Behold! A Master Plan!
White Advocates have spent decades in the political wilderness. We’ve been anathematized by respectable society, stigmatized, ridiculed, and thrown on their backs by a fire-hose of taxpayer-sponsored anti-White propaganda. One result of having been shut out of mainstream politics for this long is that we as a “movement” have gotten a bit rusty at the art.
We could simply give up, filing in line behind the anti-White movement we perceive to be the least anti-White. We could kid ourselves with all sorts of far-fetched fantasies about how this or that demagogue who explicitly rejects our right to self-determination is our secret friend. This is tempting, since it would relieve us of the necessity of being radicals, of being persecuted, of taking the risks that come with standing up for our people. We could even fancy ourselves to be clever while doing so: masters of strategery.
Strategery is that special kind of strategy that is devoid of action items for the strategist, is far too grandiose and sweeping to involve quantifiable goals, and requires that the anonymous peon masses “get it” and sweep in to bring the plan to fruition with an unquestioning zeal and synchronization only found in musical productions. Strategery is born of a failure to systematically look past the surface appearances and understand the mechanisms and processes undergirding practical politics.
As our movement matures, our strategic thinking needs to mature past this stumbling block. To avoid yet another decade of “meet, eat, and retreat”, of hosting more discouraging conferences and checking more empty post office boxes, we need to radically rethink our approach. We need to completely reinvent our movement from top to bottom.
Better yet, we need to reinvent it from the bottom-up.
George Washington Plunkitt, a successful politician in New York’s notorious Tammany Hall political machine, wrote a book that has become the cornerstone of my own thinking on the subject of practical politics. In it, he pulls back the curtain, cuts to the chase, and gets right to the heart of politics: social engineering. While the book was written a solid century before NLP, “game”, and similar processes were outlined, the echoes and archetypes are unmistakable.
His breezy and humorous explanation of “how to become a statesman” is one we would do well to consider…
Now, havin’ qualified as an expert, as the lawyers say, I am goin’ to give advice free to the young men who are goin’ to cast their first votes, and who are lookin’ forward to political glory and lots of cash. Some young men think they can learn how to be successful in politics from books, and they cram their heads with all sorts of college rot. They couldn’t make a bigger mistake. Now, understand me I ain’t sayin’ nothin’ against colleges. I guess they’ll have to exist as long as there’s book-worms, and I suppose they do some good in a certain way, but they don’t count in politics. In fact, a young man who has gone through the college course is handicapped at the outset. He may succeed in politics, but the chances are 100 to 1 against him.
Another mistake: some young men think that the best way to prepare for the political game is to practice speakin’ and becomin’ orators. That’s all wrong. We’ve got some orators in Tammany Hall, but they’re chiefly ornamental. You never heard of Charlie Murphy delivering a speech, did you? Or Richard Croker, or John Kelly, or any other man who has been a real power in the organization? Look at the thirty-six district leaders of Tammany Hall today. How many of them travel on their tongues? Maybe one or two, and they don’t count when business is doin’ at Tammany Hall. The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them. So you want to drop the orator idea unless you mean to go into politics just to perform the skyrocket act.
Now, I’ve told you what not to do; I guess I can explain best what to do to succeed in politics by tellin’ you what I did. After goin’ through the apprenticeship of the business while I was a boy by workin’ around the district headquarters and hustlin’ about the polls on election day, I set out when I cast my first vote to win fame and money in New York City politics. Did I offer my services to the district leader as a stump-speaker? Not much. The woods are always full of speakers. Did I get up a hook on municipal government and show it to the leader? I wasn’t such a fool. What I did was to get some marketable goods before goin’ to the leaders. What do I mean by marketable goods? Let me tell you: I had a cousin, a young man who didn’t take any particular interest in politics. I went to him and said: “Tommy, I’m goin’ to be a politician, and I want to get a followin’; can I count on you?” He said: “Sure, George.’, That’s how I started in business. I got a marketable commodity – one vote. Then I went to the district leader and told him I could command two votes on election day, Tommy’s and my own. He smiled on me and told me to go ahead. If I had offered him a speech or a bookful of learnin’, he would have said, “Oh, forget it!”
