President Obama: Thanks, George
So Americans have elected another president who is in not in any visible way a real American.
He is from Hawaii and Chicago. From Kenya and Indonesia. From nowhere and everywhere. He‘s "a citizen of the world," the euphemism for the rootless elites who have slowly captured American politics, culture and business in the last half century.
In these qualities, however, Barack Hussein Obama merely reprises his predecessor, the president from Connecticut and Texas with no more attachment to those places than anywhere else, and whose principal loyalty isn't to kith and kin or to place, but to power, privilege and a "proposition" called democracy.
George W. Bush abetted the dissolution of our borders, presided over the collapse of manufacturing at home and the dollar abroad and mired the country in a Mesopotamian war we cannot win. The faux Texan bankrupted the country and destroyed its prestige abroad. He is the man most responsible for the elevation of a radical, anti-Christian, anti-American leftist to the presidency. The American people were, Obama rightly said, ready for "change." Well, they're going to get it. And as H.L. Mencken said of democracy, they’re going to get it good and hard.
Not that Bush didn't have help. For eight nightmarish years, he surrounded himself with the neoconservative ideologues who injected their leftist bacillus into domestic and foreign policy vis-à-vis such issues as immigration and Iraq. When these "boat people from the McGovern campaign," as Pat Buchanan felicitously called them, landed on the shores of "Reagan conservatism," they not only captured the traditional institutions of the right and the minds of good-hearted evangelical Protestants, but also persuaded the news media they were the true voice of real American conservatives. They weren't, but that didn't matter.
As our late friend and neoconologist Sam Francis observed, the neocons suited the leftist media's needs perfectly. The media and its allies in entertainment and academe care more about transforming American culture and destroying Christianity than greedy Wall Street financiers or whether the United States blows a country or two to smithereens. Which isn't to say they don't hate business and the military.
The neocons regard our Christian patrimony with the same contempt as their confreres in the honest left: as something to manipulated, then conquered. They care nothing about the 50 million abortions during the last 30 years. They care nothing about the sexualization of children in schools. They care nothing about the anti-Christian activities of the leftist elites whose approbation they seek. Indeed, like the left, the neocons would destroy the ethnic and Christian roots of this country, and thus have never threatened the left's control of the media or any of the institutions seized in the 1960s.
Thus did the neocons provide the leftist media with an impotent "conservative" foil. The neocons will not impede the radical left’s gradual transformation of the United States from a real place bound together by faith and family and blood and soil, by a common language and culture, into a "proposition" or creed to which any Earthling can assent. Babble a few Jeffersonian bromides and you're an American. Unhappily, they seem to have so convinced the American people, evangelicals in particular. The government schools, of course, helped.
But back to the election: The media’s depiction of neocon ideology as real conservatism linked it to the GOP and President Bush, leading to the false conclusion that real conservatism failed. It didn’t. It was never tried. Yet after eight years of media propaganda and disastrous Republican rule, who can blame Americans for thinking it failed and choosing “change?”
So our president-elect is the son of an alcoholic, bigamist Kenyan, the stepson of a ne’er-do-well Indonesian Muslim, the nephew of an illegal immigrant who has evaded deportation, and the half-brother to siblings sprayed across Kenya, one of whom lives in a tin shack. Topping it all off, he is the spawn of a leftist woman’s enthusiastic participation in the radical left's 40-year social and sexual war against Christendom.
Barack Hussein Obama is the ultimate proposition American. And he’s a bad proposition. The neocons peddle the ideology that created him. George Bush, their errand boy, put him in the White House.
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This author, whoever he is, hits the nail on the head. Thanks for writing this.
Amazing article. Really amazing. This is everything I have been thinking, but have been unable to articulate to others.
He sure does!
I deeply sense we are jumping through a hoop. We go in one side as one thing and out the other as smething totally diferent, sonething incomprehensible to those born to American Christian culture.
Like I have asked before, why ain't I hearing the rumblin of civil war?!
As I have said before, we can't just blame the neocons---We have to accept and correct the defects of Lincoln/Reagan America which made this decline possible (if not inevitable).
I find it telling that the talking heads shows pitting Right against Left inevitably feature a liberal vs. a neo-con. Conservatives have been ousted from public discourse (Pat Buchanan being the only notable exception).
#6 "Conservatives have been ousted from public discourse (Pat Buchanan being the only notable exception)."
Yes but always remember these words from The Republic of Carolus Martellus: "To be without money is better than to be without honour"
I agree with Dr. Wilson @ #5,
"we can’t just blame the neocons."
