tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4882570052962958595..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: One-party rule is so much more efficientUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6978731957435398652013-10-21T18:49:35.317-07:002013-10-21T18:49:35.317-07:00Mr. Anon said...
He can call himself a musketeer...<i>Mr. Anon said... <br /><br />He can call himself a musketeer for all I care, and it would be about as realistic as him calling himself a conservative.</i><br /><br />There are several different strains of conservatism in this country. Communitarian conservatism is one of them. And Rod Dreher is that kind of a conservative. You may or may not like such a strain, but there it (and he) is.<br /><br /><i>I maintain he is not a conservative. Conservatives don't write for the New York Times, and they don't express the kind of sentiments he has expressed.</i><br /><br />Surely you must know conservatives have graced the pages of the NYT? Writing for the NYT is not an automatic disqualifier for a membership in the conservative ghetto(s).<br /><br /><i>And by the way, I am not a libertarian. I am a paternalist reactionary. And I prefer a government that doesn't do much.</i><br /><br />I also prefer a minimalist government, but I fully acknowledge that this is a libertarian strain. I call it my "leave me the heck alone with my guns and money -- and get the f off my property" part of my conservative persona.<br /><br />I also have within me Rod Dreher's kind of conservative sentiment -- prefering small towns, nosy neighbors who care for each other, the beauty of religious ritual, the camaraderie of hunting together with family and friends and, yes, caring for the less fortunate or struggling members of my community -- arriving at some semblance of what the Catholic Church calls Caritas in Veritate via Pope Benedict (or Rerum Novarum per Pope Leo).<br /><br />I suppose I am one of those folks who think distributism can and should be a part of conservatism as much as market capitalism.<br /><br />JNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68360304565737278342013-10-21T14:45:11.809-07:002013-10-21T14:45:11.809-07:00"Anonymous said...
Rod Dreher is a communita..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />Rod Dreher is a communitarian conservative, not a libertarian."<br /><br />He can call himself a musketeer for all I care, and it would be about as realistic as him calling himself a conservative. I maintain he is not a conservative. Conservatives don't write for the New York Times, and they don't express the kind of sentiments he has expressed.<br /><br />And by the way, I am not a libertarian. I am a paternalist reactionary. And I prefer a government that doesn't do much.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21088377655217775442013-10-21T14:31:07.583-07:002013-10-21T14:31:07.583-07:00And this is the same Rod Dreher who also used to w...<i>And this is the same Rod Dreher who also used to write for National Review, another magazine that was supposedly conservative, but really isn't.<br /><br />I want a government that, for the most part, doesn't govern. I want a legislature that, for the most part, doesn't legislate.</i><br /><br />Rod Dreher is a communitarian conservative, not a libertarian.<br /><br />JNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87056941996860760782013-10-21T14:28:35.535-07:002013-10-21T14:28:35.535-07:00Anonymous said...
I just want to say that typing...<i>Anonymous said... <br /><br />I just want to say that typing a country accent on text is probably one of the most idiotic things you can do on the Internet.</i><br /><br />Perhaps. Then again flinging simplistic invectives anonymously on the internet is rarely a sign of high intelligene, courage or sound moral character.<br /><br />JN<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62724652421335740042013-10-20T20:05:58.544-07:002013-10-20T20:05:58.544-07:00Obamacare vs single-payer.
For the middle class,...<i>Obamacare vs single-payer. <br /><br />For the middle class, the latter is better. <br /><br />Obamacare will be funded essentially by raising rates on the middle class to subsidize the vast and increasing underclass.<br /><br />***<br /><br />But if we had single payer, then the main burden for funding the system will have to come from the rich.</i><br /><br />No. The burden would surely be on the productive middle class. Frankly, I have no idea why you think the government would not simply raise taxes on the middle class to account for the additional cost. But if we suppose you're right in that regard, we can be certain that the productive middle class will bear the burden through a reduction in the healthcare services they receive.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26802306357139654532013-10-20T10:42:50.968-07:002013-10-20T10:42:50.968-07:00"Anonymous said...
