2022 Election Postmortem

Analysis.

To begin with, it must be said that I was once again correct – while I hoped for a Red Wave, I accurately predicted that what we would have instead is a Blue Puddle, Democrats doing much better than expected. Before we do an election postmortem, two other points. 

First, Tucker Carlson’s “analysis” that the real problem was that the Republicans could not get their message out because of media bias is absurd.  While it is true that such bias exists and does harm the GOP, it was not among the primary reasons for the electoral catastrophe.  After all, in 2016, Trump was elected, and the GOP controlled Congress (accomplishing absolutely nothing – a clue to the real issues), in the face of strong media bias. DeSantis did very well in Florida in this election despite the media.  And it should be noted that one primary reason that the media bias exists in the first place is that the incompetent Right has allowed the Left to take over all of America’s major institutions, including the media, without putting up a fight. And where was the Mainstream Right when the Far Right was being silenced? The Mainstream Right mostly supports that silencing; what goes around comes around. In any case, the real problems for the GOP lie elsewhere.

Second, while I have already critiqued Greg Johnson’s wrongheaded and short-sighted opinions on the election (and see here), I also have to say he has a lot of nerve acting as if he speaks on behalf of White nationalists in general on this (or any other) topic. Even if he was an authentic White nationalist, which he is not, being a petty nationalist ethnonationalist, he does not have the right to represent the entire spectrum of opinion of White nationalists. If no one else will tell him to shut his filthy mouth, I do so here. I would also like to point out that if you want to engage with the White Americans that you wish to recruit to your cause, you will, at least sometimes, need to consider issues that your target audience considers important, elections being among them.  And, as I have written, a concern for the election has nothing to do with supporting the Mainstream Right, who are our enemies and should be opposed, and everything about supporting right-wing populism, which is a stepping-stone toward White racial activism. This election was widely perceived (rightfully or not) as a referendum on right-wing populism and other issues of concern to us, and the popular perception is that of a repudiation. That is something to be genuinely concerned about.

So, what sunk the GOP in 2022?

1. Demographics – these changes, which Republicans have enabled for decades, have made it difficult for the GOP to win on a nationwide level and at the level of some of the more populous states. Refusing to address demographics has consequences. Republican attempts to expand their base to include non-Whites have not been as successful as the breathless news stories (mostly about Hispanics) indicate, and even if they were, that is at the cost of alienating the White base, which the GOP takes for granted. This continued alienation of the White base can be a major electoral impediment going forward.

2. The Right in general has ceded most areas of importance to the Left – media and social media, academia, all areas of popular culture, etc., and this has reinforced the tendency of youth to be more leftist than their elders.  Combined with the demographic changes discussed above, which are concentrated among the young, this has restricted the pool of Republican voters.

3. The abortion issue has done great damage. It doesn’t matter if some selected “pro-life” Republicans won; on a national level, abortion mobilized the Left, dampened support for the Right, and may have been the major issue affecting this election. Abortion was the major issue that influenced my 2022 electoral predictions. In order to placate Christard yahoos obsessed with saving niglets from being aborted, the Right squandered a major electoral opportunity. This demonstrates the weakness of Christian nationalism and the dangers of placating the Christian fanatics, who have demonstrated an inability to deliver during an election. The same dangers hold for the Far Right as well; we should be strictly secular and not tied to the Christards.

4. Related to #3, GOP messaging in general was off. While the election was perceived as a referendum on right-wing populism, aspects of the actual GOP messaging was not right-wing populism at all. Obsessions about abortion and tax cuts fit into the “business as usual” GOP agenda. In contrast, candidates like DeSantis and Vance, who were more authentically populist from a rightist standpoint, did well. So the reality of the election was not a repudiation of right-wing populism when such is properly presented to the appropriate state audiences; however, a national level, there was a perception of such a repudiation.  In politics, popular perception (right or wrong) can be devastating.

And the GOP failed to effectively counter Democrat messaging. Republicans could have forcefully pushed back against the Jan. 6 narratives by pointing out that some guy running around the Capitol Building dressed like a bison was less of a threat than the preceding eight months of rioting, arson, murder, vandalism, intimidation, setting up of autonomous zones (real insurrection), besieging the President in the White House (ditto), etc. But cowardly Republicans are afraid of being seen as “extremist,” they are unable to push back against anything (being weak and useless grifters habituated to constantly losing), and the cuckservative faction actually agrees with the Democrats about Jan.6 anyway. The GOP had a lousy message, regardless of whether the media conspired to have that message suppressed (suppression may actually be a positive given how lousy the message is).

