Hayworth was winning until McCain went to fhe Mormons on his knees.

Him supporting Flake for Kyl’s seat was part of the price he paid.

Aviators tend to be short. Senator McCain certainly was short, in a field, namely politics, where every inch counts (no homo). To be successful in politics, 6 feet tall is the minimum. So McCain had to overcompensate by being the most belligerent, maverick, and manliest politician.
Short man syndrome. Also, daddy issues.
McCain was only great at being evil.

Both the 40/100,000 rate and the 1,600/100,000 rate are outside of normal rates in the world. The lowest I saw in WHO stats was about 90/100,000 (in black Africa). The highest was about 650/100,000 (in Australia). Maybe the Iraqi government’s stats are less than perfectly reliable. But, you believe Iraq descended from Saddam’s Eden to the most carcinogenic wasteland in the world 15 years later. I require at least a quasi-reliable source for such extraordinary claims.

I had always liked Lieberman. He should learn how to shut up.

MCain’s death has only brought the NeoCon/RINO and Leftist sectors of the Establishment together, not the people. The plebes are correctly seeing the lionization of MCcain for the anti-Trump propagandized event that it is.

Hey, I never took Caribou Barbie seriously as a thinker, but she did okay as a governor and I did vote for the ticket.

I remember thinking in 2008, when he chose Palin – “Wow! He’s throwing the race on purpose.”

Has that conspiratainment theory gotten any attention?

Too liberal on domestic issues (abortion, guns, environment, and many more). Contrary to liberal opinion, Lieberman was not a “conservative Democrat”; he was a standard neoliberal who embraced Bush on Iraq and terrorism.

We were talking about the U.S. Within the U.S. the argument is the Eastern European Ashkenazim have had an outsized role in the Cultural Left in the last 50 years, leading feckless WASPs by the nose. I’d argue Jewish leftist were successful because WASPs were already primed to engage in Messianism because the Reformation destroyed the role of the Roman hierarchy which for centuries did a pretty good job of keeping down destructive Messianic and Millenarian impulses (which are baked into the dna of Christianity), combine this with bourgeois ambition unchecked by nobility and neurosis about status and you have the U.S.

In other words, we were not talking about the US.

You are arguing that the Judaizing Old Testament obsession and Messianism of Low Church Protestants is due largely to an influence of Sephardim in the Netherlands?

Yes, of course.

Shooting the cervid in the face ruins the head and antlers. Assuming the shot isn’t missed, which is likely because a cervid’s head moves faster than its torso and is quite narrow, nose on.

Shooting a cervid in the vitals on field requires precision and self control.

Neither should be subject to a pornographizing impulse, nor cheapened as a sacred act between a very old People and the Herd that sustains and inspires us, and helps organize our seasons.

The same people who were mourning McCain’s death today as the passing of the last good white person

I think you mean “celebrating.”

Close to my view as well, and I said something similar to a friend who was bitching about RINOs.

The problem isn’t that they are fake Rs.

The problem is that R no longer means republican, small r. Many people sense or outright realize this. What’s missing is a party that represents we small-r republicans. That articulates and is faithful to that vision of THIS republic.

Words can’t express how it sickens me any time I have to vote for a Republican, whether they are the best of all worst choices or someone I actually would like to see hired for the office in question. When I think “Republican” I think Reagan, the Bushes, McCain, and all those puppets that Big Don had to defeat to win the GOP nomination…

…at the point the party realized it would never again win an election if its real republican voters jumped ship.

“Conservatism” was hacked in the 1980s to win elections by using cable TV to drive the white working and middle class into war with itself. It doesn’t seek to “conserve” anything–not nature, not founding stock Americans, not the US’s cultural heritage.

It saddens a lot of people that your father’s world no longer exists.

Sarah blondism still pops up as far away as Tajikistan. So lots of people have the genes. Plenty of brunettes have blond kids/grandkids. Also to most of the world light to medium brown hair (like say Elizabeth Hurley or Liam Hemsworth) is practically blond.

