This article is garbage. I hate hyperbole and hate writing those words. But this article embodies and promulgates the intellectual surrender of conservatism. It promotes jingoistic, Marxist class and identify politics in the name of “populist conservatism”. As a lifelong constitutional conservative, I am grieved and deeply troubled.
Leftist identity politics has now taken over the “Republican” party. I loved reading “Hillbilly Elegy” and thought Vance made a valuable cultural contribution in his primus opus. It saddens me to see him seemingly sell out his previously, and eloquently stated principles to appeal to RINOs who don’t understand the constitution or conservatism. What does it gain a man if he acquires the whole world at the price of his soul? Trumpist RINOs don’t seem even to understand the question.
Tribalism and Identarianism is a fact of a life in America. It is now as hard and solidified as concrete and there is no going back. You call "Turmpists" RINOs? Do YOU have an answer to outsourcing and the leaving of the white working class to just die off from deaths of despair to be replaced by a more compliant population?
We're facing extinction out here. You can either fight with us, or sit on the sidelines. But the days of unlimited free trade, no tariffs or protectionism of any kind and unlimited immigration and demographic replacement are OVER in the GOP. This is now a right wing worker's party and if you think you are too good to fight with the "uneducated rednecks, trailer trash and other losers" then go be a Democrat, plenty of people who think like you already are.
My answer to your question is capitalism. Less government regulation combined with freer markets leads to economic growth, higher wages, and fuller employment. And we have to stop illegal immigration, which artificially depresses wages. You raise a great question. Sadly, there is no longer a market for Morse-code trained telegraph operators in rural steam engine train stations. And there at other jobs which are going to require additional training or a change of career. That is the reality of a free market economy. The alternative is for government to take control of the economy and issue hiring and wage mandates. Which is very close to the definition of socialism—the government owning/controlling the means of production.
I work with “red necks” (your word, not mine) every day at my job. Many are fine people. Many are not. I care nothing about class, only one’s character.
I think JD Vance gets it. While most McCain Reps are trying for tax and regulation reform, the progressive Marxist have taken over academia, the schools, the media, and 2/3 of government. JD see this and has the right target in his cross hairs. I wish we had 50 more like him.
Anything more intelligent/substantive to write? I am a union carpenter who left for work at 4:30 this morning and worked in 90 degree plus heat all day. What do you do for a living? The fact that I am educated and reasonably articulate shouldn’t make me your enemy. Can you even formulate an argument, or must you rely on factually vacuous ad hominem attacks? You should be ashamed...but I suspect you aren’t intelligent enough or self-aware enough to embrace reality.
I think the "coming apart" piece is the main issue. If you think things are bad now with the known problems just wait. The "winners" vs. the "losers" thing is likely to get worse. Just wait as artificial intelligence takes hold more in the next 10 to 15 years generating even more losers. Just wait until climate change causes even more massive migration from the south to the USA in another 20 or 30 years. Seems to me a dystopian scenario is a likely outcome. I have a hard time seeing our current political system as able to manage what is coming. Something is likely to give in how we fundamentally govern ourselves be it an illiberal democracy and/or a more European democratic socialist welfare state system. The millennials are in for a rough future unlike the Baby Boomers (of which I am one). Agreed, Trump did not incite the crowd to storm the capital. I figure he was indeed clueless. I find it really hard to get how people actually would vote for Trump yet a third time given his performance to date and likely what is to come out in the near future from possible/probable legal indictments. Why even DeSantis (I live in FL)) would be an improvement over Trump I figure. Then we shall see. Please tell me Mickey you would not vote for Trump a third time he says with a smile.
Walt Kelly was nothing if not a populist. In the infamous comic book Senate hearings he mollified the legislators by drawing caricatures of them and presenting them to the subjects. His genius was to bridge the gap between elite and common.
The context of the cartoon in question was environmentalism. Kelly portrayed us as our own worst enemies in the sustainability space. Of all Kelly's works, that book was among the least political and most appealing to a broad spectrum of the US audience.
Please do not take this author's word for what Pogoism is and take some time to examine Kelly's oeuvre.
Trump was a liberal democrat his entire life. Multiple party changes in the past decade. Even Rush Limbaugh said on the air that Trump was not governed by conservative principles, but by unprincipled pragmatism (which admittedly often supported policy positions I agree with—and I give Trump credit there!). I so much want to see a true conservative win in 2024 (and in every election!). If that makes me a spokesperson for the elite, I think the terse comment attacking me was made by an uniformed, class-warfare touting progressive without the intellectual acumen to realize she is serving the very people she claims to hate. Do some reading the founding of our country...the writing and ratification of the constitution...all the things we should be proud of as Americans. Republican populism is nothing more than progressivism in Elephants’ clothing. We can and should do better!
Anti-White liberals and respectable conservatives that support unlimited third-world immigration and FORCED assimilation for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries say that they are anti-racist, but their policies will lead to a world with no White people i.e White Genocide.
The font is the least offensive aspect of the new Corvette's rear end!
This article is garbage. I hate hyperbole and hate writing those words. But this article embodies and promulgates the intellectual surrender of conservatism. It promotes jingoistic, Marxist class and identify politics in the name of “populist conservatism”. As a lifelong constitutional conservative, I am grieved and deeply troubled.
