[Enough is ENOUGH]

I firmly believe that the more we educate ourselves on this peril that is in a full frontal attack against us along with our cultural and religious values the sooner we will band together and say "enough is enough, no more!" and unremittingly fight the fight of our lives for our rights through every conceivable forum and outlet to restore our moral and religious values that our country was founded upon. Political correctness is the trojan horse introduced by the radical left that renders a society defenseless and forces servitude to the doctrines of the people who hate America.

[ModernDayCato]

Terrific article, though it was written several years ago. Mr. Fonte is a great guy, and is currently writing a book that takes the same theme a little further.

We both agree that it's probably too late to do anything about what has happened, BTW.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Got some links on Gramsci:

Gramsci vs. Tocqueville or Marxism vs. the American Ideology
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a54bec871fa.htm

The Gramscian Roots of America's Culture War Thread 2 (Is Gramsci the Father of Neo-Conservatism ?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a3bc78569bf.htm

Who is Antonio Gramsci? You Better Learn!!!
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm

YATES: "Understanding the Culture War: Gramscians, Tocquevillians and Others"
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a56d02c2a1b.htm

Original Sin
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b80051c3e46.htm

[MEG33]

Very scary!

[liberallarry]

Long...have to finish it later.

But just for starters what's so great about the underdog? Why is a power transfer good or necessary? Isn't equal opportunity a better idea?

[nothingnew]

Thank you for this post. Have put it on my desktop for future consumption.

FMCDH

[rimmont]

Leftist philosophy and Americanism are irreconcilable.
Leftists, whether they realize it or not, are attempting to destroy that which makes America, thankfully, different from Europe and the rest of the world.

[Irene Adler]

Thank you for posting this.

[thucydides]

Excellent post. The problem with the Gramscian or ideological way of thinking is that it assumes the central reality of human existence is oppression and exploitation. This is simply unreal. While occasionally some members of a group treat other people who may be members of some other group poorly, ( and others may be doing someone a favor ) the idea that all members of a group spend all their time oppressing members of some other group verges on paranoia. As Kenneth Minogue said years ago, Shakespeare had the answer for such thinking: "Methinks there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

[RightWhale]

Who is most interested in the failure of the American experiment?

Maybe somebody who once owned a piece of America and lost control of it but expects it back eventually. Just a thought.

[jimkress]

WOW! Exceptional article.

Thanks for posting

[gcruse]

 our cultural and religious values

Beg pardon?  My religious values
are not yours and I doubt many
other people share them exactly,
either.

Part of the 'culture' wars consists of
religious conservatives grasping at
state power to control the lives of
others.  No thanks.

[x]

Interesting article, but Fonte scrapes and grovels far too much before the neo-conservatives. Are they really "Tocquevillians"? Are they the only "Tocquevillians" in today's politics? Might they not be simply another managerial or "Gramscian" elite aiming at power for themselves? Certainly they know how to work the system as well as anyone else. And their instinct has always been centralizing, more than decentralizing. Talking about "Gramscians" and "Tocquevillians" looks too much like saying "them" and "us" or "their mob" and "our mob."

A better article would have resisted the temptation of plugging the author's own ideology more than is necessary. If there really is an apocalyptic conflict between Hegelian-Marxist-Gramscian and Tocquevillian visions, Fante's celebration of his own clique at the expense of possible allies is an abomination and a great stupidity. Why alienate people who care as much about defeating the beast simply because they don't agree with you 100%?

If you really want to understand the culture wars, don't bother with neo-conservative and radical foundations in New York, go out into the country and look at some of the protests over abortion and controversies over school textbooks. Those disputes reflected real disputes that ran far deeper than anything Fante talks about.

But is there really still a culture war today? In previous years there was a clear and bitter conflict between cultural radicals and cultural conservatives. We will probably see divisive battles over abortion or homosexual marriage in the future, but the peculiar atmosphere of the culture wars of the seventies, eighties and early nineties seems to be a thing of the past.

Americans recognize now that we are one country and that as much unites as divides us. What made the culture wars was a strong them vs. us fissure. On both sides in the culture wars, "we" were people who lived and worked together, and "they" were an unknown threat from outside. Today, neighborhoods and work places are more mixed and people are more likely to know homosexuals and fundamentalists, Catholic traditionalists and radical feminists, so passions don't run as high.

Twenty years ago people saw court decisions and bureaucratic pressure transform America and wondered whether elections and lobbying might undo those changes. That atmosphere may well return in the future, but things have been quite different in recent years. The lesson of the past few years is that American politics and politicians don't usually tend to bring radical changes. The sixties were an exception, not the rule. The culture wars probably aren't over and may flare up at some later date, but there's been a truce for some time.

[supercat]

One of the central tenets of liberalism is that victimhood is a badge of honor.

[narses]

This is one of the hearts of the attacks on and inside the Catholic Church. A MUST READ imho!

[dix]

I could not agree more. Something has to be done soon, because we have ruined at least the two last generations.

[Zack Nguyen]

"As laymen and analysts alike have observed over the years, the major foundations — particularly Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and MacArthur — have for decades spent millions of dollars promoting "cutting edge" projects on racial, ethnic, and gender issues. According to author and foundation expert Heather Mac Donald, for example, feminist projects received $36 million from Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon, and other large foundations between 1972 and 1992. Similarly, according to a Capital Research Center report by Peter Warren, a policy analyst at the National Association of Scholars, foundations have crowned diversity the "king" of American campuses. For example, the Ford Foundation launched a Campus Diversity Initiative in 1990 that funded programs in about 250 colleges and universities at a cost of approximately $15 million. The Ford initiative promotes what sounds like a Gramscian’s group-rights dream: as Peter Warren puts it, "the establishment of racial, ethnic, and sex-specific programs and academic departments, group preferences in student admissions, group preferences in staff and faculty hiring, sensitivity training for students and staff, and campus-wide convocations to raise consciousness about the need for such programs."

It is really astonishing how the mega-rich foundations, especially Rockefeller, in this country have attempted to undermine traditional Christian American culture for decades.

For more info on how Rockefeller money helped feul the humanist coup of American Protestanism, click here:

http://www.freebooks.com/sidefrm2.htm

[victim soul]

thanks for this post. Forewarned is forearmed. Let's roll.

[RAT Patrol]

Liberals are like Tonya Harding. Instead of actually competing (debating), they just try to bash their opponents in the knees and knock 'em out of the race (shut them up through name calling and intimidation).

[Capitalism2003]

bump!

[FirstTomato]

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