Dakota Beacon

Culture - tradition and pop culture will eventually emerge as the most powerful influence on political life.  I know too many conservative thinkers who believe that only “serious” approaches are worth their time.  I know a lot of them who never read a novel and pay little or no attention at all to music, classical or contemporary.  But in the end, it will always be the story of a nation that is always going to be the common culture that will determine the outcome.  It is always a mistake to ignore or downplay it.

For two decades and more, serious people like Mark Steyn and Mark Krikorian have cautioned us against unbridled, reckless immigration policies in the West.  Steyn has outlined for us the demographic time bomb that we are planting in our homelands.  Krikorian has reported the catastrophic economic and social effects of massive immigration - both legal and illegal.  Yet our governments and, let’s face it, lots of our  people in the media, in academia, have not only ignored their warnings, they have demonized them.  Now it is unacceptable for a normal, common sense-driven person to question immigration or migrants in any context.  

Tommy Robinson has tried to show us the dangers - he has lived through hell in order to deliver the truth about this.  In his country, whether in metropolitan areas or villages across England, young girls have been attacked, groomed, raped, murdered . . . and in at least one documented case, rendered into kebobs.  Where do we draw the line here?  Tommy Robinson has been imprisoned for pointing out these truths.  IMPRISONED FOR IT.  Not for perpetrating these crimes, but for reporting on them and describing them and cautioning us to safeguard our children.  For that.  Mark Steyn was drummed out of the corps on GBNews (which was supposed to counter the BBC, the government media organ).  People who have shared, liked or tweeted comments contrary to the government’s position have been arrested.  Elderly ladies have had their doors kicked in before dawn and been hauled away.  In Ireland tenants have been evicted from their homes and replaced by migrants - at government expense.  In France cars are burning, while in Canada and the Netherlands churches are burning.  Synagogues are under attack and so are Jews on campuses and on the streets.  King Charles III eschewed an Easter message in favor of a devout Eid message - and he is officially termed “Defender of the Faith” (and the “faith” here is Christianity).  The last straw is a call from these immigrants to ban dogs.  That might be the tipping point.  

So, with a lot of grumbling and ire growing in the native population - namely, among the English - what was the government’s response?  Surely not listening or discussing.  Certainly not a debate.  Instead, the brains of the UK government came up with a cartoon campaign.  Charlie, an English under-achiever is sore because an Indian immigrant girl beat him out of a job because she’s just smarter and less of a loser than Charlie.  Trouble makers tell Charlie he was dumped on because of “DEI”.  The Indian girl got the  job he wanted because he’s English and she’s , well, an Indian girl.  So he goes to chat with his friend Amelia about this.  Ameilia is a “bad girl”.  She has purple hair.  She wears leather zip-up jackets, she wears combat boots.  She’s a terrible non-conformist and hate monger.  At least that’s what the government says.  

Ameilia tells him to stop kow-towing.  He’s English.  He should love England and English culture.  He should not feel guilty about being English.  And he’s not inferior to people who have come to “conquer” England by the rubber boat-full.  In other words, she is supposed to elicit boo’s and hisses from the mindless masses of English dupes.  This ought to put them in their place.  

But a funny thing happened.   This cartoon drama blew up in the government’s face.  It turns out that Amelia and her message were enormously popular with the people who were supposed to find her embarrassing and hateful..  Instead of being a focal point of public disgust and disparagement, she turns out to be a genuine heroine.  She is today’s Joan of Arc, showing the people of Britain the way back home - back to the England they once called home..  

Someone latched onto Amelia, seeing the potential in her character, observing the positive  effect she has been having on the average English native.  Someone thought, “Why not re-create Amelia as a meme to deliver the very message the government fears?”  and proceeded to create A-! Presentations of Amelia praising the England we used to know, evoking symbols like things anyone can remember fondly - fish and chips and a pint in the pub, tea and crumpets in the afternoon, flower gardens, pork sausage, bulldogs and fashion, James Bond, Paddington Bear, Wallace and Grommet.  The catchy songs proliferate, Amelia the center of this revolution.  

Amelia has been cloned in numerous countries - Italy, Ireland,  France, Spain, Germany, Canada and the US.  In all of them, the message is, “It’s time to say goodbye.  Go home where you belong, feel the sun on your shoulders, smell the spices in the marketplace.  Let us have our country back”.  It is a gentle, kind, way of saying “We’ve had it with you.  It’s just not working out.”  It’s like a gentle break-up of a relationship that just can’t continue.    The message is “Your tickets are on the table.  It’s been swell.  Goodbye.  We won’t miss each other.”

