They say everybody must adjust

Howard Sutherland told me he had posted a comment at the Rod Dreher blog discussion, and I wrote back to him:

Good job, Howard, thanks for fortifying our side.

It helps for people to see serious, rational individuals on our side who don’t get into the emotional twists and turns of the other side, pretending to discuss the issue one minute and calling people liars the next, or just doing the name calling without the pretense of debate, or claiming to be conservative and pro-restriction while also saying we’ve got to adjust to the Hispanicization of America.

Which reminds me of a Dylan song from the 1980s, “Clean-cut Kid”:

Everyone told him that he had to adjust
Adjust to what?
A dream that bust.
He was a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him, that’s what they did.

What’s the connection between this song lyric and the “Texan of the Year” debate? Well, the original is an anti-war song about a clean-cut kid who is sent to Vietnam and is turned into a killer. I’m seeing the lyrics differently:

Everyone told him that he had to adjust
Adjust to what?
A dream that bust (The destruction of America by mass Third-World immigration).
He was a clean-cut kid (He was a good American)
And they made a killer out of him, that’s what they did (And they turned him into a killer, or an accomplice of the killers, of his own country).

By Bob Dylan
Copyright 1985 Special Rider Music

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 04, 2008 06:51 PM | Send