It’s time to kick the intellectuals in the balls

July 23, 2010 Andrew Yeoman Activism 70

It’s time to kick the intellectuals in the balls.  If the intellectuals are supposed to be the backbone of the movement we are already lost.  They don’t do anything of value.  They are the death of the right wing.  It doesn’t matter how many intellectuals with Ivory Tower egos we have.

Look at the Left, they have this problem as well and they aren’t going anywhere either.  Intellectuals are so far up their ass they can’t smell their own shit.  I read magazines like The Occidental Quarterly and I get depressed.

A sixteen year old white girl gets gang raped by a dozen black gangbangers in Richmond California and they discuss it on a forum or email it and then these over privileged pricks go to the tennis club.

And really what kind of value are they providing?  So they can read and write in Latin and Greek and get off from using big words and quote German literature and say look how great we are? Who the fuck who cares about Rousseau’s theory of man?  It’s like a dick waving contest for nerds.  Enough of this bullshit.

“Look at me I’m important, I have an advanced degree in philosophy…” “Look at me I cite 12 authors in my article…” No one fucking cares.

It’s time to be very practical.

What about something as practical as a college fund for promising nationalist students?  Or even better a white college?  Or a business that all your mates work for?  How have we lost sight of investing in our movements future?

How can we become the energy producers in our communities instead of the value takers?  I’m interested in what would it take for us to own a nuclear power plant, not Rousseau.

We are intelligent people and like to be well informed and to be thought of as doing something worthy for our people but in a sense we have to be like the two faced god Janus, the intellectual and the activist.  Ideally we could all be phd’s and martial artists.  Only fighting on the intellectual front lines of relevance can give us confidence to be successful.  Fighting on intellectual backwaters with no enemies but our debating partners is intellectual masturbation.  The consciousness of who our people are and what we are trying to do is supposed to promote reproductive and virile habits, not sterile ones.

I will tell you another secret: I would love to pledge my loyalty and my life to a leader that deserves it.   I want a leader who inspires me so much that I would without hesitation take a bullet on his behalf.  I may die in so doing that but I would die knowing that the movement would live on.  That there are no leaders I am willing to die for is disheartening.

It takes more than hot air to grow a white rose.

50 Comments

  1. Am I an intellectual? I don’t know who Rousseau is so I would take that as a no.

    Good article all the same, cant wait to see what you’ve built when I come over next year.

  2. Well put.

    After the Soviet occupation of the eastern European states, many intellectuals were rounded up. The AVO, Hungary’s secret police, occasionally spared the good writers, as did Stalin; however, the “dilettantes” were arrested and often disappeared. We are full of dilettantes and obscurantists but bereft of men of action. I too look for a leader to follow unreservedly. Musings on Evola and Nietzsche will not protect our folk from their sworn enemies and likely executioners.

  5. @Godan–No, interest in those intellectuals does no harm; but excessive energy spent on commentary about their and others’ work has a vaguely Talmudic quality to it and detracts from the energy that ought to be devoted to organizing for the coming struggle.

  6. We need smart people, but let us be honest, how many dissertations on Asian IQ do we need?

    I think if we review the political Rights past tactical victories there came a point mostly out of desperate neccessity and fear that instead of quibbling with the left over abstract minutae the Rightists instead stood up and pointed to the lefties and said, “You are responsible and you will be held accountable for your beliefs and actions.” Cold war and 2nd amendment self defense issues)

    If anyone wants to see what quibbling with lefties by our side looks like take a gander at Kuntsler’s blog “CFN”, two of “our” guys are debating Mommy Prof windup dolls with AmRen articles, of course to no avail, because the left just trots out another blank slate theory and forgets its failures (and we let them).

  9. Nothing like a little class warfare within a movement, to stimulate things. I always thought that was left up to our enemies. Maybe it is.

  10. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. the new White “market dominant minority” is coming. An example of an old one was the Puritans. In a certain sense, we are going to be a new Puritan movement

    http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/07/22/neal-stephenson-on-puritans-and-victorians/

    What do you admire about the Puritans?

