AFTER THE PLAGUE | 2005-12-20
Before I continue, let me state my gratitude that my plea that you not abandon me to Comments (0) has already been answered by two comments.
In our last exciting chapter, I explained:
1) Why my first book in my own name was such a success;
2) Why I got no credit for it; and
3) Why writing the book taught me WHY I would get no credit for it.
As usual, the epiphany that came to me was so obvious that I was astonished it hadn't gotten to me before:
We live in a world of human beings. Human beings are motivated by some pretty obvious things. If a philosopher wants to be really popular, he maages to obscure this obvious point in a thousand pages of abstractions.
So now we come to why I am so astonished that we have gone from a lecture to a seminar here.
If you spend all your time in politics, you have to make a LIVING at it. If you have to make a living at it, you don't do what I did, spend two eyars writing a book that will make you hated by everybody who could give you a job.
So if you have to make a living at it, how do you do it?
Let's take one example: fundraising. If you run an organization you have to send out regular appeals for cash.
Try to imagine sending out a fundraiser that says:
"Bob Whitaker wants to spend the next two years writing a book that will cause a political revolution a few years from now."
Hardly.
While I was writing my book those who were making a living in this game were sending out weekly fundraising appeals about the meat shortage, how Gerald Ford had lied about something, about why, if we didn't win a fight over a big bill in congress, we were forever lost, so pour in money RIGHT NOW.
In fact, just as you would wonder if you read Plague what all the fuss was about, you would not erecognize one single subject that fund-raising letters in 1975 said were the crucial issues of all time.
Today, if you want to make living, you talk about the Mexicans pouring across the border. You talk about Iraq. You DO NOT talk about the fact that we have more enemies of everythng we care about coming out of the universities than we have coming across our open borders.
Intellectually I did what I did ALONE.
But a lot of people helped me because they understood that what I was doing was so EFFECTIVE. I dedicated both of my first two books inmy name to my former wife, the second AFTER we were divorced.
Other people came to my aid. We were running press conferences nation on joint marches by working class people who were fighting the educational establishment about dirty textbooks and busing, when my press man was riding with the Independent Truckers blocking DC traffic at ruch hour, and other things.
I had a full time job on Capitol Hill to pay for my expenses in doing all this.
When the few people who were doing all this came together, I would regularly say, "So what we have concluded what Bob will write."
What we were doing was shaking the earth, but everybody thought only I had the secret formula.
They could never understand that the secret was in THEM. They were furious loyal people who never questioned the fact that they wanted the make the world right.
Well, hell, that's what every fund-raising letter tells everybody.
I said that there is a motivation for those who want to make a living at politics. There is also a motivation for those who give the money.
It's called entertainment.
When you get a fundraising appeal, you want to be entertained. Entertainment is not hearing again and again that Ole Bob is writing a book that will have a big effect in the future. Entertainment is having something shocking to say about Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter or President Bush or Laos or Vietnam or Iraq.
When we had something exciting to offer, like thousands of working people paying their own way to come to Washington for a joint march against busing and textbooks, the people who wanted in on it were in the thousands.
But when the excitement ended, there were only three or four of us gathered in a room planning the next step. Everybody else was concentrating on how to become spokesmen for the last excitement.
I got a laugh out of the fact that the Communist World, which couldn't galvanize working people the way we could, declared that my little group of several people which didn't even have a bank account were a highly financed group a bunch of capitalists were bankrolling.
The others in my group got a laugh out of it, too, but theirs was a little sadder. They still had the idea that we should have the financing that the smallest group devoted to passage of Senate Bill 29207, whateverthehellitwas, had.
It never occurred to me that we would.
I knew what we were doing. They only knew that it WORKED.
They proceeded on faith, I proceeded on knowledge.
They are likely to get to heaven before I do.
The bottom line is that I am not used to having anyone else understand what I am doing.
But I am HOPING this will be like A Plague on Both Your Houses. In a few years everybody will be puzzled by how hard I was trying to push the obvious.
It's happened before. It can happen again.
Today the very Wallace Democrats that I personally taught the right how to deal with are now referred to respectfully as the Reagan Democrats. Just one of my achievements was that the press now recognizes those once despised "Wallace Democrats" as the key to electoral victory.
But the next change we need is more fundamental. And we need more than one "Bob will write..."
Bob can't do this one by himself.
Bob's Mantra:
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours in EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries.
How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I want the final solution to the BLACK problem.
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I say that, I'm a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.