December 18, 1999
The Citadel Board has now joined the State newspaper in its campaign to take the Confederate flag off the State House dome. A short time ago Bob Jones joined the State in its campaign.
When Beasley turned on the Confederate flag, every single statewide Republican official backed Beasley. Seventy-five percent of Republicans had voted in a recent primary to keep the Confederate flag atop the State House. One politician, without consulting with anybody, had reversed that stand all by himself.
Given a choice between the politician and the conservative grassroots, the Republicans had, as always, backed the politico. They say they love us dearly, but when push comes to shove, the first thing any Republican does is spit in the grassroots conservatives’ faces.
Obviously, they fear no conservative backlash. It never even occurs to them to fear such a thing.
The Afrikaners” Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa stood for apartheid as long as it was profitable. Then, when the pressure was getting really strong, and the Boers needed its support as never before, their church turned and snapped at them like a snake. I remember the same thing happened to us Methodists as the integration movement grew. Our church turned on us like a snake.
When the present Bob Jones turned on us on the flag issue, he, like every conservative when he turns on us, thought he was being Shrewd. He is probably bragging about how he has proved to liberals that he is not unreasonable. Actually, the State is happy to use him. After the flag issue, it will continue its war against Bob Jones University (See March 13, “The State Newspaper Begin to Use Pro-Miscegenation Vote”)
But, for the moment, Bob Jones thinks he is being smart. After all, he can count on blind conservative support, no matter what he does. So he is using this cheap trick to get liberal approval.
Conservatives invest everything in institutions they trust. In the meantime, leftists work at taking over or subverting those institutions.
Somewhere in his public statement, every conservative spokesman always includes a knee-jerk demand for more uniforms, more soldiers, more sailors. If a bunch of men start making loud comments about how they love a guy in uniform, you have to look carefully to see whether they are on a San Francisco street corner or a conservative convention.
Conservatives fell in love with uniforms during World War II and the Cold War. Leftists were all for World War II, and they loved the military then. Even the Communist Party of America was totally in support of America’s fighting men until the middle of 1945. After all, those troops were fighting on the side of our Glorious Ally, Joseph Stalin.
But the second the military ceased to serve the purposes of the political left, the political left ceased to support the American military. When the military stopped supporting leftist purposes and was used against Communism, the left became anti-military. With the left, its principles come before loyalty to any institution.
Not so the right. Since the end of the Cold War, America’s military has consistently been used for purposes no conservative could support. During the Cold War, the left had extended its control over foreign policy and the military. Today, any leftist initiative can count on the support of America’s generals.
The right continues to worship generals, so the left continues to use them.
The blind conservative backing of institutions over principles encourages institutions to back the left. After all, any institution like
the Citadel has the right in its back pocket. It’s got uniforms, and rightists will sell out any principle if someone in uniform asks them to. Any institution that’s got uniforms has rightist support sewed, so they seek the backing of the left. If you want broad support, the ideal combination is uniforms and leftist principles.
So when Clinton made enforcing racial and ethnic balance by military force America’s official doctrine, he got a general to declare it (June 12, “Busing By Bomber”). McCain, an ex-uniform wearer, is his Republican spokesman for this policy of ethnic balance.
And how does the right react to this? The Southern Partisan editorial staff split fifty-fifty on whether to support McCain for president!
The same rule applies in institutional politics that operates in electoral politics — anyone who can take you for granted is not going to do anything for you. The Republican Party kicks conservatives in the teeth on a regular basis. Its excuse is always, “Conservatives have nowhere to go. They HAVE to support Republicans.”
I talked about this blind, completely immoral backing of institutions by conservatives on June 5 in “Blind Loyalty Is the Real Treason.” It was obvious to me when I first got into serious politics in the 1950s.
In the 1950’s, Northern conservatives blindly backed “The Party of Lincoln,” no matter what it did to their principles. At the same time, Southern conservatives just as blindly backed “the Party of Jefferson Davis.” While these dodos were blindly backing their respective institutions, liberals took over complete control of both parties. Rockefeller Republicans, who were an infinitesimal part of the Republican Party, held more power over the platform and the presidential nomination than did the overwhelming conservative majority.
The Democratic presidential nomination and platform was simply owned outright by liberals. And the majority of Southerners gave them absolute, blind, unquestioning loyalty. Can anybody call that “moral,” a word conservatives are always claiming that they own?
So our blind loyalty to uniforms and other institutions gives liberals a free ride in their campaign to quietly turn them into instruments of leftist policy. So Bob Jones and the Citadel, fresh from enjoying our support in their conservative battles, promptly sell us out.
Until we stop substituting blind loyalty for personal morality, we are going to be sold out. In real world politics, when you give your loyalty blindly, you ask to be betrayed. And in the cold, hard world of power politics, you get exactly what you ask for.
#1 by shari on 04/14/2009 - 5:37 pm
I hear now that unarmed American freighters,{stupid,stupid,stupid} may need “armed security personal.” Ha! How long will we love stupidity?
