Happy Holidays Merry Christmas (If You Help Us Now) From VDARE.com!!

by Peter Brimelow

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This is it—our Christmas Appeal, the time of year when VDARE.COM raises most of its funds, through the generosity of you, our loyal readers.

I hate closing the site even for a day. But our advisers insist that it’s necessary.


It's always stressful. We have no financial reserves and no margin for disappointment.


Still, I couldn't ask for a better example of why VDARE.COM is essential than the course of this year’s GOP Presidential race.


Immigration wasn’t supposed to be an issue in this election.  All the pundits said so—it was going to be about the economy and jobs.


Of course, this just shows how utterly clueless Establishment commentary is. As VDARE.com has repeatedly pointed out, immigration IS a jobs issue.


Over 100,000 legal immigrants enter the workforce every month—completely swamping current anemic job growth, although you never see this point made in Main Stream Media reporting of the monthly unemployment data.


Our Ed Rubenstein has calculated that, as of early December, immigrant displacement of American workers had increased by over 6 percent during the Obama Administration—something else you won’t read in the MSM. (Why not?)


Which is why we at VDARE.com say immigration is the Queen of public policy issues: all other issues turn out to have an immigration dimension.


But, nevertheless, immigration still became an issue in this election—because ordinary Americans kept bringing it up at candidate meetings and on the campaign trail.


The immigration issue dramatically derailed Governor Rick Perry, who thought it could be brushed aside with a condescending quip as if he were in a Texas country club.


Even candidates who have previously endorsed amnesty for illegal aliens, like Mitt Romney and New Gingrich, are doing their best to disguise the fact.


This grass roots insurrection yet again proves VDARE.com’s long-standing contention: patriotic immigration reform can only come from the heartland. It will not come from inside the Beltway—it will have to be imposed on the Beltway.


That is why I believe that what VDARE.COM does, in providing telling facts and incisive arguments to the grass roots, free of charge, is more important than any amount of Beltway wonkery and parliamentary maneuver.


But we can only continue providing those facts and arguments with your help.


Indeed, quite frankly, inside the Beltway, the situation is disappointing.

Immigration patriots are divided over Congressman Lamar Smith’s HR.2885, which federalizes the E-verify test for illegal aliens in the workplace at the cost of reducing the states’ ability to act against illegals.


VDARE.com, which aims to be an honest broker, has published both sides of this debate between allies. But HR.2885 doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anyway.


And VDARE.com’s question, from our vantage point outside the Beltway in Americaland: why are we messing around with this trivial question anyway?


Why not:


In effect, Obama has decreed that no illegals are going to be deported unless (maybe) they get into “serious” (repeated drunk driving is not enough) trouble with the law.


Message to potential illegals: come on in.


Message to Americans: move over, we’re electing a new people—and making you pay for it.


No GOP Presidential candidate has yet mentioned Obama’s Administrative Amnesty—reflecting the advice they’re getting from their high-priced Beltway consultants.


For that matter, not one Congressman has even introduced an immigration moratorium bill—even though the Republicans control the House of Representatives.


What’s happening?


I guess we’re not breaking any confidences here—our Beltway friends tell us that the GOP House Leadership has decreed that no immigration legislation can go forward without the approval of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.


That is, without the approval of the Cheap Labor component of the Treason Lobby.


VDARE.com’s view: the Beltway is a hopeless Black Hole.


The only way to move issues forward is by informing opinion, and in the heartland.

We post an enormous amount of material every day at VDARE.COM. There are just so many targets!


And what we post is prepared to the highest professional standards—I've not been working in the Mainstream Media for nearly 40 years for nothing. And we use hyperlinks, not the least of the advantages of this wonderful new medium, better than anyone else on the internet...at least, I think so. They help us document our case. Readers who are new to the cause of patriotic immigration reform find our hyperlinks particularly compelling. But the whole process is very labor-intensive.


Money is our secret weapon at VDARE.COM. Our fixed costs are very low, we operate entirely virtually. We don't have to pay printing and postage (thank goodness!).


What this means: essentially everything you give goes to pay writers and editors.


Our writers and editors are not paid as much as I would like. But they do get something. This ability to pay our writers is what has distinguished VDARE.COM from a host of excellent but evanescent blogs which have come and gone.


Writers will often write for love—because they passionately believe in our cause. But in the long run, they need to be able to justify the time spent, to their families and to themselves.


At VDARE.COM, we are in this for the long haul. We are building an institution. We
need money to do that. We can only do it with your help.


To me as a professional journalist, the quantity and quality of non-professional writing on the immigration issue that comes in over the e-transom has been a revelation. Many of these writers have full-time careers in other fields, some are students; I encourage these to write anonymously because of the very real reign of terror imposed by the curse of Political Correctness. Others are struggling, idealistic free-lancers; I shudder for them. All are patriots deprived of outlets because of the orthodoxy of the Mainstream Media.


The last twelve years have convinced me that an issue like patriotic immigration reform can only be addressed from completely outside the political establishment. I already knew that the Main Stream Media, liberal and "conservative", would not carry facts and analysis about America's immigration disaster. But I have been sorry to see that even fairly brave conventional funders can be intimidated by the terrible curse of Political Correctness.


Fortunately, the internet makes possible a wholly new type of journalism: one financed directly by its readers because they believe in the cause.


This strikes me as an entirely legitimate form of economic activity, like a church. And, like a church, it's tax-deductible!


But in answer to capitalist purists among our readers: We do have two conventional sources of income—advertizing, through the mysterious automatic mechanism of Google Ads (yes, I know some of the ads are weird—but they are helping us keep going); and sales of books, and a surprising range of other items, through Amazon.com.


And that reminds me:

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So we are trying everything. But in the end, we depend on you, to give generously.


One final thought for tax time:


Your donations to VDARE.COM are tax-deductible. And Obama wants to raise taxes. So, more and more, if you give money to us, Washington doesn't get it.


It's one bright spot in a bad fiscal situation!


Please help us now.


I, and all of us at VDARE.COM, believe future generations of Americans, will be profoundly grateful.

 

Merry Christmas!

Signed, Peter Brimelow

 

 

 P.S.  Don’t forget to submit entries for our 2011 War Against Christmas Competition!—email to witan@

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