Posted on 10/31/2011 9:36:59 PM PDT by WilliamHouston
Pat Buchanan's new book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025 is the bluntest and most cogent statement of the truth about the present course of Western civilization that has been seen in American bookstores in many years.
In this book, Pat takes the gloves off and hits the American Left with the Hard Right. He knocks the liberal establishment out of the ring. Everything that real conservatives have privately known to be true for generations is finally aired in this brave and long overdue new book.
Christianity is the foundation of Western civilization. As people of European ancestry abandoned their traditional faith, Western culture began to die. As Western culture began to die, Western civilization began to die. Finally, the people of the West are literally dying out and the Third World is flooding into the West to take our place in our own homelands.
The American Left has become a utopian death cult in the grips of a suicidal ideology like the Shakers. The Baby Boomer elite that was captured by the counterculture in the 1960s has set America on a course to national oblivion: radical multiculturalism, open borders, the welfare state, affirmative action, the obsession with diversity, the embrace of the sick and degenerate "free love movement," the embrace of abortion and family planning, the embrace of an adversary secular culture that has flatly declared war on Christianity.
As a historian, Pat Buchanan is here to remind us of the awful truth that this sort of progressive worldview and the lifestyle that accompanies it has consequences:
First, America is disintegrating into a balkanized landscape of racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious enclaves - a secession of the heart, as Buchanan describes it - that disagree with each other on the most profound and fundamental questions that unite a people.
Is this not true? Surely, the Left must admit there is some truth to this after the debt ceiling crisis and the failure of Barack Hussein Obama to usher in the "post-racial" and "post-partisan" America that was promised in this 2008 presidential campaign.
Does it seem like America is unraveling at the seams? Does it seem like the "center" has collapsed? Does it seem like the federal government is increasingly unable to perform the most basic tasks of a functioning government? Does it seem like we talk past each other on television?
That's what happens when there is no longer any moral or cultural common ground to appeal to anymore in Washington. The Left set out to dismantle America's traditional Christian culture - it was racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, nativist, reactionary, bigoted, repressive, etc. - and succeeded in shredding our national fabric which underpins our state.
Second, the attack on the European-Christian core of the American nation by the revolutionary cadres of the Baby Boomer elite has been successful. Christianity is no longer the dominant culture in America. It has been replaced by a secular hodgepodge of various radical utopian leftwing counterculture causes. The adversary culture has become the dominant culture.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the "Civil Rights Movement" triumphed in America. The "Antiwar Movement" triumphed in America with the assistance of the Mainstream Media. The "counterculture" of the hippies and beatniks triumphed in America and became the new mainstream - the free love movement, radical environmentalism, gay liberation, second wave feminism, the cult of self-centered, liberated individual that rebels against any form of restraint.
What's the result of this? What does the awe inspiring Baby Boomer culture of social liberalism look like when it has been tried out in practice?
A quick survey of the wreckage of the European-Christian core of America will find a demoralizing culture of chronic drug addiction and nihilism, millions of aborted babies, dysfunctional children living in shattered households, soaring household debt, soaring income inequality, sexually transmitted diseases, infidelity, the "hook up" culture among adolescents, teen pregnancy, the "man-cession," unprecedented suicide rates, obese slobs covered in tattoos and piercings, "boomerangs," and now Millennials are being labeled the "Lost Generation."
If European-Christian America is a jet plane, then we have stalled somewhere above the clouds. Now comes the terrifying descent, the inevitable nosedive, and the awful crash into reality.
The Left, which has always hated European-Christian America, has succeeded in destroying European-Christian America for the Gen X'ers, the Millennials, and their children.
Third, the utopian leftists of the 1960s made sure to throw open America's borders to all comers. These hippies invited the whole Third World into the United States to feast upon the fat of the land. They were also encouraged not to assimilate to the hideous and racist culture of the richest and most scientifically and technologically advanced society that had ever existed in all of world history.
By 2042, freedom loving European-Christian Americans will become a minority in the United States - the European-Christian core of the American nation, which was the wealth producing dynamo that rocketed America to the top of the international pecking order, is swiftly collapsing like a black hole.
