Accepting the Fact of Exile In America's Jacobin Terror

At American Greatness, Jared E. Peterson reminds us that the Democrats have gone full Jacobin. Or Leninist, or Stalinist or whatever.

Today’s Democrats condemn conservatives, traditionalists, and patriots in words chosen to promote hatred and intensify existing social divisions. Their opponents are not wrong for rationally stated reasons—they are dismissed as racists, white supremacists, white nationalists, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes, climate deniers, “deplorables.”

Thus the 2020 election will be a contest like no other.

It will be a contest between those animated by loathing who pursue revolution, and those animated by affection who seek improvement. It will be a struggle for national survival against those who despise the nation and openly seek to replace both it and the descendants of its European founders and later immigrants.

For the Democrats, it is a battle against "whiteness." David Cole writes about an Amazon movie The Aeronauts based on the real-life story of a man who saved himself and in compadre from death in a balloon.

Above cloud level, at unprecedented heights, Coxwell, fighting to stay conscious, bravely climbed up the balloon’s rigging to release the blocked valve that was preventing descent. Oh, and he released it with his teeth while holding on for dear life with both hands.

In the movie, this death-defying heroism is done by a woman. I don't think so. Same with James Cameron's Avatar where the girl helicopter pilot joins the dissidents and uses her helicopter to hide the Avatar machines from the evil Marine general. Wouldn't have happened. Girls just don't do stuff like that. Instead, they insist on safe spaces, freedom from microaggression, and how they feel offended.

But the question is: what do we do about it? Beyond winning the 2020 election?

The Zman writes about the situation of the dissident. The natural resort of dissidents, at first, is to seek access to the institutions "to make their case." But what if that doesn't work, and that, as now, we conservative nationalist dissidents are all dismissed as racists etc. as above? In that case, the dissident is facing "exile" like the Puritans:

[The Puritans] began as reformers of the English church, but eventually ended up as exiles. They were not only exiled from the church, but from English society and eventually their country. As a result, Puritanism was able to develop into a fully formed and independent set of religious and social beliefs. Puritanism probably could not have survived if not for the exile of its adherents.

That is what is facing us "normals" or "deplorables" or "white supremacists." Or whatever. It will no longer do to live as the Outer Party to the Democrats' Inner Party, living by the grace and favor of the Inner Party deep state. We have to develop an "independent set of religious and social beliefs." And this set of beliefs must, at a minimum, put the current Jacobins of political correctness and identity politics on trial as enemies of all that is good and true.

Of course, this is what my whole life is about. I define the broad nature of the people in our society with my reductive Three Peoples theory, where I characterize our current educated ruling class as People of the Creative Self that have defined the ordinary bourgeois People of the Responsible Self as the enemy, the essential political "other." I define the Progressive world view as the Great Reaction, where socialism is neo-slavery, the welfare state is neo-feudalism, and identity politics is neo-tribalism. And I try to pull a solution together in my Perfect Plan.

My idea is that we all of us have something of serfs in our personality: we want someone to take care of us. So there will always be some sort of welfare state. Most of us, however, possess the bourgeois culture of responsibility, that we should each set our own course within the framework of obeying the law, going to work, and following the rules. So there must be a market economy that makes us all adjust to the price signals of the consumers.

The big problem is our creative class that believes in their miraculous role to effect the transformation of the world according to their vision of the anointed. Yes, perfectly understandable, but monstrously evil if it includes the utter demonization of the ordinary deplorable People of the Responsible Self.

And this is especially evil since the clear tendency of capitalism is to encourage and reward people for being responsible and cooperative.

Clearly, it is the nature of the People of the Creative Self to get into religious and cultish enthusiasms from time to time and want the utter transformation of society, right now, as did the Jacobins. Here in the United States they did it in the Sixties. It took Republicans winning four out of five presidential elections in a row to cure them of that, for a season in 1992. But Barack Obama triggered a new Reign of Terror and Virtue against the deplorables of the Responsible Self.

Despite all this, the fundamental datum of human existence is the necessity to return again and again to the basic task of wiving and thriving, putting the next generation on the ground and feeding it and keeping it alive until it leaves the nest. That is all the ordinary people of the earth ever wanted and all they ever will want.

It is up to us to teach our betters about this truth. Otherwise they will consume the earth in the terrible wrath of their genius and their conceit that they are the Chosen Ones that have come to lead us to the Promised Land.