How did the West go from having a healthy level of self-defense to being battered without the will to defend itself, often cheering those who attack them, and always cheering their own economic displacement?
The left explains everything through environmental factors. The pseudo-scientific Stormfronters explain everything through genetics. But 99% of legitimate scientists agree that it’s a combination of the two. No thinking person could possibly believe that environment plays no role. Likewise, no sane person could possibly believe that the way nations act is not effected by their history.
Just as people change, nations change. A woman with normal sexual drives can suddenly change upon a traumatic experience such as rape. This doesn’t mean that she is genetically programmed to be afraid of men or to be disgusted by sex, but her trauma may cause her to react in such a way.
Fighting two world wars that came on the heels of centuries of brutal fighting can have the same effect. Nations can tire of fighting and embrace just the opposite ideology. It may not be healthy, just as being disgusted by sex or turning lesbian would not be, but it can happen. Not everything can be explained by genetics or conspiracy.
Europeans realized that our weaponry is so powerful that unless we pull back, the world will end very quickly. It is not a mere coincidence that the first seeds of what became the European Union came into being shortly after WWII and the development of A-bombs.
After WWI, people had hoped that the time of war ended. They were too civilized. They depended on each other too much economically. But within a generation, a new, more brutal war broke out. In 1945 there was no reason not to believe that yet more deadly wars are on the way. There was absolutely no reason to believe the world will not be destroyed before the end of the century.
The same process occurred to the Jews. During and immediately after the First World War, the Russian Czar (and subsequently the pro-Czarist White Army) tried to kill six million Jews under his rule, but succeeded at murdering only 100,000. A generation later, Hitler tried to kill 11 million European Jews, but he did succeeded in taking out 6 million of them. There was no reason why Jews would not fear that next time around, they will be eliminated.
During WWI, the Germans were the good guys who defended the Jews. During WWII, they were the ones who targeted them.
The logical thing for Jews to do was either to go to Israel and fight for survival by developing nuclear and other weapons or alternatively to try to give up their Jewishness in favor of internationalism, while trying to convince others to do the same. That’s why Israeli Jews are right-wingers while American Jews are liberals.
The latter felt that internationalism could protect them and began preaching it to the receptive whites who were also tired of fighting. Even in places lack any significant Jewish population, this ideology took a strong hold because it was so attractive to people tired of centuries of ever-escalating warfare. That internationalism/multiculturalism, kumbaya, make love not war, etc became popular shortly after WWII is not a coincidence.
The 1950s was also the time of the Red Scare. Why? Because Communism was a brutal regime and the West was afraid of further brutality. The West was afraid that it will fall under such regime. (At the same time, some do-gooders thought that by supporting the enemy of Nazism, which is Communism, they would lead to world peace. The road to hell is usually built with good intentions.)
During WWII, it was attractive to believe in the heat of battle that Germans were particularly evil. But the dust settled, it was widely acknowledged that the Germans are a civilized people that nobody thought would commit genocide.
Furthermore, Germany was needed to fight Communism. West Germany was on the front line and East Germany had to be presented as the victim of the Soviet Union. Demonizing the Germans as being exceptionally evil did not serve our new needs.
So if decent folks that we now like could do something so evil, couldn’t the rest of us? Are our discriminatory laws against blacks going to lead to genocide too? If the nice, smart Germans could do it, why not Americans? Why not Danes? Brits?
East Europeans were not concerned with this. They did not need to portray the West Germans as victims, but as aggressors. It was ok to continue to vilify the Germans. Non-Soviet East Europeans could vilify both the Russians and the Germans, so they had no reason to think, “aren’t we just like the Germans/Soviets?”
To a Pole or a Czech, what does it matter what the Germans and the Soviets did? That was them and this is us. We fought against them and continue to do so.
But Americans/West Europeans had to make nice with Germans. Since they were now just like us (which they had to be in order to be allies against Communism), then we could potentially do the same thing they did.
To Jews, many of whom were still in Displaced Persons Camps, watching the US and Britain make nice with Germany must’ve been horrifying and proof that goyim must be out to get them. (Never mind that from the Western perspective, it had nothing to do with Jews and was done merely to stop Communism, which at this point was actively persecuting Jews.)
Jews split into two camps. The Jewish Jewish organizations all became Zionist. On the other hand,the general organizations run by not-so-Jewish Jews (SPLC, ACLU) became more entrenched in their views in hopes that if only they became un-Jews, rejecting Judaism and Zionism, the Gentiles too will reject their own nationalism.
Thus, the generation after WWII (the 1950s and the 1960s) featured the rise of multicultural liberalism, often with anti-Zionist/anti-Judaism Jews at its helm.
It quickly became obvious that the new ideology turned into a cult that was taking equality too far. In the 1950s, the Southerners fought back, but lost badly for the lack of articulate spokesmen who could say something better than “I hate them niggers. They ain’t going to school with my daughter”.
When fighting, you must always keep the high ground and screaming about “niggers” was just not useful. Neither was it useful that most of the leaders were just sell out politicians looking to incite crowds, but not actually help them.
Another reason is that the Southern fight came too early. Just a few years after WWII, the people were just not ready to admit that the new kumbaya ideology that sought to make everyone love each other was a giant failure.
The Southern loss was so decisive that it scared off the rest of the population.
Despite the animosity towards the neocons from the paleocons (which is mostly a turf war), this movement was an attempt by the Jews and other liberals to get back to realistic thinking. The first anti-affirmative action law suit was by a Jew. Subsequent affirmative action law suits in the 1970s received universal support from the Jewish Jewish organizations.
By the 1970s, Jewish organizations widely opposed affirmative action and stopped sponsoring “civil rights”. NAACP used to be Jewish-run, but was no longer and in fact became hostile to the Jews, as did the Urban League and other civil rights organizations.
The more sane segments of the Jewish population realized that their real enemy were the hostile minorities, not the (needlessly) guilt-ridden Gentile Whites. Neo-conservatism was an attempt to bridge their prior views with realism about blacks and Moslems.
Among the more politically informed Jews, neo-conservatism gained a decent level of popularity, as evidenced by the ever-increasing Jewish donations to the GOP, while the percentage given to the Democrats decreased. (The overall numbers went up for both parties, but that’s true for everyone because campaign funding increased drastically. But the percentage became higher for the GOP and lower for the Dems.)
So why can’t the Jews join the Paleos and White Nationalists? Because unlike the neocons, these people are viciously hostile to the Jews, with extremists calling for genocide and moderates calling for ethnic cleansing. Expecting anything other than rabid opposition from the Jews would be completely irrational. In fact, the whole right, even the philo-Semitic Republican party suffers because of the WNs extreme hostility to Jews.
And other Americans are also not ready for genocide or ethnic cleansing. Not that they ever were.
And that’s the story of American politics over the last three generations. We were convinced that if the Germans could do it, so could we. But why? If my neighbor rapes his daughter, does that mean that I should be on the look out for my own perversion just because he may be similar to me in other ways (education, occupation, etc)? Why?
The Germans made a massive mistake and they paid the price. They aren’t like us. They made a mistake and we didn’t.
With the end of the Cold War and with the propaganda machine no longer need to tell us that Germans are identical to us, it’s time to admit something. We aren’t like them. They may be smart and they may be an advanced civilization. But they committed a genocide. (Even the Russian genocide could be blamed on the Germans because the Czar was 92% German and his wife 100%.)
The Germans started two world wars and a genocide, not us. We may be like them in many ways, but this is one that we aren’t like them at all. We are Americans (or Brits or Danes or Greeks), we aren’t Germans. We should stop feeling bad for their crimes.