Kevin MacDonald: The United States is headed for a political crisis. Patrick Buchanan wonders “Is this how democracy ends?” Debt is skyrocketing and it is politically impossible for the Democrats or Republicans to deal with it — at least partly because of the rage of the tea partiers. These are the middle and lower middle class Whites who feel that the country is being taken away from them.
On the other hand, while rage builds among the middle and lower middle class Whites, the message has not reached educated Whites. George Will points out that the Republican Party “recently has become ruinously weak among highly educated whites.”
The Republican Party can’t win without their populist base, and yet it’s virtually certain that the Republicans will do nothing to give them what they really need. The Beltway Conservatives don’t even mention immigration as an issue, even though, as the Center for Immigration Studies tells us, wherever immigrants settle the percentage of the vote going to Republicans has declined. The Republican Party has become a White party. Whatever short term successes they have — and they figure to do well this year by milking the rage and the money of the tea partiers, they are doomed to electoral defeat in the long run.
American politics has become racialized. The United States and the rest of the Western world are undergoing an existential crisis. Our culture is coming under intense pressure with the rise of multiculturalism and continuing high levels of non-White immigration. We can see the changes all around us, and yet discussion of public policy related to these issues in the mainstream media is contained within a hopelessly narrow space.
We at The Occidental Observer are determined to change this. In this, our second fundraising appeal, we are asking readers to contribute financially to TOO’s success and increased visibility. It is important to get our message out in the most professional manner possible.
Western societies have become cauldrons of competing ethnic groups where only one group — White people of European descent — may not explicitly assert their interests. The tea partiers want something like the America they grew up in, but they may not say this because they will be tagged as racists by the media. These people are being pushed out economically and politically. They are less able to avoid the costs of multiculturalism: They can’t move to gated communities or send their children to all-White private schools. Their unions have been destroyed and their jobs either shipped overseas or performed by recent immigrants, legal and illegal.
But without direction and leadership, this movement will not be effective. The fact is that the domination of the mass media and the academic world by elites that are hostile to White identity and interests makes it very difficult for educated Whites to sign on to a White ethnonationalist movement. Such people are often vulnerable to economic pressures where they work, and, as college-educated people, they have a respect for mainstream academic and media institutions. Having been treated fairly in general, they trust the integrity of the basic institutions of the society. They identify with its basic ideology — America as emerging from its long dark night of evil into the glorious goodness and virtue of the multicultural future.
The Occidental Observer occupies a unique space on the Internet because it attempts to appeal to educated Whites. There is simply no other outlet that discusses the full range of issues related to White survival and interests with the same level of intelligence and intellectual honesty that can be found here. All of the theory and the data are on our side. There is no reason at all why educated Whites cannot be persuaded to see the world as we do and to explicitly advocate for a White identity and for White interests.
It is no secret that many of our articles deal with Jewish power and influence. Jews have become a financial, media, and academic elite, and the organized Jewish community is a pillar of the multicultural left that has transformed Western societies. The multicultural left has abandoned the White middle and working classes in favor of promoting policies that will completely eclipse the people and culture of traditional America. An important theme of many of our articles has been that Jewish influence in the media has resulted in the denigration of all of our cultural traditions, especially the strong Christian religious traditions of our people. It has resulted in invidious portrayals of White people and their accomplishments that have become internalized among a very large number of our people.
Educated Whites must realize that whatever their current prosperity, their long term prospects for themselves and their children are going to be severely compromised in multicultural America. It makes no sense whatever for these people to ally themselves with the looming non-White majority and against the great majority of their own people.
This is a very difficult topic to discuss fairly and honestly. A large part of the problem is that even well-argued, factually-based discussions of Jewish power and influence are typically labeled “anti-Semitic” and are banned from mainstream discussion. The occasional lapses from this public decorum are aggressively policed by an imposing array of well-financed activist organizations. These organizations have no scruples about ruining careers or doing whatever else they see as necessary to maintain the status quo. They typically operate by creating moral panics aimed at shutting down any discussion of Jewish power and any discussion of the Jewish role in the decline of Whites in America and other Western societies.
