Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
October 24, 2011 7:33 AM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems to be one of a series of single link blog op ed posts about terrible people being terrible and while they seem to really get peopel going here, I'd suggest that people really interested in this stuff discuss it over at the blog where it is already linked so that MeFi does not become electionyellateachotherfilter. Thank you. -- jessamyn
Aren't "highlights" and "Pat Buchanan" mutually exclusive?
Highlights isn't what the article calls them, and obviously "Pat Buchanan" and "pretty racist excerpts" aren't mutually exclusive.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 7:37 AM on October 24, 2011
Highlights isn't what the article calls them, and obviously "Pat Buchanan" and "pretty racist excerpts" aren't mutually exclusive.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 7:37 AM on October 24, 2011
Racists gonna ...race?
No, that's not it.
Bigots gonna ...big?
Um.
He's an asshole.
posted by leotrotsky at 7:39 AM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
No, that's not it.
Bigots gonna ...big?
Um.
He's an asshole.
posted by leotrotsky at 7:39 AM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
One of my (female) friends has those exact glasses.
posted by theodolite at 7:41 AM on October 24, 2011
posted by theodolite at 7:41 AM on October 24, 2011
As the "Archie Bunker" class dies out, Nixon's channel to that demographic will be less necessary. I'm sure news and opinion compiled by rich kids film studies interns will work out better for everyone:
Jillian Rayfield is a Reporter/Blogger for TPM, and started as a News Intern in May 2009. She graduated from Cornell University in May 2008 with a degree in Film, and worked as a Research Assistant for a market research firm in London in between.posted by ennui.bz at 7:42 AM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Pat Buchanan is a national hero.
He makes explicit the nativist, xenophobic anxieties that have fueled the Republican party since its (wildly successful) decision to adopt the Southern Strategy / Culture War Diversionary Strategy. We owe him a debt of gratitude for saying what usually remains unsaid or merely hinted at.
Now what were you saying about Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party locking arms again? Ah, right.
posted by joe lisboa at 7:42 AM on October 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
He makes explicit the nativist, xenophobic anxieties that have fueled the Republican party since its (wildly successful) decision to adopt the Southern Strategy / Culture War Diversionary Strategy. We owe him a debt of gratitude for saying what usually remains unsaid or merely hinted at.
Now what were you saying about Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party locking arms again? Ah, right.
posted by joe lisboa at 7:42 AM on October 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
She seems capable of compiling verbatim quotes from a book. Not sure what your point is.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 7:43 AM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 7:43 AM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Aren't "highlights" and "Pat Buchanan" mutually exclusive?
Pat Buchanan thinks the American power structure is under siege from women, immigrants, people of color, non-Christians and homosexuals.
Gallant acknowledges the ongoing expansion of social acceptance and civil liberties.
posted by griphus at 7:43 AM on October 24, 2011 [6 favorites]
Pat Buchanan thinks the American power structure is under siege from women, immigrants, people of color, non-Christians and homosexuals.
Gallant acknowledges the ongoing expansion of social acceptance and civil liberties.
posted by griphus at 7:43 AM on October 24, 2011 [6 favorites]
'Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Constitution—to “insure domestic tranquility” and “make us a more perfect union”?'
Has he been living in a hole, or has he not noticed how badly the white male elite have screwed things up?
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 7:46 AM on October 24, 2011
Has he been living in a hole, or has he not noticed how badly the white male elite have screwed things up?
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 7:46 AM on October 24, 2011
Pat Buchanan thinks the American power structure is under siege from women, immigrants, people of color, non-Christians and homosexuals.
Gallant acknowledges the ongoing expansion of social acceptance and civil liberties.
Can you find ten differences between godless 21st-century America and the golden age of our forefathers?
posted by theodolite at 7:47 AM on October 24, 2011
Gallant acknowledges the ongoing expansion of social acceptance and civil liberties.
Can you find ten differences between godless 21st-century America and the golden age of our forefathers?
posted by theodolite at 7:47 AM on October 24, 2011
She seems capable of compiling verbatim quotes from a book. Not sure what your point is.
Part of Nixon's shtick was always an appeal based on resentment of "limousine liberals" and rich kids with big ideas and a disdain for hardworking white men like Archie Bunker. Part of Buchanan's appeal to the people who fund him is that he attracts attacks people like the author of this 'list,' which are turned around as attacks on the Archie Bunker demographic.
