Category: Polarization

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  • Perhaps the Best Metaphor for the Herd Yet

    Amerika.org - Nov 20th 2025 1:32am EST

    Most people preach fantasies of external scapegoats. These evil figures — the rich, the kings, the Jews, the Whites, the Masons, the Illuminati, UFOs, Satan — seem to be both all-powerful and somehow need us for their power, and both insane and nastily effective. These are symbols that make us feel better because they seem […]

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  • Confederate Monuments Desecrated In Los Angeles

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 22nd 2025 3:06pm EDT

    Public transportation is an easy issue to show why the “Left” vs “Right” divide in America is fake and gay. Consider this: The left favors a strong public transportation system, but they also favor mass third world immigration which devastates public transport. But what is the… — Pax Tube (@PaxTubeOfficial) October 19, 2025 The idea […]

  • Should We Vote In The 2026 Midterms?

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 18th 2025 1:12pm EDT

    Without Section 2 Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South Per NYT https://t.co/EflLriw9nU pic.twitter.com/j3KDVY9Hn4 — OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) October 15, 2025 This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl […]

  • Poll Watch: Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 1st 2025 9:50am EDT

    There are multiple angles of what is essentially the same story: The UK, Canada, France, Belgium and Australia all recognizing a Palestinian state Bibi Netanyahu addressing an empty room at the U.N. because over half of the world has turned against Israel over its genocide in Gaza The latest New York Times/Siena poll which recently […]

  • President Trump Deploys Troops To Portland

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 27th 2025 2:01pm EDT

    Portland was always going to be the first battle of the Domestic War on Terror.

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  • Polarization Is Not Inherently Evil

    Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2025 6:49am EDT

    1,121 words Eric Voegelin Anyone who wishes to live in a relatively tranquil society knows that polarization—that is, the times of das Politische—is anything but reassuring. This is not difficult to understand: during moments of polarization, every situation, act, subject, or object, no matter how insignificant it might appear in more “normal” times, becomes unbearably […]

  • Nationalism This Week

    Counter Currents - Sep 12th 2025 1:01pm EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s Is America Doomed? here. 2,135 words This was another radicalizing week. The Murder of Iryna Zarutska On Tuesday, September 9th, full video of the murder of Iryna Zarutska was released. We watched in horror as she cringed, terrified of the hulking black orc who loomed over her and stabbed her. […]

  • Looking Right to the Left pt. 1

    Counter Currents - Aug 28th 2025 11:00am EDT

    1,783 words Karlheinz Weissmann Rechts oder Links: Von der Notwendigkeit politischer Unterscheidung (Right or Left: On the Need for Political Differentiation) JUNGE FREIHEIT Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2025 The first time that I visited the United States, I stayed with a friend in Virginia. On my arrival at his home he offered me coffee […]

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  • Affective Polarization Reflects How Diversity Erased Our Center

    Amerika.org - Jul 16th 2025 1:32am EDT

    Notions have to creep into mass consciousness slowly. If you thrust too much reality on people, they decompensate and break down, then absorb none of it. If you give them a trail of breadcrumbs, they eventually get there, and then have an emotional crisis. For example, if your society is falling like Rome and Athens, […]

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  • Humanity Slowly Learns To Think

    Amerika.org - Jul 7th 2025 1:32am EDT

    Perhaps you think we bloviate on about cause-effect relationships too much on this site, but as recent research reveals, logical thinking requires tracing effect to cause: People are generally very good at detecting cause-effect relationships. This ability helps us understand the world, learn, make decisions, and predict the future. In short, it helps us adapt […]

  • Poll Watch: Democrats Want To Become More Moderate

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 13th 2025 1:51pm EST

    This poll is a cautionary note for MAGA. In this moment of political darkness for Democrats, it is easy for us to gloat and engage in cringe mining, but it turns out most Democrats disagree with progressive activists. Gallup: “WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s inauguration for a […]

  • White Atheist Nationalism Is a Dead End

    Occidental Dissent - May 7th 2024 7:59am EDT

    I have a bone to pick with Jason Kessler. At the outset, I want to stress that it is nothing personal. There has always been White Nationalists who share Jason Kessler’s dismissive view of Christianity. When I first stumbled across the White Nationalist movement in 2001, there were already established leaders in the movement who […]

  • Uniparty Ushers In Dreaded Authoritarian “Fascist USA” To “Stand With Israel”

