Monday, May 20, 2019

Dog Whistles Are Not For Dogs

Recently, I came across someone decent in one particular domain of reality, but he doesn't understand politics at all.
Seems quite anti-Trump, and actually thought it was a good idea that Macron won, because, of course, the original Le Pen was an anti-semite and Marine is, at the very least, tainted with his name.

Of course, to me, this is lunacy. Not that Marine is particularly good, or even that Trump is, but that compared to what we've been dealing with these past decades, well, they are preferable.

I think it would have probably been better for the world if we had had a Ron Paul presidency. I don't know how well he would have done, but again, he was the best choice out of the pool at the time. But if you remember much of anything, you'd remember he too was tarred with this anti-semite brush. Racist, crazy, etc...

And now we've got Trump. A billionaire capable of jumping over all the barriers erected to avoid a Ron Paul ever again. Still a civic nationalist, still obviously not the racist the media makes him out to be.

But what if he is thwarted? Or, more importantly, what do the people do if they see their political will being thwarted? Hint- they aren't going to stop trying to change things. They can see the injustice done against themselves. It is preferable that we use peaceful means to solve these problems.

Anyway, we have a three groups of people- or perhaps three ways of looking at things. There are nomads. There are people who stay on the land and try to build something. And then there are bureaucrats. There are good and bad of every type, except for the last, because the good bureaucrat was left in the past, back when they were actually working for a particular noble and could be held immediately accountable for whatever bad decision they made. Now they pretend to work 'for the people'. And, even when they are trying to be good, they tend to insulate themselves from the consequences of their actions.

Additionally, the modern politician has learned to completely avoid any accountability democracy might have in it by taking from their citizens and catering to nomads. There are good nomads and bad ones- and I am sure this would be interpreted as a dog whistle. It is not- it is an attempt at explaining a point to the leftist. How the fuck will anything you build, any city, any culture, anything at all- survive this game? The politicians burn through what our forefathers gave us, and move new people in to replace us, and we can't even get infrastructure replaced properly. One must at least make a distinction between those who complement whatever it is the people are trying to do in a particular region and the nomads who would rape and pillage.

This is not just a problem for the right. A completely crazy left wing collective cannot survive what is being perpetrated upon us. None of the kibbutzim could survive. And yet every time someone tries to understand where you are coming from and tries to construct and argument that you might understand, you shut down dialog. Oh, that's a dog whistle. No it's not. Dogs are easier to communicate with. We don't need new language for dogs.

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