{"id":94848,"date":"2016-05-05T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94848"},"modified":"2016-05-05T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:29:10","slug":"slogan-for-ourselves-and-our-posterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94848","title":{"rendered":"Slogan: “For Ourselves and Our Posterity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commenter ABN suggests<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2026 maybe \u201cFor Ourselves and Our Posterity\u201d would make a good slogan.<\/p>\n

The repeated possessive pronoun \u201cour\u201d unmistakably draws a contrast between the American nation and foreign nations. The implication is that our government arises organically from a specific national community and has neither rights nor responsibilities outside this context. If there is an \u201cus,\u201d there must be a \u201cthem,\u201d and the state must necessarily distinguish between the two.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the reference to multiple generations of a single people is a standing repudiation of the globalist\/immigrationist notion that our people\u2019s problems can be solved by other people\u2019s fertility. The solutions to any economic, spiritual, or demographic problems we have must be found among ourselves, or the inter-generational social contract will be broken and we will cease to exist as a nation. Also, the invocation of demographic continuity here implies an ethnic or racial component of national identity without being too explicit or divisive in that regard.<\/p>\n

The reference to the Constitution also has the advantage of attracting some of the Cruz-supporting types who have created a kind of cargo cult around the country\u2019s founding documents. The underlying message to them is that Trump\u2019s nationalism and True Conservatives\u2019 constitutionalism are complementary; the Constitution wasn\u2019t written in a vacuum. The laws and the ideology can\u2019t be separated from the people and the land.<\/p>\n

Finally, it\u2019s hard for the Left to attack the Constitution itself. If leftists attack \u201cFor Ourselves and Our Posterity\u201d as \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cxenophobic,\u201d or whatever, we need only point out that it\u2019s part of the written mission statement of the USA. There would be no better opportunity to implement Peter Brimelow\u2019s advice to respond to the accusation of racism with the counter-accusation of treason. That aggressive posture would suit Trump\u2019s style.<\/p>\n

Comments: * Gavin McInnes says there are 14 types of Conservatives.<\/p>\n