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Last week, we sent out an invitation to everyone on our mailing list to take our movement poll. We are sending out a reminder e-mail today.
Please check your inbox or spam folder and fill out the poll today!
The purpose of this poll is to get a clear picture of our readers. This will help the movement to do two things:
- Better mobilize the people we already have.
- Craft better outreach to bring in more like-minded people.
Wouldn’t it be nice if our movement could conduct strategic planning based on facts, not anecdotes and intuitions? Wouldn’t it be nice for the most important cause in the universe to take itself as seriously as the people doing market research to sell bottled water?
- Everyone who takes the poll will be entered to win a prize of $500.
- Your answers are anonymous.
- There are 114 questions.
- The poll will take less than an hour of your time.
- The poll ends on April 30th.
- The greater the number of people taking the poll, the better the data.
Here are some reactions from people who have already taken it:
- It’s not nearly as time-consuming of a poll as you may think it is. The estimated completion time is one hour, but it really only took me about 20 minutes.
- In days of yore the men on the losing side would pick up their swords and rush the victors to die a glorious death. I much prefer Greg’s idea of taking a poll. Much less messy. Besides, it’s time we used the enemy’s tactics against them. Today the New Right is flying blind, and yet the successful Left has shown us the way on how to rise to office in everything from academia to politics and beyond.
- I hope everyone who gets the chance to take this poll does so. It will provide our movement with absolutely invaluable information. It reduces the question of where to best direct our recruiting efforts to a science. Finally we’ll have statistically-supported answers to the fundamental questions we’ve been asking for years: What is it that makes some people more likely to become White Nationalists than others? What areas of America have the highest concentrations of White Nationalists and potential White Nationalists? How can we best convert new people? Etc. Think of taking this poll as a duty to our race. It will be an extremely valuable contribution at the cost of less than an hour of your time.
- This survey has a lot of poignant questions. Many of the questions regarding what the movement should be doing, what it should be doing better, and what it should avoid doing, are absolutely necessary.
- This is a very in-depth poll, including three personality tests, which was very helpful to me personally. Finding that I have only average levels of narcissism and Machiavellianism, I will be abandoning my goal of becoming a cartoon supervillain and pursuing a different career path.
- This poll is a quick, easy, and free way that you can help support the movement today. I encourage everyone to set aside a little time and take it as soon as you can. You might even win some money if you’re lucky.
- Take this step while you still can!
- I found the poll well-structured and surprisingly in-depth. Definitely helped me to conceptualize my own political journey more clearly as well.
- This is a well-constructed poll with interesting questions covering a wide range of issues ranging from personal and family background to the personality type and political development of respondents. The results should provide considerable insight into the character of the movement, its strengths and weaknesses.
- I’m so glad I took the poll! It was fun and there is much to be learned — by all parties.
So . . . take our poll today.
- Check your e-mail or spam folder for the invitation.
- Or, if you are not on our mailing list, join it today:
Thank you,
Greg Johnson
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It certainly was fun to take the poll, and it really doesn’t take as long as you might think.
There are a couple of points I’d like to make – they are not meant as criticism, just as something to consider for maybe the next poll. One, the poll is very America-centric. Again, that’s not a criticism, but for us non-Americans out there, it means quite a number of “not applicable”s. Second, it would have been nice to have a comment option at the end. I realize that’s more time-consuming to analyze, but there were questions in the poll that, for me, didn’t come with a clear-cut answer. My way into the movement? There never was one key moment, it happened gradually over many years. In some ways, it even started in my childhood.
But anyway, thank you very much for the work you put into the poll! I’m looking forward to the results.
My way into the movement? There never was one key moment, it happened gradually over many years. In some ways, it even started in my childhood.
I’d love to hear about the supposed “key moment” of those persons who did experience such a thing. I suspect that in reality such eruption was preceded by something simmering quietly underneath, for years, which we may not even realize was there.
Re: key moments, I heard Jared Taylor debate a rapper with Gavin McGinness as moderator. I had never before heard the ideas that Taylor articulated, and while they made gut-sense to me, subconsciously I tried to resist them for years. But they stayed with me, and then my new job in a predominantly woke Mexican community sealed the deal for my race realism.
But the subsequent major key moment was discovering Tanstaafl, whose Age of Treason podcasts on the JQ completely shocked my life into social ruin. Once I finished absorbing all of his content I realized it was going to be very hard to find like-minded people in my remaining years.
Thank god for Counter-Currents!
Listening to Tanstaafl for the first time years ago was a nearly indescribable experience. I was in deep sleep, and someone had just poured a bucket of ice water on me.
