James Kirkpatrick: Tom Clancy's American Dream - 'However, just like Glenn Beck or other “movement” conservatives, Ryan holds to a kind of race-less civil religion of Americanism where the overwhelming majority of Americans of all races are patriots loyal to Freedom, Flag, and Founding Fathers. There are still, however, White racists lurking in the shadows. . . .'

TOM CLANCY'S AMERICAN DREAM

Tom Clancy's death means that Command Authority, released on December 3, will be the last book for the man who largely invented the military techno-thriller. Clancy generated a seemingly endless stream of material about heroic spies and soldiers making the world safe for democracy with futuristic weaponry and old-fashioned American ingenuity. Around the country, aging conservative men read stories about the adventures of Jack Ryan while their sons curse out other teenagers on Xbox 360 playing Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.

His impact on American culture was multigenerational. To older Americans, Clancy is best known as the author of the Jack Ryan series of books. The inspiration for this character had to have come from Clancy himself. Raised a bookish Roman Catholic, Tom Clancy volunteered to be an Army officer, but was rejected for service because of poor eyesight. Instead, he became an insurance salesman. Well into middle age, he wrote The Hunt for Red October, introducing the world to his alter ego.

Ryan was a super version of Clancy himself, with all his actual traits magnified. Jack Ryan is a faithful Catholic, a Marine officer, a financial expert who makes millions on Wall Street, and eventually an analyst from the CIA who leaves his desk to kick Communist ass in the field. . . .

However, just like Glenn Beck or other “movement” conservatives, Ryan holds to a kind of raceless civil religion of Americanism where the overwhelming majority of Americans of all races are patriots loyal to Freedom, Flag, and Founding Fathers. 

There are still, however, White racists lurking in the shadows. . . .

http://www.npiamerica.org/the-national-policy-institute/category/tom-clancys-american-dream

     Reminds me somewhat of television's 24, well acted, yes, but presenting itself as the red-blooded conservative alternative to liberal television, but essentially seemed only to disagree with liberal Democrats on the use of torture in national security--and when you only have 24 hours to stop a cataclysm, wow, what a controversial position!--while almost all of the rest of the show could have been written by liberal Hollywood, right down to the ultra-noble black president who gets assassinated and the villainous white president who channels the ghost of Richard Nixon, on steroids. 

     All going to show once again that the Cultural Marxists have swept the entire mainstream political field, just as the Fox Network is seen as representing conservatism in the proudly suicidal Orwellian nation in which we temporarily dwell.