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To: Absolutely Nobama; All
I haven't read the manifesto but I watched the video.

An isolationist, he wants Norway to be Norway. Norwegian people, values, culture not some muddled, middling, multicultural Marxist and Islamic state which he sees the EU becoming.

He finds Marxism has crowded out national identity in education and the press with opposition belittled, dismissed or attacked. He finds high risk in a Marxist-led European Union believing it would follow other failed states before it like the Soviet Union in killing millions or follow the bloodshed that has come with prior invasions from Islamic radicals over the centuries.

Along with the Marxists, he takes issue with the Nazis and pre-enlightenment Christendom as blood-shedding imperialists.

This isn't about ideology or racial supremacy but national identity.

Even after the video, I can't see the connection between the attacks and his goals. How are they a means to further his cause rather than cutting the legs out from under it and playing into the very Marxist propagandist hands he fears.

A comparison of his views with Palin, the Tea Party and American Conservatives and so forth requires lots of mental pretzel twisting and disingenuousness.

None of those are isolationists like he is, none of them oppose immigration in the way he does. There's some pride in national identity but that's hardly unique. Conservatives, Palin, et al. want lawful immigrants who want to join us, become part of the larger American community, not carve out Balkanized zones for foreign nationalist identities on American soil. Multiculturalism is poison, the melting pot is strength.

25 posted on 07/24/2011 1:50:40 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

Problem is the national identity of the European right wing is based on racial identity. When we speak of national identity, we refer to our shared ideas and values and it doesn’t matter if they are shared by an hispanic conservative governor in New Mexico or an African-American running for the GOP nomination.


26 posted on 07/24/2011 2:13:38 AM PDT by ari-freedom (Why are my Obama jokes funnier than Conan and Leno's?)
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