print“Pat Buchanan and MSNBC’s Pygmy” is my latest WND.COM column. Here’s an excerpt:
“The ideas he put forth aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC.” So decreed MSNBC president Phil Griffin about Patrick J. Buchanan’s grand historical synthesis, “Suicide of a Superpower: Will American Survive to 2025?” Mr. Griffin was justifying the banishment from the network of one of the last authentic conservatives in mainstream media.
If I were not already persona non grata within the mainstream, I would be worried.
In an exchange with this writer, Mr. Buchanan had mentioned that his “18,000-word chapter on ethnonationalism and tribalism and the surge of both throughout the Third World—as well as our own declining world—tracks pretty much with what” I had written in my book, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa,” published in May of 2011.
Buchanan’s towering text concludes as follows: “We were one nation. We spoke the same language, learned the same history, celebrated the same heroes, observed the same holy days and holidays … were taught the same truths about right and wrong, good and evil, God and country. We were a people then. That America is gone. Many grieve her passing. Many rejoice. But we are not a people anymore.” (Page 424.)
America, as Mr. Buchanan observes, was eaten away by the acid of the 1960s revolution, “with its repudiation of Christian morality and embrace of secularism and egalitarian ideology.”
South Africa was relatively unaffected by that revolution. It was a staunchly traditional Christian country. Stores closed on Sundays. Television came late to the place but so did pornography and the gay rights movement. In South Africa, the influence of Christianity receded after the 1994 democratic transition.
Whereas “Americans are no longer a people,” by contrast, the Afrikaners, as illustrated in “Into the Cannibal’s Pot,” still linger as a people, clinging to what Barack Obama would indubitably deride as their bibles, their guns and their bigotries.
Dubbed the white tribe of Africa, this organic nation has, however, ceased to exist as a nation-state, dissolved by democratic decree. The sundering of state sovereignty has, in turn, exposed Afrikaners to ethnic cleansing, a familiar feature of democracy a la Africa. …
Read the complete column, “Pat Buchanan and MSNBC’s Pygmy,” on WND.COM.
The book discussed, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa,” is available from Amazon. (Don’t forget those reviews; they help this cause.)
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UPDATE I (Jan. 13): Prof. Ole Jørgen Anfindsen (his Wiki bio is here) has reviewed Into the Cannibal’s Pot on a Norwegian webzine. Prof. Anfindsen blogs at HonestThinking.com. If only I had Norwegian. (Or maybe not
UPDATE II: In reply to a reader (snaketrapper) on WND: Had this reader read my book, which references Prof. Hoppe’s “Democracy,” and carries advance praise from him—he might be better informed about this writer’s views and her understanding of the country of her birth, where members of her family, Christian and Jewish, still reside. But, of course, the assorted snakes that have crawled out of hibernation to comment about a book (written by a Jew) that they have in all likelihood not read (or a short column that doesn’t give the right answers to all their questions)—are more interested in asserting uninformed, unfounded, collectivist, irrational biases against the author of “Into the Cannibal’s Pot,” than reporting on the issues addressed in the book. I refer this reader to the section in the book titled, “A strategy for Survival.” I will add this: If I have learned anything from writing this book it is this: Anti-Semitism and collectivism are alive and well.
Free speech and dialogue is OK provided it is “appropriate”. Sounds like something that Goebbels or Beria would advocate:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_propaganda
Funny thing when an Obama or a Holder talk about “cowards” or the need for an “honest dialogue” on race that they really mean a North Korean style indoctrination….
And what else is new!
Tell you what, though, it’s an even worse situation in Western countries (the vast majority of them) that don’t have anything resembling a First Amendment …
Apparently MSNBC did not like that he wrote a chapter on the end of White America. However, the media seems to run celebratory pieces each month, footnoted with the latest census figures, counting down the years to the end of White America.
Apparently, this topic is fit for national discourse provided one welcomes, not laments, it.
I think you’re analysis, Miss Ilana, regarding the roots of our joint demise being found in our shared Calvinism (a decayed form at least), is brilliant. Thanks!
As far as Mr buchanan is concerned I have occaisionally been left scratching my head but on the whole I have always thought him to be pretty well on the ball. To find out that Mercer is for him is high praise indeed. As far as the Afrikaners are concerned I wonder how long they could have continued to buck public condemnation and governmental interference from the propagandized, ill informed people of the US and western Europe.
Mr. Buchanan’s (or anyone’s) forays into the fringes of national dialogue will always be unwelcome. The sinner on the fringes, whether religious or (especially) secular, will always be reminded that with sin comes expiation. Our present purgatories are forged for white sins against people of color, men’s sins against women, Euro sins of genocide – Holocaust certainly, Holodomor… not so much – and so on.
Lost upon the sheep is; those who would build the Shining City upon a Hill have built a hell to go with it. And just now, hell prevails.
Many of the leading Puritans in early New England were descendants of the English landed gentry, and probably also earlier descended from younger sons or daughters of the English nobility. The early Dutch in America were often merchants and tradesmen. Calvinism has a belief in the sovereignty of God, and the people as the agents of God; and perhaps manifest destiny. I don’t know the details about the ancestral social background of the Afrikaners.
To add to my previous comment, if I remember history correctly, the English early Puritans were initially intolerant of other Christian groups in Massachussetts that were somewhat more liberal, such as Baptists; but the Dutch Calvinists in New York were more tolerant than the Puritans, as were Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and further immigration brought greater numbers of tolerant religious people, who eventually became more numerous than the Puritans, until the new religious liberty and freedom decayed after decades or generations into libertine irreligion and immorality among some of the people, the antithesis of the Puritans; while a political minority retained their Puritan conservative religion and morality, but were unable to politically defeat the more liberal political majority who were not Puritans, leading to further tolerance of liberalism, until the liberals themselves became intolerant of conservative religion.