Thanks for your kind words. Yes there are some America-centric questions. We can change some of those when we begin to poll other countries.
I have yet to receive the email containing the poll
Send Greg an email… [email protected]
I tried to find a way to try to find an alternative to race realism (I knew the media and public school propaganda was lying even in the mid 80s) when I just got out of high school. I went on an overseas Christian mission. I was shocked that what the missionaries had built in the 1950s was still the centrepiece of the building infrastructure and that the current missionaries still had to fill key roles. The locals simply did not have the ability to build complex buildings or institutions. I did find the people of faith there were a subset different (better socially, more Christian values – some would say western – abiding) than the general population.
My suspicions were unwelcome but confirmed the stereotypes. Kind of depressing when I wanted what I had been taught so long to be reality, somewhere, somehow, at least in the Church.
I underwent a rapid conversion around 2014/2016 in terms of how I identified politically. But much of my reading going back to the early 90s had already prepared me, i.e., I finally put 2 + 2 together.
I also can’t recall my precise “gateway” into these quarters. I think maybe Red Ice while cruising YouTube videos. Red Ice used to interview lots of interesting authors, researchers, political figures, including perhaps Greg Johnson?
I too did a lot of reading and data gathering, but it took a while for it to gel into my present worldview. This is something to do polling and focus group research on.
The best theory of what is happening is actually in William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience where he describes “conversion” experiences.
James cites first-person accounts of religious conversions that make it clear that beliefs did not actually change. Instead, priorities changed, so that the religious belief system became the new organizing center of life.
We need to get more insight into that moment — what resists it and what triggers it — if we want to convert more people. I took a stab at one relevant factor in my essay on “Moral Seriousness.” https://counter-currents.com/2018/12/moral-seriousness-2/
But there are other factors at work.
That’s exactly what happened with me. That’s basically what I was describing below. WN went from being something inchoate and secondary to something I thought about on a daily basis.
Dear Greg Johnson, I’ve received (and read) your e-mail and will fill in the Counter-Currents Movement poll when I get some time. But it will be done before April 30th. Yours sincerely, Le Fauconnier
Thank you
I did the poll. It was fun.On the intellectual related subjects, I thought I might convey some information. Standardized test scores have changed over the years. For example, the post recentering SAT (1995) lost psychometric validity for iq estimation, as did the act post 1989. Basically they compressed away the scores between 1400 and 1600, as almost no blacks were in that interval. Faron’s Affirmative Action Hoax has a good discussion of these issues. My point is scores may vary based on generational factors. It may not matter much for you guys’ purposes, depending on what resolution you are looking for in your data. Just fyi for David if that sort of knowledge may be useful in his endeavors. This is the sort of stuff you get from reading Steve sailer.
I left that poll unanswered as I cannot recall any of my test scores, and I expect most people wouldn’t.
People who are competitive do, or at least the rough bracket. People in my caste usually do… I don’t mean that to sound arrogant, but just people who are sort of nerdy. Look, and I misspelled poll like a tard.
I remembered my standardized test scores for entrance to higher education institutions, but I don’t think I’ve taken what would be considered an IQ test since high school at the latest, and I just don’t remember those scores (assuming we were ever told what they were).
Clearly you’re a Boston Brahmin. As for me, my test scores sadly always exceeded future performance; therefore not worth remembering.
I only said this because it may be useful to know about in your work as people taking sociological data. That the tests and benchmarks have changed over the years. Even if it’s beyond the resolution you may be seeking, it’s still good to know in case.
Poll is done.
Did I imagine an AMA podcast today? It’s not on the platforms mentioned and now there’s no mention of it on the site.
I had a technical problem. We will be back next week with an interview with Judd Blevins.
Hi Greg, I’ve just signed up with my email address to get the poll.
Before I fill it in, I thought I’d share a thought here.
In my experience with redpilling people this chart (linked below) seems to hold true, most of the time.
https://twitter.com/svg_floris/status/1743959427919605980
“Hard Fact: There are 5 personality types that make up only 10% of the population, but 90% of all the scientists, business people and political leaders who ever had an impact on the world. If u score NT on the Myers Briggs, you’re a main character, otherwise you’re an NPC.”
In particular I have found INTJ’s and ENTJs to be the more common among my redpilled friends.
Perhaps there is something to this? Perhaps it is totally irrelevant.
I have noticed a very large number of INTJs in the movement, myself included. These are “architect” types.
So yes, we are asking people for their Myers-Briggs types, as well as their OCEAN and Dark Triad test results.
