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Monsieur Z believes in you 👉

“The way to save America on a local level is to redraw borders.” Well, if only someone could show a hypothetical map of redrawn state borders- 😮

So thats how "Monsieur Z" is pronounced

I think Zism can work pretty well as a label for these ideas.

Lame, join me as a Habsburg Anarcho-Monarchist!

He believes the children are the future.

But but but.... reddit literally told me you believed the same thing 1930s germany believed in

Monsieur Z is at the end of the day, just a guy, with thoughts, and opinions of his own. He is not a caricature, not a personification, he doesn’t share all of your own views, nor does he disagree with all of your views (probably). As a Canadian from the self proclaimed and even federally recognized “Nation” of Québec, I can imagine what a Monsieur Z ideology would be like applied to Canada. There are a great many similarities to the United States in terms of both states being federations with different ethnic/ religious/ cultural/ ideological groups populating it’s different regions. I do think to an extent Canada’s provinces do a marginally better job of comprising more unified populations, but most provinces are still made up of distinct groups with distinct interests. One thing that would make Canadian Monsieur Zism distinct from its American counterpart would be the fact Canada shares a huge border with the United States, an economic and military superpower, that a majority of our population lives very close to. I would like to imagine a world where both Canada and the United States are more decentralized (my own personal views, not Monsieur Zism), where “Utahism” is applied, and individual Canadian provinces and American provinces can form mutually beneficial trade relations free of restrictions from either federal government, in order to best serve the needs of the respective provinces and states populations. Perhaps with enough time, barriers to trade (mainly non tariff barriers, since minimal tariff barriers remain) could be sufficiently removed so that the new provinces and states trade more with each other, than with their own fellow provinces/ states, with perhaps deeper economic partnerships being founded between them (but not the way things occurred with the EU, nothing that could intervene with states sovereignty).

Monsieur Z's school of thought is whatever is funnier and irritates more folks in the althist community.

What Monsieur Z believes in, is the friends he made along the way.

"Monsieur Z Ideology is the Ideology of Monsieur Z"...NO KIDDING!

Mr Z noticed Polcomball wiki

Bro did not just say Apes together Stronk. fuckin' baller.

As a southerner, we are totally fine with Maryland and even Virginia doing whatever they want

Sometimes, it doesn't really matter who really believes in their ideology. Conservative, liberal, nationalist, or socialist, we, in the end, are still humans.

As one of the rare political conservatives who *hates* car-dependent suburbs, I'm frequently annoyed to the extent to which the American Right has chosen to abandon big cities and leave them to rot under leftist "defund the police" ideologues.

This video summarizes why I like you despite a having a bit of some disagreement on stuff like state maps. But so far I and you agree on 85-90% of things in politics.

The problem I think is the use of the horde mindset on all sides of the political spectrum. One thing I advocate is single-issue bills. There are things that we could almost all agree on, but there is so much niche spending shoved into these large bills that makes everyone upset.

Man, coming from such a (relatively) homogenous, small and unitary nation-state your way of thinking is so different from mine, yet there are similarities at the same time. Interesting.

I think one thing conservatives need to understand is that there is a difference between honorable and dishonorable taxation. Rightly, I think conservatives have a bad taste in their mouths from dishonorable taxation that results in a bloated bureaucracy that actively attacks and undermines the interests of the American people. We tax income at lower economic brackets and those income groups see nothing in return. I’d be okay with implementing Hungary’s family taxation policy, not because I think it will drastically increase birth rates, but because it cements and approves the family as a sacred institution. There are other, less predatory, forms of taxation that can and should be implemented that provides adequate income to the state and is not so oppressive as to foster political resentment.

Bro Pennsylvania is 50/50 catholic and protestant its very distinct from the rest of the yankee north east

That's not wikipedia. That's Polcompball. And that's the Polcompball Anarchy wiki to be precise (basically for ideologies that are not part of the Polcompball site). It's probably not a serious site cause I feel like the people who run it are Centrist LARPers (the Jreg types) lol. Although the site is only good for looking for cheap information.

I’m staunchly opposed to a lot of Mr Z’s personal politics because I side with Jeffersonianism, agrarian republicanism, and decentralization. So I was surprised to find I almost entirely agree with his particular “Z-ism” from the first half of the video. America never has been a nation. It is a federation and an empire, and thus federalism is the real key. It seems the underlying spirit of American decentralization is still strong even among those with more centralist tendencies. I will say though that “Utah-ism” is not at all likely to happen. States are sovereign political entities so their borders cannot be changed without their own consent, and most States are simply not going to consent to major border changes. States have always had diverse populations. Thats something you have to live with. I would say it’s more realistic to introduce decentralization on the State level, dividing larger states into autonomous provinces/regions.

