[Noumenon]

"There are not really any barbarians at the gate."

Precisely my point - and Huntington's. The barbarians are already inside the gate. They're being churned out by the thousands, courtesy of our educational system.

Pessimism? Facing reality is hardly pessimistic. You might give it a try. As Rand has said, "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."

[Tokhtamish]

Noumenon, this is not 1977.

The Right won the culture wars. It is the Cultural Left that has been reduced to college towns, Greenwich Village, and the San Francisco Bay area.