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      "body": "![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRuAyEd69Tzrg61wBxZihbWXPc67QnLR2wbFEj8wZAKuW/image.png)\n\nWhether you're a casual follower of the news, or a social media keyboard warrior, you have heard of the alternative-right.  If not that specific name, then the words white supremacists, racists, xenophobes and anti-Semites in reference have cropped up much more frequently in the news.\n\nMost people are confused why all of a sudden, there's loads of young, white men preaching strong views.  \n\nThey don't know why it's happening, but it's fuelling their confirmation bias from the liberal media that our demographic are indeed pissed off and resentful to certain groups.\n\n\n\nALLURING\nI get it, I really do.  We were robbed.  We've been fucked over.  Our culture, values and jobs were given to homosexuals, immigrants and radical feminists because the weakest of us felt guilty.  \n\nOur world is filled with sin, cruelty, ignorance and hypocrisy.  We have the right to be angry and to fight back, but we're choosing the wrong way to do so.\n\nJust search 'alt-right' on Return Of Kings, the alt-right epicentre, and most of the results are various writers explaining what went wrong with the ideology and the flaws of it.\n\n\n\nPOISONOUS\nThe the alt-right has been tarnished as a serious movement, for multiple reasons:\n\nYou guys are associated with, or rather your ideology originated from: pick up artists.  Is that really the sort of person you want your movement to be known for?  Which is actually legitimate, unlike the Nazi and KKK slurs thrown at you by libtards. \n\nYou're symbol is a badly drawn frog you stole from a comic strip and turned into a meme.\n\nI'm hoping communitarian organisations take inspiration from the American Solidarity Party, by adopting the pelican.  Instead of turning blue the preexisting logo of a party or a random one, such as Blue Labour and Blue Dog.  \n\nThe clash with liberals in Charlottesville were a PR disaster, whether it was the alt-right's fault or not is up for debate, but I haven't heard of any communitarian protests that lead to a blood bath.\n\n\n\nI have a personal anecdote about the red pill, which is related to the alt-right like how tradcon values are tied to communitarianism.  \n\nWhen I started this blog several months ago, my pageviews were rocketing.  Each week I was getting more than the previous one.  Then I wrote a few posts about the red pill.  Thanks to those posts, my views halved then stagnated, and they have only just started to recover a little.  Think of all those like-minded people who now avoid the Section like a plague, (but to be fair the now deleted posts from that time deviated too much from the titular niche).    \n\nNonetheless, the red pill poisoned my blog, because the alt-right doesn't just come across as, but is, a hateful ideology.  The alt-right and communitarianism are like the dark and light side of the force, from Star Wars.  \n\nBoth are enlightened and more special than most people, but one draws it's energy from negative emotions.  \n\nThe alt-right is fearful, hateful, selfish, and arrogant.  Communitarian philosophy is trusting, loving, generous, and humble.  We believe in pluralism where minority communities respect the natives, and agree that each nation should have civic nationalism, not just the Anglo, white ones. \n\n\n\nFLAWED\nThe alt-right's sentiments have caused them to possess misguided opinions:\n\nAlt-righters want to ban certain immigrants, communitarians have a sensible policy.\n\nLike regular conservatives, the alt-right usually advocates for a smaller govenrment, but I've read monarchism being entertained on their sites.  On the other hand, direct democracy, federalism and forms of workplace democracy are the core of communitarianism.  \n\nAntisemitism criticisms does have weight to it, you guys were the ones who started (((this))).  Communitarians don't have a boogeyman, we don't blame Jews, the Illuminati or a New World Order or even believe they exist, but talking about those things get a lot of pageviews and ad revenue, just ask Alex Jones.  Communitarians put the blame on politicians, culture, media and technology, but not an entity or deep state that's working behind the scenes.  People create antagonists as a coping/marketing mechanism because their psyche can't handle the fact we're all to blame and a lot of things are random occurrences instead of being carefully orchestrated.\n\nAnother criticism of the alt-right's carelessness, is that degenerate hook-up culture and treating strange women like your personal fleshlight is taught and praised.  I can't speak for all communitarians, but my feeling is that sexual restraint and monogamy is preferred.  Leave the sexual debauchery to the liberals and homosexuals, who engage in orgies and \"chem-sex\" more often than you think. \n\n\n\nAs much as alt-righters love fucking women, it's also a belief of theirs that women shouldn't have the right to vote and blame them for the welfare state.  First off, communitarians like most people, believe that if you are an adult who is affected by politics, then you deserve a say.  \n\nSecondly, welfare is a safety net for all people so they don't fall into poverty, don't spend or create anything towards the economy, starve, become homeless, commit crimes.  