The Populist Party ran candidates in the United States from 1984 through 1994, on a platform that suggested that whites are discriminated against by many government policies. The presidential nominees of the Populist Party were Bob Richards in 1984, David Duke in 1988, and Bo Gritz in 1992. The party’s newspaper was The Nationalist Times, published originally in Pennsylvania. The party ceased to exist but the newspaper continued, as a monthly. It is now published in Nevada.
On July 1, American Third Position, a new party with somewhat similar views to the Populist Party, announced that The Nationalist Times is the party’s official organ. Don Wassall has been the editor ever since the paper was established.
I thought The Spotlight was the Populist Party newspaper.
Given the views of the 1980s-90s Populists, this doesn’t suprise me one bit.
Just to clarify, the Populist party of the 1800s-early 1900s was ifferent from the modern-era Populist party.
‘The Spotlight’ ceased publication in the late eighties, I think
The Spotlight was a publication of the Liberty Lobby as I recall. It was a bit frightening in its extreme views on race and religion. I wondered whatever happened to it.
Willis Carto rebadged The Spotlight as the American Free Press http://americanfreepress.net – but they’re more anti- Jew than white supremacist. I would think American Rennaisance http://www.amren.com would be where A3P types would spout.
Yeah, the stuff in those newsletters was mostly bigoted BS. It was run by Willis Carto, a white supremacist
The Spotlight became the American Free Press.
A3P is a racist white supremacist organization that is comporable to the American Nazi Party, National Socialist Movement, etc. Whatever newspaper it spouts its hate from, it’s still a dangerous group.
So what I am reading here is that “a people are guilty for being white”? Cannot a people be white and not guilty and still have valid points of view? The American ‘melting pot’ of European-Americans did not have as many problems as we have seen since the anti-European legislation of 1965. The best places to live for happiness and safety are homogeneous because a people share the same religion, culture, heritage. Cannot a people want for their own safety and expression?
Libertarian Voter’s latest post is comparable to the hysterical screeds of the SPLC while offering no facts to back up the silly Nazi slur.
Please check out the A3P for yourself. In all organizations, groups or parties there will always be undesirable individuals who try to attach themselves to the movement. This includes the LP and libertarian organizations.
The A3P is only “dangerous” to a person like Libertarian Voter because he/she believes that libertarianism is the way, the truth and the light and all other points of view are just seed beds of totalitarianism. Clearly, an unreasonable proposition which explains the ridiculous use of Nazi slurs.
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I took your advice and had a look at your site.
If your party isn’t based primarily on racism you need better web editors, because that’s the message that comes through loud and clear.
TonyS I am glad you took time to view the A3P website. Initial exposure to new viewpoints and ideas can be difficult to accept. The reposted American Spectator article by Roger Scruton on the website was a pleasure to read. What was your thoughts on his piece?
However, your criticism of racism falls short. I recommend that you watch Craig Bodeker’s film “A Conversation about Race”.
Bodeker’s aim was to establish today’s conventional wisdom on societal racism, examine, and then expose the falseness of this prevailing dogmatism.
His presentation demonstrates that too many Americans view “racism” as a flexible term and that there is a disconnect in how the term is applied. Bodeker correctly states that the term is artificial and has been seriously manipulated. He has personally grown suspicious of the term and those who constantly use it.
Have a happy Fourth of July Tony and best regards.
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A site which consistently and repeatedly bemoans the fact that America is growing less “white” is racist, and represents the racist views of racists.
Best to you on the 4th as well.
Reply to post # 3 & 6, Cody Quirk, I was informed you moved
to Las Vegas. Is that true? You correct about Carto, William Shearer had his number in the mid and late 1980’s
My late parent’s figured him out in the late ’50’th and
1960’th when they were fighting the floridation of the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills water supply. My father was one
of the Dentist that took on ADA, because of there plan of
forcing the City of Los Angeles to place flouride poison in
the water system. Since my dad was also a pharmacist, he
would talk rings around the speakers the ADA set out.
I still remember the kindness of Bill Shearer when he spoke
of my parents fight to keep California free of Flouridation
of the water, at my mothers memorial service in 2004.
My paternal grandparents came to Orange County, CA in 1911,
after my great grandmotner died. In fact my great grandmother was a good friend of Mary Todd Lincoln in the last years of her life. On my mother side, her parents came
to America from Ireland and then
England to Canada in the year 1903, therefore, they missed
the internal workings of the Republican Party of the last quarter of the 19th century.
