Moving Beyond Right and Left

I am a bit wary about folks who say we need to move beyond the Left and Right, and for good reason.

Traditionally, most folks who say, “we are moving beyond the Left and the Right,” or “We are neither Left nor Right,” are typically fascists, often anti-Semites. The Third Positionist movement says it is beyond Left and Right, and it is considered to be a fascist movement. Some folks on the Left begin to harbor a lot of animus towards Jews for whatever reason. They move heavily into pro-Palestinian, pro-Islam and sometimes even nationalist politics. They start to make alliances with all sorts of anti-Semites, including Palestinians, Islamists and various fascist types, often White nationalists or other European nationalists.

The Islamists and European nationalists are usually considered to be rightwingers, so that’s why these folks start talking about moving beyond Left and Right. I have even seen some of these folks convert to Islam and move right into radical hardline Caliphate style Islamism. Others have started to embrace the notion of racial or national homelands for various races or nations.

Despite the fascist taint, I still think this is worthwhile thing to do. It’s insane that if you decide you are on the Right, you are given a list of 500 issues with a rightwing or proper position on every one of them. If you check the Left position on only one of those 500 issues, you will be hounded as a “liberal” until you are thrown out the Right. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. Sane people may choose to be Right or Left on this or that issue. There’s nothing irrational, neurotic or insane about it. It’s really just the normal human thing to do.

Personally I am getting sick and tired of this Right/Left crap, and I think we need to get rid of it. So many folks decide, “I am on the Left,” or “I am on the Right,” then once they decide for one side, they get a checklist of 100-1000 different issue statements and they have to check off every one in order to be on the Right or the Left. Most folks do exactly that. If you refuse to check say one box, then you get hounded out of either the Left or the Right as “not a liberal,” or “not a conservative.”

I have been told countless times that “I am not a Leftist,” and that I am actually a fascist or a reactionary. So I go over to fascist or reactionary sites, and I want to throw up over just about everything I read. I go to Left or liberal sites and like most of it except for some Identity Politics or PC bullshit which to be honest is not a big part of the Left.

I say I am on the Left, and screw everyone who says I am not.

Or maybe we need to start trashing these concepts altogether?

Liberal Race Realism – A Brief Definition

Liberal Race Realism has been described as “a dash of race realism, positive white racial identity, the leftist view of American history, anti-racism, and a base of liberalism.” The term was coined by Hunter Wallace, a White nationalist. Although the name was created by a WN, most LRR’s are indifferent to hostile towards White nationalism, which they regard as virulent racism of the worst kind.

Most LRR’s, while sympathetic to HBD, are often repelled by it due to the blatant racism and its conservative/reactionary (particularly Libertarian) bent.

We remain liberals. We see ourselves as nonracists or even possibly antiracists (probably more nonracists), and we are repelled by what we see as outright racism. We believe that people should not practice animus or discrimination towards others on the basis of their race. Further, we are liberals to socialists/Communists, so we are repelled by rightwing ideology in general, which further alienates us from most of the HBD crowd. One thing we have in common is that we are social liberals/socialists/communists on economics, and we support much of the rest of the Left project absent the Identity Politics/PC/Cultural Marxist/Critical Race Theory insanity. We are as hostile to the PC crowd as we are to the Right.

The core principle is that we accept that there are some differences between the races particularity in regard to intelligence and behavior. LRR is agnostic about whether these differences are due to environment, genetics or both, thought some LRR’s may see them as primarily one of the three. The main point is that the intelligence and behavioral differences in the races have a serious sociological and political impact on societies and nation-states, hence they are important at both the micro (individual) and macro (national to global) level.

We simply see race realism as the truth. And at some point, everyone on the political spectrum needs to accept the truth. We are trying to fashion some sort of a liberal/Left response to the facts of race realism, but it has generally been a very hard sell. LRR’s are generally despised as racists or reactionaries/fascists on the Left, and the Right isn’t very nice to us either. We are pretty much hated by everyone. It’s a lonely place to be.

Differential Intelligence Among the Races

Bregunn writes:

Again, I’m sorry but there is no vast amount of evidence supporting an intellectual equivalence among the races. From IQ tests, high school graduation rates and sat scores to attendance numbers at elite universities, employment levels in cutting edge science and tech companies and peer reviewed science publications, Africans lag behind Europeans and Asians by quite a distance in all of these and surely many more not mentioned. This pattern is consistent and long standing, I have yet to read a satisfactory explanation other than an innate difference in intelligence and/or aptitude.