We have to accept and correct the defects of Lincoln/Reagan America which made the neo-cons possible (if not inevitable.)
And I would add, the blue and red states irrelevant. But the history that Carolus Martellus provides us, is spot on.
I don't think this is anything that can be corrected short of a real miracle -- a spiritual shift that is beyond human contriving.
Obama is America. It's been a long time coming, and this is the culmination. Not all of it's bad, though most of it is.
Mr. Martellus,
can you elaborate on your definition of a "real American" ?
"So our president-elect is the son of an alcoholic, bigamist Kenyan, the stepson of a ne’er-do-well Indonesian Muslim, the nephew of an illegal immigrant who has evaded deportation, and the half-brother to siblings sprayed across Kenya, one of whom lives in a tin shack. Topping it all off, he is the spawn of a leftist woman’s enthusiastic participation in the radical left’s 40-year social and sexual war against Christendom."
You are fulfilling leftists' fantasies of the racist, irrational right. This sort of thing has no place in civilized discourse.
Just my random thoughts. Not necessary coherent or interesting to many well informed people here.
It is beyond being sad to accept this outcome of the election. But from my point of view, this is no more a watershed event than the night when William Jefferson Clinton was re-elected with a landslide victory in 1996. I was in western Pennsylvania in '96, and I still remember that how angry I was against the local community which overwhelmingly cast the votes for Clinton---because anybody should have known who Clinton was by then. But they still voted for him anyway simply because he can (at least the perception) put a few more bucks in everyone's pocket.
By the same token, anybody should have know who Hillary Clinton is. Yet her support was amazingly strong, and all the praises for her outstanding performance as a US Senator suddenly sprang up just in time for her to compete in the nomination.
I suspect if any devil can guarantee the hard-working Americans the much needed retirement money in their 401(k) accounts (e.g., the 100% appreciation just to return to the level in August of 2008) , that devil or satan will be surely elected as president. In comparison, we should be "grateful" that Obama, not Jeremiah Wright, will be the 44th president. In other words, it can be much worse.
Actually, it is very likely that Obama will be re-elected 4 years from now. The American federal machine can be easily manipulated once it is firmly in Obama's hands. Obama is nobody if he and his schemers would not take the full advantage of the golden opportunity.
My resolution: inspect my own heart and make sure I will be not one of those ignorant and unprepared voters. (Of course I did not vote for Obama on Tuesday.) Teach my children with wisdom from God, to accept this is a nation which has gone astray much farther than we want to admit, and tell them to prepare for the worst in the years to come.
We need to remember this: Mainstream (or as the Rev. Robert Lewis Dabney said, Yankee) conservatives have never conserved anything. The neo-cons are parasites that live on WASP politicians such as GW Bush. Clyde is therefore correct. As much as I despise the neo-cons, I despise their willing hosts even more.
This is a really good piece on the character (if you can call it that) of BHO, however.
Alex Ryu @ 12
Are you saying that facts have no placed in civilised discourse?
When someone says "This sort of thing has no place in civilized discourse," you know that someone is trying to shut someone else up in the name of left-liberal orthodoxy.
In another post, Chilton Williamson observed that his neighbor had the U.S. flag flying upside down, due to the election. I would be willing to bet this same neighbor had all the signs celebrating the invasion of Iraq in 2003 also. Furthermore, a "real American" such as this typically did not object to "bomb, bomb, bomb-ing Iran, as McCain and Palin (what of her's Evangelical idolatry of Israel?) enthusiastically advocated. The reality is that a "real" American has come to be the farmer (rancher?) from Kansas(?) in the Army Strong commericals (propaganda?) sending his son off to fight some foreigners whose vice is that they don't want us to occupy their country. In other words, whoring his family on behalf of the Army. As a long time cultural conservative, who saw the sign of our cultural decadence as being the way we allowed our children to absorb decadent cultural values. What I didn't see at the time was the decadence of "Christians" sitting around with their children watching and vicariously enjoying "torture" with TV shows such as "24," a favorite show of good "conservative" justices like Thomas and Scalia. Neoconservatives deserve all the blame that can he heaped on them. But our good Republican policies have also been the work of "Christian Conservatives," both Catholic and Protestant, and on display with groups like the "Chesterton Society," and other Republican party auxiliaries, many in the South (so let's forget about holding the Confereracy, many of whom wanted to expand to Cuba and Mexico, up as a model). Conservatives forgot that we're supposed to be American conservatives, not Prussian, Russian, British, or Argentine. Now we get get to find out how "Unitary Executive Theory" fits with our legal tradiitions, as defended by Chronicles "legal" expert Stephen Presser, when he testified alongside David Addington, the architect of expanded Executive power. I bet "conservative" antiabortionists or 2nd might appreciate "Habeas Corpus" if some Federal prosecutor charges them with "terrorism." Maybe conservatives will appreciate Justice Kennedy and the 4 liberal Justices who upheld the 800 year old right of Habeas Corpus with the Boumedienne decision, instead of deferring to the fallacious claims of the administration as the "Conservative wing" of the Court did. Speaking as a former conservative, and Buchanan supporter, "Conservatives," neo and otherwise, brought this mess upon themselves. Conservatives, neo and heartland, have become bare-faced nationalistic authoritarians. Buchanan shamed himself in his defense of that ignoramus, Palin; who stood against everything Buchanan had stood for, until recently. Chronicles discredited itself by remaining associated with the legal authoritarian Stephen Presser. So far, I see no evidence of a reconsideration of Conservative authoritarianism.
