George Rebane
In The Myth of the Rational Voter Bryan Caplan documented a significant body of research which showed that in the US voters in the aggregate are what may be termed formally insane. The general understanding of this phenomenon applies to populations all over the world, and its general characteristics were even known to the ancients. Of course, our well-read Founders knew this, and that is why, in order to avoid the mistakes of the past, they wisely did not leave us a democracy.
The democratic republic they did construct and detailed in our Constitution is supposed to keep the hoi polloi’s mitts off the machinery of our federal and state governments. They inserted a hopefully wiser and more circumspect layer of elected representatives between the mass of citizens and the levers of power. The idea was that such electeds would be better read and would take a broader view of things that insured the country’s prudent progress. Unspoken, save in their oaths of office, was the notion that all of these worthies would be pro-American – i.e. legislate so as to assure the republic’s prosperous and permanent future.
Our Founders had no idea of the world order in which America would find itself 250 years after declaring our independence. Today two major ideologies, founded by Marx and Muhammad, are working to bring all the peoples of the world under one monolithic governing leviathan. Each, in the interval, willing to work off the gains of the other in the firm belief that they will be the victor when the dust settles. In the meantime, there will be a need for lots of dust, or ‘cracked eggs’, or whatever to bring the outdated global gaggle of sovereign nation-states to an end.
Marx’s collectivists today march to that brave new world mostly under the socialist banner, although swapping for the colors of communism (already/still solidly ensconced in the community of nations) is always possible were stronger medicine necessary to mind the masses. Muhammad’s disciples, no matter their current schisms, see the global caliphate under sharia law as the culmination of Allah’s plan for his earthly creation. Both can accept convenient amalgamations of the two on the road to their glorious destinations.
But both see Job One as getting rid of those pesky independent nations, many harboring their own distinct cultures and preferring to live with their own kind. Such bad values hinder both Marx and Muhammad. A working formula for diverse peoples accepting an overarching government has already been demonstrated by forcefully integrating different people by cheek and jowl, people who naturally do not trust each other for countless reasons, and therefore are willing to accept a strong government over all of them, if for nothing else than to keep a stressful and depressing peace. It has been done, and it works, and then we ‘educate’ their children to believe and behave properly.
So how do you get such mixing of cultures to occur if there are still nations with boundaries? The answer, as we have seen, is simple – make it so that the boundaries are porous, and induce the poor, depraved, and deprived to migrate to those lands where native cultures have created prosperity and wealth. Tell them it is their right to leave their besotted homelands (aka shithole countries) and go to where the streets are paved with gold. Tell them also that their native cultures are of equal worth to the ones in their target destinations, and that they have the right to continue practicing what didn’t work back home. In their new home assimilation is not recommended, and will instead be achieved by future generations under central planning.
In the US and EU the porous borders solution is now in full swing, with those who dare to protest the impending destruction of their home countries being labeled and pilloried as racists, nazis, fascists, and (white) nationalists. And now in America we hear from the renewed Speaker of the House, Mrs Pelosi, that not only do border walls not work, but that they are “immoral”. No one has yet to ask that corrupt socialist scion why it is immoral to construct infrastructure that will protect and defend against assault and attack.
And our electorate, as Caplan and others have pointed out, give de facto endorsement to Team Pelosi by concurrently claiming conflicting attitudes as demonstrated by numerous polls. Americans in the aggregate approve of ‘border security’ without really knowing what they are talking about. And then they also claim to oppose ‘illegal entry’ into our country, while simultaneously opposing ‘the wall’ and all such effective barriers to illegal entrants. And in the large they have no intellectual capital with which to question what they are told in the lamestream media about walls, border porosity, and ‘migrant rights’.
So there you have the latest anti-American chapter starting to play itself out with the advent of the 115th Congress and its Democratic House. The daily message to the masses is that they should keep their eye on that dastardly Donald Trump (a money-grubbing capitalist in the pay of Putin) who will now really be investigated until the cows come home, and to not worry their little heads about what’s happening at our southern border. And by the way we also don’t need no stinkin’ military spending to update our forces and dated nuclear arsenal in the face of China’s and Russia’s intentions in the Far East and Europe and Middle East. But new taxes will be levied to fund increased entitlements and benefits for ‘immigrants’ – how else will Marx’s minions (millennials and ‘minorities’) maintain their majorities?
[6jan19 update] The real immorality of the wall has been revealed by the alt-Left Democrats in the newly elected House. RR reader and commenter ‘fish’ points out the highlights of ‘HR1 – For the People Act of 2019’ in his 1051pm below. The question that I have been struggling with for some years now is ‘Have Democrats really evolved into an evil anti-American political coalition, or are they simply more confused and ignorant than ever about the policies they promote?’ With the introduction of HR1, a proposed law that would clearly overturn the sanctity of American citizenship, my conclusion in light of this information is that yes, to the extent that the rank and file Democrats support this bill, they are indeed the country’s party of evil – its Fifth Column bent on destroying the last vestiges of an exceptional America.
If they ever pull this off and put HR1 into the US Code, our illegal alien and mass migration problems will be over. America will have become a destitute country (possibly even a shithole country) for which no one will want to risk life and limb, or even the price of transport, to come and demand its citizenship. With the passage of HR1, American citizenship will become moot and strictly optional for everyone who can make it across what used to be known as our country’s borders.
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