I would agree with this to a great degree. Certainly in US society, the following would seem to be markers of intelligence:

1. high school graduation rates
2. PISA scores
3. SAT scores
4. college attendance rates
5. college graduation rates
6. representation at top universities
7. employment in high intelligence fields
8. professorships
9. peer reviewed publications

One could argue, I suppose, that the reasons some races do better than others in these variables is because they try harder, are richer, come from better cultures and so on. That argument would mean that all the races in the US have the same intelligence level, but some races just try harder than others, have more money or have a better culture, hence their success. However, that does not seem to be a good argument.

Furthermore, we note that IQ scores line up very well with every variable above, adding weight to the notion that they can be considered markers of intelligence.

This implies that there are in fact differential intelligence levels among races in the US at the moment. The lineup looks something like this:

                  IQ
Jews              116 
NE Asians         108
White Gentiles    103
US average        100           
Filipinos          97
Indians            96?
Hispanics          93
American Indians   90
Polynesians        90
Blacks             90

Note: Scores normed at US average.

Those IQ scores line up pretty well with the other variables above. In particular, on all variables above, a familiar Jews – NE Asians – White Gentiles – Hispanics – Blacks continuum is seen.

So the notion that there are racial differences in intelligence among US races is simply what ought to be a noncontroversial fact. Yet this is what Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation said, and he was fired over it, and a huge hullabaloo resulted. The man simply stated the truth. Certainly it should not be against the law to state the truth. You should not be fired for stating the truth.

What is still up in the air is what is making some races smarter than others. Perhaps it is genetics, perhaps it is the environment, perhaps it is both. No one really knows, and there is ferocious arguing on both sides. Liberal Race Realists may be agnostic about what is causing these differences or may take one of the positions from genetic to environmental to both, but they must agree that there are real cognitive differentials among races.

From a liberal point of view, one could certainly argue that deprived environments, poverty and lousy cultures are making some races smarter or stupider than other races. I would not have a problem with an argument like that if these liberals would first argue that there are intelligence differences in the first place, which seems obvious.

One thing that Liberal Race Realism does is we acknowledge that there are behavioral and intelligence differences between the races at the moment. We may be agnostic about what is causing them, but these differences are surely important in all sorts of ways.

The Present Day Republican Party

From Daily Kos:

The current Republican Party is irrelevant to the national conservation. They want trickle down economics – well that’s a proven fail. They deny climate change – that’s a proven fail. The list goes on and on. They are irrelevant to every single national problem the country faces…

Yes they control the House thru gerrymandering. That’s made them politically relevant. But their politics is 100% obstruction; 0% productive ideas. That’s because their only goal is to serve the interests of the wealthy and big corporations. Nobody else matters.

Well, that is about right. Actually, it is 100% true.

The Republican Party is probably the last major political party on Earth that continues to push the lie of trickle down economics – that massive cuts will so stimulate the economy that deficits will vanish. They actually believe that the way to get rid of deficits is via tax cuts! Starve the state of money via taxation and that will fix the government’s budget problem. It’s insane, and it’s never been proven to work. If you lower tax rates, you starve the state of funds, as one would logically think. Tax cuts don’t do much to stimulate the economy when they are directed at the rich who don’t put much of their money into productive investment anyway.

We have had 30 years of tax cutting and where has it gotten us? To this insane hollowed out economy with the worst inequality in the Developed World, flat or declining wages for 30 years, massive floods of immigrants taking American jobs, a ruined safety net, decrepit infrastructure and a Depression brought on Finance Capital that wiped out 40% of the wealth of the average American.

Climate change is as real as the nose on your face. I am not aware of any large political party anywhere on Earth who denies that it is real. If you hear of one, let me know.

Serving the interests of the upper middle class, the rich and the corporations is not in the best interests of the vast majority of Americans.

We need a political project that lifts up as large a percentage of the American people as possible, one that benefits the American majority, not the small upper middle class and wealthy corporate elite. Neither party is offering anything like this as both parties are working only for the interests of the corporations and the moneyed classes.

We have two wings of the Republican Party now:

The conservative wing of the Republican Party = The “Republican Party.”

The liberal wing of the Republican Party = The “Democratic Party.”