5. Related to #4, Trump had a lot to do with this poor electoral outcome. Even people who support right-wing populism are tired of Trump’s pathological sociopathic narcissism and his overweening stupidity. As President he did nothing and betrayed his base; now, he acts the buffoon even more than usual and alienates thoughtful people. Trumptards are a danger to pro-White activism as well, as there are still many on the Far Right obsessed with their God Emperor and with his German-Scottish ancestry.

6. The Republicans ran godawful candidates.  Walker in Georgia is not only on the left side of the general hominid bell curve, but on the left side of the specifically Negro bell curve. And it doesn’t matter if articulate medical doctor Mehmet Oz is objectively of more merit than the shambling brain-damaged Frankenstein monster “Lurch” Fetterman. What matters is - who is the better candidate for the state of Pennsylvania? White residents of that state are well-known for being pathologically xenophobic in distinguishing between “good” native Pennsylvanians and “bad" everyone else. Of course they’d favor a native retard over a cosmopolitan Muslim Turk carpetbagger. Indeed, if this fine gentleman was a native Pennsylvanian, then he would likely win an election against Mehmet Oz.

Well, well, well... Note that MacDonald and I are in agreement, and against Johnson's perspective. Will Johnson and MacDonald debate this issue?

If Trump gets the 2924 nomination...

Does Trump have a time machine?

More from MacDonald (bold font emphasis added):

The great majority of White people—the ones who aren’t seriously religious—tend to vote Democrat by a substantial margin. This a good indication of the hopelessness of the cause of getting White people to understand the need to start asserting their interests as Whites.

And of course, to make matters worse, the born-agains and Evangelicals are at best implicitly White. Their world view is foreign to racial thinking and they strongly support Israel and see Jews in a very positive light.

So in general, these results show that the great majority of Whites are still very much under the spell of the narrative being pumped out by the media and the educational system, and have no idea what their long-term interests are. It’s all going to work out wonderfully, and we can all look forward to a harmonious, conflict free future.

The conclusion is that there aren’t any more signs of a White awakening than have been evident in the recent past, despite all the reasons to further coalesce in the Republican Party. Like I said, depressing. The message of the dissident right is not getting through.

Very interesting.  I agree.  Let's take a look again at that last sentence: "The message of the dissident right is not getting through."

Now, we can contrast that to Gaslighting Greg, who insists that the election results are optimal (and, anyway, who cares, right?) and that we are winning and effectively getting dissident right ideas into the mainstream. The two Fearless Leaders could not be more different in their interpretation of the current situation.

Obviously I agree with MacDonald here.  Why such a difference? Hypothesis about the Far Right - the more someone is dependent on donations, the more likely they are to say that (a) they don't care about the mid-term results and/or (b) they think the results are good.

Rationale:

• 1. The tincuppers do not want their followers too distracted by mainstream electoral politics, since that would take attention away from "movement" page views and panhandling.
• 2. The tincuppers are afraid that if their followers get too "blackpilled" they will fall into despair and not bother with page views and donations. Hence, the paradox of "worse is better" types constantly telling us how "we are winning."

Compare Johnson vs. MacDonald vs. Sallis. By this hypothesis, one would predict Taylor would fall in between Johnson and MacDonald.

In any case, again, note that when these guys have such fundamental, existential disagreements, they don't "call out" the other, don't debate, and rarely if ever mention it. The Good Old Boys Network of Der Movement trumps principled opposition and a pursuit of the truth.

Odds and Ends, 11/13/22

In der news.

To paraphrase Sam Francis and his comments on Democrats and Republicans – Germans are the evil ethny and Italians are the stupid ethny.

A practical argument for pan-Europeanism, even for people who would prefer ethnonationalism, is that each and every European ethny is so degenerate that it is impossible to assemble an effective cadre of effective people from any one ethny, or even from a subracial grouping of several ethnies. Instead, you will be lucky if you can scrape together sufficient qualified individuals from the entirety of the family of all European peoples.

Even Michelangelo needed marble to make statues, if he'd had only clay, he would be nothing more than a potter. - Mussolini

Guess what Benito was referring to there. He realized then what is painfully obvious to us all now. Clay, not marble.