Charles "the Hammer" Martel is my hero.
Buyer's remorse set in on Wall Street today and I'm gloating smugly. The Evil Party has finally begun its path of self-destruction -- something which should have come 3 decades ago.
@12 Alex
Why not? Is telling the truth somehow unfashionable? Or are you some sort of blue-nosed puritan scold who seeks to put the kibosh on political discourse? Why don't you go and squeal to teacher at the ADL and SPLC? Not one of the author's comments about our president-elect is false.
Alex Ryu,
@12 Alex
Buddy, you have got to be kidding us. You cannot disprove a single word of the alleged "racist, irrational" portion of "Charles Martel's" article. And why do you even care if the t-shirt and white-skin clad Obamaniacs regard Chronicles readers as racists? There is in fact no way to convince the new messiah's people that you are not a racist unless you become one of them.
Words mean things, and if you consider yourself a conservative you had better get used to truth-telling; even when it is done in language stronger than you and your friends at Starbucks would like.
#17 - Patrick H. - Very well put, although I'd quibble a bit about the holding up the Confederacy as a model. Most partisans down here in South Texas who go on about the war of northern aggression are quite eager to join the North's current aggressions and openly idolize Lincoln. Sort of like the self-styled anti-globalists who favor a US global empire. These people have mastered the Orwellian art of holding two contradictory ideas at the same time and genuinely believing both.
Here’s the ugly reality. The Authentic Right had a great standard bearer in Pat Buchanan in 1996 and 2000, and in Ron Paul in 2008. The people, OUR people, rejected them. Insofar as I am further to the Right than these distinguished gentlemen, it pains me to acknowledge this, but it’s true, isn’t it?
Worse, Ron Paul was not badly funded. Buchanan was well known in ‘96, even a celebrity. He’d been around the GOP for decades, worked in the White House, etc. But the idiots chose Dole, and later McCain. And those were the ‘conservatives’!
Let’s face it: America is basically leftist, as is the Anglosphere, as is Europe. The West is now left-liberal in its primary ideo-cultural orientation. The Left has never really lost since its violent birth in 1789. Sometimes it overreaches, as with vicious, inefficient communism, or the cultural excesses of the 60s, but the macro-trend is clear.
On one side of the ideological divide stands work, family, country, patriarchy, racial exclusivity, sexual normality, liberty, order, value, morality, religion, discipline, law, sovereignty, justice, culture, civility, rationality, tradition, life.
On the other side stands EQUALITY. Equality has won unconditionally.
The (authentic) American Right should forget about winning “the whole enchilada”, political majorities, the Presidency, and the like, and instead focus its very limited capital simply on promoting those issues most related to basic cultural, economic and physical survival for OUR (conservative/Middle American) people: 1) stopping all (non-white) immigration; 2) safeguarding gun rights; 3) protecting private property and capitalism; 4) executing or at least incarcerating violent criminals; and, a deceptively remote-seeming issue, 5) preserving American national sovereignty (from transnational absorption or erasure). These are the core issues (note I did not mention national defense: liberals want some military, probably enough actually to protect the nation from any unlikely invasions).
Yes, we care about many other things, but they are secondary. The liberals can ruin them without harming the physical needs of ordinary people. And we on the Right have so very, very little wealth, influence or power …
Oh, one other matter. Do any of the distinguished gentlemen who write for CHRONICLES disagree with my analysis above, either wrt the 5 most important issues or areas of concern for the near-powerless Right, or my reading of inevitable leftist predominance through time (ie in the future, as well as past)?
