October 7, 2015 Dreaming Of Hard Work Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Dreaming Of Hard Work

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

I had a boss who said: “I don’t think you dream of hard work. There’s not tear in your eye when you think about missing work. I’m just curious about that reverie you had. You take four days off for some Jewish holiday and I don’t think you miss work. I don’t see any joy when you enter the office. Is that just my impression?”

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The West

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

What does it say about Western weakness that they allow emigres to take over their culture?

Jews would never allow gentiles to control culture and media in the Jewish state.

I found the documentary Hollywoodism painful to watch.

For Orthodox Jews, Hollywood is not a good thing. Orthodox Jews have many of the same complaints as the makers of this documentary, i.e. that Hollywood tears down and mocks things that should be considered sacred. Traditional Orthodox Jews consume very little that Hollywood produces. Traditional Orthodox Jews consider themselves at war with Hollywoodism.

Fear of anti-Semitism is a major Hollywood theme but the more religious you go in Orthodox life, the less concern there is with fighting anti-Semitism. Orthodox Jews are so busy observing their religion they have no time nor inclination to fixate on anti-Semitism. There is no mitzvah to fight prejudice and bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism. These are preoccupations of some secular Jews such as the ADL crowd.

Hollywoodism starts with three minutes of clips from the movie, “Jews, Hollywood and the American Dream,” which is based on the Neal Gabler book, “An Empire of Their Own: How Jews Invented Hollywood”.

Narrator from the Neal Gabler documentary: “Among these immigrants were the future founders of the studios, but they brought with them a new vision of America. Hollywood was a dream dreamt by Jews.”

Expert: “I’m not sure there was an American dream because the Jews came to Hollywood and invented it. Today we have a popular culture that creates dreams.”

Narrator: “The moguls created the images, the icons, and the visual forms that we identify with the American way of life.

Neal Gabler: “They created their own America, an America which is not the real America, but it is their own version of the real America, but ultimately this shadow America becomes so popular that its images and values come to devour the real America. Americans come to define themselves by the shadow America created by Eastern European Jews.”

“Anyone anywhere could identify with so many of the themes of American movies, one of which was the identity of the outsiders. Jews being outsiders making movies about outsiders.”

Narrator: “Identification with the little guy, the prize fighters, the loner, and the gangsters.”

Expert: “Hollywoodism is the ruling ideology of our culture. Hollywood culture is the dominant culture. It is the fantasy structure that we are all living inside.”

This Hollywoodism documentary concludes: “Hollywoodism is the alien ideology that has infected western culture.”

“Remember, if you see something, say something! Help to deconstruct the mythology of the new religion. Let others know! Expose the agenda, analyze and point out the propaganda and subliminal messages in Hollywood entertainment.”

The documentary concludes with a rant by Douglas Rushkoff, author of Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism: “The thing that makes Judaism dangerous to everybody, to every race, to every nation, to every idea, is that we smash things that aren’t true. We don’t believe in the boundaries of nation states, we don’t believe in these ideas of individual gods that protect individual people, these are all artificial constructions and Judaism really teaches us how to see that. In a sense, our detractors have us right in that we are a corrosive force, we’re breaking down the false gods of all nations and all people because they’re not real and that’s very upsetting to people.”

I interviewed Jewish intellectual Paul Gottfried in 2014:

Luke: “I saw how effectively and without any shame how Jews organize in our self-interest. We do not sell our homes to non-Jews in this community.”
Paul: “You’re talking about a group that does not recognize white Protestants as anything other than the other, as some outside group.”
Luke: “If we Jews can and should organize in our self-interest, and every other group does except for whites, that makes me think, hey, why aren’t [non-Jewish] whites organizing in their group interest?”
Paul: “That’s like saying you’re going to become black or Chinese because these are groups that organize in their self-interest. The one indispensable element for Western civilization are the white Christians. Once they go, everything goes. Jews aren’t going to save anything except Jewish self-interest, which is often viewed as incompatible with the preservation of a Western Christian civilization. Jews typically tend to weaken that.”
“To say that Orthodox Jews are less of a threat to civilization does not mean that they are an appealing alternative. They’re not as dangerous as the more assimilated Jews. It doesn’t make them the good guys. It doesn’t make them a model you want to imitate if you are interested in preserving Western civilization.”
“What we’re looking at is created by white Christians. They’ve created multiculturalism and all those problems, but once they go down, I don’t think much will survive as a recognizable Western society.”
“I don’t think whites have a nationalist sense. I don’t think they’ve had a nationalist sense. My concern is not with the lack of nationalism but with the masochism they are expressing, the self-destructiveness. Nationalism is always organizing against other groups. What whites need to do is to stop beating themselves and treating other groups according to their just deserts.”
“Most whites at most times do not buy into this white nationalism. There are other things that have united white people — ethnicity, religion, being a part of a particular nation. It is rare that whites have seen themselves in terms of racial nationalism.”
“I have had this discussion with Jared Taylor on a number of occasions and I have tried to explain to Jared that whites in the past have expressed racial preferences does not mean that white nationalism was the focus of their existence. Groups dislike other groups and try to preserve their own identity. White nationalism says that nothing else really counts in terms of what we are except race. I have a problem with that. I don’t want to take sides with homosexuals against black people. I’m much more concerned about the feminists and homosexuals than I am about people of different races because I am a social conservative.”
Luke: “Why couldn’t white nationalism mean organizing in your group interest just like all other groups do?”
Paul: “Nationalism historically has meant reaction, the friend-enemy distinction. Nationalism in the 19th Century develops against some group that has conquered somebody else. It contributes to the tensions of both sides leading to World War I. Until recently, it was a destructive force. I don’t think it is true anymore. I support nationalist movements in Europe because they are against multiculturalism. They don’t usually hate their neighbors, at least in Western Europe. I don’t think the nationalist paradigm even works here. I don’t think the problem is that whites are beleaguered but that whites behave in a lunatic fashion. They just have to stop being lunatics. They don’t have to hate blacks or exclude them, just don’t be crazy. I worked at a college. I think most of the people I worked with were certifiable. The feminists, the anti-whites, they were just loony tunes. The answer is not to organize them as white nationalists, it is getting them to [stop] behaving in a crazy way.”

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WP: Why you shouldn’t be surprised that prisoners crushed Harvard’s debate team

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Washington Post:

Last month, a debate team of three inmates with violent criminal records defeated a team of three Harvard University undergraduates.
It sounds like an underdog story plucked from the pages of a yet unwritten Walt Disney screenplay — and in some ways, it is.
But it’s also worth pointing out the fallacy of our underlying assumptions about such a match-up — the first (and most pernicious) being that if a definitive link between criminality and below-average intelligence exists, nobody has found it.
Despite living behind bars, prisoners have recorded albums, produced fine literature, run lucrative criminal enterprises and mastered the ancient meditation technique known as Vipassana.
As the highly sophisticated prison break from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., made clear earlier this year, inmates are not only intelligent, but often more capable and deliberate than those of us on the outside. Richard Matt may have been smart enough to tunnel his way out of prison using rudimentary engineering skills picked up on the fly, but like many career criminals, his greatest gifts were probably rhetorical in nature, prison staffers said.
The debate took place last month at the Eastern Correctional Facility in New York, a maximum-security prison about an hour southwest of Bard College. The hosts beat a Harvard team that had won three of four American Parliamentary Debate Association National Championships.
“There are few teams we are prouder of having lost a debate to than the phenomenally intelligent and articulate team we faced this weekend,” the Harvard College Debating Union wrote on Facebook after the defeat. “And we are incredibly thankful to Bard and the eastern New York correctional facility for the work they do and for organizing this event.”

To get the real story, you have to go to the comments on the story:

* In general prisoners have lower intelligence than the average population. 70% of them do not have a high school diploma. That doesn’t mean very intelligent people aren’t convicted; they are usually poor and couldn’t afford a good lawyer, or they were actually guilty.
* With one Google search I found 3 scholarly articles that did, in fact, link lower intelligence with criminal behavior. Why could the writer of this article not find it?
* Criminals are dullards. Everyone know this. We need no study to know this, it is self-evident. The author wrongly suggests that if a tiny handful of criminals in jail are cherry-picked to debate, have tutored instruction by a debate expert, and have the jail-time afforded leisure to prepare ALL DAY-EVERY DAY, they somehow represent the average criminal in prison. Middle school mathematics says otherwise. The three evil criminals being coached to do something as simple as debate have nothing to do with the 1.3 million evil criminals in prison.

