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SamizBOT's avatar

Big difference between now and then (aside from the great recession not having taken place) is that the millennial cohort largely had not yet entered the workforce. Attitudes towards immigration have been shaped in large part by millennial and gen z downward mobility. Also they just let in too damn many people and made it impolite to require assimilation.

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The Anti-Gnostic's avatar

My experience of the current cohort of white people under age 30 is 1) they really do not want to grow up; 2) they are deathly afraid of offending any official victim-group: immigrants, alphabet people, joggers, etc.; and 3) they embrace the anti-colonialist narrative. OTOH, I completely flipped politically from angry social democrat to grumpy libertarian around age 35 and then to grumpy authoritarian by age 40, so perhaps they will as well.

What they are mainly doing is not having kids, and this is the same globally. Humanity is undergoing a massive cull.

But somebody is out there still having white kids and about 40% of them voted for Trump so I wonder if there's a counter-trend: Lefty whites are getting more loony lefty and going extinct, and Righty whites are getting more reactionary and having the necessary 2+ kids to show up for the future.

There's also the other unexpected trend that our host has observed: hispanics actually LIKE having charismatic dictators cracking troublemakers' heads. So maybe we end up with a fiscally liberal/socially conservative El Presidente who breaks with American tradition and wears a tri-color sash (reverently placed by the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, the Hon. Alexander Duval Guillermo-Martinez Smith).

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SamizBOT's avatar

We sound similar. I went from thinking that caring about politics made you LAME, to a libertarian, to supporting literally anything that makes it stop. Grumpy authoritarians unite!

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The Anti-Gnostic's avatar

The Grumpy Old Party.

Bob Wallace (RIP) used to be part of the old lewrockwell.com crew before they kicked him off for racial crimethink (the site has since become more reactionary). He once said that a country needed an average IQ of around 103, like the Koreas or Japan, to be a viable self-ruling republic. The US is 97 and falling.

Mises Institute alum Jeffrey Tucker has made the transition as well. He's still libertarian and Austrian school but like Hoppe he's figured out if you want a polite, classical liberal society you've got to have machine guns and barbed wire to keep all the impolite, non-classical liberals out.

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RevelinConcentration's avatar

You wonder how many liberals understand how much as a country has been lost in 20 years.

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MamaBear's avatar

That is the point. They wanted this change.

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Henry Rodger Beck's avatar

Who'd have thought an entire generation more of anti-white political indoctrination and the number-one social-media app among the youth being ChiCom malaria would vastly degrade national culture.

Neville Roy Singham would be RICO'd yesterday if he weren't single-handedly responsible for saving Donald Trump's political prospects.

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Derek Leaberry's avatar

Funny how a dominant population can be totally ignorant of the popular heroes of a minority population. In Washington DC, most whites have never heard of Cathy Hughes. Cathy Hughes began by buying up Washington radio stations circa 1980 and branched out nationwide. Her company, Radio One, owned 70 stations nationwide at one time and she and her son are minority owners of Black Entertainment Television. Cathy Hughes is listed as worth $450 million today making her the second wealthiest black woman in America next to Oprah Winfrey. I only knew of her because the man who did many of my deliveries, Ken H, was Cathy Hughes' primary deliveryman.

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CWGARRETT's avatar

What are the LA Spanish DJ ‘s saying now? All in on the violent rotests or some grudging support for the Big Naranja El Trumpo?

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The Anti-Gnostic's avatar

"Earlier marches that year had seen large numbers of Mexican and Central American flags waved, but the word was out by March 25 to only bring American flags this time."

Obviously that instruction doesn't make the rounds anymore.

These riots and the earlier BLM riots are kinetic expressions of the new anti-colonialist narrative that has replaced the post-WW2 Atlanticist narrative. And this party is just getting started.

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Chip Witch's avatar

But would old school Chicanos really care that much about illegals? I don’t know LA, but Rasmussen’s recent polling shows Hispanics in general still behind Trump. What would make LA’s Chicanos, with their presumably deeper roots, more restive now?

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MamaBear's avatar

If a peaceful massive protest didn’t give illegals amnesty, then violent resistance to any deportation is the answer. It’s the next best thing. Wait until all those illegals Biden let in start having their kids grow up. Even greater demand to give their parents and family citizenship. There are at least 30+ milllions illegals at this point.

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