Christards and Trumptards didn't deliver - the practical message of the election (other than Sallis is always right).

Re: the GOP's mid-term implosion: Tell me again why we need the Christards and Trumptards if they couldn't even deliver a "Red Wave" under what was originally propitious conditions, and which they ruined with abortion and Trumpian antics? In the long run, we're better off without both.  It's not that I care about "Republicans" or the outcome of a mid-term election - it is the future of American right-wing populism that is at stake.

Who was warning you about Trump the fraud, Trump the vulgar ignorant buffoon, since before the 2016 election? And Der Movement was gushing over the obese German-Scottish hybrid long after he had long demonstrated his retardation before the eyes of history.

Sallis is always, always, ALWAYS right...who has been warning you since the summer that the "Red Wave" was an illusion and that a "Blue Puddle" was just as likely? At best, a "Red Ripple."  

Der Right's alleged (Coloreds haven't gotten the memo yet) new multiracial coalition failed miserably, just like WN 3.0 will fail miserably.  GOP treason against its White base - a regular event - inevitably resulted in an electoral crash.

We need scientists on our side, and when we alienate them with rightist stupidity, the results are inevitable.

Psychotic Counter-Currents commentator Nordicism:

VehmgerichtNovember 8, 2022 at 5:37 pm

I don’t think Greta Thunberg should be subjected to personal attacks. Obviously she has been utilised by NGOs to promote a certain ‘globalist’ message, but I feel there is hope that she will eventually reconnect with her roots. Which, if physiognomy does not lie, are as much Northern Hunter Gatherer as Yamnaya. Then she might advocate for the conservation of indigenous human lifeways in Europe.

Sallis rewrite:

I think that Greta Thunberg should be subjected to endless personal attacks. Obviously she has been utilized by NGOs to promote a certain ‘globalist’ message, which is because she has connected with her High Truster roots. Which, if physiognomy does not lie, are as much Northern Asian/Siberian as European. Then she might advocate for more Colored migration into Europe.

I like the second one better.

What Germans think of White Americans

Strange Worldsays:

November 8, 2022 at 3:52 pm

When the mongrel dog says to the wolf: “We have a lot in common!”, the wolf certainly does not say: “You bet!”, but: “You have a lot from me, but I have nothing from you. Except my collar. And I never want to be like you!”

Strange Worldsays:

November 8, 2022 at 4:31 pm

“Oh, that hurts! We Americans want closeness – but you elitist arrogant Krauts still think you’re the spearhead of white race!”  I don’t recognize any closeness. The only thing I recognize is intellectual theft of our cultural heritage for purely “tactical reasons”. Where was your alleged sympathy when it was a matter of our volkish survival?

Der Master Race doesn't think much of you. Your response?

Look at the middle panel. That's what the High Trusters want - upright, cheerful Negroes, instead of sullen White ethnics who always point out High Truster stupidity.

Note to PA GOP: Your next PA senatorial candidate, other than this gentleman needs to be a Christard High Truster, with a double digit IQ, driving a pickup truck (with dents from multiple highway deer hits), whose family has been living in the state since the days of Ben Franklin writing Fart Proudly. Otherwise, you won't win.

Der Right's abject humiliation. FOX can spin all they want, given the context, the electoral results are a catastrophe.

Losers:

• Trump
• Christian nationalism
• Big Tent multiracial right-wing populism
• High Truster leadership

Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the only real big winner on Der Right is a wop.

High Truster Trump wrecked American right-wing populism and trashed the "Red Wave." High Trusters in Der Movement have given you decades of endless humiliating failure. High Truster leadership of the EU as given you The Great Replacement and they've done the same in the USA with their Jewish senior partners. They are so inept they make Schettino look like Lord Nelson by comparison.

If you refuse to hold failed "leadership" accountable then all you will get is more failure.

We need a revolution on the Right to stop the grift, depose the leadership, and set up a secular, effective alternative.

Re: this. Another thing that superficial midwit Johnson doesn’t get about the recent election is that American elections have devolved into being more about popular perception than about pragmatic policy. Thus, the 2022 mid-terms were – apart from the admittedly important (to the voters) issue of abortion – essentially a referendum on right-wing politics, Trump, White identity, Jan. 6 “riot,” and the “worse is better” excesses of the Left. And the results were not promising from the perspective of how Whites voted.

