tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2147018888223203929..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Ed West on hate for Mrs. ThatcherUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86161157724952435062013-04-19T03:00:22.015-07:002013-04-19T03:00:22.015-07:00...the hatred does not come from the northern town...<i>...the hatred does not come from the northern towns ruined in the late 20th century, but the London public sector classes, who did well under Mrs T</i><br /><br />Did you ever nail it:<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/10005253/Margaret-Thatcher-protest-ring-leader-cashed-in-on-right-to-buy-scheme.html<br /><br />Politics is about self-interest? So Twentieth Century. Politics is about status.Dennis Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14157709600305316302013-04-18T17:01:24.282-07:002013-04-18T17:01:24.282-07:00"You would think the name of the king cited b..."You would think the name of the king cited by Churchill as the greatest Englishman who ever lived."<br /><br />Churchill has incentive to say that because he destroyed Britain's own Empire to assist in the defeat of Hitler. A question: Was Britain better or worse off for either the Roman conquest or the Norman conquest? At least in the Norman conquest, it certainly wasn't good for the nobles as most were dispossesed of their land.<br /><br />Maybe Churchill was right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16007385382026067982013-04-18T14:33:57.824-07:002013-04-18T14:33:57.824-07:00Marriage is on the contrary, bad for women because...Marriage is on the contrary, bad for women because they give up their sexual freedom to bed Alpha males. As GBFM (Great Books for Men) on Heartiste has dubbed it, women want "Alpha f**** and Beta bucks" and that works out well for them, as the State can provide and protect, mostly.<br /><br />Until or unless the state collapses and can no longer provide protection and provision, women will prefer sex outside marriage and single motherhood.<br /><br />And no, modern elites do NOT live virtuous lives. Rupert Murdoch, second wife? Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford, Anthony "Package" Weiner, John Edwards, 90% of Hollywood, Hillary Clinton, most of the Fortune 500 (ex CEOs of HP, Best Buy, and a few others were bounced for affairs) all come to mind. All live lives of ultra privilege and exemption from the rule for the rest of us, from Al Gore's drugged up son to the Kennedy Family dysfunction.<br /><br />Elites don't have kids out of wedlock as much nor do they divorce quite as much as non-elites, but that's it. Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18620643883995050572013-04-18T14:24:20.626-07:002013-04-18T14:24:20.626-07:00Conservatism is impossible as Women are opposed to...Conservatism is impossible as Women are opposed to any and every restriction on their sexual freedom and behavior, while most men approve of it. Already feminists are calling for legalized polygamy in the wake of gay marriage, arguing that it is good for women and children to share a fraction of an Alpha male, than all of a beta male. Plus, Muslim friendly! [Most women would probably prefer Islam for that reason -- only a big shot can have four wives and that's really all women care about. The dog that is not barking is women and Islam.]<br /><br />No conservatism is possible without a massive shock that leads women to abandon their sexual needs for more immediate physical ones: safety, food, shelter, clothing, etc. [Besides women LOVE LOVE LOVE telling other people how to eat, pray, and love etc. see Oprah, "the Help," pretty much any "affirmative" chick flick.]Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8381746074770128522013-04-18T13:48:19.993-07:002013-04-18T13:48:19.993-07:00Anonydroid 11:05 AM: Modern elites are the opposi...Anonydroid 11:05 AM: Modern elites are the opposites of hypocrties: they live the virtuous life, and espouse, or at least condone, the life of sin.<br /><br />Hunsdon: That's not the opposite of hypocrisy, it's just a slightly different flavor.Hunsdonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29113556331220641972013-04-18T13:22:02.366-07:002013-04-18T13:22:02.366-07:00"In a wider sense her profound failure was to..."In a wider sense her profound failure was to lose the culture war, or not even fight it. As Tim Montgomerie reminded us on Monday, conservatism cannot triumph in economics while it remains totally beaten in the cultural sphere."<br /><br />But you can't win the culture war politically. It has to be won intellectually and creatively, but good luck with that on the right. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81356568238903326062013-04-18T13:17:28.209-07:002013-04-18T13:17:28.209-07:00Various quibbles aside West talks an awful lot of ...Various quibbles aside West talks an awful lot of sense for someone allowed in the MSM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13962869450656144722013-04-18T11:05:14.734-07:002013-04-18T11:05:14.734-07:00West writes--
"Repress yourself, you’ll find...West writes--<br /><br />"Repress yourself, you’ll find it’s good for your wallet."<br /><br />He misses the point here. Modern elites do repress themselvs. They live like Victorians; and they compel their children to live like Victorians. What they object to is anyone else saying that it's proper and virtuous to live like Victorians. <br /><br />What makes modern elites, especially libertarians, so insufferable, is that everything they live and preach to their own children ("work hard," "no drugs") they criticize if someone dares suggest it for others. It's easier to get into Princeton, of course, if your kids are piling up AP classes and smart kids in Kansas are getting high. Modern elites are the opposites of hypocrties: they live the virtuous life, and espouse, or at least condone, the life of sin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2751547747537984722013-04-18T10:40:16.889-07:002013-04-18T10:40:16.889-07:00A very historically flawed analysis, in other word...A very historically flawed analysis, in other words, big government is inevitable. If the author had bothered to look across the English Channel he would found contradictory