There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the debt addled empire of the USA itself. The age of liberal imperialism and big government was despised among many who had to suffer it, contrary to the establishment left and those in the comforts of East and West coast privilege, many common and hardworking Americans are forced to suffer and endure a coerced ideology that has done little for them, rather it’s been punishing. So, an outsider, even if he was a Liberal billionaire, drew an appeal. Mostly because of how much the establishment was hated by those suffering beneath it, the establishment itself resented. Trump said many things, but some of which was directed at those suffering. It appealed.
In England with it’s dystopian approach to surveillance and mandated cultural homogenisation, any sense of national pride from native born communities is now shunned and even considered to be hate. While, recently nationalised or refugee status individuals may in turn openly celebrate their cultures with the full protection of the State. At times, the violent crimes and rape of individuals has been covered up, and it’s alleged to have been assisted due to who some of the people involved may have been. Or, more to the point what religion, race or culture they have come from. The theory, perhaps, from the government being that in reporting and prosecuting non-whites, non-native Britons this may invoke hatred and anti-migrant resentment. The reverse has been true. The special protections, as it seems to be in place, has in fact stirred a sense of bigotry and wariness. Britain has a tradition of incompetence and in protecting the most vile, Sir Jimmy Saville was not a migrant and was very much British, the culture of government itself seems to be the issue at hand, rather than its current ideological persuasion.
Whether many of the acts, allegations and events are as adverse and severe as they have been reported among the alternative media, is uncertain. Because the mainstream and authorities have done everything in their power to avoid dealing with the crimes. Instead, focusing on the make believe Utopia of Diversity, Inc in symbolism, rather than sincere uniqueness of individuals. The diversity that is being pushed, or allowed, is not in ideologies or values, instead it’s a fixation with gender constructs, race and ethnicity. With an apparent tiering applied that as is the case with all politically enforced constructs, remains unknown and fluid over time. The British police, doing as they do, will enforce any law, so social media posts that go against the grain of the States narrative, are what they police, rather than allegations of rape and abductions. This has led to a deep seated resentment among some classes of person.
In Australia there has been an increase in migration, it turns out the federal government needs the influx of new arrivals, it’s addicted to the money they bring and the taxes they pay. Contrary to nativist hatred for migrants, many who arrive in Australia find work, invest in small businesses and franchises. It’s almost impossible to find a service station, post office or even outback general store that does not have an Indian or Chinese migrant operating it, this perhaps testament to a switch in ideals. The migrant is both accused of stealing jobs, while also sitting on welfare. The exploitation of welfare as both a receiptant and service provider is modern Aussie culture, so clearly those migrants who do both have perfectly assimilated. The running of a small business or daring to be in the private sector, are in less common Aussie pursuits. Taking a risk and having a ‘fair go’ at it, is for the few.
The irony is, many true blue Aussies who toil will often do so with those from all over. It’s from within academia, government and big corporate that the symbolism of multi-culturalism is a gentrification of myth. Where “diversity is our strength,” is a slogan thrown about by soft handed people in suits who avoid the real diverse nature of the world beyond their careers and multi million dollar homes. Diversity is more than a slogan for people with different hair or skin colour to stand alongside a politician, it’s more than a claimed sexual preferences or places of birth. Those things have become identities for entitlements and monetisation, rather than aspects of an individuals character. It is in the forced celebration of such, the individual distinction and true diversity has become crushed beneath the veneer of tokenism.
The modern left, the corporate and academic incarnations that now see Marx as a meme, rather than a complex thinker, have rejected the worker and proletariat. Instead, they are obsessed with government careers and welfare. A cycle of dependency and growth which satisfies a particular individual who sees the world as a place for material excess and comfort, debt incomes and a rejection of merit, replaced by nepotism of identity and form of obedient cohesion. It both needs the proletariat to build their roads, drive their trucks, construct their investments but they also tend to hate and deplore the people doing such things.