Z I think would admire Henry Clay

i'm starting to believe my morals are too intertwined with the political spectrum. So it is refreshing to explore other's opinions from time to time, even if it doesn't align with my own.

Let me guess, Catholic monarchist but anti-cat boi.

I find it funny how I'm one of the few German Americans that has no admixtures of other ethnic groups. All four of Grandparents were Germans from the Volga or Black Sea German extraction. I even did a DNA test and it did come out as 81-100% German.

What If Australia 🇦🇺 was a Green country

Monsieur Z believes that Alaska and Hawaii aren't American 😎

Love your content! Keep up the good work 😊😊😊😊

There’s no reason to redraw borders with the current immigration system. The populations would always be in constant flux.

Tldr: Zism is fuck it, balkans your states

I disagree, the USA is less culturally distinct than say Russia and furthermore it has loads of autonomy for each of the regions. Compare this with say South Africa which is run as a nation state but has multiple nations in it, nations from different civilisations even

26:25 a big problem with prebuilt city’s is that they never meet the population demands it needs to function due to a lack of incentive to move there

Thoughts on Henry George and Land Value Tax?

This man is a philosopher like Marx

The california breakup in your video is actually really good, the inland empire and desert regions seperated from Orange county and LA county (which are their own thing) the SJV being its own state, and the coastal regions being their own states.

40:00, nobody is saying you can run nyc like a small town, what people are saying is that it has adopted policies that go against all common sense and are hurting themselves. Like how they handle crime.

Something interesting is that when you mentioned progress aswell as the classical progressives, it reminded me of the ideology of "Right-Wing Progressivism" as outlined by Ubersoy. If you know about it I would like to ask your thoughts on it and how it could align with the ideals that utahism may seek to establish.

Im a MAGA Communist, and one of these days I would love a conversation with you, because I think there is both a lot of common ground but also that I feel we could have in conflict. I think it would make for a really good conversation.

Hey Monsieur Z. Thanks for another great video! I also grew up in New York City; born in Brooklyn and lived in Staten Island for many years. I moved out about 3 years ago but all of my family is still in NYC. Like you, I grew up Catholic and with a strong Italian-American community. In High School I was much more Neo-Conservative, and Pro Small Government with influence from Libertarianism, but as I reverted back to the Faith just after college in New York and found the traditional Latin Mass, I have become much more Traditionally Conservative and open to a more authoritative government, so long as it is a moral one. Oddly enough, my family which instilled more traditional values in me as a youth have become much more libertarian and socially liberal, though they are cultural Catholics and not practicing. Now that I am in Florida, and have experienced more of the country or "real" America as some folks say, it is very clear how stark a difference there is between other areas and New York. I think redrawing state lines is an interesting idea, so long as the new states did have the ability and freedom to have a high level of autonomy from the Federal Government. That said I am not someone who says the Federal Government should not intervene when it comes to clear moral issues like banning abortion. I think the real problem is that if we want a Nation to function properly, we need to be a Nation of moral, just people. Without some reflection of "Christendom" within us, we can never be truly great.

Awesome! Thanks For this ❤❤❤❤

France got to the point where it is due to the French Revolution being a cultural revolution during which the cultural genocide of local ethnic groups who had prior to that point been culturally distinct and originally politically autonomous, having been only been brought under the control of the kings in Paris as a result of a bumpy and uneven process of centralization starting from at least several decades prior to the Hundred Years War - which was initially fought, in part, on the issue of the extent to which the nobility ought to be subservient to the king - which only resulted in a centralized system,

As someone who has been in the Polcompball community for over four years (on and off again but still embarrassing), it is always a surprise to ever see it mentioned by someone.

Pin Me if you think we should make all nations chocolate

37:00 I get what you are saying about how living in a nation and coordinating with each other is very important including to the degree of taxation. However, we already pay such a ludicrous amount of taxes that get wasted on welfare, crap Infrastructure, and foreign entanglements, that we can actually reduce people's effective tax rates and contribute much more to our own society if it was managed better. That's part of the problem I have with these big plans, because of the governmental incentive structures, they will always be mismanaged to a much greater extent than a lot of private industry, which also can mean incredible inefficient the bigger it is just because it goes against the individual persons insensitive structure. There are a lot of projects and plans that can bring people together and contribute a lot to communities and societies that should be made, but they need to be approached in a way that works with the human and American social condition, that work most efficiently with the people we have, which most often is from the bottom up towards the personal benefit of the person at work to go with the incentive structure rather than against it. So I see this being most effective by having people do these developments on their own property with their own funds with the tax breaks that would come from a restructuring of the government, and allowing that to work its way up for most projects.

