Starsky and Putsch: Why Americans Don't get Europe [Mark Steyn]

National review via Steyn Online ^ | April 15, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[adam_az]

I dunno, I feel like we're losing our country to the same forces.

If things get real bad and Texas secedes, I'll be in the Lone Star Republic ASAP.

[McGavin999]

Wonder what the french are going to do when the Islamists reach the majority and outlaw wine?

[squarebarb]

He's right about their cynicsm --- 'commuinists, fascists come and go but my neighborhood and my village has survived them all, back to the Romans'.

But the flood of Muslims is different in kind. Instead of a new political ideology sweeping the land, it's a new people, entirely, uprooting the village and the neighborhood itself.

It ain't just a new ideology. It's a replacement population and a replacement culture.

[Eurotwit]

I think my first post on freerepublic was about a French Mayor who was in a row with some muslim store owners who refused to sell wine in the local grocery shop.

He was a socialist, but became livid when they took away his wine :-)

[okie01]

Wonder what the french are going to do when the Islamists reach the majority and outlaw wine?

Nothing. The French will rebel only when, as and if the Islamists outlaw smelly cheese.

[Lurker]

Yes, sadly he is.

L

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

You ain't the only one!

That was one fine woman.

Semper Fi,

[lainde]

Thanks for a complete Steyn!

[Ichneumon]

I was a teenager back then and somewhat odd -- I liked Kate Jackson (the smart one).

You weren't the only one...

[Ichneumon]

He's right about their cynicsm --- 'commuinists, fascists come and go but my neighborhood and my village has survived them all, back to the Romans'.

I had discussions with a European acquaintance (permanently living in the US) during the Clinton fiasco(s), and she couldn't understand why any of it bothered me. She just shrugged and said, "all politicians are corrupt, nothing can be done about it". She wasn't too pleased when I pointed out that with that attitude, it's no wonder they feel free to keep being corrupt.

[Valin]

The United States is a political project in a way that Spain - imperial, Fascist, monarchist, republican, pacifist, Euro-federalist, your-ideology-here-ist - isn't.


"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."
John Updike

[Remole]

Thanks for the lexicon entry. That's a word I'd never heard of, and I read A LOT.

[axel f]

She still is! And she's conservative.

[BlueLancer]

"I liked Kate Jackson (the smart one)."

Does that mean you also prefer Velma to Daphne? (Scooby-Doo)

[You Dirty Rats]

I'm not a Scooby-Doo fan, so I wouldn't know. I did prefer Ginger to Mary-Ann. And, of course, I WAY prefer Laura to Hillary.

[BlueLancer]

"I did prefer Ginger to Mary-Ann."

BZZZZ... wrong answer .

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for posting this! I adore Steyn, and especially like this line:

By contrast, an American's sense of himself as an American is much more explicitly political - it's about First and Second Amendments, or, according to taste, a "woman's right to choose". The United States is a political project in a way that Spain - imperial, Fascist, monarchist, republican, pacifist, Euro-federalist, your-ideology-here-ist - isn't.

[Dutchgirl]

the impact of Ralph Nader's two or three per cent. Think about an election where 20% of the voters are a culturally unassimilated Muslim bloc.

All of the "American" terrorists have been registered democrats...the ones in Syracuse and Washington state. For those of us who gloat over the Nader 3%, it's a scary thought...