And the thing is, like all good advertising/propaganda, it's built on a kernel of truth.
posted by ennui.bz at 7:49 AM on October 24, 2011
Part of Nixon's shtick was always an appeal based on resentment of "limousine liberals" and rich kids with big ideas and a disdain for hardworking white men like Archie Bunker. Part of Buchanan's appeal to the people who fund him is that he attracts attacks people like the author of this 'list,' which are turned around as attacks on the Archie Bunker demographic.
And the thing is, like all good advertising/propaganda, it's built on a kernel of truth.
posted by ennui.bz at 7:49 AM on October 24, 2011
Buchanan got tossed from Georgetown as an undergrad for getting loaded and beating up a priest.
love that factoid.
posted by JPD at 7:51 AM on October 24, 2011 [3 favorites]
love that factoid.
posted by JPD at 7:51 AM on October 24, 2011 [3 favorites]
And the thing is, like all good advertising/propaganda, it's built on a kernel of truth.
Are you really going to make this thread all about your issues with the educational- and (presumed) class-background of the author of the piece and not, say, the subject of the piece?
Just making sure. Because your facile attempt to link your issues with the author and the subject of her piece is making you look fairly petty.
posted by joe lisboa at 7:52 AM on October 24, 2011
Are you really going to make this thread all about your issues with the educational- and (presumed) class-background of the author of the piece and not, say, the subject of the piece?
Just making sure. Because your facile attempt to link your issues with the author and the subject of her piece is making you look fairly petty.
posted by joe lisboa at 7:52 AM on October 24, 2011
Calling someone a racist for calling someone a racist for calling someone a racist is why I get up in the morning.
posted by michaelh at 7:55 AM on October 24, 2011
posted by michaelh at 7:55 AM on October 24, 2011
Our intellectual, cultural, and political elites are today engaged in one of the most audacious and ambitious experiments in history. They are trying to transform a Western Christian republic into an egalitarian democracy made up of all the tribes, races, creeds, and cultures of planet Earth.
Yes. Yes we are. Very poetically put, and so it stirs my patriotism - "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free!" - the melting-pot, the guiding light and the city on the hill, the greatest civilization the world has ever seen. Yes! This should be taken out of context and repeated everywhere, as the sacred American mission.
That, my friends, would be justice well served.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:58 AM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Yes. Yes we are. Very poetically put, and so it stirs my patriotism - "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free!" - the melting-pot, the guiding light and the city on the hill, the greatest civilization the world has ever seen. Yes! This should be taken out of context and repeated everywhere, as the sacred American mission.
That, my friends, would be justice well served.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:58 AM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
One of my (female) friends has those exact glasses.
I think he's auditioning for Doctor Octopus.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:59 AM on October 24, 2011
I think he's auditioning for Doctor Octopus.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:59 AM on October 24, 2011
Buchanan has been trolling people like Jillian, the author of this list, since before she was born. And doing it for the benefit of the Republican party:
Will Jillian get a real job so that Archie can get a real wage?
posted by ennui.bz at 7:59 AM on October 24, 2011
The majority of Americans were on the side of the administration, Buchanan maintained, "but they are men and women who do not understand sophisticated ideas." These people needed to be led forcefully. He had proposed that the White House send Vice President Spiro Agnew to march with "the hard hats" in support of the war in New York City:But the kernel of it is still the same: does Jillian really have Archie Bunker's interest at heart? Will Jillian sell out Bunker for free trade or student loan tax credits? OWS has succeeded as a media event largely because it has avoided the issues that split the Democratic party along class lines, a split that it's Buchanan's job to message:
The message would have hit every blue collar worker in the country and these are our people now—if we want them—and frankly, they are better patriots and more pro-Nixon than the little knot of [moderate Republican] Riponers we have sought to cultivate since we came into office.
Forget making amends with critics in and outside of Washington, even those from within Republican ranks, Buchanan advised:
It should be our focus to constantly speak to, to assure, to win, to aid, to promote the President's natural constituency—which is now the working men and women of the country, the common man, the Roosevelt New Dealer. When in trouble, that is where we should turn, not try to find a common ground with our adversaries.
Buchanan was not adverse to publicity moves:
I strongly endorse symbolic gestures toward groups especially the blacks where symbols count for so much—because the President is President of all the people and while they will never vote for us, we must never let them come to believe we don't give a damn about them—or that they are outside our province of concern.
Will Jillian get a real job so that Archie can get a real wage?
posted by ennui.bz at 7:59 AM on October 24, 2011
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