As a german catholic of north Texas, I agree with your idea of “Balkanizing the states” and the role urban centers, even though I am a rural person. God designed society to have both different roles and hierarchy (feudalism in our case). Which is why I agree with everything you said here.

One thing which could help your vision is an electoral reform. Please look into the Irish and Maltese electoral systems

The video is interesting. I have some questions: How would you determine when to stop dividing and making states? You can potentially draw a lot distinctions between different peoples; until every block is it’s own state. A potential problem I see with more homogeneous states is the risk of the different nations not interacting with each others. Ie A Hispanic Catholic never interacting personally with a southern Baptist. (Tbf, this is also a problem with the current system.) How would you draw borders for highly diverse regions? With multiple nations in the same area.

Think it would be interesting if you expanded on this and went into detail on what you’d do as president.

Technological advances don’t necessarily lead to more liberalism. Stalinism, Nazism, and contemporary Chinese socialism relied on technological advances to enforce their authoritarianism. Even the US is more authoritarian now than it was 200 years ago.

Could you do a video on what parties the altered states would vote for

I'm from India and the comparisons with India made me think quite a bit, even more so because I'm also a young urban conservative. One thing I'd like to point out is that while it is true that India has better state borders India does still face issues with regionalism. Part of the reason behind it is the presence of regional parties which can often engage in activities or rhetoric that undermines national unity. In comparison all major political parties in the US at least claim to represent the interests of all Americans. Whether they actually do that or not can be debated of course but that's not the point that I'm trying to make. But overall as a Gen Z urban social conservative (formerly libertarian to non-left liberal) guy my views are actually quite similar to "Monsieur Z Thought" in many ways albeit tailored to a very different cultural context. The video was quite thought-provoking.

Switzerland is a way better example of a successful federation compared to India.

You say that you’re mostly a social conservative and your economic views are most similar to the American School of economics. That’s basically just traditional conservatism.

27:18 you might find Aristotle's work on cities interesting. He argues that a city is aa natural projection of a society in a prosperous future, and is the only feasible cradle of a scoiety, a culture and political power. In fact the word "politics" comes from ancient Greek polis, which means city

My only issue with the idea of restructure is that your map gives me a headache

From Utah and I love it here! Glad to have a shout out like that!! It’s really a great place, and I’m not even Mormon. But the identity they have here is cool and they have good values which I agree with.

I can update the page for you, ironically i was looking at the page the other day

America is not a nation. it is a federation. In fact, nations are something new, and america has more in common with societies of the ancient regime rather than the modern world after the french Revolution.

Maga Progressivism? Maybe I just found out my politics. I consider myself politicall homeless, but that does side with me more.

I am an uzbek expat to utah, specifically southern utah, and how utah made itself is amazing. Ive tried living in other states, and Utah is always the best. I am a muslim, and the Utahn more traditional culture feels similar to our own. And I hate the things the rest of the US does, so I started identifying as a Utahn. I, actually personally beleive that the US should be dissoved. Our senators would never change borders like that, they are too lazy and greedy. If we want meaningful change we need independence for the states, and the continous warfare could even be beneficial. Warfare makes strong people, drives progress, and boosts self reliance. Still, you are pretty based.

Very interesting take on the north catholic region, I was born and raised in NC and have some Carolina pride but my family is from NY. My family is Irish-Italian, to be honest at time with the amount of people who I meet that are also Irish-Italian it feels almost like it’s become its own ethnic group.

Sounds like you want the USA to be more like Switzerland. More insular, more regionalist, more direct democracy...

Monsieur Z believes in E girl?

I’m from Minnesota and my religion is Lutheran. My political views stem from my Lutheran faith. I must also add that much of the catholic nation is also very influenced historically by mainline Protestant Christianity, especially in New England.

I don't understand what you mean by social progress continuing as technology develops. Is feudalism more liberal than cavemen? How so?

31:33 there was a think tank that estimated that 90% of Americans would die within 9 months, if electricity was shut down completely.

Bro is a Balkanizer

I was raised in mormon USA and what I discovered in my first experience with the bigger US overall (army basic training in the late 80s). The divide I found was urban/rural, the guys I hung with were mainly a black man from Tupelo MS & a Lakota man from a ND Reservation. I'm still in "Utah America" even though I don't live mormonism. My worry is that the next fall too few of us have the old skills when the it happens our fall be farther down. I really appreciate your work.