A Google search reveals that prisoners on average have low IQs.

Where’s the video of this debate? Judges can decide on a winner for reasons that have nothing to do with excellence.

Why do blacks keep winning these debates? Steve Sailer writes July 20, 2015:

Warning: Language, while up to Presidential podcast norms, does not meet iSteve standards.
As you may have heard, college debate has collapsed into complete farce in recent years due to white and Asian people letting black contestants turn it into a contest over who is most black. (The black contestants don’t use the word “black” to describe themselves, however.) While the white-Asian teams discuss Constitutional law and social science findings regarding the debate’s official topic, the black teams ignore the subject they are supposed to be debating. Instead, they rap and twerk and denounce white women for shoving them while they were riding on the escalator when they were four.
And they win, because few white judges dare vote publicly against blacks acting stupid. (The secret ballot is an underrated thing.) That would be like admitting you read The Bell Curve.
A point I make over and over is that nobody really takes the conventional wisdom seriously because you don’t often see major institutions allowing themselves to be completely destroyed in the name of the logic of political correctness. Corrupted, of course; made less effective, sure. But obliterated, no. Society over the last half century has figured out lots of ways to buy off the loudest black people. For example, in The Bonfire of the Vanities, the mayor of New York spends part of most days handing out Plaques for Blacks.
But college debate is an exception to my rule, perhaps because there is so little money involved. In college debate, there’s nothing except plaques, so blacks now have to win all of them.
If you are a Democratic political strategist, this video ought to make you a bit worried about the Democrats’ future. You’ve looked at all the demographic forecasts about how you are importing millions of ringers to vote Democratic, but will blacks be willing to share?
On the other hand, there is one organized group that has the testicular fortitude, the sheer narcissistic rage to stand up to the black debaters, to go jaw to jaw screaming with them over who is most oppressed: the transies.
And here’s a preview of what the Democratic primary campaign of 2020 will look like if Hillary loses next year.

From Business Insider:

* Genetics make up an estimated 40 to 80% of a person’s IQ
Despite the environmental effects on IQ, heritability still plays a bigger role in determining overall IQ.
Environmental factors can mean the loss or gain of a few points here or there, but it pales in comparison to what you’re born with.
Source: University of Delaware
* Contrary to popular belief, the higher your IQ, the more likely you’re socially smart
Of course, correlation does not prove causation. But IQ is strongly correlated to educational, professional, economic and social success or failure. It’s difficult to say what exactly IQ tests measure beyond “general” intelligence, but those with a high score see positive outcomes in education and social competence, so it can’t be too bad.
Source: University of Delaware
* People with a lower-than-average IQ (between 75 and 90) are more likely to drop out, go to jail and live in poverty
Significantly more, in fact: people in the 75 to 90 range are 88 times likelier to drop out of high school, seven times more likely to go to prison, and five times more likely to live in poverty than those with an IQ over 110.
Source: Mega Foundation
* For each one-point increase in a country’s average IQ, the per capita GDP was $229 higher, and can go up to $468 higher for each additional point
Atlas of Economic Complexity
A recent article in Psychological Science revealed that in a study of 90 countries, the “intelligence of the people, particularly the smartest 5 percent, made a big contribution to the strength of their economies.”
While it should be stressed that “smart” and “high IQ” are not synonymous, it is worth noting that there were hard numbers behind that assertion.
Source: Psychological Science
* Lower IQ scores are linked to more suicidal feelings
Though there are multiple factors at work, Swedish researchers have drawn a link between lower IQ scores and suicidal feelings.
Low IQs can mean bad problem-solving abilities, which makes people less capable of dealing with stress in crisis situations.
Source: Scientific American
* If you have an IQ of at least 115, you can do any job
People with low and high IQ scores can work almost any job at almost any level. But it becomes increasingly difficult to perform well in very complex or fluid jobs (such as management in an ambiguous, changing, unpredictable fields) with a lower IQ. An IQ over 115 places no restrictions on what you can do.
On the other hand, unskilled work doesn’t require a high IQ, as only simple decisions need to be made.
Source: University of Delaware

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It Is Good To Kill Your Enemies

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

Brad in Jerusalem posts to FB: On Rosh Hashanah night, many Jews around the world partake in the simanei milsa or “good omens” for the coming year. One of these good omens is “May it be G-d’s will that our enemies be destroyed.” When our policemen or our soldiers kill a terrorist who has tried to kill us, we should not blush or look away. We should rejoice! This is Hashem answering our prayers! May it be G-d’s will that all those who seek to destroy us in this coming year be completely destroyed to the very last one!

