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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
Recent News
National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein | September Jobs: Whites Lose Ground to Blacks, Hispanics—Americans Lose Ground To Everyone
Now that the Bureau of Labor has finally begun reporting immigrant vs.
Is America Disintegrating?
In Federalist 2, John Jay looks out at a nation of a common blood, faith, language, history, customs and culture.
"Providence," he writes, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in their manners and customs ..."
Are we still that "one united people" today? Or has America become what Klemens von Metternich called Italy: "a mere geographical expression"?
In "Suicide of a Superpower," out this week, I argue that the America we grew up in is disintegrating, breaking apart along the fault lines of politics, race, ethnicity, culture and faith; that the centrifugal forces in society have now become the dominant forces.
Our politics are as poisonous as they have been in our lifetimes.
Sarah Palin was maligned as morally complicit in the murder attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Terms like "terrorists" and "hostage-takers" are routinely used on Tea Party members who one congressman said want to see blacks "hanging on a tree."
Half a century after the civil rights revolution triumphed, the terms "racist" and "racism" are in daily use. We remain, said Eric Holder in calling us a "nation of cowards," as socially segregated as ever.
"Outside the workplace, the situation is even more bleak in that there is almost no significant interaction between us. On Saturdays and Sundays, America ... does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some 50 years ago."
He is not altogether wrong in that. In California's prisons and
Sailer On Buchanan’s SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER: Bareknuckle Brawler and Wisest, Most Objective Man In American Public Affairs
[See also: Buchanan's Suicide of a Superpower: Opening The Eyes Of Uninformed Patriots, by Alexander Hart]
Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? Patrick J. Buchanan’s eleventh book, documents with vivid details and acute quotes how, among other globalist mistakes, state-sponsored demographic-replacement via mass immigration is undermining the social cohesion and trust that is absolutely required if Americans are to govern themselves in a Republic.
Buchanan is not upbeat in his assessment of the perils self-inflicted by America's "welfare-warfare state"—"Globalization dissolves the bonds of economic dependency that held us together as a people, as the cacophony of multiculturalism drowns out the old culture". But Suicide of a Superpower's very existence, much less its position on the bestseller lists, raises the cheering question of however Pat's career has survived since William F. Buckley Jr. issued a fatwa against him in 1991.
The same can't be said for several other conservative intellectuals decreed verboten by Buckley, such as the late Joe Sobran. So how has Buchanan managed to stay afloat in an age of politics by character assassination?
One thing to keep in mind about Pat's career: he's a great guy. He's one of the kindest, most considerate people in public life. (Full disclosure: Pat quotes me several times, citing my VDARE.com articles on the “racial ratio”—Affirmative Action beneficiaries vs. benefactors i.e. losers—and the real meaning of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores among others).
Buchanan has made himself into exactly what you would want in a political intellectual: famously pugnacious in argument, but a gentleman who fights fair and feels the other side is entitled to its say. He wants to win arguments, but not suppress and personally destroy his opponents.
In his new book, Buchanan laments that in 21st Century America:
"The crudeness of our public debate is matched by its incivility. In politics it is insufficient to defeat an opponent. One must demonize, disgrace, and destroy him. The tradition of political foes being social friends when the sun goes down ... is passé. Today, we criminalize politics and go for the throat."[Links added]
Buchanan's genial honesty helps explain why relatively few liberal Bigfoot journalists have piled on to the two decade-long neocon jihad against him. They are ideologically closer to Buchanan’s neocon detractors, but they know from personal experience that Pat is the better man.
The subtitle of Buchanan's new book, Will America Survive to 2025?, pays tribute to Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik's 1970 essay Will the Soviet Union Survive to 1984? (Notice the 14-year span in both.)
Amalrik predicted that a dragged-out Soviet war with China would unleash centrifugal nationalist energies and ultimately dismantle the Soviet empire's "prison house of nations."
