More Pavilions At Volkfest

Eric Kaufmann;

There’s a comforting myth that voters are electing right-wing populists because they feel ‘left behind’ by the global economy and uncaring politicians. All that’s needed is to redistribute some wealth, grow the economy and devolve power and all will be fine. In fact, there is little evidence to back up these assertions. In numerous surveys I have analyzed, immigration attitudes and salience, not economic circumstances or even anti-elitism, are what best explain why people vote for right-wing populists.

12 Replies to “More Pavilions At Volkfest”

  1. I’ll go one further.

    The big driver – the root cause that is never addressed – is the loss of Freedom that comes with ever-growing states.

    1. Correct. I will include that when you no longer think your culture and society have no value and you are willing to throw away that which made your country and society great you lose. . All cultures and societies are not equal as all men are not equal.

  2. “Pew projects that several major western countries will see their Muslim share triple by 2050, reaching 20 percent in Sweden and 17 percent in Britain. The level and rate of Muslim increase, as captured by Pew’s 2050 projections, is therefore correlated with populist support, as shown in figure 4.”
    Progressives are a sick group of people. They hate their neighbours so much they’re willing to destroy their neighbourhood.

  3. Muslims are taking over Europe and Hispanics are taking over the USA. This is what happens when you stop having children white people.

    1. Correct, the extreme left liberals ushered in the abortion without restrictions regime over a period of decades, and unlimited birth control; which caused the birthrate to drop to some 1.3 – 1.7 offspring per child bearing woman. The extreme left liberals answered this economy killing with immigration (see George Soros and Co.). Western democracies are too lazy to do the hard work of handing on civilization to their young; so they will disappear. The parties like Angela Merkel opened the doors wide to immigration and are now getting some push back. Poland, Hungary and a number of others recognized the extreme left liberal trend and rejected it, in favour of doing the hard work of civilization. The mushy middle recoil in ‘abject horror’ that the populists actually had the temerity to reject their extremist left liberal plan: Hence the appellation from Clintonesque quarters of “deplorable and irredeemable”. If one is too stupid to survive, and hand civilization to the next generation; why do the extreme left liberals expect and demand one support them at the ballot box?
      They have richly earned their most recent defeats…

      Cheers

      Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
      1st Saint Nicolaas Army
      Army Group “True North”

  4. You can see a similar situation with abortion and capital punishment. The new abortion laws in several states are a direct result of the left making every SCOTUS nominee, for decades now, an abortion referendum free-for-all. By keeping the issue front-and-center, they guaranteed that one day the fight would be brought to them. (FTR- I’m pretty agnostic on abortion. I AM, however, increasingly disturbed by the levels of enthusiasm that the left brings to this issue. This is not something that one should be enthused about, IMHO.)
    The same has occurred with capital punishment. I’d be willing to bet that an overwhelming majority of pro-death penalty Americans would be perfectly content with the end of the death penalty, if they could rest assured that SOME criminals have no hope- not faint, but zip, zero, nada- of ever walking out of a prison, ever. Instead, the anti-capital punishment crowd are the same folks who push for ever lighter sentences, for every crime imaginable. If Montana had no death penalty, Ronald Smith would have faded into obscurity, and grown old and died with nary a Canadian ever having the faintest idea of who he is or what he did. But, because of Montana’s noose, he gets a ray of public sunshine every so often. The same people who have kept him out of the death chamber for years, are the same people who’d parole his sorry ass in a heartbeat, which only serves to keep the death penalty on the table.
    Abortion and the death penalty are handy tools for liberals in Canada. They pull them out like Saturday Night Specials, in order to instill fear in low information voters by reminding them that conservatives are Nazi’s without the crazy salute. Elect them and they’ll build a gallows in every city, and hang the birth control providers first. And some people buy that shit.

  5. I didn’t bother to read this one.
    The myth is mythical. It’s rather disingenuous to disprove one false premise while inserting another.
    I tire of the labels applied to the sweeping success of conservative movements across western culture as populist.
    “All that’s needed is to redistribute some wealth, grow the economy and devolve power and all will be fine. “
    The above is both oxymoronic, capricious, and clearly has nothing to do with new conservative movements. In essence it is the quasi socialist attitude of the unwitting globalist. No credible person has ever associated these thoughts with a conservative movement. This myth began with this article.

    Immigration, at the levels western nations have recently experienced, has proven to be economically, culturally, and most importantly nationally unsustainable as immigrants are not a calculated volume of people to aid and develop but masses objectified as tools to erode cultural hegemony, require measures of control reducing once established freedoms, and economically burden their host states. They are the new tool of the globalist progressive movement furthering the reduction of western dominance toward the goal of a world order.

    Abortion on demand, legalized drugs, exclusion of church from state, free phones, alternative genders, crappy energy sources, global warming, Islamic terror denial, feminism, socialism, collectivism, etc. etc. THIS IS POPULISM

  6. “Immigration, as survey experiments show, unsettles the cultural security of conservative ethnic majorities and minorities who are attached to the traditional ethnic composition of their nations…So long as mainstream parties manage the inflow of immigrants, they can keep the populist right at bay…”

    Excuse me. The populist right is not the problem that needs solving.

    White north Americans and Europeans are a pack of racists and Islamophobes? Is that the joke? Damn right we are. All what means is that we are sane, and we value the survival of our countries, bevause we’re not members of the exclusive club (no more than 50,000 worldwide) who can count on themselves and their bank balances always being welcome somewhere civilized.

    We were born in civilized countries. Yes, we’re somewhat attached to those countries. We don’t care to die in hellholes begging for an antibiotic-resistant plague to consign their denizens to the dustbin of human evolution.

    Those who do are free to leave at any time for any of a number of such places, and the rest of us will be well rid of them all.

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