Pale blond hair is pretty rare and special though. It looks really great on people with tanned skin, like the surfer look. But bad on people with gingery complexions- just albino-ish. But less than 10 percent of even the adult white Northern Euro population has that hair color. Probably less than 5 percent among women.

Triggered much??

Some people can be trusted to take part in politics and some people can’t. The New York Times will let you know who’s qualified to engage in self-government and who’s not. Apparently the people of Chemnitz are not; they’re too blinded by ancestral passions. Let’s face it, the difference between “Chemnitz� and “Auschwitz� is only a few letters.

Back in East Germany days, Chemnitz was called Karl Marx Stadt. I’ll bet the Grey Hag could have gotten on board with that.

Weird to call that statue “vandalized.” It’s been destroyed.

Another excellent article by Johnstone.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/09/02/stop-humanizing-war-criminals/

Great comment. I’d hit agree but I don’t ever click “remember my information.” Someone should write a book about this subject.

They shared a bed. He made sure not to embarrass her again.

At first glance I thought you wrote:

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD LIEBERMAN BE PUT IN TRUMP’S CASKET.

Better check my eyeglass prescription….

Spot on comment. Senator McNasty not only blood-lusted to send White American boys to die in pointless wars, he traveled to Ukraine and other hot spots to stir up war. Which would have, again, been Whites killing Whites.

The only place I’ve seen blondes is the Malibu playground where pretty blonde moms bring their pretty blonde toddlers to play.

First – it is good to know those blondes of child bearing age found mating partners with blond DNA. Not so easy to put that combination together these days.

Second, since blonde/blond is a recessive trait (I am one, at least prior to going gray, and I have two blonde daughters), perhaps we should put us on an Endangered Species List. Maybe create our own ethnic or racial category, since we are few in absolute numbers and our percentage of population, both national and global, is dropping fast.

The Dutch Army is THAT way, faggot.

Agree. BTW, you don’t “invite” people to your funeral, except in the case of John McCain, who DISinvited Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. He had this no-expense-spared extravaganza planned out like a regular Bridezilla, and it’s purpose was to celebrate himself and get back at a few enemies.

We were talking about the U.S. Within the U.S. the argument is the Eastern European Ashkenazim have had an outsized role in the Cultural Left in the last 50 years, leading feckless WASPs by the nose. I’d argue Jewish leftist were successful because WASPs were already primed to engage in Messianism because the Reformation destroyed the role of the Roman hierarchy which for centuries did a pretty good job of keeping down destructive Messianic and Millenarian impulses (which are baked into the dna of Christianity), combine this with bourgeois ambition unchecked by nobility and neurosis about status and you have the U.S.

There were Sephardim in the U.S. since colonial times, they weren’t know to be particularly Leftist or Messianic. Indeed, they and German Jews were conservative. For example, Southern Jews (largely Sephardim or German) were viewed with suspicion by Grant.

You are arguing that the Judaizing Old Testament obsession and Messianism of Low Church Protestants is due largely to an influence of Sephardim in the Netherlands?

That’s a stretch. Prove it. Cite studies or historians arguing for this.

You cannot blame me and Tiny Duck. That line was copy n pasted off a yahoo site. For $10,000 Alex. What was Howard Heflin referring to with Ted Kennnedy?

Good factual response, Art.

However, a good plant does his best to stay hidden. It’s not just about how often you vote with your party, but more importantly, on which issues you choose to depart. You can vote with me 80% of the time, but if you vote against me when I need you the most, you can kill me.

How’d she know they were crying? Maybe they were actually pissing.

Joe Lieberman also ghost wrote “1,001 Uses For a Dead Cat.”

There are blondes up in Los Feliz and those areas near Hollywood.

Last summer I took the trolley with the crazy old Chinese fat guy up to the Griffith Observatory…..plenty of blonds and tourists up that way in those hills……

How much did the week of McCain tributes and the over the top funeral cost? Who payed? Are we even allowed to ask?