http://www.theamericancon..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/strangelove-republicans/<br /><br />So, 'governing' is more borrowing, printing, and spending?"<br /><br />And this is the same Rod Dreher who also used to write for National Review, another magazine that was supposedly conservative, but really isn't.<br /><br />I want a government that, for the most part, doesn't govern. I want a legislature that, for the most part, doesn't legislate.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30440756996774249652013-10-19T22:23:55.096-07:002013-10-19T22:23:55.096-07:00Even if California's one party rule is permane...Even if California's one party rule is permanent, the political center always readjusts. In the case of California, it will be lodged within the Democrat Party. Even if the Democrat Party in CA does not formally bust into two, what will happen is that CA will become a statewide analogue to the politics of many major cities where there are both large voting populations of blacks and whites -- There is one party on paper, the Democrats, but two parties in reality, the black Democrats and the white liberal Democrats, with other races being wild cards, if they are relevant in those cities' politics.<br />Blacks play a very little role in California politics since they are less than 7 percent and the highest city for blacks is 40 percent. percent black. Hispanics and Asians are a lot more influence in La, Orange and San Diego than blacks. In Orange County there is not one black politician but some Mexicans and Asians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70194890976409978212013-10-19T19:37:13.473-07:002013-10-19T19:37:13.473-07:00I find it really hard to believe that America is a...I find it really hard to believe that America is actually further left today than in, say, 1930. Socialism and liberalism were bright and shiny and new to Americans in 1930. Today they're old, stale, and covered in mold. Zzzzzz... <i>Bor</i>ing.<br /><br />Liberalism is for addle-pated old farts, naive greenhorns, fringe America, and useful idiots.<br /><br />Blacks: the dumbest demographic in America routinely serves up the highest share of its votes to Dems.<br /><br />That's the Dems dumbstituency. Liberal is more of an insult these days than a marker of self-identification. Libs and their Pravda media masters have to redefine themselves as "moderates" these days.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52404301120947313352013-10-19T16:41:56.292-07:002013-10-19T16:41:56.292-07:00Corn
The other three Quinn won, St. Clair (East S...Corn<br /><br />The other three Quinn won, St. Clair (East St. Louis), Alexander (Cairo), Jackson (Carbondale), he won not by much. Coincidentally, ESL, Cairo and Carbondale have the biggest concentrations of blacks in Illinois south of Springfield.countenancehttp://countenance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48355642680489995712013-10-19T15:40:27.334-07:002013-10-19T15:40:27.334-07:00"Indeed! I lived in Seattle years ago and in ..."Indeed! I lived in Seattle years ago and in Washington State it is now possible to win a state-wide election while losing every county but one -- King County, which contains Seattle and its most populous suburbs. "<br /><br />Similar situation in Illinois. If you look at a county red/blue map of the 2010 gubernatorial election, the winner (Democrat Pat Quinn) won only 4 out of 102 counties.<br />But one of those counties was Cook. (Chicago)<br />If Cook County was nuked/asteroided/landslided into Lake Michigan then Illinois would be about as red as Indiana.Cornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16969930522434662572013-10-19T14:57:32.806-07:002013-10-19T14:57:32.806-07:00"Could that be said of anyone alive in 1787, ...<i>"Could that be said of anyone alive in 1787, even adjusted for population?"</i><br /><br />I'd say the disparity between slave and master in 1787 was in many ways greater. I'd rather be poor but free in a country with Bill Gates in it than I would be Thomas Jefferson's favorite slave. <br /><br />And even if you were free in 1787, it still holds. I'd rather be "poor" in a country where most "poor" people live in their own house, own a car, and have multiple television sets, but in which there are a few multibillionaires around, than be an 18th century dirt farmer in a country dotted with occasional Monticellos. That was real, no-BS poverty, and someone experiencing it had to look at a Jefferson, attended by slaves in his comfortable mansion, with even more envy than a modern "poor" American might have for Mr. Gates.Anti-Democracy Activisthttp://antidem.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10482980995638493902013-10-19T14:03:47.475-07:002013-10-19T14:03:47.475-07:00"Perhaps now it is becoming clearer that havi...<b>"Perhaps now it is becoming clearer that having a mostly hereditary upper class can guard against the excesses of the Men of Money by preserving some semblance of noblesse oblige."</b><br /><br />An inherited nobility (one with real power) would not be marrying its children off to the sons and daughters of scullery maids. They would marry them off to the children of billionaires.<br /><br />Orrin Hatch's son married a daughter of one of the billionaire Marriott heirs. Neil Bush's daughter Lauren is married to the son of billionaire Ralph Lauren (yes, her name is now Lauren Lauren). Etc. If political power were *more* heritable, then these types of marriages would be even more common than they are now.Matthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52578411216172824422013-10-19T13:55:08.293-07:002013-10-19T13:55:08.293-07:00"I beg to differ. I think that a group of wea...