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How I'd Save the West

Having spent years talking to people in the pro-white cause, I am only too aware of how defensive, paranoid and negative pro-white politics has become.

The traditional approach to pro-white politics has been to act like an extremist version of the Republican party, and to point out enemies among us and call for their removal. Over the last 60 years of this, pro-white politics has not placed a single candidate in an election. It has not changed a single law. It has not gained more than approximately a half-million followers in the United States. In short, it has completely failed.

All of this in a country that has a white majority, many of whom support some of the ideas of pro-white politics. Yet few seem interested. The pro-white activists make excuses: they're media brainwashed; they're afraid; they're corrupt. In many cases, at least one of those is partially true. But you don't fail as spectacularly as pro-white politics has without some underlying dysfunction.

The failure of pro-white politics can be expressed cleanly this way: it is defensive ground-holding reaction and would not improve the lives of most whites, while subjecting them and others to a radical agenda that threatens to quickly become like Stalinism a downfall in the name of an impractical ideological agenda. Pro-white politics, as it is currently stated, is impractical.

As the cycle gets deeper, pro-white voters get more paranoid. There must be a Jew under every bed, and a Negro in every closet. 9-11 was created by Israel to sell us on ritual infant sacrifice. With the deepening cycle, the agenda gets more radical: anyone who doesn't agree with us must be a Jew, or a mulatto, or some servant of those. And this is from a political stripe that attracts more young white people of intelligence than any other.

Pro-white politics failed, and continues to fail, because it does not address realistic politics. It is nearly pure dogma of an emotional sort, and any time it is given publicity, the people who come forth to speak are angry, alienated, often suspicious characters who have a grudge against modern life and those who succeed in it. People correctly see pro-white politics as an emotional reaction that will not only fail to fix problems, but bring on worse ones.

How to Avoid Failure

Naturally, I believe in my people and think they should have political representation, and I don't like modern society much, but I think we need a more practical response. We need a whole response that transitions society from where it is to where we want it to be, and I do not believe that path is the one that pro-white politics currently follows. If pro-white voters do not pick a rational plan, and gain consensus on it, they will become more alienated and defensive and will never succeed.

Step 1: Relax

If you believe your ideas are correct, you know that nature will bear them out -- if given a chance.

You don't need to put into dogma exactly what you feel, only give a chance for what you believe in to grow.

Now, consider your actions. Do you need defensive statements against those you perceive to be parasites? A healthy society excludes parasites by succeeding, and growing upward so quickly it does not need those who offer excuses, easy answers, cons and other tools of the parasite. Parasites didn't get here magically. They came because decay came first.

Next, take a look at what you actually want to achieve. Do you want to disrupt all of the good along with the bad? Do you really want an apocalyptic ideology that will turn every citizen into a warrior, and require closed borders and speech codes? Which do you think is better, extreme polarization or a slower but more natural solution?

Finally, acquaint yourself with a small amount of history. Hitler lived in a different time; he is mostly portrayed now by his enemies as a raving extremist. In this time, he would act differently and possibly, with the knowledge of history, would accomplish more. He was a manifestation of a logical impulse, but sometimes his logistics were... wrong. Admit that and move on. We can't appeal to people from the past, but we can use the principles they discovered and apply them now.

Speaking of principles, look hard at society around you. If you think about it, the ideal society would be mostly like this one, absent maybe 10% of fundamental differences. We don't need to reinvent the world. Our society grew out of a better one and we can restore it.

Step 2: Have faith

Without some anchor, our lives are hard to organize.

When I say faith, I mean have a philosophy that fits life together around a positive goal. "I am here on earth to make life more organized and efficient" is one type of faith; others come from holy books or science. But look toward the most basic principle. Are we here to change nature, or to fulfil it? When you find an organizing principle for your thoughts, you can see the good in life and how logical it is, and you'll find yourself less paranoid.

Also, get acquainted with the good people around you. Sure, there are a lot of morons -- but every society on earth has always been 90% people who need to be told what to do, 9% those who can figure out what to do from a general goal, and 1% those who can formulate this goal. This pattern shows up many times in nature. Even though morons predominate in some places, there are good people all around you who live good lives. You don't have to convert these people to your cause. Just befriending them forms a social mesh that keeps society stronger.

