[tberry]

"The bottom line: "If the GOP would come out for an end to the racial preferences and a moratorium on immigration, and appeal to the great silent majority, as Democrats appeal to minorities, the party’s chances in national elections could not but improve.”"

[Commie Basher]

The culture war IS lost -- pre-1960s US culture is gone, never to return.

BUT -- this modern culture too shall pass.

New cultures always arise. If conservatives want a say in the culture of 2020, now is the time to cut back on the activism and boycotts, and instead start a band, act, write, produce films, plays, CDs. To forget about "saving" an already dead past, and work on creating a new future.

You can't fight something with nothing. The future culture belongs to those who BUILD it, for better or worse.

Stop whining, and start building.

[ImpBill]

While Pat as the messenger became totally flawed IMO, at times his message rings loud with clarity. Of course he and this author are correct about the cultural revolution. I am not sure that mainstream conservatives will or can accept the premise herein, as the extreme right wing, hate element, scares most of them into disassociating themselves from the ideas in an attempt to distance themselves from the "neo nazi" messangers that trumpet those same ideas.

The author said it best: "No person of good will enjoys being demonized night after night on television. No one wants to be branded as "insensitive," "mean-spirited,” or any of the other trigger words hurled at Middle America. So the party of Middle America seeks to emphasize that it too is "compassionate,” that it too believes in "the politics of inclusion.” "

Unfortunately, we fall into the very trap that was set for us by the 60's cultural revolutionaries in the first place. We really are "slouching towards Gomorra".

[serinde]

As for America’s past, this from Buchanan: "Western Man was one of the many villains, but Western Man was also the only hero. For the West did not invent slavery, but it alone abolished slavery.”

I think this point needs to be made much more often. Our culture may not be perfect, but it sure beats any other one.

[Brian_Carson]

Buchanan's scare mongering completely ignores the fact that: (1) a new wave of minorities and immigrants have rescued this nation from financial and spiritual bankruptcy approximately every 40 years since its inception; (2) this nation is, and always has been, an amalgamation of different cultures and races, in order to become "one nation" (ever had Chinese food?); (3) what about the "death of the American Indian?"; and (4) Most immigrants do come here to become Americans, but are quickly reviled and rejected by many Americans, and made to feel unwelcome or unappreciated. This happened to the Irish, the Germans, the European Jews, the Italians, the Greeks, the Turks, the Chinese, the Indians, the French, the Mexicans, the South Americans, and just about everyone else.

Since my parents came over here on the Mayflower in 1637, (John & Dorothy of Ipswich, on "The Rose," April 8th, 1637) do I have the right to tell each and every person on this board, or Pat Buchanan, for that matter (whose family actually came here in the mid 1800s from Ireland and Scotland) to pack up and leave?

The fact of the matter is that every successive wave of immigrants has made me and my family, richer and more succesful, and has further entrenched us here in the USA.

If these immigrants didn't start coming since the 1600s, I have no doubt that this country would not be the international and domestic success story that it is today. No doubt whatsoever.

Amen.