The Kelso Method: The Importance of Positivity and Building Bridges
While I believe the Kelso Method can be summed up in a few words – positivity, building bridges, professionalism, and hard work, I'd like to expound on why the style, presentation and outlook that Jamie Kelso has pioneered is the best way forward if White Nationalism is to reach a tipping point in the foreseeable future.
Problems in Reaching our People: White Nationalism's Image
When seeking to grow its ranks and earn broader acceptance for its ideas, the White Nationalist (WN) movement's primary problem lies and has lied in its image and its ideals and methods as perceived by the White target population. Many Whites see WNs as resentful losers who blame their inadequacies and failures on blacks and hispanics. Despite the fact that there are scores of winners in our ranks, this perception within White America will and has attracted many losers. Losers seek handouts, make excuses, and drag down morale with their complaining and foot dragging. Winners are self-functioning, contribute (intellectually, physically, financially) to the cause, raise morale, and attract quality people. Now, the enemy may control the media and have a significant stranglehold on information, but we, as a whole, have fallen into their trap and played into their stereotype. When Jerry Springer hired a bunch of actors to dress up in Klan outfits and scream profanity and racial epithets at the camera, the vast majority of Americans had no access to a White Common Sense organization, philosophy, or individual to act as a counterpoint and show that NORMAL people, successful people, can and do hold pro-White views. In essence, for too long we have isolated and allowed ourselves to be isolated from the mainstream. Some of us have sought isolation in the name of purity, some out of disgust at a degenerating American culture. Regardless, most of us became negative and bitter as we saw our traditional culture and race in rapid decline. Others, a minority for sure, have remained positive, but have kept quiet out of fear of social ostracism or losing their job.
Times are changing. Times have changed.
The internet, the Tea Parties, 911 truth, big bank bailouts, Ron Paul 2008, and Rand Paul 2010 have all opened up a flood gate of new ideas, energy and information access to White Americans. The past ten years of war, overzealous government, and deficit spending have angered people and made them open to change. We must present our people with the truth about race and its importance in building and maintaining a functioning society and government, and do so in a way that THEY want to hear, that THEY can relate to. Our people are ripe for it, now is the time. As the weight of more than 100 million non-Whites continues to crush traditional White America and more of our people become discomforted by their dispossession, White America will look for solutions in new, yet at the same time, traditional places, because it will be forced to.
Now, if you speak out, a growing number of people will support you. If you use the internet and WNN, you can remain anonymous. If you speak out openly and you are ostracized and smeared in the media, you can tell your story to millions via the internet. If you lose your job, you can work from home and still make a decent living. Barriers to White America dissenting from its dispossession are falling precipitously, setting the stage for a rapid growth in White Racial Consciousness, IF we work hard at making ourselves and our message positive and professional.
The Importance of Positivity
I hate to start a subsection on positivity with a question on negativity, but honestly answer these questions: What else has worked? Has negativity, cultism, or isolation attracted quality people to our cause in the past? Have you ever seen a successful outsider movement, of any kind, built on collective and personal negativity?
There are many sayings in our culture that stress the importance of attitude. Here's one from one of our great White psychology pioneers: “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
William James
Positivity, more than any other factor, is the key to our movement growing and attracting quality people. In the world of quantum mechanics, like attracts like. We create our own world by choosing to perceive it and act on it with a particular attitude.
Furthermore, positive people are more dynamic and fun to be around. In a rapidly changing world optimism helps one to roll with the punches. Whatever your views on heaven and hell, choose to make life a manifestation of heaven right here on earth. Take the time to appreciate the beauty in this world – a White child's smile, a warm spring breeze after 5 months of wintry weather, the euphoria as you reach the heights of a mountaintop after a long and arduous hike. This conscious recognition and embrace of the positive will spill over into other areas of your life and make you a happier and more effective person. You will find yourself with more meaningful and deeper personal relationships. When all of us apply this collective positivity to one effort, the synergistic effect will be enormous and will push our movement into the mainstream.