This is not just an emotional argument about empathy, but an argument that it's in your best interest to pay for someone's welfare temporarily, than for them to be a total burden on society. \n\n\nIn terms of economics, this leads me to a major flaw with alternative-right ideology:  \n\nAs you're aware, the alt-right is all for neoliberalism and free market capitalism, plus nationalism, protectionism and isolationism.  \n\nBut there's a little known problem with this: that nationalism and neoliberalism are totally incompatible.  Those two core tenants of conservatism are antithetical to one another, just like progressivism and communitarianism.\n\nWhen capitalists are left alone, they outsource their factories and workers.  When public services are privatised, those companies are up for grabs, and usually foreign governments and companies become the contractors to provide the service while the taxpayers are still funding them.  Worst of all this means the government is accountable to the foreign buyers,  because the outsourced infrastructure becomes a form of blackmail.    \n\nSo you cannot have both sovereignty and small government.  It is tragic that alt-righters think that open borders and multi-national governments are the only threats to sovereignty.  I personally realised this issue, after reading about Margaret Thatcher selling British train companies to foreign governments and Eastern Europe prostituting itself to China; both of which were due to beloved privatisation.\n\n\n\nUNHELPFUL\nDon't be fooled by click-bait articles about the Jew World Order, don't be swindled by the same neoliberal bullshit we've been sold since the 1980's.  \n\n\nI hope that last argument could sway you, unlike the verbal slurs from spastic SJWs.  My concerns come from me not wanting to see straight, white men misdirect their wisdom, passion and motivation.   \n\n\n\nBecoming a communitarian, or rather subscribing to any ideology, is not just merely a change of mind.  But a shift in disposition, values and lifestyle.  \n\nI'm not going to tell you how to live, but you should question the kind of life that the alt-right sites have lead you to.  Although self-improvement is a major aspect, such as work, fitness, clothing, mind, spirituality etc, but think how the beliefs and mindset have on your day-today life.\n\n\n(This articles was also posted on my blog, The Communitarian Section, you can read it there for links)",
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      "body": "Left or right?  Blue or red?  Perhaps a hippy green or libertarian yellow?\n\n\nPeople either value tradition and want to conserve social norms, or they want to progress further in order to feel liberated.\n\nPlus, in terms of economics, people either think we're all in this together, or that it's every person for him/herself.\n\nThe political dichotomy as we know it, is just more programming from the sensationalist media, and the political establishment.\n\n\n\nThe news media loves scandal, drama and debates; because it provides them with a constant flood of ad revenue.  The viewers/voters like to feel that their in a tribe, and want to hate on those in the other colour.\n\nThe political class, i.e. politicians and lobbyists, give us the illusion that only their team can give the people an actual solution.  Only an entirely liberal set of policies will fix the problems, or only conservative policies with solve everything; so we're told.  But the whole left/right dichotomy only ensnares us in a perpetual state of misery. Whether by design or not.\n\n\n\nAcross the developed world, the two major political parties of most nations, are pretty much identical.  We all know this by now.  In Britain, both the Conservative Party and Labour Party are both progressive.  Even though the conservatives spout these policies begrudgingly, and they don't support weed and euthanasia legalisation; they cheer on the tired out controversies like gay marriage and abortion, because they don't want to scare off too many voters.\n\nWhile Labour are far more adamant about social justice, with Corbyn's transgender normalisation policies, and plans to legalise medical weed.  So all in all, neither of these parties value tradition and family.\n\n\n\nThe same goes for economics.  Since the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the UK has been falling in a spiral of neoliberal depravity.  All of her successors, whether they wore blue ties or red ties, are now infamous for their pathological cuts on public spending, on anything from the NHS, housing, emergency services, disability assistance, libraries and cultural heritage sites.\n\nLabour, especially under Corbyn, may advocate higher taxes on corporations and the rich, plus a revival of spending on public services.  These are all good, but they can and probably will be reversed in five, ten or fifteen years time; whether by a Tory or Labour PM after Corbyn's inevitable go at the job.\n\nNot unless the control of these services are further decentralised, by being put in the hands of public sector workers and regional government officials.  Instead of MPs in Central London who have money thrown at them by lobbyists, or who invest in the private companies that chip away the public services.