#17 Patrick H.
I don't think it's accurate to include the Chesterton Society as a "Republican auxiliary." They consistently advocate third ways, especially distributive/agrarian economics. If some members have preferred Republicans in elections, it is only because of their horror of Socialists like Obama. I've never seen any real discussion of party politics in Gilbert Magazine, however. And the books they sell hardly endorse any of the principles of either party today. Nor are they trying to make us "British conservatives." Their presentation of GKC is always towards an American context.
Mr. Higdon @ 20
I am a good example of a Southerner who has held the two contradictory ideas - complain about Northern aggression while supporting the aggression du jour and at the very least honoring Lincoln - which you mention.
Getting out of this dilemma took the first half of my life. Once I actually saw the contradiction, I had to muster the courage to challenge it and then to finally publicly proclaim the facts which had exposed the contraction.
The priorities in my life are to so submit to the Christ that He can lift Himself up through my life, to take care of my family -kith as well as kin - and to run my little farm a little more efficiently so that it can be productive. Finally, where I can, I speak out against the contradiction which fetters so many of us Southerners.
I know from personal experience how easy it is to hold this contradiction. The weave of this contradiction goes back, at least as far as the era of the Spanish-American War. Without destroying the whole fabric, it is difficult to undo.
I'm with Alex@12. To berate anyone because of his relatives' behavior is hitting below the belt--not to mention immaterial as presented in this case.
Far too many participants in this site's discussions about Obama and the election are parlously short on relevance and substance, far too long on whining and venting. If you can't say something cogent--e.g., how Barack Sr.'s drinking and abusiveness determine the conduct of his son--you're being a nuisance.
Mr. Hayter, #22. Please tell us how this is to be accomplished?
I think the author is right that if America is a proposition nation that Barak Obama is exactly what you're going to get. No neocon could have been upset at Obama's election nor what he said in his victory speech because it conforms exactly to what they believe about the U.S. So in their minds they couldn't lose either way.
My earnest hope (and perhaps it is a naive one) is that the election of Obama removes the Mark of Cain all whites have been put upon by the multicultural left for "legacy of slavery" and "institutional racism" those alleged benefits of whitness that's always seemed to have escaped all those black lung coal miners in Applacia. I'm sure there will be those still pursuing such angles and if they do we simply say "Obama" and hopefully they will melt. (Although I should say, pretty soon, we may start hearing that because Obama is only half-black or because he's light skinnned, it doesn't change anything, which only reveals their patholgies.)
However, mean-spirited attacks on Obama's family are pathetic. It's incumbent upon us to stick to policy and culture and not be driven mad by Obama the way many on the right were driven mad and wound up destroying themselves because of the Clintons.
"America is basically leftist, as is the Anglosphere, as is Europe. The West is now left-liberal in its primary ideo-cultural orientation."
And in this light, I think that Chronicles readers ought to put this fact in their pipe and smoke it: Proposition 8 won due to the Obama-fueled high turnout of blacks, 70% of which voted against gay marriage.
The PC language is that they "helped" its passage, the statistical crunching proves their increased turnout was decisive.
Some people here may want to think twice about repealing the 15th amendment.
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1378391.html
Prof Wilson:
Thank you for considering my little post, but I'm not sure what I'm being asked? How is what to be accomplished?
The very promising program that you described. How are we to go about it?
The good news is that gun sales are up, up, up since November 4. Better stock up on bullets too, because the folks BO is surrounding himself with will move to institute an overturning of the Second Amendment. Be prepared.
Prof. Wilson:
Thank you for that clarification, and apologies for the delay in responding. Alas, I'm not too sure how precisely we go about achieving that agenda (or any other conservative one). My point was simply that the Right's capital is obviously so limited, and the situation is deteriorating so rapidly, that we need to husband our energies, donations, activism, etc. to get the greatest marginal returns, and that means re-focusing our intellectual, educational and political efforts towards those areas which directly threaten the physical interests (ie, personal safety, and economic prosperity, along with national sovereignty, the loss of which would end our scope of action without even a fight) of traditional Americans. I want serious conservatives to start 'prioritizing' their overall agenda, jettisoning concern over secondary issues.
I wish this weren't necessary. I wish we had never changed our immigration laws, had passed the Bricker Amendment, still hung murderers, retained a 'dollar as good as gold', etc. Then we could gently make the complex arguments on behalf of sexual ethics, traditional moral values and cultural standards, and so forth. But I perceive our future ever less dimly, and it looks increasingly like the "new" South Africa's present. What did Sam Francis say long ago about the "basics" that are all most people really care about: personal safety, putting food on the table, not living in continuous fear, etc.? Outside of exceptional times and places (eg, 1861-5)Americans have mostly possessed those "basics" The day may come, however, when they can no longer be taken for granted.