    Occidental Dissent - May 1st 2024 5:17pm EDT

    As many astute observers have noted, dumb leftwing college students can protest pretty much anything on campus and get away with it … capitalism, “white supremacy,” misogyny, “the patriarchy,” transphobia, settler-colonialism, Confederate monuments, Christopher Columbus, etc. No one cares. OUR GREATEST ALLY, however, is sacrosanct. Suddenly, the jack boot of the police state has come […]

  • Charlie Kirk: The Civil Rights Act ‘Created A Beast’ That ‘Turned Into An Anti-White Weapon’

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 17th 2024 3:16pm EDT

    I will reiterate my advice. Don’t become an internet edgelord. Just call yourself a conservative populist. Focus on your own personal life and career path. “Become Who You Are” by becoming the policy wonk with the credentials to be hired to work on something like immigration policy or unraveling the civil rights bureaucracy. Eyes on […]

  • Rich Lowry: Yes, Fight Anti-White Racism

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2024 3:36pm EDT

    Glenn Beck wants to cut off aid to Israel. Rich Lowry wants to fight anti-White racism now.

  • Ezra Klein Show: The Rise of Middle Finger Politics

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2024 9:13pm EDT

    LISTEN HERE I had a good laugh listening to this over the weekend. It is Ezra Klein and John Ganz discussing the rise of rightwing populism from the 1990s to the 2024 campaign. I know David Duke personally. My father-in-law knew Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis. I have been around long enough to remember Murray […]

  • All Grown Up

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2024 5:52pm EDT

    Alt-Right 2.0 is a terrible idea. I look back on that era like a bad picture in a high school yearbook. In a lot of ways, I haven’t changed at all. I am still a stridently antiwar isolationist. I am still concerned about mass immigration and demographic change. I am still an anti-globalist. I am […]

  • Jury Rules Trump Must Pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million In Damages For Defamation

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 27th 2024 11:44am EST

    Are you looking for a reason to support The Revenge Tour? CNBC: “A federal jury on Friday said Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll a total of $83.3 million in damages for defaming her in statements he made as president after the writer said he had raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s. The massive civil verdict — which […]

  • Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Invokes State Sovereignty To Defy Joe Biden and Supreme Court

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 24th 2024 3:28pm EST

    Is this really happening? Is Greg Abbott actually doing the right thing? Note: I didn’t think he had the spine for it!

  • Poll Watch: Record Low In U.S. Satisfied With Way “Democracy” Is Working

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 10th 2024 10:38am EST

    “Democracy” is on the ballot in 2024. By “democracy,” Democracy Defenders mean our current system of censoring the internet, deplatforming their opponents through mob violence, civil lawsuits, weaponizing the FBI against their political opponents, ballot harvesting, month long elections, week long vote counts, invoking the 14th Amendment to remove their political opponents from the ballot, […]

  • Poll Watch: Americans Split On “Standing With Israel”

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 23rd 2023 8:43pm EDT

    I’m not completely blackpilled. The polling on blindly “Standing With Israel” is mixed. CNN Poll: CBS/YouGov: Unlike on “Standing With Ukraine,” the Democrats are badly split on Israel. You would also never know that Republicans are also divided given the coverage on FOX News. There is no racial or class polarization on “Standing With Israel.” […]

  • Poll Watch: Americans Are Deeply Sympathetic Toward Israelis

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 15th 2023 5:47pm EDT

    This is what you call burying the lede. CNN: The American public expresses deep sympathy for the Israeli people and broadly sees the Israeli government’s military response to Hamas’ attacks as justified, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, and two-thirds are at least somewhat worried the fighting between Israel and Hamas could lead to […]

  • Poll Watch: Support for Arming Ukraine Plummets

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 5th 2023 8:30am EDT

    Capitol Police arrested several people from ‘code pink’ today who are opposed to the US funding the war in Ukraine. They protested outside Senator Bernie Sanders’ office in Washington, urging him to call for negotiations. WATCHpic.twitter.com/2ktsuEQL85 — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) October 4, 2023 The war in Ukraine must END! Today, I met brave @codepink activists […]

  • Government Shutdown Averted For Now

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 2nd 2023 9:57am EDT

    I look forward to seeing Congress provide, in the very near future, financial support for Ukraine which is valiantly struggling against Russian aggression. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) October 1, 2023 The majority of the majority does not support haphazardly funding war in Ukraine and it was proven this past week when 117 Republicans voted against […]

  • RFK Jr. To Announce Independent Campaign

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 29th 2023 3:45pm EDT

    Great news. We also need Joe Manchin, Cornel West and a libertarian candidate in the race.