SPLCenter.org: Reframing the Enemy (Pat Buchanan and the Religious Right)

"Television commentator Pat Buchanan says it is being used to 'de-Christianize' America. Washington heavyweight William Lind claims it is turning U.S. college campuses into 'ivy-covered North Koreas.' Retired naval commander Gerald Atkinson fears it has invaded the nation's military academies. Immigration activist John Vinson suggests it aims 'to distort and destroy' our country.

'Cultural Marxism,' described as a conspiratorial attempt to wreck American culture and morality, is the newest intellectual bugaboo on the radical right. Surprisingly, there are signs that this bizarre theory is catching on in the mainstream.

The phrase refers to a kind of 'political correctness' on steroids — a covert assault on the American way of life that allegedly has been developed by the left over the course of the last 70 years. Those who are pushing the 'cultural Marxism' scenario aren't merely poking fun at the PC excesses of the 'People's Republic of Berkeley,' or the couple of American cities whose leaders renamed manholes 'person-holes' in a bid to root out sexist thought." (more at link)

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Pat Buchanan, the cannibal's side order of salad.

(thumb'd from blurbomat)
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