Although the left wing of the Democratic Party is still a populist, pro-worker group that represents the interests of the majority of Americans, they are hated by the elites who run the party. A common maxim in modern US politics is that the Republican Party fears its base while the Democratic Party actually hates its base. Recent comments by Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel about the liberal wing of the party (the party’s base) are instructive. See “fucking hippies,” “professional Left,: etc.

One problem is the reactionary nature of the American people, probably the most rightwing people on the planet. Although Obama’s Reaganite neoliberal party is just the liberal wing of the Republican Party, 53% of Americans are so insane that they think that this conservative named Obama is some sort of a Communist (53% of Moronicans say that Obama is a socialist in polls).

The hilarious thing about these polls is that no socialist or Communist thinks that Obama is either a socialist or a Communist. In fact, the socialist-Communist part of the US Left actively despises Obama.

Check out the rage-filled comments on Alternet these days. Alternet commenters are really just the left wing of the Democratic Party, but this is the most furious I have ever seen the US Left at Obama since he has been in office. Most commenters are attacking Obama from the Left in recent days, and they get anywhere from 50-50 to 100% up-votes. If Obama hates his base, its increasingly obvious that the feeling is mutual. Daily Kos on the contrary is made up more of Democratic Party loyalists, people who are politically active. The head of Daily Kos supports Obama, so a lot of his commenters fall in line.

It is also true that the Republicans have control of the House due to gerrymandering. The Democrats won the House election in 2012 about 51-49% if you count all of the votes cast. Therefore, logically, the Democrats ought to control the House in a fair system. However, Republicans won many governorships in 2010 and were able to redraw districts in lying, phony ways (Democrats do this too) so they end up with more Republican members than they are entitled to.

There is something sick and wrong about the way we vote for Representatives. While the voting for President and Senate is largely fair, the voting for the House is not. A state like California that votes 70% Democrat, 30% Republican for the House ought to send a House delegation to Washington that looks like 70-30 (if there are 50 California reps, 35 of them should be Democrats and 15 should be Republicans).

It is also true that the Republicans have done nothing but obstruct when they were in Congress. Congressional Republicans are on record saying that the bad economy is good for the party and that they will oppose any efforts to improve the economy since that will help Obama. That is almost treasonous, but rightwingers typically try to ruin economies when their progressive enemies are in office (see Venezuela and Chile). They have said repeatedly that they voted against things that they supported so as not to give a victory to Obama. That’s just sickening. I can’t imagine what sort of a partisan your average Republican is that they take delight in such treasonous nonsense.

A Trifecta of Three Phony “Scandals”

This is a letter I just received. The Republicans are going to gin up another fake impeachment proceeding, along with another Congressional investigation. We are back in the Clinton years, when US democracy dove to the stinkingist fascist and totalitarian depths in its history with endless investigations of one phony scandal after another.

Finally, they impeached Clinton on totally ridiculous grounds (Clinton beat the impeachment handily at a trial). There is one place you see the sort of sick, twisted, corrupt politics crap, and that’s in the 3rd World. The Turd World. The Republican Party has turned America into a gigantic Turd World country.

In the Turd World, there are constant fake investigations of fake scandals, and Presidents are always being impeached on phony political grounds. In addition, Presidents are assaulted, placed under arrest, tortured and even murdered on a regular basis, generally in the context of a military coup. This is particularly prevalent in the Sewer of the World, Latin America. This nonsense has gone on in most Latin American shitholes, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Chile.

All of these coups and assassinations have been done by the Latin American rightwing, which is an objectively fascist rightwing movement and always has been. Whenever any populist or progressive government comes in, the rightwing in that Latin American country tries to oust them via assassination, coup or a fake impeachment. The US has supported 100% of these radically antidemocratic and fascist incidents in Latin America. There has never been a single fascist coup in Latin America that did not have the 100% backing of the United Snakes.

In the rest of the world, it is as bad or worse. In Pakistan, presidential candidates are murdered on a regular basis.In the rest of the Turd World, opposition candidates are often jailed or worse. This is what is happening in Turkey at the moment, and it was going on earlier in Iran. Opposition party candidates are murdered on a regular basis in the Philippines.

