The Vanishing American has a good discussion on what the realists would consider “better” or “worse”?
I would like to have some clarification about just what is meant by the adjectives ‘worse’ and ‘better’, in this context.
When someone implies that Obama’s election would lead to a turn for the worse for white Americans, what exactly does ‘worse’ entail? Are we talking about merely more political correctness, more obnoxious sermonizing from everybody about racism, more Orwellian hate crime laws? Supreme Court appointments that would be unfavorable to us? What? All of the above?
Or are we talking about seriously ‘worse’ in the sense of escalating conflicts and animosity between the races, up to and including some kind of violence? Sporadic attacks on whites? ‘Hate crimes’? Riots?
If this is what we mean, we are talking about human beings’ safety and lives here. Are random people to be offered up as a sacrifice so that we can ‘radicalize’ conservatives or wake up the sleepwalkers?
And when we talk about worse leading to ‘better’, what is the ‘better’ we are hoping for or counting on? More seats for Republicans in Congress? More prestige for the ‘conservative movement’, whatever that is? Or are we looking for vindication, hoping that people will come to us and say ”you were right all along; now I see, now I realize I should have listened to you.” Are those who are bloggers or pundits hoping that they will be acknowledged as prophets for calling it right all along?
His commentary on why worse is probably not better is well worth reading, and is very convincing.
I don’t think that Obama would take race to that (or really any) extent in the Supreme Court, which is seperate from the president. I also don’t believe Obama will get elected, which makes articles such as these unnecessary. Logically, Obama isn’t going anywhere, especially after Wright’s outburst which left him shy of many white voters. His wife, Michelle, is the one who really brings up race. She’s the one we should be looking out for if by some unfavorable miracle Obama gets elected.
I think Vanishing American is a “she.” I agree – a great read.
As usual, VA has written an excellent piece here; she always does.
A turn for the worse is always for the worse. To lose ground is always a loss. We cannot afford to give away any of what we have. We have lost too much already.
We are definitely in a war, a battle with an enemy whose major weapon is lies. The principal weapon to defeat those lies is Truth. The Truth has to be spoken boldly, fearlessly, loudly, and without hesitation at every opportunity. Political correctness is nothing but lies. Lies cannot stand up to Truth, so all we have to do is have the courage to speak the Truth.
The basic premise of PC is that we must never offend anyone, even those who are doing horrible things. We must never call their hand, never say that what they are doing is wrong, never say that they are acting against the law, acting against the common good, etc. Why? Because we might offend them! Now is that asinine or what? And yet, that is the heart of PC!
PC is enforced by fear, fear of being labeled. We have to overcome that fear. Does it really matter if someone calls me a racist? No, it really does not. I can tell the difference between black and white, and so can most other people, even the color blind. I can bear the label, and so can you. They have nothing else but their labels, and if we say that we don’t care, they are out of ammunition. We have to develop some backbone!
One more thing, regarding Worse/Better. For really Better, consider voting for the Constitution Party candidate; he looks very good.
Psst…
VA is a woman.
“Worse is better” advocates should look to history. Southern Africa’s whites haven’t learned. They still oppose “racism”. Liberal American whites flee the destruction they wreak in the major cities (New York, L.A.) and settle other places that were once rock-ribbed conservative (Vermont) and bring their unchanged, learned-not-a-thing liberalism right along with them. Worse is worse.
Great point Irish! If “worse is better” didn’t work in South Africa, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Southwest Africa (Namibia), it won’t work anywhere.
South African whites (mostly Dutch Afrikaners and the English), Rhodesians (English) and SWA whites (Germans) did not learn a lesson from what happened to the, how can you expect expansion of affirmative action and welfare state to bring about change in attitude among American whites?
Our Affirmative Action is nowhere near as harsh as South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment, which itself is far less harsh than Robert Mugabe’s ethnic cleaning in Zimbabwe.
If President Mugabe couldn’t change white attitudes, how can anyone think President Obama will?