SPLIT NATION

“Grab your pitchforks’’ - Pat Buchanan

Today's 'zample “ 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.  :)