I hope that his billionaire widow gets presented with the bill, but I bet the taxpayer will actually end up footing most of the bill. Protocol and government rules count for little when you have the kind of insider clout McCain had. Washington DC takes care of its own.

Over in the UK, the comments on this Guardian assessment of John McCain, by its usual lefty readers, are overwhelmingly, and scathingly, critical.

Left liberals in America are pretty much alone in their hagiography of McCain.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/01/john-mccain-was-complex-his-legacy-warrants-critical-discussion

Some refreshingly different views of McCain:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-media-on-mccain-and-russophobia-john-mccains-flawed-foreign-policy-advocacy/5652410

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/437454-mccain-funeral-historical-revisionism/

Was Senator Howell Heflin right when she said

Heflin was a tranny?

Tuesday. Monday is Labor Day.

For many of those people, Labor Day is May 1.

Yes. This.

I’ve always thought using the Left’s words against them is a winner.

– Fear mongering. “Saying America doesn’t have a chance to win a trade war with China is fear mongering.”

– Conspiracy theory. “Russia collusion is a crazy conspiracy theory.”

– Holocaust denial. “Denying that Whites in South Africa are being murdered daily because of their race makes you sound like a holocaust denier.”

Rinse and repeat, and repeat again.

The ACU doesn’t factor immigration in these scorecards. At least, they didn’t for 2013 (Gang of 8). Even setting aside that immigration is the most important issue (the view of people who read and comment on this blog), weighting immigration equally with other issues would still drag McCain’s score down (and, e.g., Jeff Flake, lifetime 93). Weighting it properly would put McCain and others in the toilet.

Where are you people from? I get nothing political on Facebook.

Probably, but the size and shape of that Democratic victory might have been different, and thus the laws and policies of the incoming Democratic administration and Congress might have been different. A savvier Republican national ticket would probably have still lost, but might have dragged a few Republican Senators across the finish line (filibuster) along with some HoR seats.

For as long as America is a going concern, its fundamental activity will be described in precisely those terms as a sort of tribute to the old pieties . . . .

Do the Democrats have even one policy that is consistent with the idea of the country as a going concern?

You’re right. You don’t see pretty blondes even on college campuses any more. A friend once pointed out a slim pretty blonde and said “ that’s a California girl�. I pointed to a gaggle of 4’ 10 200 pound Ugly Indians and said
“ no those are California girls�

The only place I’ve seen blondes is the Malibu playground where pretty blonde moms bring their pretty blonde toddlers to play.

I don’t think that is true at all. I think it is simply a belief that economic growth depends on an expanding population.

No, the natives could expand the population with their own kids. But that is discouraged.

Ah, you haven’t been introduced to modern reaction.

Sounds like a bogus ideology The facts are as I stated them.

According to Johnny Carson, when Pete Wilson defeated “Governor Moonbeam,� that very night he called up Ronstadt to ask her for a date

Rimshot

The Puritans get into the picture because their utopian shining city on a hill rhetoric led directly to our historical missionary style aggression that McCain was so fond of- first against other Americans leading up to the Civil War and during the various Indian wars, secondly and more importantly in our interventionist foreign policy starting in the late 1800s. We always frame violence and meddling as justified by some greater good or divine purpose.

That’s all Tikkun Olam,which they got from their Jewish next-door neighbors who were trying to open Britain to Jewish immigration.

People who criticize the Ashkenazi and blame them entirely for this PC b.s. and ignoring the role of the eternal Anglo and of low church Protestants, particularly Evangelicals, are either arguing from ignorance or in bad faith.

No, those why deny this truth are arguing from ignorance or bad faith. Your assertions have no theoretical or empirical support.

No one “blames” the Ashkenazim for this.

First, there is no “blame”. There is just historical observation.

Second, the Jews in the Netherlands were Sephardic. How could you speak so confidently without knowing such a basic fact?

Third, the Messianic fervor and the Tikkun Olam of 15th/16th/17th-century Netherlands had an undeniably great influence on the English Puritans.

No, we are correct. There is no theoretical or empirical counter to our conclusion.

