If Henry Ford, Sr. received rampant criticism for his writings about the
changing culture of America (collected in the book The International Jew)
in the 1920's, leave it to former Nixon apologist and former presidential
candidate Pat Buchanan to pick up the torch.
In his controversial new book, The Death of the West, Buchanan asserts that
the United States will become a Third World nation by the year 2050. How's
that for New Year predictions?
In his new opus, Buchanan predicts that Europe will be inundated by an
Islamic-Arab-African invasion and that the majority of 'First World'
nations, including Japan, will slowly vanish.
Already on his media blitz (Buchanan appeared on NBC's TODAY show last
week) the new work by the former TV host is rapidly climbing the sales
charts.
Relying upon the most recent UN population studies, Buchanan declares that
by the year 2050, only 10% of the world's people will be of European
descent. One third of Europe's people will be over 60, and one-in-ten over
80.
Buchanan goes on to state that "between now and 2050, Asia, Africa, and
Latin America will grow by three to four billion people, the equivalent of
30 to 40 new Mexicos, and Europe will lose the equivalent of the entire
population of Germany, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland."
Among his other predictions, Buchanan claims that:
o By 2050, 23 million Germans will have disappeared along with 16 million
Italians and 30 million Russians.
o Russia will lose Siberia and the Far East to China and be pushed out of
Central Asia, where Islamic populations are exploding while Russia is dying.
o The 4.2 million Palestinians in Israel and on the West Bank and Gaza will
explode to 9 million by 2025, and 15 million by 2050, when Palestinians
will outnumber Israel's Jewish population two-to-one.
o America's Dual Containment policy in the Persian Gulf seems
unsustainable. In less than 25 years, Iraq will have 42 million people and
Iran 94 million people, more than any European nation except Russia.
In terms of religion, Buchanan is equally pessimistic. He writes
"The Islamic invasions of Spain and France in the eighth century, and of
the Balkans and Central Europe from the 14th to the 17th centuries, will be
reenacted in the lifetime of most of those now living. Islam has already
surpassed Catholicism as the largest religion on earth."
In his chapter La Reconquista, Buchanan contends that an invasion of the
United States is taking place and that America now harbors a nation within
a nation.
"There are 30 million foreign born in the U.S. today, and between 9 and
11 million illegal aliens, or as many undocumented aliens in the U.S. as
there are people in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut," he writes.
"Mexico is exporting its poor and unemployed for U.S. taxpayers to employ
and educate. Radical and militant Hispanics and Mexican leaders alike
believe this will lead to the cultural and demographic recapture of the
Southwest from America, reversing the results of The Mexican War. "
"As of 2000, there were 8.4 million foreign born in California, as many
foreign born as there are people in New Jersey, a primary cause of the
state energy and schools crisis. "
Targeting upon the travesty of 'political correctness', Buchanan in another
chapter notes how, " In some school districts, Mark Twain, Flannery
O'Connor, and any realistic portrayal of the America South, including
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, are now forbidden."
Did Christmas seem different for you this year? Perhaps its because
according to Buchanan, " It is the Christian nations -- Catholic,
Protestant, and Orthodox - that have begun to die."
In his chapter, The De-Christianization of America, Buchanan argues that
the death of the Christian faith in Western countries is a primary cause of
their dying populations. "Whenever faith dies, the people die. "
He argues that a new atheistic civilization is arising, and is using its
dominance of the culture and the courts to drive Christianity out of the
temples of our civilization.
Big on hyperbole and written with a focus towards isolationism, the updated
figures and data from the United Nations that forms much of the basis for
his latest work is nonetheless troubling, and reminiscent of earlier work
done by scientists in the Club of Rome back in the 1970's contained in
their book, The Limits Of Growth.
Back then, this collective of 100 noted scientists and scholars called for
massive recycling and world population control, which of course, run
against the tenants of many of Buchanan's political affiliations.
The book's publication was delayed after the September terrorist attacks.
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