French scratch their heads at why Chinese are taking over their country

I think you are referencing this.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223549/our-mission-statement/william-f-buckley-jr

I just read the first half of it.

That guy who think and write.
I found this part encouraging and discouraging at the same time.



“I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater,” said the benign old wrecker of the ordered society, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “but there is no reason to suppose that the cosmos does.” We have come around to Mr. Holmes’ view, so much so that we feel gentlemanly doubts when asserting the superiority of capitalism to socialism, of republicanism to centralism, of champagne to ditchwater — of anything to anything. (How curious that one of the doubts one is not permitted is whether, at the margin, Mr. Holmes was a useful citizen!) The inroads that relativism has made on the American soul are not so easily evident. One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things.

Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals’. Drop a little itching powder in Jimmy Wechsler’s bath and before he has scratched himself for the third time, Arthur Schlesinger will have denounced you in a dozen books and speeches, Archibald MacLeish will have written ten heroic cantos about our age of terror, Harper’s will have published them, and everyone in sight will have been nominated for a Freedom Award. Conservatives in this country — at least those who have not made their peace with the New Deal, and there is serious question whether there are others — are non-licensed nonconformists; and this is dangerous business in a Liberal world, as every editor of this magazine can readily show by pointing to his scars. Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by the Liberals, they are being ignored or humiliated by a great many of those of the well-fed Right, whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity."

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Adjectives to describe a political philosophy have flip-flopped in their meaning throughout history.

Though Franklin may have claimed to be "progressive" in his day, doesn't connote that his meaning of "progressive" is the same as today.

Progressive now is the opposite of progressive in Franklin's day. Progressive today = Communism, Socialism... as we now understand the terms to be.

Even most US citizens today think of "progressive" as meaning "modern, moving forward"... when it actually means CIVIL ENSLAVEMENT BY GOVERNMENT, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM. In some factions of our government, socialism and civil enslavement ARE their definitions of "progress".

IOW... you can "call a fart perfume"... you can call it anything you want... but it still stinks like shit... if you get my drift.

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223549/our-mission-statement/william-f-buckley-jr


for his his (the magazines) convictions he wrote this...

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e. The most alarming single danger to the American political system lies in the fact that an identifiable team of Fabian operators is bent on controlling both our major political parties(under the sanction of such fatuous and unreasoned slogans as “national unity,” “middle-of-the-road,” “progressivism,” and “bipartisanship.”) Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt, gone Social-Democrat. When and where this political issue arises, we are, without reservations, on the side of the traditional two-party system that fights its feuds in public and honestly; and we shall advocate the restoration of the two-party system at all costs.

f. The competitive price system is indispensable to liberty and material progress. It is threatened not only by the growth of Big Brother government, but by the pressure of monopolies(including union monopolies. What is more, some labor unions have clearly identified themselves with doctrinaire socialist objectives. The characteristic problems of harassed business have gone unreported for years, with the result that the public has been taught to assume(almost instinctively) that conflicts between labor and management are generally traceable to greed and intransigence on the part of management. Sometimes they are; often they are not. NATIONAL REVIEW will explore and oppose the inroads upon the market economy caused by monopolies in general, and politically oriented unionism in particular; and it will tell the violated businessman’s side of the story.

g. No superstition has more effectively bewitched America’s Liberal elite than the fashionable concepts of world government, the United Nations, internationalism, international atomic pools, etc. Perhaps the most important and readily demonstrable lesson of history is that freedom goes hand in hand with a state of political decentralization, that remote government is irresponsible government. It would make greater sense to grant independence to each of our 50 states than to surrender U.S. sovereignty to a world organization.

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223549/our-mission-statement/william-f-buckley-jr


Among our convictions:

a. It is the job of centralized government (in peacetime) to protect its citizens’ lives, liberty and property. All other activities of government tend to diminish freedom and hamper progress. The growth of government(the dominant social feature of this century) must be fought relentlessly. In this great social conflict of the era, we are, without reservations, on the libertarian side.

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No wonder Buckley was one of my college roomate's hero.

 

He was a force of nature to be sure. I think Theodore Dalrymple (pen name) is up there, too.

 

a. thanks I will have to pay more attention to A.M. Daniels.

b. I can not believe my typos.

that simple sentence was supposed to say.

"that guy could think and write."

I do not even think I went back and changed that sentence.
it just came out of my fingers incorrectly.

 

We've long since made it a habit to correct your typos and grammatical errors as we read. No shame, though, as we learn your politics the process becomes easier. : )