I’m bad about checking my personal email accounts, so I wasn’t aware of this poll until today. Poll completed. Like the above commenters, my journey to the WN movement was much more tortoise than hare. I’d say my views evolved from standard libertarian sperg in the 90s to more paleocon in the 2000s and then to full on race realism in the 2010s. I guess I knew I was “all in” when I started not wanting to miss a single episode of TDS during the 2016 Trump campaign. I’ve grown to hate Trump since then but boy, there were a few months there…
I would say, I always thought what I thought. I always thought these things in my mind at some level, but once I started reading dissident right websites like these, it clicked with me just how right I was, and how much deeper it went than I thought. And how much further back in time. I always assumed all this was a relatively recent phenomenon. It hardened and confirmed opinions I already had.
Are the full results ever going to be released?
Good question. Knowledge is power, so we have to ask: Would doing this polling give our movement any advantages over the ADL and the SPLC if we share such information with them? The answer is clearly no.
But we will share the results with people we trust who run organizations, platforms, and activist groups, because these are the people who might be able build upon the poll to improve the existing movement and bring new people on board.
Not telling you what to do with your poll results, but the entire contents of counter-currents + other prowhite sites have been giving those people who despise us all they need to know and then some, since Day One. No need for them to hire operatives, we have been handing them much juicy gen on a platter.
Not really.
After completing the survey, I find that I am an ENTJ “Commander.”
[A] staggering 96% of Commanders (ENTJs) say their dream job involves having freedom to decide what they do and how they do it. That’s the highest percentage of any personality type.
Also, 96% believe they have what it takes to be a good leader.
Can’t argue with that. I feel for the 4% of ENTJs who don’t believe they have what it takes to command.
After joining the Army as an 18-yearold while still in high school I entered service as a lowly Private E-1. Three years later, after two tours in Vietnam as a Green Beret Infantry officer combatant, I had been promoted to Captain. So, at barely 22 I had already been a commander in real life. Four years of that military adventure was enough for me.
I had no intention while in high school of attending college so never took the SAT test until I went in early on a Saturday morning to a Killeen, Texas, high school near Fort Hood, Texas, my last duty station — very hung over — to finally take the SAT test. I never took it again though I could probably have improved my mediocre score of 1052, barely above the median of 1030.
I entered that score in the survey rather than fudge, but also put my score of 129 on the only IQ test I ever took: allegedly “gifted,” with 130 being “highly gifted.” The Dean of the Architecture School at NCSU in my hometown of Raleigh allowed me in that prestigious school as a 23-year-old freshman despite my shitty SAT score and shittier high school grades because of what he called my “life experience.”
I already knew I was gifted, but at what I’d have to discover later. I did all right as a self-employed architect/builder/developer for a few years, before becoming fully racially responsible, dropping out of the work force, becoming an artist, and paying my dues as a dedicated political soldier, deciding for myself what I would do and how I was going to do it.
Looking back, I’m proud to say that the only employers I’ve had since the early 1980s were none other than mentors Ben Klassen and William Pierce, both of whom had, independently, founded much needed new non-Semitic belief systems, or religions, if you will, for Whites: Creativity and Cosmotheism respectively.
Great comment. Thanks for doing the survey.
I started reading your book, and based on your writing, I would say your iq must be quite high.
DarkPlato: April 22, 2024 I started reading your book, and based on your writing, I would say your iq must be quite high.
Higher than average, but there are plenty of better writers than I. However, few are better fighters when the cause is right.
My book was the result of a promise I’d made to the WV Supreme Court justices that if they didn’t finally look at the facts and the law and provide me with legal relief by reversing the lower courts’ guilty verdict on with my pro se appeal, I would publish my side of the five-year ordeal with the WV justice system.
They did not — maybe they thought I was buffing — so Pocahontas Show Trial resulted. They had been warned that they should not abuse a determined appellant who is a publisher of books and, as they say, “buys ink by the gallon.”
I took the poll and based on the questions, I’m sure it will yield insightful analysis. I look forward to seeing the results when you publish them.
The poll did ask about family and if the respondent is married or not. But I wish the poll delved into the spouses of the respondents more than it did. I’m sure the spouses can have a big impact on the political journey of the respondents and the activism and/or risk they’re willing to engage in as well as other things. I’d be curious to know how politically aligned your respondents and their spouses are, and if they arrived at their current belief systems together, or independently And how they influenced each other. And if husbands influenced wives more, or vice versa? More broadly, it would be helpful to understand how marriage and having children impact men and women’s political views.
I thoroughly enjoyed taking the survey and was especially interested in the various personality tests; two of which, I’d never heard of before. Would it be possible to get the links for those tests from the survey? I clear my browsing history every time I close a tab, and there is so much garbage on-line that I’m hesitant to do a basic search.
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