Scandal hearings should be reserved for the worst of the worst. Iran-Contra and the S & L Crisis are good examples. If you recall, the Democrats did not turn either of those hearings into impeachment proceedings. Impeachment should only be for the worst of crimes. A good example was President Nixon, who would have been impeached had he not resigned, for bugging the headquarters of the Democratic Party during the 1972 campaign. I can hardly think of a single impeachable case since 1972. This is just dirty politics and nothing else, and it is sleazy as Hell.

Every Administration will have scandals of various types. It is inevitable under our money infested system where both parties are tied to big money and corporate rule. In almost all cases, these scandals are run of the mill things that any Administration goes through. However, whenever a Democratic President is in office, any of the usual scandals that any Administration deals with will have huge hearings in Congress, threats of impeachment and special prosecutors.

Objective evidence shows that there were far more scandals and there was far more corruption under Bush and Reagan than under Clinton or Obama. But no matter how corrupt or scandal ridden a Republican is, the spineless Democrats will never do anything about it. Not a single hearing, no special prosecutor, no impeachment proceedings. On the other hand, the far fewer scandals under a Democrat will be turned into a Ringling Brothers affair that dominates the idiotic headlines for months to years.

Nothing Obama has done warrants impeachment or even a hearing.

The Benghazi Consulate was a CIA office – 80% of the personnel there were CIA officers. The Islamists knew that, and that is why it was attacked. The CIA failed to provide enough security for the consulate, and they relied too much on unproven Libyan security.

The call for backup amounted to a call for “4 men” to arrive. Do you think 4 armed US forces would have turned the situation around? There was a call to bring in a helicopter gunship to fire missiles or machine gun fire or a jet to bomb the area. However, the area is surrounded by civilians, and in the initial attack, no one really had any idea what was going on.

There was an order given to stand down and not send in air power until more could be learned about the confused situation. The forces on the ground evacuated the Americans from the consulate to a safe house, but the Islamists were waiting at the safe house for them.

In a hazy situation were no one knew what was going on, it would have been madness to drop bombs or shoot missiles at the heavily inhabited area at the consulate, the safe house and the area in between. The forces at the consulate fought very well. Although 4 Americans were killed, 32 were rescued. In addition, ~100 Islamist attackers were killed.

          Benghazi #killed

Americans 4
Islamists 100

This was a battle in a war we are fighting with Al Qaeda and allied Islamists. By any standard metric, we won this battle. It is beyond me why this is some sort of a scandal. We fight battles all the time in the war with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other Islamists. Some we win, some we lose. Sometimes our men are killed or wounded. Should there be hearings, special prosecutors or impeachment proceedings every time an American is killed by the enemy overseas? What kind of insanity is that?

The IRS scandal is a joke. As a result of Citizens United, many political outfits such as Karl Rove’s Crossroads set themselves up as tax exempt social welfare organizations that do not engage in political work. Obviously, this is a lie. This was mostly done on the Right, as word went out via Karl Rove to the rightwing grassroots to claim social welfare status to pay no taxes.

Approximately 250-300 groups with “tea party” in their name engaged in this crime by lying and calling themselves social welfare organizations. The IRS identified all of these groups engaged in this fraud and crime and sent them letters demanding to see their paperwork.

Since a vast amount of “tea party” groups were engaging in this sort of crime, lower level IRS officials in Indianapolis targeted every group with “tea party” in their name and sent them these letters demanding that they prove they were a political group or a social welfare group. Unfortunately, a number of liberal organizations also committed these crimes and called themselves social welfare groups to claim tax exempt status. All of these liberal groups were also targeted by the IRS and they received letters demanding to see their paperwork.

The IRS was completely correct to do what they did. There was no scandal, not even the whiff of one. When 300 groups with tea party in their name are engaging in crime, it looks like smoke. Where there is smoke, there is fire. That massive crime spree by tea party groups was enough to put every group with tea party in their name under suspicion.

It is right and proper for the IRS to determine if any political group of any stripe of committing crime by falsely representing themselves. In addition, liberal groups committing these crimes were also questioned. When you commit crimes, you may get called in for questioning by authorities. This is the job of the authorities. If you abuse tax laws and cheat on your taxes, expect a call from the IRS. This was no political prosecution. The local Indianapolis office was 100% correct in what they did.

Obama caved in spinelessly as usual, firing the IRS Director for the crime of enforcing tax law and fighting tax criminals and massive tax fraud and evasion. A cop was fired for enforcing the law because the Republican criminals and their friends demanded he be fired.