Prior to the Internet, it was possible to relegate all discussions of Jewish power and influence to the fringes of the culture. But that is no longer the case. The Occidental Observer has a place on the web that is just as accessible as the New York Times or the Washington Post.
It doesn’t take billions or even millions of dollars to develop a presence in this new medium. But it does require a sound financial foundation. We have set up TOO on a shoe-string budget. The great majority of the writing and all of the technical work have been done as a labor of love by people who are self-motivated to contribute to this effort.
We have posted some exceptional material within these constraints. But volunteer labor can only go so far. Good writers are a rarity. For the reasons discussed above, It is difficult to find writers with the requisite expertise and commitment to the historical American nation and the West. It is only natural that writers would appreciate some compensation — even if it is far less than they would need to earn a living. Quite simply, they need the money.
Huge numbers of readers are not critical for our success. The anti-White revolution that has so far triumphed in America has been a top-down phenomenon. The next revolution will also likely be a top-down phenomenon in which ideas that are completely outside the mainstream are disseminated and gradually take hold among people who can make a difference, whether because they have money, writing ability, or skills in the political arena.
The point is not how many people are reading TOO, although we are certainly growing in readership. (This pdf file of readership from February, 2009 through January 2010 shows that around 2500 unique users per day in the most recent month — over twice the readership of a year ago.)
The point is that some of the people reading it may be able to make a difference in the future.
I ask for your support on behalf of The Occidental Observer’s dedicated writers.
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Kevin MacDonald, Editor
Kevin MacDonald (Email him) is Editor of The Occidental Observer and is Professor of Psychology at California State University–Long Beach.
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Every reader here can certainly afford to subscribe for at least $10/month. Dr. MacDonald has made this easy do with the recurring PayPal payment option. You all know that this is one of the most important web presences in our struggle, so please get busy and sign up!
Nobody else is going to do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
We all owe so much to Dr. MacDonald, and the other writers at TOO.
Of course, if you have the means, don’t stop at $10/month! Someday your name will be on one of those bricks that rebuilt the intellectual and spiritual edifice of the West!
Thanks very much to Dr. MacDonald for this fundraising appeal. Very well written and balanced, as always.
Money talks,
Bullshit walks,
:)
As MacDonald points out, TOO-writers “are often vulnerable to economic pressures where they work.” I disagree, however, that college-educated people necessarily “have a respect for mainstream academic and media institutions” (the insiders, sure, but not TOO-outsiders). Educated outsiders have often not “been treated fairly” and they do not “trust the integrity of the basic institutions of the society.”
Donated :)
I have registered my monthly donation as well. Excellent essay!
What are the advantages of “subscription”? Is it just a monthly donation? How much do most people donate?
Is it just a monthly donation?
Yes. It’s just a recurring monthly donation.
How much do most people donate?
I went for $10/month. I am an impoverished student, though. Feel free to donate more.
Please don’t contribute anything that is financially painful. We will continue posting in any case. Kevin M
I have just finished reading Harold Covington’s quartet of novels on the Pacific Northwest revolt and am much relieved that the TOO administration does not expect us to do anything that could be deemed as painful. However, a cheque is in the mail but I am afraid the amount about matches my IQ. Not that there is anything wrong with the “widow’s mite.”
My old-line, dying, White protestant religious denomination recently sold a piece of extremely valuable property that housed one of their now-defunct churches.
Fortunately, the city barred the church from selling the property to developers who were salivating at the idea of getting their greedy hands on the land, razing the old traditional church, sub-dividing the land and building high-rise condos.
The land was kept (for the moment) as a site for ‘religious use.’ Strange that the city allowed this because of the huge amount of tax revenue a mult-storied, mult-building condo project would bring into city coffers–and I’m sure into individual city council members’ hands as well.
What did my former denomination decide to do with the money from the sale of the church property (which sold for about two million dollars, to an Eastern Orthodox denomination)? Use it to fund an out-reach program in Africa that funds missionaries and builds churches and orphanages.
I quit the church my family and ancestors attended all the way back to Scotland.