Building Bridges to White Americans
For generations, our enemies have used the media, academia, the legal system and every other lever of power to create division within our people. There are blue collar vs. white collar, men vs. women, Southerner vs. Yankee, Bronco's fan vs. Cowboy's fan, Democrat vs. Republican, and Baby Boomers vs. Generation X. These are issues that would be fine to argue about if we had an all-White society, if we kept it “all in the family.” But arguing these issues are detrimental to our cause as they have taken our focus off of RACE – the genetic inheritance given to us by our ancestors that allowed them to build American and Western Civilization and allows us to maintain them today.
As cathartic as it can be to focus on WWII history, naming names, or calling names, these tactics do not help us in reaching our people with our White Common Sense message. All they do is trigger Pavlovian reflexes (programmed by our enemies in the media) that immediately turn White Americans away from our cause and burn bridges that once connected us to our neighbors, coworkers, policemen and acquaintances. To paraphrase Wilmot Robertson, “We will not reach White Americans with a racialist message using any tactic that grates against the Anglo-American values and traditions our country was founded on.” Instead, we must build bridges to ideas White Americans currently hold and find areas where we agree with them and focus on the agreement. ATTRACT our people by showing them that we agree that the government is too large and wasteful, that illegal immigration is out of control, that the Federal Reserve in not really “federal,” and that we should focus on America first instead of dumping our money into foreign countries and sending our sons to die in foreign lands. Interestingly, focusing on agreement, a POSITIVE realization, is more effective than focusing on disagreement, a negative realization (ie, we both don't want to live near blacks). We must highlight what we are FOR. Once people have made contact with us and are accepted into our circles, we will exude more open racialist values and policies. Our positive attitudes and White Common Sense will rub off on them, causing them to build bridges to even more White Americans.
In terms of action, building bridges encompasses attending implicitly pro-White events. Tea Parties are predominantly White, and promote, more or less, White values and society. Ron Paul rallies have attracted large crowds of our people who are ready to get active and change America for the better. Many of these people would rather be at a pro-White rally, but have no rally to attend and have no outlet for their outpouring of pro-White energy. Libertarianism only looks good as a counter to the current system of crooked capitalism and warmongering. Given a choice, our thinking people will choose Nationalism over Libertarianism, assuming they have fair enough exposure to both ideas. The bridge from Nationalism to Libertarianism is not a hard one to build considering that quality White people respect private property and the rights of the individual, support freedom of speech and limitations on government, and promote and exercise personal responsibility. In fact, these are almost exclusively White traits. White genes (and education) are the key to libertarian-leaning societies. We just have to convince our Libertarian Whites not to put the cart before the horse – that quality White people are the prerequisite to personal freedom. The key is to go where the politically active White people are and, again, highlight our commonalities while inserting the White Common Sense that the Libertarians lack.
Professionalism
The word instantly brings to mind images of doctors, professors, military officers and law enforcement personnel – all successful members of the community who are respected by their family, friends, and neighbors. What do these people all have in common? Shared values and a dignified approach to dealing with internal conflicts. Professionals avoid internecine public conflicts, police their ranks, hold each other to high standards, and seek to be subject matter experts in their respective fields. They also take care of each other, network, and promote the broader cause for which they work. These are all things that we are emulating here on WhiteNewsNow.com and in other organizations that have adopted the Kelso Method, such as the American Third Position. Jamie has entrusted many dozens of us, more than on any other forum I know, to act as Senior Moderators, allowing us to police our own ranks, and empowering us to project a positive image that is appealing to our people.
A welcome side effect to our positive and professional approach is that our club is exclusive – a place where winners congregate. This exclusivity is another recruiting tool that says to our young and unawakened White Americans, “We have values, we have standards, meet our high standards, share our noble values, and you, too, can be a part of us.” Pride instead of White guilt.
Hard Work
This final principle of the Kelso Method is incredibly easy and requires little explanation. Accept the White struggle for survival as a gift and get to work! All meaningful growth and maturation comes through experience and challenging ourselves. Expand your knowledge, your effectiveness, and your mastery of your environment. Get in touch with your Faustian spirit. Keep in mind that we are working for the highest principle – the conscious evolution of man, no, of ALL life through man, in the direction of the stars.