As it turned out, the Russians blundered into war in Afghanistan rather than with China, and it took until 1991, not 1984, for the Soviet Union to dissolve into 15 countries. Nevertheless, as in horseshoes and hand-grenades, close counts when forecasting—so Amalrik deserves his renown.
In contrast to Amalrik, Buchanan's book does not explicitly predict that the U.S. will crack up. He merely concludes:
“American is entering a time of troubles. The clash of culture and creed are intensifying and both parties are perceived to have failed the nation…And the crises that afflict us—culture wars, race division, record deficits, unpayable debt, waves of immigration, legal and illegal, of people never before assimilated, gridlock in the capital, and possible defeat in war—may prove too much for our democracy to cope with. They surely will, if we do not act now.”
Clearly, our country does suffer from overstretch. The unsustainability of the bipartisan conventional wisdom of Invite-The-World, Invade-The-World, In Hock-To-The-World is obvious.
But what comes next is not. Buchanan sums up the unpredictability of the situation nicely:
"On the news of Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga in 1777, which portended the loss of the North American colonies, John Sinclair wrote to Adam Smith in despair that Britain was headed for ruin.
"'There is a great deal of ruin in a nation,' replied Smith.
"We are severely testing Smith's proposition."
Buchanan is one of the few public figures to have taken our victory in the Cold War
Mexican Drug Cartels Taking Over Rick Perry’s Texas—But He Still Says “No Fence”
Early in the morning of September 27th, around 2 a.m., a gunfight erupted between moving vehicles on an expressway.
Jorge Zavala, the 32-year driver of a Ford Expedition, was driving down the expressway, accompanied by a 22-year old man. A Chevrolet Tahoe pulled up alongside them, from which a gunman unloaded a volley of gunfire.
Zavala lost control of his Ford Expedition, crashed and died. The cause of death, though, was not the crash but the multiple gunshot wounds.
Police believe that Zavala was associated with Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, which has been undergoing its own internal struggle for power, pitting the Rojos against the Metros.
Just another day in Mexico? Not this time. Zavala’s killing occurred on the Texas side of the border, on the McAllen Expressway. Fatal gunshots on McAllen expressway point to Gulf Cartel, The (McAllen) Monitor, Sept. 27th, 2011)
Not only are drug cartels shooting up Mexico, they’re now north of the border. They are expanding in several states—notably Texas.
And it’s been happening under the watch of Texas Governor Rick Perry, who wants to be our president.
That’s the same Rick Perry who opposes a fence on the border and brags about giving benefits to illegal aliens.
Two reports have just been released that point out the gravity of the Mexican cartel infiltration.
In August the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Drug Intelligence Center released its “National Drug Threat Assessment 2011”. [PDF]This report has plenty of bad news in it.
According to the document’s Executive Summary:
“The illicit trafficking and abuse of drugs present a challenging, dynamic threat to the United States. Overall demand is rising, largely supplied by illicit drugs smuggled to U.S. markets by major transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). .. Major Mexican-based TCOs continue to solidify their dominance over the wholesale illicit drug trade as they control the movement of most of the foreign-produced drug supply across the U.S. Southwest Border.”
(Emphasis in original).
The report points out that the use of marijuana, heroin and methamphetamines appears to be on the upswing among our young people. That of course means more consumers willing to buy the Mexican cartels’ products and thus finance them. And where there’s demand, supply follows.
But who is helping these Mexican cartels market their wares north of the border? The Drug Threat Assessment says that
“The threat posed by gang involvement in drug trafficking is
Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also—Oh, Wait, Iceland’s Not Diverse
Randall Forsyth, writing in Alan Abelson’s usual column “Up and Down Wall Street “on October 17th, quotes Barron’s Roundtable member, Fred Hickey in the current issue of The High Tech Strategist that QE 3 is a “matter of when not if”. [Preoccupied by Wall Street]
Did Hoover’s Peter Robinson Trick The Wall Street Journal Edit Page Into Running An Immigration Patriot Article?
