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History
Back in 1999 we
conservatives
were busy
protesting
President Bill
Clinton when he
came to town for
a fundraiser. Up
to 400 martin
county residents
including REC
members and
influential
winter residents
came together to
stand on a
corner with
there signs
stating
"Character
Counts". They
discussed the
ramifications of
the President
Clinton's
behavior and how
it was the
turning point on
our culture.
Please read
conservative
Paul Weyrich's
open letter that
he wrote in 1999
and look at
where we are
today.
Read the
American
conservative
article written
by William S.
Lind a long-time
colleague of
Paul Weyrich at
the bottom of
the page.
Bio
Paul Michael
Weyrich was an
American
religious
conservative
political
activist and
commentator,
most notable as
a figurehead of
the New Right.
He co-founded
the conservative
think tanks, the
Heritage
Foundation,the
Free Congress
Foundation, and
the American
Legislative
Exchange Council
(ALEC).
By 2004, Weyrich
was reportedly
more hopeful,
given trends in
public opinion
and the
reelection of
President George
W. Bush. In
spite of his
initial support
for Bush, he
often disagreed
with Bush
administration
policies.
Examples of
their
disagreement
included the
Iraq War,
immigration,
Harriet Miers
and fiscal
policy.
Letter
to Conservatives
by Paul M.
Weyrich
Ms. Amy Ridenour
National
Center for
Public Policy
Research
February 16,
1999
Dear
Ms. Ridenour:
Late last year,
I had the
opportunity of
speaking to the
Conservative
Leadership
Conference on
the state of the
conservative
movement. I've
given similar
talks in the
past, and
usually they
have focused on
the most recent
election or our
situation in
Congress or
something
similar. This
time, the
thoughts I
offered were
very different,
and frankly
rather radical.
The strong,
positive
response they
brought forth --
which came as
something of a
surprise to me
-- has led me to
think that I
should share
them more
widely. That is
the purpose of
this letter.
What
many of us have
been trying to
do for many
years has been
based upon a
couple of
premises. First
of all, we have
assumed that a
majority of
Americans
basically agrees
with our point
of view. That
has been the
premise upon
which we have
tried to build
any number of
institutions,
and indeed our
whole strategy.
It is I who
suggested to
Jerry Falwell
that he call his
organization the
"Moral
Majority." The
second premise
has been that if
we could just
elect enough
conservatives,
we could get our
people in as
Congressional
leaders and they
would fight to
implement our
agenda.
In
looking at the
long history of
conservative
politics, from
the defeat of
Robert Taft in
1952, to the
nomination of
Barry Goldwater,
to the takeover
of the
Republican Party
in 1994, I think
it is fair to
say that
conservatives
have learned to
succeed in
politics. That
is, we got our
people elected.
But
that did not
result in the
adoption of our
agenda. The
reason, I think,
is that politics
itself has
failed. And
politics has
failed because
of the collapse
of the culture.
The culture we
are living in
becomes an
ever-wider
sewer. In truth,
I think we are
caught up in a
cultural
collapse of
historic
proportions, a
collapse so
great that it
simply
overwhelms
politics.
That's
why I am in the
process of
rethinking what
it is that we,
who still
believe in our
traditional,
Western,
Judeo-Christian
culture, can and
should do under
the
circumstances.
Please
understand that
I am not
quarreling with
anybody who
pursues
politics,
because it is
important to
pursue politics,
to be involved
in government.
It is also
important to
try, as many
people have, to
re-take the
cultural
institutions
that have been
captured by the
other side.
But
it is impossible
to ignore the
fact that the
United States is
becoming an
ideological
state. The
ideology of
Political
Correctness,
which openly
calls for the
destruction of
our traditional
culture, has so
gripped the body
politic, has so
gripped our
institutions,
that it is even
affecting the
Church. It has
completely taken
over the
academic
community. It is
now pervasive in
the
entertainment
industry, and it
threatens to
control
literally every
aspect of our
lives.
Those
who came up with
Political
Correctness,
which we more
accurately call
"Cultural
Marxism," did so
in a deliberate
fashion. I'm not
going to go into
the whole
history of the
Frankfurt School
and Herbert
Marcuse and the
other people
responsible for
this. Suffice it
to say that the
United States is
very close to
becoming a state
totally
dominated by an
alien ideology,
an ideology
bitterly hostile
to Western
culture. Even
now, for the
first time in
their lives,
people have to
be afraid of
what they say.
This has never
been true in the
history of our
country. Yet
today, if you
say the "wrong
thing," you
suddenly have
legal problems,
political
problems, you
might even lose
your job or be
expelled from
college. Certain
topics are
forbidden. You
can,t approach
the truth about
a lot of
different
subjects. If you
do, you are
immediately
branded as
"racist",
"sexist",
"homophobic",
"insensitive",
or "judgmental."
Cultural
Marxism is
succeeding in
its war against
our culture. The
question
becomes, if we
are unable to
escape the
cultural
disintegration
that is gripping
society, then
what hope can we
have? Let me be
perfectly frank
about it. If
there really
were a moral
majority out
there, Bill
Clinton would
have been driven
out of office
months ago. It
is not only the
lack of
political will
on the part of
Republicans,
although that is
part of the
problem. More
powerful is the
fact that what
Americans would
have found
absolutely
intolerable only
a few years ago,
a majority now
not only
tolerates but
celebrates.
Americans have
adopted, in
large measure,
the MTV culture
that we so
valiantly
opposed just a
few years ago,
and it has
permeated the
thinking of all
but those who
have separated
themselves from
the contemporary
culture.