evidence as well. France when it was the most Catholic country in Europe had Europe's biggest government, it also had it after it was the most secular society on the continent as well. Big government was loved by the Church and by Socialists alike, today urban anti-religious people and rural religious people both love the nanny state. French politics is fought over socialistic vs. nationalistic issues, not over the size of government. Scotland in the 17th and 18th centuries had a small, decentralized government that was super religious and quite authoritarian like the Mullahs of Iran, likewise Geneva of the same period. Hong Kong was quite secular and libertarian, whereas France is secular and big government loving, the Swiss are religious and small government loving, whereas Iran is big government centered and religious. The author needs to look beyond his home country of Britain to check if theory holds up, it clearly doesn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65875041016522364532013-04-18T10:24:54.682-07:002013-04-18T10:24:54.682-07:00Often its not the winners who write the history, t...Often its not the winners who write the history, the winners are those who write the history. Control of the narrative is all!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43681758520158765182013-04-18T10:20:08.342-07:002013-04-18T10:20:08.342-07:00I don't know about the geography of Thatcher h...I don't know about the geography of Thatcher hate, but the people voting for her party are in strongly concentrated in the greater London region. Wales, Scotland, NI, and the industrial cities in northern England have around 0 conservative MPs total. <br /><br />The quote looks like standard issue elite bashing unsupported by facts. England differs from the USA in that the rich central areas of big American cities like Manhattan and West LA are strongly left, while conservatives have large portions of central London. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38633395611633243812013-04-18T09:17:48.320-07:002013-04-18T09:17:48.320-07:00West is right about the triumph of the historians,...West is right about the triumph of the historians, but his example is weak. Nobody remembers Alfred the Great either, much less his grandson. You would think the name of the king cited by Churchill as the greatest Englishman who ever lived would be foremost in the thoughts and writings of the "conservatives" who extol the virtues of the Anglosphere, but you would be wrong.<br /><br />As for boys named Alfred instead of Athelstan, good luck finding either these days.Steinernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68319241141405536452013-04-18T09:14:14.358-07:002013-04-18T09:14:14.358-07:00I think West nails it over the cultural aspect of ...I think West nails it over the cultural aspect of conservatism. Interesting that Charles Murray comes to the same conclusion. Free markets can't be the end-all of conservative ideology.<br /><br />What West might have elaborated on is how the left-wing miners were culturally far more conservative than the white-collar bureaucrats that replaced them.jgresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03287009809340785879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54208837583370590192013-04-18T09:03:44.574-07:002013-04-18T09:03:44.574-07:00>>Libertarians think they can get a Victoria...>>Libertarians think they can get a Victorian-sized state without Victorian attitudes, but they’re deluded.<<<br /><br />Sexual license, including easy divorce, was the consolation prize middle-class whites got for losing out with the civil rights revolution. The social collapse created by these things keeps liberalism in business. Will "conservative" whites give this up to get their culture back? Only time will tell. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4278124064466807662013-04-18T08:48:19.933-07:002013-04-18T08:48:19.933-07:00Libertarians think they can get a Victorian-sized ...<i>Libertarians think they can get a Victorian-sized state without Victorian attitudes, but they’re deluded.</i> <br /><br /><br />Libertarians exist so that the question "Is it possible to be more stupid than communists?" can be answered in the affirmative.<br /><br />It's probably not a coincidence that a great many libertarians have been former (or "former") communists.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89651607982238044222013-04-18T08:17:52.204-07:002013-04-18T08:17:52.204-07:00If it wasn't for Alfred, we'd all be speak...If it wasn't for Alfred, we'd all be speaking Danish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72794064648469320962013-04-18T08:11:42.600-07:002013-04-18T08:11:42.600-07:00Good point: Conservatives are as likely as libera...Good point: Conservatives are as likely as liberals to prattle about their regard for "single mothers." If you can't tell people that they shouldn't have kids they can't support, you're in effect endorsing the welfare state.<br /><br />Conservatives lose the "gay marriage" debate when won't talk about the advantage of marriage to women because they are afraid of getting the Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown treatment. Its not just children who are protected by marriage, its women. Marriage is good for women because they have a protector in the home. If you can't say that, then you get Kagan's questions about older infertile people maybe shouldn't be allowed to marry.<br /><br />""Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves." - Robert FrostAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-433807182182841842013-04-18T08:01:30.261-07:002013-04-18T08:01:30.261-07:00"His place in British history is more or less..."His place in British history is more or less the place Charles Martel holds in French history, despite the fact that it was only in the 19th century that France ruled over the Arab peoples."<br /><br />Well, sure. But being conquered by the Scandies wouldn't have made such a huge difference, probably less than the Frenchified Scandies who conquered them later on.<br /><br />CennbeorcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17281754932309731742013-04-18T07:56:49.249-07:002013-04-18T07:56:49.249-07:00Alfred employed a chronicler called Asser.