<b>"I beg to differ. I think that a group of wealthy patrician slaveholders in a country where even most of the free people were dirt farmers actually could contemplate a nation in which a relative few rich people had an inordinate share of the real political power."</b><br /><br />You make a good point, but the wealth disparities of the time were far less vast than they are today, and most of the wealth at that time was illiquid (stock today vs. slaves, plantations, small factories then).<br /><br />In 2007 the median family net worth was $126k. In 2010 it was $77k. Bill Gates today has a net worth roughly a million times that of the median American family. Could that be said of anyone alive in 1787, even adjusted for population?Matthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43988067899665992922013-10-19T13:42:29.470-07:002013-10-19T13:42:29.470-07:00"You're missing the point. If all cons jo...<b>"You're missing the point. If all cons join the Democratic party, its platform will change, even if gradually."</b><br /><br />Gradually - <i>after</i> amnesty and a huge, almost irreversible increase in legal immigration.<br /><br />Republicans can be horrible, but remember that 100% of Senate Democrats voted for amnesty, while "only" 30% of Senate Republicans did so. House Republicans stopped the "inevitable" 2006 amnesty and may very well end up stopping this one. You think we'd stop it if Nancy Pelosi were Speaker?<br /><br />You're right, though, that conservatives need to play the political game more shrewdly, voting in Democratic primaries either for the worst candidate (in competitive districts, to help the Republican in the general) or for the most conservative candidate (in safe Dem seats).Matthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54843889957578292502013-10-19T13:29:00.866-07:002013-10-19T13:29:00.866-07:00"they would have another competitive advantag..."they would have another competitive advantage over a citizen."<br /><br />correct. they are not citizens, so under PPACA, many employers will prefer illegal aliens to citizens. employers do not have to worry about illegal aliens working more than 29 hours per week. employers can have illegal aliens work 40 hours a week without having to comply with obamacare regulations.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90773825716349869502013-10-19T13:03:58.985-07:002013-10-19T13:03:58.985-07:00"Clearly, we must elect a new people to make ..."Clearly, we must elect a new people to make the trains run on time."<br /><br />gotta build that 100 billion dollar high speed train, don't you know.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38078778484797280352013-10-19T13:01:10.872-07:002013-10-19T13:01:10.872-07:00James B. Shearer is correct, the Top Two voting ch...James B. Shearer is correct, the Top Two voting changes don't always help Democrats *everywhere* in the state, esp. upper San Joaquin Valley area where you had at least 1 case of zero Dems qualifying for the run-off in a competitive district. However I hate the system and consider it patently inferior to the counter-gerrymandering proposals which had come up under Schwarzenegger and Wilson but went nowhere.<br /><br />The hi-tech supertrain is best understood as a make-work abstraction like the ACA or electric car plant subsidies, i.e. never designed to function in a tangible sense but there'll be "stakeholders" of the Terry McAuliffe mold who make bank on the processAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73898058265410196472013-10-19T12:48:38.119-07:002013-10-19T12:48:38.119-07:00Covered Calif. removes erroneous doctor list
Obst...<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_24338238/covered-california-removes-online-doctor-directory-riddled-wrong" rel="nofollow">Covered Calif. removes erroneous doctor list</a><br /><br />Obstetricians, ophthalmologists--what difference at this point does it makeAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66399122237225506672013-10-19T12:41:03.662-07:002013-10-19T12:41:03.662-07:00"ONCE a symbol of gov't dysfunction"..."ONCE a symbol of gov't dysfunction" hahahahaAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16508150309480611402013-10-19T11:57:47.367-07:002013-10-19T11:57:47.367-07:00It’s the media - wherever you have a one party sta...It’s the media - wherever you have a one party state - you have a one party media. The human mind just gives into whatever is repeated over and over again, propaganda works.<br /><br />It takes a strong well educated mind to resist the endless calls of victimhood put out by the 1% owned liberal mass media.<br /><br />In its decline, Rome was ruled by a 1% elite that promised bread and circuses. Isn’t that what the 1%’s liberal media is providing America? <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57226950564266546112013-10-19T11:36:36.886-07:002013-10-19T11:36:36.886-07:00To the anonymous poster who keeps advancing the cu...To the anonymous poster who keeps advancing the curious theory that all white people should flood the Democrat Party.<br /><br />First off, if I'm not mistaken, I think you post on AR as "Corporations vs the White Race." Please correct me if I'm wrong.<br /><br />The main problem with your idea is that you're assuming that all white people have it in them to engage in political behavior indicative of racial thinking. Remember, you're reading Steve Sailer's blog, and he's made it abundantly clear that the prime division in American politics is not between whites and non-whites, and not any other sort of racial division. It's between non-Jewish white people involved in (or who want to be involved in or were involved in) traditional nuclear families (heterosexual marriage and children) on one side, and everyone else, i.e. all other white people and almost all non-whites on the other side. What do you think the mortgage gap, baby gap, marriage gap and dirt gap combine to mean?