Amnesty, being promoted now by certain Republicans out of loyalty to coethnics and slavish servitude to the business community, would be the death of the country. It would formalize the already unbearable demographic erasure of America’s historical peoples. It would further bloat the welfare state, burden our schools, fully render our tattered linguistic and cultural unity, and add a leftist bloc to our political life that has turned California–the land that gave us Reagan–into one of the most reliably liberal and also dysfunctional states in the union.
The arguments against amnesty are familiar. What is surprising is how the wind is out of the sails of opponents. It is being treated as inevitable in an economy with 7-8% unemployment. Does anyone really think what America’s economy now needs is citizenship for low wage, low skill foreign workers? Does anyone think this policy is popular with the majority of Americans?
The new America that emerges post-amnesty in ten years or so, perhaps less, is simply not the same nation. Whites will be forever a minority. English will become coequal with Spanish and other languages, as it is in places like Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York. The Republican Party, if it exists, will have no electoral success other than regionally. The nation’s ranks of welfare cases and fatherless children will be bigger than ever. Its educational attainments lower. Most important, the thread of connection to our limited government origins in the Original Colonies and their people will be cut off forever. There will simply be no voice of that view in public life. And if such a heretical view tries to be heard, it will be squelched more aggressively than ever before. At least Obama aims to destroy and reinvent the nation. Conservatives who believe against all evidence that Mexican illegal immigrants are “Natural Republicans,” “entrepreneurial,” or “only opposed to Republicans because of ill feelings about amnesty” are more willfully blind than those Germans who defended their nation’s crimes from the gallows with the cry, “If only the Fuhrer knew!”
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i just feel like it’s lazy political analysis on the GOP’s part, as (ironically) Obama ex-adviser David Plouffe has recently pointed out with regard to Marco Rubio: they won the Cuban vote in Florida, and plenty of non-Cuban Hispanics could not care less about the guy, some undoubtedly thinking of him as a Hispanic “Uncle Tom” or w/e. Hispanics largely support Obama’s economic policies. so policy aside this whole establishment Republican consensus of “change on amnesty, but nothing else!” is not based on anything.
now it’s worth pointing out that there existed some black skepticism toward Obama early on, supposedly wasn’t “authentic” enough, so Rubio could possibly go on to make a better impression, but the whole thing just reeks of tokenism (not talking Rubio himself, but the shallow Republican “outreach” mentality) and not thinking hard enough about why exactly blacks and Hispanics vote as Democratic blocs. you’re not gonna automatically win ‘em over by passing amnesty and getting a Cuban-American to do his best Reagan impression.
personally i’m still betting on a boring old white guy being able to do OK in 2016 depending on whether the Dems screw up and overreach between now and then. GOP might eventually find it’s easier to make inroads in some of the whiter lean-blue Midwestern states than the pander strategy they’re currently going for.
The game is over. Amnesty may be the final nail in the coffin, but the patient died a while ago.
Personally, I’ve already checked out mentally. This is no longer my country. It’s not anybody’s country, really. Indeed, it’s not a “country” in the sense of a common people with a shared cultured occupying a land where they live amongst themselves. It’s several different tribes inhabiting a shared land. Historically, that’s not a great combination.
The other day I was at a function at my kids’ school, and we had to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I can’t remember the last time that I had to recite the pledge, but it hit me that I don’t pledge my allegiance to this flag and to the United States of America. I was stunned by the feeling. I truly don’t feel any allegiance to this government.
This government despises me. This government discriminates against me. This government forces me to live next to people not of my choosing (Section 8 houses down the road). This government enacts policy after policy that erodes personal liberties. This government is bent on destroying my people, culture and history and supplanting them with a more pliable electorate.
It’s too late for me to do much. I’m married with kids and a career that doesn’t allow me to move. Luckily, my life is a good one, isolated as it is.
And, indeed, the future may allow upper-middle class whites to insulate themselves, much as whites do in South America. Our shared tribes may come to a shaky separate peace. But will that “country” resemble in any way the nation that once was the United States?
No. That nation is dead.
For any young person out there, I’d strong urge you to look into emigration. Granted the choices are few, but Australia and New Zealand would be tops on my list. Can you imagine how wonder life would be to just go about your day and not worry about driving through the wrong neighborhood or saying the wrong thing or one of the infinite other joys that comes with diversity? Simple, but beautiful.
What is surprising is how the wind is out of the sails of opponents.
I don’t blame the base. They rallied in 2006 and 2007 to defeat amnesty, but the pro amnesty forces won’t stop. Just like every other issue with the Left, they will keep putting it up for debate until they win. Once they win, then further debate on that issue is done.
