Reddit mentions of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

>can you please clarify your ideological position

Sure.

I'm a paleoconservative deep ecologist. This means I adhere to the oldest values of American conservatism and pair them with an interest in environmentalism through a more wholesome design of society.

I moderate /r/new_right because the new right ideas are closest to paleoconservatism in some ways. I tried to write a description of new_right that encompassed all of the ideas that the movement has tossed around.

Beyond that, I think politics is a matter of strategies and not collectivist moral decisions, am fond of libertarian-style free market strategies, and take interest in many things, hence the wide diversity of stuff that I post.

I've learned that on Reddit it's important to ask for people to clarify definitions before ever addressing any question using those terms. If you want me to answer any specific questions, we need a clear definition first agreed on by all parties.

I recommend the following books for anyone interesting in post-1970s conservatism beyond the neoconservative sphere:

• Paul Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
  
• Pat Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower
  
• Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies
  
• Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot
  
• Jared Diamond, Collapse
  
• Mark Steyn, America Alone
  
• Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
  
• Bruce Charlton, Thought Prison: The Fundamentalist Nature of Political Correctness
  
  Other than that, I'm pretty much a mainstream Republican. Not all links I post constitute endorsement, such as this fascinating article.

I reject the premise. I don't believe any such thing, and find your presumption rather insulting. Why does one have to hate or think less of others in order to appreciate one's own? You can be proud to be black, atheist, or gay without thinking less of whites, theists, or strait people, right? Hell, you don't even have to be proud to be concerned about issues such as University of California v. Bakke, groups like the New Black Panther Party, dictators like Robert Mugabe persecuting whites, etc.

African Americans, Latino-Americans, and White Americans all have similarities. Each "group" in fact comes from a variety and sometimes combination of backgrounds, some of which many may not be fully aware of from a geneological point of view, let alone have any semblence of connection with. As such, African American culture and identity developed, unique from the myriad cultures and identities of the tribes people decend from. Latino American culture and identity developed, distinct from Spanish, Native American, or various LA state cultures.

White people are the same- yet unlike the aforementioned examples, there is no real sense of white identity in this country. While I believe we do have a unique culture- the virtual equivalent of the cultures of the aforementioned groups, it seems to neither be widely recognized, or celebrated.

White people are on track to become a minority within the next century, and as such, I think it is appropriate for their to be a sense of white culture, identity, and solidarity, lest the trends causing us to depopulate ourselves continue until there is nothing left. We will be a less diverse world if white people disappear. White people have committed their share of ills throughout history- but they have also made a great many contributions to civilization, and I think the case could be made that we have just as much a right to be proud of ourselves as anyone, and a right to defend our people from fading away, or in the short term, simply being mistreated. I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with this line of thinking, nor do I think there is anything supremacist about this line of thinking.

If you would be willing to put the effort into it, consider reading Suicide of a Superpower by Pat Buchanan. The man cites the hell out of his work, and he brings up many points which may enlighten you to our perspective.

Two interesting recent books address those questions:

• Suicide of a Superpower by PJB
  
• Coming Apart by CM

The passage is in this Yahoo News article excerpted from Pat Buchanan's book "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?".