Last Friday the Wall Street Journal published a peculiar Op-Ed: The GOP's Immigration Fixation, by Peter Robinson, October 14, 2011
Presumably Robinson was not responsible for the tendentious headline—immediately and crushingly refuted in the Comments thread by a reader signing himself “Donovan Hinds”:
“Maybe people are fixated on the problem because we have a 50%+ unemployment rate among our young people. Maybe we are fixated because our teenagers cannot find a job. Maybe we are fixated because we see illegal aliens using food stamps at the grocery. We are fixated because we know many illegals work ‘off the books’ and pay no taxes. We are fixated because a large percentage of our local taxes go for education and health care for illegals.
“Why shouldn't we be ‘fixated’?
“A better question would be: Why isn't the Wall Street Journal fixated?”
But, beyond that, Robinson’s article is curiously
A.D. 2041—End of White America?
John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize."
In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: "In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States." The graduates cheered.
The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to "free white persons" of "good moral character."
With publication today of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" this writer takes up what this portends. And while many on the left are enthusiastic about relegating the America of Eisenhower and JFK to a reactionary past, I concur with the late Clare Boothe Luce.
In this world, she said, there are optimists and pessimists.
"The pessimists are better informed."
What are the seemingly inevitable consequences of an America where whites are a shrinking minority?
First, the end of a national Republican Party that
Buchanan’s SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER: Opening The Eyes Of Uninformed Patriots
Pat Buchanan’s new book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? makes a comprehensive case about why America is in deep trouble, but the bulk of the book deals with what VDARE.com and Buchanan both refer to as the “National Question.” Thus Buchanan devotes one chapter to economics, two chapters to religion, and one to foreign policy. But no less than six chapters, comprising 243 pages, are devoted to the issue of race, immigration, and multiculturalism.
Because this is VDARE.com, I am going to focus this review on Buchanan’s insights on the National Question—which is not to dismiss his insights in these other issues.
Buchanan opens up his chapter “The End of White America” discussing the writings of Gilded Age prophets of white gloom Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard in Gilded Age classics like The Passing of the Great Race and The Rising Tide of Color. As a pro-life Catholic, he has no use for their views on birth control and eugenics, but he acknowledges that Stoddard in particular was “somewhat of a prophet.”
What Stoddard and Grant feared, the American Left now embraces. By 2042, Whites are projected to be a minority in this country. Buchanan quotes CNN’s Soledad O’Brien after the 2008 election: “The face of America is changing. And that face doesn't look like Joe the Plumber.” Reacting in “excitement” to the fact that the non-white population growth from 2000-2010 was even larger than expected, the head of the Census Bureau Robert Groves said “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama.” Larry King gleefully reported
Immigrants Causing One Fifth Of Federal Deficit
[Peter Brimelow writes: Ed Rubenstein delivered this talk, under the title “Government Deficits and Immigration”, to the Writers’ Workshop on October 2, 2011. The Writers’ Workshop, one of many creations of the amazing Dr. John Tanton, is held annually in the Washington D.C. area. Videos of the 2010 Workshop presentations are here; videos of the 2009 presentations (which include me on hate crime legislation) are here. We’ll link to Ed’s talk when it becomes available].
I have good news and bad news on the federal deficit front.
The good news: it has been worse. At the end of WWII the federal deficit was more than twice as high relative to Gross Domestic Product [GDP].
The bad news: this is the first economic recovery since World War II in which the deficit has not declined as a share of GDP. It was 10% of GDP in 2009 and is projected to be 11% in FY2011, which ended on Friday.
We’ve had weak recoveries before. George W. Bush’s first three years were essentially jobless. But he managed to reduce the federal budget imbalance by two-thirds (as a share of GDP) during his economic expansion.
This time, it is different.
This is also the first recovery in our post war history in which immigration has exceeded job creation.