You can get tunnel vision in politics if you don't keep an eye on the good things in life. There are people all around you trying to do good things and succeeding. There are people you want to know. They're not the ones making it on television, but that's because television specializes in drama, which generally requires failure and mental problems to be entertaining (which would you rather see, a television show about a well-balanced family, or a crime drama?). Nature exists in abundance and it is beautiful, as are the best of our people, who you need to seek out.

Finally, realize you don't have to save everyone. Life is an endless cycle, and in every generation, some are going to have great lives and do great things, many others are just going to make it through, and some are going to have lives of misery, crime, deprivation, etc. As paradoxical as it seems, some of the best societies have come out of situations where most of their people came to ruin and did not breed. That left a carefully selected few. So don't weep over the failures. Let them go, and make better ones next generation.

Step 3: Purge the ugly

This one is simple: get rid of the ugly and ineffective in your life.

Television that focuses on the depraved, movies that illustrate bad values, books that don't tell you anything you didn't know -- do you need these? You may think you need entertainment, but entertainment is what you do to keep children from acting up. It's not what active, healthy people do. You don't need the ugly and upsetting. Focus on the beautiful.

If one of your neighbors is a total moron, befriend someone else.

Step 4: There is no purity

Every civilization that has ever existed has had elements you do not like in it. The best civilizations of course kept the vast majority of their people breeding within their own ethnicity, and away from depraved behaviors. But there are always port cities, red light districts, and so on. Some are born to the beautiful, others to the endless night. What you need is a civilization that defends your right to live far away from the mess, and doesn't subsidize the mess in the name of morality. You don't need a civilization that destroys itself looking for impure or bad elements.

Some pro-white people amaze me because they are willing to let token issues obliterate their view of the big picture. They dislike the homosexual, so they reject any activity that a homosexual may once have touched, and so on -- this applies to several issues. This kind of defensive, paranoiac behavior makes few friends, for good reasons. Instead, pursue what you know is right and accept nature's diversity. It's not going to affect your ultimate goal.

Finally, realize that whites are not homogenous. We are like a large family, but in every family there are unequal abilities. Reject any dogma that tries to make us artificially equal or to standardize us. We all know that the individualist pursuit of pleasure in the West has helped with its decay, but the solution is probably not to swing the pendulum too far to the opposite direction. More likely, it's to instill order gently.

Ten Steps to Save the West

Now that you know what I don't believe in, you should see what I do believe in. Maybe it will strike a chord with you. I'm not trying to remake the world in a day; in fact, I think we need relatively few changes in order to have better lives. What we're doing is more like making adjustments to an engine than smashing the engine in flames and starting over.

Most pro-white voters can't turn off the TV or stop reading uninformed opinions, so they believe the characterization of National Socialism and pro-white politics that their enemies create. We are going to do the opposite here, and work from the historical values of National Socialism and the movements that preceded it, and not try to act out a Hollywood fantasy of demonic warfare hellbent for revenge and genocide.

The following points represent the ideals of National Socialism, although not the system of government itself, as we can express it through the liberal democracy of the United States. When you think about it, if we reach the same state of health, it doesn't matter what system of government we use, so we might as well use this one which mostly works. Since we know that these ideals are derived from time-proven principles, we don't need to fear or impose them with force.

This is an election year, so you can call up your local elected representatives and ask them if they support these issues. Unlike most pro-white political issues, they won't immediately laugh at how unrealistic you are and hang up the phone. Keep in mind that most voters are in the same boat as you are. They see that society is going downward, but they don't know how to fix it. The first person to get enough people agreeing on a practical solution wins.

1. Form consensus

Our country is fractured by disagreement. Fundamentally, it is split between cosmopolitan cities which are more liberal, and the suburbs and rural areas which are more conservative. However, these divisions don't tell the whole story, and both groups basically want the same thing: a healthy environment for their families. Family-oriented cities grow faster, and family-oriented politics win more voters.

Some will tell you that we have to squash liberalism or conservativism to "win." The simple fact of that matter is that the two groups agree more than they disagree, once you filter out the extremist loudmouths on both sides who are basically just calling attention to themselves and don't care about practical solutions. The first step is for us to get over divisive, highly visible issues that have almost nothing to do with the future of our country.

