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Entry: National Cliff Notes Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/national_cliff_notes#11533 Post contents: Marcus wrote: "Day of Reckoning is about how America is in trouble due to its overstretched empire, disintegrating national identity, massive demographic transition, and economic dependence on staggering foreign debt. None of which, strictly speaking, is Al Sharpton’s fault." As I said before, mostly what the neo-cons have done is take the utopian ideology of ‘free markets” to it’s logical conclusion, and succeeded in mostly proving that the rantings of Marx & Lenin that Imperialism was the final stage of unrestrained capitalism were true. The destruction of the economic security of America’s middle class by the forces of finance capitalism (IMF/World Bank/Fed) occurs simultaneously with the dismantling of the value system that sustained it. For guys like me (and Pat Buchanan is the same age as I) that fought against the 60’s “counterculture” and the “New” Left on college campuses, to watch the takeover of the conservative movement by ex-Leftists, and the betrayal of the ideas of Goldwater and Russell Kirk are profoundly depressing. How could we have known that the tool that our enemies would use to destroy America would be the rhetoric of “free markets” along with the values of unrestrained consumerism and materialism to displace God and Community and Family? Not in our wildest dreams would we see the world turned upside down as it is today. Give em hell, Marcus! You and your friends are our only hope for the future! Sent at: 2008 10 11