#2 by backbaygrouch4 on 04/20/2009 - 8:39 am
An article I found interesting about half way between respectable conservative and conservative.
High LifeColor Theoryby Taki Theodoracopulos on April 17, 2009
I crossed the river last week and went into the heart of darkness. Unlike Conrad’s hero, it took me about 15 minutes by train, and there I was, right in the midst of a city bloated with squalor, oily storefronts, dilapidated tenements, vacant courtyards, and trash-strewn lots. I was the only white man in the station as I watched the arrest of a black hobo by two humongous black police officers. As the hobo was being led away he screamed at me “Give me a hundred dollars,” and then broke up in hysterical, drunken laughter. It was three in the afternoon, and I had gone to Newark to watch my Judo coach, Teimoc, compete in a Jiu Jitsu tournament, one from which he emerged a winner.
Walking up toward the sight where the competition took place was an experience. I was, again, the only white man on the wide boulevard, lined with people going on about their business, many just hanging out talking jive. Not for a second did I feel threatened. I made a point of asking directions to the toughies loitering about, and they obliged, mind you, after a glare or two. Some were even downright polite. In front of a derelict old cinema palace, I spotted a white guy, obviously down on his luck. “Got 75 cents so I can take the bus home?” he ventured. He got a dollar for his trouble. Funny, I thought to myself, the only one to ask for money was a honkey.
Something positive seems to be taking place in the long-running war between the races, at least around these parts. It’s the blacks who are coming around—whites came round thirty years or so ago—and no thanks to black leaders like the arch race hustler Al Sharpton, either. I’ve always believed that blacks have been let down by their leaders after civil rights were firmly established during the early Sixties. Rabble-rousers attempted to turn America into a Total State of multiculturalism, preaching odious drivel about “hate crimes,” racist police, and the natural preference for what is familiar over what is strange. The latter suited African-Americans, as it did whites. It still does, but I can feel a difference. Sure, everyone prefers their own kind, but there is less hostility and more understanding. One short visit to Newark, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River, convinced me.
Martin Luther King, whose name graced the rather ungraceful boulevard I did my research on for about 30 minutes, frankly endorsed the racialist sentiments of his fellow blacks when he said in 1965 that the American Negro “feels a deepening sense of identification with his black African brothers, and with his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America, and the Caribbean.” It was a good sound bite but that’s about all. Switch to Algiers, 1972, when as the intrepid correspondent for William Buckley’s National Review, I interviewed Eldridge Cleaver, Donald Coxe and various other Black Panthers on the run from American justice. “Oh man, what would I give for a hamburger and a black piece of ass,” was the way Cleaver put it when I asked him if he missed home. President Boumedienne had put all those “freedom fighters” under de facto house arrest, although the rest of the intrepid foreign journalists somehow missed the fact. At the end I got a cover story for my troubles, and Cleaver and company chose to go back to American jails rather than live out their days in an Arab paradise.
The point I’m trying to make is that just as Arabs have Arab nations and Chinese have a Chinese nation, only Europeans are denied the right to have European nations. Let’s face it. Muslims and Africans are not assimilating in Europe, whereas the ones who are not assimilating in America are black Africans and Hispanics. Whites in America have tried for long to form their social consciousness in conformity with the moral and political tradition of Western Man—White Man. The elites of the academy and the media have for just as long tried to paint White Man as Racist Pig. But as always, the elites have got it totally wrong. Black Americans don’t give a damn about dead white males like Homer and Shakespeare. They have their own heroes, and it’s only nerdy college busybodies who demonstrate against my ancestors. The legacy of the white man is the one we owe everything to. Just take a look at Africa, 50 years after independence. Like it or not they’re killing each other on a rate Genghis Khan would envy. Hence the aggression and domination of other races has to be resisted in order to preserve and protect the legacy our ancestors handed down to us.
Black Americans are more American than most, their ancestors having landed here 300 years ago. We cannot change the horrid past, nor should we forget about it, but black attitude made me feel good all over that day in Newark. It’s a black city, crime-ridden and violent, and I only was there briefly, but I felt the change and it was a good one. Black Americans have come a long way, just look at the White House. They are dominant in professional sports, especially in basketball, boxing and football. (Hispanics are dominant in baseball). Blacks are among the biggest stars in Hollywood, and Congress, Madison Avenue and Wall Street are following suit. Take it from the poor little Greek boy’s exhaustive research: Race is no longer a problem in America, among American blacks and whites, that is. The only problem—and it’s a big one—is that black students are given a free ride in major universities, and then sent out in the big, tough world and told to make a living. Totally unprepared. The day black American students are no longer coddled by cowardly academicians, MLK’s dream will have come true.
http://www.takimag.com/index.php/blogs/article/color_theory
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So much for the hook.
Query: What is the state of Bob’s health? I am now mentioning him in my prayers and enjoin others to do the same. He is needed.
Bob, you are needed. Get back in harness.