What are your thoughts on Greater Idaho? I don't understand why eastern Oregon doesn't become its own State. If you look at the most thought-out plan Idaho has to Grandfather in all these Oregon laws, otherwise it will be too chaotic. What is the point of that?

You should really write a manifesto based on the same type of layout as this video, I think it could be a solid foundation for a more ‘legitimate’ (not that this is illegitimate, however I can’t find a better word) school of thought that can be used outside of KZfaq

Where’s all my other Utah peeps at?

I used to be more anarchist or libertarian and slowly have been drifting towards federalism, pretty much because of Trump. It seems like a good compromise to have some balance of federal and states rights.

This video introduced me to your channel, and I just wanted to say you’re a really intelligent, cool guy. I agree with most of what you say, although I lean more into having a large military and intervening within reason. I really liked what you said about taxation; it wouldn’t be bad if the tax money was used more effectively. I subscribed!

What If The Sahara was Green

13:25 if anything, the United States is pretty homogeneous compared to India with only 45% speaking Hindi and that 75% Indo-Aryan group including many different ethnicities. Religion is the only unifier for India, while the United States has the English Language (75%), the Christian faith (63%) and solid white majority (65%)

Remember that hinduism isn't really a single religion, and it varies wildly between regions. India, like America is also very religiously diverse.

I think its even more simple than this. Its mostly cities vs everywhere else. You have nyc essentially outvote the rest of the state. The solution is actually state electoral colleges.

I think the best way to do this is state splits

As a brit i disagree with a few things you believe. But on the whole, i can understand how you think and i respect that.

You kinda remind me of nixon in a way. Youre both big goverment conservatives. Or thats what alot of people called Nixon

most Americans don't realize that each group like the Southern Appalachians and Costal Yankees developed their own ethnicities over the few centuries and that our social contract system is inadequate for the long run. It is this ignorance that drives our divide, we don't see each other as Southern Floridan or Northern Californian, but all as the same idealist American character.

Do you have any videos on the Great Society? I am learning a lot about the work of Sargent Shriver which talks a lot about the war on poverty.

I really fell like me an Mr Z have been evolving on a lot of the same ideas over the years, especially with ideas of empire, conservatism, and urbanism, I'm just the west coast LA version with a more of a focus on the hispanosphere

As an Italia/irish jersey girl who loves her pizza and pork, I’m guessing you from the Queens and when the hell is the MTA gonna get enough money to clean up the subway😂

Maybe he is like Plankton. With his plan Z stuff alright..

Given how many people are leaving the church (mainstream protestants and Catholics in particular), how do you think this will impact the various "nations"

I feel the same way about people grow up in Texas

Hey since I don’t have time to watch the whole video. Ops on trans people?🏳️‍⚧️

35:28 I completely agree with Mr. Z on the concept of taxation.

Are you a practicing/ believing Catholic or more of a culturally Catholic? I believe I recall you talking about this a while ago but I could be wrong.

At least you don’t believe the planet Earth is autistic…

People are also Genetically determined to a large extent, so your racial biology effects your Behavior and Thought.

29:41 conservatism is an ideology based on the belief in a natural, permanent hierarchy of society and aims to preserve that hierarchy. Conservatives become reactionary when that hierarchy fails to sustain itself, seeking to return to a previous interation of that hierarchy. But the hierarchy itself is always valued in conservative ideology, regardless of wether that hierarchy will inevitably lead to failure. There are 3 main hierarchies: political, economic, and social.

As a Texan, I agree with a lot of what’s in here except for the redrawing of state borders. I think that that’s very idealistic and not many people would go along with it. I think a better idea to handle the “nations within a nation” problem is to divide the country into several commonwealths, between the state and federal level, limiting federal power, and allowing more autonomy for said commonwealths. This way we are still one nation, but are able to handle differing regions of the empire more closely than we can currently. Overall great video, and a good ideology to have, I hold similar beliefs, although as a southerner, I hold them from a rural perspective

As a historian, I prefer to think of the majority demographic of America as the Celto-Germanic just because there is so much overlap of all the immigrants from Western European sources :Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, and France.

As a Louisianan, I hope to perpetuate the Francofication efforts of our state government. I want to assimilate our middle and upper parishes to have some connection to Louisiana French culture. I love my state and I can’t want to lose the north of it to Arkansas if we ever redraw the map of the US. My state politics border on Cajun and Creole nationalism.

What do you think Darth Vader's ideology is, where do you think he falls on the political compass? Just curious.