Amerika

It seemed like rope-a-dope, but Donald Trump was not rolling with the punches from Kamala Harris. He was pretending they were punches and biding his time, knowing that the neurotic parasites would generate a ton of hype that would then fall off, at which point they would expose their weaknesses.

Harris took it on the chin when it came out that the Haitian refugees the Biden-Harris administration has been relocating to Springfield, Ohio were eating pets and ducks at the parks. A nice first-world society does not long survive contact with the third world, much as those horrible Enoch Powell and George Lincoln Rockwell types warned us years ago.

The third world is “everyone for himself,” which is a nice way of saying no functional institutions. People there are individualists, and individualism takes two forms simultaneously: first, a me-first-before-all-else mentality that says if the ducks in the park are free, you might as well eat them; second, a formation of crowds which demand subsidized anarchy from anyone with money. They are the same impulse.

The West suppressed individualism with a transcendent belief in reality. “The good, the beautiful, and the actual” were linked in that reality was seen as a beautiful machine, its workings as leading to good results even through catastrophe and loss, and the real and actual was therefore more important that individualism and its linked reality-denial.

When individualists encounter a transcendent society, they eat it up, starting with the ducks and cats because individualism literally means “me first before all else.” Individualism is administered by collectives because otherwise it would be seen as properly selfish as it is.

Trump now has the best weapon any leader can have: a visual symbol of his opposition. Kamala Harris brings us refugees eating our pets where Trump wants to start doing what made us prosperous in the 1980s, namely cutting taxes, ending the cheap labor cycle, bringing production back home, and cutting us free from the third world that wants us dead.

Where just a week ago, Democrats were exulting in criticizing J.D. Vance for his statement about “childless cat ladies,” they now find themselves forced on the defensive by actual harm to cats. The much beloved housepet, a symbol of happy homes, has become an icon for Trump and his desire to restore order.

Voters do not like to admit it, but humanity exists in a cycle between creators and devourers. The creators pioneer a civilization and make life good, then the devourers arise as the labor keeps it going. Over time, through democracy, unions, insurance, welfare, and civil rights, the society then breeds more devourers.

Devourers are a product of the job, or the type of work that consists in doing what others tell you and nothing else. There is no connection to reality, only to the opinions of managers and consumers. This gives rise to the bourgeois individualism that is the basis of both major parties today.

The Left champions collectivized individualism which is its ultimate form: no responsibility to anything but self, taxes are the only civic duty, subsidized living (free grocery stores!), and mall cops to clean up and keep order. This allows the individualist to exist in a state of near-total solipsism.

The Right champions rugged individualism which is a defense against the collectivized variant. It is basically libertarianism, social Darwinism, and capitalism with the idea of protecting the culture and spirit of a nation (populism). It also creates the conditions for the Leftist variant to take over.

Between the two, the neurotics who become the devourers find a path to power. Every compromise leads steadily toward centralized control in order to support the subsidy state. Business sponsors it in order to shift costs to the consumer. Consumers double down on it out of fear that someone else will get ahead.

We only escape this cycle by aiming for the transcendent, which is the knowledge that cycles of “good” and “evil” produce existence itself which is the ultimate good. That requires ceasing to look at the pitied and downtrodden as victims, and to instead see them as one of the groups of devourers that are consuming our society.

The professional bureaucrats, hipsters, social media influencers, most lawyers, journalists, and “experts” of all types are others.

I often write about the two boats problem. A group finds itself adrift in a boat that needs constant bailing to stay afloat. This exhausts them. A hundred yards of open ocean away is a new boat that is not hobbled by the contradiction of trying to keep a dysfunctional ruin afloat.

The citizens of the first boat can keep bailing, patching, and tiring themselves or take a risk. This analogizes to democracy now, which has used compromise to tie its own hands because to do anything now requires compromising with dozens of special interests, which produces only more of the same: patch the leaky boat.

We now live in a boat of ten thousand band-aids applied through the compromise system. There is no purpose behind any of what we do except to keep the system afloat, despite it being encrusted with ten thousand problems that cannot be solved because it will not change its inertia and break from the past.

Ironically, Trump shows us a renewal instinct: he wishes to abolish the system and replace it with markets and culture. He wants to restore culture and a sense of pride in the nation that is contiguous to its founding. He represents the Anglo-Saxon way instead of the Southern/Eastern European way, or the third world way that is replacing it.

Things have become visceral with this recent imagery. In Anglo-Saxon America, we shared a culture which held that innocents serving a role in the bigger plan — like our pets — were protected. In the Harris-Walz America, that will not exist. This provides a perfect entrance for what is really the beginning of this battle of candidates.

Tags: donald j. trump, election 2024, j.d. vance, kamala harris, tim walz