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Walking Alone

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

When I walk or daven with friends, distance doesn’t matter. The quality of the seats doesn’t matter. I can go forever. I’m absorbed in my connections. The hours and miles speed by.

When I daven alone or walk alone, I tire easily, I want to go home, I want to give up, my feet hurt, my butt hurts, I’m disconnected and prone to depression and I want to take the easy way out. When I’m connected, it’s easier for me to be disciplined and to do the right things.

Nothing predicts my happiness and my morals like the quality of my connections.

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The Republican Drug

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: With the sports and movie seasons in full swing in October, I’m reminded of the many unanswered and often even unasked questions about one of the more pervasive changes of my lifetime: the spread of weight lifting and steroids. Put simply, athletes and actors don’t look all that much anymore like they did when I was a young fan in the 1960s and 1970s.

Recreational drugs such as LSD were massively publicized in the 1960s as playing a role in the culture’s swing to the left. But far less attention has been paid to the subsequent influence of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids.

These artificial variants on male sex hormones are especially interesting because, well, sex is interesting. Our society has been engaged for several decades in a giant science experiment involving the biochemical essence of masculinity, but few cultural intellectuals have paid systematic attention to what the results have been.

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LAT: Woman punched by CHP officer arrested again on same freeway

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

I get tired of this black dysfunction. I get tired of cops getting blamed for dealing with this ugly reality the best they can.

LATIMES.com: A woman captured on video last year being punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol officer on the 10 Freeway was arrested Tuesday and taken in for a mental health evaluation after she wandered into traffic on the same stretch of roadway, CHP officials said.

Marlene Pinnock, who received a $1.5-million settlement after the controversial incident in 2014, was taken into custody about 2:25 a.m. after two officers found her wandering on the right shoulder of the eastbound 10 Freeway near La Brea Avenue, Sgt. Joe Nunez said.

Pinnock has long struggled with mental illness.

When CHP officers tried to detain her, Pinnock “pulled away and ran into traffic lanes,” according to an incident report provided to The Times. Officers removed Pinnock from the freeway.

Comments on LATIMES.com:

* The ghetto lottery only works to a point. The lady is still crazy, her attorney and loving family got her money and the cops are still risking their lives trying to get her out of traffic. Justice in America.

* A homeless crazy person once stepped into traffic in front of me on the Freeway. She changed her mind and stepped back. If she had not I would of killed her in my car and maybe injured me inside the car. The CHP Officer did what he had to do and he has been vindicated.

* So where was the “outraged” family that demanded justice…. I will tell you where they are.. spendin the money… they used this poor women.. took her settlement and turned her out on the street… they are hoping she get hit so they could be outraged again.

* The CHP officer might have whaled on her a bit much, but save her life. No good deed goes unpunished.

* COMPLY with officers & you all would NOT be hurt! Plain & simple! Get it through your fried brains (because of the various illicit/
illegal drugs you tried!!!), damn it!

* Where was her “loving caring” family? They were stuck on her like glue when the TV cameras were on…taxpayer money well spent!

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The Oregon Shooter Was A 26yo Mulatto Who Hated White Christians

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

BLOG: The immediate on-line web history of Chris Harper-Mercer showed him to be a mixed-race, angry young man in general alignment with various radical racially aligned groups such as Black Lives Matter, Fuck The Police and Fuck Yo Flag – all of which carry a sentiment of favorability and ideological alignment with Islam which was similarly evident in the Ferguson protest movement.

[ Against this backdrop shooting “White” “Christians” makes sense. ]

However, in the course of several hours (one media cycle) – the media narrative is selling a profile of a loner, mentally disturbed individual without any mention of his previous writings (deleted/changed), behaviors (hidden) and social tendencies (ignored).

