Summary: One of the biggest phenomena of our time is the Left’s social engineering of entire societies. Communism was their first big success, and their first big failure. With undiminished enthusiasm, they persuaded to us to implement new theories. Such as open borders. But questions about the project are not allowed. Here is one man on the fringes who dared to ask questions. The Left’s reaction tells us much.
Often the largest trends in the world are the most difficult to see. For our time that is the Left’s love of massive social engineering. Remaking the world, without testing, guided only by their theories. The horrific results in Europe and Asia of communism (a failure everywhere) taught them nothing. Now the West has unthinkingly volunteered as lab rats to test equally or even more radical changes in gender roles (affecting marriage and families) and open borders.
As with communism, these programs are implemented with bold confident claims – lacking any real-world foundation – about the benefits. Plus, powerful attacks on any who challenge them, or even as inconvenient questions. Only those on the fringes dare to speak out. For example, on September 7, Fox’s Tucker Carlson asked some important questions in his evening rant.
“They’ve talked a lot about norms, called a lot of people racist, and tried to make anyone who disagrees with them shut up. And, of course, they’ve lectured us endlessly about something called diversity as if that answers some relevant question.” {Played video clips.}
Obama: “Our diversity, our patchwork heritage, is not a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths.”
Bernie Sanders: “Our diversity is one of our greatest strengths.”
Hillary Clinton: “We know our diversity is a strength, not a weakness.”
“They all agree on that. It’s hard to know exactly what it means though other than stop talking or else. …{W}e deserve to have some simple questions answered, and we mean answered for real, not just with a sneer and a ticket to the H.R. department for sensitivity training. So here it goes.
“First, how is our current immigration system made America more stable and more prosperous? In your answer, please explain what happened to the State of California? Used to be called the Golden State. Had a thriving middle class. Had the country’s best schools. Now the schools in California are a complete disaster. The middle class is vanishing, and the nation’s largest mass of impoverished people remains behind to serve a tiny pool of tech oligarchs. How exactly did that happen?
“Next, how precisely is diversity our strength? Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it. Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are? Do you get along better with your neighbors, your coworkers if you can’t understand each other or share no common values? Please be honest as you answer this question. …
“How about this question? After spending two centuries overcoming our country’s painful history of racial discrimination and hatred, why is it once again acceptable, even encouraged, to attack people on the basis of their skin color? …”
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See the full show; this section begins at roughly 13 minutes in. This builds on his 18 January 2018 show: “Diversity isn’t our strength. Unity is.” He made a follow-up broadcast about this on September 10. It too raises some powerful points.
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The reaction is the key message
They Left’s replies were their standard tactics: schoolyard insults and screams of “racism”. These are tactics that exploit their institutional power on this issue: dominance in the news media and support of the 1%. The latter is the key. Open borders serve the interests of the 1% in many ways, which is why they have supported it since the end of the frontier in the late 19th century (against strong public opposition). It depresses wages (more supply of labor) and fragments the citizenry (divide and rule worked for Rome, and works just as well today).
When they pretend to reply to his challenge, they combine evasion and misdirection. As in this CNN “fact-checking.” They pretend not to see how the rich avoid the chaos of our increasingly diverse cities, and pretend that employers’ interests are ours – and that rising immigration is unrelated to the coincident stagnation of real incomes for the middle and lower classes.
Try it. You’ll like it.
Conclusions
The cold reality is that there is little history of good results from kind of massive immigration of people — mostly poor, with little education — from very different cultures into slow-growing societies.
This worked for us in ever different circumstances in the late 19C. We had the economic booms from the “frontier” (undeveloped land stolen from Native Americans) and the last industrial revolution (if we get another, it is likely to generate wealth but destroy jobs). Equally important, America used vigorous methods to force assimilation — the opposite of today’s public policy.
Big experiments conducted with suppression of questions — or even thought — are not likely to end well for us. Historians will diagnose our problem as an epidemic of recklessness and folly. The people responsible: us. Our passivity and apathy are not excuses.
For More Information
For a mild (very PC) look at this moment in Sweden, see this at Bloomberg. Also see “They won’t admit it in Stockholm, but Donald Trump is right about immigration in Sweden” by Fraser Nelson in The Telegraph.
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If you found this post of use, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Also see these posts about immigrants (including similar reports from other nations in Europe), and especially these…
- Essential reading about hidden history: The history of immigration and America, lost amidst the more useful myths.
- Important: The lies about immigration keeping the borders open.
- Migration from the south into America: new people, new foods, new political systems.
- Immigration as a reverse election: our leaders get a new people.
- Look at immigration policy to see our government respond to its masters.
- The numbers about immigration that fuel Trump’s campaign.
- The smoke & fire of the new Sweden is our future.
Europe shows our future. See these books about it.
As so often the case, we can see these political dynamics more clear in other societies. We can learn much from the immigration crisis in Europe. It is our future.
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