Every year the burden of taxation, affirmative action, diversity, multiculturalism, the welfare state, and socialist wealth redistribution schemes to fund these wild utopian projects becomes more unbearable for the 53 percent that is the Atlas that carries around the 47 percent on its back.
If something can't continue, it will stop.
As things stand today, it is the aging and shrinking European-Christian core of America (along with intelligent, hardworking, and entrepreneuerial Asian-Americans) who are propping up the declining United States. Foreigners know this despised, maligned constituency is the foundation of America.
Black America is culturally and economically a basket case. Hispanic America is worse off in some ways, better in others. White America has gone completely off the rails under the influence of the counterculture. Even Asian America has been negatively affected by the sickness of the dominant culture.
The Left is ideologically committed to pushing the limits of diversity, democracy, and radical egalitarianism. In Suicide of a Superpower, Pat Buchanan unflinchingly takes on all three liberal sacred cows from a traditional conservative perspective.
Historians will look back in stupefacation at twentieth- and twenty-first century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
Far from being a strength, diversity is our greatest weakness. Far from being the American ideal, the Founders took a dim view of democracy. The Constitution of 1789 was designed to shackle and restrain democracy within a republican political order. The Declaration of Independence acknowledges equality only in the sense that all men have natural right to liberty.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights are the foundational documents of the republic and the organic documents of American union. And the word "equality" does not appear in either. Nor does the word "democracy."
The Founding Fathers rejected social equality. They rejected economic equality. They also rejected the Left's insane dogma of human equality. None of these forms of equality are reconcilable with liberty.
In 1971, the Atlantic Montly ran a cover article by Harvard's Richard Herrnstein. His thesis was that even if we are able to equalize the home and school environment of all children, natural academic ability will enable some children to outperform others. No matter how much money is invested in reducing class size and enhancing teacher training, an "hereditary meritocracy" will arise in a public school system where expenditures are equal ...
America plunged forward. U.S. and state governments and local school districts began the most massive investment in education in all of history. Expenditures per pupil doubled and tripled. Head Start, a preschool program for low-income children established in 1965, was lavishly funded. Perhaps $200 billion was poured into Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provided additional funds to schools based on their population of low-income students.
What were the results? Writes Murray, "no evaluation from Title I from the 1970s onward has found credible evidence of a significant positive impact on student achievement ... A 2001 study by the Department of Education revealed taht the gap widened rather than diminished.
There is no proof that all people are literally equal at the cultural or hereditary level - it is an absurd idea, a doctrine easily refuted by history and experience. Similarly, there is no proof that human societies can conform to the Left's ideals of social equality and economic equality and survive in the long run.
In order for social and economic equality to exist and for "diversity" to be celebrated as our greatest strength, you need a massive state apparatus to constantly redistribute wealth and repress freedom of association - you have to strangle liberty to force society to conform to this type of "equality," as it is a rebellion against natural law and cannot be sustained without the state application of force.
European nations that are being forced to conform to this cruel and inhumane leftist experiment are dying. European-Christian Americans are dying out at a slower pace. The Left looks upon the death of European Christendom as a "progressive" development and a cause for celebration. It wants First World nations without Europeans and without Christianity.
The pursuit of this utopian fantasy will usher in a dystopian return to the Dark Ages: Western civilization will collapse, the American Republic will collapse, the global economy will collapse, the world will descend into chaos and warfare, as the shibboleths of the Left become as antiquated as Roman aqueducts in the future which is about to befall us.
America is entering a time of troubles. The clashes of culture and creed are intensifying and both parties are perceived to have failed the nation. Republicans were repudiated in 2006 and 2008, Democrats in 2010. And the crises that afflict us - culture wars, race division, record deficits, unpayable debt, waves of immigration, legal and illegal, of peoples never before assimilated, gridlock in the capital, and possible defeat in war - may prove too much for our democracy to cope with. They surely will, if we not act now.
At this point, Pat Buchanan is warning us yet again as a statesman that such a world is all but inevitable. Even if we were to radically change course now, the momentum of Western decline will still take us straight into the path of the historical iceberg. It is too late. This sucker is going down like the Titanic.