Why?

Perhaps the answer lies within the response to the shooting from the White House where President Obama took quickly to the microphones to decry another school shooting without fully understanding the motive and intent.

Mercer’s possible motive and intent would now represent a political embarrassment against the backdrop of Obama’s speech if it aligns with something other than needed.

FROM THE CHATEAU:

As usual dissident alt-right websites are the ones doing the job legacy journalists won’t do. Is there a HALF-WHITEWASHING campaign being conducted by Hivemind operatives to erase from the public sphere any evidence of Chris Harper-Mercer’s anti-cop, anti-White, pro-black radicalism ideology?

According to initial police reports, Mercer left a manifesto behind at the scene. Where is that manifesto? Was it burned by Narrative “cleaners”? The public deserves to know what motivated Mercer’s murderous rampage, so that there’s a chance to thwart potential future attackers before they snap.

2. Another heavenly trumpet blast heralds The Trumpening. Trump says Eisenhower’s 1950s illegal alien deportation plan dubbed “Operation Wetback” is a model for his own immigration plan.

It’s very effective of Trump to remind Americans that what’s he’s suggesting we do about illegal invaders isn’t (too) racist, beyond the pale or practically impossible, as so many shrieking shitlibs want you to believe. It was done before without the gates of hell opening, and that means it can be done again.

This is another good moment to remind the studio audience how much more COMPETENT 1950s America was compared to 2015 America.

3. Related: Trump is back up to 34% in the latest IPSOS poll. ¡Jabe! is down to 4% in the new Pew poll.

4. Here’s shocking news (not): South Africa’s murder rate is up in the past few years, reversing a slow decline in the murder rate over the previous years. Nearly 49 people are murdered every day in South Africa, and it’s safe to say White Afrikaaners are not the ones doing the murdering.

Someone else can check the numbers, but I believe lovely Honduras remains the number one murder nation of the world. Clearly the solution for these wretchedly homicidal countries is to circulate propaganda photos of a dead kid to ethnomasochistic shitlib SWPL Americans so that they will open the US border to millions of murderous Hondurans and Bantus. That’ll level the worldwide murder rate (lower the sending countries’ crime rate and raise the US’s crime rate) and make gated community bubble-headed status whoring spergitarians like Bryan Caplan and Alex Tabbarok happy.

I have a better solution: Separate countries.

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An Eye Contact Crib Sheet

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Heartiste:

The rules of eye contact are simple. After catching her eye:

If she looks down: She’s instantly attracted but shy.
Approach this girl, but go easy on the cocky jerkboy game. She’s a natural introvert, and a romantic at heart. Don’t come on too strong. A light touch will do, flirty and coy. She’ll just be happy you even had the balls to escort her from her dreamy inner sanctum.

If she looks to the side: She’s not instantly attracted.
You will have your work cut out for you on this girl. A side-looker is as good as (or bad as, depending on your perspective) a cold approach on a girl who hasn’t noticed you. The side-looker has a boyfriend, or she doesn’t like your look or your leer, or she’s a manjawed feminist who is constitutionally incapable of flirting with men without having an existential moral crisis. You can turn a girl like this around, but it will mean you have to be exceptionally bold and full of teasing and negs. An effective opener would be one that immediately disqualifies her, flips the script, and assumes the sale. For example, “I caught you checking me out. Don’t worry, even though it’s nothing new, I’m still flattered.”

If she holds eye contact intensely: She’s instantly attracted and slutty.
Weaker men wilt under the pressure of the hard-eye contact girl. She’s dripping sex from her limpid orbs, and only men made of sterner stuff will rise to her fightin’ iris challenge. Nothing much needed here but an open-faced “Hi” and a pretext to absolve her nascent feelings of aggressive sluttitude (such as asking her for directions if you cross her path on a street corner). A direct, “Hey, I noticed you from across the room, and had to come over and see what your deal is”, will work in any bar setting.

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Keep Trump Safe

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I’m worried about a Sirhan Sirhan mysteriously getting close to him in our security state — or mechanical failure in his perfectly maintained helicopter — or a sudden illness in this robust, energetic fellow.

Let them be on notice — that we notice.

