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Dark_Falcon3/30/2014 6:15:05 am PDT

re: #126 wheat-dogghazi

You’re a stronger person than I, to wade through Pat Buchanan’s derp. It doesn’t surprise me he sees geopolitics as a kind of big football game. Poor, poor Russia, had to give up all those territories it hoovered up after WWII, so now he thinks it’s time for Russia to re-acquire them because Putin. Also, Obama.

Yet, Pat would squeal like a pig if you accused him of being anti-democratic or anti-American.

Buchanan’s DERPage about World War II is telling on this point. Pat has semi-disguised admiration for Adolf Hitler (open admiration for Hitler is still not allowed outside of openly racist websites) on the basis of Hitler’s being a “strong and daring leader”. Buchanan admires what he sees as strength, with morality a distinctly secondary concern.

As WD alluded to, its also about race. In Pat Buchanan’s twisted mind, promoting Vladimir Putin as strong and Barack Obama as weak confirms the proper racial order with white people as the “Lords of Creation” and black people as the “bottom rail of the fence”.

The true sickness is Pat Buchanan’s claiming he is a patriot. His worship of “strong men” would have been repellant to the Founders, who believed in the need for law and custom to restrain everyone in order to protect rights and prevent abuses.