The Economic Nationalist

The Times of London reports,

Jacqui Smith, the [British] Home Secretary, showed little sympathy over the leak. She told Sky News: “It probably says something about the BNP that people don’t want to have it known that they are a member.”

The “leak” Miss Smith refers to apparently regards the theft and publication of a confidential membership list of the British National Party (BNP), betraying the members’ names, home addresses and telephone numbers.

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America’s material wealth consists not of the things we finance, communicate, administer and trade. It consists, largely, of the things we manufacture, grow, mine and build. The Economic Nationalist thus wonders how it comes to pass that the United States can spare $ 2000 billion to bail out Wall Street, which makes nothing, but, seemingly, not $ 50 billion to bail out Detroit.

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(It is regrettably necessary to note that the title does not refer to the president-elect, for to taunt high public officials is not and has never been this blog’s style. Many have the name of Barry. This regards one of the others.)

The Proverbs of Barry:

• In a bear market, money returns to its rightful owner.
• The market is not benevolent.

The Economic Nationalist does not feel sure that it wholly yet understands the first of Barry’s twin proverbs, but both proverbs provoke thought, do they not?

Vanishing American writes,

The truth will out, though, and we will all be freer in a society in which people can speak the truth without fear of ‘offending’ some person with an agenda, and without fear of being attacked verbally or otherwise for expressing an unpopular or unflattering truth. As each of us does a small part to resist the conditioning and the propaganda, and to weaken this climate of fear and timidity, the PC taboos will eventually break down. Lies are harder to maintain than the truth, which is often self-evident, once the lies have been challenged firmly. PC is a high-maintenance ideology; our opponents and enemies have to work day and night to maintain the crumbling facade of political correct multiculturalism. That’s the reason for their relentlessness and their fanaticism; they know, subconsciously at least, that they have to work frantically to keep their deception intact.

Just so.

Let us be at peace. We have dodged a great disaster. John McCain has lost.

Lift your heads up, conservatives! The sun has set on a dark day. The clouds break. The stars gleam out. Barack Obama may be a wolf in the night, but, even if he is, too many of us still ring the fire. This wolf cannot well strike our camp.

We have no need now to devise intricate solutions to our nation’s problems. Let the Democrats bear that burden a while. Opposition is liberating. We can oppose.

We mean to survive. We will not let our children be dispossessed by gradual decay of demography. Surely we can unite our people, the traditional American people, behind this simple proposition.

How, exactly, do we mean to survive? Never mind that! We do not yet agree on that point. That discussion is poisonous. Worse, under the present circumstance, it is pointless. In opposition, we are not required to propose. We need only oppose.

Opposition is liberating.

Our cause is just. By standing our honest ground about our campfire, we shall compel our foes to show their bodies in the firelight, or to hang back slinking impotently in the darkness, or to confess the plain justice of our cause and to join our side.

The left have made a fateful blunder this week. They have accepted the staff of power too soon, before their numbers were adequate, before their plans were ripe. Let us not by foolish squabbling among ourselves permit them to escape the consequences of their mistake.

Make them own it. Make them rue the day.

For the day comes.

HJH

Every four years, right-wing political enthusiasts like this writer and his readers err in supposing that some inspiring but nationally unknown Republican might capture the coming Republican presidential nomination, whereas the event somehow never transpires. Democrats nominate newcomers; Republicans do not. The senseless 2008 Republican nomination of John McCain is perhaps the best testament yet to the enduring Republican propensity to nominate whichever nationally known Republican Republicans perceive to come in rightful turn to the lead.

It is one of the several reasons the Tories are affectionately called the Stupid Party. It is also an established fact of political life.

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Barack Obama, the man from nowhere, has been voted and will be elected 44th president of the United States.

Mr. Obama does not merit the honor. As Americans, we wish him well nonetheless.

Wishes however are to be tempered with a sober dose of reality. Unless Mr. Obama turns out to be considerably more cautious—literally, in this context, more conservative—than we have reason to believe likely, his expanded Congressional majorities are going to get him into political trouble, fast; for, unlike Lyndon B. Johnson, Mr. Obama has inherited no economy robust enough to abuse in the socialist way he would like. A healthy national future simply cannot be built upon Mr. Obama’s principles. Mr. Obama and his Democrats can try. Oh, they will try. And they will fail, all too soon.

The American left have made a crucial error in 2008. They have peaked prematurely. John McCain, if elected, would very likely have played the role of a bellicose Herbert Hoover, leaving a chastened Democratic party in a far stronger, more enduring position by 2012—except that George W. Bush had bizarrely spoiled the script by preceding McCain’s Hoover by a Woodrow Wilson rather than a Calvin Coolidge. As such, Democrats have bit too early upon their chance.

Aye, those shifty Democrats: they’ve taken the bait. Now events will reel them in.

As for us Republicans, in penance may we find political grace.

Howard J. Harrison
The Economic Nationalist

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So here we stand, on the verge of election again. Our badly abused yet still magnificent Constitution authorizes and condones that solemn popular act November 4 which—we have every reason to believe—will order the 43rd peaceful change of power in U.S. history.

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No, no, no, Ross! Ross Douthat writes,

If anything, I think the way the McCain campaign has finished up—and the way the media has covered it—works to [Louisiana Governor Bobby] Jindal’s advantage in 2012: Conservatives are going to be extremely eager to prove that they only hate Obama because he’s a radical, not because they’re racist, and what better way to demonstrate that than to nominate a dark-skinned conservative with a funny-sounding name? Indeed, much of the current affection for Jindal among movement conservatives—and especially in talk-radio land—can be traced to precisely such a yearning for a conservative Obama: A multicultural prince who channels Ronald Reagan, and whose nomination would at least reduce the taint of racism that clings to the American Right.

Does Ross not see? The American Right could not conceivably have done more than it has done to cleanse itself of the taint of racism, whereas Democrats like John Murtha and Joe Biden remind us recently again of which party alas is the actually racist one. The problem is not in the imaginary, nonexistent, illusory Republican taint. The problem is in that U.S. minorities often do not want antiracism and indeed are insulted by it. The bigger problem is that U.S. whites are sick and tired of being so persistently labeled as morally defective racists by their own, white, Republican leaders.

American blacks in particular continue to show bafflement at incessantly disrespectful Republican attempts to convert them into honorary whites. They actually like being black. Why can we not understand this? Why won’t we listen to them?

The Democrats get it. We do not.

Bobby Jindal is a fine fellow and he may very well become president of the United States one day, but he is not going to solve Republicans’ problems with the minority vote. The spectacular rise of Clarence Thomas has in seventeen years shifted hardly a single black vote to the Republican column. Michael Steele has failed to win the black vote in Maryland. Vernon Robinson has failed likewise in North Carolina, as has Lynn Swann in Pennsylvania. Messrs. Thomas, Steele, Robinson and Swann are good men and valued Republican compatriots, but they very clearly do not speak for their fellow American blacks. What is it with us on the American Right that we cannot seem to learn the lesson in this?

HJH