{"id":81820,"date":"2015-12-09T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81820"},"modified":"2015-12-09T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:07:36","slug":"populism-the-dissident-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81820","title":{"rendered":"Populism & The Dissident Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Glad to see someone on the Dissident Right acknowledge the elephant in the room\u2013that anti-immigration and populist-economics are on the same side and have the same enemy: Big Money.<\/p>\n

* In the last election Washington Examiner columnist Tim Carney was practically begging Romney to go populist, and he has been predicting that the only way the Republicans can win is to attack Cronyism, to embrace Main Street over Wall St. etc. Of course that was during what Pat Buchanan just noted was the Republican Party\u2019s \u201clibertarian moment\u201d which seems to have passed.
\nNonetheless, Carney\u2019s prescription seems to be validated by Trump\u2019s success, as immigration is populist economics. So while Carney was attacking crony capitalism from a sort of libertarian theoretical view and suggesting that it be framed in an anti-elite rhetoric to attract those white voters Romney missed, Trump (and also Le Pen) bear out that such populist\/nationalist messaging works and was being grossly neglected by people who claimed to want to win elections.
\nPeter Thiel says \u201cmonopolize a niche\u201d. Trump has done just that.<\/p>\n

* While iSteve was waiting until Sept. when the English translation was published, I had read it in Frog before the summer (grace a la biblio UT at Austin). No one in English has pointed to the sex scenes, first with Miriam who moves to Israel, later on with 2 Arab hookers. Miriam was\/is a randy jewish girl. Guess which sex event was the transcendental over-the-top dislocation of self into the sublime land of fuck? H is great great fun to read in a sick sick way.<\/p>\n

Marine Le Pen spoke for 8 minutes at the EU parlement with Merkel and Hollande both present. You should\/will see Merkel\u2019s expression as she listened. Le Pen\u2019s French accent is the non-regional but (intentionally) not too Parisian of the educated class. (Segolene Royale OTOH spoke in an apparently self-invented French accent, different enough from high French to seem somewhat regional, but from no region (a Frenchwoman told me that). The YouTube available ~8 minute clip has English translation as subtitles. She speaks off-the-cuff at first and smoothly seques to reading her remarks. Then Hollande responds with the usual cliches \u2013 addressing the establishment of German French amity from DeGaulle and Adenauer on, after 2 world wars, as the justification for us to burying our heads in the sand. In effect, we are not to change in the face of a new challenge lest we betray our historically irrelevant pieties.<\/p>\n

The kicker was in the applause. For Le Pen there was some energetic clapping. For Holland, the clapping was from most all the other elected members of the EU parliment from the EU countries. Not only did they continue to applaud, but they commenced standing-up and applauding. Check out the video.<\/p>\n

* The rise of the Front National in France is entirely the fault of Europe\u2019s liberal, \u201cprogressive\u201d voices like The Guardian, Lib\u00e9ration, Hollande and Corbyn. Their abject, total failure to live up to their own principles has needlessly handed the far-right a monopoly over one of the most pressing issues of our time.<\/p>\n

Ever since 9\/11, it\u2019s been apparent that we are witnessing a growing global religious movement, which is implacably and murderously opposed to liberalism, democracy, free speech and secularism.<\/p>\n

But the supposed guardians of these progressive values suffered a profound cognitive dissonance in the face of this threat \u2013 the Islamist revolution is anti-Western, and its adherents are primarily non-white people from the poorer regions of the world. As the world\u2019s \u201coppressed\u201d, they had to be defended, never challenged. To do so would be racism, or imperialism.<\/p>\n

After each terrorist atrocity, it became more and more clear that these fanatics are driven by an apocalyptic religious idea, not geopolitics or anti-capitalism. But after each atrocity the morally bankrupt European \u201cprogressives\u201d doubled down on their absurd interpretation of events, excoriating their own constituency for their \u201cIslamophobia\u201d if they dared to question the accepted narrative. It doesn\u2019t matter that the Islamists themselves constantly tell us that they\u2019re motivated by Islam. The Guardian knows better.<\/p>\n