I do not know enough about the targeting of AP reporters’ phone records. This is not a prosecution of the media. Instead, they were trying to find out who was leaking to the AP about the CIA’s secret wars overseas. So this is part of Obama’s war on whistleblowers.

The war on whistleblowers went completely wild under Ronald Reagan, who attacked whistleblowers more than any previous president. It has continued to this day. It was particularly nasty under George Bush and included the outrageous outing of active CIA agents for political purposes. Republican and Democratic Administrations both have gone after whistleblowers in a vicious way.

Republicans screaming about this were utterly silent when George Bush and Ronald Reagan waged all out war against whistleblowers. In addition, Republicans have, up until this point, backed all of Obama’s anti-whistleblower activities.

In fact, they have accused him of being soft of whistleblowers – see the Bradley Manning case, where Republicans have called for Manning to be executed – and the Wikileaks case, where the Republicans have called for Julian Assange to be arrested, sent to the US, tried and executed for treason. They have also called for Assange to be assassinated by a US hit squad. So you see, even if Obama wages a war on whistleblowers, the Republicans support it and even double down on it.

Impeach the President. Seriously?

That’s where the Republicans are going. Rep. Jason Chaffetz could barely keep from giggling at the possibility on CNN yesterday. Even Wolf Blitzer looked a little uncomfortable.

Of course, they want a special prosecutor.

Scott Walker spent his day telling everyone from the La Crosse Tribune to middle-school tour groups that we must appoint a special prosecutor. Guess who’s running for president?

Anyone old enough to remember the nineties knows this can turn ugly fast.

Meanwhile, back in reality, there’s a real scandal taking place: Tens of thousands of kids have been kicked out of preschool. Teachers are being laid off. Meals on Wheels for housebound seniors have been cut.

While GOP consultants across the DC area put Ken Starr back on speed dial, millions of people are suffering from the sequester. The young, the poor and the elderly. Every day, it will get worse.

Conservatism/Libertarianism: What’s in It for Blacks?

Tulio writes:

White conservatives would use the same argument that he is. So what’s remarkable about this?

I guess it shows you how utterly fucktarded conservatives really are. They actually believe this swill: Liberalism causes crime! The more liberals, the more crime!

Are you kidding me? There are actually human beings that are so stupid as to believe this?

Tulio writes:

And there’s nothing wrong with being black and a conservative or libertarian. People don’t have to vote with their skin color, you know.

What would conservatism or Libertarianism ever do for Black people? Every Black country that ever tried radical capitalism and minimal government with no social programs ended up with something that looked like Haiti. Black people are basically socialists for a reason. Pull the state out of a Black nation and it reverts to the jungle in no time.

Furthermore, the modern conservative/Libertarian movement if chock full of hardcore racists and is extremely anti-Black. If anything, the Libertarians are even more anti-Black than conservatives because Libertarians want to dismantle all civil rights laws. Every time a Republican comes into office, the first thing they do is try to defund and defang the Civil Rights Division of the US Justice Department. This horror started under Reagan, who nearly wiped out the department altogether. Reagan kicked off his campaign in 1980 by going to the Mississippi town where the three civil rights workers were murdered back in the 1960′s. Before a cheering crowd of White crackers, he gave a profoundly strange and racist speech. This was nearly a racist call to arms against Black people. Reagan is the God of all US conservatives. The entire movement is based on that one man: he is their hero.

Under George Bush, there were almost no prosecutions by the Civil Rights division, especially under the Housing Rights Act.

Republicans have been trying to keep as many Black people from voting as possible for many, many years now.

The truth is that the modern US conservative movement is a vicious, ferociously anti-Black racist movement and has been since that racist dog took office in 1980.

Walter E. Williams: Idiot, Tool, Black Conservative

The latest Walter E. Williams article.

A truly insane article by a typical Black conservative nut. This kook points out the logical fact that is known to anyone: What do the Top 10 US cities with the highest crime rates have in common? Guess what? They are chock full of Black people! Duh.

One would draw certain logical conclusions from these obvious facts, but a Black conservative is too much of partisan monkey liar to ever do that. As bad as Black liberals can be (and they can be pretty bad), Black conservatives are by far the worst that the Black race has to offer.

According the Williams, the logical conclusion that we draw here is twofold:

1. These cities are full of Black folks.
2. They are all run by Democrats, for the most part liberal Democrats.

Conclusion: Liberal Democratic administrations cause unbelievable amounts of crime!

