Youth for Western Civilization was incorporated in 2006 and began actively organizing in 2008. The founder was Kevin DeAnna, a graduate student at American University.
While some events were held in the fall of 2008, Youth for Western Civilization first came to public attention in the spring of 2009 by hosting speakers such as Congressman Tom Tancredo, Bay Buchanan and Congressman Virgil Goode. Events were held at campuses around the country including: American University, Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina and Providence College.
Since then, Youth for Western Civilization has stirred up debate on controversial issues like illegal immigration, multiculturalism and classical education that were thought to be driven off college campuses. YWC stands alone in challenging the dogmatic left-wing orthodoxy of American higher education.
Youth for Western Civilization is a 501c(3) non-profit educational foundation. All contributions are tax deductible.
will we again a la bill clinton send troops to europe
to fight on the side of moslems?
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Good news that this group exists. Thank you for the information. The Left has had an easy time demonizing conservatives for wanting to support our western heritage. It has to stop!
I do not think that Europe will experience civil war any time soon, for the simple reason that there is a simple and logical alternative to war, in a return to nationalism, or more properly, nation-hood.
This is because the very notion of pan-Europeanism is based on fallacies. There are three primary ones. The first is that differences in nations and cultures are the cause of war. The second is that differences in wealth and poverty give the impulse to war. And the third is that nations are just arbitrary lines drawn on a map, without any underlying meaning or value.
The reality is far different. Its three primary axioms are first, that nations exist for many reasons, most deeply their underlying traditional legal system that permeates their culture, of which there are several in Europe. The second axiom is that all economics and politics are local. Wealth and poverty have different meanings in different places. And the third that war is a product of the elites, the leaders, be they princes or faceless bureaucrats.
The nations of Europe, more or less in their current form, existed long before there was a pan-European experiment that pretended to erase such borders. If the EU disintegrates, the national borders will still be there.
The easiest way to dispel such silliness as a threat of civil war is to suggest what nations will go to war with other nations. Will Merkel of Germany suddenly decide she has had enough of Sarkozy of France, and send in what little remains of the Bundeswehr to occupy Paris?
Or will Britain’s Cameron try to do as King Henry V and invade France himself? Will the ever belligerent Swedes try to conquer the other Norse countries to create a “Greater Sweden”?
Granted, the Flemish and Walloon of Belgium might split up, but they already wanted to.
4:30 mark at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCmdDP4Wn74 should make it easier to understand the direction our political leaders and bureaucrats would take us if European civil war breaks out.
Fair warning: It’s Napolitano. It would be easy to say she is clueless and in over her head if the arrogance didn’t ooze from her scales.
The new peoples move into in Europe not to assimilate but to dominate. Hello?
Nationalism doesn't lead to war. Modern Japan is probably the most nationalist state on the planet, but it hasn't attacked anyone recently. And even when it was attacking others (in the first half of 20th century) it did so not because all Japanese people suddenly developed a collective hatred toward other nations but because the Emperor said so.
Egoism is also a poor motivation for war. If anything, it is anti-war. War is an ultimate altruism, an opposite of egoism. This is because in war a man fights and dies so that someone else can live and be happy. An egoist would never go to war because the war is too dangerous for his precious Himself.
The Europe, IMO, will not go to war over egoism or nationalism. It may, in theory, go to war because leaders of some states send the troops to fight each other (like in Yugoslavia.) But that won't happen among stable states - there is nothing to win and everything to lose. Days of kings and dictators who could win something and hold it are long gone. Besides, some countries in Europe have their own nukes, and the USA can also step in at any time.
What Europe is somewhat more likely to see is a civil war on religious grounds. But this won't happen until Muslims gain the majority. Only then they will start legalizing Sharia, Jizya and other things that most Europeans aren't interested in.
But the most likeliest of them all is submission to whoever wants to rule the Europe. I can't see any country in Europe (besides Switzerland, perhaps) that would even have spirit for a war. The whole idea of Jizya is that it's cheaper to pay than to risk death. We have now our own version of Jizya - the Obamacare mandatory insurance. How many people will go to war against the government over this?
The sight of wealthy, well fed white (British/German/French) tourists will soon wear on the nerves of more marginal EUropean Nations.
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Or more precisely, uncertainty leads to fear, which leads to defensiveness, which leads to aggressive nervousness, which leads to the strengthening of boundaries and defenses, which leads to nationalism. This is why guns and ammo sell like crazy once Obama came into office and why businesses refuse to hire.
Ego is only the bluster needed to mask vulnerability.
A martially-oriented leader can tap into that fear...with surprising results.