Tarred with the Wrong Brush! Nationalist Policies versus the Enforced Clichés of Public Opinion
Posted by admin02 on May 2, 2012 // 2 Comments
By Peter Mills MA. PhD. The Daily Mail, sometimes a great newspaper, is in danger of becoming hypocritical. It is filled on a daily basis with excellent and fully justified rants, seriously pointed articles and entirely valid howls of editorial protest, all of which in one way or another lament the extreme disintegration of our society and social values, the corruptness of our politicians and business magnates, and our general collapse of national standards, public finance and administrative common sense.
And yet, on a regular basis, like a strange knee-jerk reaction, it also cocks a supercilious snoot at the only kind of political movement that can remedy the very catastrophes it laments – Nationalism.
Daily Mail writer Stephen Glover, for example, in a single headline to his article on page 17 of April 12th, fully recognizes the threats Britain faces, yet in the very same sentence, extraordinarily feels the need to jump yet again on the same old and obsolete bandwagon of “putting the boot in” where the growth of European Nationalism is concerned.
The headline in question states in big black letters: “Economic crisis, a failing political class and the spectre of 1930s-style extremism across Europe.”
The Daily Mail is merely one common example of this widespread affliction of double-standards, and I have no wish to malign it or single it out, except by explaining that it is my regular newspaper and has been so since I was 17 in 1956, thus it comes to my attentions more than any other newspaper.
This same form of “knock all Nationalism regardless” is, of course, also encouraged by our successive governments, by 99% (probably more) of Fleet Street, by the TV and radio management and owners, and by all those “Establishment-leaning” institutions, movers-and-shakers and opinion-makers who, en masse, have their collective hands upon the steering wheel of the general public’s attitudes, opinions, thought-processes and world-view.
And unless this mischievous and outdated spread of mis-information can be popularly challenged and overcome, its infection of the attitudes of the general population of this country will help drag Britain down to death like some poor staggering wildebeest being eaten alive by hyenas on a television wildlife documentary.
Consider this metaphor: if a famous mathematician in a bygone era, now long dead, stated some eighty years in the past that two plus two equals seven, then it is evidently extremely difficult to convince successive generations that this is not, in fact, the correct answer to the sum, and thus everybody must be compelled to continue to believe that this is the correct answer, and to always remember to include it as correct in their own calculations, and that, because it is such a famous historical example of mathematics, this answer will remain correct and therefore unchangeable for all eternity amen.
Immediately we can see the utter fallacy of this kind of “regimented thinking” (actually, it is defined as “vertical thinking”, which is not capable of escaping the walls of its limitations, as opposed to “lateral thinking” which can adapt outwards as necessary to new ideas and facts).
If this analogy seems vague to you, then I ask you to consider the identical premise when it is applied, not to fictional mathematical opinions, but instead to the political opinions of the average British people as they are spoon-fed by the media. Eighty years ago next year, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party gained power in Germany, with results that everyone is familiar with. The Nazis were Fascists, a term coming into usage via the earlier rise to power of Benito Mussolini in Italy (from the Latin “fasces”, a bundle of rods tied round an axe used by the Romans as the badge of a civic magistrate). The term “Nazi” derives from “National Socialist” (Nationalsozialismus).
Thus it is the easiest thing in the world for newspapers and the general media, for politicians, reporters, editors, writers, interviewers, social commentators and all that plethora of people who speak to the nation, to equate any political party which includes the word “Nationalist” in its title, or even if it does not, which dares to promote political Nationalism in its policies and its political stance, as “Fascists”, or “Right-Wing Extremists” or even “Nazis” or “Nazi-Like”.
Thus, since it can be categorically shown that, eighty years ago, someone stated two plus two equals seven, it is regularly hammered into today’s public that two plus two must still equal seven in the present day. Present-day mathematicians are quite obviously incapable of noticing the error in the bygone equation and adopting instead a correct formula that will give accurate and much more useful results. That is the identical logic used by everyone who seeks to defame Nationalism. It is not logic. It is the application of hysterical bigotry and preferential ignorance. When it is presented on a daily basis by the media, it becomes hysterical ignorance and is entirely inexcusable.