My solution would be compromise. Abortion may be murder and horrible, but it's not the most important issue. Legalize it, and let local communities police themselves regarding their sexual morality and how much they push adoption. We can stop the infighting over this and other issues. Drugs? Legalize, and let local communities ban if they want. Teaching evolution in schools? Teach both evolution and intelligent design as theories. Compromise will save us from perpetual infighting over non-issues so we can address real issues.

2. Localize

The bigger they come, the harder they fall; nowhere is this clearer than with nation-states. While ideally we'd like a nation for ourselves independent of others, at this time what we can have is local communities -- and others can have them too. We're not going to be able to make laws that 100% satisfy 100% of the people out there, so what government should do is take care of the really big issues, and let local communities decide other laws.

Both the USA and the EU would be more effective if they realized that most of their internal friction comes from trying to make radically different groups agree. We need to agree to disagree, and the way to do that is to elevate functions we agree on to government, and to let the rest be the province of local communities. Perhaps some see it as terrible if one city has legal prostitution, legal drugs, legal abortion and legal drunk driving, and one town over, all those things are illegal, but I think it's beautiful. If people from your community are always heading to the next town over for their guilty pleasures, maybe they should move. You certainly shouldn't be obligated to rent to, sell to, or hire them.

3. Avoid entangling alliances

Especially as we see the blip on the radar that is the Georgia-Ossetia-Russia conflict, we need to remind ourselves of the intelligent advice of our forefathers: avoid entangling overseas alliances that obligate us to war for other people's bad decisions. We need to defend the USA and Europe, and that means looking out for our needs first. There are always going to be countries, like there are always going to be people, doing things we disagree with. That doesn't mean we need to force our morality on them. If we're right, and I believe we are, nature will take care of them.

In other words, let other regions solve their own problems. We can make our nation self-sustaining in energy, manufacturing, food growth and entertainment products -- in fact, it's better for us if we do all this stuff locally because it creates more jobs for skilled people and keeps cash within our borders. When we get really good at it, we can export some of it to the rest of them, and if the Chinese become a totalitarian state or the Russians exterminate their own population, it's not our concern.

4. Make the U.N. useful

America is divided over the UN. Some people hate it, others love it and wish it would just take over. My response is to view it as a potential resource. A world government is a good idea if it knows how to limit itself. My suggestion is that UN concern itself with the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, and leave all other political concerns to independent nations. We can each chip in military force and the UN can make sure no new nations get nukes and other really destructive weapons. All other functions of the UN can go away, because over the last fifty years, they haven't succeeded and they're likely to lure us into entangling alliances.

5. Allow us to select our own neighbors

This really could be grouped under point 2, but I think it's unique enough to talk about here too.

We want the ability to choose who we hire, rent to, sell to and live near by some basis other than making our neighborhoods too expensive.

Rules like affirmative action, anti-discrimination in housing, and government subsidies impose neighbors on us by the actions of bureaucrats far away. There's enough revenge behavior, bad logic, and carelessness in this process that it's almost always destructive. Let's end it. Repeal the HUD, affirmative action and other laws that ignore a basic truth: people can be both from a protected group AND criminals/perverts/etc. It's not a OR situation, where they're either a minority group or not and that's the only decision we make. Right now, someone who is both from a protected group AND a problem can use the law against anyone who refuses them service. Let's change that.

Even more, this rule makes good sense in that it doesn't have any government or group take responsibility for the welfare of others. There's enough opportunity in this country that they'll make it, whether in a localized community or a big city, on the basis of their abilities and character. We probably don't want to support anyone who lacks abilities and character, whatever their origin.

6. Stop supporting that which can't support itself

People who are misinformed use their support of the disadvantaged to make themselves seem more compassionate than others. That wins some points in the popularity game, but it confuses those who are genuinely disadvantaged with those who are not a match for our society.

Some feel better if we support anyone, no matter how dysfunctional, because they fear their own potential dysfunction. Our goal is to navigate between the extremes of being intolerant of basically good people who have fallen on hard times or are having a hard time, and support of those who will never contribute anything to our society.

We ask everyone to contribute as part of our social contract. There are many ways to contribute, not all financial. For example, it makes sense that the state helps subsidize students, artists, environmental workers and some non-profits. But over the past decades, we have accumulated a permanent underclass who live on state handouts.

I will always support job insurance and disability insurance as a universal right. If the economy heads into the toilet, or even a job is lost that's hard to replace, it is fair that society support that contributing worker. If someone is injured on the job, that is a sacrifice like those made in wartime that we should subsidize.