More to the point, Johnson and his ilk are fond of bragging about how Der Movement’s ideas (e.g., The Great Replacement) are infiltrating into the mainstream, particularly into the Mainstream Right, which has as its vehicle the GOP. In that sense, the GOP’s electoral disaster was an indirect rejection of Der Movement. If you think that is a “stretch” then imagine what the likely reaction of Johnson et al. would have been to an overwhelming Red Wave victory. They no doubt would have been crowing that this was a grand victory for right-wing populism and for Der Movement’s ideas that have infiltrated into that type of populism. Faced with a repudiation of those ideas the grifters fall back to claiming the election doesn’t really matter (but at the same time the results are optimal for WNs – a contradiction) and that “worse is better” anyway, despite the fact that (e.g., according the people like Goad) things are indeed “worse” and yet the public gave a tacit seal of approval to leftist lunacy. This is a situation that demands serious analysis, but instead we get juvenile nonsense disguising an impatience with people talking about elections instead of sluicing money Greggy’s way.

It seems that none of the self-indulgent Wolfe podcasts analyzing The Book of the New Sun have noticed the similarity between Severian (and sword) spending the night in a bed with an uncomfortable Baldanders in an inn and the Queequeg (and harpoon) and Ishmael bed sharing in an inn in Moby Dick.

Racial-Cultural Hormesis

Riposte.

Gaslighting Greg.

First, many of those bland and/or unqualified candidates were pushed forward by your God Emperor, the "sincere man of genuine greatness," Trump. You have the "gridiron groid" Walker because he has a personal relationship with Trump. Trump endorsed the cosmopolitan socially liberal Muslim Turk Oz, who is literally less suited to appeal to PA White voters than Phil the groundhog, and I'm not joking - again, literally less suited.

Second, if you want WN-oriented candidates, then you need to have a competent, rational, and constructive "movement" that produces ideas and people that can appeal to White "normies." So far, the best you get is Trump the Fraud, a conservative Italian-American who is an effective leader but far from being a racialist, and a High Trust "hillbilly" married to a brownster. Sorry, that's not a good record.  How about electable candidates who are explicitly pro-White?  How many more decades and millions of dollars does Der Movement require before such candidates manifest?

Third, "worse is better" has a proven record of failure rivalled by that other example of right-wing "genius" - mainstreaming. If "worse is better" worked, then after 2020, either Der Fraud Trump would have been re-elected in a landslide or, at least, 1/6/21 would have led to widespread White civil unrest. How much more "worse" do things need to get for Whites to "do something?"  Maybe Whites are ready but have no leadership?  See more on that below. We need real leaders, not hopes that things just get worse and worse, with a death spiral into oblivion.

"Worse is better" is just a lazy, thoughtless paradigm peddled by rightist grifters who want their "D'Nations" without the need to put forward positive, constructive approaches to get any of their objectives achieved.

Another FAIL from Johnson.

Now, someone may accuse me of inconsistency. They'll say: "You always quote Salter as writing that the only thing worse than a multiculturalism that does not work is one that does, since the latter would more painlessly accommodate race replacement. So isn't that the same as worse is better?"

We need to carefully distinguish different arguments. Saying that we should want multiculturalism to fail, and to cause chaos and pain, so as to stimulate resistance, is not the same as a blanket attitude of "worse is better."  I also endorse the reality of Suvorov's Law - revolutions typically do not occur during the time of greatest repression but when that repression is suddenly relaxed.  I have written on the need to balance the two ideas of (1) inducing enough pain but (2) then relaxing things to allow the counter-reaction to manifest,  In other words, we need enough "worseness" to stimulate a response but not so much that Whites are completely cowed, in despair, and prevented from acting.  It is like the principle of hormesis:

...hormesis is a dose response phenomenon to xenobiotics or other stressors characterized by a low-dose stimulation, with zero dose and high-dose inhibition...

Thus - too little racial-cultural pain and Whites quietly go to extinction, but too much and Whites become crushed to such an extent that resistance becomes futile.  If "worse is better" then why not advocate death camps for Whites with Jewish overseers and Negro guards? Why not advocate for hundreds of millions of non-White immigrants to flood into White lands every year?  Why does Greggy support Trump, DeSantis, and Vance?  And why does Salter advocate for democratic multiculturalism? Do Whites really need more crime, more alien immigration, and more collapsing standards to realize that change is required?  The support for the fraud Trump in 2016 possibly suggests otherwise.