As most people will know, the word “Tory” derives from the old Irish word “tóraidhe” (in modern Irish, tórai) which means “outlaw, robber, brigand”. However, the typical “grass-roots” members and voting supporters of the Tory Party in the present day would surely be most outraged if the British media at all levels insisted on defining them as “an outlaw party” or “a party advocating extremist brigandage”, or simply as “a band of criminals”.
Nationalists are not fascists, or right-wing extremists, or Neo-Nazis, any more than the Conservative Party are all criminals, or the Labour Party all wear cloth caps and clogs, or the Liberal Democrats are Whigs. Yes, there are doubtless some criminals amongst the Tories, and some Labour MPs might wear cloth caps; there may even be one somewhere who wears clogs; and there may even be a few Lib-Dems who fondly think of themselves as wearing powdered wigs, buckled shoes and knee-breeches. But these caricatures are generally the exception rather than the rule.
Likewise, Communism has many sub-species, but the largest countries to have been ruled by Communism are the former Soviet Union and China. The Soviet Union got its calculations wrong and collapsed, having made mistake after mistake. Communist China, on the other hand, has made mistakes in the past (haven’t we all?) but has managed to make progress and today is the second largest economy in the world, exceeded only by that of the USA – and the way western economics are heading, China may well soon overtake the US and become the world’s biggest economy.
I do not favour the rule of Communism, any more than I favour that of Nazism or Genghis Khan. My point in citing such examples is, simply and patently obviously, they show that like all things except the media, political opinions and associations must change and evolve as time passes, because those that do not will collapse and are erased from the world-scene.
Political Nationalism in today’s Europe (including Britain) is likewise, in absolute terms, not the same animal as the fascists of the 1930s. In fact, by an examination of comparative policies, it can be quite easily seen that the Nationalism of such parties as the Dutch Freedom Party of Geert Wilders and the French National Front of Marine LePen, and the striving cause of the new unified Nationalist trend in Britain, actually have far more realistic and potentially successful political strategies for solving the economic, sociological and political crisis that now grips all Europe in an iron fist.
The biggest problem of all, though, is that the voting people are forced to wear propaganda blinkers which project into their minds the false and obsolete illusion that Nationalism is a bogeyman synonymous with fascism or worse, whilst at the same time completely camouflaging the truth that it is the Iron Fist of a Europe run by secured “establishment” parties that holds everyone in the death-grip of a very real bogeyman (or gang of bogeymen)!
The Nationalist parties of Europe, including Britain, offer policies that can remedy the situation and restore the status quo of proper regional government and proper regional economies – and, come to that, of proper democratic voting such as is denied to anyone who wishes to resign from, or not vote to join in the first place, the catastrophic European Superstate. Countries such as the now-suffering Ireland, when they voted “no” to Europe in a referendum, were ordered by Europe to go back and do it again, and if necessary again, until they got it right! Is this not the working of actual fascism?
The European Union and the traditional establishment or “normal” political parties who support it are the producers of the policies that are destroying our civilization.
Nationalism, on the other hand, today offers a complete and rational set of policies that will enable a country such as Britain, or Ireland, or Greece, or Italy, or Spain, or Portugal, or….. – the list is perhaps too long to complete – to repair the damage inflicted upon them by the European Union and the “establishment” political parties who are securely in its pocket.
This is the new mathematical formula that Nationalism can offer Britain and Europe, and it is a correct and successful formula, not an outmoded grotesquery still given Frankensteinian lifeblood from the superstitious fears of past generations kept aflame by the fanning of media and political propaganda.
Until the media and the general public begin to see the truth of this, we will inevitably be seeing more lurid anachronistic headlines attempting to convince the ordinary voting people that two plus two still equals seven just as it did many generations ago.
I have news for the News – we are now in the 21st Century and things have changed, especially politics. They need to face that fact and admit it to the public.