Death Of The West

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The document also indicates who ultimately approved of the use of dead people’s money in this way. It states: “The authority for the use of special costs in this connection is found in a royal sign manual dated February 1987 as supplemented by a further [royal sign manual] dated October 2019.” The prognosis is dire, and I like that Buchanan is honest about that. Things have only gotten worse since he wrote Death of the West. Much worse, in fact. But I know that God did amazing things for me that I didn't deserve, and I now have two children (and Lord willing, we would love more) who my husband and I are raising to serve Jesus Christ. BRICS; China; India; geopolitical marginalization; low fertility; population ageing; population decline. It is not by chance that social democracy and welfare states have worked best in small, homogeneous countries, where issues of trust and mutual suspicion do not arise so acutely. A willingness to pay for other people’s services and benefits rests on the understanding that they in turn will do likewise for you and your children: because they are like you and see the world as you do. Conversely, where immigration and visible minorities have altered the demography of a country, we typically find suspicion of others and a loss of enthusiasm for the institutions of the welfare state.

I've already surrendered my reputation, peace with family and friends, and now thanks to the vaccine mandates in my country that impact my husband's field, we are giving up our financial stability and dreams of owning a house. On top of that, of course, we're not allowed to eat in restaurants or do all kinds of other things, but hey, we can take it. In 1960, people of European ancestry were one-fourth of the world's population; in 2000, they were one-sixth; in 2050, they will be one-tenth." (Buchanan, Death of the West, Europe) Today, it is not only the simple ageing, but it is now the death of the West that is taking place, before our eyes. The Muslim insider proletariat is making a foreign Islamic spirituality flourish in the Christian West. The European states are borrowing from the totalitarian states of the world the mode of institutional domination through fear and intimidation.However, under a custom that has its roots in the medieval period, two hereditary estates, or duchies, belonging to the royal family can collect bona vacantia from people who die in two regions in England. They also collect leftover assets owned by companies at the point they are dissolved.

West depicts General Wolfe as a Christ-like figure. This painting has a triangular composition, made by the top of the flag (as the apex) and the positions of the men. It resembles Christian " Lamentation" scenes, where Christ is held in the embrace of the Virgin Mary. [3] Murray thinks there is little to fear from the rise of the far right. Indeed, except in a few fringe cases, he denies that anything of the sort is occurring. He admits that “truly fascist” parties have re-emerged – Golden Dawn in Greece and Jobbik in Hungary, for example – but takes a benign view of parties such as France’s Front National and Germany’s AfD. These “thoughtful and clearly non-fascist parties once described as ‘far right’” are simply instances of democracy in action. It is difficult to share his complacency. Marine Le Pen’s mask of moderation slipped when, in the closing stages of last year’s presidential election, she deployed her father’s hate-filled rhetoric in an attempt to rally her core supporters. The AfD may have begun as an association of Eurosceptic economists, but it has evolved into a party a sizeable number of whose members seem sympathetic to “revisionist” views of Germany’s 20th-century history, including the Nazi period. Fargo, Jason (25 November 2020). "The Myth of North America, in One Painting". The New York Times . Retrieved 11 December 2020. When Richard Nixon took his oath of office in 1969, there were 9 million foreign-born in the United States. When President Bush raised his hand, the number was nearing 30 million. Almost a million immigrants enter every year; half a million illegal aliens come in with them. The adjusted census of 2000 puts the number of illegals in the United States at 9 million. Northeastern University estimates 11 million, as many illegal aliens as there are people in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. There are more foreign-born in California—8.4 million—than people in New Jersey, more foreign-born in New York State than people in South Carolina. Even the Great Wave of immigration from 1890 to 1920 was nothing like this.Mr. Buchanan derives much of the information in the Death of the West from the New Century Foundation, which is headed by Jared Taylor, a white supremacist who embraces the "clear conception of the United States as a nation ruled by and for whites." One huge point that Buchanan hit a home run on was his connecting of the dots on the neo-Marxist religion long before it became the force that it is today. Naming Gramsci, Marcuse, and others is important when the ideology thrives on obscuring itself, many of its adherents simply claiming that “cultural Marxism” isn’t real, when it very clearly is. It took some time (unlike Mr. Buchanan, I am a child of the time, even being born to married parents and raised going to an Orthodox Church every Sunday, it wasn't sufficient to keep the reek of culture off. I left Christianity for many years. That's another long story). I tumbled towards the right, moving away from almost literally every single person I grew up, and it wasn't really fun. It was hard. It was hard always being the person who didn't fit in, castigated by the very people who preached being myself and achieving my dreams and all the rest. But isn't that always the way? Two contemporary books describe the process of totalitarian sclerosis from which modern Western states are already suffering. In the novel Le Réveil ( Awakening), Laurent Gounelle draws an analogy between the dictatorial management of the pandemic on the one hand and American propaganda during the Great War and communist totalitarianism on the other. In his book, Post-modernisme et néo-fascisation: le grand retournement ( Post-Modernism and Neo-Fascism: The Great Reversal), Gilles Mayné establishes, using the study by the philologist Klemperer of the rhetorical procedures specific to Nazi discourse, an analogy between Hitler’s “phagocytage” of opposing ideologies, including Christian ideology, and the ideological “blurring” specific to Macron’s “at the same time.” Mayné thus shows that, beyond the antithetical character of the Macrono-post-modernist and Hitler-Nazi ideologies, the ideal of openness of the former opposing that of closure of the latter, it is the same totalitarian process that is at work. This process is still what is now called triangulation; that is to say the systematic and silly amalgamation, in political rhetoric, of references and ideas proper to the adversary, the refusal of a clear and assumed democratic combat.