So it doesn’t matter how many times we defeat something, it is going to eventually come to pass if the elites want it. And that is what the base is probably beginning to realize. It is not what they want, but what the elites want.
So I think the base feels it is not worth it.
Plus many of our leaders who helped rally us during 2006 and 2007 are no longer providing the necessary leadership. Hannity seems to support amnesty. Rush doesn’t, but if you listen to his show, he barely talks about amnesty. Contrast that to 7 years ago and those guys were discussing amnesty non-stop and encouraging their listeners to call their congressmen.
The odd thing is that Rush has often mentioned that amnesty will be the death of the GOP. He has quoted the statistics that show Hispanics will not become republicans if we support amnesty. So he knows this is bad, but still he no longer pushes it. He spends more time talking about Benghazi.
Maybe if we could link immigration to Israel, we might be able to gin up support. If we could show that an America peopled by third worlders would not be able to support Israel, then maybe we could get the GOP to oppose it. After all, the GOP came together to filibuster Hagel over his stance on Israel. I bet if they thought immigration was bad for Israel or the Jews, we’d have it made.
One final point I’d like to make. The downside to a large swath of the American public, the conservative base, no longer believing in the political process and no longer believing they are a part of this nation is this. Either they will just drop out and passively watch, or a few might take more aggressive action like that guy in Norway. In other words ignoring so many people like the GOP is doing, and demeaning those people like the media is doing is going turn up the pressure cooker and could result in violence. That would be sad given our pretty solid history of political stability.
bringing up Israel is a sort of an unrelated cheapshot, especially given how badly Hagel crashed and burned at his hearing + his all-carrot-no-stick approach to Arab/Iranian diplomacy (not that the “stick” has to be “bomb the crap out of them.”) it’s not as though Obama’ll pick some hardline Zionist if Hagel’s borked. you might have more success in defusing that conflict (to the extent it can be right now) from someone who doesn’t have a history of douchey, faux-neutral comments regarding it & someone who Israeli leaders won’t immediately distrust. Nixon-to-China principle.
the current Republican position on immigration is pretty much explainable the same way a host of other “controversial” issues are: there’s certain parameters of “respectable” opinion that the most prominent GOP leaders don’t question the premise of, that places immigration restrictionism out of bounds (plus as far as McCain & others they seem to genuinely believe in amnesty and that any opposition is racialized & illegitimate.) if any GOP politico wants to change this they have to start actively attacking media presumptions behind certain issues when they’re asked about them, instead of acting embarrassed & worrying about the current CW of “what the GOP has to do”
What is surprising is how the wind is out of the sails of opponents.
I don’t think so. What I think is happening is that the amnesty bills are still in their embryonic stages. None have actually been proposed officially yet. I think that other issues are not occupying most people. Once the amnesty bills start moving through Congress – if they do, I think that the opposition will likely start to increase and we will get the knock-down, drag-out fight we had in 2007.
In any case, I don’t think that despair is helpful. We need to rally to fight, not to throw our hands up. We defeated amnesty before, we will again. And this time, we need to fight not just defensively, but offensively, using this as an opportunity to start blasting birthright citizenship and chain migration and to push for E-Verify. We need to take the fight to them this time and to make them defensive. We can do it and we will do it. We will fight tooth and nail.
bringing up Israel is a sort of an unrelated cheapshot,
I don’t agree. There is nothing that unites the GOP more than an issue that affects Israel. Watching various GOP individuals express their undying love and support for that nation is almost nauseating. This SNL skit is not that much of an exaggeration.
One could legitimately make the case that third worlders would not be good for Israel’s long term interests in America. Third worlders either don’t give a damn about Israel, e.g Mexicans, or might harbor extreme negative feelings towards her, e.g. various Muslims. So increasing their share of the population might dilute the national will to back Israel to the hilt.
This is not some wild idea. This issue is definitely one of concern among Jewish leaders. That is how I actually became aware of it. So if the GOP were to look at immigration as potentially affecting America’s will to protect Israel, it might actually rally the GOP to do something.
most Jews are liberals and as such likely think that immigration restrictionism is wrong given their support of multiculturalism (probably partially having to do with their history.) so i dunno that the attitude you describe’s something that has much relevance at the moment.
i’m not gonna deny that Republicans generally don’t criticize Israel (this is different from the issue of whether they’d support a peace process if a realistic opportunity ever presented itself) but i don’t see much wrong with taking shots at a guy who’s unbelievably naive regarding diplomacy, and vastly overestimates the willingness of certain Muslim groups (Hamas) to come to any compromise