The issue I have with the alt-right is that there’s no “there” there.
It has no sense of history. There’s nothing there.
It has no presence. There’s nothing that ties it to anything real, or even gives it an image of substance.
It’s followers seem, much too often, to be a bunch of angry, ignorant, drunken frat boys. The movement as a whole seems to lack cognizance.
I think that this is why their hero has been struggling as of late. The movement has frighteningly little substance, so Trump has nothing to say in regards to potential policies and plans.
This is reason #348 why I haven’t been backing him lately on Twitter or elsewhere. It’s because if he’ll build one wall, apparently solely to benefit his own fortunes, then why not another- say, a wall between him and us?
I still find the cult-like devotion his followers have in regards to him worrying. He’s as much of a blank slate as Obama was before his inauguration. How do they know that Trump won’t turn on them, the way that Obama turned on his followers?
I will not back anyone I’m not 110% sure is going to do the right thing. Politicians have a miserable record in this country. They lie, cheat their bases, and steal. I will never back a politician without solid evidence that he or she will not ever do those things, and I haven’t seen that, or anything close to it from Trump.
I will not be anyone’s useful idiot. Fuck that.
Back to the “alt-right”. There’s nothing to that stuff. The image I have of the people who comment at Brietbart is that they’re empty people who profess a love for Christianity, but who spend their free time looking at Internet porn. Like they’re the kind of people who whine about black crime but watch the NFL religiously. They’re people who seem, like Vox Day, to despise every political stance under the sun, despite spending so much of their time on political websites. They’re people who claim to be “White Nationalist” who are seemingly obsessed with the one political party that has always, always represented the polar opposite of that view, because it just now threw a few table scraps in their general direction.
Everyone’s views waver from time to time. We’re all human. But the lack of anything approaching real substance and logical consistency with Breitbart’s readership, and, hell, the readership of almost every “alt-right” website I can think of disturbs me.
This is why I want to publicly distance myself from this stuff. That ISN’T me.
This is why, earlier, I pointed out that lack of an “alt” in the “alt-right”. What we’re seeing with the rise of Trump and Breitbart is the same old, same old Nixon/Reagan-style elevation of the absolute worst parts of the white demographic. You know, that old, tired, failed strategy.
This… isn’t what I can support.