Values Versus Money

On the Right values, what we believe, are important to us. That is also true on the Left, even if we disagree about those values. But whenever we take our values to the voters we lose. Why is that?

I think that it is because values are something that matter in the long term and voting, democracy, encourages people to think short term. To put it another way people are more concerned with todays issues than in dealing with tomorrows. So what are todays problems?

It seems that they are always economic or to it put another way it is always about money. Money of course represents resources and sometimes food or some other item takes the place, temporarily, of money. Now money is how we pay for resources to live and to enjoy life, without these things life can seem quite pointless. However it seems that we come to view these things as being of such importance that we will sacrifice things that should never even be threated. 

Mass immigration is a prime example, some people financially benefit from mass immigration, including some people who don't even know it. But at the same time it hurts lots of people and of course many of those who are benefitting today will in time find that it has hurt them. The here and now of money overrides so many peoples objections. When of course this should never have even been an option. To replace your own people with foreigners is in no way acceptable and yet it goes on, in large part because it brings in money. Money wins over values.

 Of course it isn't restricted to only that, look at Industrial Relations. If your over 50 you will remember that strikes were once common place. Today strikes are rare. While there are a number of reasons for that, one reason is that today workers don't want to lose money by going on strike. Business finally worked out that paying workers good wages keeps them on the job better than anything else. 

Why have so many of our old beautiful buildings been demolished?

Because the demolition makes people money and so does putting a new building on the site. The value that that old building gave has to compete with money. 

Money solved a complex economic problem, how do you store and exchange wealth in a relatively safe and convenient form. But like all solutions it created it's own problems, money is not the problem, human nature is. Human nature says that today is more important than tomorrow or yesterday because we live here, today. Money overrides values, something that we need to keep in mind as we go forward in our fight.

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Why should Australia remain a Monarchy?

Australia now has a new Monarch, King Charles III, King of Australia. Currently the Australian government has an Assistant Minister for the Republic. So we have a King and a government committed to us become a Republic.

Many people look at the monarchy and think to themselves that it is old fashioned and that it doesn't make sense that we have a King that no one voted for. But those two objections to having a monarch are the very reasons that we should not get rid of what we have.

Australia has never been a Republic, not for one day, not even for one minute. The Aboriginal people did not have Kings, they were ruled by the elders, people who got to be in charge because they were initiated into tribe lore and they were the oldest and hopefully the wisest men in their tribe. That might not be Monarchy but it isn't Republicanism either, because to become an elder you had to be born within the tribe, in a real sense you were born to the position, it just took you a long time to become an elder. In short Republicanism is not part of Aboriginal culture, tradition or lore.

White Australia has been a Monarchy from before there were White Australians. Our link to Monarchy is ancient, our people, the peoples of the British Isles have had Monarchies going back into Prehistory. For thousands of years we have served Kings, in war and in peace. It is not something alien to our tradition, it is the base upon which so much of our history, culture, politics, law, medals and honours are built. 

One of the aims of the Republican movement is to alienate us from our past, to give the time honoured but wrong argument that the new is always better than the old. But it is exactly that 'old fashioned' thing that is of value. That thing that not only have we as a people served, but which has also at one and the same time served us. Because that is the truth, the Monarchy serves us. It provides a kind word in a harsh world, a pageantry that few can equal and even fewer can exceed and it connects us to our brothers in New Zealand, Canada and in Britain itself. 

It is an ancient institution that we have a right to be a part of, most in the world do not and they envy it. Some realise it and some don't but all over the world people didn't call our late Queen a Queen, no she was The Queen. The Queen was also our Queen, I wonder of King Charles will also be referred to as The King?

All over Australia there are traditions, customs and ceremonies that we continue from those older times. Things that maybe we don't want lost and discarded like a old oily rag. Some argue that these things can still be kept, but we know that they won't be. Some argue that they are not important, but they say that about everything, they say it about our traditions, our customs, our ceremonies and even about our people. They want to see them all discarded and replaced. But these things do not belong to them, they belong to us.

Monarchy is also the only political system that has the family at it's heart. It is also one of the few political systems that says that inheritance is right and proper. That your property is yours and that you have the right to pass it on to your children. Liberalism once placed property rights at the centre of it's beliefs, but each year it gets less and less true. If they can dismiss the Royal family then why can't they dismiss yours?

