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Pat Buchanan's Latest Racist Rant: "Traditional Americans Are Losing Their Nation"
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Posted on October 21, 2009, Printed on December 21, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/www.alternet.org/143405/
Wowsers.
MSNBC's resident racist, Pat Buchanan, has a new column out and it's a doozy.
It's titled "Traditional Americans are losing their nation."
And by "traditional," he means "white."
The tea-baggers, birthers, and, most recently, "Oath Keepers," are not racist, Pat argues. No. They, like him, are angry.
Why are they so angry?
Well:
"In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates.
Note to Hollywood: Stop making those damn movies and TV programs that so viciously mock Christians and "traditional Americans." We need to go back to the Golden era of flim, the era of such classics as, I dunno, Birth of a Nation.
(Also, what the hell, U.S. school system? Who do you think you are purging religion from public schools like that? John Adams?)
Pat goes on:
They watch on cable TV as illegal aliens walk into their country, are rewarded with free educations and health care and take jobs at lower pay than American families can live on -- then carry Mexican flags in American cities and demand U.S. citizenship.
In Pat Buchanan's mind, all of this is happening, in that order -- regular conquistadors, those "illegals" -- and to add insult to injury, it's all being televised. Not only have they marched in to snatch all those things that rightfully belong to the original native REAL Americans, they have brought on the plague of reality television!
Finally, there's this:
They see Wall Street banks bailed out as they sweat their next paycheck, then read that bank profits are soaring, and the big bonuses for the brilliant bankers are back. Neither they nor their kids ever benefited from affirmative action, unlike Barack and Michelle Obama.
There you have it: In Buchanan-land, Barack and Michelle Obama built their successes on the backs of hardworking "traditional Americans." (Just like that other "affirmative action pick," Sonia Sotomayor.) Sort of like that White House they live in, which was built by slaves.
The sad thing about this utterly twisted column, aside from the fact that reading it feels like witnessing the inevitable nervous breakdown of an aging bigot who fears his own irrelevance, is that the economic factors driving many Americans to madness and despair are, of course, very real. But they are hardly the sole province of white, Christian America. And Buchanan is a master hypocrite, a millionaire and former Nixon adviser who has been comfortably entrenched in Washington for so long, bloviating on cable news shows and dining in high-end beltway restaurants where those immigrants he hates so much wash his dishes.
Yet one almost sees Pat's veins about to pop as he delivers his last line about the siege of white America:
"America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right."
No, Pat. You are losing it. And it's getting ugly.
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Liliana Segura is a staff writer and editor of AlterNet's Rights and Liberties and World Special Coverage.
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