The Death Rattle of Mainstream Conservatism

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The Death Rattle of Mainstream Conservatism

Monday, September 6th, 2010 | blogging

James Edwards nails the Glenn Beck rally. A sample:

It was about “restoring honor” or something, whatever that’s supposed to mean.
Or it was a way of supporting the troops, depending on which day you listened to Beck.
Then it turned into a rally to reclaim the Civil Rights movement, and give it back to the people who Beck swears pioneered the Civil Rights movement, right wing conservatives. Yes, that’s what Beck actually claims to believe. Leave it to Glenn Beck to make white-hating black columnist Leonard Pitts look sane and reasonable. [...]

 As it turned out, the rally was actually a huge revival meeting, in which Beck implored America to turn back to the god(s) of our Jewish-Christian-Muslim-Hindu-Mormon-Voodoo-Sikh-Zoroastrian heritage that made America great. He had over 200 members of the clergy on the podium, and he stressed that they were from “all faiths” and it didn’t matter which god we pray to, as long as we pray to something or someone, singular or plural. Just pick a higher power and go with it. In other words, it was the largest Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in history. Listen as Beck tells the crowd to “go back to your church, your synagogue, your mosque” and get to work on “refounding America.”

All that implicit whiteness, wasted. Beck and Palin are trying to take back the real America, and for them the real America is the one that leftists have spent the decades since 1965 turning into the one we know today, the one with white race replacement built into its very foundations. Beck and Palin are proud of their people, proud that they have voluntarily – or involuntarily, depending on your point of view – relinquished the nation controlled by their ethnic group for the great universal nation, where all are welcome – except the natives – where MLK is the only Ph.D. (other than Kissinger, perhaps) routinely styled “doctor” and who has become America’s patron saint.

An anecdote: the other day when I was out shopping, I became more than usually cognizant of the large number of illegal aliens around, many of the women toting their anchor babies. The sentiment that hit me was that I lost all respect for white people for allowing this to happen. The sentiment is not entirely fair, I realize, yet the mass of apolitical whites who spend their time watching televised sports or driving around in their SUVs have, partly through their own fault, been droned into a state of stupor in which their nation is rapidly being stolen from them. Beck and Palin′s rally has done nothing to dissuade me from that feeling. They, like so many white Americans, are too stupid to see what is in front of their eyes.