Posted on 03/23/2021 10:13:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white-bread, too self-satisfied, too rich … then let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do.
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide." So here is my plan:
1. We must first make America a bilingual/bicultural country. History shows ... that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. …
Scholar Seymour Martin Lipset put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy."
2. I would then invent "multiculturalism" and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal ... there are no cultural differences that are important ... and the black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.
3. We can make the United States a "Hispanic Quebec" without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "… the apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethno-centrically and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together."
4. I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor … I would make our fastest-growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. …
5. I would then get the big foundations and Big Business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of victimology. ... I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.
6. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would "celebrate diversity." … It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other … when they are not killing each other.
A diverse peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia. ... Dorf’s World History tells us the [ancient] Greeks believed they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature and worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games in honor of Zeus and venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors … local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions … .
7. Then I would place all these subjects off-limits and make them taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to "heretic" in the 16th century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like "racist," and "xenophobe" halt argument and conversation. I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.
I would develop a mantra: because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.
8. Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book, "Mexifornia." This book is dangerous. It exposes my plan to destroy America. … This guy is on to my plan.
Richard Lamm is the former three-term Democratic governor of Colorado. This article has also been distributed on the Internet.
After rading this, I can say with certainty that Lamm would never be allowed to run as a Democrat today.
He was one of the last Democrats to be good on immigration, or at a minimum, to not be atrocious. That species survived into the first decade of this century, but has since gone extinct.
Old people have an obligation to die and get out of the way. Who said that. gotta admit it got quite a chuckle.
Hasn’t Egypt survived the ravages of time? It must be at least a three thousand year old country.
Today’s Egypt is not your Hyksos-Babylonian-Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt. It’s Arab Muslim, primarily... .................
Egypt is roughly the same land mass. Not at all the same country or culture.
He sounds like one of those guys who should leave the ‘rat party.
The Rat Party left him..................
Only a few decades have brought Democrats from “ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country” to reverse order thinking of “ask not what you can do for your country but ask what your country can do for you”
I wonder if he still holds the same view now, 15 years later than when he wrote this piece.
It’s even worse, it’s “Ask what can your country give you for free?”................
Probably.............
One more for Senator Lamm: I would tell conservatives that every Republican up for election (particularly if in Georgia) is a flaming RINO and that they should SIT OUT the elections to ‘teach the GOP a lesson’!!!
But that would never happen, well, maybe with the exception of last January.
Sounds like the democrap party left him faster than it did Reagan.
Conquer or disperse the Jewish people, yet they rise again.
A Democrat with a BRAIN!!! omg....this is from 2006.....he’s probably WOKE now or he has BLM and ANTIFA on his front lawn!
Well, the Egyptian civilization got conquered by the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the French, the Turks, and the British. I may be forgetting some too. I wouldn’t exactly call that “surviving”.
I hope so. 8>)
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