(Whoever “they” are, if “they” even exist.)

As for the usual MSM character assassinations, hooker videos and whatnot, the guy is immune to that. He has pre-disastered himself by being the character they would want to accuse him of being — and lo and behold, the public likes it.

This is the glass house approach to life I think we all might want to consider adopting in the post-privacy world. Maybe we all can move our personal Overton Windows over a little bit, in what we say and do publicly.

Speaking of being pre-disastered, there is a wonderful scene in the Robin Williams movie, The World According to Garp:

Looking for a home to buy, Garp is about to walk into a house with a real estate agent, when a small plane crashes into the roof. Garp tells the agent, “I’ll take this house.” The agent incredulously asks him why. Garp says, “It’s been pre-disastered. Just think, what are the odds of that ever happening again?”

(I know this scene isn’t an exact analogy to what I am talking about, but I think the concept of a pre-disastered candidate is valid.)

* Christian Lives don’t matter.

From Bill Donohue:

The following media outlets were among those that reported on this story but never mentioned that Christians were singled out:

ABC World News Tonight
CBS Evening News
NBC Nightly News
PBS News Hour
New York Times
USA Today
Slate
Salon
Gawker
Daily Beast
Yahoo
Huffington Post
Associated Press [This accounts for why so many papers across the nation made no mention of Christians.]

If African Americans or Muslims had been singled out, President Obama would have gone ballistic, Al Sharpton would be calling for street rallies, and CAIR would be asking for congressional investigations. But because Christians are being cherry picked for murder, there is no call to arms. Indeed, many major media outlets aren’t even telling the truth. It’s obvious—”Christian Lives Don’t Matter”—either here or abroad.

* Steve, have you looked at how many of the mass shootings have a racial motivation? The few I can think of that don’t are the Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Aurora, CO shootings.

Otherwise we have the half-moroccan killer of blonde sorority girls in Santa Barbara, the radical muslim targeting white military men at Fort Hood, the hispanic american targeting (again) white military men at Fort Hood (2014), the black muslim snipers attacking whites in Washington DC, the black newsman murdering white colleagues in Roanoake, the half-black student targeting white Christians in Roseburg, and the white student targeting black church members in South Carolina. I’m sure to be missing a few, as I’m often not up on mainstream news.

As usual, racial strife is essential to understanding American dysfunction. European countries with gun culture and widespread ownership (Switzerland, Finland) don’t have these problems.

I should add how perverse media reporting is, that while whites are disproportionately victims, not shooters, the media narrative whitewashes biracial shooters, ignores the race of clearly black/non-white killers, and emphasizes six ways to Sunday the few racially motivated white-on-x killings. There was also I believe a “disgruntled black employee” in the northeast who murdered nine or so white colleagues — this story is so down the memory hole I can’t even find it with basic search terms.

* I wonder if the GOP is like those other parties in the past that are now extinct—it’s leaders become entrenched in power, lose connection with the people, ignore the issues outside of what their lobbyists tell them are the issues, and then—-shockingly—the party gets replaced, out of no where.

Immigration is proving to be more and more a cross-the-aisles kind of uniting issue that left and right regular folk agree on. It’s an elite v. prole issue, but as Charlie Daniels once sang, “there’s a whole lot more of us common folk/than there ever will be of you.”

* Romney was the toughest candidate on immigration last time around.

Only until he got the nomination, and then he dropped it like a hot rock, along with Kris Kobach, his border-control adviser. I feel that one of the pivotal points when Romney lost the election was during one of the debates when Obama accused him of calling for self-deportation, as if that was the most appalling thing he had ever heard of, and Romney just stood there with that sickly half smile on his lips. If he would have said, “You bet I support self-deportation! Why shouldn’t the people who sneaked in here illegally leave the same way,” he would have gotten the surge that Trump has.

* I agree, but bear in mind that he also vetoed benefits for illegals when he was gov. of MA. It was clearly something he’d been more conservative about in the past, perhaps because his own ancestors were run out of Mexico.

I think 2012 may turn out to be the moment when a significant chunk of right wingers realized, “it just does not matter what we do or say, they will call us racist, even if we’re as mild and inoffensive as Mitt Romney. Might as well embrace the hatred.” Hence Trump.

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