If I am being asked about the specific, or even just secondary, mechanics of achieving immigration stoppage, etc., I just don't know. That's a tall order you've given me! But I do know a few things. I think Sam's strategy of Middle American nationalism is still the correct one. I think we need some sort of 'center', say, a "Middle American PAC". Each of us needs, first, to educate himself on the issues, and then constantly try to persuade others of the empirical and moral soundness of our positions. Above all, conservative intellectual leaders need to reach some sort of consensus as to what in fact ARE the key issues (I bet a lot would say 'abortion'; others 'national defense'). My post represents my ordering of the top concerns for conservatives.
Upon what do you think the Right should focus?
@21 Mr Hayter
Under communism, the Russians allowed their language to be debased. Today, Russian classes are popping up all over Moscow, even for people who speak no other languages.
We could try that here, and speak English clearly and precisely, not in the slovenly, ebonics/valley girl/hillbilly/wigger combination spewed at us by MTV.
Srdja Trifkovic has also mentioned that a Serb would never consider speaking his native tongue porperly.
There you have step 1.
@33Etienne Gervaise
Russia has incorporated Russian Orthodox Christianity teaching into public schools under Christian crusader Vladimir Putin.
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=143
A MOSCOW TRIAL WAS HELD AGAINST two Russian Jews, Yuri Samodurov and Anna Mikhalchuk on March 4 2007. Both were found guilty of “insulting the religion of Russia.”
Samodurov, Manager of the Sakharov Art Centre in Moscow, and Mikhalchuk, the artist of the Centre’s exhibition, “Beware Religion,” attempted to defend the exhibit’s depiction of Jesus Christ promoting Coca Cola and an Orthodox Christian priest presented in a ridiculing manner.
Orthodox Christian zealots protested the Christ-mocking exhibit and justifiably defaced the mocking depictions of Jesus Christ and the Orthodox priest. Samodurov and Mikhalchuk called the police and charged the zealots with “vandalism.”
Why do they have an art centre named after Soviet era dissident who created the USSR’s nuclear weapons? I don’t know.
“Moscow Court found them *guilty* of “insulting the faith of Russia.” They were both then fined $3,500 each. The judge told the profaners that they were fortunate not to have been given a two year sentence as well.”
In Austria, Norway or Denmark they had an artist painting of the last supper with Jesus and his disciples depicting them as having gay sex with each other.
“Srdja Trifkovic has also mentioned that a Serb would never consider speaking his native tongue properly”
That’s the problem right there. You end up forgetting the character of what makes up a Serb, it’s history and unique from all other people.
The is what happened to Southern Americans with constant racism propaganda levelled at and that they are inbred rednecks with constant reference to the KKK, lynching and slavery although it is more complicated than that like they were black members of the KKK during the civil war and there was white slavery and well as black.
Some Indian reservations also owned slaves.
Michael Hoffman wrote about this in his book “They were white and they were slaves”.
It seems to me that you "real Americans" lack deep-enough origins and need to strenghten your roots by re-linking with your British ancestory. You were cut adrift at your inception and need re-aligning.
This is really good in that it hits on the fundamental truth of what is happening - the war against Christ and His Church. The truth is that the "left" has transformed the USA into an atheistic european socialistic state where anyone that holds to the principles of how this country was actually founded (and why it rose to dominance in the world) is a "right wing extremist".
The idea that Obama now transforms this country racially is also hogwash. He divides it. MLK spoke of a country where people were judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. The exact opposite happened here. The American sheeple elected a marxist because he was a black that was "clean and articulate" (according to Joe Biden). The "right" was helpless against this onslaught of constant media barrage and cult of celebrity because it ceased fighting this fight in the realm of ideas and especially what is right and wrong (yes all you moral relativists it actually does exist). Like their atheistic counterparts they have lost their faith but unlike them still think they have it. Take the 54% of Catholics that voted for the baby killer. Obviously they are lost souls, but cultural marxism always produces this complete state of moral and intellectual confusion and contradiction. I say that if Obama wants change lets do it and get it over with - let's get on with the destruction that marxism always bring so that the demons can be exposed and exorcised. Lies have real consequences, and we are going to suffer the consequences of some real whoppers told by B. Hussein Obama.