    They were tremendously effective people. They completely took over the country and they created an army pretty much from scratch that kicked everyone’s ass. This is not always a good thing. They were guilty of some very bad behavior in Ireland, for example. But any way you slice it they were very effective. Cromwell was a tremendous military leader. A lot of that effectiveness was rooted in the fact that they had money, in part because persecuted religious minorities, if they’re not persecuted out of existence, often manage to achieve disproportionate wealth. It happened with Jews, Armenians, Huguenots. Earlier in this project, I could have rattled off five more. They have to form private trading networks and lend each other money. They’re unusually education conscious. Puritans — and when we say Puritans, we’re talking about a whole grab bag of religious groups — tended to prize literacy and education. I’m sure they had a higher literacy rate than the general English population. Literacy and education make people more effective.
    Another answer is that they very early on adopted a set of views on social topics that everyone now takes for granted as being basic tenets of Western civilization. They were heavily for free enterprise. They didn’t want the state interfering in private property. Now our whole system is built on that. We tend to forget that someone had to come up with that idea and fight for it. And those people did.

  11. It’s time to kick the intellectuals in the balls.

    Try it. You’ll stub your pseudointellectual toes on our iron will and balls of steel.

    Look at the Left, they have this problem as well and they aren’t going anywhere either.

    Wait. The Left is heavily intellectual, heavily active in the street, and doing victory laps around Tradition.

    A sixteen year old white girl gets gang raped by a dozen black gangbangers in Richmond California and they discuss it on a forum or email it and then these over privileged pricks go to the tennis club.

    Would you care to explain what you did that actually had an impact on the situation? Impotent action (if you even performed any in this case) is no more valuable than impotent thinking.

    I would love to pledge my loyalty and my life to a leader that deserves it. I want a leader who inspires me so much that I would without hesitation take a bullet on his behalf.

    A serious man pledges his loyalty and life to his duty, not some heroic leader. If there’s nobody to follow, he walks alone. When a great leader comes along, he follows. But he doesn’t sit and pine for one. Being inspired by charismatic leaders is for women, children, and crowds.

    Our intellectuals have been the torchbearers of this movement, unwavering while the strategists, activists, and supportive crowds moved on. And the most arcane intellectuals have been the most unwavering in this regard. We once had a great leader, George Lincoln Rockwell, and he created a larger, more active, and more powerful organization than your own. This great leader, this man of action, didn’t kick Savitri Devi “in the balls”. He treated her with the utmost respect, honoring the contributions she could offer. He appreciated that victory requires the application of a broad range of talents – some purely academic in nature – converging as one on the common struggle.

  14. While I personally would not dismiss the value of intellectuals in such broad strokes, your point that we need a lot more practical action is undeniable.

    I don’t get a chance to read here as much as I’d like, so the following two points have probably been beaten to death, but I see two major problems:

    1) Getting our side to agree on anything is like herding cats.

    2) The prevailing orthodoxy makes it damn near impossible for many of us to take practical action.

    For example, if I were declare my support for a White Ethnostate in the real world tomorrow, our side would gain nothing, but my business, clients and colleagues would disappear overnight.

    Our side would gain nothing and actually would go backwards because I — a modestly successful White person 100% on board with OD’s objectives — would be ostracized and my family driven into poverty.

    So I am biding my time until my actions in my real world might actually make a difference, which, because so few of us can act in the real world for various reasons, may be never.

    It’s a nearly insurmountable problem.

    Side Note:

    I have enormous respect for people like you, Matt Parrot and the others who write under your own names on Web sites like OD and take action in the real world often. And no disrespect intended, of course, to anyone who doesn’t.

  16. There isn’t a book or essay in the world that can motivate some intellectuals (emphasis: I say some, not all) to leave their comfort zone which is the world of abstract ideas.

  18. Not everyone is cut out to be a street fighter or activist. I don’t see the necessity of denigrating “intellectuals”, many of whom are doing important work. (And many of whom are just blathering.)

    Personally, I’d be more concerned with all the whites sitting home and watching TV and eating Cheetos.

  19. I will keep saying there is a substantial issue here. Granted, there is some frustration being vented, as was the case in my previous post, but there is also a lot of truth in this thread.

  21. Hunter,

    Abstract ideas matter. What would happen if somebody went out to do real world activism but he had his abstract ideas wrong.? What if he was organizing a movement but had the following abstract ideas:

    1. Ideological opposition to the sovereign institutions it would take to actually enforce our separation and defend sovereign boundaries;

    2. A naive belief that Judaism is merely a religion, and that observant Jews are to be respected, welcomed, and shielded from criticism for fear of being “religiously intolerant”;

    3. A belief that it’s disgraceful to lampoon or insult our opposition combined with an eagerness to attack some of the most loyal members of his own camp.

