Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
Yet, given the divisions among us, deeper and wider than ever, it is an open question as to how, and how long, we will endure as one people.
After World War II, our judicial dictatorship began a purge of public manifestations of the “Christian nation” that Harry Truman said we were.
In 2009, Barack Obama retorted, “We do not consider ourselves to be a Christian nation.” Secularism had been enthroned as our established religion, with only the most feeble of protests.
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One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations. Heads would roll, literally.
Which bring us to the first culture war skirmish of the Trump era.
Taking sides with Attorney General Jeff Sessions against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the president rescinded the Obama directive that gave transgender students the right to use the bathroom of their choice in public schools. President Donald Trump sent the issue back to the states and locales to decide.
While treated by the media and left as the civil rights cause of our era, the “bathroom debate” calls to mind Marx’s observation, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls’ bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
Remarkably, there was vigorous dissent, from DeVos, to returning this issue to where it belongs, with state and local officials.
After yielding on the bathroom question, she put out a statement declaring that every school in America has a “moral obligation” to protect children from bullying, and directed her Office of Civil Rights to investigate all claims of bullying or harassment “against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.”
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Now, bullying is bad behavior, and it may be horrible behavior.
But when did a Republican Party that believes in states rights decide this was a responsibility of a bureaucracy Ronald Reagan promised but failed to shut down? When did the GOP become nanny-staters?
Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
But what kind of society, what kind of people have we become when we start to rely on federal bureaucrats to stop big kids from harassing and beating up smaller or weaker kids?
While the bathroom debate is a skirmish in the culture war, Trump’s solution — send the issue back to the states and the people there to work it out — may point the way to a truce — assuming Americans still want a truce.
For Trump’s solution is rooted in the principle of subsidiarity, first advanced in the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII — that social problems are best resolved by the smallest unit of society with the ability to resolve them.
In brief, bullying is a problem for parents, teachers, principals to deal with, and local cops and the school district if it becomes widespread.
This idea is consistent with the Republican idea of federalism — that the national government should undertake those duties — securing the borders, fighting the nation’s wars, creating a continental road and rail system — that states alone cannot do.
Indeed, the nationalization of decision-making, the imposition of one-size-fits-all solutions to social problems, the court orders emanating from the ideology of judges — to which there is no appeal — that is behind the culture wars that may yet bring an end to this experiment in democratic rule.
Those factors are also among the primary causes of the fever of secessionism that is spreading all across Europe, and is now visible here.
Consider California. Democrats hold every state office, both Senate seats, two-thirds of both houses of the state legislature, 3 in 4 of the congressional seats. Hillary Clinton beat Trump 2-to-1 in California, with her margin in excess of 4 million votes.
Suddenly, California knows exactly how Marine Le Pen feels.
And as she wants to “Let France Be France,” and leave the EU, as Brits did with Brexit, a movement is afoot in California to secede from the United States and form a separate nation.
California seceding sounds like a cause that could bring San Francisco Democrats into a grand alliance with Breitbart.
A new federalism — a devolution of power and resources away from Washington and back to states, cities, towns and citizens, to let them resolve their problems their own way and according to their own principles — may be the price of retention of the American Union.
Let California be California; let red state America be red state America.
It’s not bullying when the State does it. Or the Media. Or teachers. Or commercials and TV shows. Or print advertising.
Bullying, when they use the word, means ‘resistance’.
To tell the truth, as it stands now I feel nothing more in common with California than I do with Mexico.
Our nation is too divided to remain a unified nation after the Obama years, secession may be one way to solve the division that doesn’t require one of the sides to kill the other.
In any event, the divisions among us are too wide, deep and hostile to remain united, so be ready for whatever the final solution ends up becoming.
I admire Pat Buchanan and on the surface the idea is attractive. I would dearly love to rid our nation of every last Progressive, liberal fanatic, illegal alien and disloyal immigrant. That said, why should be give an inch of our country to these enemies of the American people? I would much prefer to give these swine the choices of death, prison or exile. I might be willing to let them stay if they are banned from public life and are sterilized, so in a generation they will be gone forever. No, the Federal government ruined the South and took hundreds of thousands of lives to impose unity on the USA. Now it is time for the other side to feel the hard hand of war. This time, however, patriots from all over the country will come together to sort out the 20 percent of the population that has no business befouling our great nation.
The first step is to win over the over whelming majority of states to be able to enact Constitutional amendments. The first of which is to eliminate borrowing. Once it is clear that short falls in recessions will be temporarily papered over and the tax affects all citizens equally, the left will have to change their tune.
We don’t have gold and silver as a standard any more, but the Treasury can directly issue money (Kennedy did it, then got shot in the head after which it ended so we don’t know how it would have worked out in the long run. So did Lincoln with his “greenbacks” with similar results.).
The question then becomes, how does it make it into the economy and to the people, who will get it first and how will they get it so that it doesn’t simply finance the World Elite through their financial institutions?
Couldn’t we take our counterfeit Fiat currency to a fake bank and buy real treasury money? Thereafter, the fake banks and fake governments would have to operate as real banks and real governments.
Initially maybe as the transition was made, but more would eventually be continually issued -hopefully using an expanding economy as a basis- then the question comes into play again.
The cucked GOP needs one final shove and Trump failing to live up to promises and towing the failed cuckservative party line will certainly seal the fate of the most treacherous,deceitful party of vermin ever conceived in any political realm. The AltRight genie is not going back into the bottle.
e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLS5h1ZDKvE
The California secession movement is a total admission that they have been so wrong on everything they pushed for. They helped build this overreaching goobermint regardless of the warnings from history, Now they want to walk away from the mess they created.
In reality they cannot simply secede since they voluntarily gave up their right to have and bear arms as well as the constitutional mandate that only silver and gold coin be used as money within the states. So they are vulnerable and cannot defend themselves from hostile invasion and, they must stop using federal Reserve Notes and create their own currency system. The prospect of having all the CA citizens bank accounts go to ZERO would stop the movement in its tracks.
There is no peaceful solution and it was done by design. The disarming of the state militias and creation of debt based money has subjugated these once great states and left them vulnerable.
The restoration of sovereignty to ALL 322,000,000+ American citizens is the ONLY true solution. Indeed, total and complete secession from ALL government entities and a restoration of voluntary cooperation, free market competition, and free association with others. Decentralization of power has ALWAYS been the best solution to ALL problems in society. The more government we can get rid of the better….beginning with the Federal Government.
Let the Leftists leave. In 20years they will control another 3rd world failure.
I can’t remember where I read it, but someone floated the idea that we should pay off our debt to China by giving them California. Two problems solved in one move.
That would work like rats a’fightin’.
I’ll just leave this here:
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2017/02/califucktardation.html
And note that Pat Buchanan, doing what has always worked for him, is issuing communiques out of his back end.