Perhaps we are already at the optimal hormesis point. However, we lack a real movement and we lack authentic, effective leaders - an assortment of freaks, grifters, and sweaty fetishists do not constitute said leadership. Whites are not going to be motivated to follow effete intellectuals gibbering about Kali Yuga and asking for money every fifteen seconds, they are not going to follow someone who says that Asians are superior to Whites in every conceivable manner, and they are not going to follow someone who has degenerated into a "mad monk' peddling crazed nonsense asserting that extreme conformists who enforce strict social norms by ostracism or even violence are "individualists." Crazies, weirdos, and conmen do not constitute the type of movement required to appeal to those Whites who already know things are bad.

"Worse is better" is an excuse to just sit back rattling the tin cup. Peddling that paradigm at this point is simply disgraceful.

On Courage

Thoughts.

Many people think of courage or of heroic acts in the sense of instinctive physical courage – a scenario suddenly unfolds and the courageous hero springs into action, instantly and without a thought to the consequences to self, and performs some deed of self-sacrifice or, if not that, at least some risky action that has the potential for danger and self-sacrifice, benefitting others.

That’s all well and good, but is that real courage? Is that real heroism?  Is an instinctive, reflex action, performed, as noted, “instantly and without a thought to the consequences to self,” really courageous?  It would seem to me that true courage, true heroism, contains within it a full understanding of the risks involved, of the consequences, and does not always have to be a physical action.  Indeed, it can be taking a political sand, speaking out even when at risk for doing so; the whole direction I’m thinking toward, whether the action is physical or not, is moral courage, action taken after deliberation and thought as to consequences.  Of course, in some circumstances, the scenario unfolds so quickly that such deliberate thought is not possible, one must act or not act, now, and that’s all well and good and that can be viewed as courage if you will.  But that’s not what I see as real courage, real heroism.  And please note that by deliberation and thought this does not imply some particular length of time, one does not need to sit brooding and pondering for long time periods in order for an act to demonstrate real courage. Indeed, the deliberation and thought can consist merely of a few seconds, and if those few seconds are sufficient for a conscious decision making process then that is all that is required for genuine (moral) courage. The person is faced with a situation in which they can act thus or not thus and after a “moment” of deliberation (seconds or hours or years or whatever) they decide to act thus, and in acting thus do something that would be said to reflect courage and heroism.

A soldier throwing themselves on a grenade, instantly and without thinking, and thus saving their comrades may or may not be courage and heroism (I have my doubts), but a person seeing another being unjustly attacked and having that “moment” to decide, to deliberate, and then acts to defend the victim, that is, in my opinion, definitely courage.

To summarize, I see courage and heroism as incorporating within it some aspect of a conscious decision – it may be a very brief deliberation, it may be only a few seconds, but it should contain the option of “act thus or not thus” – with “acting thus” being something that has some element of risk and/or discomfort and that will help some other.

Odds and Ends, 11/8/22

In der news.

Ultimately, my opposition to the Cofnas argument is summarized thus - it is not enough just to do a simple bean-counting of Jewish over-representation on the Left vs. the Right (that would favor the Left in any case, supporting MacDonald), but we must actually look at what all of these Jews are doing, what ideas, memes, paradigms, and policies they are promoting. If you look at actual sociopolitical behavior, rather than at superficial Left vs. Right labels, you will observe that Jews, even those ostensibly on the Right (even the Far Right), keep on pushing destructive, subversive, anti-White, anti-Western, leftist ideas. Hart's promotion of a multiracial "White separatist state" - multiracial diversity promoted within the context of Far Right White separatism! - is just the most egregious example of this trend. Then we have HBD, which prioritizes Jewish and Asian IQ over White interests and divides Whites based on hierarchies of traits, and in the mainstream, Neoconservatism, which prioritizes Israeli security interests and promotes social liberalism with economic conservatism (the opposite of right-wing populism). Looking at ideas rather than just labels supports MacDonald and refutes Cofnas.

A curse of White people is their propensity for division that is always exploited by their enemies, tendencies such as ethnonationalism, Nordicism, HBD, and now the moronic generational warfare fad.