    Now, imagine if such a person existed. If so, all of his action would be totally pointless, since he rejects the very mechanism necessary to win the struggle (a government), leaves the back door open for Jewish subversion of the movement, and accomplishes more in the way of insulting and attacking his allies than he does in pushing back our shared opposition.

    If this man did exist, it would do him well to spend an extended period of time among some thick books, perhaps at TOQ or Counter Currents, or any of the other WN outlets working to mold the abstract foundations of our movement. That’s what I would recommend that he do. KMac and Kurtagic are both almost exclusively abstract, and both have done wonders in helping lay the foundation for the next stages in this struggle.

  22. “If this man did exist, it would do him well to spend an extended period of time among some thick books, perhaps at TOQ or Counter Currents, or any of the other WN outlets working to mold the abstract foundations of our movement.”

    Matt, your (presumably) sly observation about my supposed beliefs would be worthy of consideration if not for the fact that I have read all those books and many more of which you have never heard of and have personally associated with all the leaders of the projects you mention for a long time. As I stated in the article, it’s necessary to be Janus like. Publishing companies have a place and that is behind the 100 men it will take to change history, not in front of them.

  23. You can’t blame intellectuals for posing as intellectuals — it’s their natural milieu. You can blame them for failing to address the problems which need intellectual analysis as much as grand historical theories do. Here are some of those problems that need intellectual analysis:

    1) What is the most effective way to awaken the diverse white American peoples, or a large share of them, to their joint interests? Intellectually, this is a problem having psychological, political, economic, and social roots. It is a natural problem demanding intellectual attention.

    2) How do we intellectually sort activists into categories like pro-white, anti-black, anti-Jew, and so on. If anyone wants to go all intellectual, doing some work on who we are would be a great addition. A little dollop of how we modify behavior from black-centricity and Jew-centricity into white-centricity would be a huge intellectual undertaking. The intellectual writers I have seen don’t even understand this is a problem…just how intellectual are these guys?

    3) Some deep thinking about the nature of governance in general, and what we want in particular for the diverse white American peoples in the future. I want something like the Articles of Confederation & Perpetual Union that governed the USA for its first decade. But where are all the intellectuals on this most important of problems?

    4) More deep thinking on how to deal with leadership. The Most Serene Republic of Venice knew how — they decapitated dukes who plotted to become kings right on the steps of their Capitol. No screwing around allowed. But why won’t our intellectuals address this fundamental problem?

    5) Intellectuals need to educate us to abandon disordered categories of discourse like conservatism, libertarianism, etc. We need an intellectual analysis that is purely white-centric….where is it?

    There’s plenty of need for intellectuals and intellectual striving, but we need intellectuals who have some connection between their feet and the ground, and tackle really tough problems.

  24. Andrew,

    I’m still waiting for you to explain what you did to help the teenage girl who was gang raped in Richmond.

    Matt, your (presumably) sly observation about my supposed beliefs…

    Supposed beliefs? Would you care to tell me which of those beliefs (if any) you disavow?

    …would be worthy of consideration if not for the fact that I have read all those books and many more of which you have never heard of and have personally associated with all the leaders of the projects you mention for a long time.

    *hooks his thumb into his suspenders and wobbles about*
    I’m just a Midwestern small town feller with a high school diploma. Most of the thick books I’ve read are technical references, which probably don’t count.

    As I stated in the article, it’s necessary to be Janus like. Publishing companies have a place and that is behind the 100 men it will take to change history, not in front of them.

    You can’t have it both ways. You can’t kick them in the balls and drag gangraped children to their doorstep to hold them to account for and then attempt to play it off with a call for intellectuals and activists to work together. These are good men doing difficult work for our people. They’re not always right about it (as was the case with the authors you ended up reading, apparently), but they don’t deserve this hateful tirade.

  25. The problem with intellectuals is their inability to stop talking about ridiculous topics which have almost zero practical purpose.

    This is annoying to the more “blue-collar” among us who have to “cut to the chase” in our own jobs every day.

    I think there is a place for intellectuals, but it isnt at the head of the organization.

    Washington was no intellectual giant, but he had “balls of steel” and strength of character enough to cause men to follow him to hell and back.