<br /><br />If it's white ethnonationalism you want, then the good news is that white people in the business of procreating their own kind under the aegis of the institutions most known with reproduction and child rearing are the white people who are most receptive to nationalist message. "Nationalism" has its roots in the Latin word meaning "to be born," hence, white people who have/want to procreate will be receptive to ethnonationalist politics far more than the kind of white people who currently vote Democrat regularly, e.g. very young adults, LGBTQMIAPD, unmarried cohabitants, married heteros without children and without the ambition to have children, etc. The kind of white people who vote Republican are the kind of white people that will be the base of a future American or sub-American white ethnonat movement, even though the elites of the political party they currently vote for are hostile to ethnonat.<br /><br />The long and short of it is that your movement is a non-starter because it's blissfully ignorant of fundamental sociological differences among whites. I would come to that same conclusion if you propose that all white people flood under the Republican tent. Same non-starter.countenancehttp://countenance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34439495371548699352013-10-19T11:03:19.518-07:002013-10-19T11:03:19.518-07:00"you go on about how whites should all join a..."you go on about how whites should all join a party that runs on a platform that openly wants more non-whites to immigrate and openly supports giving resources to these non whites over whites, remind me how this is good for whites exactly?"<br /><br />You're missing the point. If all cons join the Democratic party, its platform will change, even if gradually. <br /><br />Look, there are many white Dems who are angry with the globo-elites too, but they go with the Dems cuz they see GOP as even more pro-wall street and pro-globalist. So, the white vote is split. <br /><br />My point is FIGHT ONE ENEMY AT A TIME. Germany lost two wars cuz it went for two-front wars. <br /><br />If we take down the globo-elites, the HEAD of Liberalism will be broken, and then we can fight other wars. <br /><br />FIRST THINGS FIRST. <br /><br />US sided with China against the <br />USSR, but it is now forming alliances with India and Vietnam against rising China. <br /><br />Sometimes, we have think politically than ideologically. <br /><br />Jews sided with wasps to beat the Germany, and only after the Germany were defeated did they attack the wasps for supreme power. <br /><br />Form realpolitik alliances to fight the MAIN enemy first. <br /><br />We need a HUNGER GAMES strategy. <br />Time to let the scales fall off our eyes. <br />As the Jewish Congressman from Kentucky said: the BIG MONEY is with the 'left'. Even AFL-CIO is working with big corpies to bring in more cheap workers. That is the new 'unionism'. <br /><br />When you're hungry, don't side with the fat cats. <br />GOP is useless in this regard. Better that it goes away and we form whatever alliances to bring down the elites. <br /><br />Even when I used to read the National Review in the 80s, I always instinctively disagreed with its take on the French Revolution. True, it got extreme and spilled excessive blood, but it was the birth of modern nationalism where the rulers and ruled of the nation were one. <br />If anything, the aristocrats were like the global elites of today who dilly dally with elites of the world while disdaining the hoi polloi of their own nation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72889623563182243142013-10-19T11:02:26.999-07:002013-10-19T11:02:26.999-07:00"*Before ya'all Richwine me for this anti..."*Before ya'all Richwine me for this anti-immigrant sentiment of mine, I'd like to point out that I, too, am a naturalized American like John Derbyshire and Peter Brimelow. And unlike some of these folks, I never violated my visa status. Squeaky clean, I have been."<br /><br />I just want to say that typing a country accent on text is probably one of the most idiotic things you can do on the Internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65447880308322307342013-10-19T10:29:24.869-07:002013-10-19T10:29:24.869-07:00The various city-states and colonies in ancient Gr...The various city-states and colonies in ancient Greece often came to this conclusion too: cut the B.S. political squabbling and put one strong man in place to get something done. Sometimes it worked pretty well but other times the "first among equals" decided simply to make himself "first". Yeesh.<br /><br />The mask has slipped a few times during this government shutdown, where I've heard Democrats on NPR saying democracy isn't the an ideal form of government and that Europe doesn't have these problems because the parliament is less subject to angry voters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29726279073961569282013-10-19T10:15:56.084-07:002013-10-19T10:15:56.084-07:00"Yes. I cannot believe I’m saying this, but I..."Yes. I cannot believe I’m saying this, but I hope the House flips to the Democrats in 2014, so we can be rid of these nuts. Let Ted Cruz sit in the Senate stewing in his precious bodily fluids, and let Washington get back to the business of governing."<br />Except for the Amnesty which the Democrats will pushed more I have to agree, Ted Cruz himself is not the great on immigration, no Jeff Sessions. The Republicans and some Tea party folks tend to live in the past, except for Rand Paul state's rights on the social issues most of what is coming up is the usual group that does nothing much except enrich some folks like Rush or Sean Hannity. By the way, I think allowing New York to have gay marriage and having it opposed in the south is the way to go. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com