Introduction

An impression I get while browsing certain crimethink parts of the Internet is that right-wing orientated people have a very romanticized view of Eastern Europe. Examples of that would be certain writings on serious websites such as Social Matter or somewhat more entertaining ramblings of much more popular Roosh or RamZPaul. The general view I encounter among many like-minded people from the West could be roughly summed this way:

The West is so completely and thoroughly corrupted by the progressive ideology – feminism, atheism, hedonism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, consumerism etc. – that Eastern Europe presents an overall healthier environment for conservative and traditionalist types. Even though it’s obvious that Eastern Europe is poorer, more corrupt and in some aspects more violent, the pros outweigh the cons – a respectable man will find it much easier to find a job, marry and raise kids in a traditional way. The level of pozz in the West is already so high that there’s no doubt how Eastern Europe, with all it’s faults, presents a paragon of masculinity, traditionalism and virtue.

While I have utmost sympathy for people who are trying to live a normal life while being aggressively attacked from the progressive establishment, it would be far from useful to feed their illusions and propagate these ideas, which I believe to be myths. We, as humans, need mythology, and can’t live without heroes, saints, demons and gods, however this particular myth is far from beneficial. I do not intend to prove that life in Eastern Europe is better or worse than in the West: quality of life is, after passing a certain threshold of safety and comfort a subjective thing. (Although in my humble experience revealed preferences show that most of highly intelligent responsible adults with traditionalist views who have tried life in Croatia/Serbia/Bosnia and in the West tend to stay in the West.) The ideas I’d like to push in this post are the following:

Eastern Europe is already far more ruled by progressives (Blue Empire, Cathedral, Polygon, George Soros…) than most on the Right are willing to admit; The Left holds a monopoly on respectable intellectual positions partially because of the miserable state of the Right;

Although both of these thesis would require several posts (or even entire books) in order to explain things in a detailed manner, due to lack of time (read – laziness) I plan to concentrate more only on the second point – because I find it’s terribly misunderstood among the right crowd in the West. In order to get a better understanding of why and how progressivism spreads so successfully we need a more realistic view of the Right from the Right, as bitter as it is. In other words – just because leftists say something, that doesn’t make it necessarily untrue.

Eastern Europe is already far more ruled by progressives than most are willing to admit

The Internet is full of memes of weak and hunched Obama sitting next to a bear riding Putin, pictures of blue haired feminist land whales contrasted to some hotties from Ukraine or videos of tens of thousands of people protesting against Islamisation in Poland compared to slut pride parades from Toronto. It’s all great fun, but so is whiskey – and intoxication with both leads to some very wrong observations about the world.

A country I’ll take as an example i the one I can speak of with some inside knowledge – Croatia. Nominally, Croatia is a Catholic country (more than 86% in 2011) and Croats are very nationalistic, but Moldbuggian analysis of the real state gives us a much different picture. Let me pop up a couple of examples:

Who is the current Croatian president? Kolinda Grabar Kitarović, who enjoys a wide support from the Catholic Church and the nationalist right as a “right wing conservative candidate”:

Grabar-Kitarović […] is one of three Croatian members of the Trilateral Commission. […] As a high school student, she entered a [U.S.] student exchange program and at age 17 she moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, subsequently graduating from Los Alamos High School in 1986. […] From 1995 to 1996, she attended the Diploma Course at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. […] In 2002–03 she attended George Washington University as a Fulbright scholar. […] She also received a Luksic Fellowship for the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

And even funnier – the first official visit she made was to none other than the Clinton foundation, where Hillary greeted her with open arms and gave a speech about how important it is to empower girls to join the military. You go grrrrrrrrrrl!

What does the Catholic Church in Croatia have to say about progressivism? Well, it seems that they do not mind so much hanging around with the likes of Chicago cardinal Cupich who tends to say things like:

Racism is our country’s original sin, a wound that forever requires tending. There can be no equivocating.

or

In any election people have many reasons to support one candidate or to oppose another. Some of these reasons may be wise and good, some not so good, and others simply wrong. The promotion neither of abortion nor racism can ever be a motivation for one’s vote. Voting for a candidate solely because of that candidate’s support for abortion or against him or her solely on the basis of his or her race is to promote an intrinsic evil. To do so consciously is indeed sinful. That is behavior incompatible with being a Christian. To allow racism to reign in our hearts and to determine our choice in this solemn moment for our nation is to cooperate with one of the great evils that has afflicted our society. In the words of Brothers and Sisters to Us, “It mocks the words of Jesus, ‘Treat others the way you would have them treat you.

Abortion may be nasty business and it’s kind of a sin, but boy if you don’t vote for our man you’re going straight to Hell!