It is amusing how the majestically ignorant Dunphy types, steeped as they are in hyper-Dunning-Kruggerism, do not realize that the older Whites they criticize faced similar problems when they themselves were young. White people, particularly men, going to college and/or entering the workforce in the 80s and 90s faced an affirmative action that if anything had less restrictions than today.  And, yes, when I was young I was grossly underpaid and older people made a lot more money. That’s how it has always been; stop whining.  And back then there was no Internet community to turn to for support, no online options to make money, none of the myriad digital opportunities extant today. And why begrudge people the retirement savings that they earned with decades of work – would the youth rather highly paid older people stay in the work force until they die instead of retiring and opening up spots?  And it wasn’t our fault that pensions were gotten rid of so that we were forced to dabble in stock investments; indeed, the whole derangement of the economy and loss of job security started in our generation, not today’s. If the youth want to blame someone for downward mobility (other than themselves of course, a prime source of legitimate blame) they can look at outsourcing and Colored immigration – but blaming holy non-Whites is a bridge too far for the youth, who would rather parrot System “OK Boomer” memes rather than blaming the Jew-Colored-elite High Truster alliance. If the youth are the future, then we’re really screwed. Grow up, imbeciles.

Ted Sallis:

Not only power, but the will to redemption is one of the most powerful of human motivators.

Gene Wolfe:

We strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present. (Severian in The Book of the New Sun)

Mencken's 1923 description of WASPs using unfair tactics to stifle ethnic competition sounds a lot like Der Movement's affirmative action program of today. Ban and blacklist the "crazy" Sallis!

Behold the pathetic wop:

Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told reporters Italy would allow a German migrant rescue ship to arrive in Sicily to land minors and those with medical emergencies...

...The Humanity 1 was on its way to the Sicilian port of Catania, Piantedosi said, adding it would be allowed to remain in Italian waters only long enough to disembark minors and people needing medical care...

...At the same time, Italian authorities continue to allow the arrivals of people rescued at sea by Italian patrols, including 456 arriving in Calabria on Thursday and some 6,000 over the last week.

Sallis right once again. The dago folds and then declares victory. The Italian "government" - a woman, a Padanian midwit, and a geriatric playboy. Bunga bunga! Pathetic.

What the hell is the point of a "Far Right government" if you are letting ANY this trash into the country and why the hell are there still Italian patrols picking up the vermin and dumping them into Italy?

Typical dago behavior - all superficial sound and fury, signifying nothing

The wop is thus exposed as an inferior species.

I should have known better.

By the way, this proves my point about mainstreaming. Yes, maybe, "once in a blue moon." a mainstreaming approach can lead to an electoral success - but then the elected "Far Right" "leader" is exposed as a centrist fraud. The mainstreaming becomes the reality and you get immigration policy similar to what you would expect from John McCain on estrogen therapy.

Eurohierarchy

More ethnography. In all cases, emphasis added.

Some background.

See this.

See the table.  All consistent with popular national stereotypes.

Abstract:

We theorize that people’s perceptions of national hierarchy are aligned not only with longstanding cultural schemas of development but also with schemas of cultural wealth. We use data from the Nation Brands Index surveys to examine how European publics’ evaluate their own country and other European countries across many attributes. We find that European publics rank northwest European countries highest on developmental attributes and southwestern European nations highest on cultural attributes, while they rank eastern European countries lowest in both categorizations. Moreover, we show that publics’ rankings of countries load to two related yet distinct factors, the contents of which closely reflect schemas of development and cultural wealth. This evidence suggests that these two distinct schemas are simultaneously present in Europeans’ perceptions of national hierarchy.

Main text:

How nations perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others is especially important because such perceptions are a primary motivating factor in geopolitical military activity and trade wars among countries that have interest in boosting their status position (Melegh 2006)...

…that European publics think of an intra-European hierarchy of nations that favors western and northern countries and disfavors eastern and southern ones. 

The question is - why? My “take” on it is that stereotypes have some basis in reality and therefore Southern and Eastern Europeans need to take a hard, cold look at themselves and ask why they are not feared or respected, why they are treated with contempt. They need to improve themselves and stand stall; merely complaining about the attitudes of others is insufficient.

Among Europeans, perceptions of a developmental hierarchy of nations traces to widely disseminated historical narratives of a north-to-south gradient of societal advancement, with the origin of “civilization” imagined as beginning first from the seat of Greek, and later, Roman, empire in southern Europe (Antohi 2000). With the economic, military, and technological ascendency of western European countries beginning in the 17th century, the perception of a north-to-south civilization slope was gradually replaced by a perceived east-to-west developmental spectrum that closely tracks to the invention of “Eastern Europe” (Melegh 2006; Wolff 1994). 

