[Bret L]

A Secret of Real Power is NOT Getting “Credit”



" 1) At the Council of Conservative Citizens, one speaker did a truly brilliant piece on how today’s system is run by sociopaths.

A sociopath is a person who is incapable of true feelings of guilt. He
has no loyalties.

Later this speaker told me he had read about that somewhere and it had
gotten him to thinking on this point.

I remember that he was reading whitakeronline almost from the day I
started it in 1998.

If you will look at Whitakeronline, I talked about this at enormous
length starting about 1999, and every year I spoke about it at length
in different contexts.

But the speech he made, the thinking he had done about this, taught me
an enormous amount. He gave an example about an employer he knew whose
business was going through a hard time. But that employee is NOT a
sociopath. He says that he simply cannot fire his friends, workers who
have made the business what it is over the years.

This employer, like so many before him, will eventually be destroyed
by his conscience. A sociopath will out compete him by simply throwing
out all his old employees and giving his company to Mexico or bringing
the Mexicans here.

He made a number of excellent observations and deductions about
sociopathy which I will be telling you about later.

2) But let me proceed to the points that will be of use to you in this
sequence.

Another person there is having his first experience in being a
staffer. That is, the ideas be had been talking about to his chief
went straight into his chief’s speeches. When you are new to that, you
have an experience which is so normal, and happened to me so long ago,
that it was quite an experience to hear it about to fresh from a
person who has just had it.

By nature, staffing is an invisible business and unromantic. You will
hear endless talk from The Greatest Generation about their first
combat experience or from people about their first love affair, but
everybody I talk to who is staff has been a professional staffer for a
long time, so I believe this is the first time I ever heard anyone who
made me nostalgic about staff work.

He said that when his boss hit on HIS points, he was very happy,but he
wanted to jump up and say, “That’s MY point!”

Now back to point 1), this truly brilliant speech on the fact that
racial treason is part and partial of the whole disease of a
sociopathic society. Was I upset that the speaker got started with my
ideas, which I had repeated and analyzed so many times so long ago?

The fact is that if I worried about people “stealing” my ideas I would
have been sitting and drooling in a rubber room before many of you
were born.

3) one of our Blog commenters was talking about my discussion of the
drawback our present system of selecting political “commentators.”

The search for professional political commenters makes sure none of
them are interesting. We have a professional political discussion
community which is made up of liberals talking to each other and only
allowing in conservatives who are “respectable.”

In other words, one cannot get PUBLIC exposure unless his every word
can be predicted beforehand. They have no ideas, none at all. That is
how you become a liberal or a respectable conservative.

But they have to find SOMETHING to say. So they have to “exploit”
ideas from those of us outside the circle.

Which, with people like me around, can be made to destroy the whole
PURPOSE for which this tight little circle was created in the first
place.

I realized point 3) before 1960. But whereas the usual reaction to
this is to bemoan it, I was not analyzing reality in order to complain
about it.

In my teens I already had plenty of foreknowledge of how bad things
would be.

I needed no new moaning material.

So I looked at this reality and decided to USE it. So I became an
expert at reducing ideas down to the level where even conservatives
could use them. My ideas had to be “stolen” to be used and made
mainstream.

In other words I was a political staffer before I ever saw a
professional staffer.

What I found was not the road to fame. This is the road to POWER.

Almost by definition, a political commentator has no power at all. If
he isn’t saying the predictable there is a line waiting around the
block to say it. He is famous because he has no power.

By the same token, the president has lots of fame but almost no power.
If that particular man does not get his political position right to
win office, someone else will. But the position has long since been
mapped out.

By people like me.

People are always using political positioning as Moaning Material.

But where does this “positioning” come from? There is one “position”
and another “position,” both too extreme for him to take. So he
navigates in the exact right place between these “positions” before
somebody else does.

That is the key to election. But there is no POWER in it at all.

Obviously no famous politician or political writer ever MAKES the
political positions he is navigating between.

The Professional Moaners act as if this “positioning” was done between
“positions” that came from nowhere. Like everything else, these
positions were created.

By people like me.

If I become traceable I become famous.

AND powerless."

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