Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by MegaSilver
In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.
We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.
We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.
In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.
By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.
Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.
Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.
Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.
Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?
Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.
Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.
America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.
If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.
I do not share his isolationist, trade, Israel or anti-imperialism views
Fair enough.
Again JMO, but Pat's penchant for hyperbole and bombast discredits him even more.
All I see is this country drifting farther to the left.
Comparing immigrants of today to immigrants of old is absurd. 150 to 300 years ago, this country was basically a wilderness. People had to carve a society out of this with basically their bare hands. Clearing the land for farming, building a railroad system, starting of factories. (no welfare and few hospitals). Even 100 to 150 years ago had to be tough. Still no welfare.
These immigrants of today are walking right into a country who has the greatest interstructure on the face of this earth. To get welfare, all they have to do is ask.
No comparison.
Please place your cursor over the above link and do a left mouse click. The date is there on the article.
Now what do you have to refute?
I didn't hit the link. You could have had the courtesy to have provided the actual date within your FR reply, but decided not to add it to your FR reply.
I'm not a fan of Buchanan, but that doesn't preclude me reading what he has to say and considering it. Quite often, I disagree with him. Not always, though.
Yeah. That shut him up. I was a middling student of WWII history, but as a youngster I'd seen The Battle of the Bulge (1965, starring Hank Fonda and a young, pre-5-0 James MacArthur) on TV, and never forgot the scene depicting the slaughter of our POWs in the Ardennes. I realize that the movie was hardly a documentary, but my understanding is that the handling of the execution was true to the facts.
Ref. post 399 again. I put a link up to the article and I put up a snippet.. The snippet was a courtesy since the article was fairly long. I've been on the FR one and a half years and many links and snippets are posted without dates and besides, if I wanted to hide the date, why would I have brought it up?
Now, explain to me why the President can't get his energy bill through a Republican Congress so we can start drilling in ANWER?
Yikess
He can get it through a Republican house, but not through an almost 50-50 Senate. 95% of the demos are against it and about 90% of the Pubbies are for it in the Senate.
BTW, the Stooges can do a better job of trying to pull the wool over someones eyes than you tried to do by masking the publication date of your original reply.
But your hubris won't let you admit that you were caught. Have fun watching your contemporaries on AMC.
Want you're input. What did you find racist..... It's Saturday night Dog!
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