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
Re: The Kelso Method: The Importance of Positivity and Building Bridges
This is a great short video explaining the importance of positivity. Ignore a few very short objectionable parts (you'll recognize them when you watch). A full version of the The Secret is available to watch at Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online
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Thanks for your good analysis of what we are doing here on WhiteNewsNow and in the American Third Position, William Gayley Simpson.
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What a well thought out post, WGS! We need to stay more positive and promote a more positive image of our people and what we can do.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid. - M. Aurelius
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As one who makes his living on positive thinking I cannot help but agree with the above video. I thought I'd add a bit of common sense to the discussion though.
This is the don't push philosophy backed by years of sales experience. If the customer isn't buying what your selling even though to you it may be as obvious as sliced bread it may not be to a poor guy who's doing ok and has been brainwashed by the media for the whole of his life. there is value in walking away and just planting seeds in his consciousness to germinate. In a con game the conman will tell you if the mark isn't buying just walk away.
Now we aren't con-men but their advice still is accurate. We are often madly in favor of white folk and like evangelists want to save the world and that's a good thing but like all good things moderation is better than a shotgun approach.
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Originally Posted by patthemick
I think you are right in that we have to find a balance. We should be unabashedly pro-White, but there are times when implicit Whiteness is a lot more effective. Jamie used an example of writing Ben Shalom Bernanke and letting the reader figure out what ethnicity he is instead of screaming it at him. It's a rare person who doesn't shut down and become closed minded when they are screamed at. Conversely, letting someone figure it out for themselves leaves a lot more lasting impression in their mind.
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You know what really annoys me is the educated idiot. This is the middle or lower class sophisticate that airily informs me that he's voting for this guy because your guy has no chance of winning and this guy is the lessor of two evils. That's not an uncommon problem but the guy I'm really referring to is even more of an idiot than that because he talks with a voice inflection as if he's a money man insider whose business will be improved by this guy being elected.
It's as if he doesn't relise that he's not an insider he's an outsider and the SOB politician is aiming right at his forehead with a bullet but the local talk show blowhard has explained how this will be good for big business and everyone should expect a trickle down effect.
I usually respond with sarcastic amazement that the rich must be building dams as the only trickle I feel is their contemptible urine as they tell us it's raining.lol
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This guy sounds like one of the people who will only come around to our side when it has reached a critical mass and it becomes popular to hold our views. The good news is that there are millions of our people who are much easier to reach with our message. These people will come around a lot sooner - they just need a palatable form of White Common Sense - what we are building here at WNN and A3P.
That guy reminds me of a quote by Goethe: “None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”
I think the best thing you can do with this guy is get in a patriotic comment or two and then break contact and focus your time on other people.
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This is the very thing that separates WNN from other pro-white forums. I am so fatigued by the constant negative drumbeat at other places. If they spent as much time promoting a positive attitude, as they do fighting with each other, then they would be on to something. It is easy to get sucked in to that negativity, and I see plenty of new members come here (myself included) who are just amazed by the winning atmosphere and supportive attitudes of everybody from the top down. There are a lot of really terrible things going on around us, but being angry all the time just isn't going to accomplish anything. If you listen to a Speech from Ron Paul, he exudes positivity from every pore, while tackling the tough issues of the day. We have to conduct ourselves in that manner. Thank you so much for creating this post WGS.
" It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is NOT a great man. When a man begins to feel that he is the ONLY one who can lead this REPUBLIC, he is guilty of TREASON to the spirit of our institutions"-- Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
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In many ways, we create our own reality. It is really just common sense. You get what you give. Sure, we all have to roll with the punches, and bad things happen out of the blue, but how we choose to react to negative things impacts our outlook and future decisions. We have a LOT to be optimistic about. We have many, many successful people who agree with us, but have been repelled by the negativity of other pro-White forums and organizations. With WNN, I now have a place to send friends who are educated professionals who are sympathetic to our message. There is a much smaller gap between WNN's message and presentation and these type of people's thinking.
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I like this approach in general. I think it is important that we portray an image of being normal human beings rather than psychopaths or people playing WWII dress up. And the fact is, the majority of Nationalists are normal White people so it isn't a difficult image to portray... I really think that is our greatest weapon in the "war of perception": the simple truth.
