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There’s a meme about the upcoming election in Britain involving the simple slogan “Zero Seats.” The slogan relates to the impending wipeout of the Tory Party. It isn’t being used by British liberals, but by politically engaged people on the Right. Naturally, such a statement and goal immediately invites the counter-proposition: “Labour will be even worse.” Labour could very well be even worse than the Tory government, but the impetus to utterly ruin the Tory Party once and for all remains regardless. Similarly, given that we live under a “uni-party” system, the claim can also be made that it makes no difference which “cheek of the arse” sits in power, to quote George Galloway. A more tactical mode of thinking holds that once the Tory Party has its back broken, space will be cleared for a better alternative, or at least a change in how politics functions in Britain. Unfortunately, this strategy also has its problems because a new “firebrand” political force would simply be legislated into obedience or outlawed by the regime.
This is to say that the compulsion to see the Tory Party destroyed has crossed the bounds of political pragmatism and entered a mode of pure hatred, with an implicit understanding that the party is a mortal enemy to be annihilated regardless of the cost. It could very well be that the naysayers are proven correct, and Labour, like the Biden regime, will crank up the pain dial still further for the hapless natives. Perhaps we will all end up in a Net Zero 15-minute digital control grid with the long-awaited digital ID tracking system imposed on us. Is it possible that immigration numbers could crack two million in a single year?
In a sense, none of this matters because, for a huge swathe of people in Britain, the Tory Party has become a symbolic stand-in for everything loathsome and detestable about the country. We have all become little Ahabs, and the Tory Party has become our White Whale. Long-time followers will know that I have a particular fondness and love for the Herman Melville masterpiece, and this is not the first time I’ve alluded to Moby Dick, which I regard as a quintessentially Faustian work.
Ahab’s hatred for the whale is boundless and infinite. It is also irrational and all-consuming. Yet, it remains true that Captain Ahab has a legitimate grievance against Moby Dick, who chewed off his leg and, symbolically at least, unmanned him, too. Here the rational faculties of man assert themselves; at the end of the day, Moby Dick is merely an animal — an immense and powerful animal, to be sure, but not cognizant of malice or sinister devilry. The Tory Party absolutely does have agency and is adept at sinister devilry. However, the yin-yang two-party system scares us with what is to come rather than the wrongs inflicted upon us already. In this regard, to wave away the potential for negative consequences in the future in order to enact vengeance for what has transpired in the past breaks the logic inherent within the system.
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We can try to disguise it as a grand strategy, but truth be told, it is for “hate’s sake.” Or rather, the potential destruction of the Tory Party is not so much a political stratagem as a pursuit of catharsis. In the same way, Ahab views the killing of Moby Dick in spiritual and metaphysical terms rather than the giant haul of oil and blubber he’d acquire by it, or the plaudits he’d receive for such an act of heroism and derring-do.
The perfectly justified hatred of the Tory Party and the widespread recognition of that hatred has transformed the Party itself into a potential vehicle for a cathartic moment of peace and justice served, even if the consequences are ruinous. True justice would require a court of law and capital punishment, but for the lies, treachery, destruction of the nation, and demographic oblivion inflicted upon the British people, no catharsis has even been possible. Outrages linger and fester in our collective psyche like tumours, gnawing and tormenting us incessantly, day and night.
It is unhealthy to live like this. We seek release and closure, even if in a purely symbolic and performative way. Catharsis must be signalled in some form, and the Tory Party will be rightly earmarked for the role. The anger, disillusionment, betrayal, and horror at the trajectory of the nation will be heaped upon them in a ritualistic sense.
None of this is rational and it will all seem incomprehensible to spreadsheet bureaucrats and policy drafters busy crafting the next red-meat narrative to bamboozle the rubes once more. The Zero Seats slogan represents a pure negation of the paradigm; it is fatalistic and an expression of hopelessness — blasphemy against the mores of liberal democracy. It is to say, in essence, “I choose to be ruled by my enemies rather than you!”
It is to grimly express:
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!
It was Ahab’s fate to be forever bound to the source of his madness and torment. I propose we cut ourselves loose from it once and for all.
Reprinted from the Morgoth’s Review Substack by permission of the author.
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“True justice would require a court of law and capital punishment…”
Oh, I don’t know about that. I’d like to think that 100 strapping young lads, if any still exist in England with sufficient patriotic fervor, could do the job. They could even use the Official Table of Drops, and I dare say that if it’s somehow short of “true” justice, it could only be better at striking fear into the hostile elite, rekindling English confidence, and providing that catharsis you wrote about…
“Zero Seats” for the GOP in the US? I feel an irrational and fatalistic glee at the prospect.
Yeah, but if we had the ability to organize such a thing, we’d have the ability to take back our country.
I’ve read some very smart and some very dumb comments here and elsewhere, but this is the dumbest. I warned idiots in 2020 about what would happen if Trump lost. I confess I was too optimistic: the Biden junta has been far worse than I even predicted.
Zero Seats is yet another expression of juvenility, sloth, and ultimately cowardice. It is the mark of those unwilling to get in the trenches and do the hard work of winning a nation (which could include what I advocate: recognizing that the ideological divides across the West are really implacable and unbridgeable genetic ones, and that “winning a nation” really entails persuading people of the necessity of ideo-geographic separation).
