Tuesday, August 02, 2016
Bittner
An unusually thoughtful article by a Kraut named Bittner.
Orderism prioritizes stability over democracy and offers an alternative to the moral abyss of laissez-faire societies. Russia stands as a model for this new social contract. This contract is built on patriotism, traditional gender roles, Orthodox Christianity, military strength and, at the top, a benevolent czar who will promise only as much as he can deliver (provided the public gives him sufficient support, he can deliver a lot). Orderism may not yet boast the same economic performance as liberalism, but its adherents insist that the cohesion and the common spirit of an orderly nation will allow it to outlive the inevitable downturn of the disorderly West.Remarkably accurate observation. The FIRST accurate description of modern Russia in any American media.
Order is attractive only until it stifles, and then represses. Unchecked autocrats turn on the weakest and most vulnerable as scapegoats, and lash out in foreign misadventures to divert attention from problems at home. Society breaks down; fear reigns. Orderism ultimately fails to deliver on its own promises.This does happen sometimes, but it isn't any worse than the infinitely evil consequences of INTENTIONAL disorder.
Yet, in tackling today’s orderism, there is one lesson the West can draw from yesterday’s fight against Communism. Western leaders must respond to criticisms of liberal democracy, not simply reject them as the product of an insidious, anti-liberal worldview. If Franklin D. Roosevelt and Western Europe’s postwar leaders had dismissed calls for stronger welfare states as Communist-inspired, they would have invited revolution. Instead, they built progressive state institutions that drained the appeal of anti-liberalism.Sort of technically and narrowly true but misses the main point. FDR was fighting to defend capitalism, not democracy. In 1933 democracy was not the central problem. Black-robed satans were NOT overturning elections and referenda. City councils and school boards and businesses were NOT forced at gunpoint to accept wild psychotic nonsense. In 2016 both democracy AND capitalism are raw hell for the non-Chosen. Democracy has been turned upside down into tyranny by black-robed Satans who enforce "rights" by killing the non-privileged. Capitalism has been turned inside out into QE/ZIRP/NIRP, violating EVERY law of economics. Bittner misses the biggest point of all, the direction of causation. Democracy and capitalism are NOT roots that grow a good life when properly watered. Democracy and capitalism are LUXURIES. They are FLOWERS that grow at the end of the stem. They grow when a NATURAL LAW root is properly nourished and watered. When the NATURAL LAW root withers, nothing good can grow. The only cure is firm order and authority, ready and willing to shoot all agents of evil. Erdogan is doing the right thing. After NATURAL LAW has regained the upper hand, we may be able to afford the LUXURY of democracy and capitalism, but if we have any fucking sense we'll prune them every time they appear.
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