Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
A fortnight ago, Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party won enough seats in the Hungarian parliament to rewrite his country’s constitution.
To progressives across the West, this was disturbing news.
For the bete noire of Orban’s campaign was uber-globalist George Soros. And Orban’s commitments were to halt any further surrenders of Hungarian sovereignty and independence to the European Union, and to fight any immigrant invasion of Hungary from Africa or the Islamic world.
Why are autocrats like Orban rising and liberal democrats failing in Europe? The autocrats are addressing the primary and existential fear of peoples across the West — the death of the separate and unique tribes into which they were born and to which they belong.
Modern liberals and progressives see nations as transitory — here today, gone tomorrow. The autocrats, however, have plugged into the most powerful currents running in this new century: tribalism and nationalism.
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The democracy worshippers of the West cannot compete with the authoritarians in meeting the crisis of our time because they do not see what is happening to the West as a crisis.
They see us as on a steady march into a brave new world, where democracy, diversity and equality will be everywhere celebrated.
To understand the rise of Orban, we need to start seeing Europe and ourselves as so many of these people see us.
Hungary is a thousand years old. Its people have a DNA all their own. They belong to a unique and storied nation of 10 million with its own language, religion, history, heroes, culture and identity.
Though a small nation, two-thirds of whose lands were torn away after World War I, Hungarians wish to remain and endure as who they are.
They don’t want open borders. They don’t want mass migrations to change Hungary into something new. They don’t want to become a minority in their own country. And they have used democratic means to elect autocratic men who will put the Hungarian nation first.
U.S. elites may babble on about “diversity,” about how much better a country we will be in 2042 when white European Christians are just another minority and we have become a “gorgeous mosaic” of every race, tribe, creed and culture on earth.
To Hungarians, such a future entails the death of the nation. To Hungarians, millions of African, Arab and Islamic peoples settling in their lands means the annihilation of the historic nation they love, the nation that came into being to preserve the Hungarian people.
President Emmanuel Macron of France says the Hungarian and other European elections where autocrats are advancing are manifestations of “national selfishness.”
Well, yes, national survival can be considered national selfishness.
But let Monsieur Macron bring in another 5 million former subject peoples of the French Empire and he will discover that the magnanimity and altruism of the French has its limits, and a Le Pen will soon replace him in the Elysee Palace.
Consider what else the “world’s oldest democracy” has lately had on offer to the indigenous peoples of Europe resisting an invasion of Third World settlers coming to occupy and repopulate their lands.
Our democracy boasts of a First Amendment freedom of speech and press that protects blasphemy, pornography, filthy language and the burning of the American flag. We stand for a guaranteed right of women to abort their children and of homosexuals to marry.
We offer the world a freedom of religion that prohibits the teaching of our cradle faith and its moral code in our public schools.
Our elites view this as social progress upward from a dark past.
To much of the world, however, America has become the most secularized and decadent society on earth, and the title the ayatollah bestowed upon us, “The Great Satan,” is not altogether undeserved.
And if what “our democracy” has delivered here has caused tens of millions of Americans to be repulsed and to secede into social isolation, why would other nations embrace a system that produced so poisoned a politics and so polluted a culture?
“Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the march,” writes The Washington Post: “Democracy as an ideal and in practice seems under siege.” Yes, and there are reasons for this.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,” said John Adams. And as we have ceased to be a moral and religious people, the poet T. S. Eliot warned us what would happen:
“The term ‘democracy’ … does not contain enough positive content to stand alone against the forces you dislike — it can be easily be transformed by them. If you will not have God (and he is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin.” Recall: Hitler rose to power through a democratic election.
Democracy lacks content. As a political system, it does not engage the heart. And if Europe’s peoples see their leaders as accommodating a transnational EU, while failing to secure national borders, they will use democracy to replace them with men of action.
Yeah Hungary!!! Stay true to your badass selves. Stuckenmiester, your people are calling you to come home.