I kid you not. Black conservatives really are that stupid. As if Black people would act any better under a hard rightwing administration, not that they would ever elect one.

We have an actual experiment to see if this is true: the South. All Southern states are run by radical rightwing Republicans. Before that, they were run by radical rightwing Democrats. All of those states have been run by Black-hating racist White people for ever and ever. And how do Black people act down South? Perfectly horrible. They act as bad as Black people do anywhere. Why would Black folks suddenly act better if a rightwing Republican racist White massa was in charge, cracking the whip on those niggas? You think is going to stop making them act up? Come on.

The truth is that those cities are full of crime for the precise reason that they are full of Black people. Once you get a city full of Black people, you tend to get a city with lots and lots of crime. Those Black people created all that crime, and they will create about as much crime whether they are under a liberal Democratic administration as when they are under a Republican white racist massa administration.

Williams is truly crazy: a Libertarian Black. Black Libertarians are even more insane than Black conservatives. About 3% of Blacks are Black conservatives. We know this because ~3% of Black voted for Mitt Romney in the last election. However, if you looked at the US news media, you would think that 50% or more of Blacks are conservatives. Black conservatives may be as rare as four leaf clovers, but the “liberal” media loves them, and loves to over-represent them as demonstrative of the politics of US Blacks. If you are a US Black conservative, you are almost guaranteed of getting your own radio or TV show or your own newspaper column.

Does anyone on Earth think that Libertarianism will do anything for US Blacks?

Libertarianism is what exists in the 3rd world. In the 3rd World, the state is almost nonexistent, spends almost no money on the people on social programs, and what money it does have goes solely for police and military to enforce class rule over the lower classes and the workers. If the lower classes and workers get too out of hand, you just call out the cops and army and slaughter them.

Other than that, the government exists solely as an arm of the richest sectors of society and serves to protect their interests. The rich and business classes get to do everything and anything they want to. The state is starved for funds because the businesses and the wealthy pay no taxes, and the elites don’t believe in government spending anyway due to “the threat of a good example.” If the state spends money on pro-people programs, that is socialism, and we oppose socialism. Also the people might come to like this socialism and might want to have a more socialist country. This would interfere with the moneyed interests of the nation’s elites, so we can’t have that.

Libertarianism is what Blacks have in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and a few other places. Probably Haiti is the best example because it is the most Libertarian society ever attempted in a Black country. You can see how well that is working out!

Over in Africa, we can look at Kenya, Nigeria or Zaire as examples of nearly Libertarian Black countries in which elites steal 100% of the money in society leaving the masses with nothing but starvation and disease. As you can see, that is working out just fine!

Most other Black nations are socialist to some degree or another, so it hard to find a Black example of a radical rightwing country, but the above examples are pretty good.

Libertarianism won’t do anything good for Black people. All it will do is turn Black neighborhoods and cities like Detroit and Oakland into Haiti or Nigeria. If you think that is an improvement on the present state of affairs, you are wrong.

Margaret Thatcher is Dead

Goodbye and good riddance!

The one woman who singlehandedly started the destruction of the UK, a destruction which has been ongoing ever since she came into office. As the US has had an over 30 year run of conservatism, so has the UK, almost unique among Western countries. As Reagan was to America, so Thatcher was to the UK. A cancer. She imposed Reaganism on the UK the same way that Reagan imposed Thatcherism on the US.

So began a 30 year plus experiment with neoliberalism, which is still ongoing to predictable catastrophic results in most of the world. Even Clinton (“The era of Big Government is over”) and most certainly Obama (“Reagan is my hero”) are following in Reagan/Thatcher’s footsteps and are essentially both Reaganites/Thatcherites. That’s what I mean when I say there is no Democratic Party anymore.

What we have is two Reaganite Republican Parties:

The Liberal Republican Party (“Democrats”)
The Conservative Republican Party (“Republicans”)

This has been the case more or less since Reagan came into office, certainly after the rise of the nightmarish rightwing Democratic National Committee (DNC) around 1990 or so.

After Reagan showed up, “liberal” turned into a dirty word, where it never was before. Now even liberals don’t want to be called liberals, as if there is something shameful about it.

