Posted on 01/03/2002 7:56:52 AM PST by sinkspur
Pat Buchanan is aware that potential readers of his new book already either adore him or disdain everything he writes "because I am the one writing it."
So in The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $25.95), the ex-presidential candidate and conservative pundit is trying to back up his apocalyptic projections with facts and figures provided by such disparate sources as "Russian leader Mr. Putin, a British archbishop and the United Nations. By drawing on what anyone would have to consider neutral sources, this makes my message far more powerful."
The gist of The Death of the West's messages:
Low birthrates are decimating the population of almost every European country - by 2050, only one-tenth of the world's population (America included) will be of European descent.
The unchecked influx of immigrants into America, legal and otherwise, is gradually handing the nation over to insurgents who come to force their foreign values on us rather than accepting ours.
Political correctness on the part of unwitting Americans plays into the hands of those who intend to obliterate our culture.
The events of Sept. 11 may provide enough of a wake-up call, Buchanan says, to make "the death of the West" only a threat rather than a certainty.
"The book is about a point I've been making for a long time, that the West is dying," Buchanan says during a lengthy phone conversation. "If we don't change how we do things, we'll be gone by the middle of this century, if not before. The horror of Sept. 11, I think, awoke a lot of Americans to new realities. It's a healthy thing to remember there are people out there who want to destroy us."
In Buchanan's opinion, it took terrorist attacks on New York City and the Washington, D.C., area to drive that message home to an American public more intent on hedonism than heroism.
"The '90s were a time of prosperity I've likened to the 1920s," Buchanan says. "The '20s were about money, drinking, jazz. The '90s were money, drugs, rock. The '20s ended with the stock market crash, the Depression, then on to Hitler, Tojo, Stalin. The 1990s ended on Sept. 11. We're at the kind of place Walter Lippmann called 'a plastic moment,' a time when people can change their destiny. I hope this book helps that. I'm not so much predicting these awful things will happen as saying, 'This is what the end is if the numbers remain the same.' "
Not that he holds much hope: "To many American young people, people like me belong to a bad old era. They've been taught that in school, indoctrinated in it. They want to say goodbye to the way our generation did things. This is why I don't think much will be done about the problems we face."
Buchanan acknowledges he's saying things that most Americans would prefer not to hear and that many condemn as racist and inflammatory.
"My response is that it's too late in the day for political correctness," he says. "After Sept. 11, with those acts perpetrated by people we literally welcomed into this country, Americans ought to be aware there is such a thing as too much diversity, too much welcoming. Look: I've said that if you bring 100 Zulu tribesmen into Virginia and 1 million British, the British would be assimilated more comfortably. I base that on those British coming into an American culture based on English law and tradition. And when I said that, something that seems like a simple statement, I've been accused of racism."
Now, Buchanan says, "I could substitute Iranians or Saudis for the Zulu, and people might understand." And, he adds, originally citing the Zulus was in no way racist "because I'm friends with the Zulu ruler. It's just a matter of acknowledging the differences in culture."
Potential immigrants should be judged by one measure, Buchanan adds: "Are they likely to carry on our culture, which makes America a unique country and civilization? Or are they not?"
Population explosions in Islamic, African and Latin American nations are coinciding with a decline in the U.S. birthrate, Buchanan notes, citing U.N. studies. To bolster "American cultural" numbers, Buchanan concludes in The Death of the West, American women should be encouraged via tax breaks to increase the country's population: "A free society cannot force women to have children, but a healthy society can reward those who preserve it by doing so."
Though he doesn't broach the subject in The Death of the West, in conversation Buchanan is willing to also discuss his own future.
"Politically speaking, I ran two times for the Republican nomination," he says. "We came close in '96, and we'd have gotten it instead of [Bob] Dole with one more primary win. In 2000, we tried to create a new party. It didn't work. So my political career is probably over."
But Buchanan has no intention of abandoning public debate.
"I've done my best to say the things I thought necessary, and I intend to keep writing books and to keep speaking out," he says. "I love doing it. I hope the Lord gives me 25 more years. If people don't like me or my message, well, that's not my concern. Political correctness is almost an impenetrable shield of basic realities."