The nexus between immigration, unemployment, and the federal deficit
Yes Virginia [Dare], There Is A “Cultural Marxism”
The Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik’s murderous rampage and the apologia that he drafted shortly before have intensified the debate about the term “cultural Marxism.”
Those who oppose the use of term insist that Breivik has revealed the “hate” that characterizes all users of this loaded designation. They claim that anyone opposing “cultural Marxism” is expressing their hatred for Third World immigrants, homosexuals and a long list of other various victims of Western discrimination. For example:
- “The picture that's emerging is of an ordinary right-wing man stoked into anger by theories about ‘Cultural Marxism’ that originated on the anti-Semitic far right but have in recent years been spreading into more mainstream venues, promoted by the likes of Andrew Breitbart, among others.”
Norway terrorist Breivik was an ardent subscriber to theories of 'Cultural Marxism', By David Neiwert July 23, 2011 05:00 PM
- “Based on online posts apparently by Anders Behring Breivik circulated in Norway, the alleged terrorist opposed multiculturalism and Muslim immigrants in Norway. Breivik championed opposition to ‘Cultural Marxism,’ a right-wing anti-Semitic concept developed primarily by William Lind of the US-based Free Congress Foundation, but also the Lyndon LaRouche network.”
Anders Behring Breivik: Soldier in the Christian Right Culture Wars, Chip Berlet July 23, 2011
In other words, we are to believe that people who speak about “cultural Marxism” are bigots trying to turn the clock back to the 1930s and 1940s, when generic fascists and European nationalists were free to kill Jews and other marginalized groups.
What is under attack, we are told, is the attempt by truly democratic governments and enlightened political elites to accommodate diverse cultures and lifestyles. This humane effort is being smeared as “cultural Marxism”—particularly when those engaged in this activity present a properly critical view of the racist, homophobic bourgeois societies that existed before the present reforms.
Those on the other side of this question are equally engaged. But, unlike their opponents, they don’t enjoy the effusive support of public administrators, educators, and the media.
The critics of “cultural Marxism” are targeting what they see as the intellectual roots of the cultural
Immigration Cartoon Of The Day
This daily cartoon contributed to VDare by Baloo. His site is HERE
Hank Williams Jr., THE NATION’s David Zirin, And The War Against The White South
For over two decades, Hank Williams Jr.’s variation of his hit All My Rowdy Friends had opened up Monday Night Football. But that all changed on October 3, when Williams appeared on Fox and Friends to promote a new CD featuring songs written by his father. He was asked what he thought about current affairs. Williams said that Boehner playing Golf with Obama was like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu, and described Joe Biden and Barack Obama as “the enemy.”
The predictable outrage ensued. ESPN took no time to cancel Williams’ song that night. And depending on whose story you believe they either fired him or he quit in protest within a few days.
Of course, the outrage from the Left over both of Williams’ statements is hypocritical. He was not arguing that Obama was Hitler, merely that he saw Boehner and Obama as polarized enemies whose playing golf together was anomalous. This analogy may have been clumsy. But the Left has no problem smearing opposition to mass immigration, affirmative action and even high taxes as stemming from the Third Reich.
As for calling Obama “the enemy”, the Great Transcender has already called majority of Americans who oppose amnesty “enemies” whom Hispanics needed to “punish.”
With Hank Jr.’s politics in the spotlight, the usual suspects are trying to dig up as much dirt as possible, not merely to prove that he is a racist, but more generally that White Southerners and country music fans should somehow be seen as unAmerican and accordingly marginalized by society. Thus David Zirin, the sports columnist of The Nation (yes, they have sports columnist), points to Williams’ 1988 hit If the South Woulda Won, and quotes the lyrics,
“We'd put Florida on the right track,
'cause we'd take Miami back"
Zirin asks: “From who? Jews? Cubans? Haitians? Or will Hank go for the trifecta?”