Growth is pointless in a growing population because it means sharing the larger wealth over more people. Case in point: Africa.

I have no real opinion as to whether growth is a good thing, but in the US more people means more homes built, which means more refrigerators and TVs sold, more insurance policies sold, more customers for cable TV, ADT, and H & R Block, more dog food sold, more cars, and so on. It also means that more money is sent overseas to be spent on American consumer luxuries like Pampers brand diapers, and Kelloggs cornflakes.

This may not be good for you and me, but it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good and to some extent the people who benefit financially from an increasing population will act as a counterweight to those who are losing out due to an increased population.

Are you thinking of the Pilgrims’ sojourn in Holland?

No, I am not.

I could write a book in response to your comment.

That is the Pilgrims. Who were a single congregation. The rest of the tens of thousands of Puritans came straight from England.

The Christians in the Netherlands did not live “next door to” the Jews of the Netherlands; they lived with or among them in the same polity.

The Puritans of East Anglia lived next door to the Jews of the Netherlands. i.e. in the next-door polity. Look at a map. As D.H. Fischer pointed out, travel by sea was faster than travel by land in those days.

No doubt a majority of Mormons voted for McCain in that primary, but there were no marching orders and he would have won even if every Mormon voted for Hayworth. I voted for Hayworth and I voted for Kelli Ward when she ran against him.

The gag worthy essay on fat Megan by the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/politics/meghan-mccain-funeral-trump.html

That is pretty funny, but I’ve honestly never had it.

The consistent principle seems have boiled down to blind hatred of white males

Even beyond that singular hatred is the Leftist will to power.

The ability to impose their will on the way others think and live is completely arousing to all Leftists.

This is also why they make common cause with the Islamics – both ideologies are diametrically opposed to the idea of live and let live.

Matra:

Steve is too humble or non-self-aggrandizing to confirm that he authored invade the world, invite the world. I believe that he also added in hock to the world.

The Democrats figured to win with any credible nominee. Hillary would have beaten McCain handily in 2008.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the voters in Republican primaries.

He was the envy of much of the country when I was in high school for banging the snot out of Linda Ronstadt. I never thought Ronstadt was that hot appearance wise but she was certainly the best of her generation of pop-rock singers and had a lot of hits. Jann Wenner, might be gay now but he was sure as hell hetero for her in her salad days. Her constant appearance in Rolling Stone was by no means the key to her success, but she went from big to bigger because of it.

Hayworth was sold out by the Mormons, who then voted en bloc for McCain as per their orders.

If he can’t find better words to express his anger at such incidents, perhaps he lacks the sense needed to be a commander.

“Why do you think Lenin was responsible for more deaths than Hitler ”

Neither stated nor implied. Why are you defending communists?

” I realize this is a right wing safe space, but to not include old Adolf in the top three seems pretty indefensible.

Who said my list was “top three”? How many straw men can you fit into two sentences? Why are you defending communists?

Anyway, I see you’re very intent on missing the point of my comment. But by all means, please continue to lose your mind over the comparative examples I gave. 🙂

Did Steve Sailer come up with “invade the world, invite the world”? Someone called Virgil at Breitbart just used that expression:

Some of those last few words deserve a second look: “Seemed like a funeral not so much for McCain, but for an ideology which had once sustained America’s imperial hegemony, and is now on the way out.�

Tracey’s argument is that McCain-style “neoconservatism,� which can be summed up as invade the world, invite the world, is now a goner. While the Establishment—including plenty of Democrats—loves it, most Americans don’t.

Breitbart

“On TV McCain is a saint, a hero and a just plain wonderful fellow.”

IN REALITY, he’s a crook, a traitor and nasty vindictive bastard.

Of himself and McCain, Obama said. “We never doubted we were on the same team.”

And that about sums it up, doesn’t it?

The antiwar left disappeared when Obama entered the White House.

