns, symbolic protests, or endlessly posting facts online. Political systems are ultimately shaped by elites and counter-elites. The only way this order gets replaced is if a rival elite, or a political force capable of becoming one, displaces the existing ruling class and takes its place.
That process will almost certainly involve some degree of populism, but populism by itself is not enough. You need people who can actually build institutions, wield power, and replace the current establishment rather than just complain about it or bug off into the woods, or try to balkanize the country.
WATCH: Dominion Society member, Matthew Baker's, address to the Infrastructure & Environment Committee on plans to relocate the King Edward VII statue at Queen's Park in Toronto
Imagine being defeated, your land taken, finally coming to terms, doing your best to jump 10,000 years ahead technologically and sociologically, actually modestly succeed, and then the people you settled into a decent cooperative peace with decide to destroy themselves, flooding the entire country with people who numerically threaten them from the actual place they were looking for centuries ago.
Then imagine half of your people weaponized by some of them, having a mythology crafted for you featuring U.N. themed elementary school scrapbook globalism as your kids are taught by self-hating White HR feminist women in the 1990s they’re “two spirit”, and that Jiganassi of the Iroquois’s house was “A United Nations” of tribes, where defeated enemies were hugged and adopted into new families, and everybody ate beans, corn, squash and were trans, for all eternity.
You’d swing to the right too. That’s what the Red Man has gone through.
John Diefenbaker is canonized by the Canadian right as both a hero who smashed the Liberals at the ballot box and a martyr to foreign interference.
Yet he was also an ineffective prime minister. Driven by deeply personal motives, he undermined Canadian nationalism and squandered a generational opportunity to reshape the country after 22 years of Liberal rule. In many ways, he exemplified the self-defeating tendencies of the postwar Progressive Conservatives.
Ultimately, Diefenbaker was more a precursor to Pierre Trudeau than a conservative maverick. He had admirable qualities, but he was no titan, and he is not an icon to be emulated.
My latest in @WDiminishment.
https://t.co/kQCCZJLpRt
Egalitarianism warps the mind to such an extent that it makes one despise excellence and worship incompetence.
The Canadian government vilifies the European Settlers who built the country while heaping praise upon every third world group who've never achieved anything.
@JJ_McCullough Because he said a very straight forward necessary thing that basically every single (C)onservative politician in Canada is too chicken shit to say https://t.co/Wbicxjq2uw
God bless the brave men of Northern Ireland as they protest the invasion of their land. I hope that this shared struggle can be what unites the Nationalist 🇮🇪 and Unionist 🇬🇧 communities.
The entire Anglo-Celtic and European world stands behind you.
Defend Ulster! 🇬🇧 ✋ 🇮🇪