Conservatism Defined
The Ineffectual Nature of Mainstream Conservatism May Be an Instance Of Linguistic Determinism
The propensity for conservatism to accomplish nothing and only delay or stymy the left may be inherent in what it means “to conserve.”
Over the past few years, many have taken great umbrage with the term “conservative.” When left without the use of a better term, one might accept it reluctantly as short-hand for opposition to the far left and the Democrat party, but experience has proven over time we can no longer accept that. As we all know, the “Conservative Inc” establishment has been nothing other than a study in the ineffectual. They are merely a retardant or break-pad that slows the inexorable descent downward, never advancing interests or ideas in a fundamentally different direction. Instead of offering meaningful resistance, they are like a breaking system on a high speed train that would otherwise derail, crash, and burn when equipped without. In this way, mainstream conservatism actually facilitates leftism and the DNC, it does not offer any meaningful opposition to our ideological enemies.
The definition of “conserve” from The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is instructive, with one definition reading “Keep from harm, loss, or waste, especially with a view to later use; preserve with care.” Merriam’s Webster online dictionary, of much lower repute and authority than Oxford, defines it as “to keep in a safe or sound state; especially: to avoid wasteful or destructive use of.” (emphasis added both quotations.) Thus it seems the problem with conservatism is baked into the cake semantically. To conserve does not mean to defend or protect for all time, but to prevent wasteful, destructive use with a view to later dispensation over time, over the long-term.
Our culture, our civilization, our values, and yes our racial identity are not something to be rationed or carefully consumed over time in a careful, deliberate manner like food rations during periods of scarcity or water during a draught, but rather are things that should be protected and defended for eternity, no matter the cost.
So what to call ourselves? It is most noteworthy that somehow “right-wing,” “right-winger” and the like are somehow used as an epithet, wielded like a blunt instrument for the purpose of silencing anyone that is labelled as such. Sally Kohn is just one exemplar of legion. In this tweet, she uses the term “right-winger” to disparage Tucker Carlson and Andy Ngo. Such utterances are of course ubiquitous throughout the leftist mind hive.
Liberals blathering on about “racist right-wingers” is even more amusing.
Blacks, feminists, and others have sought to own various epithets and slurs used against them to gain “ownership, power, and agency”—these among whatever other buzzwords, slogans, and platitudes that have been regurgitated millions of times mindlessly over twitter and the like. Even “geeks” have turned that term around to something very positive from the very negative connotations of the word that existed in the 80s.
We need to do the same with those very terms that others before us have somehow cowered from like little girls: terms like “right-wing,” “right-winger,” and so on. I am NOT a conservative, and I object to anyone who calls me such. I am a hard-line right-winger, a right-wing populist who fits much more comfortably in European political schematics than the American one which has emphasized tax cuts, hyper capitalism, and champions ungainly figureheads like Dinesh D’Souza because too many cower at the mere accusation of racism and the like.
I believe such rhetorical flair has value as the Republican constituency grows ever more weary of voting for establishment GOP do-nothings who promise year after year, decade after decade, to stop the Democrat agenda but offer nothing more than mealy-mouthed, ineffectual rhetoric . The same flippancy can also be used from a wide range of supposedly negative terms, like “transphobic” (oh yes I most certainly am transphobic!) and in time even accusations of “racist“ or “racism” can be robbed of any effect. Let us apply this attitude of mirthful defiance across the entire catalog of buzzwords, epithets, and insults leftist pigs use to disparage us, robbing them of any effect they have and using it against those who utter them as pejoratives.