[Chancellor Palpatine]

"[Clarence] Thomas calls the segregation of the Old South, where he grew up, 'totalitarian.' But that's liberal nonsense. Whatever its faults, and it certainly had them, that system was far more localized, decent, and humane than the really totalitarian social engineering now wrecking the country."
— LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL

[white_wolf]

The paleos carry around with themselves a whiff of racism and anti-Semitism. Being an American is an idea -- a human idea. It is a beleif in the principles espoused in the Declaration, no more, no less. Those principles are not based on race or even on heritage, but on "inalienable rights." All human beings can be "American" by subscribing to the American ideals. The War in Iraq is based on the idea that freedom and human dignity belong to all, Iraqis included. Being an American is an appeal to "the better angels" of human nature. Everyone has felt the subtle seduction of feelings of racism, but those who are noble reject them. This is the idea that conservatives seek to "conserve." The paleos would seemingly turn those sublte seductions to racism into a virtue. Neo-cons may not always be right, but the seductions of the neo-cons must be resisted and relegated to the dustbin of history.