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Long Leaf

Dixian Ascendancy

4/21/2022

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A major advantage of the Left is their progressive vision. The Conservative non-movement by contrast has no progressive vision. Resisting any and all forms of progress is a recipe for failure and a sure fire way to join the dinosaurs.

Let’s dwell on that for clarity sake. The reason most of the dinosaurs are extinct today is because they were too Conservative. They failed to change to meet their changing environment. They went extinct because they resisted progress in a changing world. They simply did not adapt, or at least not fast enough.

I’ve had some time on my hands for the past year and have been binge reading books on leadership. There are a few reappearing messages that relate to what I am trying to say with this article.

  1. Leaders cannot be denialists. In fact, the first job of the leader is to define reality for his team, even if it is ugly.
  2. There must be a compelling positive vision that appeals to everybody involved in bringing it about. Usually the leader provides or helps to provide this vision and it is often coupled with the dose of reality mentioned above.
  3. There are no monuments to men who resisted change, only men who inspired change.

I can confidently report that number 3 is false in the case of Dixie. Dixie has many monuments to men who simply resisted change and took a 100% defensive position. Oh, they took offensive positions in some battles, but on the political and cultural level they only took a defensive position. They simply attempted to cling to what they had. That was a critical flaw and I suspect it is the main reason Dixie lost and has been losing up until the present day. Ever since Antebellum times (and probably long before that) we have been plugging dams with our fingers when we should have been building hydroelectric power stations. As long as our dream for the future is to simply hang onto what we have or to bargain for smaller concessions, we are almost guaranteed to lose.

One aberration from Dixie’s history of Conservatism was Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, who accomplished one of the greatest patriotic feats in history with an organized effort to recruit as many “second sons of nobility” as he could to the Virginia colony. Rather than taking advantage of the opportunity to be an uncontested big shot among plebs, he raked in disaffected members of the upper classes after the English Civil War to create an aristocracy for the colony. There is no doubt that he had a vision of Ascendancy for Virginia. It had a lot to do with timing and opportunity, but based on results rather than sacrifice, we owe much more to Sir Berkeley than we do to Lee or Forrest. Berkeley and his ascendant vision created Dixie.

Like Berkeley, we need a progressive mentality. Unfortunately our enemy has pretty much monopolized that word. Let’s just say the progress that I am talking about is quite different from Cenk Uygur’s version of progress. That’s why I am proposing the term Ascendancy, or more specifically, Dixian Ascendancy (not Conservatism, traditionalism or Reactionism) as the ideological antidote for Progressivism.

Ascendancy does not simply stand his ground with a tough guy posture. Ascendancy is busy building things. Ascendancy does not simply try to hang on for one more generation or correct one more Leftist lie. Dixian Ascendancy, like Progressivism takes the initiative with a positive vision. Let me suggest a possible vision of Dixian Ascendancy:
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  1. Explosion of Dixian ethnic identity
  2. Explosive Dixian birth rate
  3. Dixian youth are taught leadership skills
  4. AntiDixian messages are refuted in a coherent, logical way, suitable for reaching a mass audience (especially for the education of the youth)
  5. Dixian identitarian groups form to promote new messages, symbols and slogans
  6. Dixian heraldic register with many families registering their coats of arms
  7. The intentional conception and gestation of a worthy aristocracy
  8. Dixian becomes the first “Anglic” language (similar to the rise of Romance languages from Latin or Afrikaans from Dutch, and since we are the oldest branch of the British Empire, it is only natural for us to lead the way)
  9. Explosion of Dixian (language) literature
  10. Dixie builds her own movie and sitcom industry, domain registrars, email and calendar providers, search engines, web directories, encyclopedia, news outlets, hatewatch directory, electronic currency and disaster relief organizations.

Not one of these things requires a single politician, a single vote or a single bill to pass, a single billionaire donor or any kind of special permission from AntiDixie. What they require is for motivated, visionary Dixians to work together for things that cannot be easily taken over or destroyed by AntiDixie. We don’t need to be granted independence first. The path of Ascendancy is for us to be our own independence.
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Joseph R. Stromberg
4/25/2022 06:58:36 am

I like the language proposal.

The now defunct Lowlands-L List used to deal with all languages originating on on the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and English Channel. These were various kinds of Low German, continental Scandinavian, Frisian, Dutch, and Afrikaans, AND Scots and Appalachian.

Obviously, the Appalachian category needed broadening into Southern (from whatever sources derived, including Kentish, West Country English, and Scots). One of the first steps is to rid ourselves of Noah Webster.

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Long Leaf
4/25/2022 03:13:02 pm

Glad you like the language idea. I’ve been playing around with a potential spelling system and making notes on special grammar and vocabulary for a couple years now and would love to be able to work with others who see the value and the potential. I certainly don’t have it all ironed out yet.

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