Leftist identity politics has now taken over the “Republican” party. I loved reading “Hillbilly Elegy” and thought Vance made a valuable cultural contribution in his primus opus. It saddens me to see him seemingly sell out his previously, and eloquently stated principles to appeal to RINOs who don’t understand the constitution or conservatism. What does it gain a man if he acquires the whole world at the price of his soul? Trumpist RINOs don’t seem even to understand the question.
Tribalism and Identarianism is a fact of a life in America. It is now as hard and solidified as concrete and there is no going back. You call "Turmpists" RINOs? Do YOU have an answer to outsourcing and the leaving of the white working class to just die off from deaths of despair to be replaced by a more compliant population?
We're facing extinction out here. You can either fight with us, or sit on the sidelines. But the days of unlimited free trade, no tariffs or protectionism of any kind and unlimited immigration and demographic replacement are OVER in the GOP. This is now a right wing worker's party and if you think you are too good to fight with the "uneducated rednecks, trailer trash and other losers" then go be a Democrat, plenty of people who think like you already are.
My answer to your question is capitalism. Less government regulation combined with freer markets leads to economic growth, higher wages, and fuller employment. And we have to stop illegal immigration, which artificially depresses wages. You raise a great question. Sadly, there is no longer a market for Morse-code trained telegraph operators in rural steam engine train stations. And there at other jobs which are going to require additional training or a change of career. That is the reality of a free market economy. The alternative is for government to take control of the economy and issue hiring and wage mandates. Which is very close to the definition of socialism—the government owning/controlling the means of production.
I work with “red necks” (your word, not mine) every day at my job. Many are fine people. Many are not. I care nothing about class, only one’s character.
WCW—do you actually have an intelligent response, or were you simply bloviating? I always value a substantive and informed discussion. Let’s talk.
I think JD Vance gets it. While most McCain Reps are trying for tax and regulation reform, the progressive Marxist have taken over academia, the schools, the media, and 2/3 of government. JD see this and has the right target in his cross hairs. I wish we had 50 more like him.
And the article is so stylistically crappy that I couldn't finish. Just me?
Spokesperson for the elite.
Anything more intelligent/substantive to write? I am a union carpenter who left for work at 4:30 this morning and worked in 90 degree plus heat all day. What do you do for a living? The fact that I am educated and reasonably articulate shouldn’t make me your enemy. Can you even formulate an argument, or must you rely on factually vacuous ad hominem attacks? You should be ashamed...but I suspect you aren’t intelligent enough or self-aware enough to embrace reality.
I think the "coming apart" piece is the main issue. If you think things are bad now with the known problems just wait. The "winners" vs. the "losers" thing is likely to get worse. Just wait as artificial intelligence takes hold more in the next 10 to 15 years generating even more losers. Just wait until climate change causes even more massive migration from the south to the USA in another 20 or 30 years. Seems to me a dystopian scenario is a likely outcome. I have a hard time seeing our current political system as able to manage what is coming. Something is likely to give in how we fundamentally govern ourselves be it an illiberal democracy and/or a more European democratic socialist welfare state system. The millennials are in for a rough future unlike the Baby Boomers (of which I am one). Agreed, Trump did not incite the crowd to storm the capital. I figure he was indeed clueless. I find it really hard to get how people actually would vote for Trump yet a third time given his performance to date and likely what is to come out in the near future from possible/probable legal indictments. Why even DeSantis (I live in FL)) would be an improvement over Trump I figure. Then we shall see. Please tell me Mickey you would not vote for Trump a third time he says with a smile.
“ a little like slagging Johnny Hallyday in Paris Match…”…lol
The author's summary of Pogoism is weak.
Walt Kelly was nothing if not a populist. In the infamous comic book Senate hearings he mollified the legislators by drawing caricatures of them and presenting them to the subjects. His genius was to bridge the gap between elite and common.
The context of the cartoon in question was environmentalism. Kelly portrayed us as our own worst enemies in the sustainability space. Of all Kelly's works, that book was among the least political and most appealing to a broad spectrum of the US audience.
Please do not take this author's word for what Pogoism is and take some time to examine Kelly's oeuvre.
I don’t have a problem with Vance. I’d vote for him if I could just like I do for Tom Cotton, which I do.
Trump was a liberal democrat his entire life. Multiple party changes in the past decade. Even Rush Limbaugh said on the air that Trump was not governed by conservative principles, but by unprincipled pragmatism (which admittedly often supported policy positions I agree with—and I give Trump credit there!). I so much want to see a true conservative win in 2024 (and in every election!). If that makes me a spokesperson for the elite, I think the terse comment attacking me was made by an uniformed, class-warfare touting progressive without the intellectual acumen to realize she is serving the very people she claims to hate. Do some reading the founding of our country...the writing and ratification of the constitution...all the things we should be proud of as Americans. Republican populism is nothing more than progressivism in Elephants’ clothing. We can and should do better!
J.D. Vance: barefoot boy from Wall Street. (Apologies to Wendell Wilkie)
As opposed to Al Gore?
Anti-White liberals and respectable conservatives that support unlimited third-world immigration and FORCED assimilation for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries say that they are anti-racist, but their policies will lead to a world with no White people i.e White Genocide.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.