Watching the Left shift positions on what should be important issues to them tells a lot about their true motives. They were against war under Nixon and Reagan and for it under Clinton and O’bama. They said “Judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin” when bashing white Southerners, and now promote race preference, race retribution, and race war. They hated Wall Street in the 60’s and hate deplorable working stiffs today.
The consistent principle seems have boiled down to blind hatred of white males.

To the extent that the pollaganda was the product of over-sampling Democrat voters, the failure to guarantee an adequate margin of fraud and the subsequent upset victory for Trump was an own-goal.

The Lt. Col. should have paraphrased Sarah Silverman’s line: “I didn’t mean faggoty like homosexual. I meant faggoty like retarded.â€�

One more reminder that biology is upstream of culture, which is upstream of politics.

I agree. I’m not excusing McCain’s many flaws as a man or politician but after eight years of W, I think the Democrats would’ve won the Presidency in ‘08 if they nominated a dead chicken to run.

Neither of those guys actually held those values.

I guess if your kids starting abusing cocaine that makes you a drug addict.

CrunchybutRealistCon:

I had thought that John Bolton was/is bad. But Lieberman in Trump’s cabinet would be the sickest of sick jokes, all at the expense of the American people.

McCain’s treatments gave him Irish Alzheimer’s: he forgot everything but his grudges.

With respect for what the guy went through, his last days were grotesque. The guy’s handing phonied-up opposition dossiers on his own party’s candidate to the FBI, then he crawls out of his deathbed to save Obamacare, for no other reason than as an F U to Trump.

Paul McCartney sez he saw God while taking a drug trip. He sez that God looked like a huge Wall. This was before Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy in June of 2015. What Paul probably saw was John McCain’s brain cancer or Aretha Franklin’s ass crack.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD LIEBERMAN BE PUT IN TRUMP’S CABINET. The Idea has been floated but that guy’s a Swamp Creature of the deepest, swampiest tier

Good comment.

The antiwar left disappeared when Obama entered the White House.

Disappeared, or morphed into the pro-war left? Remember Seeger and Trumbo. And Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were.

Did our recently arrived Muslim and Latino compatriots find it as moving as the liberal establishment did?

With Serie A, La Liga, the Premier League, and the Bundesliga all having begun their seasons this month, I doubt they’re even aware it took place.

You really buy into the “terrorist” bullshit?

Here’s a clue: there have been no “terrorist threats” ever since the CIA and FBI have been so totally focused on destroying Trump.

Funny dat.

The indispensable James Corbett Has a great piece on the destruction of the US here.

https://www.corbettreport.com/the-death-of-swift-and-the-engineered-death-of-the-dollar/

The irony is that if it’s unsafe for this 8-yr-old to walk the dog around the block, it’s because of the likes of McCain allowing and even mandating via “integration” laws that all kinds of incompatible and often hostile people (not just immigrants both illegal and legal, but racial minorities) are put into once-safe communities.� The mom isn’t who they should be investigating.

We need a “SMH” button.

Its no wonder Steve quotes you since your level of political commentary is about where his is.

“Wellstoned” is a term for when a political spectacle backfires on the party putting it on.

“America” no longer embodies any values worth defending.

Lieberman, Schumer, George W. Bush: you know that when $ellout$ such as they praise someone, that that someone is, or was, no advocate for us ordinary Americans and likely is, or was, hostile to our interests and welfare.

Ironically if “patriotic” “maverick” John McCain, had actually been a patriot and a maverick he would have run in 2008 on:
— closing the border, stopping immigration, deporting illegals–jobs go to American workers
— reigning in Wall Street, stopping bailouts from going to the crooks and reform to get them permanently off the taxpayer tit (no heads i win, tails you lose)
— closing down Iraq and Afghanistan nation building foreign adventures and instead focusing on killing terrorists and most of all making sure they–and Islam in general–are kept out of the United States (and the West generally)

… McCain would have become President of the United States!

It’s precisely because McCain is neither any sort of “maverick” nor a patriot–but a generic globalist tool–that his legacy is “loser”.

