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2021-03-27 -Land of the Free
Ilana Mercer: Americans Should Recall How Foreign-Policy Alinskyites Destroyed South Africa
[CNS] Certain national-conservative governments in East Europe should be natural allies to conservative policy makers stateside, if such unicorns existed.

Vladimir Putin’s, for example.

Before his death, from the safety of exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of Russia’s bravest and most brilliant sons, praised Putin’s efforts to revive Russia’s traditional Christian and moral heritage. For example:

In October 2010, it was announced that "The Gulag Archipelago" would become required reading for all Russian high-school students. In a meeting with Solzhenitsyn’s widow, Mr. Putin described "The Gulag Archipelago" as "essential reading": "Without the knowledge of that book, we would lack a full understanding of our country and it would be difficult for us to think about the future." ...

If [only] the same could be said of the high schools of the United States. (Via The Imaginative Conservative.)

The Russian president patiently tolerates America’s demented, anti-Russia monomania. And, as America sinks into the quicksands of Cultural Marxism, Putin’s inclinations are decidedly reactionary and traditionalist.

He prohibited sexual evangelizing by LGBTQ activists. He comes down squarely on the side of the Russian Orthodox church, such as when vandals, the Pussy Riot feral females, obscenely desecrated the cathedral of Christ the Savior. The Russian leader has also welcomed as refugees persecuted white South Africans, where America’s successive governments won’t even officially acknowledge that they’re under threat of extermination. Policies to stimulate Russian birthrates have been put in place by the conservative leader.

Hungary is oh-so happy in its homogeneity and wants to keep it. But not if Washington can help it. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s motto is, "Procreation, not immigration." Orban plumps for closed borders, and pro-Western, Christian, Hungarian-families-first policies. Yet his ongoing campaign against George Soros, an agitator for global government, was met by Donald Trump’s State Department with a stern rebuke to Hungary that its anti-Soros law will cost the country dearly.

Americans on the Right could only dream that, like Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic—the U.S. would "shut its border to Islamic migrants to keep potential terrorists out."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-27 01:59|| || Front Page|| [11138 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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