Patriotism Ain't What It Used To Be

A paean to loving your own people

A couple of days ago I was at my son’s baseball game. They were losing pretty badly (to be fair, they were playing one of those “traveling” teams), so I’ll admit that my mind started to wander after a while. I began observing some of the other families that were there and it struck me that these are exactly the kind of people that The Powers That Be absolutely hate because they ARE America. They are our white working class, our middle Americans, our flyover country residents. They are the heritage of our forefathers who founded this country, who carved it out from raw wilderness and built a technologically advanced civilisation in its place. They are my people and we are the ones to whom this country belongs - not to a disparate aggregation of foreigners and transnational economic mercenaries.

You’ve got the single dad who comes to the games straight from his job at the city water treatment facility because he’d be heartbroken if he missed a single game. There’s the tow truck driver who jokes about hauling off the opposing parents’ cars if they beat our team. You have the retired couple who heckles the umpire with “yo mama” jokes. These folks hunt and fish, they watch football and go to the lake on weekends. They go to church and show up to school board meetings when the gays try to indoctrinate their kids. They’re Americana. Their culture IS American culture, not the made-for-TV hip-hop garbage cranked out by “professional” culture makers.

Now, you may be wondering what my point is? Well, it all boils down to what the real and true definition of patriotism is. There are a lot of different ideas about what constitutes “patriotism” that are floating around out there - most of them wrong. So to rightly understand what patriotism is, we first must understand what it originally meant. “Patriotism” comes from the Latin term patriota, which meant “a fellow countryman.” This, in turn, derived from patris, “fatherland,” and referred to the home of those who share a common descent as an “extended family.” As such, and in the interest of rectifying some names, patriotism therefore involves a love, affection for, and common interest with one’s own people. This “people” should be understood as your ethnos, with whom you share a culture, mores, languages, and common descent.

What we need to understand is that it is natural - and indeed God-intended - for people to love their own people. There is nothing wrong with this. To love one’s own people does not mean that one hates all others - that is merely a false argument used by globalists to justify their arguments for global homogenisation. While the world believes that peace and prosperity come from enforced amalgamation, the continuous testimony of history is that diversity plus proximity equals war.

Above I said that there were a number of wrong ideas about patriotism that find currency today. What are some of these? First, patriotism cannot truly be directed towards an idea. As much as we may like these things, abstract principles like “freedom,” “liberty,” and the like cannot be the objects of patriotism. A constitution cannot even be an object of patriotism rightly so called. Neither can philosophical ideas, be they democratic or monarchic. Patriotism is only rightly directed to the real, tangible patrimony of one’s people.

Likewise, patriotism does not apply to governments. While a government may deserve the support of the people it governs if it acts for their good and protects them, it may just as equally not deserve this support if it does not do these things. There mere accident of one man being born into a family to rule, or of some particular aggregation of individuals being elected to a legislature, does not in and of itself give any of them a right to claim to be objects of patriotism. Merely being in power does not make one a patria.

Patriotism is not even necessarily rightly directed towards some particular geographical area. It is not the land that makes the people, but the people who invest the land with meaning. While longstanding inhabitance may come to connect a people to their land, it is not the land itself that is really important. The spiritual connexion comes through the unity of a people around their common descent and their common culture who then invest that land with a rich history and heritage.

The important thing to understand about the United States of America is that it is not a nation, in the sense of being an united ethnos. Instead, America is a late-stage multiethnic empire. By this, I’m not just referring to all of the various and sundry foreigners that have been imported over the past few decades to form their own ethnic enclaves across the country. Just as much so is the fact that White ethnogenesis has created two White ethnies (or perhaps two closely related groupings of ethnies, depending on how finely one wishes to divide them) which are largely at odds with each other. The one (to which the vast majority reading this probably belong) is more or less the lineal descendants of our pioneering forefathers. The other, numerically smaller but much more politically powerful, essentially rules this country as a cosmopolitan imperial class.

The problem is that this kind of diversity is simply not feasible within a system that purports to be democratic. All you end up doing is creating constellations of political and ethnic pressure groups who support one or the other of the major factions because they think these are their own ticket to advancement. No, if you really want to generate “unity from diversity,” then you have to do it around the person of an Emperor (or something similar), following the model shown by earlier multiethnic empires such as the Roman or Austro-Hungarian, towards which each ethnie’s loyalty may be independently directed. Forcing these groups into direct political competition with each other will only result in exacerbated ethnic loyalties that destroy the overall unity in a polity. Trying to build that kind of unity around an abstract “idea” is going to be a failure. People follow leaders, not abstractions.

Within our American system, Trump has probably come the closest to filling this role, especially given his appeal to Heritage Americans. Conversely, I can’t imagine any of the schlubs in DC drawing that kind of loyalty from anyone who is not part of the intersectionality alliance or on their patronage payroll. This is, of course, why the globalists and America-haters want to get rid of him.

If you want to see patriotism in action at the governmental level, then look for those actions which are done that benefit the people of a nation themselves, not special interests or factions within a political system. One good recent example would be the Polish government’s rather sudden decision to stop throwing more of their money and materiel down the Ukrainian rathole. As you can imagine, the globalists and NAFO types were appalled and, hilariously, one of their arguments was that Poland was “unpatriotic.” What? Towards what was Poland “unpatriotic”? Globohomo? The neoliberal “international consensus”?

Indeed, the Polish government’s decision, late as it was, is a supremely patriotic act because it is finally doing what is good for the Polish people themselves rather than for transnationalist money launderers and arms dealers. It probably didn’t hurt that Ukrainian missiles “accidentally” hit a Polish village and the Ukrainians are stonewalling the investigation. Of course, we can expect Poland to be the next place we see a colour revolution take place. Globohomo has to protect the Poles from their own best interests, after all.

The same arguments apply here at home in the United States, the seat of Regime oligarchic power. We’ve been sending billions to Ukraine and it has been justified by the gung-ho NAFO types as “patriotic.” We’re “PrOtEcTiNg DeMoCrAcY!!1!,” so we’re told. But again, “democracy” is not something you can even be rightly patriotic towards, especially when it’s at the behest of some foreign nation. Even if you actually care about democracy (sham that it is), it’s not “patriotic” to go involving yourself in affairs which don’t concern you (and no, the Russo-Ukrainian War is not our problem). This is especially the case when your doing so is directly and negatively impacting your own people and their own military readiness.

The fact of the matter is that these NAFO types who want to keep sending all our money and weapons to fight their personal proxy war with Russia are supremely unpatriotic. They are willing to sell their own people out to the interests of the globalists. They are impoverishing Americans and getting more Ukrainians killed, all so that transnational oligarchs can keep their money laundering operations in Ukraine in place. If you want to send billions to Ukraine while our own soldiers are on food stamps and otherwise unable to even feed themselves, then you are not a patriotic American. Far from being patriots, these people are globalist worms eating away at the good of every nation, not just our own.

And that’s just it - the NAFOs’ “patriotic impulse” is misplaced, directed toward an abstraction called “the global community” which never can exist in reality. The only real patriotism is that which generates a love for your own people. This means Americans loving the American people, Germans loving the German people, Frenchmen loving the French people, and so forth. True patriotism really serves as a dividing line that separates the patriot from the globalist. Loving your people is what God intended for us to do and this remains the case even when they tell the ump that his mama's so fat she's almost as wide as his strike zone.