Someone that would choose Hillary over Trump then write a book about the death of the west is playing the long DC Swamp payroll game.
Pablum. Preaching his empty rhetoric to a choir of one.
Socialism is the suicide of the West. And Socialism is nothing other than cynicism directed at society - and concomitant naive faith in government.Cynicism is an antonym for faith, and socialism is inherently hostile to God.
- From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sarbonne:
- There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Then something happened. In the 18th century. In Great Britain. It was a complex phenomenon Goldberg calls the Miracle — a new way of thinking about humanity and human achievement and personal liberty that unlocked a hidden door in the possibilities of the species.
What fascinated rapid cultural change was first cheap means of travel (trains, boats, planes) and now rapid communication.
The only way to preserve a culture is to actively protect it.
Letting in every alien culture and worse, those culture who historically have been at war with your culture, is suicide.
Teaching alien people gratitude won't cut it anymore.
Only keeping them out in the first place will.
Wow! Amazing how far Podhoretz can crawl up Goldberg’s backside.
Sorry, that ship has sailed.
Is a Western omelet the same as a Denver?
Jonah has outed himself as an embittered moron. I don’t even read his Twitter feed anymore, so I certainly won’t be buying his book.
As others have pointed out, he was at best ambivalent about the outcome of the 2016 race, which means he was ok with Hillary getting elected and putting the final nails in the coffin of this country. That he doesn’t understand how close we were (and yet still are) to losing it reinforces the point of how clueless he is and how he is only interested in conservative theory as long as it remains within the strictly hypothetical confines of a book or sprited beltway cocktail party discussions. This was he can express himself innocuously since he’ll never really have to suffer the embarrassment and shame among his liberal peers associated with actually implementing conservative policy.
Whites getting up off their knees would do it but it doesn't seem that is going to happen.
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