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America is disintegrating.
The “one Nation under God, indivisible” of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents.
America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.
Buchanan's basic premise, which he has written about before, is the answer to this extremely thought provoking question: "What exactly is a nation?" His answer: "For what is a nation if not a people of a common ancestry, faith, culture and language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays and share the same music, poetry, art and literature?"
That has always stuck with me. Maybe that's why I always think of, and reference, that image from the Olympics in China.
I don't know if the U.S. will "disintegrate" but I can absolutely seeing it changing to a point of not being recognizable to our parents. And I mean extremely unrecognizable. I'm not sure if I understand the history of the Balkins, but if it is a blueprint of an area becoming unique territories formed by people who have flocked together based upon "common ancestry, faith, culture and language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes" etc., I can see it happening. Traveling from California to South Carolina may feel like traveling through three or four completely different, well, nations.
38 comments:
Thank you Democrats and Liberals.
You are getting exactly what you wanted.
Destruction
Too bad you're are too stupid to know it.
People migrate. They have done it since the beginning of the species. It causes conflict and war when outside ethnic groups, in the process of migrating, attempt to expand their influence. China prevented it with their Great Wall. China will survive.
Your great grandchildren will speak Spanish. Thanks to people like Obama and Rick Perry.
His answer is a question?
We'll have to make it past Dec 21 2012, first.
Overriding all the various ethnic and regional differences, up until recently there has been a distinct American culture, which has held the United States together. Look at the number of people from other countries who came to America to pursue their dreams, recognizing the "land of opportunity." They worked hard, paid taxes, contributed to their community, sent their kids to college and became Americans. (Here's an example.) Those people can tell you about the American culture, because it's why they came here. It's when we meekly accept (or the government actually protects and defends) the idea that immigrants enter the U.S. to exploit the system, with no intention of assimilating, and with their allegiance still to their country of origin, that American culture is threatened.
One of his chapters is titled "The end of white America"? What about white America causing the end of native America? America has not always been white you know. Life evolves. When the Jamestowm immigrants arrived the native American population was in the tens of millions, buffalo numbered in the millions, the air and water were clean. Yep, we have been changing this land for centuries and it will continue to change. The next century never looks like the last one. Some like the changes and some don't, the ones that can't adjust will go the way of the native Americans. Life evolves, some think we are headed to hell, some don't believe in hell, but change is inevitable.
Uncle Wally
If you choose to define a nation a certain way, and then say that we don't fit that definition, that does not cause us to stop being a nation, it simply means that your definition was flawed.
There was no nation on earth like the United States before it was created.
Who is to say that the new cultural mix will not be superior to anything that has existed to date?
All we need to do is send the polititians somewhere else!
Pat's insights make it hard to fall asleep at night.
The Balkans long ago coined a term--"Balkanization"--referring to the splitting up of one nation into several nations because of cultural/religious/etc. differences. Please note that it is usually a NEGATIVE term, because the splitting up usually results in there being a lot of small, weak, unstable nations that constantly feud with their new neighbors as much as when they used to feud internally as part of the old, bigger nation. Example--Yugoslavia becoming Croatia, Serbia, Herzogofina, etc. People of ALL backgrounds in the USA should "let go" of all that "where we came from" crap and say "we are US citizens and proud of it"--much like the earlier Irish ethnic and Italian ethnic groups did. Its one thing to "remember" your ethnicity, and another thing to "hang onto" your ethnicity to the point where it's divisive! Hey folks, they mistreated Chinese laborers making railroads in the West a long time ago, but you don't see them whining about needing "special" treatment NOW for the PAST injustices--you just see them "gettin' after it" and being successful, productive citizens "gettin' ahead" in life BECAUSE OF how our nation by and large is so great to its citizens who put out an honest effort to better themselves.
'Nuff said.
Old Poticial Science Major
I'm moving to Australia where it is 95% caucasion.
It is not a new or original idea. One particular book that has been forgotten is "The Nine Nations of North America" a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau. It does not devolve into doom and gloom, primarily because it is a well researched and academic textbook.
This nation has had many episode of xenophobia; and in the past, those episodes have resulted in extreme violence - lynchings, forced migrations (particularly of Native Americans and blacks), and civil war. After each event, the country was unrecognizable to the previous generation.
what early American history book are ya'll reading? The one I read said something about people migrating here to avoid government suppression of any religious belief or free thought. United for economic and defense reasons. Pissed that I was given the wrong information.
The chapter entitled "The end of white America" tells you everything you need to know about that book, and those who will buy it.
Isn't he a Tea Partier?
Rage
One of the major causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was due to the fact that the Roman Empire stopped requiring all Romans to be "Roman."
Tragically, the US is rapidly heading the same direction as the Roman Empire.
W likes cheap Mexican ranch labor.
Buchanan thinks this is the end of America??
If he had been around in 1865 he would have had a heart attack.
Pat is mistaken about what America stands for.
America does not stand for Western ideals or Christianity.
America stands for freedom and liberty, no matter your ideals or faith.
That is what will unite America despite all the Chicken Littles out there.
But no--it won't look like Pat Buchanan's America anymore.
Let me put Pat Buchanan's book in a way most of you might understand............Just watch the movie "Idiocracy". You may be able to better recognize the future, than having to read about it.
