First, many thanks for the Hillbilly Elegy book, which was so grounded and credible and a real eye-opener. I am going to write the author, who speaks openly of how childhood trauma affected him and affects millions of white hillbilly kids.
The reviewer ends, in agreement with the author, J.D.Vance, this way, and I refute it below:
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Inspiring as his own story is, Vance leaves us wondering about the people whose lives are so badly broken and about whom he writes with affection, pity, and candor. What, if anything, can be done?
If J. ‰D. Vance’s people are to be saved, they will need to do it themselves. As they knew in the hollows, and know in their bones, you cannot depend on outsiders.
Btw, Margi, setting aside her master’s degree and off-the-chart IQ (99th percentile on the GSAT, the Graduate School Admissions Test), is basically of hillbilly stock herself, Appalachian Scotch-Irish and German, and like Vance escaped the dysfunction.
German federal police computer reconstruction of her appearance
Margi’s master’s degree
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Here is Margi singing an Irish art song, “I Know My Love,” right here in Michigan (sorry for the tinny audio, but IMO it is still very enjoyable) — the last three minutes, 12:25-14:52.
I am indeed very fortunate to have a loyal, truthful, convinced, brilliant and highly cultured WN woman in my life, aside from all her fine qualities as a woman, lover and amazing cook.
It strikes me, thinking about her and about my dealings with two neighbors who are half-Irish and half-German, that the fun-loving, fighting-and-drinking, wild-bunch Kelts (think of the movie “Braveheart” about the Scots) on the one hand, and the orderly Teutons on the other, the Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians, etc., really are very, very different.
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The one group is a barrel of fun and the ones you would invite to a party, but anarchistic and rowdy by nature, and the other is quiet, a bit boring, and very steady, “making the trains run on time.”
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DNA haplogroups — R1b corresponds to the fun-loving, freedom-loving Kelts
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Red hair also goes with Kelts; the original European population was brunets, possibly with light eyes
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Zia the Solutrean (20,000 BC) in “Ice Age Columbus”, with brown hair and light eyes like author J.D. Vance; the basic European population has always had dark hair. Much later, the Indo-Europeans (Aryans) appeared, tall from eating huge amounts of protein from drinking milk and slaughtering cattle for beef, they conquered the brunets, and added their blond hair to he mix, especially to the ruling class. Over 80% of US senators and presidents, almost all wealthy men, have had blue eyes.
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Famous freedom-loving redheads: Thomas Jefferson….
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Andrew Jackson, who as a teen fought in the Revolution and lost his mother and brothers
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George Washington was, as his friends reported, a redhead under the wig… He had fought for the British Empire in the Seven Years (French and Indian) War and was a loyal British subject who hated anarchy and had a low opinion of the masses — but he became outraged at arrogant behavior by British officials toward himself, a very proud man, and the scoffing by London at the complaints of other Americans. He once vowed that if the British Army conquered the whole American east coast, he would retreat to the hills and fight forever with his Scotch-Irishmen. The British recognized gradually that this was very possible; in the 13 British-American colonies in 1776, many English-Americans had remained loyal to the Crown, but the large populations of Irish, Scotch-Irish, Welsh and Scots, Kelts all, hated English rule, exactly as British officials and spies reported back to London. After the French-aided victory at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781, the British ruling class gave up and the Empire lost its best colony by far.
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The author of Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, basically says that a considerable percentage of Appalachians, especially nowadays, are (to be blunt) what others call “white trash” — living on welfare, lazy, ignorant, uncouth, uncooperative, foul-mouthed, spouting Jesus but not attending any church (surprising; I thought hillbillies went to church a lot but he says the stats show the exact opposite, the lowest church attendance of any ethnic group in the country),very violent both in the home and with others, and thus in trouble with the law constantly.
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In fact, he says that everything in a sociological study he read about American ghetto blacks applied to his group!
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What he says also is that the steady love of his grandparents, however flawed, saved him from utter disaster as a kid, and then joining the Marines effected the actual turnaround.
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I am going to write this guy and say, Well, wake the f— up that what Adolf Hitler did for Germany was to Marine Corps-ize it as the only way to save a nation that after 13 years of Jew-Weimar had fallen to pieces in every way possible.
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Furthermore, Hitler genetically was a half-Kelt, half-Teuton himself and this explains his dark hair and blue eyes, and his multi-talented greatness — both a fiery orator and visionary, from the keltic side, and an organizer from his Germanic side.
Admit it, J.D., that the Marines are a dictatorship, you joined a well-designed dictatorial system to be saved and IT WORKED.
As Germany was saved by a frank and open dictatorship, which overtly controlled the media and at the very beginning set up a Propaganda Ministry to reeducate the nation to better values, it was the (well-designed) Marine Corps totalitariandictatorship that controlled you 24/7 at bootcamp — I went to Parris Island too, and my dad before me in 1943 — and which saved you from drugs, crime, disease, prison and death.