So a guy like Cupich was invited to lead one of the most known ceremonies. Surely there’s the other side of the coin – let’s see how do they treat someone slightly more reactionary, such as cardinal Burke? Ignored by the bishops and most of the clergy and practically banned from offering Holy Mass in the Traditional Rite.

(ETA: Marcusmontisursinensis just pointed to me that cardinals Sarah and Pell, well known for their hard stances on the favorite progressive issues, were quite welcomed from the Zagreb archdiocese. That should certainly be taken into account, but I still believe the overall climate to push in the direction of therapeutic deism.)

What is the most hip festival iz Zagreb? The Subversive festival, where the young and the old can go listen to the prophets of the modern age. Theater? Any popular play must be a parade of ethnomasochist holiness signaling – the latest example I’ve seen was a scene of a boy being raped by his football coach, while wearing a football shirt of the national team and a golden cross around his neck – and no one from the hip crowd minds it one bit.

How do Croats feel about gay marriage and LGBT rights? Nominally, they resist, but the gay pride parade in Zagreb is not only huge, but even the most fearless football hooligans were easily convinced not to give any resistance to the new wave of human rights. Everyone hip in Zagreb has a gay friend. The latest, utterly comical example of this trend was an article by a Serbian activist who moved to Croatia so he could agitate against the ban of gays donating blood. According to the way my country is imagined by some right wing people from the states, this guy should be hanging from the nearest lamppost – and there he is, being paid by the State to propagate easier HIV transmission, with absolutely no need to hide his identity or his whereabouts.

And how are the rest of the countries around doing? Guess.

These are all individual, anecdotal evidence, dealing with only one small country – you may take them seriously or not, but don’t forget the good ol’ Moldbuggian wisdom – trends among the tiny elite is what shapes the future, not the bleating of millions of sheep. Tea Party movement is nonexistent today, while the editors of NYT aren’t exactly dealing with plummeting readership.

The Left holds a monopoly on respectable intellectual positions partially because of the miserable state of the Right

We are a distant outpost of the Blue Empire, lagging in progress for a decade or two, but Cthulhu is still swimming to the left and pulling the Overton window. While the degree to which the young intelligent people in Eastern Europe are converted to progressivism is debatable, there is no doubt about the general trend.

Here on the Sceptre Mag we happily refuse to the majority of people the feeble rationalist concept of the right to an opinion. People have a right to an opinion as much as they have the right to grow carrots on any Moon crater – it’s not that we should ban it, it’s simply out of reach for the vast majority of the human population. Outside of their narrow specialization people simply find the person who holds the highest social status on certain matters and copy their positions. The same way peer pressure makes a dimwitted soccer hooligan wear Adidas instead of Nike, peer pressure makes young, intelligent and ambitious people accept whatever opinions their high-status peers hold. Today, people have opinions about gay marriage – two decades ago, there was no concept of gay marriage. Success of modern Western Progressivism is based on the the transmission of ideas to a younger generation by successfully indoctrinating a critical mass of popular people. The Establishment Left is holding all the cool positions, and the transmission is inevitable. The Alt-Right internet phenomenon and Trump’s victory convinced a large number of people that the tide has shifted to the right, Cthulhu’s tentacles were tied up a little, and there’s at least a small shift to the right. The truth is much more dreadful, and I believe that the Left is as secure in it’s position as ever.

Although the front echelons of the Cultural Marxist forces are truly pathologically disturbed individuals, the attempts of Alt-Right shitlords to paint all leftists and progressives as crazy, fat, ugly and dysfunctional are not only wrong, but much beyond that – actively harmful. A great deal of healthy, sane and functional young people today hold progressive positions (gay rights, feminism, equality, redistribution of goods) because they have replaced the traditional Christian worldview – and the majority of decent intelligent people simply want to fit in and signal that they’re healthy, sane and cooperative. A hundred years ago, they would simply attend the Holy Mass and speak of the evils of Communism – today they attend Gay Pride parades and speak of the evils of unregulated capitalism.

There’s lots of energy invested from the right wing internet shitlords to uncovering the pathology of the extreme left, but there’s very little will to investigate the pathology of the opposite side. And it’s quite natural, given the normal human tendency to see anyone with remotely similar views as an ally – however, it’s just horribly wrong. The classical catch for people who like to give investment advice is “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” My question for the shitlords is “If your enemies are truly so disturbed, stupid and ugly, and your memes and jokes so effective, why isn’t your group holding the monopoly of cool?”. While I respect them as at least defiant to the progressive madness, I cannot help but criticize their lack of will for understanding the enemy and it’s power and the weaknesses of like-minded people.

Now we arrive at the core of this post – the lack of an attractive alternative to the leftist/progressive positions. Enter – swine right.