1) The biggest open borders fanatics amongst the Democrats don’t seem to care about economic growth at all. Most of them don’t spend much time thinking through the consequences of any policy they support, though plenty are aware that our current immigration rates will lead to a white minority.

2) If they were really worried about whites not having enough babies then why don’t they support policies that would encourage white to have more babies? In reality they are obsessed with depressing the birthrates of whites.

Our infrastructure strains when the burden on it increases by even 10%. I’d love for leftists to experience their open borders fantasy for just a day, then they’d realize what they’re getting us into. I’m guessing that’s one movie Hollywood will probably never make.

Trump was ‘uninvited’ to the funeral ( since when did funerals have invitations?), but as usual, he was more of a presence than the corpse.

Seriously, what kind of daughter delivers a eulogy throwing shade at someone her Dad hated?

They did the same at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, though Aretha never expressed any opinion of DJT as far as I know. Again, Trump more on people’s minds than the deceased.

These lefties are defined by their undignified behavior. Bizarre.

OT: Bulgarian artist drawing the swastikas on ambulances that American artists don’t want to draw:

https://nypost.com/2018/09/02/lawyers-say-man-drawing-swastikas-on-fdny-ambulances-is-an-artist/

His Chinese lawyer says it can’t be a hate crime because he has ‘ties to the community.’

I thought Wells tones funeral was in 2006.

Jerry Brown is a long time death penalty opponent and advocate of minimal prison time for non Whites. He is the same non gendered person xe/xir was in 1968.

A California native I can say xir has been among the worst of California s pols.

At last the Guardian’s opened comments on a McCain piece.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/01/john-mccain-was-complex-his-legacy-warrants-critical-discussion

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An utterly ghastly man who used his privilege to get him through life on limited talent.

Everything about his political career would have most progressives running a mile away in disgust.

But he didn’t like Trump so everyone suddenly decided they loved him.

Oxycontin

I’ve yet to meet anyone who gets that McCain was a literal Democrat plant.

You don’t because he wasn’t. The American Conservative Union reported that he voted with them 81% of the time over the course of his career (87% of the time prior to 1995, about 77% of the time thereafter). He was an episodic irritant but voted with the Republican caucus most of the time. About 20% of the current Senate Republican caucus would be at least as recalcitrant as far as party whips are concerned.

All I remember about Joe Lieberman was when he was Gore’s V-P nominee during the Year 2000 election near-theft, he was depicted as the side-man on the “Sore-Loserman” proto-meme. I attended a conference where members of my profession were seated together randomly. Several began mocking the Gore-Lieberman attempts to steal the election and referenced the “Sore-Loserman” t-shirts and bumperstickers that were already being sold. A woman became instantly incensed, declaring that criticism of the two was unacceptable among any of us for–get this– it was RACIST to mock them because evidently ‘ol Joe is a Jew. This lady liberal was way ahead of the curve when it came to using political correctness as an attempt to control the debate.

If history is any guideline, it will be very effective. Paul Wellstone’s funeral was treated in the same manner. If memory serves it fueled a blue wave then.

Whiskey, i was under the apprehension that while i’m an old guy–memory not what it once was–you’re a bit younger. You should have your memory checked.

The Wellstone funeral was a touchstone of political-funereral disaster. Not only was there no “blue wave”, with their over-the-top unpleasant politicing the Democrats managed to alienate even mild Minnesotans and lose Wellstone’s seat.

“Unhinged lunacy” is not really a winning message. Which is why we really need Trump to get some friggin’ message discipline and run on
— better economy
— closing the border and shutting down immigration–improving job prospects, housing prices and quality of life for Americans
— the Democrats–now open (“abolish ICE!)–open borders lunacy

This election should be a layup.

It is an anti-Trump display, a propaganda extravaganza.

Absolutely – the whole McCain passing was a security state love fest, promoting the national government and the neocon MIC.

With a gushing media, the government establishment types, were waving the flag and giving the middle class Trump voters the finger. There were no huge throngs of Americans at these events. It was mostly government show time and back patting. (The Senate’s endless praising of McCain was disgusting.)

