Gloom
Over at Vanishing American, spirits are down. Basically, the conservative movement is divided over what conservatism even is nowadays, even amongst paleocons.
Having engaged in numerous conversations with incorrigible liberals about the future of this country given our continued importation of low-IQ immigrants and high-IQ-but-hostile immigrants (including Arabs and the like), after having paraded out hatefacts, hatestats, hatedata and all of the other things that are simply a re-telling of what you can see with your lying eyes daily in California, after having discussed the truth-claims of Islam from Islam's own source texts with such people, and after having been met with continued apathy, I think it's time to declare victory and give up.
I understand we need to have a spirit of optimism and respect for what our parents accomplished. I've been critical of previous generations, but right now, I'm feeling rather magnanimous. These generations basically elected leaders in good faith to do the right thing in the hopes that, after continually doing the wrong thing, things would reach a turning point and we, as a country, would get back on track. Sadly, I think that we're beyond the point of "turning points" and need to flee "each to his own home," so to speak. The reason I say this is that we've seen (as demonstrated by Sailer), that non-Asian minorities were overwhelmingly the culprits in taking out home loans that they had no intention of repaying. Liberal financial class whites "securitized" these loans and sold them overseas, thus "reverse redlining" (an Orwellian term if there ever was one) these hapless blacks and hispanics who defaulted in 5 years. This is obvious in California, even to the most casual observer. But polite whites continue to call for more white-funded education to help hispanics and blacks make the right decisions in life, and there is little evidence that more education will do anything. We've been trying to improve black education for 60 years at least. How's that working for us? I've had these conversations with hipster whites in the middle of hispanic-dominated neighborhoods where I felt like I needed to carry a gun.
Reality will simply not be seen by such people, and the people who can see it are too few in number. Really, everyone is too busy trying to stay employed during the Bush Depression (which will be exacerbated significantly by Chairman Obama) to start embracing causes and trying to convince people to see reality, which we know beforehand will not work.
I propose that everyone who is like-minded, therefore, to stop expending energy on such things and start trying to position yourselves where your children (if any) can be set for the future. There are many parts of the United States which are harsh in climate and sparsely populated enough to do so. Really, living in a dense metropolis where pay is higher is a negative-sum game because higher pay simply means higher tax thefts (which are given to Hispanics to pay for their children) and higher rents. The future of this country consists of surviving in the lowest possible tax bracket in an area of lower population density where cottage industry is possible. Working "off the books," will become more popular when the government begins to resort to pre-1980s tax brackets to make up for their budget deficit outlays.
I was running some numbers tonight with my capable wife and really, unless she works and we combine in income for over $100k per year and have a mortgage note of no greater than $250k, we're looking at abject poverty in California if we want to have a family. The combined incomes, of course, will push us into a near 30% tax bracket, which means that we won't be helped much by her income and with the cost of daycare and another mouth to feed. The $1000 tax credit per child per year is basically a laughable slap in the face. My wife has further been talking to ladies at our church with young children, and they have consistently remarked that they are a) poor and b) accumulating debt. Poverty is one thing. One can sleep easily at night and be poor. Debt is another animal altogether.
My wife and I have therefore concluded that, upon expiration of our apartment lease, we're going to make a Kierkegaardian leap into the blackness and simply pull up stakes and move. Probably to Alaska. Or some other place that's cold and sparsely populated.
I've concluded that I've got too many of my own problems to try to convince others to see that theirs are only going to get worse given the trajectory of immigration and our nation. Why should I care what others think? How many have I won over to my side with all of my knowledge of the data? Zero. I get the standard, "Stats can be made to say anything" response.
The Silent Minority needs to look out for itself. I pretty much feel like a foreigner in California, and I can't see any of my children growing up here or following in any of my footsteps in this state (esp. not the military - what would they be defending, exactly?) For now, we'll just have to tolerate the Arabs, Persians, and the rest of the gold-chain-wearing-BMW-driving-but-low-renter crowd until we can make a leap to something else.
I'm all for keeping the fires of Western civ. burning, but not here. This place and much of the United States, for that matter, is starting to look like the Levant of the entire world.
PRCalDude
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PR, can you read minds from across the country? You are where I've been for years. It is totally hopeless. No one wants to hear the truth of what's happening and going to happen, even tho' were they not wearing rose-colored glasses they could see it themselves. The most part of the US is in denial because they don't want to think that this whole mess is going to implode around them, so they run faster and faster in their circle trying to escape what sub-consciously they know is coming, but don't want to admit because to admit is to give life to the monster. My wife continually tells me to keep quiet no one wants to hear my 'pessimism', which is reality if you look.