Theo Van Gogh and the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists gave their lives for the liberal, secular values that differentiate us from the religious fanatics. All the Guardian and the rest of the condescending, reactionary left could do is attack them for \u201coffending\u201d the religious sensibilities of the murderers.<\/p>\n

When they felt they had to be seen displaying solidarity after the Hebdo attacks, they wheeled out some pathetic, safe platitudes about \u201cfree speech\u201d, waving generic placards with a picture of a pencil, while running a mile from any discussion about what\u2019s actually preventing free speech.<\/p>\n

The 4th wave feminists that clutter up the Guardian will twitter-storm at the drop of a hat when someone wears a \u201csexist\u201d shirt, or if someone is mis-gendered in their local Tesco, but they remain totally silent about the many millions of women and LGBT people world-wide who are systematically oppressed in the name of Islam. Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives under 24hr protection for daring to criticise Islam from a feminist perspective, but instead of supporting her, the Guardian run pieces attacking her.<\/p>\n

After the 13\/11 attacks in Paris, liberal secularists in Europe finally thought that our politicians and media will finally wake up to what\u2019s going on. No such luck. Instead we got the now-familiar onslaught of condescending, absurd warnings about \u201cIslamophobia\u201d, and a faux-polite, mealy-mouthed silence about Islamist religious intolerance. That silence has become deafening.<\/p>\n

Something had to give, and it was the duty of the Guardian and Lib\u00e9ration to ensure that the inevitable questions were asked in the context of secular, tolerant, liberal values. Their inexcusable, shameful failure to do this means that the same questions will be asked in the context of old school, \u201cblood-and-soil\u201d race hate, like Trump and Le Pen are offering. What\u2019s the Guardian offering?<\/p>\n

* Attacking Trump\u2019s proposal is a very dangerous game.<\/p>\n

1. The attackers put themselves at the mercy of ISIS and every Farook in America. Another San Bernardino next October would completely Farook Hillary\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

2. The attacks bring Trump\u2019s proposal to the fore, exposing masses of people to them, and make previously unthinkable thoughts thinkable. (The attacks themselves widen the Overton Window.)<\/p>\n

3. Events in Europe have made it clear that the numbers are huge. The danger is tidal, not the blip from a single shooting incident. Attacking Trump looks like a naive denial of historical tides.<\/p>\n

But what other option do they have? Even Hillary\u2019s modest acknowledgement that we need to really, really carefully vet the \u201crefugees\u201d concedes most of the debate.<\/p>\n

* When Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone:<\/p>\n

United States \u2014 Muslim 1.0%
\nAustralia \u2014 Muslim 1.5%
\nCanada \u2014 Muslim 1.9%
\nChina \u2014 Muslim 1%-2%
\nItaly \u2014 Muslim 1.5%
\nNorway \u2014 Muslim 1.8%<\/p>\n

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:<\/p>\n

Denmark \u2014 Muslim 2%
\nGermany \u2014 Muslim 3.7%
\nUnited Kingdom \u2014 Muslim 2.7%
\nSpain \u2014 Muslim 4%
\nThailand \u2014 Muslim 4.6%<\/p>\n

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.
\nThey will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves \u2014 along with threats for failure to comply. At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law:<\/p>\n

France \u2014 Muslim 8%
\nPhilippines \u2014 Muslim 5%
\nSweden \u2014 Muslim 5%
\nSwitzerland \u2014 Muslim 4.3%
\nThe Netherlands \u2014 Muslim 5.5%
\nTrinidad & Tobago \u2014 Muslim 5.8%<\/p>\n

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris \u2014 car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam \u2014 Mohammed cartoons):<\/p>\n

Guyana \u2014 Muslim 10%
\nIndia \u2014 Muslim 13.4%
\nIsrael \u2014 Muslim 16%
\nKenya \u2014 Muslim 10%
\nRussia \u2014 Muslim 10-15%<\/p>\n

