What can you say about Pat
Buchanan?
Stick him down in the
basement with your crazy Aunt?
Pray no one brings him up?
You want to like him; when
he’s not ranting he is downright avuncular.
His Irish pride is
endearing, after all, the Irish are like the Jews, a small group of people that
have spread all over the world and made incredible and valuable contributions
to civilization and the liquor industry.
I thought the following
article, a review of Pat’s new book “Suicide
Of A Superpower,” was
entertaining:
Pundit and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan’s new book,
“Suicide Of A Superpower,” is a veritable treasure trove of eye-popping
assertions about the decline of America at the hand of increased diversity and
multiculturalism.
TPM went through and picked out some highlights, so that you
really don’t have to.
From the Preface:
When the faith dies, the culture dies, the
civilization dies, the people die. That is the progression. And as the faith
that gave birth to the West is dying in the West, peoples of European descent
from the steppes of Russia to the coast of California have begun to die out, as
the Third World treks north to claim the estate. The last decade provided
corroborating if not conclusive proof that we are in the Indian summer of our
civilization.
From the chapter, “The Death Of Christian America”:
Obama’s White House thus enlisted in the long and
successful campaign to expel Christianity from the public square, diminish its
presence in our public life, and reduce its role to that of just another
religion.
From the chapter, “The End Of White America”:
The white population will begin to shrink and,
should present birth rates persist, slowly disappear. Hispanics already
comprise 42 percent of New Mexico’s population, 37 percent of California’s, 38
percent of Texas’s, and over half the population of Arizona under the age of
twenty. ……. Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically, and culturally,
the verdict of 1848 is being overturned. Will this Mexican nation within a
nation advance the goals of the Constitution—to “insure domestic tranquility”
and “make us a more perfect union”? Or has our passivity in the face of this
invasion imperiled our union?
On the group UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. pushing for
more diversity in journalism:
Half a century after Martin Luther King
envisioned a day when his children would be judged ‘not by the color of their
skin, but the content of their character,’ journalists of color are demanding
the hiring and promotion of journalists based on the color of their skin. Jim
Crow is back. Only the color of the beneficiaries and the color of the victims
have been reversed.
Also from the chapter, “The End Of White America”:
Those who believe the rise to power of an Obama
rainbow coalition of peoples of color means the whites who helped to engineer
it will steer it are deluding themselves. The whites may discover what it is
like to ride in the back of the bus.
From the chapter, “Equality or Freedom?”:
Not until the 1960s did courts begin to use the
Fourteenth Amendment to impose a concept of equality that the authors of the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, and the Gettysburg Address never believed in. Before the
1960s, equality meant every citizen enjoyed the same constitutional rights and
the equal protection of existing laws. Nothing in the Constitution or federal
law mandated social, racial, or gender equality.
From the chapter “The Diversity Cult”:
Americans who seek stricter immigration control
have been charged with many social sins: racism, xenophobia, nativism. Yet none
has sought to expel any fellow American based on color or creed. We have only
sought to preserve the country we grew up in. Do not people everywhere do that,
without being reviled? What motivates people who insist that America’s doors be
held open wide until the European majority has disappeared?
What is their grudge against the old America that eats at
their heart?
On crime:
If [conservative political commentator Heather]
Mac Donald’s statistics are accurate, 49 of every 50 muggings and murders in
New York are the work of minorities. That might explain why black folks have
trouble getting a cab. Every New York cabby must know the odds, should he pick
up a man of color at night.
From the chapter “‘The White Party’”:
What the above points to is a strategy from which
Republicans will recoil, a strategy to increase the GOP share of the white
Christian vote and increase the turnout of that vote by specific appeals to
social, cultural, and moral issues, and for equal justice for the emerging
white minority. If the GOP is not the party of New Haven firefighter Frank
Ricci and Cambridge cop James Crowley, it has no future. And although Howard
Dean disparages the Republicans as the “white party,” why should Republicans be
ashamed to represent the progeny of the men who founded, built, and defended
America since her birth as a nation?
From the chapter “The Last Chance”:
Our intellectual, cultural, and political elites
are today engaged in one of the most audacious and ambitious experiments in
history. They are trying to transform a Western Christian republic into an
egalitarian democracy made up of all the tribes, races, creeds, and cultures of
planet Earth. They have dethroned our God, purged our cradle faith from public
life, and repudiated the Judeo-Christian moral code by which previous
generations sought to live.
From the same chapter:
For the Left to concede that white anger is a
legitimate response to racial injustices done to white people would be to
concede that the Left is guilty of the very sin of which it accuses the right.
On the segregation era:
Perhaps some of us misremember the past. But the
racial, religious, cultural, social, political, and economic divides today seem
greater than they seemed even in the segregation cities some of us grew up in.
Back then, black and white lived apart, went to different
schools and churches, played on different playgrounds, and went to different
restaurants, bars, theaters, and soda fountains. But we shared a country and a
culture. We were one nation. We were Americans.
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