Folks like Pat don't seem to understand that the success of our nation is that it promotes its ideas so that people of ANY ethnicity--not just European, ja?--can love the idea of America and come here and WORK for the American Dream.
I've worked with the rich, the middle class, the poor and the homeless, and I have lived in cities and towns and in the country, and I see no shortage of overweight, ignorant, unemployed white folks right along with many non-European folks sucking off the system. I've also seen plenty of folks of non-European ancestry who work hard, keep their families together, and don't follow a religion that tells you to blow yourself up.
Pat definitely has some good points, but they are blocked by his obvious, and undeniable, xenophobia. People don't like to hear that, but really, the reason it comes up so often with him is because it's true. He is scared of people who don't think and look like he does. That's not what Ronald Reagan expressed or believed, and it's not what the greatest Americans believed. Buchanan can scream his "culture war" stuff all he wants, but while there definitely IS a cultural divide in this country, there always has been--when minorities and women weren't heard in the mainstream, that didn't mean they weren't still angry, and didn't disagree with the majority.
One only has to recall that Nixon lost to Kennedy by 49.5% to 49.7% (and probably won) to know that there's ALWAYS been this "divide" in this country--we've never had this mythical Ozzie and Harriet America where everyone looked and acted like Pat Buchanan. He appeals to the fear of people who live very small, very insulated lives.
He is kind of like the Joe McCarthy of immigration--his being on our side only makes things WORSE for us. We need to secure our borders and hit employers hard so the illegals among us will have no reason to come here and every reason to go home. But crazy Pat screaming his Cotton Mather stuff is only going to help the lefties position the fight against the invasion of illegals as a racist Republican scam.
But crazy Pat screaming his Cotton Mather stuff is only going to help the lefties position the fight against the invasion of illegals as a racist Republican scam.
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The lefties are going to accuse Republicans of racism nomatter what Republicans do. Here, let me remove that leash from your neck.
Of course Pat is like Joe McCarthy -- both of them conservative heroes unafraid to offend the politically correct.
If you buy into and perpetuate the smear of McCarthy, I am not surprised that you'd have a similar, knee-jerk aversion to Pat.
But maybe you belong to that neo strain of conservatism that came late to anit-communism and has always pushed for high level of immigration to promote a multicultural America.
that pretty much sums your perspective on history...