THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE THINKING GAP | 2010-02-21

This is a play on "The Generation Gap."

I don't have one. When I was in the AA and NA recovery programs I had a line of people mostly young, asking me to sponsor them. That is proof that whatever I was offering was actually WANTED.

In old America, there was no "adolescence." You were a boy or girl or you were part of the men of the house like anybody else. If you were fool you could get your family KILLED :

"Stupidity has ALWAYS been a capital offense."

The media has used this adolescence" or Stages of Growth crap to show how YOUNG at heart they are by being leftist. Young people, they say, SHOULD be Idealistic, i.e., Marxist, in their Youth, so a leftist is just a person who has kept that Youthful Outlook.

I wasn't and I see no more excuse for a young person being an idiot than for an old one to.

So I don't have a Generation Gap. No respectable is going to say that a young moron is just a moron. I have the same problem with a fifteen-year old anti-white that I do with a sixty year old one:

They aren't THINKING.

You know me well enough to realize I didn't go for popularity in the program. A sponsor has a life and death business on his hands. If my people didn't do BETTER in recovery, meaning in SURVIVAL, I would have stopped doing it.

A higher percentage of the young people who are serious addicts die than of the COMBAT MERCENARIES I knew. And THOSE were the young addicts who made it to recovery! In both combat and recovery, stupidity in officers or sponsors has always been capital offense for the people they are responsible for.

The fact is that in the old days you couldn't afford adolescence. You did not go out hunting with a 14 year old who might shoot you in the back by stupidity.

I don't have a Generation Gap. The Generation Gap was invented. Like all information, for a PURPOSE, and that purpose was to make anti-whites seem idealistic and youthful rather than what they are, which is stupid traitors.

What I face is a Thinking Gap, and I face that with EVERYBODY. It is true that young people are more ankle-deep in Mommy Professors than other people. But that is no worse than older people who think they are "adult" and therefore far less correctable. The one thing worse than ignorance is MILITANT ignorance.

THE KEY TO PROSPERITY: DON'T BE A DUMBASS | 2000-09-30

In rich countries, there is a Mother Goose story for children about the goose that laid the golden eggs. A child understands that if you cut open the goose that lays golden eggs, you get no more eggs. But in Cuba and Mexico, they tried to achieve prosperity by seizing foreign investments.

So they didn't get many investments for a long time, either from their own people or from the outside, and they got poorer.

A reasonably intelligent child in a developed country could have told you that would happen, but for the leftist "intellectuals" the third world listens to, "The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs" is just too complicated.

So nobody wanted to invest in those countries. Even inside such countries, people didn't want to invest. Instead of American investment in Latin America, those with money in Latin America have historically tended to put their money in the rich countries.

So we have just explained one of many, many, MANY reasons why public policy in the third world makes them poor. It is because it's SILLY.

The Industrial Revolution is now about a quarter of a MILLENNIUM old, and those countries have still not gotten to the level of sophistication offered by Mother Goose.

Leftists would make America poor by killing the geese that lay the golden eggs. George W. Bush would make America poor by flooding it with the kind of people who vote with less sophistication than is routinely expected of a small child.

The third world is poor because its people are not wise citizens and voters. But Bush tells us that, if we import the population of the third world, they will not bring those reasons with them.

Many people on the right imply what Bush says. They want the borders opened up. They can't say that it is the stupidity of the third worlders themselves that makes them poor.

This brings us to one of the most crippling aspects of respectable conservatism: If you are going to have liberals say you are "respectable," you can't talk in plain English. You have to watch what you say, so you can't say too much.

In Michigan, a lady in a restaurant was upset about all the Spanish-speaking customers, and she said - to her companion, "Why can't these spics learn English?" She was reported, arrested, and sentenced to FORTY-FIVE DAYS IN JAIL!

Yes, she was in America. And no, respectable conservatives are not going to make trouble about it.

The most obvious -- though not the only -- reason the third world is poor is because third worlders keep making the same dumbass political mistakes. You should avoid using insulting labels to tell them this. But they have GOT to be told, and there is no way to make it sound nice.

We can import the entire Mexican excess population, and become leftist and poor ourselves. Or we can make it clear that Mexicans have to convince the world that they are not going to be stupid any more, and prosperity will come to them. Those are the only real choices.

But if anyone says out loud that third world people are responsible for third world poverty, respectable conservatives will beg their liberal masters to allow them to lead the lynch mob against him.

So if you value political respectability above speaking plain English, you're going to lose.

EUROPE'S CLINTON YEARS | 2004-12-22

In the Clinton years, I wrote an article called "Superterrorism" (11-21-98). When September 11, 2001 came around, we reprinted it.

It seemed prophetic, but if you look at it, "Superterrorism" was just common sense. Maybe common sense is what real prophecy is based on.

The Euro is going up. Europe is out of the Iraq War and all the problems.

But common sense says that Europe is terribly weak and terribly vulnerable.

Iran's new missiles might reach Europe, but they won't reach us. North Korea's new missiles can reach the West Coast.

But they won't.

Why?

Because if they did South Korea would suddenly be an island.

And if Iran threatens Europe, what exactly is Europe going to do about it? Throw croissants?

America is stupid, but it is also extremely dangerous. Europe is stupid and nobody is scared of it.

Under Clinton, America had a boom like one that Europe is enjoying today. Terrorism? Clinton just ignored it. And it worked out fine.

Until 2001.

Europe is cruising into something that will make 2001 look like a tap on the cheek. Europe is ready to be slapped around. There is always somebody who wants to do the slapping.

Europe is not just stupid, it is hopelessly stupid. There is nothing as dumb as a dumb man who thinks he's smart.

All that brilliant sophistication Europeans think they have got Europe ripped to pieces twice this century. It nearly wiped out two generations of Europeans.

And Europeans honestly believe they are diplomatic geniuses.

That attitude is more dangerous than any nuclear missile.

THE BUCHANAN BUST | 2008-03-17

Someone on SF said it was too bad Buchanan wasn't running because he might have made it this time.

I'm afraid not.

What really killed the Buchanan candidacy was his coming over as a religious nut. That and the Republican Establishment's Slavish South Carolina, where I'm from.

SC tripped him up, but the religious nuttiness did him in.

The media of course insist that the problem was his "extremism," but he went to the top in New Hampshire with all of those "extremist" opinions, including open criticism of the Jewish Lobby. It was when he got onto anti-abortion and anti-evolution AS MAIN ISSUES -- everybody already knew his stance on them -- which his polls REALLY slid.

Another example of this was Buchanan ads objecting to a gay rights parade backed by the government. The actual pictures were so sickeningly lewd that Bay decided to run pictures of a DIFFERENT gay rights parade that was more family-friendly.

Campaign ads were exempt from censorship, so she could have run the real thing, answering objections with the fact that the government APPROVED this behavior and Buchanan intended to STOP that. Instead she decided to be a Good Little Catholic Girl and not expose the public to the reality their government was promoting.

Naturally the media portrayed her as so ignorant she didn't know WHICH parade she was talking about, and commented that it wasn't all that bad anyway.

Then Pat went on show after show saying he was not descended from a monkey, which is the true hick's and media portrayal of anti-evolution, and Buchanan's idea of a cutting edge issue, implying that ALL anti-evolutionists are indeed the hicks the media portray them as.

It is a mercy that the election date put an end to this. If it hadn't, Pat's only votes would have been him and Bay.