At the time, neoreaction (also known as “NRx”) was a largely unknown internet phenomenon. Even now, defining it is tricky. At its core, neoreaction is anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic, and many of its proponents advocate a return to monarchy or other autocratic forms of government. Yet even its central tenets and thinkers, like most internet movements cloaked in onion-like layers of irony, are ambiguous. It feeds off of self-importance, as well as the impossibility of pinning it down.
Which was also thing with the original Nazis. Even the would-be Hohenzollern crown prince put on the brown shirt.
A long piece in Splinter exposes these Nazis and their influence on today's rightwing.
I had never heard of Splinter but was led to it by an interview by conservative Joe Scarborough with conservative Tim Carney. This led back to Carney's piece at the Washington Examiner where he summed up;
Conservatives ought to make it a priority to fight for the fundamental dignity and equality of racial minorities who have been denied that dignity and equality. It will require overcoming decades of injustice, and so won't happen quickly. We won't disabuse the Left of their self-satisfied smears and conceits, but that's not the point. Conservatives will be able to take solace in the fact that we're fighting the good fight and pissing off the racists.They are very late to this party. My racist uncles joined the John Birch Society in the '60s.
For individual antiracist conservatives, I have a suggestion: Join the left. It hasn't had a Nazi problem since July 22, 1941. That will be a lot easier than remaking the Republican Party.
About the left’s communism problem, not a word.
ReplyDeleteWell, as long as you don't count te reference to the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
ReplyDeleteNo, I mean the left’s ongoing infatuation with Marxism.
ReplyDeleteEven among the left, Marxism is rarely a thing. Unless, of course, you are conflating social democracy with Marxism, a common mistake.
ReplyDeleteIt should go without saying that your complaints about the left are misplaced in another way as well; the left is not in power and not really threatening to be, grumblings during the primaries notwithstanding. There's very little that the current Democratic candidates have put forward that would fail to qualify as centrist or center-left anywhere else in the world. Republicans, by contrast, are farther to the right than any political party in the world that isn't actually a neo-Nazi organization. Complaints about the right, in other words, actually have a basis in experienced reality, as opposed to fevered fantasies.
W keep Skipper around to show impressionable youth the dire effects of McCarthyism, the same way the Spartans hired a man to stay drunk all the time.
ReplyDelete“Even among the left, Marxism is rarely a thing. Unless, of course, you are conflating social democracy with Marxism, a common mistake”
ReplyDeleteIntersectionality is Marxist class warfare under a different guise. Post-modernism comes straight from Marxist thinkers. And there isn’t anything campus SJW warriors are direct descendants of the Cultural Revolution.
Unlike, say, Bernie Sanders, I know the difference between a highly redistributive market economy and Socialism.
And, unlike he and his ilk, I have first hand experience with how bloody expensive social democracies are.
Harry, you are making even less sense than usual.
ReplyDeleteWhich I would have thought to be an insuperable bar.
'And, unlike he and his ilk, I have first hand experience with how bloody expensive social democracies are. '
ReplyDeleteOh, really? And how many bankruptcies due to uninsured medical bills did you encounter in those places?
To be persuasive, your answer will have to be in eight figures.
To be persuasive, your answer will have to be in eight figures.
ReplyDeleteMy answer is in a 25% sales tax on everything.
My answer is in a couple burgers and a couple beers for $60.
Taken over entire countries, your eight figures are chump change.
I've paid that much for burgers and beer here. Nobody ever died from paying $15 for a hamburger. Millions of Americans die from lack of medical care they would get in other countries.
ReplyDeleteBollocks, Harry.
ReplyDeleteYou clearly have no idea how expensive *everything* is when “free” becomes an act of government.
I have an idea: compare the health outcomes of Scandinavian Americans against Scandinavians. Doing so would prove your point, right?
No, it wouldn't.
ReplyDeleteNo, of course it wouldn't prove your point.
ReplyDeleteWhich means your point is pointless.
No, it means the worst-served group of Americans is not the Scandinavian-Americans.
ReplyDeleteMillions of Americans die from lack of medical care they would get in other countries.
ReplyDeleteNo, it means that comparing like against like — Europeans in European health care systems, and European-Americans in American health care, the outcomes are indistinguishable.
Which means you must consider that significant differences in outcome aren't down to healthcare, but are rather the consequences of a great many other things.