I will make several comments.
First, pretending our border doesn’t matter is effectively equal to saying that our nation, and our political culture, do not matter. This itself is tantamount to saying that WE don’t matter. If you let people walk all over you, you are obviously dealing with serious shame and self loathing. Allowing in tens of millions of people who just want to sponge off of us is a way of committing national suicide. This is what the Europeans are doing. They don’t seemingly care to live any more, not as nations, not as cultures, not as inheritors of a history worth a shit. And most of their leaders are not sufficiently optimistic about the future that they have had children. Macron and Merkel and May: all childless. As the song goes, “only stupid people are breeding”. The rest of them think they know better.
And I would like to point out that our leftist political culture is telling us that if we have ANY positive feelings about our nation, its history, or our particular ethnic group (if it is white, because God knows all white people are the same, with the same history, with the Irish exactly equal to the Germans), then we should feel shame. We should also feel shame if we don’t like our history. In fact, the only people who don’t need to feel shame are those who spend all their time telling OTHER people to feel shame. It’s a fucked up situation, embraced only by fucked up people.
And if you are minority, you are helpless. You are told to feel proud for being a victim, but victimhood and pride are not natural companions, to put it mildly. And there is no pathway to earned self respect. Everything is given. You are what you are. All black are equal. All Latinos are equal. All women are equal. The only way to climb it to intersectionalize yourself, and that still does nothing to actually empower you in your daily life. You just get better seating at the political luncheons.
So shame here, shame there, shame everywhere. Nothing to hold on to. And Trump of course is going to destroy the world. Fucking Trump, fucking fucking fucking Trump. If only we had elected Hillary: rainbows across the sky as far as you can see, sugar plum fairies, and pots of gold.
Pure childishness, in other words. And if I might frame it this way, someone with Borderline Personality Disorder more or less functions with a two year olds emotionality, in an adult body. It is wildly inappropriate. It is exhausting. This is why BPD suffer from depression and suicidality.
And if I might generalize, in the lead ups to both the Bolshevik Revolution and Nazism, there was mass nihilism, mass blackness, mass anomie and angst. In both of those cases, I think that large scale events created pervasive attachment failures, which created kids who were naturally supportive of any political regime which involved mass conformity, strong emotion, and violence.
I’ve commented that Nazism, psychologically, can easily be seen as rooted in the attachment failures of parents who had children during and after World War 1. In Russia, you had both the war in 1905, the first World War, and you had people who were more or less proud to call themselves Nihilists (it is a Russian term, or originated there, and was applied to people who looked and acted like hippies) infecting everyone with atheism and pessimism.
The psychological stage is set for fascism in this country. It is arising among children whose parents didn’t love them effectively for whatever reason, and who suffer mental illness, and a hunger that goes down to the seat of their souls to be members of a mindlessly conformist group authorized to commit acts of violence against innocents. They need a channel for their rage, and an antidote to their alienation. And they need a sufficiently good moral background that their innate self loathing can be held in check long enough to satisfy their blood lust.
As I continue to say, it’s hard to be optimistic. But my work continues. It is possible to be happy in a fallen, depraved world. It is possible to float atop the muck, as in the much used Lotus flower metaphor. And sooner or later a bullet or the Grim Reaper in some other form will find me, and I too will see what is next.
Until then, I will do my best to speak the truth, to embody truth, and to do my best to guide others to it.