CPAC Crowd Readying to "Save White America"

The ever increasing insularity and idiocy of the far right base of the Republican Party continues to reveal itself. Now, as Right Wing Watch reports, the loons are not even trying to hide the racism and bigotry that fuel their anti-immigrant (and anti-anything that's not :white bread America) stances. It is disturbing to see a mentality so pervasive which truly sees others as less than fully human and which endeavors to disseminate hatred and division. On the other hand, I guess it should not come as a surprise given the toxic influence of the Christian Right within the base of the GOP. As the demographics of the country continue to change and the population becomes more racially diverse, I fully expect the hysteria and hate meter readings to increase from this anything but Christian element in society. Among those in the forefront of this movement one can be certain to see folks like the Klan loving Tony Perkins and the leaders of other anti-gay hate groups who despise non-whites nearly as much as LGBT citizens. Here are highlights from Right Wing Watch:
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If there is one message to take away from CPAC’s panel on immigration, it’s that White America is in serious jeopardy and may soon succumb to immigration, multiculturalism, and socialism. The panel “Will Immigration Kill the GOP?” featured former congressmen Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and Virgil Goode (R-VA), Bay Buchanan of Team America PAC, and special guest Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA). The group Youth for Western Civilization sponsored the panel, and its head Kevin DeAnna was also a panelist. Youth for Western Civilization is a far-right group that regularly criticizes affinity groups on college campuses, especially those that represent black, Hispanic, LGBT, Native American, and Muslim students.
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“No more of this multiculturalism garbage,” Tancredo said, adding that “the cult of multiculturalism has captured the world” and is “the dagger in the heart” of civilization. Not to be out done, Goode maintained that immigration in general “will not only kill the GOP but will kill the United States of America.”
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Both Tancredo and Goode agreed that U.S. citizens are now being treated unfairly as undocumented immigrants reap all the benefits of American society. Tancredo claimed that undocumented immigrants “get better health care in detention centers than some of my constituents,” and Goode argued that “today, being a citizen means you’re second class.”
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[W]hile the panel’s speakers see unrepentant Nativism and immigrant-bashing as the way for the GOP’s electoral success, it mainly appealed to the CPAC attendees who feared the demise of White America and the emergence of a more diverse population. All four panelists agreed that unless the Republican Party embraces their hard line anti-immigrant stance, the GOP will become inextricably weakened and the country will dissolve into multicultural dystopia.
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Although the panelists all said that it wasn’t about race, it’s easy to see why many audience members thought it was.