Politics does not take place in a test tube

by Andrew Brons

Isolation of variables is something that we all learnt in our Chemistry classes. The only way in which we can reduce  possible causal connections to a  minimum of antecedent circumstances is to ensure that extraneous factors do not lead to rogue results – hence the test tube.

There are some who see Politics as a process that takes place in laboratory conditions. Competing parties try to influence untainted and rational public opinion with arguments of varying rationality and supporting evidence. The best party wins – perhaps! There are  alternative explanations.

The election campaign does not take place in clinical conditions in the few weeks between nomination and election. The electorate is not virginal matter untainted by outside influences. It is influenced daily, and over years, by factors that escape its attention – at least they escape its attention as  material influences.

When the issue of media influence is considered, we think of news programmes or current affairs documentaries. The question of neutrality in the forthcoming In-0ut EU Referendum has been aired publicly. Threats to neutrality in those areas are, to some extent, cauterized by suspicion and awareness.

Just as interviewees are put off guard when the reporter puts his notebook in his pocket, so the  broadcasting viewer and listener become less questioning when serious programmes give way to entertainment and the ubiquitous commercials.

Television advertisements tell us that the average ‘British’ couple is from an ethnic minority or is of mixed race and that 50% of the ‘British’ population is from an ethnic minority. We have yet to make that achievement. Furniture manufacturers are more attentive to their multi-racial message than they are to the quality or price of their upholstery. Perhaps there is something in the background of upholsterers.

Soap operas, it has been said, are not named because they are sponsored by the manufacturers of cleaning products but because they are serviceable for the washing of minds. Who am I to judge? However, we can judge particular programmes on the available evidence.

It is a pity that Freedom of Information legislation does not  give us access to discussions between writers and producers of television fiction. Was the role of the wise authority figure always given on the merit of the particular strolling player or did  reverse discrimination raise its ugly head.

The education system (I use the word education in its widest possible sense) is a willing collaborator with the media in promoting the myths and values of the Political Class.

Some Nationalists, as political practitioners, are tempted to  concentrate on the campaign but to ignore its background. They put forward their arguments, as though they would be considered by rational judgment. They are surprised and even shocked when the results are announced.

Others are all too aware of its background and adopt a business marketing approach. Marketing includes promotion but does begin and end with it. Marketing follows the short term demands of consumers and adapts its product to those perceived demands.

Marketing, when applied to Politics, does not start with Principles that it attempts to sell. It adapts its principles to the short term demands of the market (that might themselves have been cultivated in the longer term by carefully sown desires and priorities.

When marketing is adopted, as a strategy, by Nationalists, we get civic nationalism. Slogans: like it’s space not race; and it’s net immigration that counts; abound. Civic nationalism makes a point of denying being racist, without stopping for a moment to ask what the word racist means. There is no doubt that the injection of the word racist into every argument about immigration or ethnicity has been an enormous success for the multi-racialists. The words, “Mind you I’m not a racist” are a compulsory part of the civic nationalist liturgy.

We must reject both approaches. We must neither ignore the background against which the campaign is fought and nor should we allow the background to influence and dilute our principles.

Parallel with our political campaign, but permanently, there must be a War of Ideas. We must fight for the truth of heredity against the myth of environment. We must exert a fight against the hate speech term of racist and free people from its insidious influence.

Parallel with our leaflets and other material on concrete policies there must be others on political principles and ideology and on those verbal instruments, like racist, that are used against us and our people.

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2 Comments

  1. I see Britains most popular political facebook site, wants to make the word ”racist” something which the media is no longer permitted to use, as it is something which stifles debate and silences any opposition to mass immigration. Naturally the liberals would have nightmares if it was not for ”racism”. I would agree with the above that ”racist” and ”racism” are hate speech against indigenous Brits.

    Liberals love to attribute people’s ”racism” to a lack of education. What they really mean is a lack of indoctrination which is part and parcel of our ”education system” in which your natural responses and gut instincts have been tampered with by guilt conditioning.

  2. ( Party Official ) Very well said JJM. ” I AM NOT RACIST BUT ” Has to be an ‘ own goal ‘ for us. Smacks of guilt and as you say , just gives credence to the liberal types and left wing rubbish people , who have no standards , whatsoever !

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