The existence of a Royal family is a defence, at least in part, that family is normal, right and proper. Because the very existence of the family is slowly being eroded. 

Finally there is an idea that the only legitimate leadership that can exist is elected, but that's not true. Was your boss elected or did he come to his leadership position in some other way?

What about your parents, did you elect them?

The truth is that we accept unelected leadership all the time, it is nothing unusual. In fact it is the norm. The Monarch is also something stable and steady in a world that is often not. Sure there can be scandal and strife within the Monarchy, but that is true of other organisations and families. Because that is what makes the Monarchy so special, it is at it's heart a family and that means that we can relate to it. They have births and marriages and deaths and successes as well as failures. Just like our own lives. 

You might say that politicians can provide all of those things, sure but rarely for our entire lives. As an example The Queen had 16 Prime Ministers, but we only had one Queen. Who remembers the births, marriages and deaths in those Prime Ministerial families?

But in most of our families you will find someone who can tell you who is related to who, how and why within the Royal family. We share a history with them that no politician can even come close too.

I can however think of one advantage of Republicanism over Monarchy, no more Royal gossip. But if France or the United States are any guide, even being a Republic doesn't allow you to escape that.  

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The One Hundred And Fourteenth Month

I took Mrs. Borrink's advice, which he gave last month, and I installed Statcounter. However it has only added to my confusion, giving me different numbers to what Blogger gives me and lower numbers. Are they accurate? I just don't know. It also doesn't  help with the 'other' problem, whereby Blogger simply lists most websites as 'other'. Statecounter does allow me to follow users around the site, which I must say I find a bit creepy. On YouTube it tells you when people stop watching a video, it is depressing to see just how small the number of people who get to the end of a video really is. So more information is not always good, but knowing where people come from doesn't sound like much to ask, but I guess it is.

Recently I have had good numbers on a post I wrote back in March 2019 after the Christchurch massacre They Don't Understand Us. Why? How does a new group of people know that this exists? Is it linked somewhere? I have no idea.

In the last month I have had 3410 visitors, my best day was very good, on the 27th August I had 969 visitors, my worst day was the 14th August when I had a mere 21 visitors.

Another interesting thing has happened on the blog this month and in particular this past week. Normally the United States is in first place followed by Australia, this week Israel is in first place...it's a rare week in which I get more visitors from a country other than the United States!

Top 5 countries for the week of  5th September - 11th September 

 Israel                                                                                                                                  191

United States

146

Australia

99

Sweden

54

Netherlands

50

11 August -11 September

United States

2.27K

Australia

358

Israel

293

Sweden

116

Germany

71

Netherlands

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India

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Ukraine

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United Kingdom

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Canada

17

France

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Russia

16

Belgium

8

Ireland

8

New Zealand

5

Bangladesh

3

Brazil

3

Taiwan

3

Greece

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The Queen Is Dead, Long Live The King

Yesterday we lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, today we live in the reign of King Charles III. The new monarchy ascending to the throne the instant that the late monarch passes so that the Kingdom is never without a monarch. It was a shock to hear the news of Her Majesties death, I had assumed for a long time that she would live to 100, I even thought she could live much longer. She always looked young for her age, even the photos of her swearing in the new British Prime Minister two days before her death she looked in her 80's not her 90's. If you are younger than 71 then you have known no other British monarch, as none has existed in your lifetime, she was Queen for 70 years.

We must also get used to saying King Charles when for 73 years we have known him as Prince Charles.  

For those who read my blog it is no secret that as a Traditionalist I am also a Monarchist. So I want to address a controversies that exists. 

The Queens responsibilities for the calamity that has befallen the White Realms.

There is no question that the last 70 years have been a calamity for Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, the White Realms. In 1952 we were supreme, or so it seemed, in our our own lands. We had built these countries, they belonged to us, we had successfully defended them in war and we thought that these lands would remain the property of the British race forever. However in 2022 it is clear that all that was abandoned and instead we live in multi-racial countries, something that we never sort, that we never asked for, fought to obtain or voted for, instead it was forced upon us by Liberalism and the supporters of Liberalism.   