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe very concept of left-wing and right-wing is very muddled, distorted, and their own views are self-contradicting.\n\nConservatives, want a government to protect their religion and family, but don't want it to protect their jobs and money.  They fail to realise that corporations cannot be trusted, and they have succeeded in destroying the family by allowing women to become extra tax-sources and consumers.\n\nRight wingers put too much faith and trust the private sector by relieving them of government scrutiny, but are oblivious to the dangerous consequences:  Over worked and underpaid employees, faulty products and environmental damage spring to mind.  I could go on but these are the most obvious.\n\n\n\nLiberals, want the government to stay out of their personal lives, to give them the freedom of ruining their lives with drugs, and letting children become very confused about their genders.\n\nBut liberals want the state to provide them with or protect their employment prospects, plus give them affordable health care and housing.\n\nThey too, fail to realise that the state is always involved in the people's lives.  Whether they let you take drugs or to end or your own life, their the ones with the final say.  It's in the government's, and society's at large, best interest for tradition and civility to be encouraged.  Yes, everyone deserves a roof on their heads, food to prevent starvation, and medicine, but people also deserve and need heritage, national identity, tough-love morality and responsibility for each other.\n\n\n\n\n\nIt's moronic to partially trust the state and corporations.  Only one is the enemy, because it corrupts the other.  Big business is the enemy because it hijacks the state, which is suppose to protect and provide for the people.  Not leave them sick and homeless because hospitals and homes are underfunded, scarce and expensive.  Or snatch away their mothers and wives so they can toil away in an office, then by useless crap.\n\nThe state and corporations are opposing forces.  One provides, the other steals.  One protects, the other attacks.  Businesses don't care about workers' livelihoods, the environment that we depend on, our culture and so on; they only care about their profits that they only want to keep for themselves.\n\nThe very point of starting a government, and therefore a society, is to have a mechanism of laws that looks after the people who identity within that community.  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Her email leaks revealed that the former Secretary of State had very close ties with Wall Street.\n\n\nHowever, Sanders was just one man battling against his own party, but the \"democratic socialist\" rhetoric wasn't enough to drain that swamp.  His peers are too corrupt.  While they aren't the austerity obsessed fiscal hawks such as the Republicans, they're not willing to raise too much taxes and spend and invest a great deal in the economy and infrastructure.  \n\nThe Dems are more concerned about corporate welfare for banks, than everyday consumers and workers.  This is because their unofficial bonuses are flowing from big businesses.  To truly change their policies and rhetoric, the money supply must change.  \n\n\nThe reality is, politicians want to receive extra income from outsiders, we all know this, so the question is how can we use this human flaw to our advantage?  \n\nRepublicans have succeeded in weakening trade unions, and changing the rules on how the Democrats can receive their funding.  Political parties should not be allowed to choose how their opponent receives funding, because that is obviously going to be (and has been) easily exploited to their advantage.  But that is another issue.  When the neoliberal Republicans robbed the Dems of their union money, the latter had to find funding from alternative sources.  Enter corporations, and thus ensued neoliberal dogma and the two parties becoming clones. \n\n\nBernie Sanders, or any other politician can advocate for European-esque social democracy, and gain overwhelming support.  But when even their own party is adamantly opposed to such notions, only disappointment and despair will, and has followed.\n\nReturning the cash flow from trade unions to the party itself and individual campaigns, is the obvious solution.  But in addition the Democrats need to further persuade citizens in becoming paid members.  \n\nGiven that the whole Congress is occupied by Republicans, and that the Democrats themselves are already satisfied with big business money.  This vital cure will not happen.\n\nNot by the traditional means, at least.  Trade unions across the United States need to advocate for the laws to be reversed, and offer generous funding in return for the Dems meeting their demands.  \n\n\nLobbying from CEO's and funding trade unions are both ways that career politicians receive extra money, which determines their philosophies on social, fiscal and world matters.  The former only benefits the top 1%, while the latter does benefit citizens who actually build and sustain nations.\n\n\nThis solution is not a fantasy.  Trade unions across the world fund the liberal party of their government.  It's a well known alliance, just like the one between conservatives and big business.  In the United Kingdom, the social democratic Labour Party receives money from trade unions.  