Psst! Pat!

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

For once, I'd like to see somebody call out white, rural conservatives for "elitism." People like Pat look down on anyone who lives in cities or suburbs, or on either coast. They clearly believe that everyone else's way of life is inferior.

I went to a town hall meeting a while ago, and pointed out to the Tea Party nutbars that most Americans are sick and tired of the divisive culture war where conservatives peek inside your shopping cart and tell you that you're un-American because of the color of your mustard or your brand of ketchup. Yet, conservatives keep trying to play it up.

Reminds me of Doug Stanhope's modified Pledge of Allegiance:

"... with liberty and justice for all,
must be 18 or older,
void where prohibited,
not available in all states,
some restrictions may apply."

Pat, your "race" is as much of a fiction as you "god". There is no such thing as "the white race". I am proud to be descended from Ukranians and Poles whose ancestors were regularly ravaged by rampaging Mongols and Moors and heaven only knows what else. I crave mutthood.

Being a mutt means having genetic perspective. Inbreeding is for chumps.

(But, of course, you'd have to have some respect for and understanding of science to be on *that* page...)

I still believe that the current Republican rush to be as unabashedly and unapologetically racist and extreme as possible could conceivably work out well for them.

Consider how they're fluffing that proverbial 20% base. That's 20%, consisting mainly of the angriest, most paranoid, mentally and emotionally unstable, put-upon-feeling Nouveau Archie Bunkers we've got. Thanks to hate radio and Fox News, they now believe that they know how to think politically (or, just "think"); according to that recent study by Carville's group, along with the paranoia comes a certainty that they know where the real facts lie. With O'Reilly, Hannity and "Fox And Friends", of course.

So they're hyper-motivated to vote; the Republican strategists took their cues from watching the Left rise up in 2006 and (especially) 2008. People who never participated before... did. And that was key.

The Republicans are betting the farm that such a groundswell of Leftist populism isn't gonna happen again, and so they're going to try to replace those numbers with a highly-motivated 20%, consisting of a fragile coalition of teabaggers and enough clueless "moderate" Republican and independent voters, who aren't too turned off by the former. It could work.

And although their voting numbers ultimately may dwindle demographically, or just freeze more or less where they are, returning a Republican majority by any means possible will give them the berth to create as much permanent societal damage as they can, regardless of their true level of support. We saw that in Bush II... at this point, you'd need one entire administration or more, devoted solely to undoing the historical damage to how we do business.

Remember all this, next time you find yourself thinking, "My GOD, how can they SAY such things?" It's a numbers game. You'll see the first results of this plan in the 2010 midterms.

These are the folks who, like everyone else, expected to live a little better than their parents, to own a house, a couple of cars, maybe a boat, or a cabin in the woods, or take summer vacations with the kids, national parks, Disney World, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Instead the unions that provided the jobs that made this possible were weakened and excoriated, beginning with the air traffic controllers. Next, pensions were replaced with 401 K Plans. NAFTA sent their jobs to Mexico and then overseas, but they found another job. It had will lower pay and fewer benefits, but still they got by; between credit cards and borrowing against the equity in the house, they were doing okay. Then the housing bubble burst , and the credit card companies raised their rates and the monthly payment that they could just meet doubled and the bank won’t renegotiate the mortgage because they were they are ‘under water’ and drowning. Last, but not least, Wall Street imploded (for reasons too complex for Princeton economists and bankers to understand) and whatever little money they had left vanished in a puff of smoke.

They are confused, because they see themselves as (and a lot of them are) good people who obey the rules and go to church and take care of themselves and their family and suddenly they are life’s losers.

Obama and the dems will never will all, or maybe even most of them back to rational thinking, but a robust jobs program will ease a lot of the anger.

Along comes Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and they say, “It’s not your fault; it’s those nasty socialist Democrats and those evil immigrants who are taking your jobs and your money.” It’s a simple, straight forward reason for their misery. It makes sense to them. And since the mass media does nothing to counteract such statements and often gives those who promote them a forum, they believe. Without a decent education, totally ignorant of history and civics, unable to understand the past 30 years and how the policies of Reagan and Bush I & II and Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey and Phil Gramm screwed them six ways from Sunday they take to the streets with a howl of frustration, never realizing that they are still following the pied piper who brought them to where they are now.

Pat B. is scared and lost in a sea of facts that do not support his idealogic beliefs, so he will lash out and try to deny reality. Sorry Pat, the train has left the station without you.

He is terrified that The coming new Majority (read:non-white) are going to treat white people the way White people treated them. It has already started with all the cries of Reverse-Racism since January.

For a supposed Christian, Pat seems to really fear Karma..... And he should.

I refuse to click the link, because its not worth rewarding them with the 2 pennies of ad revenue that would result. Buchanan is a racist d-bag? Dog bites man.

The doubling down on the fear of blacks rising in social and economic standing (which Reagan and others implied would mean white loss) is a very peculiar strategy in this day and age. I don't think it will work a second time: it has all the earmarks of a history repeating itself--as dangerous farce.

I just tried to read the Buchanan column to figure out his actual point. It is totally incoherent. I suspect he's gone.

Wait, he's right. It was by and for white people. (They even fought a war to keep it that way. Some nasty business involving Lee, Lincoln, and some other folks). Then again it may still be going on depending on your perspective.

For anyone who thought that the people with power would happily surrender it to those without I have some disheartening news about the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy, and Santa Claus.

Lester Maddox isn't dead, he's just reincarnated as a Fox News celeb.

MSNBC needs to dump him. I've written about this before on my blog, most recently back when he wrote a column defending Hitler that they had posted on the MSNBC website.

http://beachpeanuts.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/msnbcs-pat-buchanan-problem/

But really, now World Net Daily??
Might have to start making it a regular feature

I've been aware of Buchanan for years but I never knew how frightening and dangerous he was until he started to appear regularly on TV.

It's interesting watching Pat get progressively more "out" about his KKK-style racial views in the Obama era. Is he following his core audience? Or are theyf ollowing him?

Having read his column, it's even more interesting to see Buchanan tie economic grievances directly to racial resentment -- the classic fascist pitch.

How long before he's ranting about "Jewish" capitalism?

It would definitely fit right in at World Nut Daily.

Tell it to Tonto, Pat.

"Whites will be the minority in the United States within the next 100 years"

I hate to mention this, but isn't it true that in most societies dominated by an elite group the elite group is actually a minority? Sometimes a very small one. I don't think the racial divisions in people's conditions in America is due to whites outvoting everyone else. It's because of the means, some brutal and violent, some administrative or legal, means permitted by the racial construct around dark skin.
So the day the Pat B's are 49% of the population won't be any kind of victory. They would be claiming the country is theirs, and they should run it when they are 10%, too. And they will do it if they can. The racial animus towards dark skins is a very deep, pernicious canard.

If Buchanan were an Israeli Jew he'd be a called a moderate.
Buchanan is making Josh Marshall's defense of Israel and the two state solution: equal but separate.

It amazes me that citizens of a modern multiethnic democracy are so willing to defend a state designed on a 19th century racial fantasy. But on top of that, to criticize those who have the same fantasies about their own homeland, calling them reactionary and racist...
I'm at a loss.