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Democracy is a festering TTT in STEEP decline (Pat Buchanan):

Is Democracy on the Way Down? Pat Buchanan • January 23, ...
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 12:35 AM
Author: amber stimulating goal in life

Is Democracy on the Way Down?

Pat Buchanan • January 23, 2018 • 900 Words

“The Western democratic system is hailed by the developed world as near perfect and the most superior political system to run a country,” mocked China’s official new agency.

“However, what’s happening in the United States today will make more people worldwide reflect on the viability and legitimacy of such a chaotic political system.”

There is a worldwide audience for what Beijing had to say about the shutdown of the U.S. government, for there is truth in it.

According to Freedom House, democracy has been in decline for a dozen years. Less and less do nations look to the world’s greatest democracy, the United States, as a model of the system to best preserve and protect what is most precious to them.

China may be a single-party Communist state that restricts freedom of speech, religion and the press, the defining marks of democracy. Yet Beijing has delivered what makes the Chinese people proud — a superpower nation to rival the mighty United States.

Chinese citizens appear willing to pay, in restricted freedoms, the price of national greatness no modern Chinese generation had ever known.

The same appears true of the Russian people.

After the humiliation of the Boris Yeltsin era, Russians rallied to Vladimir Putin, an autocrat 18 years in power, for having retrieved Crimea and restored Russia to a great power that can stand up to the Americans.

Consider those “illiberal” democracies of Central and Eastern Europe — the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Hungary.

To preserve their national character and identity, all have chosen to refuse refugees from Africa and the Middle East. And if this does not comport with the liberal democratic values of the EU, so be it.

President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that if the French had voted at the time Britain did, for Brexit, France, too, might have voted to get out of the European Union.

Why? One reason, and, no, it’s not the economy, stupid.

It is the tribe. As the English wished to remain English, and voted to regain control of their borders, so the French wish to remain who they were and are — whether ruled by a Louis XIV, Napoleon, General de Gaulle or the Fifth Republic.

In these countries, the common denominator is that the nation comes first, and that political system is best which best protects and preserves the unique character of the nation.

Nationalism trumps democratism.

Recall. Donald Trump was not elected because he promised to make America more democratic, but to “make America great again.”

As for the sacred First Amendment right to democratic protest, Trump got a roaring ovation for declaring that NFL players who “take a knee” during the national anthem should be kicked off the field and off the team.

Circling back to the government shutdown, what, at root, was that all about, if not national identity.

The Democrats who refused to vote to keep the government open did not object to anything in the Republican bill. They objected to what was not in the bill: amnesty for the illegal immigrants known as “dreamers.” It was all about who gets to become an American.

And what is the divisive issue of “open borders” immigration all about, if not the future ethnic composition of the United States?

Consider a few of the issues that have convulsed our country in recent months. White cops. The NFL players’ protests. Desecration and removal of statues of Columbus, Lee, Jackson. The Charlottesville battle of antifa versus the “alt-right.” The “shithole countries” crack of the president. The weeklong TV tirade of rants against the “racist” Trump.

Are they not all really issues of race, culture and identity?

On campuses, leftist students and faculty protest the presence of right-wing speakers, whom they identify as fascists, racists and homophobes. To radicals, there is no right to preach hate, as they see it, for to permit that is to ensure that hate spreads and flourishes.

What the left is saying is this. Our idea of a moral society is one of maximum ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, and, in the burying of the old wicked America, and the creation of a new better America, we will not accord evil ideas equal rights.

In the old rendering, “Error has no rights!”

That fifth of mankind that is Islamic follows a similar logic.

As there is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet, why would we allow inside our societies and nations the propagation of false faiths like Christianity that must inevitably lead to the damnation of many of our children?

“The best test of truth,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes, “is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.”

But in our world, more and more people believe, and rightly so, that truth exists independent of whether people accept or reject it.

And there are matters, like the preservation of a unique people and nation, that are too important to be left to temporary majorities to decide.

http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/is-democracy-on-the-way-down/

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Date: January 23rd, 2018 12:35 AM
Author: Marvelous Brindle Church

xo pat

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Date: January 23rd, 2018 12:39 PM
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 7:11 PM
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Date: January 30th, 2018 11:03 AM
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Date: January 30th, 2018 11:03 AM
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: fragrant disgusting love of her life

Time to get all 1776 up in this bitch

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215290)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 12:45 AM
Author: nubile death wish juggernaut

ITT: the third world

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215306)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:06 AM
Author: indigo razzle locus bbw

180. suspend democracy NOW!!

democracy dies in darkness (niggers, browns, muslims, asians), indeed.

we need to save WHITE AMERICA.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215365)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 4:17 AM
Author: swashbuckling temple

MFCR

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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:40 AM
Author: free-loading fanboi

the eastern european stuff drives me nuts

submitting to the EU and/or judges acting extra-constitutionally == uh, democracy

elected representatives acting in line with both their national constitutions and the will of the overwhelming majority of voters != democracy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215460)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:45 AM
Author: Bateful clear cruise ship

(((democracy))) has become a hilariously orwellian word.

see, eg, the many versions of "letting trump be president is a threat to democracy"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215473)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:47 AM
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:50 AM
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 2:38 AM
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:46 AM
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 8:33 AM
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Date: January 23rd, 2018 7:12 PM
Author: mauve aphrodisiac round eye



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:47 AM
Author: Bateful clear cruise ship

China legit loling at our supposed country

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215478)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: Bateful clear cruise ship

never forget: https://youtu.be/TYKAbRK_wKA



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215500)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:48 AM
Author: white address

Who was the Greek bro who said democracy inevitably encourages 3rd world race to the bottom immigration for votes?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215480)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: nubile death wish juggernaut

(guy living in third world country pretending he doesnt live in a third world country)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215499)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:54 AM
Author: jade hissy fit mexican



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 4:14 AM
Author: laughsome station

He's seen better days

Conflates two notions of democracy throughout. Sometimes means majority rule other times means protection of enlightenment-era freedoms. Which are opposites. Which is he saying is more of a threat?

Overall very low-IQ piece

And i agree with pat on the issues eg we should have not gotten into wwii

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215702)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 4:35 AM
Author: Passionate salmon school selfie

he's saying that "democracy," as such, was not what was valuable about "the west." democracy was good because it expressed the national will of western peoples. but now, that will is shit, and "democracy" is a conduit for outsiders to exercise their own will over that of the natives of democratic nations. the things that "democracy" was purported to protect (like abstract "freedoms") are turning out to be of limited import compared to how democracy is now operating in practice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215718)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 12:36 PM
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Date: January 30th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Yellow plaza



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 4:23 AM
Author: Azure Elite Pisswyrm

China and Russia are a lot like Germany in the 1930s. This is not something to celebrate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3868052&forum_id=2#35215708)



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 12:39 PM
Author: Vigorous tan place of business



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Date: January 23rd, 2018 1:18 PM
Author: aromatic church building



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