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Among the Supposedly nationalist candidates in Dublin Bay North you had some of them going door to door in tracksuits looking for votes. That type of shit needs to be nipped in the bud now.

Another candidate was up in court for attacking a road worker in fairview with a slash hook, he’s lucky that didn’t get much media coverage.

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Brett Stephen explained the micro-culture and the vote well too.

“Modern society on the other hand, as an inverted society, finds itself ruled by rationalization. Since it has no shared assumptions and no goal, people must take what they get and rationalize/justify it as what they want or what is good for them. As a result, all people live under the “fiction absolute” or the idea that the life they are leading is the best one that can be led by them:

Even before I left graduate school I had come to the conclusion that virtually all people live by what I think of as a “fiction-absolute.” Each individual adopts a set of values which, if truly absolute in the world–so ordained by some almighty force–would make not that individual but his group . . . the best of all possible groups, the best of all inner circles. Politicians, the rich, the celebrated, become mere types. Does this apply to “the intellectuals” also? Oh, yes. . . perfectly, all too perfectly.

The human beast’s belief in his own fiction-absolute accounts for one of the most puzzling and in many cases irrational phenomena of our time. I first noticed it when I read a book by Samuel Lubell called The Future of American Politics. Lubell was a political scientist and sociologist who had been as surprised as everybody else by the outcome of the 1948 presidential election. That was the election in which the Democratic incumbent, Harry Truman, was a president whose approval rating had fallen as low as 23 percent. Every survey, every poll, every pundit’s prediction foresaw him buried by the Republican nominee, Thomas E. Dewey. Instead, Truman triumphed in one of the most startling upsets in American political history. Lubell was determined to find out why, and so he set out across the country. When he reached a small Midwestern town that had been founded before the turn of the 19th century by Germans, he was puzzled to learn that the town had gone solidly for Dewey despite the fact that by every rational turn of logic, every economic motivation, Truman would have been a more logical choice. By and by Lubell discovered that the town was still predominantly German. Nobody had ever gotten over the fact that in 1917, a Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson, had declared war on Germany. That had set off a wave of anti-German feeling, anti-German prejudice, and, in the eyes of the people of this town, besmirched their honor as people of German descent. And now, two World Wars later, their minds were fixed on the year 1917, because like all other human beasts, they tended to champion in an irrational way their own set of values, their own fiction absolute. The question Lubell asked was very much like the question that Thomas Frank asked after the election of 2004 in his book What’s the Matter with Kansas? By all economic and political logic, the state of Kansas should have gone to John Kerry, the Democrat, in 2004. But it didn’t. Had Frank only looked back to Samuel Lubell, he would have known why. The 2004 election came down to one state: the state of Ohio. Whoever won that state in the final hours would win the election. Northern Ohio, the big cities of Cleveland, Toledo on the Great Lakes, were solidly for Kerry. But in southern Ohio, from east to west, and in the west was the city of Cincinnati, Ohio went solidly for George Bush. And the reason? That great swath of territory was largely inhabited by the Scots-Irish. And when the Democrats came out in favor of gun control, the Scots-Irish interpreted this as not merely an attack on the proliferation of weaponry in American life but as a denunciation, a besmirching, of their entire way of life, their entire fiction absolute.

Again, the key point:

Each individual adopts a set of values which, if truly absolute in the world–so ordained by some almighty force–would make not that individual but his group . . . the best of all possible groups, the best of all inner circles.

This means that each group has its own micro-culture, and these groups are comprised of layers: ethnicity is the core, then social class, then region, then profession, and finally, social group or activities. A blue collar fisherman of mixed German/Scots-Irish descent will be a far different person from a lower middle class cellular phone salesman of mixed Polish/Irish descent.

When a civilization is thriving, the fiction-absolute does not fall far out of step with reality, so cognitive dissonance is low, and therefore people can start working within society before they understand it and accept their place in it.

In a fear-based civilization, order has been lost, and so those in power use manipulation (control, gaslighting, fear, guilt, shame, lust) to browbeat the herd into unity, obedience, and conformity. For this reason, the fiction-absolute seeks to explain the insane as sanity.”

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"You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time." (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Sums it up nicely imo.

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The voting system is designed for stability but produces paralysis

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Maybe your elections are rigged too!

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Anti Immigration candidates topped the poll in Offaly and Wexford. The electorate is largely non ideological. Good candidates who present themselves as holding the common sense position can win. There's no short cut to success. The Anti Immigration candidates need to do the simple things that mainstream candidates do to build rapport with the community. Sinn Fein are a good example to emulate.

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It's a trend, same happening in all Western systems. Hobson's Choice.

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I guess a good place to invest effort would be determining how to counter the younger generation’s left leaning tendencies. As you point out in your book, it’s not enough for people the accept the HBD facts - they have to appreciate the moral argument for white (in this case Irish) interests. You do amazing work and inspire nationalists all over the West. I am confident we will prevail in time.

That said, I am sorry to hear the news. Thank you for telling it how it is on the ground today. We can’t fool ourselves online. We have work to do!

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You appear to assume that election polls and results accurately reflect how voters think and vote, but is that correct?

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Same thing happened with the Southern Democrats in America after 1948. Many Southerns were “yellow dog” as in “I’ll vote even for a yellow dog if he was a Democrat!” People stayed loyal long after their real interests were ill -served in 1948.

In that year, the gross disadvantage of a big-tent party was exposed when an alliance of Yankee leftists, some ethnic groups, and the blacks came together to overturn the old support for the native institutions via “civil rights” in the name of “anti-communism”. Many did left the party to form the Dixiecrats. But most were loyal for emotional reasons such as “they supported us during the Reconstruction or the Depression or my daddy and granddaddy voted Democrat”.

Barry Goldwater of Republicans supported civil rights but still objected to the anti-white attacks on the freedom of association in 1964. Most Southerns still voted for Johnson on theory that he’s a Southern even though he did acted more like a liberal Yankee with a Texan twang.

It wasn’t until Nixon ran in 1968 that the South began to move massively to the Republicans. They were joined by a huge number of white ethnic groups in the north and west who objected to the destruction of their neighborhoods and the bussing. But there were still a lot of conservatives in the old party and so the votes were constantly divided between the parties until 2000. Even Bill Clinton ran a pro-Confederate heritage base in 1994. It took the South 52 years to moved to the Red camp, mostly because the Joes were dying off of old age then.

I hope that my little story will profit the new players and help them avoid the same mistakes we made in America. Ego must stay home and the people address the bread and butter issues as well as nationalist concerns.

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Sorry Keef.

Would you prefer a "nationalist" that comes as pro-Israel hours after the election?

It is what it is. Voting is... less than ideal as a vehicle for change.

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Huh? Weird comment

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I was referring to various East and Central European "nationalists" that have all been praised as being "anti-globalists" and "dangers to the system", only to typically bend the knee to Israel in the usual, expected way.

I would not be surprised if your nationalists would have a similar course. Should've made it clearer, sorry!

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What's even your point, just blackpilling?

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Don't despair bb :*

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