By Patrick J. Buchanan
* * *
“Something startling is happening to middle-aged white
Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic
group … death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.”
The big new killers of middle-aged white folks? Alcoholic
liver disease, overdoses of heroin and opioids, and suicides. So wrote Gina
Kolata in The New York Times of a stunning study by the husband-wife team of
Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and Anne Case.
Deaton could cite but one parallel to this social
disaster: “Only H.I.V./AIDS in contemporary times has done anything like this.”
Middle-aged whites are four times as likely as
middle-aged blacks to kill themselves. Their fitness levels are falling as they
suffer rising levels of physical pain, emotional stress and mental depression,
which helps explain the alcohol and drug addiction.
But what explains the social disaster of white Middle
America?
First, an economy where, though at or near full
employment, a huge slice of the labor force has dropped out. Second, the real
wages of working Americans have been nearly stagnant for decades.
Two major contributors to the economic decline of the
white working-class: Scores of millions of third-world immigrants, here legally
and illegally, who depress U.S. wages, and tens of thousands of factories and
millions of jobs shipped abroad under the label of “globalization.”
* BINGO!
Another factor in the crisis of middle and working class
white men is the plunging percentage of those who are married.
(*NODDING*)
Where a wife and children give meaning to a man’s life,
and to his labors, single white men are not only being left behind by the new
economy, they are becoming alienated from society.
(*STILL NODDING*)
“It’s not surprising,” Barack Obama volunteered to his
San Francisco high-donors, that such folks, “get bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them…”
We all have seen the figure of 72% of black children
being born out of wedlock.
* ACTUALLY... I BELIEVE IT'S 73%. (PERHAPS IT'S DOWN?)
For working class whites, it is up to 40%.
* CULTURAL SUICIDE...
(*SIGH*)
A lost generation is growing up all around us.
* YEP...
(*SHAKING MY HEAD IN DESPAIR AND DISGUST*)
In the popular culture of the ’40s and ’50s, white men
were role models. They were the detectives and cops who ran down gangsters and
the heroes who won World War II on the battlefields of Europe and in the
islands of the Pacific.
* GO WHITE MEN! WOO-HOO!
They were doctors, journalists, lawyers, architects and
clergy.
(*TWO THUMBS UP*)
White males were our skilled workers and craftsmen —
carpenters, painters, plumbers, bricklayers, machinists, mechanics.
* YEP...!!!
They were the Founding Fathers, Washington, Adams,
Jefferson and Hamilton, and the statesmen, Webster, Clay and Calhoun.
(*DEEP BREATH*)
Lincoln and every president had been a white male.
Middle-class white males were the great inventors: Eli Whitney and Thomas
Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers. They were the great
capitalists: Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and J. P.
Morgan. All the great captains of America’s wars were white males: Andrew
Jackson and Sam Houston, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant and
John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and George Patton.
What has changed in our culture?
Everything.
* AND OUR CULTURE IS IN TERMINAL DECLINE. IF TRUMP ISN'T
ELECTED... WE'RE DONE.
The world has been turned upside-down for white children.
In our schools the history books have been rewritten and old heroes blotted
out, as their statues are taken down and their flags are put away. Children are
being taught that America was “discovered” by genocidal white racists, who
murdered the native peoples of color, enslaved Africans to do the labor they
refused to do, then went out and brutalized and colonized indigenous peoples
all over the world.
* FUNNY, THOUGH... HISPANICS (FROM SPAIN... IN EUROPE...
AND PORTUGAL... ALSO IN EUROPE) GET A PASS. MODERN DAY MEXICANS, CENTRAL
AMERICANS, AND SOUTH AMERICANS APPARENTLY HAVE NO CONNECTION TO "EVIL
WHITE EUROPEAN IMPERIALISTS." (THOUGH CERTAINLY THE SPANISH OF SPAIN AND PORTUGUESE OF PORTUGAL WILL INSIST TO ANYONE WILLING TO LISTEN THAT THEY'RE AS
"WHITE" AS ANY OTHER EUROPEANS.)
(*WINK*)
(*SMIRK*)
In Hollywood films and TV shows, working-class white
males are regularly portrayed as what was once disparaged as “white trash.”
Republicans are instructed that demography is destiny,
that white America is dying, and that they must court Hispanics, Asians and
blacks, or go the way of the Whigs.
Since affirmative action for black Americans began in the
1960s, it has been broadened to encompass women, Hispanics, Native Americans
the handicapped, indeed, almost 70% of the nation.
White males, now down to 31% of the population, have
become the only Americans against whom it is not only permissible, but
commendable, to discriminate.
* NOT FAIR. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HURTS ASIANS EVEN MORE
THAN IT HURTS WHITES. THE CHILDREN OF ASIAN "TIGER" PARENTS HAVE THE
HARDEST PATH TO SUCCESS - BUT USUALLY SUCCEED IN SPITE OF THE INSTITUTIONAL
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THEM AND IN FAVOR OF OTHER MINORITIES.
When our cultural and political elites celebrate
“diversity” and clamor for more, what are they demanding, if not fewer white
males in the work force and in the freshman classes at Annapolis and Harvard?
* THE TRUE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ELITES KNOW THAT THEIR
RULES DON'T APPLY TO THEIR KIDS...
(*SHRUG*)
What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that
justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class,
who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime?
“Angry white male” is now an acceptable slur in culture
and politics.
* HAVE YOU GUYS EVER TRIED "BITTER AMERICAN" AMERICAN
PALE ALE BY 21st AMENDMENT BREWERY IN CALIFORNIA? AWESOME! UNFORTUNATELY... I
JUST FOUND OUT IT'S BEEN DISCONTINUED. KINDA FITTING... HUH?
(*DEEP SIGH*)
So it is that people of that derided ethnicity, race, and
gender see in Donald Trump someone who unapologetically berates and mocks the
elites who have dispossessed them, and who despise them.
* GO, TRUMP, GO!
* BY THE WAY... THESE SAME FOLKS ALSO TEND TO LAUD ALLEN
WEST... BEN CARSON... CLARENCE THOMAS... AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
Is it any surprise that militant anti-government groups
attract white males? Is it so surprising that the Donald today, like Jess
Willard a century ago, is seen by millions as “The Great White Hope”?
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