We have payed down debts, $32k in the last 3yrs, we are stockpiling food (gotta love those Mormons), and anything else we think is necessary for our survival in the coming years. We have skills and knowledge to subsist on the land, 8 out of the way acres. Two of my 3 closest friends are pastors of area churches. All three are hunkering down for problems ahead, same as I. We may just be climbing higher on the mast of the sinking ship and will not survive, but I'm gonna give it a shot. I would move to Montana tomorrow if my in-laws had a car wreck with my parents and all four died. As it is now we are semi-stuck helping aging parents. My heart breaks for my children and all the younger people who will never, never see the prosperity that I saw.
IF this is all in my mind, I will still be mostly debt-free and can eat my mistakes (literally.) It's a win/win.
Man it's depressing to put those tho'ts into words.
I'll bet that was a ballbreaker.
Can't you bring them? Initially, my wife didn't want to leave either. But over time, she experienced the continual d-baggery and narcissism of everyone in this God-forsaken state and it wore her down so that now SHE's the one pushing for us to go. I've told her that her grandparents are welcome to come.
Her dad told me to go move to Alaska and have a blast - to do manual labor if I wanted to even. Her mom....I dunno. But she doesn't really have the greatest relationship with her mom.
At the end of the day, she and I are a family so we have to do what's best for us. I'm not obligated to my inlaws, but to her.
No. I don't want to be pessimistic - I generally am optimistic about my capabilities - but I think a lot of people are in the same boat. Everyone's trying to grab up as big of a piece of the pie as they can before it's too late.
Our parents are old, old school and wouldn't move if lava started erupting on their property, hence the 'were they to die comment.'
PR, are you leaving CA? Is it definite? How soon? To where?
We're definitely leaving CA, the only question is, "How soon can we do it?" AK is the destination, definitely. There are actually some good Reformed churches up there, and housing prices are low. Plus, I can shoot over to Russia if the Spirit moves.
The only thing is, I like my job right now. We just gobbled up half of our competitor's VC money, effectively steamrolling them out of the business because our product is better. I'm doing something interesting and kinda want to stay. But I don't want to be like Lot's wife either...
American conservatism has tried to straddle the fence between the religious and secular and has lost footing and focus of purpose. Both parties are trying to distance themselves from the core religious impacts driving most of the voters. Democrats did this a long time ago, and now Republicans are doing it. Problem for peole like us is no party picking up the banner for our points of view. And then the parties wonder why they are losing traction with the voters... sigh...
The Republicans could pick up the mantle and run w/it if they weren't trying to out Demo the Demos. Pro-life is polled at 51% vs pro-death at 42%. The state of CA. just soundly defeated 6 tax/spend proposals. The Tea Parties are on the rise. The country is run by idiots. People are seeing their rights and freedoms vanish before their eyes and they are afraid (gold, gun and ammo sales up.) Someone with a clear-cut platform that made sense and wasn't bat dung crazy could sweep the Demos out in '10. But noooooo, Colon Powell is the future of the Repubs. And I spelled Colin wrong on purpose.
I've completely forgotten about the Republicans. I realized that they were just as involved in selling California down the river as the Dems, and this is where I live, and demographics are dooming them anyway.
I am a native-born Californian, and I would go to Alaska too if I were younger and unencumbered with family ties. The future of middle-class white people in California is as tax-slaves (until we are in our 70s -- they will definitely raise the SS retirement age so that people my age will not be able to ever retire) to the masses of non-contributing, voraciously tax-consuming Hispanics. I expect to be working until I am 75, and I expect to never recoup the SS money I've deposited in the SS fund. I've put aside money for my daughter to attend an independent college that doesn't receive any government funds (i.e., like Hillsdale) so she won't face government-funded anti-white discrimination. We had formerly planned to pay down the mortgage on our house but now that seems dicey; some of the more radical Hispanics are talking about taking our property. Good luck with your plans PR Cal Dude and I hope you and your wife have a lovely family in Alaska.
Hispanics talking about taking property? Even in Mexico they've figured out that that only leads to capital flight.
In California, of course, we have enormous capital flight in terms of (as you and I agree) the smart people leaving to areas of lower taxes.
I drive by Mexicans waiting to be picked up for day labor every day. Most of them are overweight or obese, have cell phones, ipods, and are generally unmotivated to actually get picked up for work.
Mexicans are generally hired not because they do jobs Americans won't do, but because they are unambitious and will keep doing the same dull, repetitive job over and over again for years. I certainly admire this aspect of them, but you can't build or maintain an advanced civilization on it. Also, the 2nd generation becomes even lazier than the Americans already here, so you have to constantly import more Mexicans from across the border to do jobs 2nd generation Mexicans won't do - a negative sum game if there ever was one.
As you put it, they have a voracious appetite for white tax money and we are expected to be tax slaves.
On this blog, however, we like to sit around and think of work-arounds for problems like this. And they are out there.