A German family in 1943, with a masculine paterfamilias, a feminine, motherly wife, and a well-turned out child; it took the whole world six years to beat one country, Hitler Germany.
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And, furthermore, we Americans do not live in now, nor since 1776 have we ever lived in, a democracy, not did the Founding Fathers want one at all. The word is in neither the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution. The key Federalist Papers denounce the very idea.
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…..The answer for White America is a new form of national socialism, social nationism.
America was the rule by an Anglo-Saxon elite 1776-1912, but it has been a judeo-klepto-plutocracy since 1913, when the Federal Reserve was enacted.
As J.D. Vance concedes, the whole system is beyond f—d up, it is unfixable with all solutions now on the table or tried in the past — FDR, LBJ, etc — and only individual suffering cases can be somewhat lessened. As Vance says, resources are poured into Appalachia way too late in the process — Child Protective Services, drug rehab and prison for teenagers who are already derailed.
It is in early childhood that these Appalachian, keltic white kids learn the utter, searing horrors of white-trash existence, of ACEs (“Adverse Childhood Events”) and are deformed usually forever by the traumas.
The German-Canadian Eckart Tolle’s brilliant, five-million-selling book
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We shlep around a “pain body”of childhood trauma, fear and anger.
Why?
Because the ego is a toxic thing that wants to suffer and can live only via trauma, fear and anger. Peace comes to those who shed this toxic ego, this “I am my pain and my scars.”
I had a childhood that was designed scientifically by the US deep state to be incredibly traumatic.
It was only the shedding of this pain body, this ego, this “I am a bundle of childhood pain stuck in 1959,” which enabled me to begin to achieve what God wants for this fellow, this “John de Nugent” guy, to do in his current life.
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Support the one WN in all of American history who was threatened directly by the White House.
With great sadness I have seen the habitat of rural Appalachians ( and the Ozarks ) displaced by elite gentrification over the decades. “Country boy can survive” if he has a backwoods to dwell in, which is becoming a scarce commodity.
Margi and I saw this gentrification also in rural northern Virginia, having lived in the Arlington-Alexandria-Wash DC area.
When I was in the Virginia Army National Guard as a sergeant in Manassas, Virginia (the site of two resounding Confederate victories, 1861 and 1862, during the War of Yankee Aggression 🙂 ), you could still see Dixie flags and the words Dixie, or Stonewall, or Lee-Jackson, etc., in many store names or in hardware stores.
General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was a fearless warrior and a very devout believer in God. He also executed deserters and enforced iron discipline. He was shot in the hand during First Manassas.
The fear-inspiring “Rebel Yell” was first shouted by Confederates at Yankee troops at the First Battle of Manassas (or “Bull Run”)
Anecdotes from former Union Soldiers described the yell with reference to “a peculiar corkscrew sensation that went up your spine when you heard it” along with the comment that “if you claim you heard it and weren’t scared that means you never heard it”.
General Robert E. Lee (along with generals Jackson and Longstreet) won the Battle of Second Manassas a year later, fought at the same location.
But today this same Manassas is half-Mexican, half Demoncrat yuppie. 😉
Closer in to DC, it is worse: childless white gays with poodles, Hindus, East Asians, Arabs, Blacks and Hispanics.
But the Jews don’t want armed ‘country boys who can survive,’ who have shotguns, who are ready to fight, who father sturdy kids, and when in the grandfather stage, pass on our stern and ancient white-man traditions.
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With great sadness I have seen the habitat of rural Appalachians ( and the Ozarks ) displaced by elite gentrification over the decades. “Country boy can survive” if he has a backwoods to dwell in, which is becoming a scarce commodity.
Thanks for this comment. That is one great song.
Margi and I saw this gentrification also in rural northern Virginia, having lived in the Arlington-Alexandria-Wash DC area.
When I was in the Virginia Army National Guard as a sergeant in Manassas, Virginia (the site of two resounding Confederate victories, 1861 and 1862, during the War of Yankee Aggression 🙂 ), you could still see Dixie flags and the words Dixie, or Stonewall, or Lee-Jackson, etc., in many store names or in hardware stores.
General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was a fearless warrior and a very devout believer in God. He also executed deserters and enforced iron discipline. He was shot in the hand during First Manassas.
The fear-inspiring “Rebel Yell” was first shouted by Confederates at Yankee troops at the First Battle of Manassas (or “Bull Run”)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_yell
General Robert E. Lee (along with generals Jackson and Longstreet) won the Battle of Second Manassas a year later, fought at the same location.
But today this same Manassas is half-Mexican, half Demoncrat yuppie. 😉
Closer in to DC, it is worse: childless white gays with poodles, Hindus, East Asians, Arabs, Blacks and Hispanics.
But the Jews don’t want armed ‘country boys who can survive,’ who have shotguns, who are ready to fight, who father sturdy kids, and when in the grandfather stage, pass on our stern and ancient white-man traditions.
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