So, the EU has raised the standard of living? Yes, at the expense of the future. It was done by way of money and work borrowed from the future. Perhaps it is better to have a lower standard of living and live in the moment on what you can afford. I doubt anybody was starving before. But when they can no longer make the payments on the second Mercedes and the holiday home in Rome they will starve.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Leon Trotsky’s “internationalist” vision — a nation of ideas rather than geographical boundaries — found its realization in a massive conservative reaction to the perversion of our world by liberals? Around the globe, people who have seen their values sundered by godless, amoral humanism rise up under one banner and launch the Glorious Revolution that restores us to sanity.
Seriously. In a world where a flaming faggot cross-dresser drag queen with a beard can win anything but a lifetime supply of straitjackets, haven’t we reached the “Caligula Point,” where even the most perverse among us has to pause at the logical conclusion of such depravity?
Devoutly to be wished ...
For those who don’t know, the title of the piece alludes to the opening line of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, published in 1848:
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.
Good. Old Arlen haunted the U.S. Senate for years. Let his ghost haunt somewhere else for a while. One of the deciding votes for the curse of Obamacare!!
I haven't actually seen much sign that this is the case. I'd be interested to know what Buchanan is referring to here - surely there is little sign that the GOPe has decided to promote smaller government, less spending, fewer abuses against individual rights, immigration restrictions; in short, lately there seems to me to be more a collective sigh of relief that they haven't yet been forced to address these issues in any way but accommodation to the wilder partisans on the Left. Maybe I'm being distracted by the triumphalist drumbeat in the Beltway press over the primary elections, but I don't think so.
His conclusion that transnationalism “feeds the body but starves the soul” is woefully wrong.
Transnationalism is actually reactionary to prosperity and success. It keeps the poor down, and drags the middle classes down into poverty. It is an exclusive diet of meringue, just whipped egg whites and sugar. And all paid for with crushing debt.
it doesn’t feed the body. It gives it diabetes.
May God Bless the revival of patriotism & ethnic spirit in Europe. The answer to War is not perpetual servitude to crack-pot theories, but rather the traditional American foreign policy from Washington & Jefferson, which once made America the envy of the world, and the most loved nation in human history. (We are one of the most hated now, because we have allowed our home grown theorists and crackpots to push the suppression of heritage on the nations we once treated with actual respect."
Let us return to a leadership, which applies the lessons from our own early success, and stop following the Pied Piper of Humanist insanity back to a modern equivalent of Nimrod's insane venture at Babel. Every people have a right to develop & build on a culture that reflects them, not some academic theorists cloud-borne day dream.
William Flax