throwing conservatives a bone: increase trust and reduce polarization.

education, riots, and deportations.

January 6th demonstrated a decline of trust in institutions.¹ In order to prevent popular revolts in the future, I would offer the following:

Educational Reform.

Conservatives are upset that Hollywood executives, academics, and other coastal elites look down on them and discriminate against them. Mel Gibson is still making films, so I don’t know how to help conservatives here other than to encourage them to be less lame. Education is a different matter.

Conservatives have a reasonable fear that if they try to make a career in academia, they will not be able to speak their minds. One solution would be to change the way that tenure works.

Currently, tenure takes seven years to earn, but once you have it, you’re set for life. A modified version of tenure would grant it after three years, and limit its duration to twenty years, with a mandatory cap at age 55. This modified tenure would protect professors from being fired for speaking out against academic orthodoxy. Loopholes, as in the case of Amy Wax, where she has been “suspended” instead being fired, would have to be closed.

If conservatives still can’t make inroads into academia after being guaranteed free speech, this might be more of a problem with conservatives than left-wing cancel culture. Whether or not free speech guarantees would make academia more moderate, it might help reassure conservatives that they have peaceful options to promote their ideas.

Riot Reform.

Whites are politically radicalized by black riots, but these riots have little positive impact on black well-being or substantive policy. Police violence itself is fairly consistent and uniform on a yearly basis, with little variation, so incidents of violence themselves have very little to do with rioting.

Source: thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65309/

Rather, the proximate cause of riots is the propagandistic, hysterical, hyper-focused, non-stop, wall-to-wall coverage granted by the media. Short of introducing restrictions on speech, limiting such incendiary coverage is outside the purview of the government.

The material cause of black riots is inner city ghettos with no jobs, no fathers, no stable families, and no generational wealth. This also occurs in Africa and in Britain, so it’s not a purely American thing.

Credit: accord.org.za/conflict-trends/the-july-2021-protests-and-socio-political-unrest-in-south-africa/

The inner cities, as a concept, should be entirely disestablished through the mass internal deportation of all welfare-dependent and criminal Americans from major cities. Of course, black people who have jobs, families, savings, and enough money to support themselves should be allowed to live wherever they want. But unemployed, drug-dealing, criminal, nothing-to-lose people of all races need to be speedily paid and incentivized to leave urban centers to prevent future conflagrations.

I would prefer they end up somewhere that housing could be built cheaply, like Kansas.

Plop them right in the middle.

Los Angeles plans to spend over $31 billion dollars in 2025 on welfare. If there are at least 1.5 million welfare recipients in LA (nearly 40% of all residents!), then they could all be cut a one-time check for $21,000 to leave the city. If this seems too cheap to you, then we could build mobile homes in Kansas which would pay for themselves over the course of five years.

By spending $103,000 to build a home for every welfare recipient in LA, these people could all have a free mobile home in Kansas. That would be an advance payment of 5 years of welfare to get them out of the cities. This would increase the density of Kansas by 18.3 people per square mile. The New Yorkers could go to Nebraska; the Chicagoans could be sent to South Dakota. It would turn these three states blue, which would be good for Democrats, and also reduce the chances of these cities being burnt down by rioters.

The objective would be to spread these people in low-density housing in the most backward and rural areas of the country. If they want to burn down their own mobile homes, that’s less likely to provoke right-wing whitelash than if they are burning down major cities. They don’t need cars, since we live in the golden age of UberEats.

If we can afford to provide them with free food, we can afford to provide them with free delivery too. If you wanted to get very efficient with it, you could drop a 20 pound bag of rice and 200 packets of freeze dried ramen noodles with beef jerky, vegetables, and a bottle of multi-vitamins on the doorstep of their mobile home every month. If that sounds too bland, just stick with UberEats.

Even if it was ultimately more expensive to move all the homeless, jobless, drug-addicted and hopeless people to Kansas, it would be worth it for the political ramifications. Racialists thrive on conflict and conflation. Reducing the risk of black riots would go a long way toward deflating the risk of “whitelash” and political instability.

clean up the streets.

I saw a guy taken into an ambulance yesterday. He wrote a suicide note, stole a bottle of whiskey, and swallowed an entire bottle of Benadryl. As he was being loaded into the ambulance, there was a respirator shoved down his throat, which is called “intubation.” He was breathing strangely, with his eyes wide open, wheezing, making a disturbing zombie noise. I am guessing that during the overdose, given the slow response of paramedics, his brain was starved of oxygen for too long, and he now has brain damage.

He was a white guy.

The Mexican cartels (or the Chinese, or the Russians) aren’t responsible for getting this guy Benadryl.

His job wasn’t stolen by Mexicans. This small city is less than 4% Hispanic. Maybe his job was stolen by Asians. But losing your job doesn’t cause you to kill yourself, or I would be dead many times over. Open borders didn’t kill him.

Maybe deaths of despair have a causal relationship with the decline in trust. Maybe “trust” is a sort of “hope.” If you trust that your children will have a better life, then you also are more likely to trust the government. If you think things are getting inevitably worse and worse, you’re more likely to scapegoat “the Democrats” and join a riot at the White House.

The problem isn’t that drugs exist, or that Mexicans bring them in across the border. People have always been able to kill themselves with alcohol, or other means. Conservatives will tell you that “guns don’t kill people; people kill people” but then blame all deaths of despair on the availability of drugs through the border.

Deporting criminals and poor people from America is a humanitarian project. These people would be much less depressed if they lived in Haiti. In America, if you are dumb, you are at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. 50 years ago, you could get a union job at a factory and support a wife and kids. Now, the bar is raised cognitively, and these people are wallowing in the shame of being dalit.

White trash is the dalit of America; blacks are the cows that wander through the streets; Hispanics are the shudra who do the labor. Don’t shoot the messenger — I’m a renegade Brahmin, calling this caste system for what it is, trying to calm down the Kshatriya.

If these dalit were deported to Haiti, they wouldn’t be trapped in this caste system, but could form their own society where they would have a chance at achieving social worth. I’ve been to Slab City, and all the people there are poor, but no one is homeless. They all have their own place. They belong. Maybe it’s better to be the king of the slums than to be a slave in the city.

I’m in favor of mass deportations of white and black citizens, but not illegal Hispanics.

Source: endhomelessness.org/resource/racial-inequalities-homelessness-numbers/

Cleaning up the streets would do a lot to improve trust in institutions. I understand how aggravating it can be to be stuck on a subway with a schizophrenic Jordan Neely screaming at people. I would consider this issue to be more important than the black riots, since it is a daily, draining experience.

conclusion.

I like feminism, vaccines, Ukraine, leftism, and deep leftism, rather than centrism. But I believe that leftism can make more steady progress under a functional system than under one riddled by riots, distrust, and censorship. I believe that some degree of “boiling the frog” and placating the right-wing is necessary to mitigate the risk of violent revolts and terrorism. January 6th showed that a populist could take over the government if he had the support of the military, and was a bit younger and willing to take the risk of death. Trump was old and not willing to take that risk.

If a Caesar does take over, the left will be forced underground, as during the time of Francoist Spain. It is possible to survive, but the demands of the right-wing for free speech, clean streets, and non-burnt cities seem reasonable enough. I also like those things, so it’s an easy compromise to make.

1. It failed, but what if it was twice as popular? Initially, there were 12 Senators who joined in with the coup attempt; later, when failure became evident, this whittled down to 6. But what if there were instead 24 senators? Or 48? There comes a point at which popular resentment against the government becomes a real problem.