Liberal Elites are Parasites but Conservatives are Philistines
No one is coming to save us
Left-liberals in the managerial elite are parasitic by nature, in that they extract value from the middle class and seek to tear down civilization without replacing it with something better. However, conservative elites and much of the middle class are philistines, who are narrow-minded with no interest in culture nor have any grand political and civilizational aspirations. The elites mostly suck but populism is bound to fail, as the masses aren’t much better.
Conspiracy theories are a cope, and ironically a lot of problems with America’s elites are because they came from strivers among the middle class, with no aristocratic values or aspirations. America is fundamentally a Vaishya nation. The black pill is that there is no Promethean demographic or political or cultural movement among either the elites or the middle class, and the closest we have to an anti-liberal, creative bohemian scene is Dime Square. I want to say that change can only come via a spiritual revolution but that is probably also a cope. We are so f-ed.
source: @Indian_Bronson on X
Another thing to remember is that most American ‘conservatives’ are, in fact, liberals. America was founded and defined by people imbued with Classical Enlightenment Liberal ideals. Republicans and Libertarians are just an older version of liberal.
White Identity Nationalism is the whitepill in your darkified scenario.
Populism will succeed succeed in the US in the short run because populism always succeeds in the US in the short run. Over the long haul, these short-term victories embed deep changes in the body politic that create a barrier to further incursions. The legibility of populist movements are not where their real power lie. The real power of populism lies in its opacity to central power, to the perpetuation and expansion of a culture that is outside any authority that is not *earned*. Before you give up on 'populism', I suggest you apprise yourself of the insights on 'the masses' in Jean Baudrillard's 'In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities'.
In the long run, elites do not control history, the masses do. They just don't do so in a way that is legible to the elite.
'Conservatives' are just as 'liberal' as liberals/leftists/progressives. They share 99% of the same political DNA. The only genuinely different politics is what is called 'identity politics' but is actually racial politics by another name. The 'identity' part only comes in when Whites negate their interest for non-Whites in the form of 'White allies' and other assorted perverts.
The only thing that deserves to be 'conserved' is the Folk.
The only thing 'liberalism' the Folk can afford is 'liberalism' within itself.
The age of abstract loyalties is dead.
The corpse is simply twitching out its last bits of electricity before shutting down completely.