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NaTimes regular Clint Lacy sent me link for his interview the other night on the above program. The host, James Edwards, mentioned in passing that "we are nationalists" and said something that seemed to contrast themselves with "conservatives". A mere blip on the screen, but an encouraging one perhaps. I'm not as bullish as some on this distinction but those who make it all signal thereby that they are more hip than many.

Ah -- they just in effect identified themselves as "Constitutional populists", and then nationalists again. Then Edwards asserted he's not a "respectable conservative", seeming to signal he reads Robert Whitaker. Gets better than the minute!

[Wolfram]

NaTimes regular Clint Lacy sent me link for his interview the other night on the above program. The host, James Edwards, mentioned in passing that "we are nationalists" and said something that seemed to contrast themselves with "conservatives". A mere blip on the screen, but an encouraging one perhaps. I'm not as bullish as some on this distinction but those who make it all signal thereby that they are more hip than many.

Ah -- they just in effect identified themselves as "Constitutional populists", and then nationalists again. Then Edwards asserted he's not a "respectable conservative", seeming to signal he reads Robert Whitaker. Gets better than the minute!


Speaking of Robert Whitaker, I would recommend "Why Johnny Can't Think" which is his latest. It's only 217 pages, with a forward by Joe Sobran; you can finish it in an evening or two.


Another one is "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" by John Taylor Gatto, 104 pages--another one you can cover in an evening or two.


W.

right on, Wolf! it's a terrific little book. i see it's ranked 142,151among Amazon's book offerings -- have spent some time surveying such ratings today and let me tell you that's a pretty passable one.


http://www.whitakeronline.org/ (http://www.whitakeronline.org/)is another of those compelling rightist sites. despite his seeming godlessness and fatalism, RW's columns are like Lay's potato chips -- "no one can eat just one".

[Don Wassall]

"Populist," "patriot" and "nationalist" are often interchanged without making distinctions, but they do havemuch in common. And all are now openlyin opposition tonot onlyliberalism but also the conservatism identified with the neo-con Bush administration and the"Big Tent" GOP of humongous government.

[Wolfram]

"Populist," "patriot" and "nationalist" are often interchanged without making distinctions, but they do havemuch in common. And all are now openlyin opposition tonot onlyliberalism but also the conservatism identified with the neo-con Bush administration and the"Big Tent" GOP of humongous government.


Speaking as one who was born into a family which seemed to believe that only Republicans went to Heaven, I'm just plain stunned to see what Bush and his neocons have made of the party.


Last September, as the presidential election approached, my congressional representative Melissa Hart sent me a form letter asking for support of Dubya in order to "preserve our conservative values." I composed a reply which I haven't sent yet.


Might as well go ahead and send it; I'm pretty sure I'm already "on the list" anyway.


P.S. - I didn't vote at all last year - "Tweedledee and Tweedledum agreed to have a battle, for Tweedledee said Tweedledum had spoiled his nice new rattle. Just then flew down a monstrous crow, black as a tar barrel, which frightened both our heroes so, they quite forgot their battle" (apologies to Lewis Carroll if I've misquoted).

ROTF! we've heard the 2 parties likened to Tweedledee and 'dum many times, nobody's ever given us the context before.smileys/smiley32.gif I hope Carroll meant it that way, because it really fits. Most wars are over nothing more substantial than babies' rattles.


I haven't voted in almost 15 years. In fact I didn't transfer my voting reg upon crossing the Mason-Dixie line for good in 1992. The "conservative values" of today's Repuglicans are despicable.


I've written several columns on what a plague political parties are


http://www.patriotist.com/nwarch/nw20030331.htm


in whichI even rapped My Own People, tongue partly in cheek. What I said applies equally to any crowd that's ever been party-fetishistic, of course: Southerners voting the Democrat party line out of sheer spite against the party of Lincoln, for over 100 years! Was there ever a more catastrophically misguided case of 'brand loyalty?' Has any other single electoral factor done more damage to our national life than the "solid Democratic South"? You know how passionate I am in defense of Dixie, but this affair makes me start to wonder if we aren't as thick-headed as Yankees love to portray us. Why didn't we simply refuse to play the party game from the first? Have we not been played for suckers?Edited by: nelson

[Wolfram]

I've checked it out, nelson, and find I had a couple of mistakes in the quotation from "Through the Looking Glass." Here it is exactly:


Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle!
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.


Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel!
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.'


And, btw, Southerners have noexclusive proprietary rights on thick-headedness; I've lived north of the M-D line all my life, and can assure you that Yankees have few competitors in that regard.


I believe it was Phineas T. Barnum, and not H.L. Mencken, who originally said that nobody ever lost a nickel underestimating the intelligence of the American public. But there's plenty of world-wide competition for the championship; in Ibsen's "Enemy of the People," Dr. Stockmann observes that the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority the world-over.












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