But Zirin conveniently cuts that line short: Williams goes on to answers his question with “and put all them pushers in the slammer.”
(That being said, those pushers are predominantly Haitians, Cubans, and other Latino immigrants, but I’m sure Zirin thinks that should not be mentioned.)
And, of course, why would Southerners want one of their cities to proudly bill itself as the Capital of Latin America?
Zirin goes on to chide ESPN for hiring Hank Jr. in the first place, knowing that he was a proud Southerner. He argues that the NFL cannot try to
“…unite racists and anti-racists; neo-confederates and people who are ready to put the Stars and Bars in our national rear view mirror…If the NFL really wants to cater to the demographic that loves Hank Williams, Jr. and Rush Limbaugh, they’d be better ordering the Broncos to just start Tim Tebow.”
[If the South Would Have Won: The NFL and Hank Williams, Jr., October 5, 2011]
(Zirin here confuses the Stars and Bars with the Confederate Battle Flag, which is featured in the artwork decorating his piece. But why would we expect him to know any American history?)
Is the New World Order Unraveling?
With Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril.
Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for economic nationalism is rising in Europe. Which raises a larger question.
Is the New World Order, the great 20th century project of Western transnational elites, unraveling?
The NWO dates back as far as Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, which a Republican Senate refused to enter. FDR, seeking to succeed where his mentor had failed, oversaw the creation of a United Nations, an International Monetary Fund and a
Romney Bares Throat On Immigration, Bachmann Kisses it. But Gays Will Veto Her For Veep
The transcript of last night's debate makes the extraordinary exchange between Romney and Bachmann that I complained about look even extraordinarier:
"ROMNEY: ...Let me turn to Congresswoman Bachmann and just—just as you, Congresswoman. As—as we've spoken this evening, we're all concerned about getting Americans back to work. And you've laid out some pretty bold ideas with regards to taxation and cutting back the scale of the federal government. And there's no question that's a very important element of getting people back to work.
And I'd like to ask you to expand on your other ideas. What do you do to help the American people get back to work, be able to make ends meet? You've got families that are sitting around the kitchen table wondering how they're going to make—make it to the end of the month. You've got—you've got young people coming out of college, maybe not here at Dartmouth, but a lot of colleges across the country wondering where they can get a job.
What—what would you do—beyond the tax policies you describe—to get people back to work?"
Brian Motopoli at CBS News agrees that this was a "softball" question but argues it was
"...a show of strength in light of Bachmann's long odds at winning the nomination. Romney would be all too happy to see Bachmann stick around at least until to the Iowa caucuses, where she can split the conservative vote with Cain and Perry and give Romney the opening he needs to win the state."
[Republican Debate, Winners And Losers, October 11, 2010]
But I think there's more to it than that. Romney literally bared his throat to Bachmann by mentioning unemployed college graduates. She could have said:
"I'm surprised to learn that you're aware of unemployed college graduates, because this is exactly the group that will be most hurt by your repeated proposals to "staple a green card" to the diplomas of foreign tech graduuates from U.S. colleges. And in the economic plan I proposed yesterday, I made the point that we should tighten up the labor market by enforcing the law against the estimated eight million illegal aliens who have stolen jobs that Americans desperately need (to say nothing of their children who are stealing our tax dollars for welfare and education).
I know your big donors, your clients at Bain, won't like that. But we Republicans have to be careful about being seduced by Big Business. It's hard enough to make the case for capitalism. We don't want to be drawn into defending crony capitalism. We want to defend the American people."
She could have—but she didn't.
Yet a Washington Post poll yesterday showed that Romney's plan is intensely unpopular, especially (63%-27%) among Republican-leaning voters. Bachmann could have burst Romney's bubble just as Rick Perry burst his own bubble by saying opponents of his Texas DREAM Act had "no heart".
And Bachmann would not even have had to mention a legal immigration moratorium or birthright citizenship reform. She would have been well within her apparent comfort zone.