The nativist right has mistaken a class struggle between the government and its classes to those in the dying private sector. It’s a class war, which the left has fermented with it’s modern layers of privileges and luxurious make believe. The right, which finds a base in the proletariat have become seduced by their hatred of the corporate left and academic elites and the meddling and destruction of liberty both inflicts and have instead fallen for the culture and race war nonsense of division rather than ideological class divide.
Beyond the comforts of academia, the many layers of government and welfare are those who toil and feel the weight, the cost of others ideology. They recall a past, which may never have really existed, which was less constrained. A past with fewer laws, fewer regulations, less taxes. A past when they were not punished for living, when the cost of living was not so prohibitive. Unlike those, of the elite left or who enjoy the comforts, who tend to not mind the interior of a crystal palace and living at the expense of others. Those who have a different set of values and believe in hard work and want to be independent as best as possible, they feel the pain, they feel the hatred and disdain directed at them from those beyond their world. An arrogance only central planners posses who live in the cities and inside the government departments. The proletariat of the private sector and workers have suffered the ‘just because’ bureaucratic cycle, which hamstrings them but profits others and they have been denied access to what was once taken for granted in many aspects of life.
It’s among this class of human being where the discontent boils. In the past, the real left may have pretended to be a champion for them. To speak a language or express a commonality which may have resonated. The modern left only understands nuspeak and pronouns, they tend to disdain the people who exist in their periphery. Any political voice, or party that acknowledges and recognises these grievances will resonate. The modern left parties tend to think they have the writ of god to steer society and life through tax-debt extracted money or to ban and regulate life into a direction that they see fit. The conservative modern right wing hybrids pretend to seek a lessening of this mindset, they promise a relief from central planned living and government coercion.
It may be a lie, but they speak those words while the left piles on more of the pain and hate.
The real appeal for many drawn to the modern right, is the promise of nostalgic Utopia. A place in the past, the one found in advertisements and media, where life was better. A place that was, for some whiter, and less diverse. A place with fewer migrants, and even though the Fresh Off the Boats, Wogs, Chinks and Dagos all existed, they became part of the scenery. Chinatown has it’s restaurants and the refugees from South East Asia, swiftly left the housing trust homes and became small business owners. Though, back then, the nativist sentiments existed. The hatred of the Greeks and Italians resonated, the “Asian Invasion” was a concern, there was a time when most of the world was going to be owned by Japan. Now, a past of bigotry and race relations, that’s itself romanced.
The new migrants, whether African, Muslim, Chinese, Indian, or where ever are now seen as an extra dangerous alien. Social media has invigorated the fears. A romantic obsession with past fascism has picked aspects of those variations of nationalist ideologies that seem charming and seductive to the downtrodden. A mono-culture, a nation of strength and not dependent on global markets, imports and a system of instability. In current economic times, such a dependency has proven to be dangerous. It is a seduction to have a government that does more, by doing less, one that values law, order and ‘common sense’.
Even though those in the right flirt with peace with the World and less censorship and surveillance, the more those parties swell and become attached to government and alliances, the less they are concerned with these issues. They tend to lean back into the war mongering, censorship and surveillance, just for different reasons. To stop hate, may twist into, to protect children or to stop terrorism. Different framing with similar outcomes.
The reduction of migration is a policy that holds appeal to those who are at the end of their tether, it may make housing cheaper, cut back on traffic and as select reporting claims, will cut back on crime. Above all, it is the opposite to what the hated political and corporate groups want. The hatred and disdain for “woke” and the push to incorporate minority lifestyles and specifics into the wider community through government mandates and fiat, has slowly developed the opposite effect. It’s seeing an increase in racism, a draw to patriarch dominance, an interest in Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant religions, while also leading to an increase of bigotry towards gays, trans and dissimilar sexual preferences. People from such communities are no longer seen as individuals, instead they are politicised identities. Which is exactly how they were portrayed by the establishment left. In doing so, it has robbed them of any individual identity and has instead turned them into an entitled class.