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:<\/p>\n

Ethiopia \u2014 Muslim 32.8%<\/p>\n

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:<\/p>\n

Bosnia \u2014 Muslim 40%
\nChad \u2014 Muslim 53.1%
\nLebanon \u2014 Muslim 59.7%<\/p>\n

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:<\/p>\n

Albania \u2014 Muslim 70%
\nMalaysia \u2014 Muslim 60.4%
\nQatar \u2014 Muslim 77.5%
\nSudan \u2014 Muslim 70%<\/p>\n

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:<\/p>\n

Bangladesh \u2014 Muslim 83%
\nEgypt \u2014 Muslim 90%
\nGaza \u2014 Muslim 98.7%
\nIndonesia \u2014 Muslim 86.1%
\nIran \u2014 Muslim 98%
\nIraq \u2014 Muslim 97%
\nJordan \u2014 Muslim 92%
\nMorocco \u2014 Muslim 98.7%
\nPakistan \u2014 Muslim 97%
\nPalestine \u2014 Muslim 99%
\nSyria \u2014 Muslim 90%
\nTajikistan \u2014 Muslim 90%
\nTurkey \u2014 Muslim 99.8%
\nUnited Arab Emirates \u2014 Muslim 96%<\/p>\n

100% will usher in the peace of \u201cDar-es-Salaam\u201d\u2013 the Islamic House of Peace \u2014 there\u2019s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:<\/p>\n

Afghanistan \u2014 Muslim 100%
\nSaudi Arabia \u2014 Muslim 100%
\nSomalia \u2014 Muslim 100%
\nYemen \u2014 Muslim 99.9%<\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.\u201d
\n\u2013 Leon Uris, \u201cThe Haj\u201d<\/p>\n

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France , the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.<\/p>\n

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond\u2019s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots<\/p>\n

* Exchange on O\u2019Reilly Factor 12\/8\/2015:<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly: Mr. Cohen, you heard Donald Trump say no more Muslims in here. What was your first gut reaction to that?<\/p>\n

Aaron Cohen: \u2026You cannot bar all Muslims from coming into this country [U.S.]. I\u2019m speaking as a Jew right now. It\u2019s absolutely ludicrous.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly: Israel doesn\u2019t ban Muslims coming into Israel, right?<\/p>\n

Cohen: No, we certainly do not. In fact we have a million Arabs who live in Israel. We work with the Druze, they serve in our defense force. The commander of our Golani elite infantry brigade is a Druze, he is an Arab. So we cannot alienate the Muslims. Number two, we are just going to create a more vicious cycle of anti-Semitism in this country which is not going to help anyone.<\/p>\n

The concern for what is good for the Jews is primary for Cohen. It is understandable that Trump\u2019s proposal would elicit concern among Jews and Muslims of the potential for a generalized anti-Semitism. Less understandable is the reaction when others might have different priorities.<\/p>\n

* The answer isn\u2019t (by the way) that the Jews want to destroy western civilization as revenge for the holocaust. Nor is it explainable simply by the drive for cheap labor \u2013 considering the welfare costs and other social costs felt by all segments of society, including the elites.<\/p>\n

The reason they\u2019re taking in refugees is they\u2019re afraid that if they don\u2019t offer a safety valve, the whole Arab world will go up into ISIS-style chaos. The chaos is driven by class struggle beheaded of leadership more than by religious fanaticism (which is the available outlet because it\u2019s subsidized by the Gulf States and got a head start when it was the chosen instrument of U.S. imperialism in Afghanistan and Syria). Class-based political organization has been suppressed in the Middle East, privileging the mosque.<\/p>\n

One thing nationalists miss, in their myopic focus on their own country, is the dependence of our elites on the Middle East. Ironically, opposing globalism will require international solutions.<\/p>\n

* Borders are like a parachute: they should be opened rarely and for a specific purpose; keeping them open all the time is a real drag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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