An activist generally has to pay their own way. Which means sacrificing material things or experiences that they don’t get to have because the cause means more to them.
Most are not wealthy, so this sacrifice likely represents the bulk of their disposable income.
It’s not impossible that some lunatic attempts to shoot or stab them as they demonstrate. America’s cities are full enough of armed and violent antiwhites who would and do throw away their lives for much less.
If they are merely assaulted it is entirely possible that they lose years of their life for defending themselves should they make a mistake or fail in their discipline for even an instant. Even if they do everything right they might get bogged down in law fare anyway, after all there is no end to the judicial corruption in American courts.
They risk their jobs, the loss of friendships and family who do not understand their ideals. There are even pro-White women who will not date activists because of the risks involved. In fact there is an entire segment of “pro-Whites” who feel impugned by the courage of activists and so attack them. They propose instead to build secret societies or to subvert mainstream political parties instead, they will try any proven failure a thousand times rather than do the honest work of the White advocate and instead of admitting their cowardice they attack the men who do shoulder the burden.
The lying press offers them an unending deluge of slander and lies and character assassination. Often they are condemned by the very people whose genocide they are trying to prevent.
They take time away from their families, responsibilities, hobbies etc and they get no recognition as individuals. It is an entirely selfless endeavor. Every single one of them places the 14 words above their own personal well being.
It’s only when we count the costs and risks that we can begin to appreciate what it means that Thomas Rousseau managed to convince so many men, literally hundreds, to take up the banner and march. Men with businesses and careers or academic pursuits. Established men with families and young men in the flower of life unsure what their future will hold.
Of course there are other groups, incurring the same costs and taking the same risks. I respect them as well. Have you ever considered what it means for these men to be activists? At some point every White man must ask himself if he has what it takes to fight for his people, he must consider what he is willing to sacrifice and he must live with that answer and I believe if he chooses poorly, that whatever he gained by not joining in the fight will serve only to burden his conscience in the twilight of his life.
During world war 2 I have read that everyone in the US knew someone who had been found unfit to serve and had been so crushed and humiliated by it that they chose suicide over the dishonor of not serving their country.
Just because this isn’t a conventional war doesn’t mean it’s any less important. Despite what those men believed the US would not have suffered from Germany’s victory, except maybe that they would’ve saved themselves the terror of the Cold War.
If we lose now the greatness of the European people will be erased, its future possibilities together with its past triumphs. No sacrifice is too great to prevent such a thing from happening.