Posted on 01/14/2002 9:23:05 AM PST by baxter999
Culture Wars Nearly Lost, Buchanan Warns Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002
Editor's note: This is part four in a series on Pat Buchanan's new book, "The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil our Country and Civilization." Also read Western Civilization Is on the Way Out, Where Have All the Children Gone? and Failure to Control Borders Causes 'Death of the West.'
WASHINGTON – "Americans who look on this cultural revolution as politics as usual do not understand it,” Pat Buchanan writes in his new book, "The Death of the West.”
It means an end to the country we love, he asserts.
Those who seek to de-Christianize America, and who seek to demonize America’s heroes, trash our history and condemn our folk ways are not just presenting another "political opinion.” These people, or at least those who presume to speak for them, are revolutionaries.
Buchanan quotes that "budding social revolutionary Adolf Hitler” as saying, "Strength lies not in defense, but in attack.”
We used to think the only people within our borders who would tear down our country carried Communist Party cards or sported a long line of communist-front affiliations. Not so, although there’s a little overlap amongst a few of the older present-day revolutionaries. But this is the counterculture of the 1960s taking off where Lenin’s failed revolution left off.
"We will steal your children!” the '60s radicals howled at Middle America. "They did,” Buchanan says.
A whole generation has now grown up for whom the cultural revolution is no revolution at all, says the author, "but a culture they were born into and have known all their lives. Public homosexuality, pornography, abortion, trash talk on TV and in the movies, and filthy lyrics in popular music have been around since before they can remember.”
During the Hitler-Stalin war of 1939-1945, there were plenty of documentaries showing how Nazi Germany was aiming its propaganda at the children because it believed if it could control the children, it would control the future. But we could not imagine that it could happen here.
The cultural revolution cannot be appeased, warns the author. "Its relentless, reckless use of terms like extremist, sexist, homophobe, nativist, xenophobe, fascist, and Nazi testifies to how seriously it takes the struggle and how it views those who resist. To true believers in the revolution, the Right is not just wrong; the Right is evil.”
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.”
Of course, there is nothing wrong with "compassionate conservatism.” But there are those who would argue that compassion is the very essence of conservatism, as Ronald Reagan clearly showed when he pursued policies that created 20 million jobs and brought down the "Evil Empire.” What could be more "compassionate” than that?
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.” Again, what could be more "compassionate” than that?
The author thinks too many in Middle America have become too defensive.
"The intimidators failed with Clarence Thomas but succeeded with some conservatives who, like defeated peoples, no longer make demands. They just want to get along. But, in a culture war, where the other side is always making demands, and the other side is always ready to fight, this translates into endless retreats and eventual defeat.”
Buchanan’s prescription for the GOP’s political success? "Go hunting where the ducks are.” If the Republicans can raise their share of the vote by appealing to their base, he says, the GOP can regain its majority.
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.”
And just in case anyone missed the point, there is this warning: "The Gore-Nader three-million-vote margin over Bush-Cheney may be the last wake-up call the Republican party will receive.”
Seems this article brought him up. I question if maybe you should try remedial reading. Anyway, Patso's fascination with the brown one is kinda notorious. Go read the article again:
Buchanan quotes that "budding social revolutionary Adolf Hitler” as saying, "Strength lies not in defense, but in attack.”
Keep it up, though. Reports indicate 15 new copies of _Death of the West_ sold
In other news, it was reported that 76 members of various neo-nazi organizations have slid on banana peels in the last 30 minutes :). Do you have other examples of enlightened brilliance, OR just darkness?
Pat believes that in order for the United States to survive as a nation, the majority of the citizens are going to have to have a certain viewpoint, and that the nations where the populations are on the increase do not provide their citizens with that viewpoint. Short of a massive program of education that will provide the large numbers of third-world citizens coming to the U.S. with that necessary viewpoint, the nation is doomed to die. The United States is a frame of mind, and that frame of mind is held by fewer and fewer citizens of this country.
Basically, Pat's preaching of the coming apostasy of the American point of view. To be an American, you have to think like an American.
Sounds eminently reasonable to me.
I am? Rotfl. I said Patso seemed to like ol' Adolf. Someone called this a "false statement". I proved it, at least to a reasonable degree. And now you're running in circles all foam-flecked. And attacking your patsy little heart out :)).
Not that you're very adept at it, of course.
Yeah, well.. as I said (or at least implied), I have no idea who that particular host is. But this material (and similar) about your hero is literally all over the web. Go and look, and you find thousands of entries, probably. And of course you're right in a way - all I did was cut and paste this damning stuff. I can't claim credit for proving Patso a bigot. That is something he has done himself. Or didn't you notice that these were his own actual words?
The HTML still needs a little work yet
Why? Not fancy enough? Sorry, but I really don't see the need for blinking red letters anywhere :)).
but keep trying, commissar Cachelot
Woohoo. Pal of madrussian, eh? Where is he, btw? Playing harp over at SamFran?
All it takes to earn the "isolationist" label is to be more cautious about our foreign policy engagements and the One Worlders will slap the offender with the isolationist label. Likewise if someone is for immigration but at lower, more-sane levels, they will get tagged with the Nativist and Xenophobic labels. The One Worlders play hard ball and use the very same tactics that Marxists do in intimidating their opposition into silence.
You have? Each and every one of them? You mean, the Buchanan followers here on FR have ripped Buchanan's mouthings to schreds in defense of their candidate? That's passing weird, you know :).
Speaking of unsubstantiated rumblings from out of left field, I have heard that there is a rain of frogs scheduled for this afternoon.
I read pretty closely. Did this make it in?
Pat Buchanan:
1991: "David Duke is busy stealing from me. I have a mind to go down there and sue that dude for intellectual property theft."
- Manchester, NH Union Leader, December 15, 1991
On immigration, all he wants is a time out on the almost unlimited illegal immigration that has become a cancer on the average tax paying American. Do you enjoy seeing billions of CURRENT tax dollars go to house, feed, educate and medicate these people while we continue to heap billions of DEBT on the shoulders of upcoming generations. It's like this amigo, do a search on "reconquista", "anchor babies", "aztlan" and check out www.americanpatrol.com for a couple weeks, learn something, then get back to me.
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