Note that I’m not endorsing the proposition that philosophy or ideology should be set aside in favor of practical politics. The two are complementary. Without a spiritual and philosophical foundation, one wrought by reading some thick books and thinking some deep thoughts, one lacks the focus and determination to remain a White Advocate. But being a White Advocate isn’t about spreading those ideas, it’s about advocacy. Ordinary people don’t want a professor; they want an advocate.
We must develop a synergy of theory and practice, with Traditionalist revolutionaries who understand why reactionary half-measures won’t save our skin reaching out to ordinary folks with simple and practical advocacy work. And advocacy isn’t about merely speaking truth to power. It’s about stepping up and advocating for White people.
Not the White race…Not Whiteness…Not White heritage…Not White pride.
White people, specific White people. To become relevant, we must become the foremost defenders of ordinary White people, the people they turn to for a voice and a defender.
For example, our Hoosier Nation team is advocating for a specific man who has been fired from his job and vilified by Al Sharpton and the usual suspects in the mainstream media. We’re not merely spreading “awareness” – though we’re doing that, too. We’re orchestrating a letter-writing campaign that could help him save his job. We would have raised money to help his family, and procured several pledges, but he’s politely declined monetary support.
While it would be great if somebody could kick off the mass awakening, it’s just as important that we have all the tools and experience in place to catch the ball if and when it comes at us. It’s probable that the awakening will be triggered by something outside our movement – perhaps by Obama persecuting White Americans to the point that they get fed up, or urban riots caused by hyperinflation, or whatever. But if we’re not building serious advocacy organizations at the local level, we’re going to miss that moment of truth when White Americans are receptive to our message and looking for trustworthy leadership. Being correct is not enough. We must become effective political soldiers.
P.S.
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Matt Parrott
mindweapon
White advocacy is not just writing on the internet but about service to the community, as you show. Advocacy to many people is not merely standing on a street corner flag waving, but being of service to fellow White’s in practical need. Many white racialist do this quietly, especially women. Women do this naturally, especially when they have children, but there are sadly, many men who want to help and yet have to find a way to reach out to people. I am not sure how to utilise the men that really want to help fellow White men in need in their own communities.
But they are there…
This is definitely the time to start getting involved in the community. My own community is having meetings about how to deal with the economic decline, and they have few ideas about what to do. But I show up at these meetings and mostly listen, and occasionally offer my idea about what to do, which is a practical and doable idea, and may actually get done.
I keep politics out of it. As things get worse, there will be more and more “community meetings,” involving the local movers and shakers. Be sure to get involved in your community and practice Taqqiyah regarding your ideology/religion. Like Plunkitt said, The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them.
I watched how the Jews do power. Our nickname for Jews is “chokepoint Charlie” because they stand at all the chokepoints of power that they can. However, there’s not enough Jews and far too many chokepoints for them to stand at all of them. Therefore, there’s openings for you.
Community organizing is about showing up. It can be boring. You don’t have to pay perfect attention to every speaker all the time. You just have to “get your face out there” time after time. Some of the ordinary people will reveal views that are similar to ours. Be careful with them. Don’t tell them about your own views, just get them to expand on their own, and maybe hint that “there’s other people talking about this same sort of thing” and give them a URL or a book. You could laugh and say, “You sound just like Henry Ford! Did you know he wrote a book called “The International Jew, the World’s Foremost problem?’ I coudln’t believe it either.” Or, “did you know the famous union boss Samuel Gompers was also against immigration because it drove down wages for Americans!” or “President Eisenhower didn’t approve of interracial marriage either! When he integrated the armed forces, he said that he would never approve of his daughter marrying a black.”
So don’t paint a target on yourself as the purveyor of the views. Talk about famous men who had these views.
Remember, as Woody Allen said, “90% of life is just showing up.” As things get more grim here in the declining empire, there’s going to be more and more local community organizing taking place. Be there or be nowhere!
Kievsky,
Becoming fluent in community leadership is certainly critical for a movement that ostensibly intends to lead our communities. This is certainly difficult to do while explicit, and I agree that men and women who engage in crypsis while advancing our cause are doing important work. However, as it stands right now we have no religion or Tradition in which to perpetuate our cause. This generation’s clever attempts to promote pro-White policies within the system is seen as sheer stupidity by a next generation that’s uninitiated.