The truth is that Trump has disturbed the establishment to its core.

Think Peace — Art

p.s. In the end, McCain showed his true petty nature by not inviting Palin.

Growth is pointless in a growing population because it means sharing the larger wealth over more people. Case in point: Africa.

“90% of Americans have no idea what happened at that funeral.�

Or care.

I certainly don’t. I have avoided all the news coverage of McCain’s funeral and so far I have refrained from even commenting on his death. It does not seem to me as if anything significant has really transpired. There isn’t much to say about John McCain himself, but it would not be out of place here to say a few words about those “borderless American values” that his passing supposedly brought to the fore.

Most importantly, those values are not the standard litany of freedom, democracy, and equality mouthed over and over again by media and government figures. There is a reason why they say such things, but it is more the result of an unacknowledged mental ellipsis than a conscious commitment to those ideas in their original signification. For as long as America is a going concern, its fundamental activity will be described in precisely those terms as a sort of tribute to the old pieties, even as the state itself transforms its character from one year to the next. Consequently, the words have altered in meaning numberless times, and if one cares to look back at what was originally captured under the aegis of those highminded concepts, he will see that they ceased to be living and effective spiritual determinants some generations ago. But there is a word borrowed from the corporate lexicon that really does express the borderless values espoused by McCain and his contemporaries, and which therefore serves as the true underlying meaning of freedom and democracy today. It is a word not alien to Francis Fukuyama’s historiography nor to the actual governing practices of Obama or Merkel. The secret sinew tying these varied strings together is the word “Buy-in.”

“Buy-in” as a political philosophy means the process of persuading individuals that their interests are best served by aligning themselves with the supranational (i.e. “borderless”) and rational (i.e. “timeless”) socioeconomic regime. It is, in the minds of its adherents, quite judicious and even scientific in its use of carrots and sticks—precisely targeted cruise missiles for the worst malefactors, and for everyone else plenty of healthcare, education, cradle-to-grave welfare, free trade, and “economic opportunity.” To the chagrin of its detractors, Buy-in does not represent a deviation from the spirit of Western world history but is a new chord precisely in the key of that history and is a natural development from its earliest and most unalterable antecedents.

As a species of idea, it is thoroughly both post-Marxist and post-Imperialist. It is Marxist in the sense of recognizing only economic-material causes as operative in determining the cultural outlook of individuals and peoples, and also inasmuch as it posits a “class struggle” of sorts as the fundamental driver of historical progression. The old Marxist categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat have given way to a two-fold division between those who have achieved Buy-in (the “Imperium”) and those who are awaiting Buy-in (the “provinces”), these categories being applied irrespective of national origin. Foreign elites are every bit as much a part of the Imperium as native billionaires, while the autochthonous underclasses are relegated to provincial status with a stroke. The Imperialist aspects of Buy-in are are evident in its casual unwillingness to eschew the use of occupying military forces in pursuit of its objectives. McCain’s famous statement that the American military might remain in Iraq “for 100 years” is quite a natural expression of this attitude. The idea here was that American forces should sit like a lid on the Iraqi cauldron, picking off the militant opposition and distributing largess to a docile citizenry, while under the weight of this capstone the native Iraqi culture would slowly disintegrate until Buy-in was achieved.

The ruthless manner in which Buy-in sets itself against the existence of nations and borders, as well as any sort of racial or ethnic particularism, is due not to the sentiments of dreamy world-improvers, thrill-seeking xenophiles, or disillusioned native invalids—although these are the useful idiots who provide a great deal of energy to the movement and generally tend to swell its front ranks—but due to an essential and integral logical inconsistency between the one and the other outlook. “Race” is simply not a factor in what Buy-in considers to be enlightened economic self-interest. And since Buy-in recognizes no interests other than these, it cannot fit race into its matrix of causes and effects. It is not even a defined concept, not a computable term. Thus, when an officious modern thinker proudly proclaims that “race does not exist,” he is expressing something that is fundamentally true for him modulo the world-system in which he enunciates all of his ideas. This is no mere partisan cant, no airy Utopianism churned up in the detritus of an enervated mind, but an implacable logical consequence of this form of socioeconomic reductionism. The same arguments apply mutatis mutandis to the related concepts of nations, borders, and even sexes; however, the stubborn perdurance of these gives the lie to the theory and function as inadmissible embarrassments for it. They are therefore shoved into the background as “bigotry.”

