Is the West Dead？ - CPAC Hungary 2022 Closing Address
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Summary
Jack Posobiec delivers a blistering defense of the West at CPAC in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 15, 2019. He calls for a return to the ideals and values that made the West great in the first place.
Transcript
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's an honor to stand here and address you today as the final speaker
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of CPAC Hungary. We began the weekend with Prime Minister Orban delivering his 12 points for
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Christian conservative victory. And now Jack Posobiec is here to announce a major victory.
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The Department of Homeland Security and the Biden administration's Ministry of Truth is no more.
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The board has been dissolved, replaced into a review status, and the head of the board, Nina
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Yankovic, has been forced to resign. Now, the Washington Post's chief political operative,
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Taylor Lorenz, excuse me, Ms. Taylor Lorenz, saw fit to lay blame for this series of events on me as the
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person who first exposed this illiberal authoritarian board for what it was and started the series of
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events that led to its ultimate demise. Just a few days ago, I was informed of these developments
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while standing in line with my wife, Tanya, there she is, to enter the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican,
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which was a lifelong dream of ours. Now, Taylor Lorenz, however, did not reach out to me for comment
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when writing her propagandist spree that one man would have the audacity to question a censorious
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government board and an unelected, shrill, contemptuous, woke, scold, schoolmarm to be the
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apparent arbiter of truth in the United States across social media, the new public square.
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However, although Ms. Lorenz never reached out to me for comment on her story that Ms. Yankovic is now
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newly unemployed and the Ministry of Truth is no more because of me, thanks to CPAC, I have the
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opportunity to respond in this forum. And so here is my statement, and I ask that the Washington Post
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's an honor. It is an honor to stand before you today, not just as a speaker,
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but as a proud Polish Catholic. Who could have one day predicted that the first Posobiec would stand here
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in Budapest, just across the Carpathians from our family homeland in the Galatia region,
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and speak as an honored guest in defense of our shared Western heritage. I'm humbled to be here.
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I only wish the occasion were less dire. I'm an American, but my family heritage is of Poland. And
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like Hungary, Poland understands the dire threat of totalitarian bureaucratic unelected governance,
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Tonight, I come to you with a very important question. Is the West dead? You might say this
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question is ridiculous. The West isn't dead. The West can never die. So long as there are those
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who are willing to fight for it. Those like the people in this very room and the people watching at
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home. Yet, if you look outside this room, the prognosis looks grimmer by far every day, a new
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outrage against our history, our values, and the very identity of the West is committed under cover
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of darkness, a darkness that like the devil who created it has many names might have heard some
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of them. Wokeness, globalism, open societies, technocratic neoliberalism. This is a new communism for
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a new age. I spent years living in China and it is clear to me that neoliberalism is attempting to
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copy the model of authoritarian power of the Chinese communist party and spread it across the entire
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West. Now, some would argue that the West is already dead. Almost 60 years ago, the scholar James
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Burnham described the managerial liberalism of the 20th century as the voluntary suicide of the West. Does anyone
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dispute his thesis now that we've seen almost 60 years of the results? We've watched our schools turn
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into incubators for racial and gender strife. Laws are twisted into arbitrary bureaucratic mandates only
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to be applied to political opponents and the middle class, never to actual criminals or the ruling class
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are betters. Reason was rendered subject to the tears of the weak and the hysterical. The unhealthy were
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declared beautiful, the unworthy declared experts and the unfit declared strong. Wars were begun under
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the pretext of lies and sovereign instability was created by those who seek to profit from armed
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conflict and porous borders. Against 60 years of a wasting disease like global liberalism, what
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civilization could stand? You know what they're really saying? That this is the end of beauty, the end of
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intelligence, and the end of strength. You say that, by the way, and you will be shut down on social
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media. And if you try to free social media, like Mr. Elon Musk is doing right now, you will be tried to
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shut down as they were trying to shut down him. Say otherwise, and then like me and many others in this
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room, you will be labeled as a purveyor of disinformation. And so I ask again, is the West dead?
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Yes, the West as we inherited it is no more, but we are called to be stewards of the West. We owe it to
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those who came before us, who built the castles of Budapest, the basilicas of Rome, the royal mines of
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Krakow, the Notre Dame of Paris, and who came to America and built a new nation under God. As a Catholic,
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I know that this does not have to be the end of the story. Because like Christ, the West will not
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stay dead. Gustav Mahler once said that tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of
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fire. You may reduce the West to ashes, but within those ashes, the spark of tradition will always be
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waiting. Tonight we gather to fan that spark and to pray that its cleansing fire will inspire a new
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rebirth. Tonight I stand before you and make a call that must be heard from Budapest to Boston,
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from Paris to Pittsburgh, from Rome to Rochester. It is time for the rebirth of the West.
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What is Western civilization? I define it like this. Greek philosophy, Roman law, and the words of the
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Holy Bible. Now you may notice, by the way, that I don't say to win that we must return to a single
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tradition. That would be foolhardy as we're trying to construct from one whole cloth as our enemies
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are attempting to do. That's not the way it works in the West. We all have our various pieces in the
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different grand cultural tapestry of the Western civilizations. Our success has always come from
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embracing the best in each of our cultures and allowing true national sovereignty to flourish from
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defending the borders of our lands to growing our families and our homes. This has always been the
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vision of the West, and we need a vision like that now. A vision wise enough to bring peace,
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a vision strong enough to win wars, a vision confident enough to settle the stars. We will
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inspire the next generation to build cathedrals, write symphonies, write masterworks, and to dream
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beyond any imagination. The West will rise like lazarets from its tomb and cast away the blindness and
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darkness of our era with the searing light of truth. Beauty, genius, and strength will survive
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once again. And we will look back on the shadows dancing on the grave of the West as fake, weak,
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decadent illusions. Illusions that will be burned away as the phoenix that is the West rises again.
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We will not allow the inheritors of Western civilization to be forced into the slavery of
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atomized materialistic lifestyles controlled by the likes of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum.
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We will not allow the World Health Organization and their pandemic treaties to usurp the sovereignty
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of our nations. Ladies and gentlemen, for the sake of our inherited civilization, of our shared history,
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our shared values, and our shared future, stand with me as we prove that like the rebirth of the West,
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we are inevitable. Thank you very much and God bless.