Demographics is destiny.
It’s the culture, stupid.
The trends are strongly in favor of decline.
A secular progressive elite holds a stranglehold on media, academia, the schools, the permanent government bureaucracy and the popular culture.
The government subsidizes its own “mascot class” — a growing aggressive, entitled underclass expanding the very lowest IQ segment of the population, with concomitant criminality, illegitimacy, dependency and racial division.
Tens of millions of low-skilled, low-educated, third world immigrants, are allowed to invade the country and strain our national fabric, not to mention our public services and finances, to the breaking point. The toxic American popular culture emanating from Hollywood like a sewer destroys the traditional culture of these people, resulting in a rerun of the creation of the underclass, with rampant illegitimacy, criminality and dependency.
Our government views ordinary Americans with condescending disdain, and rules by the agenda of a transnational progressive elite, blithely and crudely imposing crippling burdens on ordinary people in the name of dubious environmental and other causes and actively tilting the economic field away from Americans and in favor of countries like China and oil-producing nations. The crushing debt burden created by the progressive elite can only result, at best, in sustained economic decline and at worst, in utter ruin.
American decline will not be like France’s or Austria’s?
No, it won’t, it will get very ugly here. There will be a remnant — that minority of the American people who have inherited, and feel personally connected to, the traditions of our nation that brought about the greatest advance in liberty and prosperity in the history of nations — who will not go quietly.
Ciao SirJohnBarleycoen,
You say “It’s the culture, stupid”... and I agree with you wholeheartedly... but the problem is, where in Enlightenment created “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” or in the French “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” is there any mention of “culture?”
Listen to the words of the French Minister for Immigration, Integration and National Identity, Eric Besson, spoken in front of an immigrant audience, right in the middle of a Muslim suburb next to Paris:
“France is neither a people, nor a language, nor a territory, nor a religion, it’s a conglomerate of peoples who want to live together. There are no indigenous French, there is only a France made out of miscegenation.”
Such words could have been spoken by an American.
To suggest otherwise, to say that a pervasive change of the racial / cultrual mix of the population will necessarily (and permanently) change a country, is racist and “Fascist” and will get you banned from civil society. Geert Wilders of Holland is on trial for suggesting that Muslims aren’t equal to the Dutch. He’s stating the obvious, but the obvious has become illegal. Muslims have a complete set of different values, they are fatalists, mysogenists (and everything else we know about them). Saying that a massive influx of people might be dangerous to a nation’s core values (all of them culturally / religiously generated) is against the Enlightenment outlook. We are all equal, equal, equal... and that’s that, because we are all (and only) atomized individuals... and to suggest otherwise is oppressive, retrograde and unenlightened. Sounds like a Catch 22 to me.
No, it won’t, it will get very ugly here. There will be a remnant — that minority of the American people who have inherited, and feel personally connected to, the traditions of our nation that brought about the greatest advance in liberty and prosperity in the history of nations — who will not go quietly.
Left to decay, we will balkanize and separate, and it will not be painless.
And you are right about the culture.
My ancestor, Jacob, came here in 1729.
History has shown our family to be enterprising.
During the Great Depression, FDR’s ‘Brain Trust’ found that in order to implement ‘central planning’, a police state would be necessary. Do not think there is not an ‘economic war’ going on now.
Yeah. Too bad we don't have something else, some kind of Internetwork thingy, to break that up. I guess we're doomed.