This was a central message of my War on Thugs article. The War on Drugs was a ruthlessly effective pro-White campaign. To this new generation of deracinated conservatives, it’s a curiosity without any rational justification. As we know, it has a rational justification, but one of which we cannot speak. This is one of a few reasons why I think it’s necessary to have both overt and covert advocates.
Until we have some kind of organizational infrastructure capable of intergenerational crypsis (which Jewry and Islam have and we do not), some of us will need to continue “painting targets on ourselves” to perpetuate the struggle. After all, I wouldn’t be here right now if Jared Taylor hadn’t painted a target on himself. Besides, the penalties for doing so are still manageable – in a historical perspective, social ostracism and job discrimination are pretty mild.
My forefathers faced down the threat of violent death and voyaged into an unforgiving wilderness on the opposite end of the globe to uphold their beliefs. Accepting the risk that I could end up underemployed is the least I can do.
Whether or not an individual should be overt or covert is a deeply personal one with no universally correct answer. It depends on one’s situation, one’s personality, one’s occupation, one’s family situation, and one’s vulnerabilities. It can, as Lena suggests, be as simple as having healthy White children, raising them well, and imploring them to carry on the fight.
I will certainly speak up when it’s appropriate. As it is, I take the side of the anti-tax, small government, anti-welfare faction, which is the more popular faction. As it is, it would be incongruent to answer a question that people aren’t asking. My area is relatively calm. I learned the hard way that I have to meet people where they are at, rather than try to drag them, kicking and screaming, to a higher level of knowledge.
Good practical stuff.
In countries where there is PR “community activism” can be subsumed into electoral politics but in countries with FPTP it is much harder to break through. The upshot of that is it’s hard to maintain morale without continuous upward progress in simple electoral terms – in particular winning regularly. I’m thinking the kind of thing you’re doing is perhaps something parties like the BNP should do – not in their case as a substitute for electoral politics but as an indirect method of conducting electoral politics which potentially would work just as well or better and at the same time could provide other sources of a sense of purpose and achievement to keep people’s morale up.
“they stand at all the chokepoints of power that they can. However, there’s not enough Jews and far too many chokepoints for them to stand at all of them.”
Neatly put. Sun Tzu does practical politics :)
Matt, this is a brilliant article. The same for Kievsky’s commentary. The Plunkitt book sounds fascinating. I am starting at this moment a series of reviews of books on leadership, strategy, and political organizing at Counter-Currents. I need to find reviewers for all the classics starting from the ancient world.
Thanks Wandrin. By the way, “mindweapon” is Kievsky.
What I’m seeing is that we have to take advantage of economic decline for a regeneration of White community. Whites are too focused on television/movies/videogames/sports teams — things unreal. You could even call these things “false idols” in the religious sense.
What we need to be looking for is hard times forcing people to get to know their neighbors. Then you, a real person, becomes more important and more real than the “big pappy” (some negro red sox player) or “A-Rod” (negro “yankee”).
So long as people worship these false idols, they won’t listen to us about things that matter. They won’t all drop the false idols at once. You can position yourself to meet them as this happens, and start creating a local tribe.
Greg,
Would you like me to submit an attempt at a more polished review of Plunkitt within the next few weeks?
Is your site too fancy for a blogroll?
“By the way, “mindweapon” is Kievsky.”
Yes, i thought so.
“We could simply give up, filing in line behind the anti-White movement we perceive to be the least anti-White. We could kid ourselves with all sorts of far-fetched fantasies about how this or that demagogue who explicitly rejects our right to self-determination is our secret friend.”
To play devil’s advocate, what is your definition of “self-determination”?
Reginald,
The right to determine our own destiny, to govern ourselves; to separate. Nobody on the mainstream American Right supports our natural right to exist unencumbered by those who would deny us that right by their insistence on integrating.
You just don’t get it.
It’s a simple three step plan:
1. Kiss up to Glenn Beck
2. ?
3. Savings!
Matt,
I’ll think you’ll do your cause a world of good by requesting Reginald stop posting on your blog. Or just ban him outright.
Silver/accidentaldissent,
If somebody detracts from the atmosphere I’m attempting to cultivate, I’ll ask them to cut it out. If they persist, I’ll ban them.
I think Reginald’s comments so far have been topical, sober, and thoughtful.
Matt,
Please do tinker with Plunkitt and send it along.
Thanks,
Greg
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