The money, I’m happy to report, that I used to donate to this church, is now going for a more important cause, as far as I’m concerned: A monthly donation to Occidental Observer.
Best decision I’ve made all year.
Bon
even 5.00 a month would help… heck 5.00 would help. it all adds up.
Hi Bon me lad,
The disconnect between the churches and Christianity is indeed a sight to behold.
The disconnect between the churches and Christianity is indeed a sight to behold
since much of the higher ups are geniune, unreformed marxists, it is not too far fetched to say they are intentionally trying to destroy the churches. My guess is they want to collapse the mainline churches and use the remaining assets to further their ‘revolution.”
White men WON’T donate to TOO, but they’ll surely toss $200 into the negro ball March Madness office poll!
I’ve been poking around here for a few weeks now and, in all honesty, I can’t think of a single reason why I should support TOO.
You offer no practical solutions to any of the problems that you write about.
You openly support Christianity and the Republican party – both of which are packed to the rafters with Zionists and Jew sympathizers of every stripe!
The only real thing that I carry away from TOO when I leave it is an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and despair. Why on earth would I give you my hard-earned dollars to do that?
Little Guy,
One of the points I have made repeatedly in my articles is the fact that there needs to be more than analyses of the various things that are wrong with the world we live in; that our side needs, in addition, to show a way forward, to offer an attractive vision of ourselves and the future. I have maintained this position because I know that no one wants to be around an old codger who grumbles about everything and spends the day waving an angry fist at the world out there. I have proposed, where I thought I had good ideas, constructive solutions, and I am happy to report that there are more where those came from.
It’s very simple folks, if you support kmac’s work and believe in the survival of White civilization, then support this vital effort…financially.
@ Alex Kurtagic: Hello, Alex…thanks for your pleasant response!
I have a question for you, Alex, and for anyone else who cares to chime in: We all know the hostile elites have some big plans for us – Civil War (in the US), financial collapse/mass starvation, HARRP-induced earthquake in middle- America, World War III, etc. – that have been calculated to radically reduce our ability to fight them and make it impossible to remove them from power. My question is this: how much longer do you think we have before they openly move to destroy the White Nationalist movement…and all other resistance, for that matter?
I ask this because there is obviously a disconnect between what I’m seeing on the ground, in my everyday observations, and the things that I see and hear coming from WN thinkers. We should be building armies but, instead, we’re discussing Nietzsche vs. Christianity? HA! Big mistake!
Kevin,
Did TOO really get 75.4% new visitors in January?
With my Blog, I get about 50% new visitors per month.
Little Guy,
There is a lot of apocalyptic talk in the WN movement. Personally, while we need to be aware of the problems and well informed about current events, this overemphasis on the negative tends to get in the way; it is more constructive to focus on solutions. Who knows what will happen and when? What matters is that the present situation is not tenable and we need to change it. And if there is some collapse before we can change it, then at least we need to be ready to fill any ensuing power vacuum, otherwise someone else will and there is no guarantee that that someone else will be better. Hopefully, it will not come to that. But the main thing is to have a positive and constructive approach, and to remember that being a dissident can also be fun (!)
@ Alex: I’m 78% with you…but the other 32% of me says: these guys are making a huge mistake by not applying their intellectual power to “batten down the hatches”, as it were. We’re only one false-flag attack away from being shut down and arrested! At least y’all could make some sort of effort to purge the WN movement of it’s many Jew infiltrators.
It’s like my Granddaddy use to say…”It’s hard, boy…hard to drain a swamp when you’re up to your ass in alligators!”
Little Guy,
There are many different aspects about a counter-cultural movement, and therefore many different ways to get involved. In general terms, this website is about how we think and how we talk. Thought informs speech and speech instigates action. So this website occupies an important niche in the ecology. Having said this, there will be people who prefer a more hands-on approach, and that is good too. There will also be people who are interested in a particular subject area not covered here, or treated in really great depth, and that is only natural. We cannot force change with just one type of people or one type of activity. It is up to you to choose your path, according to your talents, skills, and inclinations. But, all the same, it all starts with how we think and how we talk: if we do not have that in order, we will not be able to take, or inspire, effective action.