Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Blood Lust

To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let's march, let's march!
Let an impure blood
Soak our fields!
(From The Marseillaise-
The War Song for the Army of the Rhine)


Two articles have appeared in The Atlantic analyzing Trump's speech in Warsaw, a speech the WSJ called  "a determined and affirmative defense of the Western tradition."

This is from one of them by Peter Beinart titled "The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump's Warsaw Speech,": "The most shocking sentence in Trump's speech — perhaps the most shocking sentence in any presidential speech delivered on foreign soil in my lifetime — was his claim that 'The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.' ... Trump's sentence only makes sense as a statement of racial and religious paranoia." Beinart begins his piece saying: "In his speech in Poland on Thursday, Donald Trump referred 10 times to 'the West' and five times to 'our civilization.' His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means. It's important that other Americans do, too."
The other article, written by James Fallow, says this:  "...what he called 'civilization' ... boils down to ties of ethnicity and blood."

Is there one liberal or conservative American who thinks that the words "the West" and "Western civilization" mean a celebration of white-blood purity?

Apparently the West has become a solitary, hostile, and genetically unified entity entrenched and on guard, with nothing to offer but historical bloodlines that are seeking to oppose, and drain if necessary, "an impure blood." 
Apparently the Common Market has finally done what Napoleon and Hitler could not.

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