IS PUTIN ONE OF US?

HumanEvents ^ | December 17, 2013 | Patrick J. Buchanan

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IS PUTIN ONE OF US?

By: Patrick J. Buchanan 12/17/2013 Is Vladimir Putin a paleoconservative?

In the culture war for mankind’s future, is he one of us?

While such a question may be blasphemous in Western circles, consider the content of the Russian president’s state of the nation address.

With America clearly in mind, Putin declared, “In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered.”

“They’re now requiring not only the proper acknowledgment of freedom of conscience, political views and private life, but also the mandatory acknowledgment of the equality of good and evil.”

Translation: While privacy and freedom of thought, religion and speech are cherished rights, to equate traditional marriage and same-sex marriage is to equate good with evil.

No moral confusion here, this is moral clarity, agree or disagree.

President Reagan once called the old Soviet Empire “the focus of evil in the modern world.” President Putin is implying that Barack Obama’s America may deserve the title in the 21st century.

Nor is he without an argument when we reflect on America’s embrace of abortion on demand, homosexual marriage, pornography, promiscuity, and the whole panoply of Hollywood values.

Our grandparents would not recognize the America in which we live.

Moreover, Putin asserts, the new immorality has been imposed undemocratically.

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[ReformationFan]

“Putin is giving PC a kick-in-the-butt. In this respect he’s one of us. Today at Christmas Mass in the Cathedral of Cologne, a topless “FEMEN” protester disrupted serviced. In the US she’d be the new Sandra Fluke interviewed on 60 Minutes. In Putin’s Russia she’d be thrown into jail. In this respect, Putin is “our” kind of guy.”

Agreed.