If
in Washington
State and
Colorado, after
we have spent
years talking
about partial
birth abortion,
we can,t by
referendum pass
a ban on it, we
have to face
some unpleasant
facts. I no
longer believe
that there is a
moral majority.
I do not believe
that a majority
of Americans
actually shares
our values.
So,
I have
contemplated the
question of what
we should do. If
you saw my
predictions on
the elections,
you know that my
views are far
from infallible.
Therefore, I do
not represent
this as any sort
of final truth.
It is merely my
deduction based
on a number of
observations and
a good deal of
soul-searching.
I
believe that we
probably have
lost the culture
war. That
doesn't mean the
war is not going
to continue, and
that it isn't
going to be
fought on other
fronts. But in
terms of society
in general, we
have lost. This
is why, even
when we win in
politics, our
victories fail
to translate
into the kind of
policies we
believe are
important.
Therefore,
what seems to me
a legitimate
strategy for us
to follow is to
look at ways to
separate
ourselves from
the institutions
that have been
captured by the
ideology of
Political
Correctness, or
by other enemies
of our
traditional
culture. I would
point out to you
that the word
"holy" means
"set apart", and
that it is not
against our
tradition to be,
in fact, "set
apart". You can
look in the Old
Testament, you
can look at
Christian
history. You
will see that
there were times
when those who
had our beliefs
were definitely
in the minority
and it was a
band of hardy
monks who
preserved the
culture while
the surrounding
society
disintegrated.
What
I mean by
separation is,
for example,
what the
homeschoolers
have done. Faced
with public
school systems
that no longer
educate but
instead
"condition"
students with
the attitudes
demanded by
Political
Correctness,
they have
seceded. They
have separated
themselves from
public schools
and have created
new
institutions,
new schools, in
their homes.
The
same thing is
happening in
other areas.
Some people are
getting rid of
their
televisions.
Others are
setting up
private courts,
where they can
hope to find
justice instead
of ideology and
greed.
I
think that we
have to look at
a whole series
of possibilities
for bypassing
the institutions
that are
controlled by
the enemy. If we
expend our
energies on
fighting on the
"turf" they
already control,
we will probably
not accomplish
what we hope,
and we may spend
ourselves to the
point of
exhaustion. The
promising thing
about a strategy
of separation is
that it has more
to do with who
we are, and what
we become, than
it does with
what the other
side is doing
and what we are
going to do
about it.
For
example, the
Southern
Baptists, Dr.
Dobson and some
other people
started a
boycott of
Disney. We may
regard this
boycott in two
ways. We might
say, "Well, look
at how much
higher Disney
stock is than
before. The
company made
record profits,
therefore the
boycott has
failed." But the
strategy I,m
suggesting would
see it
differently.
Because of that
boycott, lots of
people who
otherwise would
have been
poisoned by the
kind of
viciously
anti-religious,
and specifically
anti-Christian,
entertainment
that Disney is
spewing out
these days have
been spared
contact with it.
They separated
themselves from
some of the
cultural rot,
and to that
extent we
succeeded.
I
am very
concerned, as I
go around the
country and
speak and talk
to young people,
when I find how
much of the
decadent culture
they have
absorbed without
even
understanding
that they are a
part of it. And
while I'm not
suggesting that
we all become
Amish or move to
Idaho, I do
think that we
have to look at
what we can do
to separate
ourselves from
this hostile
culture. What
steps can we
take to make
sure that we and
our children are
not infected? We
need some sort
of quarantine.
It
is not only
political
conservatives
who are troubled
by the
disintegration
of the culture.
I gave a speech
not long ago in
which I was very
critical of what
was on
television.
Several people
who described
themselves as
liberals came up
to me and said
"Well, I know I
don,t agree with
your politics,
but you are
absolutely
correct on this
and we don't
allow our
children to
watch television
any more."
Don't
be mislead by
politicians who
say that
everything is
great, that we
are on the verge
of this
wonderful, new
era thanks to
technology or
the stock market
or whatever.
These are lies.
We are not in
the dawn of a
new
civilization,
but the twilight
of an old one.
We will be lucky
if we escape
with any
remnants of the
great
Judeo-Christian
civilization
that we have
known down
through the
ages.
The
radicals of the
1960s had three
slogans: turn
on, tune in,
drop out. I
suggest that we
adopt a modified
version. First,
turn off. Turn
off the
television and
video games and
some of the
garbage that,s
on the
computers. Turn
off the means by
which you and
your family are
being infected
with cultural
decadence.
Tune
out. Create a
little
stillness. I was
very struck by
the fact that
when I traveled
in the former
Soviet Union, I
couldn't go to a
restaurant or
any place else
without hearing
this incessant
Western rock
music pounding
away. There was
no escape from
it. No wonder
some Russians
are
anti-American.
When they think
of the United
States, they
think of the
culture that we
exported to
them.
Finally,
we need to drop
out of this
culture, and
find places,
even if it is
where we
physically are
right now, where
we can live
godly, righteous
and sober lives.
Again,
I don't have all
the answers or
even all the
questions. But I
know that what
we have been
doing for thirty
years hasn't
worked, that
while we have
been fighting
and winning in
politics, our
culture has
decayed into
something
approaching
barbarism. We
need to take
another tack,
find a different
strategy. If you
agree, and are
willing to help
wrestle with
what that
strategy should
be, let me know.
If enough people
are willing to
do something
different, we
will call a
roundtable
meeting here at
Free Congress
this year to
discuss it. I
hope I will see
you there.
Sincerely,
Paul M. Weyrich
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