Predictably, Buchanan's small minded critics on the Left - groups like the SPLC, Media Matters, and "Color of Change" - are distorting his work and charging him with heresy against the hoary old pieties of political correctness, as the Tea Party, the flash mobs, and Occupy Wall Street, not to the mention the mobs in Greece and Spain, arrive as omens of the American future.
A true statesman writes for history and posterity. One day the Millennial generation will look back and wonder why no one listened to the man who saw it coming and who could have been our president.
P.S.: Perhaps the most unimportant observation made in Suicide of a Superpower is that the GOP will share the fate of European-Christian America. The Republican Party can either start representing the interests of the shrinking pool of European-Christians which constitutes 90 percent of Republican voters or follow in the footsteps of the Whig Party.
Where is the evidence of that?
All in all, I suppose some argument could be made that one is a, "committed Catholic," but would not care to defend the lives and rights to practice Catholicism of others, but just barely. I have my doubts. Personally, I think Buchanan's position is despicable, and he give anti-Catholics a bad name.
Czechoslovakia was neither a tyranny nor "hated" by non-Czechs under its rule. It was one of the few democracies in the region and while there were frictions, "hatred" is far too strong a word.
Again, maybe there are committed Catholics willing to overlook the kidnapping of the Pope. On the other hand, maybe people who think that's a justifiable hint are crazy.
Sadly, Mr Buchanan has traded his Catholicism for a deranged leftism, or something even more bizarre.
Hitler wanted war...if it was just about Danzig, he would have rolled into Danzig and the Corridor and left the rest of Poland alone.
Hitler was actually ticked off about Munich 1938, he was denied the chance to test his war machine in Czechoslovakia, he was not going to make that same mistake with Poland.
‘Doesn’t Pat Buchanan work for his “small-minded critics on the Left” ? Last time I checked, ol’ Pitchfork Pat was a commentator on PMSNBC.’
‘Nice review. I agree with the premise: the Left has taken what was once a genuinely free country and corrupted it with a system of perpetual dependence on the government and decadence. Unless somehow the American people wake up to the failure of socialism and multiculturalism and act quickly, the United States will certainly go the way of Rome.
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True - and by looking at postings here, they’re rather discuss a book about WW II than confront the truth of what Buchanan wrote.
“The troll award goes to you with the first post to change the topic from the the subject of the book to Buchanan. I’m sure you won’t be the last.”
Pitchfork Pat wrote the book, did he not ? How on God’s green and cooling Earth is that changing the subject ?
No, that would not be the case at all. Pitchfork Pat supports Ron Paul. Ron Paul, in turn, gave his blessings to the OWS crowd in the last debate when he called the human debris “victims”. None of that is ad hominem, those are all easily proven facts.
My problem is with Pat Buchanan, who calls America “imperialist”. My problem with Ron Paul, is, well, Ron Paul.
And what does any of this have to do with the book or article?
You said I was making an ad hominem attack when I clearly am not.
Danzig or “Free City of Danzig” is what we know today as Gdansk.
Actually I don’t think Pat supports the “OWS barbarians”. What he’s against is crony capitalism and the people who engage in it, including Obama. This is about the ONLY thing that people outside of politiical power agree on across the board.
(1) What’s the use of a “strong military” that is deployed in Germany to defend Latvia from Russia and South Korea from North Korea and to police the wilds of Afghanistan when illegal aliens are allowed to invade Texas and Arizona?
(2) Laughs.
Just what exactly are these “conservatives” actually trying to “conserve”? Are they defending gay marriage like Ann Coulter? Writing for Frum Forum?
(3) Ayn Rand herself said that she WAS NOT a conservative.
(4) What matters is that they believe in God and are trying to preserve their culture and heritage. In that sense, Orthodox Jews are conservatives.
(5) Last time I checked, the Left’s ideal was “colorblindness” and “non-discrimination,” and it was the Left that invented the idea that America is a “proposition nation” or a “creedal nation” in the 1940s.
Ron Paul is like a broken clock. He has a few good ideas and lots of bad ideas. Paul is a principled libertarian. He isn’t a conservative though.
The United States is an empire. Are you kidding? Just how many military bases do we have overseas? How many troops do we have deployed overseas? How many foreign alliances are we entangled in now?
What do you call Puerto Rico? What about Guam? Of course America has an empire. The dollar is the world’s reserve currency because America is an empire.
