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2021-03-27 -Land of the Free

Ilana Mercer: Americans Should Recall How Foreign-Policy Alinskyites Destroyed South Africa

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-27 01:59|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 A wandering article focusing on the usual target, the United States. There is plenty of blame to go around among the so-called International Community. Perhaps a more appropriate title line might read...

....."WOKE, The Early Years."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-27 02:17|| 2021-03-27 02:17|| Front Page Top

#2 An ahistoric, rootless America, shot through with dangerous and systemic anti-white animus, is an America in which liberty has been lost.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-27 03:22|| 2021-03-27 03:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Great Civilizations Aren’t Murdered, They Commit Suicide. - Arnold Toynbee

Posted by Clem 2021-03-27 09:35|| 2021-03-27 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s motto is, “Procreation, not immigration.” Orban plumps for closed borders, and pro-Western, Christian, Hungarian-families-first policies.

True but needs a slight amendment. Orban's policies have also been pro-Jewish, as David P. "Spengler" Goldman writes:
The Safest Country for European Jews? Try Hungary

Posted by Slorong Clunk9358 2021-03-27 16:51|| 2021-03-27 16:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The author over-writes. The big and important idea that peeps out here and there is radical and striking: freedom presupposes social order, which itself cannot be achieved in the absence of -- this is the main point, the truth that the American Uniparty cannot accept -- "historic national identity and cultural hegemony."

IOW, by rejecting the "blood and soil" basis of traditional conservative ideologies -- by replacing it with newfangled, ahistorical and anti-national "creedal" ideals -- American conservatism is powerless to protect freedom from Wokery's onslaught of anarchy and violence. In brief, US conservatives have it exactly backwards. The causal flow should be:
historic identity + cultural hegemony => order => liberty
NOT
liberation/democracy => order => novus ordo seclorum

The author also buried her lede. These final paragraphs need pruning and should have come first:

S/b: "True freedom requires social order."

Then: ~~To Kirk’s contention that “true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order,” I’d wager that~~ "In my former homeland, South Africa, this bulwark against barbarism has collapsed. In my new homeland, America, the ~~framework~~ social order that sustains the country’s ~~ordered~~ liberty is ~~so rapidly being eroded, so as to be~~ near collapse."

"...Ludwig von Mises warned that liberty in the United States could not—and would not—endure unless the founding nation retained its historic national identity and cultural hegemony."

Posted by Ulolung Black6453 2021-03-27 17:54|| 2021-03-27 17:54|| Front Page Top

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