“Invention”????????????????

One piece of evidence for the longstanding prevalence of such hierarchical views of different European nations is the use of categorical language to classify societies and places, such as the historically common labels of “savage” versus “civilized” peoples or “primitive” versus “modern” nations (Swindle 2019). In certain periods of Europe, pejorative adjectives like “barbaric,” “heathen” or “backward” have been ascribed to Slavic nations, places that fell outside of the Roman Empire and also to Eastern Orthodox religious adherents (Melegh 2006; Thornton et al. 2015:299–301; Wolff 2004). This classification practice continues to be widespread today, although generally with different adjectives (e.g. “less developed” versus “developed”).

Owing to our interest in beliefs about European national hierarchies, we restricted our analysis to data collected in the eight European countries—France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom (UK)—about their perceptions of the 23 European countries…

Turkey??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As measured by average country ranking, European publics placed Germany at the top of the regional hierarchy of nations, followed by Sweden and France. The top ranked countries for each index were: Sweden for Governance and People, Switzerland for Immigration & Investment, Germany for Products, France for Culture and Italy for Tourism. Romania was the lowest ranked country overall, followed by Lithuania, and Estonia. Each of the bottom ranked countries is located in what has historically been referred to as eastern Europe, while all the top ranked countries are located in western Europe. These data offer further evidence of an entrenched and durable east-to-west perceptual slope of societal hierarchy among European publics.

Those peoples ranked low need some hard introspection.

The average standard deviation (SD) was 7, which suggests that Europeans in different countries relied on common evaluative criteria when ranking their continental peers. Austria received the most consistent ranking (SD=4.1), followed by Hungary (SD=4.5). The least consistent rankings were given to Russia (SD=13.9), which had a high average ranking of 44.5 on Culture, but the lowest average ranking of all ranked European countries on Governance at 11.1. We observed several other notable inconsistencies in countries’ rankings across indices that indicated a possible bifurcation in Europeans’ perceptions of national development and culture. Spain and Italy received above average rankings on the attributes comprising the Tourism and Culture indices, but below average rankings on the Governance index. Conversely, Nordic countries tended to rank high on all but the Tourism and Culture indices.

Average Ranking Versus Self-ranking

In conclusion, we contrast in Table 8 how publics rate themselves with how other countries rate them. Our analysis shows that self-evaluations evinced an almost universal positive bias.

 But, but, but…I thought Nordics were non-ethnocentric individualists?

Publics were most likely to over-rate themselves on the People and Culture indices and were least likely to over-rate themselves on the Governance index. 

CONCLUSION

Our analyses indicate that Europeans’ evaluations of countries tended to cluster around two latent concepts, the contents of which closely relate to cultural schemas of “development” and “cultural wealth.” 

Our results showing a unique perception of a culturally based national hierarchy, on the other hand, supporting literature arguing about the importance of cultural wealth in nations’ public reputations. While we found that European publics perceived northwestern countries to be the most developed and many southwestern countries to be the most culturally rich, they viewed eastern countries lowest in both national hierarchies. 

That is consistent with the stereotypes that inform my own views on this subject, as discussed at this blog.

But preserving or constructing distinctive elements of perceived national culture requires a careful balancing act. Countries of central and especially eastern Europe must balance seeking acceptance into European proper while still being distinctive enough to attract tourists and foreign direct investment in a global marketplace. A recent Polish marketing slogan reflects this: “Poland is part of the West and also understands the East” (Olins 2006).

We also found that European publics ranked their own nation much more favorably than did their regional neighbors. 

The petty nationalists should be happy.

All in all, this paper's data conform to my views.

A practical note related to this topic:

The High Trusters have had a good run of preeminence for several centuries but it is now clearly coming to an end. In America, they are the obsequious junior partners to their Jewish masters; in Europe, they are destroying the continent through the promotion of Afro-Asiatic migration. Unfortunately, supine and disorganized Southern Europeans and rowdy and disorganized Eastern Europeans are not prepared to pick up the slack and resist. The only thing I see feasible at the current time is cooperation between the best elements of all three groups. But for this to happen the High Trusters need to dampen their over-blown self-importance and recognize that their time alone at the top is over.

Odds and Ends, 11/4/22

In der news.

IMPORTANT! The other shoe drops and Amren defends anti-KMacD (presumably Jewish) “race realist” Nathan Cofnas.