“I forgot one thing: It’s very clear that Hitler intended to kidnap Pius XII and hold him prisoner, perhaps kill him.”
Did that ever happen?
“The Pope was doing nothing to impede Hitler from having his precious Danzig, the need for which excuses all other actions”
The only reason that Italy got involved in WW2 is because Britain and France declared war on Germany over Poland and Poland refused to negotiate because of the British war guarantee.
“Again, maybe there are committed Catholics willing to overlook the kidnapping of the Pope. On the other hand, maybe people who think that’s a justifiable hint are crazy.”
Speaking of committed Catholics, what happened to the committed Catholics of America? What about the committed Catholics of Poland, Italy, Spain, and France?
Isn’t Buchanan right that a third of Catholics in America have become apostates?
“Sadly, Mr Buchanan has traded his Catholicism for a deranged leftism, or something even more bizarre.”
Buchanan looks at Western Europe and sees the reality of the situation: a continent where Catholicism has evaporated in Italy, Spain, and France, which is being overwhelmed by Muslim immigrants, where Europeans can’t even be bothered to propagate themselves.
He also sees the reality of the situation in America: in the United States, over a third of Catholics have abandoned Catholicism, and we live in arguably what is one of the most degenerate societies that has ever existed in world history.
I guess that is what you call “victory.”
(1) Clearly, Hitler sought his “lebensraum” in the Soviet Union which he we went to war with anyway in 1941.
(2) Hitler had no desire to go to war with the West or with Poland. On the contrary, it was Britain and France that declared war on Germany, and who turned the conflict into a world war, and who dragged America into the conflict.
(3) In the narrative of German evil, Bohemia which had been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for centuries and Prague which had been the capital of the Holy Roman Empire was an “aggressive conquest” by “militarist Germany.”
In this narrative, the fact that Slovakia seceded from Czechoslovakia (twice) and Poland (the official good guy) also invaded Czechoslovakia is ignored, as is the invasion by Hungary.
(4) Pat is right on the facts: Hitler wanted to go to war with the Soviet Union and the war with Poland was not part of any grand design on the part of Germany, but rather it was a response to the diplomatic situation that arose after Chamberlain gave the Poles that war guarantee.
If Chamblerlain had not given the Poles the war guarantee, they would have ceded Danzig to Germany, and the Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact would have kept Poland (like Sweden) out of the war between the Germans and the Soviets.
Hitler would have gone to war with Stalin. There would not have been a war in Poland, or a war with Britain and France, or a war between Japan and the United States, or a war that raged everywhere from the Balkans to Italy to North Africa to Northern Europe and the Netherlands.
Instead of there being a world war that destroyed Europe, there would have been a Nazi-Soviet War, which would have crippled Nazism and Communism.
Think about it: there wouldn’t have been a Vietnam, there wouldn’t have been a Communist China, there wouldn’t have been a Cuban Revolution, there wouldn’t been a triumph of liberalism in Europe, etc.
(1) We have troops all over the world to react threats quickly.
(2) Ann Coulter opposes gay marriage.
“NEW YORK, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative commentator Ann Coulter stayed true to her reputation for courting controversy during an address to homosexual conservatives in New York on Saturday, telling them that they did not need special rights and that marriage was the union of a man and a woman.”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2010/sep/10092807
3) Ayn Rand was distancing herself from the so-called “Old Right”.
4) Atheists can be Conservatives, too. Again, see SE Cupp, who’s not exactly a liberal.
5) Conservatives believe in color-blindness, too. Barry Goldwater was a card carrying member of the NAACP. If you haven’t noticed, Herman Cain is leading in the polls. In 2010, Consrvatives surged to the polls and elected:
Susana Martinez
Tim Scott
Marco Rubio
Ileana Ros Lethinen (I’d be hard pressd to call her a Conervative, but Miami is a blue hell hole. That’s the best the Republican party wa going to do there.)
Allen West
Nikki Haley
“What do you call Puerto Rico? What about Guam? Of course America has an empire. The dollar is the world’s reserve currency because America is an empire.”
Should we give back Florida ? Louisiana ? Texas ? Alaska ? Hawaii ?
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