Seems...<i>Alfred employed a chronicler called Asser. <br /><br />Seems to be a theme lately.</i><br /><br />What is the theme? Was Asser Scots Irish?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61704911196759368982013-04-18T07:28:02.675-07:002013-04-18T07:28:02.675-07:00West is onto something. I think living in London, ...West is onto something. I think living in London, which is basically NYC and DC rolled into one, gives him a very good perspective of the social pressure that confronts conservatives.<br /><br />I used to live in DC and worked around government and media folk. You simply will be not be a part of that society if you are an old-fashioned conservative, i.e. personal responsibility, religious, willing to call out bad behavior, extraordinarily reluctant to use military force, etc. So what happens is that true conservatives tire of the hate directed at them and leave. What remains is faux conservatives that play the straw man to the liberals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49434949757867182282013-04-18T07:06:02.510-07:002013-04-18T07:06:02.510-07:00All through the seventies, socialism wasn't wo...All through the seventies, socialism wasn't working for England any more. Socialists were touchy about this. Thatcher came right out and said, 'Your kids are bastards, your wife is ugly, your teeny pecker is limp and socialism isn't working'. They took offense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38008685894004036612013-04-18T06:46:06.563-07:002013-04-18T06:46:06.563-07:00http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310309/Th...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310309/Thatcher-family-comforted-Queen-steps-St-Pauls-Iron-granddaughter-gives-pitch-perfect-reading.html<br /><br /><i>Her brother Michael, a successful high school football player, is a committed Christian and conservative, who graduated from Texas A&M University in chemistry, the same subject Baroness Thatcher studied at Oxford.<br />He works at a store and pharmacy in Texas, handing out prescriptions as well as snacks and cosmetics, but has been tipped to one day follow his grandmother into politics.<br />He has previously worked for a Republican-aligned political group that aims to 'educate and empower the Hispanic community with conservative values'.<br /></i><br /><br />Egads. Maybe he learns the futility of it all and joins our side?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27924648744857579242013-04-18T05:45:18.476-07:002013-04-18T05:45:18.476-07:00That makes sense. Also, like Palin, Thatcher is a...That makes sense. Also, like Palin, Thatcher is a<br /><a href="http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-as-rorschach-test.html?spref=fb" rel="nofollow"> Rorschach test.</a><br />Baloohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245765878554696634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28148360373175552932013-04-18T05:17:14.898-07:002013-04-18T05:17:14.898-07:00Haha, go to church, right. Never happen. why, we&...Haha, go to church, right. Never happen. why, we're not *joiners* you know. At least we don't join old familiar institutions we think we know all about already.<br /><br />Seriously, the Anglican church is a waste of space anyway. Pity.carolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78256902413949338052013-04-18T05:12:39.944-07:002013-04-18T05:12:39.944-07:00It's true, a lot of the hatred directed at her...It's true, a lot of the hatred directed at her is from pampered middle-class (i.e. wealthy) kids who in many cases aren't old enough to remember her. <br /><br />She did real damage to industrial communities up and down the country, took delight in doing so as they were solidly Labour-supporting regions that were never going to vote for her anyway, and made no effort to help any kind of transition to new employment.<br /><br />These communities are wastelands today and their hatred for her is entirely justified. Yes, the Unions were too powerful, and yes, the industries were inefficient and probably moribund. But there was no mistaking the glee she took in taking an axe to them.<br /><br />All previous post-war prime ministers, and most of the pre-war ones too, had seen themselves to at least some extent as national leaders and unifiers, representing even those who opposed them politically, whereas she was the leader of a radical faction, whose prime directive was crushing the enemy rather, and revelled in it. <br /><br />She was good at deconstructing/destroying, but built remarkably little. Her tangible legacy is trivial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com