Macron was giddy when he said Europe will receive 150 to 200 Million migrants in the next 30 years.
Where is Hank Johnson – Europe will capsize with the added weight.
diversity is our strength
Seems that the nations colonizing other nations and running the show,
aren’t surprised when members of said nations come to the mainland.
Just sayin’. Perhaps Hungary wasn’t a “colonizer” and therefore doesn’t
feel obligated to host/support immigrants from Africa. It isn’t a “hate”
foreigners thing, it is financial consideration. Charity begins at home.
I wish Pat were right, but Hungary seems like a one-off. The fact that Marine Le Pen got spanked last year by that little faggot Macron is beyond my comprehension. It was only a few years earlier when Arab yoots in France torched 100,000 cars within a month or so. Crazed Muslims killed 100+ people in a theatre, the Charlie Hebdo massacre and then 80 or so people killed by a muzzie in a truck in Nice – and they fucking vote for more of the same! The Brits vote for Brexit almost 2 years ago and the establishment is still trying to reverse that. Here in the U.S., Trump turned out to be too much of a pussy to dig in his heels and get Wall funding. He could easily be removed by sanctimonious pricks like Ben Sassehole (the prospect of which bothers me less as Trump signs the omnibus and bombs Syria) and I still see President Kamala Harris in 2021 as a distinct possibility. So we would join the ranks of western countries governed by childless harridans.
Globalization is about replacing an advanced culture with primitive culture. Much easier for the controllers to deal with wogs and niggers than an armed, liberty minded people. American firearms in the hands of Her people are all that stand between the globalists and the finish line.
“American firearms in the hands of Her people are all that stand between the globalists and the finish line.”
Hear! Hear! I stand (or in my present condition may have to be propped up) with you my friend. I pray daily that my last vision should be, “a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
america will breakup into smaller countries
The Oligarchs are playing with fire and could cause the rise of another benevolent dictator hero like Franco who destroys the Communist; that is one reason they are fighting so hard to get all our guns.
the united states won’t exist in 100 years it’ll breakuo into smaller areas
Why are leaders who are elected by an overwhelming majority, who obey their countries and international laws and act in their peoples best interest called „authoritarian“, and shady currency manipulators and financial terrorists who have killed millions and impoverished hundreds of millions called „liberal democrats“?
Here you go:
Democracy is a failed system. It is useless for the preservation of culture and nations.
I believe I mentioned Ambrose Bierce before now, but I’m going to repeat myself. Here is a link to his essay, The Ashes Of The Beacon.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bierce/ambrose/ashes-of-the-beacon/
Future generations will pour out their contempt on this misguided experiment. The Right is rising because people are increasingly wearied by the Lawlessness of this mob rule.
Of the many causes that conspired to bring about the lamentable failure of “self-government” in ancient America the most general and comprehensive was, of course, the impracticable nature of the system itself.
In the light of modern culture, and instructed by history, we readily discern the folly of those crude ideas upon which the ancient Americans based what they knew as “republican institutions,” and maintained, as long as maintenance was possible, with something of a religious fervor, even when the results were visibly disastrous. To us of to-day it is clear that the word “self-government” involves a contradiction, for government means control by something other than the thing to be controlled. When the thing governed is the same as the thing governing there is no government, though for a time there may be, as in the case under consideration there was, a considerable degree of forbearance, giving a misleading appearance of public order.
This, however, soon must, as in fact it soon did, pass away with the delusion that gave it birth. The habit of obedience to written law, inculcated by generations of respect for actual government able to enforce its authority, will persist for a long time, with an ever lessening power upon the imagination of the people; but there comes a time when the tradition is forgotten and the delusion exhausted.
When men perceive that nothing is restraining them but their consent to be restrained, then at last there is nothing to obstruct the free play of that selfishness which is the dominant characteristic and fundamental motive of human nature and human action respectively.
-excerpt, The Ashes Of The Beacon
–Ambrose Bierce, 1909