Posted under Culture & Globalism
Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no globalists in a global financial meltdown. Pat Buchanan offers a few examples from around the world:
Meanwhile, global institutions, the United Nations, IMF and European Union have lost their luster. Czechs – whose president, Vaclav Klaus, regards the EU as a prison house of nations – hold the EU presidency. When the financial crisis hit, Irish, Brits and Germans rushed to bail out their own banks, as did Americans, who rescued Ford, Chrysler and GM, leaving Toyota, Hyundai and Honda twisting in the wind.
This is economic nationalism.
Inside Ehud Olmert’s Cabinet, a rising star is Avigdor Lieberman. What Lieberman’s “merry men” advocate, writes the American Prospect, is “ethnic cleansing: As the creepy name (which translates into ‘Our Home Is Israel’) suggests, Yisrael Beiteinu believes the million-plus Arab citizens of Israel must be expelled.”
Barack won the African-American vote 97 percent to 3 percent over John McCain, and 90 percent to 10 percent over Hillary Clinton in the later primaries. McCain ran stronger than George W. Bush only in Appalachia, the laager of the Scots-Irish.
The artificial prosperity of the post-WWII years is draining away faster than the air in a toy balloon. That prosperity warped our view of life, and lulled us into believing not only that abundance was the norm, but that we could forget those stodgy habits of the past that made political stability and economic success possible. Generosity toward all is easy when there’s plenty to go around. The resulting “consumerist” worldview gave us the psychedelic 60s, an entitlement culture, and multiculturalism. Now that the party’s over, it’s time to get down to basics, to rediscover the survival value of tradition, heritage, and culture.
Yes, I’m talking to you, my fellow Baby Boomers. It’s time to grow up and get to work. The tinsel of universalism can’t support its own weight, much less ours. Our job is to renew forgotten ties of community, of loyalty and love for one’s own, and to reclaim the invaluable wisdom of our Christian, Western civilization. As Pat Buchanan reminds us, it’s a fight for survival, and we humans naturally band together to protect our own. “Ethnonationalism” is the political scientist’s jargon for patriotism, the most natural and invaluable of instincts. It’s time to rediscover, renew, and rebuild. Political institutions must be based on human nature rather than on abstract theories.
Our lives, and the lives of our children, depend on it.
roho on 30 Jan 2009 at 7:06 pm #
ABSOLUTELY!
“Is this the same NICOLAS SARKOZY that ran as a conservative, and said “France must return to her Frenchness”?
http:www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3764
And then there is the national leaders that think immigration means “If you kill enough of them they will immigrate out of OUR NATION”!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28860013/
roho on 30 Jan 2009 at 7:10 pm #
Sorry……….Make that http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3764
Weaver on 30 Jan 2009 at 8:00 pm #
Roho, that is both outrageous and somewhat expected.
Yet another neocon reveals himself to be faux-right and a secret hater of the people he was elected to serve.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 30 Jan 2009 at 9:41 pm #
Sarkozy is widely known in France as “the American” because of his pro-DC, Neocon affinities. And as you say, Neocons are indeed secret haters of their own peoples, hell-bent on the “creative destruction” of all historic cultures — a natural consequence of their Trotskyite roots.
roho on 30 Jan 2009 at 10:13 pm #
While adoring his “Drop Dead Gorgeous White European Former Model Wife”, he exclaims France needs more “Interacial mariages”?
What’s good for thee, is not good for me?
So, who’s pulling his strings?
HarrisonBergeron2 on 30 Jan 2009 at 11:08 pm #
roho,
Sounds like Sarkozy is channelling Longshanks: “The problem with France is that it’s full of Frenchmen.”
Bede on 30 Jan 2009 at 11:25 pm #
In the debates, Sarkozy essentially stole Le Pen’s platform (rhetoric on deporting Muslims, etc.) and then, as soon as elected, moved to the multicultural left. Sound familiar?
RonL on 31 Jan 2009 at 9:24 am #
Pat wrote a great piece. Sadly, Pat trusts a leftist over the actual statements of Avigdor Lieberman and Yisrael Beitenu, that is assuming that he could be bothered with checking facts, which I actually doubt. “Israel is Our Home”
He has not called for the expulsion of a million Israeli Arab citizens. Galilee Arabs have come to see themselves not as Israeli or, as in the past Souther Syrian, but as Palestinians. Lieberman proposed ceding them and their land for some of the Jewish communities in the disputed territories. Those former Israeli Arabs would receive compensation, while retaining their land. Those Palestinianized Israeli Arab in other areas would be offered compensation and a buyout.
These are not far-righters. They support a three state solution; Israel, Jordan and Palestine. In so far as it calls for population exchange it is the logical extension of the Oslo process.
Regarding France, the only French nationalist running was Viscomt de Villiers of MPF. Any French politician unwilling to denounce De Gaulle and other founders the EU as traitors, cannot be trusted. Le Pen went full Petain in 2006 when he reached out to Muslims.
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/frances-le-pen-to-strike-a-deal-with-muslims/27822/
Sarkozy made his refusal to deal with the Islamic threat clear in 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/31/news/france.php
http://nycright.blogspot.com/2005/11/europe-is-burning-this-ramadan.html
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2043
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=423
Bede on 31 Jan 2009 at 7:33 pm #
Here are the Rogozin quotes:
“There is an enormous distance between Europe and the Third World. There is a new civilization emerging in the Third World that thinks that the white, northern hemisphere has always oppressed it and must therefore fall at its feet now. This is very serious.”
“If the northern civilization wants to protect itself, it must be united: America, the European Union, and Russia. If they are not together, they will be defeated one by one.”
http://www.russiatoday.com/guests/detail/1801
bongoparty5 on 05 Feb 2009 at 3:45 am #
I’d say it’s about time someone points out that Sarkozy is Jewish in this thread.
Weaver on 05 Feb 2009 at 5:39 am #
Bongo,
he’s 1/4 Jewish, like Lenin, and in favor of a 2 state solution with Israel.
So, I don’t think it’s accurate to describe him as a Zionist or Jew, but rather as a cosmopolitan, rootless man with no, or very weak, loyalties.
There are plenty of, ah, left wing Jews, but Sarkozy doesn’t appear to be one of them.
RonL on 11 Feb 2009 at 1:38 am #
Bonoparty,
No one who declares Arabic the language of the future, or who supports the Mediterranean Union is a Zionist, except in the basic sense of supporting the existence of the state of Israel.
In reality, Sarkozy is importing the death of the French and particularly the French Jews.