In its gross effects, Buy-in strives constantly to make the world safe for oligarchy. Here “liberty” means only the free play of capital, with political correctness as the “ethics” of the market square. It is an attitude, an outlook, and a spirit that is quite characteristic of late imperial ages. However much we may see it tending towards dissolution and decay, we do a disservice to the spirit of historical accuracy not to recognize it as the governing morality of the times; and there is no other beside it. It is an effort doomed to failure, artificial and impossible but paradoxically deriving strength from its very unworldliness. In its missionary zeal to spread urban life to the farthest-flung corners of the globe, in its herculean effort to incorporate everyone and everything into the vast domain of its bureaucratic regulatory apparatus, it is fully representative of the great currents of being that run through these days. This is “Imperium,” pure and entire. It is, for almost everyone within the scope of the Western cultural sphere and certainly for anyone of significance within that sphere, the self-evident basis of all law, politics, ethics, and culture. It is the dividing line between good and bad men, between wisdom and foolishness, between the saved and the damned. It is the fate of such periods that, despite the obvious inadequacy and absurdity of their political forms, they are the only substrates in which the vestiges of true creative piety still inhere.

And these are the “American” values the John McCain defended until—literally—his dying breath. “Universal,” not by virtue of being everywhere and always true but because their devotees cannot imagine a contrary; “timeless,” because the sovereign reason has dispensed with all particularities of time and place; “American,” because as hegemon we bear a unique witness to the power of our undying creed. It is without irony that McCain is described as the great American hero, for he embodied the imperial style of our era. Without irony, yes, but not without blame; yet we must realize that any verdict pronounced upon him is likewise pronounced upon our entire existence as a people.

There are those who opine that the passing of McCain signifies the end of the Pax Americana, and that with him passed also the century of American greatness. They are correct, and I personally think the change has much to commend it. The Caesarism that follows in the wake of “Buy-in” will finally bring about the end of the hypocritical and monotonous program-politics of the imperial age by reacquainting us with the long-neglected realities. But those who believe this will bring about the Restoration of the West will be disappointed. What it brought, in many ways, is its conclusion.

Democrats… Replacing the historic American people with newcomers is their obsession,

I don’t think that is true at all. I think it is simply a belief that economic growth depends on an expanding population. The same thing has happened in Britain for the same reason.

Jonathan, this is just wrong. The corporate sleaze has some interests along the lines you speak.

But the Democrats clearly have an interest in replacing Americans–who tend toward traditional American values–with foreigners, who are
— more easily managed with ethnic politics
— less concerned with the tradition American interest in freedom and happier with a larger bullying state, less rebellious
— and balkanize the nation’s population, making it harder for actual Americans to rebel (electorially or physically) against the state (“the swamp”).

The Democrats recently are just “out” about this. They now preach this nation breaking Jewish “minoritarianism” as a core value of the United States. Their rhetoric is pretty hard to miss: “bitter clingers”, “nation of immigrants”, “undocumented”, “diversity if our strength”, “deplorables”, “tired old white men”, “immigrants are the real Americans”. “no one is illegal”, “dreamers are our future”, “abolish ICE”.

When you hear the Democrats saying we need to do something to raise the fertility of native American women … get back to me. LOL.

The truth lies somewhere in the middle, IMO, Pat. Just as I’d have been in favor of having co-popes during the schism, I’m in favor of McCain being both a saintly wonderful hero AND a crooked, traitorous nasty, vindictive bastard, so long as HE! REMAINS! SIX! FEET! BELOW! THE! DAMN! GROUND!.