    Men follow strong, noble men. Washington, Lee, Grant, Patton, Eisenhower, etc. were followed to the bitter end by legions of men, not because of everyone agreed on principals, but because the men deserved to be followed.

    Intellectuals need to learn to clean a gun, lift some weights, and kick some ass…or nobody will follow them anywhere.

  26. Andrew @ “Godan, at least my cannon balls are shot Baron Munchausen style to propel these people into the battlefield…”

    Within the context of their own skills nationalist intellectuals are already on the battlefield. I don’t see the advantage of attacking writers that are already engaged on our side, oftentimes to their professional detriment. It is our wealthy elites that are missing in action.

  27. Guys and Gals,

    Just as there is a time and a place for everything, everyone in this movement has their own role to play.

    Activists will do what they do best, and Intellectuals will do what they do best. Both are ultimately striving for the same thing, therefore they should complement one another.

    Complement. Not compete, much less antagonize.

  28. Look at the Left, they have this problem as well and they aren’t going anywhere either.

    LMAO. The left has this “problem” and they have complete domination culturally and politically.

    Intellectuals are so far up their ass they can’t smell their own shit.

    I guess coming up with witty, amusing, or accurate insults would be too intellectual. You sound like a west-coast version of Jim Giles. Did you post this from your tractor?

  29. “I’m still waiting for you to explain what you did to help the teenage girl who was gang raped in Richmond.”

    I’m not going to comment on any activity that was not publicized.

    “I’m just a Midwestern small town feller with a high school diploma. Most of the thick books I’ve read are technical references, which probably don’t count.”

    I’m just a Michigander that didn’t graduate high school, what do I know? I like technical books too, you should see my Linux collection.

    “You can’t have it both ways.”

    Yes actually you can and notwithstanding my numerous shortcomings and limitations am proving it is possible.

  30. “You sound like a west-coast version of Jim Giles. Did you post this from your tractor?”

    I wish I had a tractor. Unfortunately I posted this from my air conditioned office in a San Francisco skyscraper.

  32. We all have our own levels philosophical and political sophistication. For example, when I read a lot of conservative stuff years ago, I had no trouble grasping what I read in The American Spectator, but found some of the articles in Chronicles of Culture difficult or worse. That’s my problem, not the fault of the writers. Obviously, people who actually write about ideas for a living are likely to be more cerebral than are people who merely read them, or people who write about events. Take what you can from the brainiacs and leave the rest on your plate. The fact that a math professor knows more about number theory than I ever will doesn’t prevent me from using his geometry book.
    The ideas we need to persuade other Whites are pretty simple, and hard for a race traitor to refute without making himself ridiculous, at which point we ridicule him.
    For example: “Affirmative action screws Whites out of jobs and puts Blacks and Hispanics in positions they shouldn’t be in. And the White people, or Jews, who enforce these quotas always exempt themselves and their friends and family from them. You like race quotas? Give up your own job.” Yes, there will be counter arguments, and they all boil down to White People, Especially Working Men, Suck, But I’m Not Like Them, I’m Caring And Compassionate, You Miserable Racist Fucker. Not terribly convincing. We can win that argument. Anybody think that even the head of the ACLU wants to get on national television with me, a discarded White man, and openly defend this? Without telling any lies?
    Immigration is another no-brainer win for our side, which is why the Regime has refused to discuss it for 40 years. We can debate more abstract or less immediate topics among ourselves, but the winning issues are plain to see and simple to grasp.

  33. Right on Discard, its personal. Those craven rotten bastards who have done this to us hide behind the abstract and when we send someone out there who can only quote Asian IQ stats as if that is gonna break the left’s will to power we leave too much on the table.

    Look em in the eye and tell them they are responsible. I think its safe to say that we have proven over and over agains that the Blank Slate theory and its political apparatus are failures and an excuse for our genocide, case closed.

  35. We all have our own levels philosophical and political sophistication. For example, when I read a lot of conservative stuff years ago, I had no trouble grasping what I read in The American Spectator, but found some of the articles in Chronicles of Culture difficult or worse. That’s my problem, not the fault of the writers.

    On the other hand, you shouldn’t assume they are smarter than you just because they use big words. That’s how people got suckered into supporting liberalism. The pseudo-intellectual psychobabble of the counter-productive.com crowd doesn’t make a whole lot of sense or even have much of a point, and mainly consists of people trying to impress eachother by dredging up assorted quotes from obscure philosophers which are entirely irrelevant to today’s situation, much the same way that music scenesters try to outdo eachother by finding the most obscure bands and songs to proclaim that they listen to. Really, in some cases, it’s just idiots babbling nonsense to eachother and dressing it up in big words.

