Wednesday, November 28, 2007

SPLIT NATION

“Grab your pitchforks’’ - Pat Buchanan

North Carolina's community college system has ordered the state's 58 campuses to admit illegal immigrants, overturning a policy of letting the heavily enrolled schools set their own rules for handling undocumented applicants.

In 1992 Pat Buchanan delivered his equivalent of Spiro Agnew's "nattering nabobs of negativism" speech to the Republican Nation Convention.  It was  the most electric moment during an otherwise dull nominating process.  Like Agnew, Buchanan's speech validated our fears.  The nattering nabobs, of course, hated it and branded Buchanan an ugly racist after  fleshing the speech out, re  our insane immigration policy.  Of Ted Kennedy manufacture,  it shifted from a European preference to non-Christian, and often often disease ridden,  third worlders.  The community college story above shows just how prescient he was, and why he should be paid attention to today.  Here's some ink from his new book. "Day of Reckoning ... ."

 "America is in an existential crisis from which the nation may not survive."

The U.S. Army is breaking and is too small to meet America’s global commitments.

The dollar has sunk to historic lows and is being abandoned by foreign governments.

U.S. manufacturing is being hollowed out.

The greatest invasion in history, from the Third World, is swamping the ethno-cultural core of the country, leading to Balkanization and the loss of the Southwest to Mexico.

The culture is collapsing and the nation is being deconstructed along the lines of race and class.

A fiscal crisis looms as the unfunded mandates of Social Security and Medicare remain unaddressed.

All these crises are hitting America at once -- a perfect storm of crises.  [Drudge]


I'm not sure Buchanan is capable of  even-handed  criticism where the Bush family is concerned, and I reject his charge that "Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a product of hubris and of ideology, a secular religion of “democratism, to which Bush was converted in the days following 9/11”.  There are lots of other things Buchanan and I disagree on, but on certain things he's spot on .  But wait!  Why am I talking this way?  The culture war has now  advanced to the point where we are an irrevocably split nation.  I don't think a public debate, refereed as it will be by a left dominated media, can be constructive any longer.  Perhaps Buchanan has the solution here:

To reach a cold peace in the culture war, Buchanan urges a return to federalism and the overthrow of our judicial dictatorship by Congressionally mandated restrictions on the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

I'm sure he meant "overthrow" in the good way.  :)

6 comments:

BlogDog said...

I have been unable to stomach Buchanan since he ran for president in a transparent attempt to enrich himself from "matching funds." A real conservative would not take Americans' tax money for his aggrandizement.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

He lost favor with me as well, but that doesn't mean he has no good ideas. he does.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

In that same 1992 address he recognized another evil that was far from the forefront:

"In New York, Mr Gore made a startling declaration. Henceforth, he said, the "central organizing principle" of all governments must be: the environment."

Anonymous said...

Woah. Great graphic! It's like a life-sized pinata of stupid.

Except when you beat it with a stick no candy falls out. Your only reward is a job well done.
--Jack

Anonymous said...

Pat's never met a nazi-related cause he didn't embrace.

Emerson

Anonymous said...

Seeing the Jefferson quote, reminds me of what they did in the old days. Check out some of these quotes from The Bible. Hint: It's even funnier if you read "Democrat" for "Philistine".

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