It's not about race, but we need more based mestizos of browness. OK. Trump lost the Hispanic vote.
As far as "vulnerability to leftism" goes, it's called liberalism. It's liberalism that does that, especially the rootless version that evolved in America, which appears to be, ironically, your favorite. That's to the extent any of this stuff is cultural in the first place. Really, the fate of the country gets decided in back room deals behind closed doors between bankers and politicians anyway.
I don't know WTF leftism is really supposed to mean to you anymore. The French rioted over increasing their retirement age recently. I would have expected you to consider that uber leftist. Now, they are less leftist than the Angloshpere for this conversation. Whatever.
Let's be real though, culture is an extension of behavioral tendencies, which are genetic on some level. There's more that goes into it, but race is absolutely part of the equation whether people want to admit it or not.
It's not about race, but we need more based mestizos of browness. OK. Trump lost the Hispanic vote.
The Republicans haven't gotten 50% of the Hispanic vote as far as I'm aware. However, Trump got about as many as Bush did (which was the highest) as far as I've seen.
You can talk about whatever you think America "needs", what I'm telling you is that this is a Liberal country that is a Civic Nation, and as such it requires assimilation into American values. Call that "more based mestizos" if you want, the point is the based part.
As for your point about Liberalism, yeah, that's what I said. Liberalism is part of Anglo culture. So is Protestantism. Frankly, Liberalism probably flows from both Protestantism and the English sense of individualism. What one historian called "The Anglo In The Woods".
But, as I also said, Leftism exploits any avenue of attack available to it. Both individualism and collectivism.
Leftism, as I use it, is a Philosophy of War, which is descendent of the ideological pre-suppositions of Rousseau and Marx, for the purposes of acquiring power through seizing it from opponents using a historical dialectic.
I do not deny that Liberalism is vulnerable to Leftism, and that Leftism is a kind of evil, anti-moral outgrowth from Liberalism, that Liberalism has no other counter but to hunt it down and destroy it wherever it may appear. Just as tyranny is an evil outgrowth of authoritarianism. Just as incest is an outgrowth of aristocracy. Just as elitism is an outgrowth of vanguardism.
But, that doesn't explain the issue. As you pointed out Liberalism is my thing, and America is explicitly Liberal. In fact, America is easily the most Liberal country of the Anglosphere. Yet, it is the only place where we see major popular pushback within the Anglosphere. That pushback seems to be coming from the Americans' unique Liberal attitudes as a pioneering nation, and willing to cede institutional care, for the sake of individual freedom. That challenge to individual freedom, and opposition to institutional corruption, and the willingness to dispense with the institutions is a particularly Liberal mindset that is causing the most resistance to the Leftist advance in the Anglosphere. Whereas, the opposite of this is best shown by Australia which has a fairly rigid authoritarianism which was shown to be horrifically tyrannical, the the point that it built Covid camps and where mass shotgunning protestors (and killing puppies). When Leftism seizes institutions, it weaponizes authoritarianism, and an authoritarian minded people struggle mightily to resist.
Liberalism doesn't seem to be the vulnerability within Anglo culture. Perhaps it is Anglo endurance? Something like "stick-to-it-iveness" or that "keep calm and carry on" mentality is being weaponized to prevent reactionary attitudes. I don't know.
It literally is. Welcome to Liberal Universalism.
It's not about race, but we need more based mestizos of browness. OK. Trump lost the Hispanic vote.
As far as "vulnerability to leftism" goes, it's called liberalism. It's liberalism that does that, especially the rootless version that evolved in America, which appears to be, ironically, your favorite. That's to the extent any of this stuff is cultural in the first place. Really, the fate of the country gets decided in back room deals behind closed doors between bankers and politicians anyway.
I don't know WTF leftism is really supposed to mean to you anymore. The French rioted over increasing their retirement age recently. I would have expected you to consider that uber leftist. Now, they are less leftist than the Angloshpere for this conversation. Whatever.
Let's be real though, culture is an extension of behavioral tendencies, which are genetic on some level. There's more that goes into it, but race is absolutely part of the equation whether people want to admit it or not.
The Republicans haven't gotten 50% of the Hispanic vote as far as I'm aware. However, Trump got about as many as Bush did (which was the highest) as far as I've seen.
You can talk about whatever you think America "needs", what I'm telling you is that this is a Liberal country that is a Civic Nation, and as such it requires assimilation into American values. Call that "more based mestizos" if you want, the point is the based part.
As for your point about Liberalism, yeah, that's what I said. Liberalism is part of Anglo culture. So is Protestantism. Frankly, Liberalism probably flows from both Protestantism and the English sense of individualism. What one historian called "The Anglo In The Woods".
But, as I also said, Leftism exploits any avenue of attack available to it. Both individualism and collectivism.
Leftism, as I use it, is a Philosophy of War, which is descendent of the ideological pre-suppositions of Rousseau and Marx, for the purposes of acquiring power through seizing it from opponents using a historical dialectic.
I do not deny that Liberalism is vulnerable to Leftism, and that Leftism is a kind of evil, anti-moral outgrowth from Liberalism, that Liberalism has no other counter but to hunt it down and destroy it wherever it may appear. Just as tyranny is an evil outgrowth of authoritarianism. Just as incest is an outgrowth of aristocracy. Just as elitism is an outgrowth of vanguardism.
But, that doesn't explain the issue. As you pointed out Liberalism is my thing, and America is explicitly Liberal. In fact, America is easily the most Liberal country of the Anglosphere. Yet, it is the only place where we see major popular pushback within the Anglosphere. That pushback seems to be coming from the Americans' unique Liberal attitudes as a pioneering nation, and willing to cede institutional care, for the sake of individual freedom. That challenge to individual freedom, and opposition to institutional corruption, and the willingness to dispense with the institutions is a particularly Liberal mindset that is causing the most resistance to the Leftist advance in the Anglosphere. Whereas, the opposite of this is best shown by Australia which has a fairly rigid authoritarianism which was shown to be horrifically tyrannical, the the point that it built Covid camps and where mass shotgunning protestors (and killing puppies). When Leftism seizes institutions, it weaponizes authoritarianism, and an authoritarian minded people struggle mightily to resist.
Liberalism doesn't seem to be the vulnerability within Anglo culture. Perhaps it is Anglo endurance? Something like "stick-to-it-iveness" or that "keep calm and carry on" mentality is being weaponized to prevent reactionary attitudes. I don't know.
Ironically, your description of leftism is very post modern.
Post Modernism is an extension out of Leftism so that would make sense.