I cannot tell exactly what Mr. Webb IS saying. He seems to be upset that 1) I am not saying the media are all-powerful, and that 2) for that reason, we are doomed.

Why is it that people fight so desperately or defeatism? I don’t mean that some are discouraged from time to time; I mean that some people in our movement are nothing less than defeatist fanatics. Their entire energy goes into saying how hopeless it all is. If you say anything encouraging, they react as if you had called their mother a whore.

All this comes, of course, in the form of dedication to the cause. I think that is sincere. The defeatists want someone to blame for their frustration. Mr. Webb talks about the media, but he is really blaming me. I am his demon in human shape, on whom he can take out all his hates and frustrations. This is, I realize after decades of dealing with this phenomenon, routine. Defeatism is always personal. It comes with personal insults and fury.

S the first appeal of defeatism is that it gives a chance to take your anger out on someone who will LISTEN to you. You join with other pro-whites, so you are part of the crowd. Then you blame THEM for what makes you furious.

The second appeal defeatism has is that you don’t have to DO anything. You just show that you FEEL for the Cause, and you have been betrayed by it. But since all is lost, the last think you are obligated to do is act.

Defeatism is appealing for third reason. It is easy to argue. “Look how big they are and how small we are.” Yu then quote every single argument THEY make on this point.

“The enemy’s best asset is not the troops in his own ranks but the defeatists in yours.”

In Ben Franklin’s Autobiography he talks about a man in Philadelphia he called The Mourner. No matter what happened, the Mourner said all was lost. Franklin said he was happy The Mourner paid twice as much for the house he wanted because he had been predicting the whole city was lost when he could have bought it.