THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

ONE CASTLE JUST FELL | 2005-06-25

The reason that the USSR fell is because it was sitting on nothing.

Not one single professional Sovietologist, not one, had any inkling that the USSR and its empire were about to collapse.

I have looked it up, and not one single "expert" had the slightest inkling that this was about to happen. Almost every time I mention this fact the person I am talking to says he heard about somebody who predicted it. I asked for a citation.

No citation.

I have searched.

Let me repeat this

Not one single expert on the Soviet Union, who got paid the big bucks to know all about the Soviet Empire, had the slightest idea that the whole thing was about to go down.

What happens to a business consultant if he hasn't the slightest inclination that his client's competition is about to go under?

Every single one of those experts, inside and outside of government and the universities, cost thousands of dollars to "educate" and they all got paid good money.

They ALL failed.

Completely. Utterly. Inexcusably.

So what happened?

They all kept their jobs and most of them have been promoted since. All of them will get great pensions for the job they didn't do.

We have plenty of experts on every aspect of our ruling religion, just as the Soviets did. But what was clear to Yeltsin, that the system was built on nothing, was something no expert INSIDE the USSR would be allowed to hint at.

And our experts OUTSIDE the system were just as oblivious to the fact that the Soviet Emperor had no clothes.

AGAIN, ABOUT THE RESOURCE WE CALL "BOB" | 2007-05-05

If you are going to get into the hot kitchen of politics, you get so used to being screwed that you ought to be a one-unit population explosion, even if you're male.

There is no point in keeping a Black Book in your head, people you want to get back at. You only get back at people if it PAYS, i.e., a few times to let people know not to do it. But revenge on principle does NOT pay. It detracts from your JOB: "it's not personal, it's business," as the Mafia says about someone who sleeps with the fishes.

I do keep a WHITE book. It is as thin as the proverbial list of black mathematical geniuses. For those, even the ones who will not speak to me or hate my guts, I would do damn near anything. That list includes Joe Sobran, who won't speak to me, and Bill Rusher, who will.

That's the PERSONAL side, very limited.

On the POLITICAL side, I reacted strongly to one commenter who, quite reasonably, mused that I might be engaged in wishful thinking without looking up the information I provided. That attacks my professional competence, which is all I have to offer you.

You will notice that personal insults roll off me without even being noted. It is only where they hit on what I am trying to offer here that I contradict them. That is a BIG difference.

SysOps and I were discussing our mutual experience of having been around so many blocks that what strikes newer people as a crisis, as it did US when we were newer at this game, actually BORES us.

I said in Dave II that when yet one more person explains patiently to me that they "have a life" it is as boring as hearing one more anti play me a tape-recording of Mommy Professor's lines. But both the former and the latter actually think they have something here I didn't know about.

As I ended Dave II, I just don't want to BOTHER with that crap. I didn't get two nervous breakdowns from overwork because I had nothing else to do, but I don't want to explain that over and over and over and over and over and over.

But, as they said on Monty Python, here is something completely different, which those breakdowns remind me of. Like a goddam fool, I waited till the first one got better and then plunged back into the maelstrom. Naturally the second one came along.

I waited to come back from it.

And waited.

And waited.

FINALLY, I applied for permanent disability. Normally you cannot get my kind of disability if you don't apply within a year. I honestly believe that I am the ONLY person who applied NINE YEARS LATE and not only won, but got nine years back disability.

"It's all crystallizing around RACE, and the System is trying desperately to switch the subject.

II suspect this will be to little avail."

Trying to switch the subject is helping crystalize everything around race.

They are becoming increasingly predictable to everyone, which is making folks like Gibson and Imus rich at their expense and it certainly makes our job easier.

You see they are trying to remain disciplined by sticking to the program.

But their program is built on absurdities such as that whites do not exist.

And that of course simply helps crystalize everything around race.

This is what happens when an ethnic group whose average IQ hovers around 85 believes itself to be the smartest people in the world.

THE IVY LEAGUE THINKS EUROPEANS ARE WISDOM PERSONIFIED | 2002-01-26

When the twentieth century began, Americans felt totally inferior to Europeans. Especially European nobility.

A few years back a friend of mine married a real Austrian Countess and it was kind of a joke between them.

But if we felt inferior to Europe in 1900, the rest of the world BELONGED to Europe. Back then the whole world was part of one empire or another. By 1900 Europeans were dividing up China, though it was officially independent.