The GOP is the only hope for the survival of anything American. What real white nationalists are doing is infiltrating the Trump movement, winning the confidence of its members, and working to shift it towards immigration cessation and race realism.
Only morons chop their noses to spite their faces.
Your Lordship, I am honored.
My sentiment was not informed by any feelings for Trump, but rather a half century of betrayal on immigration and border control.
I have no love of Trump (as several of my friends have). He was a huge disappointment. His narcissism is boring, and, generally, he was incompetent in his White House years, both as head of the Executive branch, and in terms of getting his preferred policies legislated. Those who think Trump will save our race, or even much of the Old American Nation, are fools.
I’m guardedly hopeful – perhaps a sign of my own propensity to folly – that a potential Trump 2.0 will, however, be more productive for our cause than the first go-around, if only because of the border collapse and its now being widely seen as Trump’s signature issue, such that even he must know that he will be forever mocked should he again win the Presidency and AGAIN fail to secure it. I really believe that we’ll get permanent border security legislation if Trump wins and the GOP gains control of all of Congress. We may also get more assaults on DEI regimes, and perhaps some necessary depoliticizing of the Justice system, which would work more to our advantage than our enemies’.
But the main reason to vote GOP is because they are not Democrats, a party which has been implicitly antiwhite since the 60s, but is now overtly and aggressively so. I am as disgusted by the Stupid Party’s betrayal wrt immigration (and much else) as you are. But there are ZERO decent Democrats in national office today.
I don’t want “accelerationism”, and I agree with past posts by Greg Johnson that there are no guarantees that accelerated decline would work in our favor. For accelerationism to work there must exist a large (some tens of millions in a country with one third of a billion population), organized, and very ‘hardcore’ prowhite movement which, in a System collapse scenario, could quickly move to assert control over many institutions and sizable swaths of the country. The notion that such a body will spontaneously form after System collapse may not be wholly fantastical, but there is nothing that I can see to suggest its likelihood. Today’s whites are not the self-reliant types of our pioneer forebears. They have been acculturated into proletarian passivity and consumer docility (and this apart from the “surveillance regime” of 24/7 pervasive brainwashing, and its warping effects on modal white morality, especially the “ethics of race”).
Metapolitical awakening work requires time, and that’s what GOP political victories mostly buy us.
I appreciate your thoughtful reply. My post that provoked you was just me emoting.
I go back and forth about accelerationism. As you note, “worse is better” often just means worse. On the other hand, we don’t have unlimited time to turn things around. We may reach a point where charging the machine gun turrets is more rational than continuing to wait. I hope not.
Weren’t you Brits saying the same thing about Labour a few years ago? Tweedle-dee, tweddle-dumb
Yeah, I don’t trust Reform UK and Richard Tice to be any better than the Tories in the long run. All the promises Tice is making now, especially around immigration, sound great but they’ll be abandoned as soon as he grasped power.
They’ve already shown they are no better than the Tories. Reform dropped one of their candidates hours after Hope Not Hate released one of their smears about him. All the left has to do is start complaining and they’ll run off in fear.
Great to see Morgoth here! I really liked the leftist archetype series, naming those types and describing how they work. Any chance we’ll see more one of these days?
Vote for Galloway’s Party.
This reminds me of how the Weimar-era German Communists directed their greatest ire, malice, and efforts toward the Social Democratic Party, not the Nazis or monarchist conservatives. Didn’t work out well.
There isn’t a way out for Britain this way by the looks of it. Years ago around the Blair era they were saying exactly the same thing about the Tory party for different reasons. The effect that had was to give Blair and his Jewish handlers a completely free hand to do what they wanted.
I don’t think there’s great meaning in poetically analyzing this in the moment. It’s better to look at this stuff as purely cyclical, that you are looking at political cycles, small shifts of the ass on the seat to a different butt cheek yes, but down the line it will be the same for the labor party.
These political parties will do as much damage as they can in power, make everyone disgusted and then get voted out.
Elections are mostly a waste of time. At best you can trigger the left and send a message like with Trump.
But that was then, now people are getting excited about another round of Trump. I think that’s a mistake. Trump, even at his best couldn’t do anything anyway as he was completely boxed in. But now with everything that’s happened he should be treated as damaged goods and potentially very compromised and possibly has been fully absorbed into the swamp, which will use him as they please.
Trump was always a swamp creature, he just fooled a lot of white people into voting for him in 2016 and then in 2020. And he’s probably an even more ardent Zionist than Biden. The system itself is to blame.
White people themselves are to blame. We are a race of pathological f0ols, the price for such continuous folly being extinction. That’s the whole story. If a people must be convinced to survive – if too many of its members feel they must abstractly justify their own collective survival – then they’re already effectively dead.
The almost-obliteration of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the 1993 election was quite the spectacle. The PCPC fractured regionally and received only two seats out of I believe 295. The Bloc Quebecois formed the official opposition while the western-based Reform Party of Canada was third party – down only one seat from the BQ.
The separatist referendum of Quebec occurred in 1995, and lost by a few tens of thousands of votes.
It was far more entertaining than the previous government cycle. Not least of that sight to see was the horror expressed by the entrenched elite, moaning that forces of fear and division were at work.
The wheels stayed on the cart, that time.
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