Well, well, well...Is MacDonald going to be as aggressive pushing back against this as he was with that swarthoid spokesman for Southern Italian interests Sallis? Or will the High Truster good old boys network win out?  Let's all emerge from our hobbit holes and observe.

I do not let personal feelings interfere with business, so in the MacDonald-Cofnas debate, I support MacDonald 100%. What about you, "Hood?"

Answer the question.

I also like how "Hood" pretends that the MacDonald-Cofnas dust-up is in the best scholarly traditions of the West, as if it has been akin to a bunch of English gentlemen sitting in a nobleman's study smoking pipes and discussing the finer points of natural philosophy.

In reality, the posts, comments, and tweets, particularly those involving or about Joyce, have reached almost Sallisian levels of disdain.

As stated, I support MacDonald in his debate with Cofnas. The Cofnas argument, as I understand it, is that Jews are not inherently anti-White, anti-Western, and subversive, but that because of their high IQ and accomplishment, they will be (more or less) equally over-represented in any entity that is not explicitly anti-Semitic.

Let’s look at American mainstream politics. The Republicans are not anti-Semitic, they are strongly pro-Israel, and in domestic politics they hold positions – lower taxes, pro-business, against affirmative action – that would seem to favor high-achieving, successful groups like the Jews.

The Democrats in contrast have anti-Semitic Colored elements, are not as strongly pro-Israel as are the Republicans (and some of those aforementioned Colored elements support the Palestinian cause), and support a domestic agenda harmful to high-achieving groups (essentially the opposite of what is listed above for the Republicans).

And yet, Jews overwhelmingly vote Democrat, and are more over-represented among Democratic and/or Democrat-associated leaders (e.g., Sanders, Schumer, and many others) and are more over-represented among Democrat donors.

By an interesting “coincidence” Democrats represent that political party that is most overtly anti-White, hostile to White interests, and alienated from traditional White America.  

And the same pattern holds throughout society in a variety of sociopolitical entities.

A similar argument holds with respect to Asian hatred of Whites.  Objectively, the GOP would seem more in tune with Asian interests (apart perhaps from that more Asian immigration may occur with Democrats).  But as American politics have become more racialized, and the Democrats more anti-White (and Republicans more associated with mainstream White America), Asians have drifted more toward the Democrats.

Another problem with the Cofnas argument is that when Jews do get involved with the Right, they typically do so in a subversive, destructive manner. For example, on the Mainstream Right we see the infection of Neoconservatism; on the Far Right, the HBD cult.  Further, with respect to the Far Right, consider all of the problems of Amren with Jews, including but not limited to the 2006 conference fiasco and its aftermath, Hart proposing a multiracial “White separatist state” (!!!), and Weissberg’s promotion of a “racial status quo” that accepts multiculturalism, affirmative action, etc.  I think we can do without such Jewish “contributions,” and if this is typical of what Cofnas presents as Jewish over-representation on the Right then it supports, rather than refutes, MacDonald’s work on the Jews.

See this.

...Meloni accused sea rescue charities of breaching international law by acting as a "shuttle" between Africa and Europe.

She insisted that the flag nations of the charity ships in question - Germany and Norway - should take care of the migrants currently stranded at sea, rather than Italy or Malta.

Two points. First, the lesser point - this is the first test for Meloni. Second, more importantly, this is yet another example of Germanic High Truster racial warfare against Southern Europe. Isn't it interesting that the same folks who falsely accuse Southern Europeans of being "racially mixed" are doing everything in their power to make that fantasy into reality?

This has been going on for YEARS. And weak, supine, feckless swarthoids do nothing. How about they sink the goddamned boats or take the migrants and parachute them into Germany and Norway? Goddamned jellyfish dagoes are part of the problem too. The spotlight is now on the wop. If a "Far Right" government cannot resist these Afro-Germanic migrant racial attacks, then the Eyetalian will be proven to be an inferior species before the verdict of history. Your move, Ms. Meloni. Obviously, the High Trusters are testing you. Indeed, if the Italians had any "balls" then they would mobilize their military - not against the migrants but against Germany and Norway.

On the other side of the equation, the verdict of history is already in on the High Trusters, who have forever forfeited the right to have the leading role in any European New Order. Put the High Trusters in charge of a European Imperium and they'd have it full of Afro-Asiatics within ten years.