Derek Stark: September 7, 2025
…Perhaps our exchange was the adult version of a new kid showing up on the first day of school and having to fight somebody to show he’s not a wimp (although I have been writing articles in C-C for almost a year now).
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Come back when you’ve been doing this thing of ours for 40 years and we’ll talk more. I’ll be 118 then. I attended my high school classes 60th reunion last weekend. Classmates enjoyed telling me some “Billy Williams” stories, one about how I lasted three rounds boxing a Negro professional fighter at a local county fair on a Friday night. I was carried out of the tent on classmates’ shoulders, a hero. By Monday, I had to begin fighting others who wanted a piece of the “hero,” so I relate to what you are talking about. ;o}
…As far as conservatism goes, I think the problem is with the particular form of conservatism that developed in the US in the mid-20th century. It was defined not according to true conservative principles, but by the “fusionist” concept of William Buckley and Barry Goldwasser (lots of J influence with both), which married libertarian economics with Christian social beliefs. One of the first things they did was to chase the nativists out of their coalition, leaving them without a mainstream voice. (This elimination of the nativist voice occurred again when the neocons chased Buchanan from the Republican Party). This form of conservatism has served as a “controlled opposition” that always loses in the long run, and it may have been secretly conceived of as such from the start. Or maybe it is just the Christian mentality that seems to like losing. I can’t say for sure—above my pay grade.
… [C]onservatism has become defined by greedy loser scum like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham. But that form of conservatism has little to do with the fundamental principles of Edmund Burke—it is a mockery of them. The two most important ideas of Burke (according to me, at least) are his concept of the “contract between the generations” and his rejection of Classical Liberal universalism for a particularist, historicist view of the world… Burke was writing at a time when he would have meant exactly that. So the contract means that we have obligations to our people, both past and future. What modern American conservatives have done is to twist it into some superficial idea of going back to some recent past culture, liked the 90s or 50s, without mentioning that a culture is an expression of a people. Very lame, and easily defeated….
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Agreed. Thank you, Derek. Your response is something I’d expect to see in a Poli Sci paper on “The History of Conservatism” : “Where’s Edmund Burke when we need him?”
You don’t address Greg’s supportive quote,
Pierce was right. Conservatism can’t win. It doesn’t really conserve anything… Oh, well I shouldn’t have expected you to.
Did you not read Pierce’s “Why They Hate Buchanan” — “they” being Jews? Since we were discussing PB and the Jews, I’ll post an excerpt from that here for others to enjoy:
…But does any of these things make Buchanan an “anti-Semite”? Do these things justify the Jews’ claims that he is a “hatemonger,” a “Jew baiter,” and a “neo-Nazi”? I doubt it. What do you think?
Now if I were the candidate [for POTUS] instead of Pat Buchanan, the Jews would have something to scream about. Because if I were elected I’d declare a national emergency, and I’d immediately take the control of our news and entertainment media away from them. I’d root them out of Hollywood. I’d weed them out of our universities. I’d remove them from the courts. I’d clean house. But I really don’t believe that Buchanan would do that. He’s certainly never said or written anything to indicate he’d do that. He’s not a revolutionary. He’s a conservative. He’s a Republican. He’s a Christian. He’s simply a fellow with old-fashioned values, and he’s a fighter. He has no particular grudge against the Jews, but when some of them desecrate his church, he becomes angry and says something about it. When he sees an injustice taking place, as in the persecution of John Demjanjuk, he may or may not speak out, but his decision as to whether or not to speak out isn’t based on what the Jews might think about it. He has other considerations.
And basically that’s why the Jewish media are attacking him so viciously. They can’t tolerate a politician who has any considerations other than what the Jews might think. Basically they can’t tolerate a politician who doesn’t jump when they whistle. If he won’t apologize and grovel now, there’s no telling what he might not do if he’s in the White House. He might not send all of those billions of dollars from American taxpayers to Israel every year. He might not appoint Jews to half of his cabinet positions and to the head of the CIA and to every Supreme Court vacancy, the way Clinton has. He might not send U.S. troops when and where he’s told to send them. He might not base his policies on what’s good for the Jews instead of on what’s good for America. That’s why they hate him. That’s why they’re trying to convince the voters that he’s an extremist….
More of that Pierce classic from nearly 30 years ago at the link.
Though Pierce doesn’t mention the word conservative in the following quote by him from July 2001 to his Alliance members (that a current Alliance member just sent to me) it’s conservatives that he is describing, don’t you think?
Many people who are sympathetic to our side view the present disparity in strength between us and the Jews — and also the rapidity with which the Jews are pushing toward their goal — and they conclude that the Jews will win. Those who reach this conclusion often become unwilling to participate in our effort. They don’t want to make personal sacrifices for a cause they view as lost, and so they remain on the sidelines.
The cause these people on the sidelines view as lost is not the same as our cause, however. Their cause is the salvaging of the present order of things, more or less intact. Our goal is the permanent survival and ascendancy of our genes and our ideas, no matter what else is lost and no matter how long it takes to ensure our success…