Cuckservatives with brutish minds

As mentioned before, the example I am taking for this post is Croatia, however by no means do I think that this phenomenon is limited only to this country and I believe that many of the readers might recognize this archetype in their own surroundings.

So what kind of right wing people do these young intelligent people see? First, they see the demonized right – decent people with conservative worldviews are shown as either stupid cattle to be mocked at or evil wolves who would like to bring back the dark ages. Second, even if they see their kindness, they see them as people without power – and everyone like a strong horse. And third, they see the loudest and the most obnoxious part of the Right – the Swine Right.

To paraphrase Occam’s Razor’s definition of cuckservatives:

The rightist Swine is a nominally conservative type who is openly promoting traditional values such as God, homeland and family but in reality he’s a treacherous calculated Machiavellian type of low moral virtue, high time preference and low loyalty. The same way a leftist activist is constantly talking about the oppressed proletariat and while raising his own political power and enriching himself with other people’s money, the Swine of the Right is constantly talking about the virtue of raising a family, the depth of his faith and the love of his homeland, and at the same time using every possible opportunity to raise his political power and wealth in the most corrupt and criminal way possible, regardless of the consequence to the things he nominally holds dear. The Swine usually has very little manners, and behaves like a brute despite of his education. In short, The Swine is a swindler and a charlatan who successfully uses right wing rhetoric to expand his wealth and political power. In a way, he is either a communist apparatchik who successfully replaced the hammer and a sickle with the cross or the village brute who finds it very convenient to sit in the first row on a Sunday mass.

Let’s use a couple of examples.

During the 90s, one of the most famous members of the clergy was the late Rev. Anto Baković, founder of Croatian population movement. His main work was concentrated on raising the fertility rate of the country, the struggle for a tighter sexual morality and nationalism on a comical level. Though this may sound like a standard policy of the Catholic church, it’s very far from it – it’s not like communism tried to destroy the core of the civilization, traditional patriarchal form of the family, and we need to resurrect it – not at all! We just need a strong centralized state and a centralized policy of demographic renewal, all for the good of the State. Basically, here’s a guy straight outta leftist fantasies, a servant of any nominally right wing totalitarian regime that would give him a comfortable living for promoting the hyperproduction of cannon fodder.

Probably the most famous columnist of “the Right” of the late 90s was M. Ivkošić, a man who stated things like “scientists should not be trusted” because “they served people like Hitler and Stalin”. He was a staunch critic of known Croatian scientists who work in elite universities abroad because “the State’s got nothing from that”. You see – The Republic has no need of savants. In talk shows he would speak of EU as an occupational force that destroys the essence of our national soul, but as soon as the current president won the election and went to kowtow to Hillary Clinton, Ivkošić accused anyone who was critical to that as a “jealous loser”. His malign face is enough to put any civilized person at unease, but after he opens his mouth, no person who values civilized conduct can possibly like him.

A famous Right Winger of the last decade is a former communist who had his road to Damascus moment at quite a convenient moment in his life. Naturally, there is a lot of formal humility in his speeches now, but somehow the whole concept of being a member of the Communist party for 30 years, a member of the Social Democrat party for another 15 years and then becoming an in-your-face preacher against everything he stood for just a couple of years earlier… that never resonates with the Swine. He will push an average church going chump under the bus to make way for a prodigal son with good political connections. And he will do it in the most flamboyant way – his most famous book is called (translation mine) “My Reckoning with Communism, Globalism and Godlessness”. In Croatian, those last three words are given an acronym of KGB, so some naive folks might think that the book is about fighting against the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

And all of the mentioned are regular guests on a TV talk show from a self-proclaimed right wing star who just happens to be not only physically repulsive cocaine fueled for beta male who’s tip-toeing on his own wedding and hanging with the worst kind of mobsters. (He was filed several times for cocaine possession and then got a suspended sentence for paying a whore in cocaine. And as a sidenote – when I was a teenager and attended Holy Mass on a regular basis, a local priest use to hand us a very nationalistically oriented Catholic newspaper called Militia Immaculatae the mentioned mobster was interviewed there as an example of a hard-working-family-oriented businessman whose example young people should follow, That’s family values of the Swine for ya).

On matters of national security, the Swine will be obsessed with local trifles and augment it’s importance as matters of life and death, while at the same tome not only ignoring the larger picture but actively accusing anyone who is interested in it as a traitor. The Swine will obsess over things like small border disputes with Slovenians, signboards written in Cyrillic (Serbian) in some villages close to the Serbian border or a monument to some communist hero of WWII that yet wasn’t demolished, but will happily ignore stories like this one (translation by Google):

Basically, a high officer of the Croatian army is reporting to the employees of the most powerful open-borders-refugees-welcome-pro-choice-gay-marriage NGO in the country and ensuring them that their demands will be met. The Swine will consider this a trifle and a sign of nothing .

