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Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite
The National Interest ^ | Spring 2004 | Samuel Huntington

Posted on 04/05/2004 4:27:12 AM PDT by shrinkermd

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To: shrinkermd
This article explains why the left cannot understand why, at state GOP conventions across the country, the vast majority of delegates still tear up when Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" blasts over some bad sound system. We are proud. Some families have paid high prices for our freedom. Some pay the small price of paying a bit just to be proud.
21 posted on 04/07/2004 6:06:05 PM PDT by ModernAyn
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To: shrinkermd

Great piece


22 posted on 01/31/2014 11:20:21 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: shrinkermd

Bump


23 posted on 01/31/2014 11:25:55 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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This is why we have open borders. Our elites are not loyal to America.


24 posted on 08/07/2014 2:04:43 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: shrinkermd

MUST READ


25 posted on 05/05/2016 7:31:26 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: 20yearsofinternet; Amntn; AndyJackson; Art in Idaho; AuntB; BigEdLB; Black Agnes; ...
This article was recommended to me yesterday by a young professor of poly sci. Written more than a decade ago by noted Harvard political science professor Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008), it accurately forecast the political forces now struggling for dominance in the 2016 elections, and explains particularly Trump's laser focus on the divide between the elites and the citizenry.

Here is just one sample from this excellent article (paragraph breaks by me for easier reading):

Transnational ideas and people fall into three categories: universalist, economic and moralist.

The universalist approach is, in effect, American nationalism and exceptionalism taken to the extreme. In this view, America is exceptional not because it is a unique nation but because it has become the "universal nation." It has merged with the world through the coming to America of people from other societies and through the widespread acceptance of American popular culture and values by other societies. The distinction between America and the world is disappearing because of the triumph of American power and the appeal of American society and culture.

The economic approach focuses on economic globalization as a transcendent force breaking down national boundaries, merging national economies into a single global whole, and rapidly eroding the authority and functions of national governments. This view is prevalent among executives of multinational corporations, large NGOs, and comparable organizations operating on a global basis and among individuals with skills, usually of a highly technical nature, for which there is a global demand and who are thus able to pursue careers moving from country to country.

The moralistic approach decries patriotism and nationalism as evil forces and argues that international law, institutions, regimes and norms are morally superior to those of individual nations. Commitment to humanity must supersede commitment to nation. This view is found among intellectuals, academics and journalists. Economic transnationalism is rooted in the bourgeoisie, moralistic transnationalism in the intelligentsia.


26 posted on 05/06/2016 12:03:57 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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I think Trump has a little of all three, actually the best of all three or maybe even a 4th category unnamed.


27 posted on 05/06/2016 12:50:54 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump presidency is like The Golden Age of Pericles in Greece)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks for the ping and looking back many years to a very interesting article and a very good thread. Great posts BUMP! Some of those FReepers appear to have disappeared.


28 posted on 05/06/2016 1:56:16 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Albion Wilde; BlackElk

Ping to comment 26.

Nice post, Albion! Thank you so much.


29 posted on 05/06/2016 5:20:42 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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There is something to be said for the late Professor Huntington's theories but time would be more profitably spent studying his mentor, also a Harvard professor, Crane Brinton and his Anatomy of a Revolution dissecting and comparing the "Glorious Revolution" in England, the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the soviet revolution.

Also, Tragedy and Hope by Georgetown (disreputable) professor, the late Carroll Quigley whom Slick Willie publicly acknowledged as HIS mentor in his inaugural address and on other occasions. There were only 8800 copies of the book sold by MacMillan before it destroyed the plates. It spilled too many beans.

It may have been re-published by a minor publisher later. Quigley admired an internationalist group of wealthy influential schemers and named some names in his 1300 page book, starting with Cecil Rhodes and it is and was a group dedicated to smashing national sovereignty in favor of a central world government which could be controlled by them. That it smacks of conspiracy theory does not mean that the conspiracy did not or does not exist. To me, Rhodes is the only recognizable name. They wanted it that way. Quigley wanted to give them the credit he thought them too modest to seek. Actually, they have always preferred anonymity and secrecy.

As my wife is fond of saying: Sometimes, even paranoids have real enemies. And so do we.

30 posted on 05/06/2016 11:17:48 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: Albion Wilde

yes, an excellent article, and highly pertinent to our present situation!!


31 posted on 05/06/2016 11:31:58 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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To: Albion Wilde

Having now read more of Huntington’s article, I will say you are right.


32 posted on 05/06/2016 11:34:54 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Rack 'em Danno!)
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...Also, Tragedy and Hope by Georgetown (disreputable) professor, the late Carroll Quigley... There were only 8800 copies of the book sold by MacMillan before it destroyed the plates. It spilled too many beans.

An informed response; thank you.

One of the great things about the e-book revolution is the recovery of past texts that were pushed out of print by Political Correctness, such as Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. (1966), which also named names.

Here is an online resource for Tragedy and Hope:

download site for Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley

A search-engine glance also shows that Anatomy of a Revolution is available in digital format.

33 posted on 05/09/2016 9:36:54 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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