Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
Pat Buchanan the 77-year-old right-wing syndicated columnist and talking head continues to opine in support of his vision of the good old days: the period of U.S. history when a select few white men were the unchallenged arbiters of our national life.
Recently Buchanan offered up an unvarnished perspective of what racists fear the United States is becoming. “So we’re about, what, 25 years away from the fact where Americans of European descent will be a minority in the United States,” he said, noting that the nation’s “changed for the worse from our standpoint.”
To get the full effect of how outrageously backward Buchanan’s views are, I’ll let the man speak for himself:
"I look all over the world, and I see peoples everywhere at each other’s throats over issues of ethnicity and identity. Again, the United States of America, we have a, we had an enormous success. And we created a really united country where 97 percent of us spoke English in 1960. Now in half the homes in California, people speak a language other than English in their own homes."
Buchanan’s hazy and nostalgic Americana existed only inside the vacuous minds of those like him. For the rest of us, this nation was a different sort of place.
To be sure, Buchanan’s nostalgia for the Hollywood version of mid-20th century America shares equal billing with the themes of white resentment of modern-day realities.
A swelling contingent of white men lament that life in the United States just isn’t as good as it was in 1950 and tend to blame people of color and immigrants.
http://www.newsweek.com/america-moved-many-still-live-white-fantasy-461223
