WHEN DID JIHAD BECOME A CONSERVATIVE VALUE?

    While many on the American Right have struggled to distinguish actual Jihadists from anyone else of Middle Eastern origin, and have, in recent years, made themselves barely distinguishable from the American Left, apparently now have decided that the Leftist tactics they've adopted aren't extreme enough. Now, it appears that they've begun mimicking the Jihadists and calling for all-out holy wars of extermination against the infidels. 

   This sentiment on the Right has been building up for some time and largely on the Red Pilled fringes of the Internet. Our side's appalling lack of any substance on issues has led it anybody with an 'R' after his name in hope of winning votes, support, (and contributions) from anywhere they can obtain it. Reagan's Big Tent quickly degenerated under the Bush Machine, first resembling a tent more akin to Bozo's Big Top, down to today where it most closely resembles the ethos of an urban tent-city bum jungle. 

   When a political ideology becomes as hopelessly ideologically bankrupt as Neoconservatism has, the natural tendency is break down to the crudest elements of political policy: force and deception. When the Zionists attacked the Gaza Strip, the bloodlust really surfaced on the American Right---right down to lauding the wholesale extermination of an entire people: women, children, infants, indistinguishably. Late last month, a gang of yahoos calling itself God's Army has decided to mobilize and advance on Texas in hopes of violent confrontation against an alleged 'immigrant invasion.' So-called 'Conservative' politicians---not content with censuring sitting members of Congress and ignoring overt bribery attempts from foreign interests for not displaying sufficient loyalty to exceptionalist Cultural Imperialism---have today gone even further. Failed presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is demanding the expulsion, proscription, and deportation of Congressmen on purely policy grounds. While DeSantis' positions on political dissent are little different than Klaus Schwab's, they do seem somewhat against the spirit of the U.S. Constitution.

     The Pentagon's recent humiliations in Ukraine and the Middle East have the American Jihadists especially riled up and demanding that something be done about Iran---the bloodier the better. Nobody is asking why we should do anything about Iran, it seems that the necessity of beating somebody into the ground is self-evident, like settled science is on the Left. The Ayatollahs, for their part, don't seem especially worried---unlike our so-called Department of Defense, they've actually spent the last three decades building up a defensive military infrastructure.

     I suspect that this is one of the unspoken factors driving the hysteria in the Postmodern Right. It becomes apparent with their obsessional fixations on perceived American weakness. At the beginning of this century, the Neocons' Grand Poobah, George Bush Jr., asserted that "our enemies envy us because of our freedoms," shortly before he went on to dismantle our Constitution and sell off our government to unelected Corporate bureaucrats at breakneck speed. 

    The Politics of Envy, a political talking-point of that Administration, has, like most of the rhetoric back then, gone from a slight against opponents to a mainstream attitude on the Right. The leadership of the so-called Conservative Movement is, I believe, actually envious of what they see in Iran, Russia, China, and even the immigrant population here. Those people are accomplishing what we should be accomplishing. Immigrants come here with nothing, work hard and build communities. China is surpassing us economically and technologically. Both Russia and Iran have built prosperous countries upon their respective traditional values---not only without Western intervention, but in spite of it. This can't help but grate on the promoters of a New American Century and a Pax Americana who managed in a little over 30 years to produce a failed state wholly dependent upon the arbitrary will of a handful of Corporate Fascists.

    This situation, too, explains why the Postmodern Right has so eagerly absorbed the vileness of the Red Pill Cult, rebranded the Alt-Right. That whole movement was built by alienated and marginalized social pariahs desperate to compensate for their Inferiority Complexes by asserting themselves as Alpha supermen by displaying and embracing the same negative stereotypes that their so-called opponents depicted in them. Instead of working on improving themselves, they fixated on owning the Libtards, and now this dangerous perspective has expanded to 'owning' foreign powers, including refugees who come to our country. 

   The Jihadist movement in the Middle East came from that same psychosocial mindset. ISIS and Al-Qaeda recruited heavily from the disillusioned who eagerly blamed every problem on some external scapegoat. They counterparts of the American Red Pills with their heretical Wahhabi and Salafist imams who perverted Islam just like our demagogues are perverting Christianity. The Jihadists only differ from the Postmodern Right in the details of what they sought to accomplish: the methods they employ and the morality they display are more or less identical. Indiscriminate brutality and barbarism; contempt for the 'weak' and celebration of power and ruthlessness---it differs in no material aspect.

   Ultimately, this is why the political Right in America is bound to fail. They've so completely distanced themselves from any of the values they claim to uphold that their only means of survival is to keep building the illusion of strength instead working to be strong. This again is reflective of the whole 'Alpha' mindset which depends on faking masculinity instead of actually practicing it on an individual level. It breaks down inevitably when someone calls the bluff, as Iran and others are now doing.

   We who still hold to Conservative values need to start calling the bluff too. Since 2020, the Republican Party has accomplished nothing but racking up a series of humiliating losses which get worse every year. Yet the pundits on the Right keep peddling the most egregious nonsense---arguments with no connection whatsoever to reality---and all that they will likely accomplish is securing the Left's grip on power for at least another decade. It may be too late to save the Republican Party, but seeing it for what it is can lay the groundwork for a future movement based upon actual principles.