Lamh Foistenach Abu!I believe Paul Weyrich is dead. To his points, indeed, Christians are set apart, or as the church has long called them, resident aliens.
There is nothing wrong setting up seperate institutions in entertainment or education but to not be in political process means giving up on the process that as a result of our surrender will bring certain tyranny.
So I disagree, we keep battling!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!How prescient of Mr. Weyerich. Thanks for posting.
I had the privilege of meeting Paul when he and Marine General Lew Walt came to Georgia to campaign for Larry McDonald in 1980. He was a good and very bright man.
And 100% correct about the nature of our problem.
I believe it was Robert Welch who wrote way back in the 50s that we were witnessing the destruction of the absolutes in the culture. What was right had become wrong. What was good had become bad. The world in which many of us over 50 had grown up had been turned upside down.
And the plan of the other side was to capture the “robes” as they are traditionally the most influential members of a society. The clergy, the judiciary, the academics have all largely been captured — have been for many years.
Barack Obama and the Chicago thugs with which he is surrounded are not simply a byproduct of that plan: They are the INEVITABLE RESULT.
We will be a long, long time retaking that lost ground.
We may NEVER get back to those First Principles upon which the Founders established what was to have been that shining city on a hill.
But — and this is vital — WE MUST NEVER STOP PRAYING AND FIGHTING for a restoration of those values or our kids and grandkids may be tempted to dig us all up to spit in our faces for our lack of faith and resolve.
I believe it was the early Romans who prohibited several classes of people from holding public office: Those of illegitimate birth (bastards), eunuchs and homosexuals.
While these children had no choice in the matter, bastards were prohibited because, having no sense of their family past or history, they could not be trusted to operate for the good of the culture based on its history or traditions.
Eunuchs (castrated males) and homosexuals because they could not and/or would not sire children and would, therefore, most likely have no abiding interest in preserving the culture for future generations.
While there are a number of exceptions, I’ll let YOU tell me what sort of folks we have in public office HERE.
I suspect America has employed technology to compress into slightly over 240 years what it took the Romans over 2,000 to achieve — total and utter collapse.
ping for later.
A nation’s life is about as long as its reverential memory.
- Whittaker Chambers
Yes, it’s the culture, all right.
Something very big happened in 1968, and we have been engulfed in the Culture Wars ever since.
Sure, it goes back earlier, to the Frankfort School, or to Lenin, or to Marx, or to the Revolution of 1848, or to the French Revolution.
But the tipping point seems to have been 1968 in most of the western world.
people still vote their wallets and WITH their wallets.
Popular culture Movies TV Internet Cable Newspapers, CAN be conqured by our spending.
If starbucks thinks playing MSNBC on their shop tv’s drives customers away then they will stop doing that.
We have to heard the marxists with our money.
Ping for later
Weyrich:"Those who came up with Political Correctness, which we more accurately call "Cultural Marxism," did so in a deliberate fashion. I'm not going to go into the whole history of the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse and the other people responsible for this. Suffice it to say that the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology, an ideology bitterly hostile to Western culture... am very concerned, as I go around the country and speak and talk to young people, when I find how much of the decadent culture they have absorbed without even understanding that they are a part of it. "
There may be a way to formulate the "Next Conservatism" thesis of cultural conservatism in a way which addresses some of these problems so that younger Americans can understand them. The first is to articulate what exactly is wrong with contemporary mass culture and how it got that way. When you talk to most people under, say, 30, often you find they have no idea what America used to be like culturally, the average, everyday life in America that many of us knew growing up. The paleocon cultural conservatives have to build up this narrative before there will be an effective demonstration.
Older conservatives should start talking about what life used to be like in terms of values, lifestyle, education, morals, education, and culture.
Excellent post.