The recent South Australian election results have shown two things, the conservative Liberal Party has no policies and little appeal for most voters. It’s only difference to the centre left Labour party is in the pant suit colours worn by it’s politicians. While the Liberal party may have more people from real estate and the corporate sector in it’s ranks, it’s basically the same as the Labour party. That being, more government where ever it can be crammed. Whatever tax breaks may be applied will only be added else where. The One Nation, conservative nativist party has been plugging along since the 1990s, but has finally earned itself, ‘minor party’ status. Meaning it gets different media coverage and the government will allow it to have more officials, and incomes for it’s members.
One Nation has drawn appeal in it’s DOGE like promise to cut back on government waste, to curb migration and to “bring the country back to something we can be proud of.” Pride may not be tangible to the nihlistic profiteers in the Labour party and it’s ilk, it is for those who feel a sense of dread within their day to days, those who work and find they have no hope. They feel they are punished for working, punished for existing. This may seem strange to those who live on welfare or have secure jobs and pensions, those who live from the taxation it it’s many forms, stolen by those who are suffering and struggling. And, for a lot of younger people, hope has been destroyed. So, it will be politically exploited in rhetoric and unfulfilled promises. But any promise is more alluring than more of the same. The more of the same benefits the borgoise left and those dependent on government. Who can grift from it’s schemes.
While more extreme race based and nationalist groups have been banned under repressive hate speech laws, those followers likely have moved to One Nation. Whether they ease their extremist views or, influence the party remains to be seen. While others will go underground and likely gain more followers, and deeper hatreds because they no longer can stand out in the open for debate and discourse. The insecure ban different opinions, the confident confront them. Australian politics is not confident, it’s in the habit of banning most things. Including speech, ugly or otherwise.
The nativist right, whether One Nation or MAGA, always end up being for war. The appeal to imperial foreign policies always lingers. There political rivals are no different. War, it is often stated is the health of the State. Whether that war is an abstract, war on drugs, poverty, life itself. Or, war in the traditional sense and the violent obsession for mass murder. The collectivism of misery seems to be for all political parties.
As for the Labour party, when most Australians work in local, state and federal governments, rely on government contracts, are on benefits or have retired with comfortable pensions due to the perks of the period in history they were born. More of the same is fine. They after all are not in the sun building the houses many see as investments or farming in what land has not been ripped up for real estate. The established view is that One Nation or variations of the right are evil and wrong. The people who support them are somehow stupid and racist. This being a view of those who purport to only see the world according to gender and race identity. While the left is good, positive and correct. Despite democracy being sold as a virtuous thing, where difference can be discussed and debated, the mob decides what party should rule for a period of time. It seems that only very specific parties are allowed, and there are those who are sick of this. So, the alternatives are viewed as being nativist right parties.
The scapegoat will be the migrant, with their different religion and language, they are a convenient pariah. The hatred for the private sector and those who are different from the modern left and it’s rejection of the proletariat is some soul searching that the modern left is likely incapable of doing. That’s because it is soulless. It is material in it’s obsession. Charity and benevolence does not exist, welfare as means of government growth and political grandstanding, and diversity is a cosplay not of unique individual human beings, simply as demographics and categories to force people into. It’s an inhuman ideology, but the seduction of careerism, status and material gain intoxicate. And, those who see the force of government as a tool to “fix” the world naively assume more of the same is the only way to do so.
The left has become the best form of capitalism, exploitative and materially obsessed while imposing excessive welfare policies that are always going to be corrupt in nature, creating a monopoly and sacrificing self reliance, charity and dignity for dependency and a life in the system. The right, not much better, it just delves into abstracts more akin to spiritual and faith based promises which can provide people with more than just extra debt or tax extracted fiat currency. For those of us who embrace individual liberty and freedom, politics is where principles go to die. No party are trustworthy allies, they all lie and in the end, government wins and grows.
As a man who toils, it’s hard not to hate the status quo left back as much as they hate me and my class. But, I will never extend my hand to the right, even if I spend more time digging and labouring alongside them in the rain or sun. Migrants included, whose dirty hands and pained bodies hates the corporate left back. The soft handed left, should reflect on the enemies it’s made and the friends they are willing to make.