Even after Reaganite/Thatcherite neoliberalism has devastated the entire globe, killing tens of millions of people by massive cuts in social spending and recently crashing the economy of the whole world into the worst depression since the 1930′s, still Americans, the British and most of the political parties on Earth remain addicted to neoliberalism. In fact, not only are they addicted to the cancer that crashed the Earth’s economy, they are doubling down on the poison with massive austerity imposed the world over, a case of the cure being worse than the disease.

The fact is that neoliberalism is great for elites, and it is the elites who run the world. So the elites will never tire of neoliberalism and will always seek to make the world an even more neoliberal or hopefully libertarian place, since this benefits their economic position. Elite rule has become entrenched the world over since 1980, as the social contracts in the West and elsewhere in the world have been shredded by elites under a variety of excuses.

Prior to 1980, labor and consumers had a lot of power. Overtly socialist parties were in power in most of the West and certainly in the Third World. That’s all gone now. Only the rich and their allies in the upper middle class hold any power on most of the Earth. It’s the rule of the 20%. So the Top 20% are having a dictatorship over the bottom 80%. That’s neoliberalism in a nutshell. And there is seemingly no end to it.

And you can thank the Iron Lady and the Great Communicator for that. Very much.

Bipartisan Support for Slavery in America

Here.

This stunning article from Alternet touches on a subject that no US news outlet will touch as they are all corporate outlets: the profound and inhumane abuse of immigrants via the H-2B guestworker program. On its surface, the H-2B program has no right to exist at all. Its existence is based on the notion that for some bizarre reason, the employer cannot find any or enough Americans to fill the needed the jobs. Nevertheless, most H-2B workers work in places with double digit unemployment.

The last time I was in Yosemite, where I formerly lived, the place was swarming with H-2B guestworkers. When I lived there in 1977, there was not a single job that went open for lack of a US worker to fill it. Now that corporate criminal Delaware North has taken over concessions from the more fair though still abusive Curry Company, many to most of the positions are filled with H-2B guestworkers, easier to abuse and mistreat.

The list of jobs in need of H-2B guestworkers is utterly amazing. One of them is “welder.” In shipyards all up and down the US Gulf Coast, thousands of welding jobs formerly filled by proud American workers are now filled by hyper-exploited H-2B guestworkers. Apparently, “welder” is one of those jobs that Americans just won’t do.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush Administration quickly passed a directive allowing enforcement-free mass importation of immigrants, legal and illegal, to do cleanup and rebuilding work in New Orleans. That there were countless able-bodied Blacks in New Orleans was overlooked, or maybe it wasn’t. This directive was passed for one reason and one reason only – so that corporations exploiting the rebuilding process would not have to hire New Orleans Blacks, or any Americans for that matter, to do the work. Instead, tens of thousands of post-Katrina jobs that could have gone to the desperate Blacks of New Orleans went to 25,000 illegal alien criminals.

Scarcely a single word was heard in protest of this directive. All Democrats and all US liberals will fall all over themselves to do anything to worship the Illegal Alien and Immigrant God that they prostrate themselves over. Conservatives will not say a peep because immigrants, legal and illegal cheaply replace costly US workers, On both sides of the aisle, on the Left and the Right, the polarized sides of the political chamber fall all over themselves to beat the US worker to a bloody mass of a pulp.

And it is true: If liberals and Democrats could replace the vast majority of US workers with immigrants, legal or illegal, no matter how exploited, they would do it in a heartbeat. And there is not a conservative who would not do the same.

The abuses of the H-1B program among tech workers in the US and especially in Silicon Valley are many and legion. Yet the loudest champions of the program, a knife expertly aimed at the pulsing heart of the US tech worker, are US Democrats, often liberal Democrats. Of course all Republicans support the plan. And Barack Obama loves nothing so much as he loves his H-1B wage slaves and job thieves.

It is interesting that a progressive organization, in this case, the sickening worms of Morris Dees’ SPLC, are actually protesting about abuses of US workers under the H-2B program. It is incredible that anyone on the Left would attack worker abuses of any kind. Yet the truth is sadder than it appears. The SPLC only wrote this report because the workers being abused were their cherished immigrants. The SPLC would never waste a tear on US workers. Like the rest of the US Left, they care only about immigrant job-thieves. There is no room in their heart for the abused American worker. US workers only get the sympathy of the Left if they hail from some foreign shore.

