Religious, racial, cultural diversity has put an end to the "bad" old America we grew up in, as we evolve into the "universal nation" of Ben Wattenberg, who once rhapsodized, "The non-Europeanization of America is heartening news of an almost transcendental quality." It was against their will that scores of millions, here legally and illegally, almost all from Third World countries, whose masses have never been fully assimilated into any western nation, have poured into the USA. Was it not the Bush Republicans and Clinton Democrats?Īmericans never supported mass immigration. Is Trump responsible for that? Is Socialist Bernie Sanders, who voted against all those trade deals? The bleeding of factories and manufacturing jobs abroad has produced the demoralization and decline of our middle class, along with the wage stagnation and shrinking participation in the labor force. Is not Trump the personification of the populist-nationalist revolt Francis predicted?Īnd was it not presidents and Congresses of both parties who mired us in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, and negotiated the trade deals that have gutted American industry? What we saw through a glass darkly then, we now see face to face. "ooner or later, as the globalist elites seek to drag the country into conflicts and global commitments, preside over the economic pastoralization of the United States, manage the delegitimization of our own culture, and the dispossession of our people, and disregard or diminish our national interest and national sovereignty, a nationalist reaction is almost inevitable and will probably assume populist form when it arrives. In Chronicles, in 1996, Francis, a paleoconservative and proud son of the South, wrote: No more astute essay has been written this political season than that of Michael Brendan Dougherty in "This Week," where he describes how, 20 years ago, my late friend Sam Francis predicted it all. The political and economic elites of Davos have grow rich, fat and powerful by setting aside patriotism and sacrificing their countries on the altars of globalization and a New World Order. Was it Donald Trump, who gives voice to the anger of those who believe themselves to have been betrayed? Or the elites who betrayed them?Ĭan that crowd at Davos not understand that it is despised because it is seen as having subordinated the interests of the nations and people in whose name it presumes to speak, to advance an agenda that serves, first and foremost, its own naked self-interest?
Who really belongs in the dock here? Who caused this crisis of political legitimacy now gripping the nations of the West? primaries.īut set aside Joe's slurs - demagogues, xenophobia. ( 1999) Crispus Allen became the most recent Spectre in Infinite Crisis #4.The lights are burning late in Davos tonight.Īt the World Economic Forum, keynoter Joe Biden warned global elites that the unraveling of the middle class in America and Europe has provided "fertile terrain for reactionary politicians, demagogues peddling xenophobia, anti-immigration, nationalist, isolationist views."Įvidence of a nationalist backlash, said Biden, may be seen in the third parties arising across Europe, and in the U.S. ( 1940) Geoff Johns established Hal Jordan as the new Spectre in Day of Judgment #5. The Spectre was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, first appearing in More Fun Comics #52. After Jordan's rebirth, Crispus Allen became the third Spectre at the end of the Day of Vengeance during Infinite Crisis. Hal Jordan, a fallen Green Lantern, took his place during Day of Judgment as a way of seeking redemption. Jim Corrigan was the original superhero and acted as a member of the Justice Society of America during the Golden Age. His existence is in response to the failure of Eclipso, the spirit of God's wrath that turned completely malevolent and evil. Permanently bonded to a human soul, he uses his incredible divine powers to punish the truly wicked, usually ending his victim's lives in creative and ironic ways. The Spectre is a cosmic entity and the physical embodiment of God's vengeance on Earth.
0 kommentar(er)