By 1945, Europe was a blasted-out ruin. Its empires were on the way out and the homelands were destroyed. They had been saved from fascism by the United States and, if they had been left to themselves, they would have become colonies under Stalin.

But American east coasters STILL felt inferior to Europe. Even looking at the total catastrophe European thinking had made of itself, they still worshipped European thinking.

In 1945, East Coast "intellectuals" could not understand why a bunch of "cotton-chopping Southerners" and "corn-fed Midwesterners" were not desperate to copy everything from Europe.

Nothing liberals do ever WORKS. The East Coast and Ivy League worship of Europe was a formula for the same disaster Europe had just created for itself. So naturally post-War liberals thought it was the only way to go.

Professors and the media will never grow up. But some people HAVE to. One of the former Eastern European Communist satellites that has done well economically was trying to find an economic plan to make the transition from Communism to capitalism. Their leader said, "And we don't want something cooked up by East Coast academics."

This leader had observed how East Coast "intellectuals" had dealt with the Communists he knew so well, and he wanted no part of their idiocy.

By 1945, after total destruction and tens of millions of deaths in Europe, Europeans were not so charmed by their "intellectuals," most of whom were Communist by then.

You see, to an East Coast "intellectual" (or a William Buckley), "European" means "foreign," it means "exotic," it is means "classy."

But the few European "intellectuals" who didn't fall for socialism did not see themselves as "exotic." To them, Middle Americans were exotic. Today, American tee shirts in Moscow are considered very avant-garde. East Coast intellectuals sort of know this, but they don't have the imagination to UNDERSTAND it.

If there is wisdom in this world, it won't come from the thinking of blasted-out Europe. It will be somewhere in the thoughts of the Reagans and even the Bushes. It is only when they listen to the Voices of Shrewd that they screw up.

US LOWAH CLAHSS TYPES END UP WINNING, PART I. | 2012-06-22

We Mantra types have a hellish time getting pro-white National Leaders to take us seriously.

I was in exactly the same place before. When we conservative leaders at the University wrote a latter to Barry Goldwater in 1962 urging him to run for president, you probably know who did the writing, and it emphasized appealing to the South and to white Democratic workers specifically.

Goldwater in 1964 ran all right, but not our way.

In fact, Goldwater had about 32 percent of the vote just before the election. So he got desperate about busing in New York City and the threat of it, as well as the other issues some of us peasants pushed..

Under those circumstances, so soon after the assassination, he couldn't have won anyway. But if you know political statistics, 38.8 percent is one hell of a bump from 32 in a couple of weeks.

He could have been defeated, but not humiliated.

I spent the next sixteen years getting out into white working areas -- as I had done before -- urging an appeal to what the national media, and therefore Buckley, sneered at as "Wallace Democrats."

Appealing to peasants was considered HAADDIBLY Lowah Clahss of me.

My time in the absolute back of the bus lasted until 1974, when Republicans had gotten so bad there was serious talk of ending the party. William Rusher switched to my side that year. He wrote the Foreword to my book A Plague on Both Your Houses the following year, and said that I DID in fact represent the people he had been meeting on the working class right.

Funny thing. I'd just spent a quarter of century working with them and somehow my talk sounded like theirs.

For me the attitude of our leadership to me was pure déjà vu. The attitudes to the Mantra Approach were EXACTLY the same as that of the Respectables.

After YEARS of trying, I finally got a few of you, I think Lord Nelson was the first on board.

And then YOU ran head on to the attitude I have been putting up with at least since 1958!

You raised bloody hell.

It wasn't nearly the same shock to me.

Not just because I had already dealt with it, though that DID help.

Much more important is the fact : When I got assigned to the Lowah Clahss before and stayed on under that storm of crap for twenty years, I FINALLY WON.

My strategy was a key right into the campaign of 1980, when Rusher and others transmitted it without my name attached to it. But the Business As Usual Crowd fought tooth and nail to make Reagan's campaign into a Nixon campaign.

Later, Reagan had to put the words "Mr. Gorbaczev. Tear down this wall!" THREE TIMES when it was removed from each draft by his speechwriters, the BAU crowd.

He had to reinsert "The Evil Empire" over and over as well in his speeches.

But the strategy to get rid of the USSR stayed in, even with Bob as the ghost writer's ghost writer.

Let me finish this part by making this point: It is HARD to be totally kept out and regarded as Lowah Clahs. I'm only human.

But what I remember is that it WON.

No, it never got me into the Respectables Uppah Clahss. What the HELL would I do THERE?

No, what it won was the Cold War.

The enemy is dead.

You can keep the Medal.