  36. just to be clear I don’t think its honorable to blame people for their intellectualism, saying “you suck because all you do is talk” is unacceptable but saying “ok so what do you plan on doing about all this?” Is a much more worthy line of inquiry to an intellectual. I can’t blame groups like A3P hiring on some intellectuals and trying to get people elected, that’s doing something (even if I think it’s a misguided action). But if we, as Nationalists, are separate from the political will of our people, we have to take actions that puts the masses (or at least active minority of the masses) will into alignment with ours.

  37. Really, in some cases, it’s just idiots babbling nonsense to eachother and dressing it up in big words.

    At the moment, their blog has a Traditionalist review of a wildly popular movie. On our blog, we’re bickering about testicles and serving up sweeping indictments of book learnin’ and thinkin’ big words.

    Who are the babbling idiots?

  38. In times like these intellectuals of the nationalist kind are many times more vulnerable than a working class fellow. Orwell divided society up into proles and party members. Proles, since they did what many consider undesirable work, and were paid less, enjoyed a certain intellectual freedom; whereas party members were expected to tow a ideological line, or face the wrath of Big Brother. In our society that wrath comes in the form of marginalization to the point of joblessness. Nationalist intellectuals do not have it easy, in my opinion anyway.

  39. I’m interested in what would it take for us to own a nuclear power plant, not Rousseau.
    Andrew Yeoman

    It would take a successful White revolution.

    If you need the anti-white system’s permission to do something you won’t get that permission. You can take that to the bank. Nuclear power, higher education, law, medicine, banking, all of those fields are closed to public White nationalists.

  40. “If you need the anti-white system’s permission to do something you won’t get that permission. You can take that to the bank. Nuclear power, higher education, law, medicine, banking, all of those fields are closed to public White nationalists.”

    I disagree, it would just take capital, something our movement lacks.

  41. Matt,

    Ideas matter. They are a necessary, but not sufficient condition to produce action. What if we read hundreds of books and sat around on the internet all day talking about philosophy and history? You would have a good description of the White Nationalist movement for the last twenty years.

    What if we were organizing a movement with these ideas?

    1.) Cultures have life cycles. Western civilization is in the “winter phase” and will soon expire. The individual can do nothing to change his circumstances but learn to cope with living in the winter phase. (Spengler)

    2.) All history is the history of class struggle. (Marx)

    3.) Your own personal happiness, which is defined as freedom from anxiety, is all that matters. Abstain from politics and marriage. (Epicurus)

    4.) After the collapse comes, the White Nationalist vanguard will mysteriously rise to power and eliminate all the mud people. (Various White Nationalists)

    There is no shortage of intellectual discussion in the White Nationalist movement. I have seen a thousand discussions about Nietzsche and Yockey over the years.

    Why is there so much chatter in cyberspace about history and philosophy, but hardly any action in the real world? Because it is safe to entertain and discuss ideas. When you are content to do that alone, there are no consequences.

  42. I disagree, it would just take capital, something our movement lacks.
    Andrew Yeoman

    Have you ever heard of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?

    How did Matt Hale’s attempt to become a lawyer as a public White nationalist work out?

  43. Why do half my comments get filtered? You need to ease up on the automatic censorship. I’ve never posted anything that was deleted for content once posted and my comments that get through always stay up.

