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The NBC News/WallStreet-Journal poll, conducted jointly by Democrats and Republicans, reports that 74% of Americans think our government is taking us in the wrong direction, and only 17% think we are on the right track. Other polls are similar, with Gallup reporting 85% dissatisfied with the way our country is headed. Presidential candidates don't seem to understand this; none has achieved majority support with the public.
Buchanan explains how the America most adults grew up in is fast disappearing. Americans resent the dictatorial, undemocratic way that elitists in the media, academia, the bureaucracy, and the courts have spit on the foundations of our culture. Those elite opinion sources have carried on a war against our Judeo-Christian faith, traditional marriage, and our patriotic belief that America is exceptional and should be militarily superior. They have trashed and tried to abolish symbols we cherish such as the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, and even a cross erected in a public place to honor our veterans. Those same elitists, using the power of government, have destroyed the economic stability of the family by legalizing unilateral divorce, giving enormous taxpayer subsidies to single moms which discriminate against marriage, adopting so-called free-trade policies that shipped millions of good jobs overseas, and importing millions of foreigners from Third World countries to take the remaining jobs away from Americans. They are replacing e pluribus unum with what Theodore Roosevelt warned against: unrestrained immigration that will make us "a polyglot boarding house for the world." Buchanan is eloquent in describing the coordinated attack on Christian America and its replacement with the new religion of diversity, using the language of political correctness. Equality, a French-Revolution word that does not appear in any of America'â„¢s founding documents, has been elevated to become our national goal instead of liberty. Buchanan cherishes the hope that our political leaders will, in time, recognize that enough Americans still want to remain one nation under God and one people united by history, heritage and language. He gives specific suggestions for how we can avoid driving off the cliff into national suicide. (Thomas Dunne Books, 2011, 496 pp., $27.99) |
They should read a book that explains in depressing detail why grassroots Americans are convinced that our government is taking us in the wrong direction and over a cliff before our children and grandchildren will ever achieve the American dream: Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? by Patrick J. Buchanan.
