Putin’s Paleoconservative Moment
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
In the culture war for mankind’s future,
is he one of us?
While such a question may be blasphemous
in Western circles, consider the content of the Russian president’s state of
the nation address.
With America clearly in mind, Putin
declared, “In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being
reconsidered.”
“They’re now requiring not only the
proper acknowledgment of freedom of conscience, political views and private
life, but also the mandatory acknowledgment of the equality of good and evil.”
Translation: While privacy and freedom
of thought, religion and speech are cherished rights, to equate traditional
marriage and same-sex marriage is to equate good with evil.
No moral confusion here, this is moral
clarity, agree or disagree.
President Reagan once called the old
Soviet Empire “the focus of evil in the modern world.” President Putin is
implying that Barack Obama’s America may deserve the title in the 21st century.
Nor is he without an argument when we
reflect on America’s embrace of abortion on demand, homosexual marriage,
pornography, promiscuity, and the whole panoply of Hollywood values.
Our grandparents would not recognize the
America in which we live.
Moreover, Putin asserts, the new
immorality has been imposed undemocratically.
The “destruction of traditional values”
in these countries, he said, comes “from the top” and is “inherently
undemocratic because it is based on abstract ideas and runs counter to the will
of the majority of people.”
Does he not have a point?
Unelected justices declared abortion and
homosexual acts to be constitutionally protected rights. Judges have been the
driving force behind the imposition of same-sex marriage. Attorney General Eric
Holder refused to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act.
America was de-Christianized in the
second half of the 20th century by court orders, over the vehement objections
of a huge majority of a country that was overwhelmingly Christian.
And same-sex marriage is indeed an
“abstract” idea unrooted in the history or tradition of the West. Where did it
come from?
Peoples all over the world, claims
Putin, are supporting Russia’s “defense of traditional values” against a
“so-called tolerance” that is “genderless and infertile.”
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