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A little late to be making that argument.
But as long as we're going to subsidize any kind of behavior I can scarcely imagine anything more worthy and beneficial to our society than one that would facilitate the raising & educating our future workforce.
And even better it can be done WITHOUT transferring wealth.
So, to get the white race copulating and populating, we ought to have kids we can't feed?
I'm missing something here.
Sufferage and peudo sophistication has comtaminated us with feminists who don't want to marry. When their clock dictates at 30+ they buy a sperm and have one baby.
Options being used now by many white males is to check the Phillipino, Russian penpal market. Others simply go to Yugoslavia, Albania or China and bring back a family. Raise them here, and we're all the better off for it.
Who would marry a feminazie?
Asians don't benefit from affirmative action policies, at least not in education. Furthermore, almost 40% of both Hispanics and Asians marry outside their ethnic group these days. How do you think this will affect the future of the ethnic special interest groups?
Oh yea. And nothing has revealed just how far gone we are now than FR. After all, when the "good guys" internalize, regurgitate and act upon the very same false presumptions as the bad guys, the bad guys can dominate the battlefield even if its the "good guys" who happen to be holding the flag and the high ground for the moment.
That is our present state. As such, "conservatism's" recent "victories" have been the most devastating and demoralizing losses of all (at least to me).
FR is doing fine. How are Buchanan, Fulani and your website doing?
Just clarifying my prior post. It needed "more". LOL.
Did I say that? No!....(this is loading so slowly for me that I can't go back to copy and paste...)
That post had to do with tax breaks and incentives to have kids. Most people couldn't afford 6 or 8 kids, so didn't have that many. Maybe if they had the tax breaks and the cash, they would have had more kids and the 'white' race wouldn't be on the decline, now.
I don't imagine myself to be a racist or supremist or what not, but think of what would happen if a non-jewish white person talked about the same issues. They would first be labeled a racist, accused of a hate crime, then they would probably be labeled an anti-semite for good measure!
I have to agree with Pat here, our culture (American culture, not WHITE culture) is on its way out. I don't see any way to fix things based on our current system. I'm going to be 30 in a few weeks and I don't want to have kids, I don't think I want to bring them into this world the way it is going.
Oh well, that was a little rambling, but you get the idea. Happy New Year everyone.
Seriously, why do you hang around a place that you feel is gone beyond what you want and has gone so far down the road of destruction. Doesn't it hurt you so much that you would want to get away from it? It seems it would.
Really? On an earlier thread about the same subject we had at least two gentlemen who argued for the "repatriation" of naturalized American citizens. They also claimed to be supporters of Pat and paleoconservatives. I didn't notice, although I might have missed it, any criticism towards their views from any of the Buchanan supporters.
So? Most of the article I posted were BUCHANAN'S OWN WORDS!
I care about where Guinn writes as much as I care how much leftover Spam you have in your bunker from your ill-fated Y2K hysteria.
My guess is that their children will follow this liberalism. After all, under affirmative action, anyone with some minority ancestry may end up benefitting.
I was on that thread. The proposal was that the naturalized citizens would be taken back by their countries via treaty negotiation, and if not, they'd be sent to Hawaii. When I did a google search on the book and author the poster cited, it lead me to the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denier site, once owned by Willis Carto. I wasn't surprised.
My mother in law is one of those new citizens. Doesn't speak a single word of english & wouldn't know an inalienable right from a taxpayer subsidized free senior's pass to Atlantic City.
She and her community of new "citizens" nicknamed Bill Clinton their "son" because being a good liberal he was viewed as their provider. Taking her new responsibilities as a citizen seriously she does what she can to ensure her opinions are informed - the other day she announced that she & all her friends think Bush's foreign policy is to blame for 9/11.
Warms my heart when I consider that she and tens of thousands like her are now able to participate in this Great Experiment. By all means let's import more!
"He was speaking off the top of his head. He didn't call them 'jungle bunnies' or something like that."
--Buchanan's brother James
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