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We used to have a thread discussing the possibility of secession / balkanization happening within the US on RVF. I wanted to carry on the discussion here on the new forum. What made me think of it was a video trailer I came across recently for a film about Orania in South Africa.
For those unfamiliar with Orania, it's a town founded by Afrikaners. In the trailer they discuss the reasons they founded Orania in the first place and a lot of the things they bring up have parallels to what I see developing here in the US (and Western Europe). Essentially they accepted that they would not be able to save everything and so instead focussed their efforts on retaining and defending a small part. The narrator talks about how other conservative Afrikaners in the 80s and 90s believed they would be able to take back the country, or there were would be a civil war or things would reach such a breaking point where things couldn't get any worse that people would be compelled to vote for someone (a Trump like figure) with the willpower to fix things, etc. It sounded like all the copes that white conservatives here in the US tell themselves.
With Orania they accepted they wouldn't be able to save everything and instead focussed on triage: keeping what they could. The narrator in the trailer talks about how their biggest problem was and is demographics so their solution was to create an intentional community that was demographically favorable. In the trailer he mentions that Europeans will have to make the same choice or risk losing everything. I see the same thing happening in the US.
For those unfamiliar with Orania, it's a town founded by Afrikaners. In the trailer they discuss the reasons they founded Orania in the first place and a lot of the things they bring up have parallels to what I see developing here in the US (and Western Europe). Essentially they accepted that they would not be able to save everything and so instead focussed their efforts on retaining and defending a small part. The narrator talks about how other conservative Afrikaners in the 80s and 90s believed they would be able to take back the country, or there were would be a civil war or things would reach such a breaking point where things couldn't get any worse that people would be compelled to vote for someone (a Trump like figure) with the willpower to fix things, etc. It sounded like all the copes that white conservatives here in the US tell themselves.
With Orania they accepted they wouldn't be able to save everything and instead focussed on triage: keeping what they could. The narrator in the trailer talks about how their biggest problem was and is demographics so their solution was to create an intentional community that was demographically favorable. In the trailer he mentions that Europeans will have to make the same choice or risk losing everything. I see the same thing happening in the US.