And this is a powerful message.  Because this fool-hardy immigration policy, this casting all to the wind to throw open the doors to people who do not like us or our culture does not work in the end.  Co-existence with those who hate us and disrespect us cannot work unless we are to disappear ourselves.  And who wants that?  

It could be that Amelia, appearing just as this fact is becoming obvious to more and more people in the West - despite the rejection of their own people by Western nations’ governments and the EU - might spur the needed changes.  We have seen the rise of alternative political parties in England - Reform, a proprietary, weak-tea rejection of the Conservative Party, UKIP (UK Independent Party), Advance UK (led by Ben Habib and endorsed by Tommy Robinson) and now Restore Britain.  It would be a very good thing if the “Amelia effect” could power a peaceful return of unwelcome foreigners to their homelands in the East and Africa, the “remigration” we are now hearing more about.  

Something needs to happen.  The people of Britain (and elsewhere throughout the West) are called upon to sympathize with and support the underprivileged people from the ends of the earth while at the same time, right outside their front door, right in the schoolyards, their daughters are being attacked.  Can you imagine the impact on the morale of the young men of England?  The people of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and other Western European countries have been repressed, demoralized, shamed for being “Western” or for having their own cultures.  They are referred to as “colonialist”, which is truly projection, inasmuch as the colonizing is taking place by migrants in the West.  If it is wrong to “colonize” the third world, how is it not wrong to colonize the West?

It is fascinating that all of this invasion has been cast as “diversity”, when it is literally obliterating the many meaningful cultures of Europe and the West.  Diversity has nothing whatsoever to do with migration.  It is, in fact, quite the opposite.  Just take a look at a few of the Amelia (and Maria) memes which celebrate the cultures of their respective homelands and invite the strangers to go back and celebrate their own.  These AI girls look like real diversity to me.  

If this turns the tide it will be in the form of changes in parties and governments in those nations which still have a semblance of government by the people.  It might result in repatriation of people who simply cannot assimilate, people who are demanding that their host nations conform to THEIR customs and cultures - customs and cultures which cannot live parallel to the host nations’.  This would be the  best development in government policy in 20 years.

Amelia conjures the happy memories of simple things loved by her people, dogs, sausages, music, fashion, afternoon tea, literature, history, folk heroes and fish and chips with a pint.  Perhaps there are English kids who are too young to even remember some of this.  To them it is an open window.  To their elders it might well re-connect them with a healthy sense of pride and worth which their government has tried to kick and stamp out of them.  The Amelia phenomenon rejects the inferiority complex that has been institutionalized for so long.  Amelia’s anger seems to be reserved for this government, those she sees as traitors, more than against immigrants.  And this seems totally appropriate.   

In the end, it is the narrative that will guide nations - the stories - Beowulf, Paddington, King Arthur, James Bond.  This is why culture is so important.  People need their culture to put things in proper order.  Perhaps conservatives have been losing ground because they focus on abstract principles rather than the embodiment of the principles.  We have Ayn Rand’s “Howard Roarke”, Huckleberry Finn, baseball, Johnnie Appleseed, popcorn,  Stephen Foster, the Wild West, ”Yankee Doodle Dandy”,  Lassie and John Phillip Sousa.  Our stories and songs hold a huge nation of many varied people and colorful history together.  England has Admiral Nelson, Winston Churchill, King Arthur, Sherlock Holms and Shakespeare.  France has wine from Bordeaux, Renoir, Victor Hugo, Debussy and Collette.  Spain has Cervantes, Goya, guitars, flamenco and castanets.  Italy has Rossini, chianti, lasagna, gondoliers, the de Medicis, the Sistine Chapel, the fountain of Trevi and Dante.  I could go on.  The cultures and beauty of Europe are not to be abandoned in a frenzy of some kind of misplaced guilt because more than a hundred years ago some fools decided it was a good idea to try to settle in Africa or Asia.    Policies of mass immigration in order to “transform” these cultures will not make history “right”.  The best thing we can do is to encourage every people to take pride in their own culture.  

Right now we are engaged in a great struggle to survive culturally (and perhaps literally).  We are denied permission to live our own culture, to take pride in our own history.  We have the absolute right to these things.  As Paul Sorum once said, and said again and again by Ron De Santis, “It doesn’t have to be this way.”  They are right.  It doesn’t.  And it doesn’t have to be ugly or violent.  It can just be simply, “goodbye”.  That is what happens when things go way too far.  

When guests come into our home and tell us to get rid of the dog it’s time to say goodbye.