Category: Polarization
The Dispatch: When Culture Wars Go Way To Far
Occidental Dissent - Oct 2nd 2022 9:52am EDT (Archive)I have a positive view of Christian nationalism. Just look at the “trans” issue. California has become the first sanctuary state for “trans youth” and will strip parents from other states of custody of their own children in order to provide them with “gender-affirming care.” California state courts will assert “temporary emergency jurisdiction” over “trans […]
Giorgia Meloni Set To Become Italy’s New Prime Minister
Occidental Dissent - Sep 26th 2022 8:55am EDT (Archive)All is lost. Giorgia Meloni is about to become Italy’s new prime minister. The Sweden Democrats had a major breakthrough in Sweden two weeks ago. Marine Le Pen came closer than ever to winning in France and Éric Zemmour ran to her Right on opposing the Great Replacement. Over 60% of French voters believe the […]
The 2022 Midterms
Occidental Dissent - Sep 24th 2022 12:18pm EDT (Archive)This is an unusual step for me. I’ve decided to stop complaining and vote in the 2022 midterms. Normally, I am deeply cynical about politics, but I have changed my mind over the past two years. I’m a swing voter. Occasionally, I will vote for Republicans like Donald Trump or Jeff Sessions, but I generally […]
Joe Biden: Democracy Itself Is On The Ballot
Occidental Dissent - Sep 23rd 2022 5:43pm EDT (Archive)I haven’t voted since the 2016 election. I voted in primaries in Alabama, but Jeff Sessions and Mo Brooks lost. I will be voting against Joe Biden and American Democracy and for MAGA Republicans in the midterms though.
Allahpundit: Moronic Convergence
Occidental Dissent - Sep 22nd 2022 12:44pm EDT (Archive)We are now six years into the Trump era. Allahpundit has left Hot Air. Kevin Williamson has left National Review. Both have ended up at The Dispatch which was founded by Jonah Goldberg and David French and other luminaries from The Weekly Standard. The True Cons who were dominant a decade ago have been vanquished. […]
New York Times: Inside The Completely Legal GOP Plot To Destroy American Democracy
Occidental Dissent - Sep 21st 2022 11:55am EDT (Archive)Let me guess. The real threat is the Electoral College.
Washington Post: A GOP House Would Defund Ukraine
Occidental Dissent - Sep 21st 2022 11:35am EDT (Archive)If nothing else, it will be much more difficult to push Ukraine funding through a GOP House and the total amount of money being spent on Ukraine should peak and start to go down. Washington Post: “That a GOP House might cut off aid is not a fear confined to Murphy. The publication Defense News […]
Politico: Most Republicans Support Declaring United States a Christian Nation
Occidental Dissent - Sep 21st 2022 8:56am EDT (Archive)The real world and the internet are two different things. In the real world, defense of White identity has always been strongly associated with defense of Christianity in the United States, especially with Protestantism, which is a relationship that stretches back deep into the colonial era when Protestant settlers began to think of themselves as […]
TAC: When The Bill Comes Due For Our Race Ideology
Occidental Dissent - Sep 16th 2022 12:46pm EDT (Archive)Tucker Carlson now regularly talks about antiracism and White identity. Mark Dice is making videos about anti-Whiteism. Matt Walsh is making videos about racial double standards. Now, Rod Dreher is warning about The Collapse and is dabbling with race realism. TAC:
Ron DeSantis, Martha’s Vineyard and America’s Cold Civil War
Occidental Dissent - Sep 16th 2022 8:57am EDT (Archive)From the perspective of Generic White Nationalism (GWN), this makes little sense. Whites are a people who are being oppressed by Jews. White identity is ascriptive. It is biological.