The Economic Nationalist

Keith Preston writes,

The simple fact is that present-day liberal ideology and liberalism’s core constituent groups contain within themselves certain contradictions that will eventually prove to be fatal. There is simply no way that an agglomeration of affluent liberal whites, underclass blacks and Hispanics, affirmative-action babies, feminists, gay militants, transsexuals, Third World immigrants, atheists, Muslims, hipster youth, traditional blue collar workers, state-connected labor unions, Jewish plutocrats, environmentalists, and the left wing of the traditional WASP elite, with each of these attempting to get their pieces of the pie distributed by the managerial-therapeutic-multicultural-welfare state, can be politically durable on an indefinite basis. The only thing that unites this coalition is hostility to traditional Western culture and a desire for more freebies courtesy of the state. While this coalition will indeed continue to become more powerful and its values more deeply entrenched in institutions in the short term, over the long term it will self-cannibalize and collapse due to its own internal contradictions and fractious nature.

What a gargoyle’s roster! “[A]ffluent liberal whites, underclass blacks and Hispanics, affirmative-action babies, feminists, gay militants, transsexuals, Third World immigrants, atheists, Muslims, hipster youth, traditional blue collar workers, state-connected labor unions, Jewish plutocrats, environmentalists, and the left wing of the traditional WASP elite.”

Yes, that’s it. The gargoyle’s roster lacks but leprous gravediggers and cackling hobgoblins. Though a few of the aforementioned elements might have been pillars of the nation under other circumstances, together under present circumstances they constitute the liberal Democratic coalition we know and cordially despise.

Mr. Preston is right. So self-contradictory a rabble of a political alliance cannot indeed cohere.

Such insight, so cogently expressed, earns Mr. Preston’s words the Economic Nationalist’s recognition as Quote of the Week.

Mona Charen writes,

It’s Freudian: The Viennese analyst taught that if you say you hate your mother, you hate your mother. And if you say you love your mother, you are in denial about hating your mother. Climate change believers are like Freudians. If the weather is warm, it’s proof of global warming. But if the weather is cool, this, too, is evidence of the sinister tricks global warming can play.

These words earn Miss Charen the Economic Nationalist’s extremely sporadically awarded recognition as Quote of the Week.

(For the record, the Economic Nationalist has never taken a position on the proposition that mankind were threatened by man-made global warming.)

I wish that I had Peter Hitchens’ talent to state it so well:

[British] schools are terrible, and have been for years—so terrible that even the authorities are beginning to admit it. But the teachers are right when they say that the real problem is in the home. And the problem of the home is actually the problem of an unhinged society that decided to try to change human nature. Women, it said, had to work outside the home to be fulfilled. Raising children was something that would just get done in the intervals between work and sleep.

This idea came from a wild, Leftist coven whose members long ago grew up and got rich. But it just happened to suit a lot of businesses which find women cheaper and more reliable than men, and so it took off. And it has done limitless damage. And it is time that it was reversed. And nobody will do anything.

Such pointed prose earns the Economic Nationalist’s recognition as Quote of the Week. As troubled as too many American schools are, we would nonetheless seem to have it rather better over here; but Mr. Hitchens’ point regarding the institution of a feminized work force applies equally here in the United States, word for word.

You can read Mr. Hitchens’ entire article here.

(It is interesting to observe that the Democratic candidate in Virginia’s 2009 gubernatorial race seems to be running hard against his conservative Republican opponent’s old master’s thesis, in which the Republican had tried to make the very same point Mr. Hitchens is making here.)

The eminent Paul Gottfried yet again gives us our (extremely sporadically observed) Quote of the Week:

Another problem that [Thomas] Sowell does not consider is that some groups, like blacks and Hispanics, usually give “conservative” answers to social questions but then vote for candidates on the left. My eldest daughter has had a black friend since her college days at Michigan who sounds like Jerry Falwell but votes like Barney Frank. My daughter’s friend believes without evidence that the GOP is conspiring to strip blacks of civil rights. Moreover, she has often heard this view expressed by other black Fundamentalists, who attend her church. How does it benefit the GOP if such people define themselves as “conservative”? This identification will not translate into changed voting habits, no matter how energetically GOP politicians grovel before minority audiences.

Paul Gottfried writes,

I for one shared McCain’s relief that Obama won….

Frank J. Fleming writes,

If you go to Saudi Arabia, they may take your Bible. So, if you were planning on doing Bible studying in Saudi Arabia, you may have to change your plans.

I guess one solution is to bring two Bibles. Then when they take one Bible, you can be like, “No! Not my Bible! Whatever shall I read?” but you’ll secretly have another Bible. I guess that’s kind of like lying—which the Bible forbids—but then again they’re stealing your other Bible—something also forbidden by the Bible—and two wrongs make a right.

Another idea is to also bring a vial of holy water. Then, when one of them tries to take your Bible, you yell, “Get away from me, heathen Moslem!” and throw the vial of holy water in his face. Then he’ll scream and fall to floor as it burns away his skin. That’s because it was really sulfuric acid and not water at all, but they won’t know that. That’s always a funny trick.

Mr. Fleming’s book is sold here.