Ethan Sanders ✠

The National Struggle is first and foremost an inner struggle rather than an outer one. A struggle against all of the mindset and mentality issues that have collectively plagued British Nationalist circles for a long time. Not everyone comes to the movement with them, but everyone is at risk of being sucked into them, and when they are not challenged they always fester and grow. 1) Opportunism. The amount of nationalists who chop and change what they are doing based on short-term expediency is staggering, and it kills the ability of those people to achieve any medium or long-term aims. There are some prominent people within 'nationalism' who have cycled through parties and organisations at a staggering rate because of this, and in the process they have destroyed their credibility as trustworthy or serious people. 2) Treating political organisations as service providers. This mindset causes people to join collective enterprises with a view to having things provided for them, rather than with a view to adding value to them. It leads, unintentionally, to completely parasitic relationships whereby individuals act as drains on collective enterprises rather than adding to them. 3) Expecting the task at hand to accommodate their pre-existing strengths. When in reality the tasks that need to be done never change regardless of whether a person already knows how to complete them, they just sit there uncompleted until somebody does. The only solution here is to learn how to do new things, or get on with the task anyway in spite of finding it difficult or unsuited to them. 3) Valuing words more than actions. Talk is ultimately cheap and valuing people's opinions or words as opposed to actions and work creates a culture that is a breeding ground for con-men, performing monkeys, and the kinds of people who talk big but are incapable of doing anything. 5) Assuming that 'someone else' will do it. All this does is create a justification for lethargy and inaction. The belief that there will always be some mystical person who will do X tasks, organise Y thing, donate Z money, etc. There are a terrible number of people within nationalism who use this mentality to justify sitting it out and doing absolutely nothing of use. None of these mentalities are pathological - they can all be overcome - but they are absolutely toxic to the medium and long-term prospects of any person who cannot banish them.

If the people in it work hard enough then of course.

Perfect example: On this platform nearly two MONTHS ago, there was a three way debate hosted by @RightsSidePod which included the NRP, the NDP, and the BDP. For both of the others, most of what they said wasn't actually backed up by any sort of codified aims, objectives or policies, and their opinions were presented as their 'party line', even when the written 'party line' was explicitly different. The explanation given for this was that the Party line WOULD be changing to suit their presented opinions because manifestos and aims were being rewritten. Fast forward nearly two months and that's never happened in either case and it probably never will either. Talk is cheap.