  44. Simmons: You have clarified my thinking. Yes, it’s personal. I was doing OK in my chosen trade, when flocks of wetbacks came in. They did shitty work, which had to be fixed by us Whites, but they worked cheap and the cost to the employer of re-working their errors was less than the savings on their wages. Since there were more skilled Whites that there were jobs fixing up wetback mistakes, our wages went down, by more than a third. But no immigration advocate has ever lost a penny to cheap labor. Fuck them, and fuck their kids.
    I started applying for civil service jobs, the only good jobs left since manufacturing was beginning to dry up from “free trade”, but they were reserved for Blacks and Mexican “Americans”. Or for any woman without experience, but who had made it through a training program. Once I was talking with a Black guy who was waiting for an interview along with me (and an Oriental who spoke no language I could understand). I asked him his test ranking, and it was 61 places below mine, he had missed at least 61 more questions, out of 140, than I had. I didn’t get the job, and I don’t blame the Black or the Oriental, but I would have enjoyed 9-11 a lot more if the Sand People had flown into my local city hall instead and caught all those diversity spewing White administrators at their desks. They don’t lose any opportunities to the Darks, because their “work” is too important to leave to the dregs. Fuck them, and fuck their kids too.
    I could go chapter and verse on at least four other civil service jobs I’ve been cheated out of, and a couple places where multi-cultists singled me out for disposal at the earliest opportunity. At present I am in a nightmarish teaching credential program, hoping to slip past the radar, but at least one two professors are on to me, not for anything I say, but for what I obviously am, a White working class man. Fuck all of them, and fuck all of their ideological offspring.
    I came to White nationalism by being cheated out of a decent livelihood, and wondering how the hell it happened. I know why now, and who, and I, objectively speaking, hate their guts. You people want to stir the White masses? Make it personal.

  45. H. Rock White: I don’t assume that people are smarter than me just because they use big words, I only recognize that people who Are smarter than me will sometimes write above my level. That’s OK, they’re just not addressing their words to me.
    But when someone is writing or talking about an issue I care about, they need to be intelligible. My rule of thumb it that if you can’t make it understandable to me at some level, you’re probably full of shit. I have spoken with some real brilliant people from the local college, and they can make themselves understood, talking about cancer research or potatoes or Mars or curtains of galaxies. I even know a brilliant woman who teaches third grade. If someone tries to claim that social policy is beyond my understanding, they are liars, and easy opponents because they can’t answer easy questions. “If affirmative action is good, then how come Jews get to hog the trough?” “If diversity is good, how come you live in Whitesville?” Watch them squirm.

  46. Matt Parrot: “Wait. The Left is heavily intellectual, heavily active in the street, and doing victory laps around Tradition.”

    Absolutely, Matt. It boggles the mind that there are some people who can’t understand that.

    Lawrence: “Activists will do what they do best, and Intellectuals will do what they do best. Both are ultimately striving for the same thing, therefore they should complement one another.”

    Again, bingo. Andrew operates on the false premise that the two are mutally exclusive. They obviously aren’t.

    Andrew Yeoman: “I disagree, it would just take capital, something our movement lacks.”

    And yet you never think to ask why it is that our movement lacks capital. Could one factor be that the Left has won the battle of ideas, and hence not nearly enough people believe in our cause? No, that couldn’t be it. Let’s just kick pro-white intellectuals in the balls instead. LOL! What a load of tripe.

    A vibrant movement is going to be active on every level, from the intellectual to the street. There is no contradiction. Those who are better suited to the street should operate there, those who are better suited to the spiritual war should concentrate on that, those who are better at coming up with nifty signs should do their thing, etc. None of it is mutually exclusive, and it is childish to claim otherwise.

    Instead of “kicking intellectuals in the balls,” perhaps a better standard would be “kicking blowhards in the balls.”

  47. “Instead of “kicking intellectuals in the balls,” perhaps a better standard would be “kicking blowhards in the balls.”

    Knocking some sense into them, though perhaps a vain endeavor, might be a better approach.

  48. “Again, bingo. Andrew operates on the false premise that the two are mutally exclusive. They obviously aren’t.”

    Transpotter, in order to say this you are probably not personally familiar with the type of person we are addressing. The intellectuals we are talking about say as a badge of honor they are not an activist, that they are above such worldly concerns, and won’t devote any tangible support to making it happen. But they will talk a lot. Basically it’s a form of escapism for cowards. Some people retreat to World of Warcraft, some retreat into mental castles in the air. Both are bad for the movement.

  49. “Knocking some sense into them, though perhaps a vain endeavor, might be a better approach.”

    Violence isn’t the answer. Please don’t confuse my phrase as anything other than metaphorical.

  50. “And yet you never think to ask why it is that our movement lacks capital. Could one factor be that the Left has won the battle of ideas, and hence not nearly enough people believe in our cause?”

    I agree, Trainspotter.

    What the Dixiecrats, for example, lacked was any well thought out arguments against the Left, and that’s a huge part of why they failed.

    Also they just followed their glands when deciding what to do, for example when they put a guy up for President even though it was a fruitless waste of resources, as opposed to thinking things through.

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