Pat nails it – again:
By Patrick J. Buchanan on October 20, 2011
In Federalist 2, John Jay looks out at a nation of a common blood, faith, language, history, customs and culture.
“Providence,” he writes, “has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion … very similar in their manners and customs …”
Are we still that “one united people” today? Or has America become what Klemens von Metternich called Italy: “a mere geographical expression”?
In “Suicide of a Superpower,” out this week, I argue that the America we grew up in is disintegrating, breaking apart along the fault lines of politics, race, ethnicity, culture and faith; that the centrifugal forces in society have now become the dominant forces.
Our politics are as poisonous as they have been in our lifetimes.
Sarah Palin was maligned as morally complicit in the murder attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Terms like “terrorists” and “hostage-takers” are routinely used on Tea Party members who one congressman said want to see blacks “hanging on a tree.”
Half a century after the civil rights revolution triumphed, the terms “racist” and “racism” are in daily use. We remain, said Eric Holder in calling us a “nation of cowards,” as socially segregated as ever.
“Outside the workplace, the situation is even more bleak in that there is almost no significant interaction between us. On Saturdays and Sundays, America … does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some 50 years ago.”
He is not altogether wrong in that. In California’s prisons and among her proliferating ethnic gangs, a black-brown civil war has broken out.
Yet, by 2042, there will be 66 million black folks and 135 million Hispanics here, the latter concentrated in the states bordering Mexico.
What holds us together, then?
Full story here: http://www.vdare.com/articles/is-america-disintegrating
