It is a common theme in internet memes to contrast the degenerate world of postmodernity with what the young men on the Normandy beaches believed they were giving their lives for. From the end of ethnic homogeneity to sexual degeneracy, the "values" of the contemporary West seem in stark contrast to the shared values of the Christian West of the thirties and forties. Many believed they were dying for Christian civilisation. We have ended up emerging from the two world wars and the Cold War with a society far removed, whose shibboleth might be "sodomy and usury", whose symbol is the six-coloured flag of the LGBT movement and whose geopolitical and domestic political power is exercised through debt. A far contrast from Christendom where both charging interest and homosexuality were forbidden.
The victory in the Second World War was achieved by the joint forces of liberal democracy and Stalinist Socialism. The Cold War sorted out whether the future lay in Stalinist Socialism or Liberal Democracy. The liberal democratic forces won bringing in a new world order of globalism expressed through social and economic liberalism.
National Socialism, with its pagan and occult leanings, its fetishisation of power and its brutal suppression and mass murder of those considered degenerate was not a continuation of Christian civilisation. But neither was the Weimar Republic it overthrew. There has been some comment recently about the fact that the first books the Nazis burnt were promoting transgenderism. Weimar was not a Christian state, it was a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. The Nazis provided a pagan answer, mixed up with Darwinian science, to attack the indisputable degeneracy of Weimar. That solution comes not from Christian inheritance; by contrast, based on power and violence it is another contradiction. As Jewish convert to Catholicism Max Picard pointed out, Nazism was an avant garde and profoundly modern and post-Enlightenment phenomenon. It does not follow either that liberalism is the alternative answer that should be chosen, or communism for that matter.
The victors of the Cold War were the liberals, who provided bureaucratic human rights, but killed the soul of Man. Even Soviet atheism was unable to kill the soul in the way consumer capitalism and human rights have killed the soul of Man.
While it was the liberals who won the conflicts, hot and frozen, of the Twentieth Century, this was not simply an organic process. Geopolitically the use of colour revolutions and NGOs as a tool of Western foreign policy worked to undermine the Soviet Empire. No ally was unacceptable. In the Cold War we saw the development of an unholy alliance between the capitalist and secular West and Islamic extremism, beginning in Afghanistan, much as Israel uses Islamists as an asset against Arab regimes in the Middle East.
Domestically it was also important to turn the West from a conservative and traditional Christian culture into a liberal, amoral and culturally permissive place. This actually involved the Central Intelligence Agency in promoting a cultural revolution in the sixties, including the promotion of modern art figures such as Jackson Pollock, to contrast with the more conservative genre of Soviet Realism in art.
Combined with this promotion of popular culture, psychological theories were put into practice through therapy and mainstream education. Ideas of sexual suppression leading to Fascism as argued by Adorno in his "Authoritarian Personality" gave a political reason to stop teaching virtues and instead to create a permissive society that made people slaves to their sexual passions as much as they were slaves to avarice and greed through the economic system. Freud's earlier work also provided a framework for this. Meanwhile the theories of Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl were ignored.
In politics the political class also ensured the permissiveness society was promoted through changes to the law on divorce, homosexuality and abortion. It is no surprise we have now reached a place where we are even confused about gender. But confusion, lack of order and permissiveness were always the goal.
A veneer of propaganda that the West was still Christian in opposition to atheist Soviet Republics was also sustained to keep malleable and slow-witted conservatives on side. Now many conservatives are worried about globalism, the WEF, no borders, the Great Reset - but this was always the goal. The post-war West was run by an establishment that found its ideology in the liberal philosophers of the Open Society. And as Karl Popper pointed out, the open society has enemies. He singled out Plato and Platonic thinking for attack. He was hostile to any idea of transcendent values, but in something of a contradiction the tolerance and open-mindedness of liberalism should be enforced, not tolerating the "platonic" mindset. This is where cancel culture stems from - certain ideas must be eliminated for the survival of the open society. Popper's close student George Soros, uses the idea of enemies for undermining democracy, from Brexit to the Ukraine.
The problem is that liberals, whose ideology really developed in the Anglo Saxon countries such as Great Britain and the United States, have fooled conservatives in such countries to believe that liberalism is conservatism. Whether it be laissez faire capitalism at home or support for Zionism abroad, conservatives have been fooled and are the useful idiots of globalist liberalism.
There was an alternative to liberalism in Britain. From Disraeli to Chesterton there was a case made for an organic conservatism that held the country together. One Nation conservatism is a much debased term that now means "remainer" Conservative MPs who are usually socially liberal. Rather like the word conservative, one nation once meant what it sounds like. It meant holding the nation together through the values of shared heritage, land and ethnicity. We are one nation, not to be divided by the class warriors of socialism or the atomising individualists of liberalism.
What today passes for a "right-wing" British conservative whether on the Right of the Conservative Party or a supporter of Reform will usually be an ardent supporter of liberal economics, a close alliance with the States and with Israel. Contrary to the implications of liberal economics British conservatives do tend to oppose mass immigration and do oppose the woke culture that emanates from the USA they so love. These contradictions are overlooked, because the British Right remains a useful tool for the liberals.
In the States where the evils are spreading from there is a resistance that is much more aware than the likes of GB News. From Tucker Carlson to Candace Owens there are genuine conservative voices appearing in a country predicated on liberal secularism. This is enabling some American conservatives to break free from the post-war paradigm that defines politics in the West and defines it favourably to the liberal agenda.
There is a genuine voice of opposition emerging. It places emphasis on conservative social values, upon Christian faith and upon protecting our own people from the ravages of global capitalism. In global politics it questions the support for Zionism and support for the Ukraine. It has noticed the re-emergence of the Church in Russia and that our supposed allies of Israel and Ukraine persecute Christians. A Trump victory will not only save us from escalation to a third world war, but will give space to genuine conservative voices to reassess our knee-jerk Cold War attitudes on Israel and the Russia-Ukraine question.
There is also a healthy scepticism these new conservatives have towards the Western establishment. They are sniffing out the vested interests from Blackrock to AIPAC. They are ready to ask questions that baby-boomer conservatives never did. They recognise that while patriotism is a virtue, it can be used by scoundrels to further nefarious agendas, such as global liberalism.
There seems to be a realisation from a generation less overshadowed by the Second World War and even the Cold War, that the shibboleths and stereotypes our parents fell for were really about pushing a liberal and globalist agenda. There is not a binary choice between Left and Right. There is another perspective, from voices of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, voices excluded from academia and political debate. These voices put a Christian perspective forward that transcended liberalism, Communism, and Fascism. There are signs that finally the Overton Window will be expanded. Whether Donald Trump himself understands this movement, there are signs he does so intuitively if not intellectually, his victory will open up the space for new perspectives that can break free of the post- World-War, post- Cold-War perspectives that limit our vision from seeing the truth.
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