Cody, note that the A3P, can’t come up with their own name,
so they take the name “American” from “Amerian Independent
Party” try to confuse electors in the AIP.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party.
Tony your portrayal of the A3P is inaccurate and your position is weak. More effort is needed on your part to substantiate your claim.
Using the word “racist” three times within a two sentence reply is a poor attempt at circular reasoning.
Open-minded individuals interested should check out the A3P website. Though one may not agree with all of the party’s positions, its content will provide the reader a contrast to the close-minded, stagnant and intolerant views represented by TonyS.
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Even using the word “racist” three times I couldn’e keep up with the counts of the words “white” and “Caucasian” on the front page of your party’s website. Some samplings:
“White Candidates Stampede”
“According to Eve Conant of the Daily Beast, “A startling number of white-power candidates are seeking public office.”
“Newly released census data shows that minority children (Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and others) now outnumber white children in the United States.”
And from your site’s “Quotes from the Establishment:”
“The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.”
“I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers.”
“Q: What kind of world do you want to leave to your children?
A: A world in which there aren’t any white people…”
“I don’t care about your idiot children.” — Willie Brown, black Mayor of San Francisco, to a white parent complaining that affirmative action would penalize his children”
Christopher – am I wrong, or are these last quotes from “The Establishment” taken from among your party’s ranks?
I agree that it’s unfair to characterize you and your party as Nazis.
They embraced their racism.
You pretend it doesn’t exist.
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BTW – I have to commend your party on its very clever recruitment techniques. For example, announce that a new member has been appointed to your party’s board of directors, and in that very announcement announce her qualifications as a racist by quoting another commentator’s citations of her racist CV. Nicely done. At once you position yourselves as the victims of “unwarranted” attacks by the vicious left wing, a party with “nothing to hide,” while at the same time letting other racists know that, “Yes indeed, you’ve come to the right place. This is the party for all you American bigots.”
Very clever, indeed.
But like you, Christopher, I encourage readers to look at your site and reach their own conclusions.
ANY body *pure* white or *pure* black since the 3 guys got off Noah’s Ark ???
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Never mind that! A better question is how did those “3 guys” produce children of any color?
It’s amazing that every pro-white organization in America is also racist and led by neo-Nazis. Can anyone think of any organization that speaks to white interests and is not racist? Ya, that’s strange.
“It’s amazing that every pro-white organization in America is also racist and led by neo-Nazis. Can anyone think of any organization that speaks to white interests and is not racist? Ya, that’s strange.”
It’s because whites have “white skin privilege”- even though race doesn’t exist.We need-in perpetuity- compensatory racial privilege programs for the non-existent nonwhites.
LIBERAL (a bit of a straw-man perhaps, but representative): White people are all racists. And they control everything and use their privilege to keep the black man down. Republicans are the racist party who defend white privilege.
ME: But Republicans say they believe in racial equality and abhor discrimination.
LIBERAL: They’re lying.
ME: How do you know?
LIBERAL: They send coded racist messages to their followers. They say they’re talking about “crime” or “immigration” or “multiculturalism”, but we know what they mean.
ME: Suppose that’s true. Suppose people vote for Republicans because they like the (implicitly) racist message. Why be so subtle about it? Why not openly advertise that they’re the racist party? After all, whites are the majority, and you’ve said they’re all racist. You’d think open racism would be a real vote-getter.
LIBERAL: Whites are racists, but they’re afraid to admit it openly. That’s why Republicans don’t openly espouse racism, and voters don’t openly vote for them for this reason.
ME: Then I have two questions for you. First, if whites control everything and manipulate everything to promote racism, what are racist whites afraid of? If it’s a racist establishment, why should they expect anything bad to happen to them for being open racists? Second, aren’t you bothered that, by your own admission, the majority of the electorate feels intimidated and terrorized so that it can’t openly express its true beliefs? How do you square that with your belief in free exchange of ideas and with democracy? We’re not even talking about just a few people feeling they can’t freely say what they believe. If you’re right that most whites are closet racists, it’s the majority of the citizenry that feels that way. Which brings me back to my first question. If the establishment is racist, and you liberals are daring rebels, what force is it that’s holding the white majority in fear?