Posted on 01/02/2002 7:00:39 AM PST by Pokey78
Patrick Buchanan THE DEATH OF THE WEST (Introduction pp 8-9)
THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION that began with the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917 died with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The dream of its true believers was to create a new socialist man. But police terror, the camps of the Gulag, and seventy years of indoctrinating children in hatred of the West and the moral superiority of Marx and Lenin did not work. Communism was The God That Failed. When the mighty structure built on a foundation of lies came crashing down, the peoples of Eastern Europe and Russia threw the statues of Stalin and Lenin and the books of Marx and Engels onto the landfill of history without looking back.
But where Lenin's revolution failed, the one that erupted on the campuses in the sixties succeeded. It put down roots in society, and it created a new America. By 2000, the adversary culture of the sixties had become our dominant culture, its victory conceded when the political base camp of traditionalism raised a white flag in Philadelphia. On the moral and social issues-the fight for the sanctity of human life and the return of God to the public square of this land we used to call "God's Country" - the Republican party raised its gloves and pleaded, "No mas. "
In The Death of the West I hope to describe this revolution-what it stands for, where it came from, how it went about dethroning our God, vandalizing our temples, altering our beliefs, and capturing the young, and what its triumph portends. For this revolution is not unique to us; it has captured all the nations of the West. A civilization, a culture, a faith, and a moral order rooted in that faith are passing away and are being replaced by a new civilization, culture, faith, and moral order.
But the title of this book is The Death of the West. And though our culture war has divided us, and mass immigration risks the balkanization of America, a graver, more immediate, crisis is at hand.
The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization. Today, in seventeen European countries, there are more burials than births, more coffins than cradles. The countries are Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Russia.116 Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox-all the Christian faiths are represented in the great death march of the West.
The new hedonism seems unable to give people a reason to go on living. Its earliest fruits appear to be poisonous. Will this new "liberating" culture that our young have so enthusiastically embraced prove the deadliest carcinogen of them all? And if the West is in the grip of a "culture of death," as the pope contends and the statistics seem to show, is Western civilization about to follow Lenin's empire to the same inglorious end?
1 United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects, November 24, 1998
Good point and I think we have enough now, 200+ million is more than enough.
It is ironic then when one finds racism to be generally much more pronounced in just about all ethnic groups outside of European-Americans. Your color blind values are virtually shunned by most Mexicans, Asians, Japanese, Middle Easterners, Indians, Persians, you name it. The reality is that only Westerners believe in the concept of a color blind society. And racism cannot be something that only European-Americans are guilty of when the exact reverse is far truer. Yet, to hear those who like to toss around the race card, only Americans of European decent could ever be guilty of racism. You better start taking a closer look at the attitudes of those pouring into this country from all directions and find out what they really think about Americans before reflexively pulling your race card.
Interesting that you would mention freedom. One of the most important achievements of Western civilization is individualism which is inherently tied to freedom. You claim to be a supporter of freedom but still choose to judge people not based on their individual character and achievements but rather on their external characteristics. I know many highly achieved people who don't fit into your definition of an American but have greatly contributed to American society. Why do you want to throw out all foreign born people and not those, and there are many of them, of your own kind who have shown contempt for the values you claim to cherish and have proven to be failures in our society?
A while ago an interesting article was posted on FR about the development of quantum computers at IBM. I don't think anybody mentioned it on the thread but I noticed that the two leaders of the research had "foreign" names:
"Nabil Amer, manager and strategist of IBM Research's physics of information group.
"Isaac Chuang, leader of the research team and now an associate professor at MIT."
What do you think of these two people?
You bet. There are millions of illegal criminals in the LA area yet no lettuce fields. Uhmmm? <
And home constructions costs to the buyer are higher than ever, the savings aren't passed on. Homes have never been less affordable, they aren't cheaper in areas of the country that use illegals, in fact they're probably more affordable when it's American labor building them.
You may be right on this, but if so, then why on Earth would they continue to vote overwhelmingly for the party that gives out these 'freebies' (ie Democrats)?
More diversion and smoke, to cloud the real issues.
What you said!
Oh how can that be? I thought they all come places like LA to quietly pick lettuce?
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