Northern Dawn, from which I am quoting, gets half the point. You don’t live or die for abstract ideas or ideologies but for people you know. That includes God: our God is not that if Nic Cave: he is personal and interventional. Values should not be. Good is good and evil is evil. We have the law of God written in our hearts, and unless we have seared our conscience and become orcs, we know we have this law broken.

At times you have to fight the ideologues to protect home and hearth. At times you have to fight for home and hearth with people who are not righteous. So be it. Our nation and our time matter. The specifics matter.

But calling relativism and multiculturalism and levelling “New Zealand Values” or, as this is a Canadian piece, “Canadian values” is specious. You love the soil and the people of your land, not the ideology of the elite who run the place.

Powell’s point, apparently beyond Mrs. Thatcher’s grasp, was that values, whatever they may be, are not worth fighting, killing, and dying for, that you only do that for something solid and tangible, your country, consisting of real people, in a real territory, with real institutions and a real way of life.

This is one point about values that I think well worth re-iterating but there is another that I wish to focus on. … The point in question is that it while everybody speaks of values today this is a recent innovation and not one for the better. Whereas we used to speak of good and evil, which were what they were in themselves and were out there for us to discover, and of virtues which were habits of behaviour or character traits that we were to cultivate because of their goodness, now we speak instead of values, which are substitutes for goodness and virtue that we create and choose for ourselves. Since different people may create and choose different values for themselves, and who is to say, now that values have replaced good and evil, that one set of values is better or worse than any other, the language of values is the language of moral and cultural relativism.

Our current elite are universalists. As such, they have not a shred of humour. We need to correct this. Tom Kratman has an idea.

Now think about that, for a bit. As I began, quoting Jean Raspail, the left is humorless and grim. They cannot take a joke. Indeed, they have only one joke: “He’s stupid,” as they have only one insult, “you’re stupid.” (Why is that? Well…it’s because they’re rather stupid, really. Exceptions are just that, exceptional.) We can provoke them at will, easily, any time we like.

Moreover, the more we do provoke them, for the next four years, provided we do so with humor, hence the more we can get them to act like the fascisti they are, the more likely it is that the Democrats cannot return to power, because social justice is now at the core of their base, so much the core, in fact, that they cannot repudiate it. White men? Hell, white people? Pretty much gone now, and apparently not broadly welcome to return.11

That’s how we got Trump elected, really, that working class whites – and not inconsequential numbers of high quality blacks and Hispanics, too, be it noted – got tired of being ignored, except to be disadvantaged, and tired of being insulted. That’s why we’re in control of both House and Senate. That’s why we have a fairly hefty majority of state governorships. And that, o, most blessedly, is why we, not the left, are going to set the immediate tone for the Supreme Court and quite possibly create a supermajority within it that will last generations

But to make absolutely sure of that, to save the country, we need to keep the left out of power not merely through 2020, but all the way to 2024 and maybe beyond.

To that end I propose the following highly amusing program. I am going to drop a line to every right wing pundit I can think of, from Ann Coulter to Rush Limbaugh, referencing this column and suggesting that we should greet the ascension of Donald Trump to the oval office, this 20th of January, by flooding the internet, the airwaves, and the legacy media with the old but still fun meme:

All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

At the same time I’ll pester both EveryJoe and Break.com to do the same, in banner headlines, on the great day.

It may not be enough. In the big scheme of things, I am not so very big (and it’s snowing outside…and there are wolves…aaaooooooo…oops, wrong story). However, you can help. Post the meme this 20th to every leftie blog you can find, from DailyKos to DU to Moveone.org. Start nagging the righties, from the aforementioned Coulter and Limbaugh, to Breitbart and Taki, to every right wing blog you can find to make this 20th of January a day to remember, for all the SJWs we can cause to emotionally explode…

THis won’t work in New Zealand. We don’t have an inauguration in the next year. Instead, we can tell the Greens that all their frogs are belong to us, the Labour that all the workers are belong to us, and Wellington that they do not choose their earthquakes, the earthquakes choose them.

But if you are American, go for it. Love your country. Love your neighbour. And don’t treat people with contempt because ideology.