Buchanan identifies Socialism as the root cause of the Western decline. As he astutely observes how, come 1989, world-wide Communism has failed and why, he further branches out into the tenets of its successor and how it managed to prevail where the progenitor didn't – by changing the culture from within. He goes into great detail how Globalism, Secularism, Feminism, and Gay Rights Activism often hide behind reason and just cause, but show ill-intent towards their dissenters; dehumanising them by calling them bigots, sexists, racists, or homophobes and thus avoiding the debate. What follows is a well-argued, harsh critique of the Mexican government's economic reliance on illegal immigration and a bold defence of the nation-state concept as a necessity in preserving the cultural identity of the United States. In his refusal of amnesty for illegal immigrants for example, he relentlessly makes the case for deportation, by arguing that if rule of law is ignored and pardon given, the weight of immigration laws – however strict they may be – is nullified. Why is this happening? Socialism, the beatific vision of European intellectuals for generations, is one reason. 'If everyone has the promise of a state pension, children are no longer a vital insurance policy against want in old age, ' argues Dr John Wallace of Bologna's Johns Hopkins University: 'If women can earn more than enough to be financially independent, a husband is no longer essential. And if you can also have sex and not babies- and this seems to be true now of Catholic Italy as it is of secular Britain- why marry?"

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The agony of the West is there. In a world where Christianity no longer prospers except in South America, we are condemned to wait, in Europe, for our eventual salvation by Providence alone. But where Lenin’s revolution failed, the one that erupted on the campuses in the sixties succeeded. It put down roots in society, and it created a new America. By 2000, the adversary culture of the sixties had become our dominant culture, its victory conceded when the political base camp of traditionalism raised a white flag in Philadelphia. On the moral and social issues—the fight for the sanctity of human life and the return of God to the public square of this land we used to call “God’s Country”—the Republican party raised its gloves and pleaded, “No mas.” Conservatives, he said, seemingly never read Mao Tse0tung on waging cultural war against the west. Mao's essays were prescribed reading for the Herbert Marcuse-generation of the 1960s, who now run our cultural institutions...Conservatives were oblivious to the fact that...modern art- long separated from the idealism of Manet, Degas, Cezanne and Rodin- had become the purveyor of a destructive, degenerate, ugly, pornographic, Marxist, anti-American ideology." Friedrich Engels, who wrote in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: The first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex into public industry and...this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society." Only a social counterrevolution or a religious awakening can turn the West around before a falling birthrate closes off the last exit ramp and rings down the curtain on Western Man's long-running play. But not a sign of either can be seen on the horizon."