When the party announces a policy that sounds too anti-workers' rights and neoliberal, they threaten cutting the money supply. \n\nHowever, this arrangement has received threats from the Conservative Party, by similar attempts that the Republicans made.\n\n\nA lot of Democrat Congressmen/women would choose union funding for their campaigns, because those organisations have millions of members whom pay a lot of money in membership fees.  Plus, in this new political climate that Sanders has created, the stigma of favouring corporations is greater than ever before.  Not even Hillary Clinton, with all of her campaign money, rhetoric, soundbites and rigging, could shake off the corporatist shill image. \n\n\n\nThere are other changes that the Democrats desperately need to implement, in order to save their failing party.   Such as advocating for more states rights, ditching SJW rhetoric and embracing the white working-class base that supported them a few generations ago.  Just like the Blue Labour movement in the UK. \n\nHowever, as Sanders' failed campaign has proven, no amount of great rhetoric will put a Democrat President in the Oval Office in 2020 whom is a true social democrat.  Unless the money flow has begun to shift from big businesses to trade unions.  Money talks, not rhetoric or votes.  When politicians receive funding, they are held accountable to the payee just like when somebody is hired to carry out a job.",
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If you believe people should conduct themselves in a certain way, you're called a prude.\n\nThe fact is each person's lifestyle effect the lives of who they know and even total strangers, because solipsism isn't true.  It seems difficult to understand when our society is so large, impersonal and interconnected, but try and imagine progressivism in a tribe of less than fifty people.  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I'm fully aware that the actions I make (or don't) every day affects my life, and that I'm responsible for myself\n\nBut the actions everyone else makes affects the people around them, which moulds the culture we inhabit.\n\n\n\n\"Why Should I Pay for Other Peoples' Stuff?\"\n\nWhy should you part with your hard earned money, just to give away to layabouts and so other people's kids can have schools?\n\nAs a society we have declared ourselves as a collective that depends on each other, not loners roaming around in a wasteland.  When a citizen falls into tough times, such as unemployment or having a physical injury, it is in your best interest to keep that person afloat with temporary benefits or universal basic income.  It's better for them to feed and shelter on themselves, consume and sustain their mental health, while looking for work or recovery.  Than for them to become homeless, commit crimes, become addicted to a substance or whatever else.\n\nThese are dramatic possibilities, but the most definite consequences are a drop in mental health, not spending money in the economy and not being a tax source.  If we sacrifice a small part of our money for the unfortunate, then we will save a lot more in the long run on even more demand for social programs and charities.\n\nIn terms of public services, there are a lot of neoliberal and free-marketer cowboys who think they should be privatised industries that are driven by competition.\n\nGetting a decent education, housing, transport and medicine is not a privilege from birth; they are basic human rights.  If we all chip in the pot, we will all then take in the benefits.\n\nThere's an economic jargon called fiscal multiplication, when governments spend money on public services, then reap in even more; like an investment.\n\nSo in relation to how government spending isn't just pissing away money (that conservatives want you to believe), everyone being provided for these basic services even benefits those who pay taxes, but don't use them personally.  We all pay taxes for clever people to get their medical doctorate at university, even though most of us haven't made that life choice.  But wouldn't you be happy if our doctors were able to get the qualifications they needed, instead of having to settle for an alternative career path because the tuition fees were too high, or the course we defunded?\n\n\n\n\"Money is the Biggest Motivator in Life!\"\n\nThose who make the accumulation of money their life goal, are really after status, attention and material goods.  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Mussolini's fascism and Hitler's national socialism heavily promoted and encouraged traditional sex roles, while their governments were very involved in the economy.\n\nBut the parallel ends there.  Fascism is borderline ethno-nationalist, communitarianism accepts pluralism.  Fascism had a very 'top-to-bottom' system of economics, while communitarianism wants the reverse, by supporting labour unions and cooperatives.  We want a more decentralised state, but fascism is very monolithic.\n\n\n\"Huh.\"\n\nThese are the criticisms that I know of and were able to debunk myself.  Any worldview that's so obscure is bound to be shrouded in misconceptions, especially if it's one that contradicts the false reality we have built for ourselves.",
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