In the U.S. whites are no longer a majority in California. Many are now leaving the state looking for a place to live that bears some resemblance to the country they grew up in. Before a lifetime passes, there will be no place. In 1998 President Clinton boasted to a cheering Portland State University audience that by 2050 whites would be a minority in America. "No other nation in history," he said, "has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time."
A changing racial composition would not mean the death of the West if
immigrants from Third World countries were assimilating. But the
"melting pot" no longer exists. Discarded as racist and hegemonic, the
"melting pot" has been replaced by the multicultural "salad bowl." As
Jacques Barzun wrote in his recent history of western civilization,
>From Dawn to Decadence, not even native born whites are being
assimilated to their culture.
Americans are largely unaware, but Cultural Marxism reigns in our universities and public schools. The old Marxists blamed capitalists and the economic system for oppression and exploitation. The new Marxists blame the white race and western civilization itself. As Susan Sontag (among many) puts it, "The white race is the cancer of human history."
Ms. Sontag is highly respected by American intellectuals. A survey found her to be the most respected intellectual of our time. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." Had she said anything good about "the white race," she would be as demonized as Pat Buchanan.
Cultural Marxists assault not only our history but also the family, the chastity of women and Christianity, important pillars of our civilization. Cultural Marxists use education, entertainment and the media to create a new people that shares their values.
Buchanan thinks that the Cultural Marxist revolution will succeed but be short-lived, like Soviet Communism, because it is based in lies and the disregard of reality. Buchanan's optimism seems contrary to his facts and, perhaps, is an expression of his fighting spirit. The test is whether people respond. Does anyone care, or is the future too scary to be acknowledged?