Jim of Jim’s Blog has posted a definition of the left and right in regards to politics. What interests me is not his definition of the left, but rather that of the right.
rightism
has no beliefs. Rightism should be the party of order, or at least the party of existing order, but it is the party of applecart owners and people with an emotional attachment to Chesterton’s fence. Its existence is provoked by the party of the left. As a result, conservatives conserve yesterday’s leftism. The party of the left is a priesthood. The party of the right is not a priesthood, nor does it have a priesthood in its pocket. It does not actually have any beliefs to believe in, so it tends to wind up in the pocket of the priesthood of the left …
I can find no disagreement in his description either of the left or the right. But allow me to expand upon his reasoning with some of my own.
Democratic politics exists as a support foundation for the beliefs and priesthood of the left. The right side of politics only exists as a result of opposition to the policies and priesthood of the left. As far as the policies of the right existing in any form, it can be determined as a wish to be left alone and for nothing to change. Unfortunately for the right, stasis is not a valid method of capturing the imagination and aspirations of a population.
The left can exist without the right and is always happy to do so until it ends up consuming itself. The right cannot exist of its own accord as it has no priesthood. Man cannot live on bread alone. The great trick of democracy was to give the populations of the nations of the world an illusion of choice. In reality there is no choice, but only a never ending move leftwards with periods of inertia or slowing down as the right temporarily seizes power and attempts to undo some of the recent damage done by the left. Once the left resumes power it immediately rips off the bandaids applied by the right and continues its move ever leftwards. When the right regains temporary power once again it repeats its action of plastering over the latest damage done by the left, while assuming the policies of the left of a decade or so earlier which it had previously attempted to fix.
This has been going on in active form since the French revolution.
The three power groups of the world are the State, the Bankers, and the Church. The Church’s power was openly attacked with the French revolution and was rendered powerless with the passing of Vatican II. Since then it has been a power struggle between the State and the Bankers. The Bankers are teetering on the edge of consuming themselves as their financial pyramid scheme reaches its natural end point.
As dissidents our only option to defeat the left is to revive the Church and the power of the priesthood. Our priests of God against their priests of equality/climate change/socialism/feminism etc. It is often said that we won’t be able to vote our way out of this, but it is often misunderstood what that implies. Yes, it is a question of power, but not one of only brute physical force. Every nation where that has been attempted reverted back to leftism with the death of the strongman, see the 20th century history of Chile or Spain.
Nations under God with a true Catholic priesthood and no mention of freedom of religion, freedom of speech or separation of Church and state is the only way out of this trap. Such a government would have to be a Catholic monarchy. The left spent over two hundred years destroying those monarchies and replacing them with their democracies. We might need a similar amount of time.
Originally published at Pushing Rubber Downhill. You can purchase Adam’s books here.
