As the open war between Russia and Ukraine enters its second year, that conflict has again taken a prominent stage in both mainstream American politics and dissident discussions. Often, a familiar pattern plays out as arguments are exchanged, tempers flare, and the prospect of understanding seems farther away than ever. One of the chief stumbling blocks between the two sides of the debate is that the dissident debate over the Russia-Ukraine War has been obscured by the misrepresentation of half of the argument, namely the half which most Heritage Americans in the Heartland hold to.
Category: Worldview
Articles and other writings pertaining to our ideology and worldview.
The “Beautiful Losers” Of The Minnesota GOP
Minnesotan voters are, generally, a bunch of midwits. There is a strong “maverick” character to Minnesota politics, but aside from electing a former professional wrestler as governor of the state, this independent streak does not result in cool or entertaining outcomes. Instead, the end result is usually a spirited defense of the status quo, long after its other supporters have left the field.
Fire-Eaters And Conservatives
In response to the recent brouhaha on the southern border, there have emerged two prevailing tendencies among the dissident sphere. The first was rapturous joy, the excitement of things “happening”, with the promise of more radical change or conflict to come. The second response was more cynical. “Nothing ever happens” is how these figures are portrayed by their enemies, but it might be closer to depict them as St. Thomas instead, insisting on sticking their fingers in the happening before believing in it.
The Emptiness Of “Community”
The trend that I believe I have identified is the erosion and replacement of the concrete notion of “friends and family” with the more nebulous “community”. I see this trend in advertisements especially. Where marketing directed at selling products to children or promoting political activism to adults once highlighted the need to impress, compete with, convince, or simply enjoy the company of your friends and family, it strikes me that these have been replaced by a vague appeal to “community”.
The Indian Question
The changing fortunes of White Americans over the past decades means that the incident which was once seen as an embarrassing foible has become a bludgeon with which the real invaders of the continent use to abuse the native population they are displacing.
No one speaks of actually returning land or sovereignty to the tribes which have been allowed to exist in their ghettos across the continent. Rather, the only goal is to take things from Whitey.
Showing Up
We need to show up to take our families to our local community events, show up at the school board meetings, the Lions club pancake breakfasts, and the volenteer fire department fish fry. Join and bring your children to a local church, even if it isn’t a perfect one. If you have a business, go to the chamber of commerce meetings, even if most of your peers are TV-brained boomers. Be a part of your local community, find friends that live close to you, even if their ideology isn’t there yet, or never will be.
Grant Reads: The Mandibles
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047″ by Lionel Shriver is a valuable primer for economic collapse. The chief value of this novel, I found, is less in the details about the how an economic collapse could happen (a Mexican is elected President of the United States and repudiates the country’s debt in response to the dollar’s displacement as the world’s reserve currency), although there is plenty there to spark the curiosity of an interested reader.
How Minnesota Got Her New Flag
While others have covered the symbolism of the new flag and seal for the state of Minnesota elsewhere, I believe that it would be illuminating for Heartlanders to understand how the new design will be implemented, and who was in charge of making the decision to jettison the state’s history and culture to satisfy a minority of perennially unhappy grievance-mongers.
Objectivism Is Dumb
A scathing critique of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivsm, as written by the master polemicist, Myles Poland of “The Godcast”.
Minority Rule
Recently, I visited Couer d’Alene, Idaho with my friend Alex (of “The Smoke Pit”). Alex is not his real name, of course (it’s James, for the record), but that was the name he used while a part of Patriot Front, and the name he was using when he was unlawfully and unjustly arrested in that town one year ago, for the “crime” of attempting to peacefully protest a lewd drag show being performed in front of a crowd of children.