And what is the SPLC’s solution to the abuses of the H-2B program? A responsible position would be to support the reforms of the program outlined a bill killed with the indispensable help of Senate Democrats. But we know that the SPLC goes far beyond this. The SPLC, like the entire US Left, is an Open Borders organization. Their preferred solution would be abolish the H-2B program and open the US borders to hundreds of millions from the around the world who would quickly funnel through through our ungated edges.

And so we have it: when it comes to US workers, we truly have no friends. The Democrats and Republicans are both corporate capitalist parties, and as such will always oppose the workers when the interests of the workers and our elected leaders corporate masters collide. Selling one’s soul is simple, but it always comes with a price. And indeed, the loudest champions of the horrific slave labor abuses of the H-2B programs have been Democrats, including Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, usually typed as a liberal Democrat.

What we need is a pro-working class party in America. A party that will always or nearly always side with working class Americans, and I emphasize Americans. In the conflict between American workers and foreign invaders and job thieves, the position of the working class party should be obvious.

The Problem with HBD

Most folks who are against HBD theory are opposed to it on theoretical grounds. That is, they agree that while there are obvious differences between the races, they disagree that there are differences in complex traits like intelligence and aggression.

I actually think that races do differ on complex traits like aggression and intelligence on average. But I don’t like to talk about it too much. Why? Because it’s gross and disturbing, and there’s not much to be done about it anyway assuming it’s true, which I think it is.

What is to be gained by discussing such things even if they are true. If these differences are genetic, then there is probably not much to be done about them, right? Ok, so what to do? Exterminate the inferior races?

Furthermore, almost all HBD’ers are far rightwing White people, Republicans to Libertarians, who love the rich and hate the poor. Think about it. How many folks espousing HBD are liberal or even leftwing people? How many are even moderates. Most of them are the most ferocious sorts of reactionaries. Screw that. There is just nothing here for a leftwing person.

This all backs up into standard conservative to reactionary thinking. If Blacks are naturally inferior, then it’s a waste of money to spend any money on them, especially on education. Intellectually inferior Blacks obviously benefit little if at all from education due to genetic inferiority.

It gets worse than that, and almost all HBD’ers argue that not one single dime should be spent on the inferior races for any reason whatsoever. What this means is why should the superior race, Whites, spend one nickel on the inferior race, Blacks? And it gets even worse than that. Many to most HBD’ers also want to get rid of integration altogether, wipe out the civil rights and housing rights laws, etc. Why should superior Whites be forces to hire inferior Blacks? Why should superior Whites be forced to live with inferior Blacks?

Also, all such HBD discussions degenerate into talk to superior races and inferior races. While appears to be true that some races are more or less intelligent (therefore superior or inferior on that one trait) or more or less aggressive (superior or inferior depending on how one values aggression) it’s simply gross and disturbing to talk about whole races as being superior races or inferior races. You start talking like that, and most folks either tell you to shut up or leave the room. There’s no reason to use terms like that when talking about whole races of people. It’s rude.

Look at the ferocious reaction to my meager attempts to delve into HBD with the Blacks-testosterone theory. That piece was written as sensitively as possible, but almost every Black who has come here and commented on it has been so angry and mean that they had to be banned instantly. The same is true for most White liberals who commented on the piece. As it stands, the piece has generated very little to no serious discussion and it’s simply been relegated to flame-bait. I almost wonder what the point of even writing it was. Any further articles I write along HBD lines will simply promote more armies of angry Blacks and White liberals who need to get banned. Why bother?

As an obvious corollary, most HBD’ers are the most vicious of racists against Blacks and the other “inferior” races (nastily referred to as NAM’s). For those of us who object to racist thinking, what’s in this for us? Truth is that HBD is just another way to beat up on Black people. People have been beating up Blacks forever. Why join in on the pummeling? My bullying phase ended in high school. It’s also a very lame way for most young White STEM types, probably failing in almost every other aspect of life, to feel better about themselves as members of a superior race who are better than the lowly inferior NAM’s.

Bottom line is it doesn’t even matter if this stuff is true or not. If it’s true, there’s nothing to be done about it anyway, so there’s no point talking about. The size, shape and smell of the shit I took this morning is a fact too, should I discuss it with everyone I meet? Why talk about it? Why talk about HBD? Problems are only worth discussing if you can do something about ameliorating them.

If it isn’t true, which seems unlikely, you simply end up in a debate that goes on forever with no end in sight.