We Are No Longer Americans
March 24, 2010
LAWRENCE AUSTER expresses what many of us know in an interview with Richard Spencer at AltRight Radio. Our national existence is at stake in the fight over Obamacare. “Everything we think of as American identity, all the things that animate the common spirit of Americans, is lost if Obamacare stands,” he states. There must be “absolute determination to overturn it.”
The other important affairs and issues are dwarfed by the magnitude of this event, an egregious violation of our founding principles. What really matters? In Auster’s words:
How can I care about Coulter in Canada, about Wilders, about Guantanamo, about non-discrimination, about Islam, when my foundation has been cut away and I’m standing in space? I must get my foundation back. Nothing else can matter.
The identity, the core of oneself, individually and collectively, from which one looks at the world, and responds to the world, has been taken away. To keep reacting to and discussing various issues when my core has been taken away is to be acting in a void.