Very good Uncle Wally!
11:42 I like your reference to Chicke Little.
Throughout our history, the Chicken Little, sky is falling, we are lost, doomsayers have never contributed to the well being and progress of America.
Uncle Wally
Barry, you liked Buchanan's book? You have lost your mind and gone over the dark side.
RE: "The end of white America"
"What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproduction of our race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the purity of our blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe."
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
One of the major causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was due to the fact that the Roman Empire stopped requiring all Romans to be "Roman."
Tragically, the US is rapidly heading the same direction as the Roman Empire.
America has never required its citizens to be Roman.
Rage
Mz!!! Missed you!!!
Well said, Mz and Wordkyle!
Here's one for you retards:
Bush left the borders open, and Perry gives illegals amnesty, but the Obama administration deported a record number of illegals last year:
http://www.chron.com/news/article/ICE-deports-record-number-of-immigrants-in-year-2223878.php
If Pat Buchanan wants America to stay white, he better switch parties!
Rage
Nature has a way of balancing things. Take the explosion of the wild pig population. Many see it as curse. I see it as a defense against muslims and jews. Long live the pig. As a war strategy, they could have been droppped on the Muslims as bombs. Texas needs a national PR campaign as the state of the pig. Muslims welcome if you can find a place the pigs aint been.
Good one 1:27
Well, I'm 70 and I don't recognize the America I grew up in! Some of that is good, some not so good.
If old Pat had his way Nixon would have been president for life and his nutjob sister would have us all Catholic.
Much. Ado. About. Nothing.
what's wrong with being Catholic? Or Baptist or Methodist for that matter? I am Catholic, and wouldn't force you to convert.
This country would have never chosen one religion over another.
You are an idiot.
You should read Texas by Teran written by Manuel de Mier y Teran about his 1828 excursion from Mexico to Texas. He reported to the government in Mexico City three essential facts: First, if they didn't close the border with the United States, Texas would be lost to the US. Second, the Anglo settlers were more industrious than the Native Americans (not his term) and the Mexican settlers. Third, if the government didn't put a stop to the slaughter of the wild animals, many of them would face extinction.
Now there's a prophet for you.
what's wrong with being Catholic?
It's a cult, based more on pre-Roman paganism than Christianity, for one thing.
You have to believe in a magic unseen dude in the sky, for another.
You have to believe in the saints, which is basically that humans can work miracles, which is contrary to the teachings of Christ, for another.
Eh, I'm tired.
Rage
We're tired of you too, Rage.
Thanks Upstairs. I get the book..
So 10:26...
If I choose to go the path of the Native Americans, can I get free healthcare and my kids get a free college education? LMK
I'll pray for you all.
Looking forward to living as they do in Mexico, that bastion of wealth creation. I hear their citizens live in the land of mel y leche.
For your consideration:
By a "White America" I think that Pat may agree that it may mean an America that as flawed as it was (as opposed to fatally flawed now) there was a common and generally accepted set of Virtues(which are positive and defineable as opposed to "values" which are variable and relative) and expected standards of behavior along with moral standards generally accepted that while not requiring membership or adherence to any one religion was based on Judeo/Christianity and used the 10 commandments along with the 2 "Greatest Commandments" as stated by Christ to influence the behavior of rich and poor alike to postitive ends. You did not have to BE white to conform to these widely accepted standards but white America appeared to be the primary driving force behind developing a society based on these standards. I was raised in an area with many Hispanics as next door neighbors and though they be brown and me white there was no consideration of the differences and because we operated on the same basic assuptions of what was right and strong in my mind they were just as American as myself...even those I knew who were here illegally. This is not to say that as teens we didn't fight...we did...and our respective nose shapes still attest to this. However, we are still friends 50+ years later and I still appeciate the opportunity to work summers as a kid at the Chula Lumber company where the ambition of the illegal father of a friend demonstrated his Virtues of hard work, independence, morality, self-reliance, ingenuity, respect for women, frugality and generosity.
Just rambling thoughts and memories of a far better time when we really had hope and a certain confidence in our futures....then the radicalism of the sixties happened. While changes were necessary and good (civil rights advances and reasonable environmental safeguards) what "Turned Off" us liberals of the time was the rejection of the "virtues" and the expression of hate for America and the capitalism system and the elevation of communisat leader in China (killed more people than Hitler) and USSR and Marxism. The Statism they proposed was in direct opposition to the original meaning of "liberalism" (maximal personal freedom short of anarchy) and somehow it has come to refer to people who want to control what light bulb, car, food ect to purchase instead of letting the free market determine what industry prevails. America is guilty of detestable acts but made efforts like no other country to live up to its stated purpose..freedom. In fact what gains have been made in the world in the area of human rights have been wholly of greatly influenced by America and the principals of those white devils....our nations founders. Ben Franklin answered a women who asked after the consitutional convention of 1789(?) "Sir what have you given us"? "Madam" he replied, " A Republic...if you can keep it"
It appears we will not be successful in keeping it. Tragic because freedom the greatest promise will be lost....Orwell saw it coming and dramatised the process and effects in his books "Animal Farm" and "1984" although he may have been using ths Soviets as a reference.
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