SurrealPolitiks S01E032 - Narrow Nationalism

I recently had occasion to view a speech given by an Australian gentleman by the name of Joel Davis, which he gave at a meeting of the Patriotic Alternative in the UK.

You can find the speech in full on their website, and I encourage the listener to give it their consideration so that I cannot be accused of taking the man out of context, because I found the talk more than a little bit disagreeable, and mean here to use it as an example to describe a broader pathology plaguing what has been called the "Dissident Right".

Mr. Davis is hardly alone in his view that race is the central question of our politics. To whatever extent this may be in error, you could easily forgive a man for making it, given the hysteria surrounding the subject in our discourse these days. Mr. Davis, however, is altogether less forgiving of those who disagree with his view, describing, for example, Germans who do not vote for AfD as "politically retarded", along with the rest of the "broad masses", without much effort to understand or articulate their motives.

Met with this realization that the political parties he supports do not win elections, Mr. Davis seeks different and altogether less precise measurements of success. His talk was titled "Activist Politics and White Advocacy" and "The Amazing Joel Davis" as he was described, was introduced as "an identitarian commentator and activist with a focus on white advocacy and political strategy". As he begins to speak himself, he states that he is to share his thoughts on the subject of "political strategy" that have evolved for him over the last few years.

But if Mr. Davis has a focus on political strategy, it was not presented here. Mr. Davis would go on to make no subtle suggestion that electoral politics was a futile endeavor, though he was careful to state that it is "not bad". Specifically stating that "unless we can raise billions of dollars" White advocates cannot compete in this realm. He describes "activism" as a different category of action, the purpose of which is to "change what's popular", whereas "electoralism", as he calls it, makes use of what already is popular.

The flaws in this are many. Some quite subtle, some quite glaring. None at all rare. The talk has value in his articulating these flaw ideas in a manner more befitting a response than much of the less articulate hurling of insults and subterfuge common to this phenomenon.

I have much to say about this, plus your calls at 217-688-1433.

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