Yet she did not strike—nor did she even mention enforcing the law against illegal aliens, although it figured in her own "jobs plan" released the same day.
(Instead what she said was this:
"BACHMANN: Well, I do understand that. I'm—I'm a mother of 28 kids, 22 foster kids, 5 biological kids. I get how difficult it is for young people right now to get jobs right out of college. It's very, very tough.
And the solutions that I'm offering in my plan, which if I can give a commercial, are at michelebachmann.com. The solutions that I'm offering aren't just a silver bullet. It's not just the tax code. It's also dealing with the regulatory burden, because businesses—my husband and I started our own successful business. I'm 55. I spent my whole life in the private sector. I get job creation, too. And the business world is looking at 1.8 trillion every year in compliance costs with government regulations.
That has to go. So I want to get rid of that, it's the mother of all repeal bills. But the number one reason that employer say that they are not hiring today is "Obama-care." And I was the leading critic for President Obama in Washington, D.C., against "Obama-care." That is why I was the first member of Congress to introduce that bill to repeal "Obama-care." I understand that is what is inhibiting job creation and job growth.
We have to repeal that. I also introduced and I fought on Barney Frank's committee against Dodd-Frank, which is the "housing and jobs destruction act." That's why I was the chief author of that bill as well. There is much more to my solutions, go to michelebachmann.com and you can find out."
Yawn.)
I suppose stupidity, or lack of imagination, is a possible explanation for this entire exchange. Thus Bachmann directed her own question to Perry, who is competing for the same social conservative/ Religious Right vote and whom she certainly wanted to hurt—but her question was just boilerplate about government spending instead of an attack on his awful immigration record (which exends far beyond in-state tuition). This may reflect her dependence on conventional GOP consultants, of whom Dick Morris memorably said in his 1997 Behind The Oval Office:
"I had studied the Republican Party from within as one of their consultants. If you are in their field of fire, they are deadly. Raise taxes, go soft on crime, oppose work for welfare, weaken the military? They’re all over you yelling “liberal”. If you wander into their line of fire, they’re going to kill you every time. But they have no other game plan, no other way to win. If you come around behind them or alongside and don’t raise taxes, if you’re tough on crime and want to reform welfare, use the military effectively, and cut spending, they can’t hit you. A tank can rotate its turret—a Republican can’t."
But Romney's consultants must have read that morning's Washington Post with its headline pointing to devastating poll on one of their candidate's pet Big Business panders. I cannot believe they would have exposed him to this risk—unless there was already an agreement between the Romney and Bachmann camps.
The result for Bachmann is well summarized by CBS' Motopoli in his final dismissive paragraph:
"Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman and Michele Bachmann: Perhaps it's unfair to put these three candidates in the "losers" column, since their performances met the (low) expectations that existed coming into Tuesday night. But all three need to do something to get out of the single digits in national polls - to offer up a performance or generate a moment that will resonate enough to get GOP primary voters to give them a second look. None did."
Is this another example of the mysterious force that prevents GOP candidates (and for that matter MainStream Media Bigfeet) from mentioning immigration?
Or does Bachmann really think that, by sparing Romney, she may get his Veep nod? (Dick Morris today suggests Treasury Secretary.)
Bachmann would certainly balance the ticket, with her putative appeal to Tea Partiers, social conservatives and the religious right.
But there's a subtext to both the Bachmann and Ron Paul campaigns. Both have excited the enmity of small but deadly interest groups—respectively, gays and Zionists.
Paul at least hasn't outright attacked our Israeli connection, and his implicit criticism wins him surprising under-the-radar friends as well as enemies. However, I don't know that there's any untapped force to balance the notorious ruthlessness of the gay lobby—and I strongly doubt that Romney, who will have his own problems as a Mormon, is the man to stand up to it.
Bachmann could have caught the Cain thermal. Now maybe the best she can hope for is to replace Janet Napolitano as DHS Secretary.`
