Dudes

Barack Obama, the current American President, was on comedian Jon Stewart's Daily Show. At one point, Stewart called him, "Dude."  Where's Barbara Boxer when you need her?  For the first and only time.

I am well aware that I have said way worse than that about Obama here. But what you write on a blog is different from a personal meeting in public, on TV. Even the lamest man, Jimmy Carter, for example, holds the persona of the office, and that office deserves more public respect, even if he may not. Were I in that Stewart spot, I'd say, "I think you have been a disaster for our country, sir."

One writer about the interaction expressed why I dislike Stewart and Colbert: their and their audience's assumption that mere disillusionment grants you moral superiority. It's the ethical stance of a high school kid.

It looks like the Democrats will take a huge hit on Tuesday. If they do --and more than deservedly-- and this gives the Republicans some actual power, I hope against hope that the GOP will not also fuck up. Although this iteration of Democrats has been galactically worse than Bush's Republicans, they were no prize. At all.

There are days when I recall a line from an old Jungian, that "the world is not supposed to work; all it can really do is increase consciousness."

Been mulling over these words from Sam Francis: 

...when you admit racial and cultural aliens into institutions created by and for people of a different race and culture, you're going to have problems. The newcomers don't feel comfortable... and if they gain power, which eventually they will, they will do all they can to abolish and eradicate those symbols that make them feel like the outsiders they are.

... it's not just fairly trivial symbols like Col. Reb, the flags at the football game, the name of the team, and the songs the spectators can't sing. It's everything—everything whites (not just Southerners) ever created and built, from their form of government, to their religion, to their art and entertainment, to what they teach in universities.

Non-whites of all races and cultures are increasingly aware that they just don't fit in the institutions built by whites, and therefore they demand that these institutions bend to their will.

And the reason they succeed, of course, is that the white leadership of the institutions created by and for whites lacks the brains and the guts to resist.

This dynamic is true not only in matters multicultural, but works as well when feminism transforms things to make women not only comfortable but dominant. True for all the -isms in the progressive agenda. The power of group status in history. Foolish to underestimate it.