However, welfare programs cultivate dependents. They reward people for not contributing, and then increase their reward if they have more offspring, especially in single-parent homes. This disaster is just creating more people who are not going to contribute, and bleeding more of our effort to them that could go to things that everyone can enjoy, like arts, culture, museums and education.

We do not have to be monsters. All we have to do is say we are no longer supporting those who cannot contribute. If they become criminals, we can arrest them and put them to work in our jails. If they find work and stay on it, we will have succeeded in rehabilitating the otherwise lost.

In addition, we should consider universal health care the way the Swiss do. They pool their money in a state-run fund that provides health care at an extremely low cost. We can require all citizens to buy into this plan and it will be cheaper than any other method of ensuring our citizens are health insured.

7. Tax destructive businesses

We have no problem taxing cigarettes and alcohol, which cause bad health. Why are we reluctant to tax businesses that hurt community health?

Some former crimes are victimless in that only the user is affected, but they leave behind human ruins and incidental damages to society. Fast food, pornography, bars, liquor stores, drug paraphrenalia, paycheck loans and cheap low-quality products leave behind damages outside of the product itself. Let's raise taxes on these concerns so we can use that money to offset the damages.

We could also consider a tax structure that assesses higher taxes for businesses that hire mostly unskilled workers, so that we encourage businesses that promote skilled, productive people.

8. Reduce government

This one is a no-brainer: our government is so big that it has to observe itself through the media to know what it is doing. We can simplify and consolidate its functions, discard others, and encourage it to hire fewer but more skilled people to do what now is passed to legions of contractors.

Government spends much of its time and energy on non-issues because it has to justify itself. This is how we get politicized public education, sponsorship of non-profits which contribute nothing to everyone and a lot to special interest groups, and programs that produce nothing of merit. Big government likes to hide behind a lot of activity. We need to remove that cover and have a government that responds to actual needs with practical solutions.

One way to help with this is to clearly articulate the scope of government. We don't need a Nanny State, or a government that teaches us morality, or a government that is there to take care of our every need. We need a government to provide safe streets, sound defense, and some social programs to keep us on course. Everything else can go.

9. Integrate environmental regulation

Our current government has no plan for incorporating environmental regulation except through more government.

Under the current type of government we have, when you want to build a home or office, you will have to go to one office for the building permit, several other offices for the electric and plumbing, and finally, run it by an environmental committee, and that's before you get to local regulations.

What makes more sense that having special environmental committees and new bureaucrats is to integrate environmental concerns into the life-cycle of every product. There needs to be a plan for the waste created in its manufacture, and for its disposal when it is done. We can work through our tax system to rebate portions of cost at each stage.

Environmental concerns come first and foremost in our worries, but adding layers of government doesn't help. Building environmental awareness into everything that we do does. For each action that damages our environment, there needs to be a cleanup or offset plan.

10. Concentrate our wealth

Much of the platform above involves cutting out programs that don't work and saving money, time and energy spent on them. Where does that power, representative of the value produced by our society, go?

My advice is that we re-invest in ourselves by investing in our future, and channel that money into education and research and development. This will make us more competitive, make life better, and guarantee that our best and brightest rise to the top.

For each program that squanders wealth, the cost to us is little, except in terms of what we then can't afford. Each welfare program is less money for college students to take on the vast costs of education. Each Nanny State program is less money for parks and nature preserves. Each vast bureaucracy steals from our future generations by depriving them of the research and funding to be their very best.

Instead of squandering our cash, let's move it into areas that are both productive now and will be in the future.

Future Politics

It's no surprise that most political campaigns are negative. Politicians and voters both have given up on finding any common ground, and so they're satisfied to bicker and squabble over symbolic issues that have little to do with the most important question of leadership: planning for the future.

We think pro-white voters have the ability to recognize this as well as others, and to recognize that their current path of defensive bigotry and reactionary paranoia will lead to nothing more than the same. If we want change, we need to give up on the idea of ideological purity and dogmatic absolutes, and instead focus on practical solutions that allow citizens to live according to our values if they so choose.

Currently, that's not the situation, but it won't be hard to fix government so that it becomes possible. For us to do that requires we let go of what didn't work in the past, and work toward a future based on a positive, whole political program. If we unite on a rational plan, others will finally join us, and we will accomplish what we desire.