@ Bob Doney :

There really is a big gap between normal people and their media and politicians.
Try those keywords in Google: people + "elites" + gap + immigration + poll + uk

Due to the brainwashing, there is also a lack of coherence in people's thoughts, and a gap between their opinions and the way they vote.

Anti-immigration opinions tend to be criminalized in the mass media. The BBC practically never allows anyone to make a case against immigration.
This brainwashing is the main reason why the immigration policy has not been reversed yet. I don't know why you think the brainwashing has no effect on the population. It's had a huge effect on you. If you didn't watch TV, don't tell me you would have come up with the idea of replacing your own people with immigrants.

Another reason why the BNP doesn't get more votes is the way the political system is organized. But you know more about that than I do.

@ Di Montani

So, it would appear that we can now agree that these "native peoples" have NOT been "disenfranchised".  Based on what you write yourself ("many Europeans do nothing for their continent or their culture......I speak of the remnant....etc..."). 

The fact is that, after "these native peoples" were liberated by the Americans in the mid 1940's and subsequently protected by these same Americans from Stalin, they have been 'ENfranchised', and have had the opportunity to elect and re-elect their political leaders.   At regular intervals, they have had the opportunity to hold "their leaders" accountable for their actions.  So, the responsibility for what is happening rests squarely with these "native peoples" themselves, and no one else.   I guess that doesn't make it any easier to bear the prospect of Europe slowly turning into a giant 'Lebanon', if you belong to that "remnant". 

@ Doney

Well, it would then appear that if "Joe Public" wants his/her existential concerns to be taken seriously by the "multi-trick ponies", he/she will have to use your presumed "lunatics" to force the ponies to behave more sensibly.  What is the alternative?   There is nothing better to convince presumed multi-trick ponies to behave sensibly than the prospect of being replaced by one-trick ponies.  And there is nothing more likely to turn one-trick ponies into multi-trick ones than the weight of 'responsibility'.   It is called the democratic process.  The question is do the people want it, or do they want to stick with what they are 'comfortable' with?   And if they do the latter, they get what they deserve.

Then, I suppose that you are maintaining that the European peoples have wholeheartedly mandated and authorized such a debacle?

They have not, their leaders have. For example, did the vote for the European Constitution became ratified by the people even in Holland or France? NO.

What about the Eastern European countries...do they trust the Western Europeans and Belgium to arrange their affairs a la Germany and France style social programs and immigration? Again, no. See Vaclav Klaus.

Of course, the European peoples are now in the position of having to "prove their own innocence" in the face of relentless federalization and mandatory immigration...while their own legislative structures erode continuously.

Remember 9/11/07 in Brussels?.

Brussles,a city with 50% of it's city council comprised of Muslims, (and 44% of it's population as Muslim,) who categorically disallow a peaceful commemerative of the victims of 9/11 in the U.S.

What more evidence do you need...the taking-up of arms? It will come, I fear. It will come.

Now, unfortunately many Europeans do nothing for their continent or their culture. This is lamentably true. They have abandoned both, as well as their religion. These are the people of whom you are speaking. I agree, but I speak of the remnant...who alone are creditable.

"It is the great luck of Europe's priestly caste that parties like the Vlaams Belang, SVP and BNP exist, for they too see and speak the truth, and provide an alternative that the common folks can join instead of supporting fringe movements that may expound the truth in some ways but spout lunacy (e.g. "the Jews did it") in others."

Yes, indeed, what a blessing, that the common folks can join the BNP and not have to resort to joining lunatic fringe movements to express their vile racism. But hang on a minute, the BNP ARE a lunatic fringe movement, so how does that work then?
 

@ Di Montani

What evidence do you have of "disenfranchisation of native peoples" in Europe?  I suspect, none.  A more correct assesment would be that those native peoples are slowly, but 'democratically' (in the narrow sense of 'through electoral majorities'), choosing to change the nature of their political system to a less-free one.  In other words they are VOLUNTARILY breaking with the European 'Enlightenment' (of the past) by passing laws that restrict freedom of political speech, and by attempting to create a European 'Constitution' that gives arbitrary 'rights' to government(s), while restricting fundamental individual rights. 

We agree that there is a major, even tragic, cultural problem in Europe today.  But, problems cannot be truly 'solved' unless there is first an accurate diagnosis.  And such a diagnosis must put the blame squarely where it belongs - in this case these "native peoples" themselves - and not on others (like immigrants, or Bush, or whoever) nor on impersonal forces nor conspiracies.   

"Nuts" McAuliffe was an American military man.  Contemporary European culture denigrates the martial spirit and takes the 'short-term' view.   If it will ultimately die, it will not be because of "disenfranchisation" by anybody, but through the historically more common process of 'decadence'.

This is great writing. One needs to actually see and to feel the reality of the single-generational disenfranchisation of entire nations of native peoples and the wholesale loss of their historical cultures in order to comprehend the gravity. If these were third-world peoples that were being deliberately deceived and displaced in their own native lands, the West would be the first to be enraged.

Let's part company then. You do a greater service to their cause by fracturing the association than anything that anyone else could do.

So be it.

Americans have gone through similar socializing as Europeans, where terms like racist have been continually defined down until they become anyone who might think differently from the established views of the liberal intelligentsia. Go to any college in the US and on the first day of orientation you will get a speech and an assembly discussing the great benefits of the value of diversity (racial, not ideological).

Even US conservatives have a hard time throwing off this conditioning and applying it to situations in our own country; I think it's a bit much to expect us to be able to apply it to Europe, where most of what we see is the 90% or so of Europeans who seem to blindly follow what's on the BBC or the Guardian, and seem to primarily care about being opposed to anything the US is doing at the time.

I see Takuan Seiyo is to be a regular contributor now - excellent. Congratulations.

Wonderful article.
On the VB-issue there's just one more little thing. For the time being it may be wise for everybody to reserve judgement on the good faith of De Winter and his people. We can only give Vlaams Belang the benefit of the doubt, bearing in mind that those of us not intimately familiar with the party's history and it's skeletons  cannot actually be sure if any of the old fogies who are still sulking about having betted on the wrong horse while Hitler was on the rampage are still of influence in Vlaams Belang, and how much influence and support they have in the party.It is a pity that meanwhile the matter seems to be getting a little out of hand.
It might be wise if the american side acknowledges that matters concerning racialism and racism in Europe are really very different from the US. Here we face the effects of cultural differences having been swept under the carpet for years, because the problems we face with islam could not be adressed for fear of a racism we never had.

Really good article.

I look forward to reading more from Takuan Seiyo.

Charles Johnson is correct.  The VB, the BNP and others are merely white supremacist parties dressed up in nice new suits.  Your hoped-for rebellions will never happen so long as these guys carry the banner.  Only the Swiss have got it right.