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Is ‘Our Democracy’ Failing Our Country?

October 4, 2022/6 Comments/in General/by Pat Buchanan

Is 'Our Democracy' Failing Our Country?

Forced constantly by the establishment to choose between them, patriotic Americans may one day come to choose, as did their fathers, the country they love over the crown that rules them.

Asked, “What is an American?” many would answer, “An American is a citizen of the United States.”

Yet, at the First Continental Congress in 1774, 15 years before the U.S. became a nation of 13 states, Patrick Henry rose to proclaim that, “British oppression has effaced the boundaries of the several colonies; the distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”

Henry was saying — more than a dozen years before our constitutional republic was established — that America already existed as a nation, and he was her loyal son.

In an 1815 letter to Thomas Jefferson, long after both men had served as president, John Adams wrote:

As to the history of the Revolution, my Ideas may be peculiar, perhaps Singular. What do We mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.

Adams was saying that America was conceived and, as an embryonic nation, grew within the hearts of the peoples of the 13 colonies, two to three decades before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

In short, our country came to be before our republic came to be, and long before what we today call “our democracy” came to be. A country is different from, and more than, the political system that it adopts.

France was France all through the Bourbon dynasty, the Revolution of 1789, the creation of the First Republic, the Reign of Terror, Napoleon’s First Empire and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy — all the way to the creation of the Fifth Republic by President Charles de Gaulle.

And beneath the carapace of the USSR, the heart of Mother Russia continued to beat. Rightly, during the Cold War, we regarded Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria as “captive nations” and captive peoples.

The point: Neither the regime nor the political system imposed, nor some abstract idea, is the country that predates them and has first claim upon the loyalty of its sons and daughters.

In his famous toast, American naval hero Stephen Decatur declared: “Our country! … May she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!”

The crisis today for those who incessantly proclaim, “Our democracy is in danger,” is that millions of patriots are coming to see our incumbent regime, “our democracy,” as faithless and failing in its foremost duty — to protect and defend our country and countrymen from enemies foreign and domestic.

Forced constantly by the establishment to choose between them, patriotic Americans may one day come to choose, as did their fathers, the country they love over the crown that rules them.

Consider.

The Biden regime that currently rules us has allowed 3 million migrants to invade our country in two years. These illegals continue to break our laws and cross our border at a rate of 250,000 a month.

Among them are terrorists, robbers, rapists, murderers, cartelists and child molesters. The Biden regime has abdicated its duty to halt the invasion that is changing the ethnic, racial, religious, social and political character and composition of our American family without the consent of the American people, into whose national home these intruders are breaking with impunity.

President Joe Biden is assuring that the future of the nation will be determined by millions of people who have in common only that they broke our laws to get into our country. Vice President Kamala Harris smugly dismisses demands to address the crisis by saying America’s southern border is “secure.”

With this invasion has come a flood of the narcotic fentanyl, which last year took the lives of 100,000 Americans, a number equal to all the U.S. war dead in years of fighting in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Under the Biden party’s policy of softness on crime and indulgence of the criminal class, assaults, robberies, carjackings and “mass shootings,” where four victims are killed or wounded in each episode, have surged in U.S. cities.

With America’s currency and economy in his custody, Biden has, in 18 months, run up inflation, that cancer of America’s currency, to 8%, run up the national debt to where it far exceeds the gross national product, and crashed the stock market, wiping out trillions in wealth.

“The pandemic is over,” Biden told “60 Minutes” in September, a month when more than 400 Americans were dying of COVID-19 every day, a death rate higher than World War II and equal to the bloodiest war in U.S. history, the Civil War of 1861–1865.

The custodians of “our democracy” are failing in the most fundamental of duties of any political system — to protect and defend the people. No failed regime can justify its permanence by claiming some inherent superiority.

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6 replies
  1. John Alder
    John Alder says:
    October 4, 2022 at 11:44 am

    The divisions in this country will grow stronger, wider and deeper. The requisite ingredients for unity have dissolved and so secession is looking more and more attractive. We must focus on what we want to replace the old system with. We will get no help from political whores such as Liz Truss in England who just declared she is 100% pro Zionist. Truss is just like most Republicans in that they will betray us once we elect them. Can’t vote our way out of this catastrophe.

    • moneytalks
      moneytalks says:
      October 7, 2022 at 2:42 am

      ” We must focus on what we want to replace the old system with.”

      Begin with replacing the old Christian religious foundation , of ineluctable submission to degenerate Judaism , with a new religiously Scientific foundation , in a White nationalist ethnostate starting in Idaho , that actually would be dedicated to profitting from spawning the technology needed for humanity to

      thrive-n-survive indefinitely into the future

      ( that is ,

      maintain a real potential for everlasting life of humanity ;
      why settle for less where the obvious real alternative , in distinction from the religious fantasy alternative of individual immortality achieved by mere faith in Christianity ,

      is an inevitable and guaranteed

      D O O M of OBLIVION

      pursuant to the

      {{ Solar TOTAL Extinction Event }}

      ? ) .

      • John Alder
        John Alder says:
        October 7, 2022 at 10:00 am

        Correct ! Embracing a suicidal religion that denies the reality of race and goes against human nature offers us no hope. The gullible sheeple think the rapture will whisk them away and spare them from the approaching maelstrom. Spoiler alert: They will be here through the whole event. Cosmotheism makes sense as does National Socialism for our race.

  2. Pat Kittle
    Pat Kittle says:
    October 4, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    Patrick Buchanan,

    You know perfectly well Biden is a full-blown senile pawn of the Israel lobby — the real “crown” of which you speak but dare not name.