My question in regards to strategy is about the Jews...
My introduction to WN was because of non-whites, but it was mostly an emotional reaction. I didn't like where our culture was going, race mixing, etc. It made me angry, to say the least. But eventually the emotion subsided and I fell back asleep. It wasn't until I started to look at the heavy influence of Jews in our media and the common message of White genocide they express that my viewpoint took a concrete form. In terms of activism, it isn't something I want to avoid for that reason. My thinking is to take an educational approach and allow thinking White people to come to their own conclusions. What are your thoughts?
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The best approach, as we have both written, is to state the truth in a positive, normal way. Sometimes that involves revealing the jewish role in our media, financial systems, foreign policy, etc. Some people will respond well to that message, the majority will not. We are not trying to attract the majority of White Americans on WNN, we are after the smaller pool of perceptive, free-thinking Whites who, once they have had awhile to grapple with the concept, will not be afraid of recognizing the pervasiveness of the jews in our power structures.
BTW, welcome to the forum!
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Outstanding thread!
I am quite in agreement with the importance, correctness, & power of being positive in every endeavor that we participate in, no matter how small or large, private or in public.
In my experience positive energy coupled with goodness in fact leads to victory. I can interact with all types of people & I can get further with them because I engage them from a position of positive energy. One key for me is to always remember that it is a gift when I have the opportunity to convey my ideas to another person. I am judged for everything that I say & do. It is my duty to represent my family & people rightly & as long as I am not dealing with satan himself, I will make traction into another's viewpoint & collaborate to find a higher path.
I strive to motivate others. There should be no personal ego when we are trying to reach our people. I don't care if every single body is better than me. I just want them in my life. I know what life is like without the good. I strive to associate myself with the good & I know the folks here are similarly compelled.
Positive attitude & energy overcomes obstacles & strengthens the spirit. Imo positive energy is a virtuous cycle. If you will put it out ,it will invigorate you, guide others, change the landscape & come back to you enhanced.
Being positive works & I know it is a huge defining trait to those here I admire.
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Here are a couple of quotes that I abide by:
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb
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If I make dark my countenance,
I shut my life from happier chance.
ALFRED TENNYSON, The Two Voices
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid. - M. Aurelius
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I can be a little grim sometimes, but in the long run you can't really define yourself by what you oppose, nor can you change anything when you insist that you're powerless and doomed to failure. I never understood why some people will spend all day making up nonsense about how their enemies are all-knowing and all-powerful, considering that's usually what a person's enemies say about themselves during wartime.
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You're right in that we build up the enemy too much and downplay our own successes. In the Germany subforum there's a movie about Ernst Zundel called "Off Your Knees Germany!" At the end, Ernst talks about the wild success he has had over his lifetime against what we would think were insurmountable odds. We have literally hundreds of very successful people (college professors, CEOs etc.) on our side. Our biggest challenge is uniting them behind a common approach that appeals to people. Sure, we need to do lots of recruitment, but our first, and most important step is to rally our current team behind the WNN/Kelso method.
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Tonight's JK show is about the obligation to be positive. He is critiquing the recent article by Paul Craig Roberts, ( The Day America Died | VDARE.com ), in which Roberts suggests that the only option for young Americans is to leave the country to escape a necessarily bleak future. Positivity illustrates to visitors the inherent attractiveness of White nationalism.
Good stuff. I like to think of positivity as obligatory almost for spiritual reasons. We know that we are a great people. Why should we run?
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I can go further in state that Jamie knows my negativity to certain things, especially my feelings towards certain people or topics, or more personal things, such as me looking for new work after baby Bjorn's birth. It's tough. But people can tell sincerity and Jamie's sincere about everything.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid. - M. Aurelius
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I was privileged to have one of the most amazing conversations of my life this evening.
Thank you, Jamie.
Gil
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You and I know that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
I'm hoping to have a conference with the leadership of A3P this weekend to discuss my continued participation beyond a $40 yearly membership.
I have no personal political ambition beyond supporting A3P.
I'll post a report on this later.
Gil
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