However there are some on the Right who place all or part of the blame upon the Queen. They argue that this all happened while she was the monarch and that means that she was in total or in part responsible for these calamities. But is that true?

First off the Queen did not tell us her political opinions, we don't even know if she had them, some people don't. The evidence is unclear, at times she appeared quite conservative at others as a stock standard Liberal, certainly many of her speeches in recent decades were filled with multicultural platitudes. But were they her opinions or the opinions of her speechwriters? 

You might argue that she shouldn't have said something if she didn't believe it, but neither you or I know what went on behind the scenes. Maybe she fought valiantly and sometimes won and sometimes lost, maybe she never complained, maybe over 70 years all these things were true. But what I find interesting is that for so many on the Right there is always someone to blame but themselves.

Lets say for a moment that the Queen opposed what happened 100%, then she failed. But don't you oppose what happened 100%?

Or is it 95%, or 76% or 5%?

But you oppose it right, you would change it if you had the power wouldn't you?

The mistake is to think the the Queen had power, because she did not. The sad and even pathetic truth is that modern monarchs in the West do not have power. In theory she could declare war, but she never did because in reality that power was no longer hers. In theory she could deny assenting to any Act of Parliament, the last time that happened was in 1819, that power is long gone. Everything the government does is done in her name, whether she personally likes it or not.

How is that different to you or I?

Things are done in our name whether we like them or not. We are told that in a Democracy we control the government, how in control do you feel?

You might argue that she should have abdicated, or refused to play the game, she should have done more. But the exact same argument can and has been made about you. Why do you keep paying taxes to a government that hates you?

Why do you keep working when you could be a full time revolutionary trying to overthrow the government?

Why haven't you done more?

Why haven't you been more successful at stopping things?

Why have you and your parents and your Grandparents done so little to stop the rot?

But in truth how much power do you have?

Not much.

The Queen had influence and she had prestige, but both were won by her continuing to play the game and in the end she had to deal with Liberals. So her arguments would, maybe did, fall upon deaf ears. Ears that listen but do not hear.

There is a further argument that she broke her coronation oath to protect her people, but she never swore to protect her people. Here is her coronation oath:

the Archbishop standing before her shall administer the Coronation Oath, first asking the Queen,

Madam, is your Majesty willing to take the Oath?

And the Queen answering,

I am willing.

The Archbishop shall minister these questions; and The Queen, having a book in her hands, shall answer each question severally as follows:

Archbishop. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?

Queen. I solemnly promise so to do.

Archbishop. Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?

Queen. I will.

Archbishop. Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?

Queen. All this I promise to do.

Then the Queen arising out of her Chair, supported as before, the Sword of State being carried before her, shall go to the Altar, and make her solemn Oath in the sight of all the people to observe the premisses: laying her right hand upon the Holy Gospel in the great Bible (which was before carried in the procession and is now brought from the Altar by the Arch-bishop, and tendered to her as she kneels upon the steps), and saying these words:

The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.

Then the Queen shall kiss the Book and sign the Oath.

The Queen having thus taken her Oath shall return again to her Chair, and the Bible shall be delivered to the Dean of Westminster.

Nothing about protecting her people, instead she swore to 'govern the people.........according to their respective laws and customs'. Which in reality meant that she, like you and I, had to go along with the real power, Parliament and the law.

A Queen should have power and most people automatically thought that she did, but she did not. Influence and prestige yes, but not power. She was instead bound by laws and customs that restricted what she was allowed to say and do, just as we are. 

I would like to make one final point, she was a Queen and traditionally Queens lose power. I once had someone who was interested in alternative history complain to me that so many alternative histories were about which rich White guy became President of the United States. He argued that no matter who was elected it wouldn't have made much of a difference. He then said that if Queen Victoria had instead been King Victor then history would be very different. 

I think he was right, a long reigning King would have lost much less power than a Queen did. I am uncertain if that was true of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, as maybe there was no real power to preserve by the time she became Queen.

The calamities that have befallen us did not only occur during the Queens reign, but during our lifetime. It's time we asked ourselves why have we allowed these things to happen and to start doing more than complain about them. To stop asking why hasn't someone ELSE done something because we are that someone.

It's up to us and it always has been.  

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