    You weren’t always like this. Sadly, your legacy will conclude with your end-game surrender.

  3. moneytalks
    moneytalks says:
    October 7, 2022 at 3:40 am

    (“”) “our democracy,” as faithless and failing in its foremost duty — to protect and defend our country and countrymen from enemies foreign and domestic.
    (“”)

    You need to review the DoI preamble to the U.S. Constitution .

    The USA founders made it inferentially clear that

    the “foremost duty” (as you say)

    of “our democracy” (as you say ; meaning our government)

    is

    …”to secure”…

    (quote is verbatim from The DoI ; or as you say “to protect and defend” )

    … “certain unalienable Rights ,
    that among these are Life , Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness”…

    (quote is verbatim from the 1776 DoI) .

    Who cares about a country that does not care about the
    “unalienable Rights” of the individual ?

    Please note __

    The “unalienable Rights”

    referenced , but not specified in the 1776 DoI ,
    would also include :

    the right to sovereign ownership your property
    where there is no legal claim of victimization ;

    the right to privacy in your personal affairs ;

    and the right to a formal and public due process of law
    when your life or property is subject to
    governmental confiscation .

  4. SimpleMale
    SimpleMale says:
    October 10, 2022 at 11:07 pm

    Evolution does not favor ethnic diversity. I will share another debate I just had to prove my point:

    “Mensa Member” in his thread “I am a high IQ nationalist, ask me anything,” made comments to which I would like to comment on. He states the following:
    _________________________________

    “The fact that Blacks and Hispanics committed a lot of crime in the USA, the fact that Blacks and Hispanics also commit a lot of crime in majority-Black and majority-Hispanic nations, and that the reasons they do so is probably for genetic reasons instead of cultural or historical reasons. For years, I loved identitarian movements because they were the
    one political movement that wanted to promote high-IQ, high-income, high stability, and low crime societies.”
    _________________________________

    However, most contemporary high IQ people, due to dysgenics and mutational load, are also “criminals” in that they are now Individually Selected Sociopaths who engage in white collar crime. Due to their high IQs, they are smart enough to understand that they would face legal/social repercussions in they carry out blue collar crimes like murder, assault, rape, physical robbery, vandalism, and so forth. So instead, they carry out white collar crimes and show no altruism towards other members of their nations. Today, most high IQ Europeans, or high IQ people of any race (minus the Haredi/Hasidic Ashkenazim) have no altruistic sentiments for anyone besides themselves as individuals or their Nuclear Family Unit. And all those European CEOs and politicians are especially an extreme form of Individually Selected Genetic Sociopaths.

    The point is that having a national population where everyone has a minimum IQ of, let’s say 130, is not enough to have an altruistic/pro-social nation; innate personality is also very important, such as innate altruism (sympathy/empathy/guilt), Industriousness, and the cluster of traits called “Religiosity/Spirituality/Monumentalism/Open-to-Experience.” If you just created a nation made up of all people with a minimum IQ of 130 from all ethnic groups, then you may not have any blue collar crime, but the nation would be saturated with white collar crime such as business fraud, economic fraud, and political fraud.

    “Mensa Member” states the following: “The reason that I’m no longer White Nationalist is that I have no problems with East Asians or Jews.”

    However, East Asians and the Ashkenazim do “have a problem” with ethnic Europeans, which is why they keep them out of their nations and out of their diaspora communities and social networks around the world. Focusing on the Ashkenazim, they are the most Group Selected/Ethnocentric race, as well as the most intelligent, and the result is that they have usually dominated the Gentiles throughout all of history. They are a living example of how “Mensa Member’s” model for a nation would lead to evolutionary failure, assuming that the goal was to create an altruistic nation that provides for the collective advancement and well-being of all its citizens. Dr. Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie talked about a computer simulation of ethnic evolutionary war. The computer simulated three ethnic groups: one was universally altruistic and was altruistic to both their own race and to all the others. The second group was highly ethnocentric and only altruistic towards their own race. The third group consisted of only Individually Selected Genetic Sociopaths (like Africans) who were neither altruistic to the other races or to their own race. Every time the simulation was run, the group that was highly ethnocentric and only altruistic to their own race always defeated the other groups in evolutionary war.

    “Mensa Member says “if Africa was full of low-crime and high HDI countries and Wakanda was real, I would be living in an African country right now.” However, they most likely would not allow you to move their, since they could have become very Group Selected/Ethnocentric.

    “Mensa Member” says “My ideal society is pretty much Singapore only much larger and less authoritarian.” However, their ethnic diversity already destroyed their eugenics program. The Chinese elite had created a eugenics policy in Singapore where they gave financial incentives for higher IQ people to have more offspring. Well, this resulted in more Chinese people qualifying for the program and consequently having more offspring, given the fact that the Chinese already had the highest pre-existing median IQ out of all the different races living in Singapore. Well, the lower IQ races in Singapore revolted against the program, creating a social upheaval, and the Chinese elite ended up terminating the eugenics program. Basic point is that to create a stable long-term nation, evolution favors Group Selected traits/Ethnocentrism over ethnic diversity.

    Finally, I speculate that “Mensa Member” is being insincere in his beliefs, for various reasons that I could speculate on. No one can even verify if he is ethnically European. Or he could just be a European Individually Selected Genetic Sociopath, and if this is the case, it benefits a European nationalist community/nation to allow such individuals to defect and filter out of the community/nation in favor of an imaginary high IQ ethnically diverse nation that evolution does not favor.

    For further reading, see https://michaelwoodleyofmenie.co.uk/

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