Just to be clear, there is nothing romantic about the Croat-Serb relationship. There will be no alliance of Catholic-Orthodox brothers showing the finger to Clinton and Merkel and standing defiantly against the progressive madness. Our two nations fought a bloody war, may thick walls separate us from one another and may their Cyrillic stay on their side of the border. However, I believe that in the larger picture we’re like some rival Gallic tribes waging bloody wars as an existential matter for both side, completely oblivious that in a few years the Roman legions would march in and obliterate our own world forever. In a couple of years, we’ll both have gay prime ministers, trans awareness days and mandatory diversity training, supervised by the soft powers of the Cathedral.

Another interesting aspect of the Swine Right is their complete and utter contempt of free market economy. The Swine is agrees with socialists that the State should overlook every conceivable kind of economic activity and actively work to either boost or downsize, according to the will of some state apparatchiks. Any decent man who wants to create business should accept high taxes and overwhelming regulations the same way he accepts rain – not only is that natural, but one should also be grateful to God that it exists. If you try to explain the long term advantages of having a friendly entrepreneurial climate and lower taxes, the Swine will happily unleash his public employ syndicate friends and drag your name through the papers as either a fool or a foreign agent.

Industry? If it can make him a good deal of money, as long as he doesn’t have to spit on the cross or sacrifice babies to Moloch in public, the Swine will happily pledge allegiance to the goddess Gea and support any kind of bat-shit-insane environmental policy and effectively stop any kind of industrial development of the country. He is always an employer of the State and the iron rice bowl will never be empty, regardless of whether there’s any industry in the country left or not.

Conclusion

Imagine some smart college kid watching all this. On one hand, he sees The World League of Whores and Sodomites, but on the other fanged IQ90 swine who would gladly conscript him and have him die in trenches for a cause such as the glory of our national being, while their cousins are making millions selling weapons to the state. Some of them are lucky enough to be raised in an intellectually healthy environment and to see a possible alternative to progressive madness. However, a lot of them are simply not. If you’re a bookish guy from the countryside and came to the capital as a talented STEM student, there’s quite a large possibility that your new college friends are much nicer and much more intelligent than your village chief, parish priest or your high school history professor.

The Left often paints a picture of the Swine as a rural brutish chief, a member of HDZ or HSP with a fake high school diploma who wants to push his son through some joke of a private college and in the local government, and arrange sweet deals for his best mate just happens to own a construction company. While that is not so far from the truth, his leftist counterpart differs only in speaking fluent English, having a liberal arts college diploma and arranging sweet deals for his friends in NGOs. One will be ripping buttons off his shirt while drinking brandy and listening to turbo-folk, while the other one will be sipping craft beers while swinging hips to Depeche Mode. As you may or may not notice from my description, the latter is much much more high status. And although the level of criminality is roughly equal, the latter type is a far smoother criminal.

Some say we should simply apply the very well known leftist policy of no enemies to the left, no friends to the right – and they couldn’t be more wrong. Switching to no enemies to the right, is a classical fallacy of trying to imitate leftists policy (entropy) in order to create right wing results (order).

After a couple of beers the other night, a thought about this occurred: the classical no enemies quote is referring to the political spectrum, however it’s much more applicable to the IQ distribution: no loyalty to the left, no enemies to the right sounds like a viable Machiavellian solution. You cannot make friends with IQ80 people, regardless of them being Stormfront or BLM, because their time preference is way too high. And you should not make enemies out of IQ140 people because they will see to it that IQ80 crowd can crush you, see you driven before them and hear the lamentation of your women. Loyalty requires both sides to cooperate.

In the wise words of Moldbug:

Furthermore, it’s very hard to imagine any successful regime change which involves killing, imprisoning, deporting or otherwise liquidating the former ruling elite. You’d certainly have to bump off a lot more Young Pioneers if you want to eradicate Norwegian communism this way. I will certainly concede that it is theoretically possible to conduct regime change via aristocide, if you’re going to be really thorough about the matter. But think of the impact on the gene pool. Does Norway really need a Pol Pot? Rather, if you’re going to change Norway into something new, you need the present ruling class of Norway to join and follow you. Or at least, you’ll need their children. Rape is beta. Seduction is alpha. Don’t slaughter the youth camp – recruit the youth camp.

And for anyone with an IQ>100 there’s hardly anything less seductive than a Swine.

So here’s a terrible thought for ya – from the perspective of a young man in Eastern Europe who wants peace, prosperity and order, the rule of the Cathedral might be a healthy alternative to the powers surrounding him. As long as a significant part of the Right acts like the above mentioned Swine, the Left will be even more than secure in it’s picture of intellectual and moral superiority.