THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

EXPERTS AND THE IRAQI CRISIS -- MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE REAL WORLD.... | 2002-09-07

I have no interest in going to war with Iraq. What fascinates me, as usual, is just how mindless the present discussion about the situation is.

All the conservatives are, as usual, mystified by how things have developed. As usual, the "experts" on both sides are completely mystified by reality. So we pay them money and listen to every precious word that falls from their lips.

Everybody is asking, "What happened? A few months ago the whole world was backing everything Bush wanted and now we're all alone. How did this come about?"

Everybody in the world suddenly decided to back American action after September 11.

Now the liberals are back to talking like liberals and Europeans are whining about American Imperialism. Right after September 11, "National Review" had a cover picture of Americans by the thousands parachuting into war and death in World War II.

Happy days were here again!!

But all they got was a pitiful little war in Afghanistan. They want more and nobody seems to want to give it to them.

Now nobody seems to want lots of uniforms and lots of military money and all the other wonderful things conservatives were licking their chops over just a little while back.

The explanation is very, very simple. It is too simple for experts to have the slightest inkling of what is going on.

As always, what both experts and conservatives lack is a memory.

MIDDLE OF THE ROAD STRATEGY DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE HALF SANE IS NOT SANE | 2001-06-09

One of the constant dangers that psychiatrists have to be warned about is the natural tendency to enter into the delusions of their patients. That way lies madness - literally.

In other words, if a patient comes into a doctor's office claiming that a giant purple mosquito is sitting on his shoulder, the doctor does not seek a compromise. He does not offer to say, for example, that they can agree that it is a SMALL mosquito and it is GRAY mosquito. The patient would never get well, and the doctor would be institutionalized.

That is why it so critical, so vital, that we keep repeating this mantra: NOTHING THAT LIBERALS PROPOSE EVER WORKS (all of Whitaker Online Archives, passim).

Liberals take the very conservative idea of keeping the air clean and turn it into a demand that bureaucrats take over every aspect of American life. This despite the fact that the most bureaucratically controlled countries in history, the USSR and China and Communist Eastern Europe, are absolute environmental disasters.

Liberals take constitutional due process and turn it into complete sentiment with criminals over victims. They all used to say that the most efficient economy is one owned and run by the government.

Not to put too fine a point on it, liberals are nutcases.

These are the sort of issues that media commentators keep telling us that Republicans should compromise on.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, these are the very issues that have discredited the word "liberal" to the point where even old-line liberals call themselves "moderate" or "progressive." This was accomplished by attacking liberals as traitorous and insane, not by entering into liberal delusions with them.

Liberals want us to stop doing that.

When the right goes after the left tooth and tong, and shows how ridiculous leftists are, they win. Republicans did this with Reagan in 1980 and 1984. They did it under Gingrich in 1994. They won as "extremists" and they lost when they bumbled back repeatedly into the "middle of the road" nonsense.

Liberalism is Blame America First, it is anti-white, it is pro-criminal, and its only consistent demand is for more bureaucratic control and more government. In the long run, you can only win by attacking all that frontally.

Moderation -- the "middle of the road" -- means that you enter into all the liberal illusions with them, and act as if leftist silliness is good solid logic that you need to listen to and compromise with.

CNN's Bill Schneider will keep demanding that Republicans go "middle of the road." Jerry Ford and all the other Republican halfwits will chant "middle of the road" till they croak.

And the Dumb Old Party will keep trying it and losing.

I LOVE YOU, MAN | 2004-07-23

It has become fashionable for one man to say to another, "I love you, man."

That takes some getting used to for us old-timers, but not because we didn't always tell our male friends that we loved them. We just did it in a different way.

At our recovery club, we had an old guy who died recently, and everybody misses him enormously. He would rather have died than say, "I love you, man." But he said it all the time in his own way.

In fact, he had a separate-but-equal way of saying it.

When an old white buddy of his would come in, he would get around to looking at him for a minute and then say, "You know, you are the ugliest white man I ever saw in my life."

On the other hand, when an old black buddy came in he would usually look at him a minute and say, "You are the ugliest man of color that was ever born."

And what this meant was, "You don't mind me saying that because you know I think the world of you."

And he didn't discriminate against women either. He referred to them as "You old bag."

My brother will say, "Bob, comb your damned hair." I'm 63 years old and he is older, and he is the only person who has the right to say that. He's my brother.

It all means, "I love you, man."

I just like the old way better.

DAVE AND AL | 2007-11-13

ME:

I love comments that describe ACTION on your part.

Dave says:

There are certain very important facts in the basic plumbing of social life that will not and cannot change ever. And I have lived enough to realize that only the "street smart", only the "feral dogs" among us, tend to know this.

"Feral dogs" avoid the adoption of sterile goals and beliefs. That is why the Mantra, being virile, is a big "dollop" for a tame dog.

But odd thing that is perennially misunderstood is that the most privileged venues have the largest counts of "feral dogs", exactly the opposite of what is ordinarily believed.

This is because the strongest competitors tend to land in the privileged venues.

And personally I have access to privileged venues. Also, I am working at insinuating the Mantra into these venues. These venues are more amenable to the receipt of the Mantra than most participants in this seminar realize.

However, this takes clear sightedness and I use BUGS to assist me in obtaining that clear sightedness.

ME AGAIN:

Al is in action, too. He describes problems he has with people finding holes in the Mantra. I have seen this attempt in action, but it is answered by quotes from the UN Genocide Treaty, which covers exactly what is being done to the white race.

But as one of us three who is speaking from experience IN ACTION, I noted something just now. Nobody ever hits ME with these exceptions. They seem to know I'm ready for it. They can tell Al is more ready to listen to the other side, so they feel he can more easily be distracted.

If I were a Tough Guy, you could hear nothing from me here but the sound of beating my hest and the Tarzan scream which is the motto of the crowd that calls itself The Greatest Generation. But, in being willing to listen, Al, BY BEING IN ACTION, gives us a perspective we NEED.

One Al is worth a dozen armchair Tough Guys.

So I see Al and Dave in a different perspective. Both are REPORTING FROM THE FRONT, as am I.

Al is USING the Mantra, and has a different perspective on it, from, BEING THERE. EXPERIENCE in the field is ALWAYS worth listening to.I don't a uniform group of Bob Whitakers out there, bull-headed old men. If there is only me and Al and Dave, discussing our actual experiences from slightly different viewpoints, that is as big a team as I am used to working with and getting astounding results from.

I always have one big advantage: You can't truly realize how powerful you are. I know that from fifty years of experience.

In terms of understanding the exact battle we are fighting, my group of commenters is a HUGE group to have hammering on the very point that the enemy cannot afford. It was a big risk for me to give up every pretense of respectability in favor of the hope that I could get this down-to-the-nub ACTION group together.

I WON.

Thank God for Dave and Al and the rest of you.