Selwyn Duke
The bright side to amnesty
By Selwyn Duke
To many, the above title may seem much like speaking of the bright side to malignant cancer. And did it really come out of this writer's pen? Long a staunch immigration critic, I've written many articles on the subject; Pat Buchanan used one of my lines in his book Death of the West; and Congressman John Conyers quoted me in the House on May 16, 2007, saying, "[C]onservative commentator Selwyn Duke just yesterday inveighed against any immigration (legal or not). He warned, '[R]eplace our population with a Mexican or Moslem one and you no longer have a Western civilization, you no longer have America. You have Mexico North or Iran West.'" (Conyers wasn't exactly in agreement.) And, no, it's not that a pod from outer space has taken over my body or, worse yet, that I've become a liberal. I inveigh against all immigration still. I still oppose amnesty in all forms and under all guises. Nonetheless, the latter would have, perhaps, a small bright side.
This cannot be understood without grasping that illegal migration is not the problem.
It is an exacerbation of the problem.
What does this mean? Aren't the only problems posed by migration ones unique to the illegal variety, such as an uncontrolled entry into our country that can allow diseases, terrorists and WMDs to cross our borders?
The real problem – the only one that really matters over the long term – is that we are importing socialist-oriented voters with mindsets contrary to Western ideals. This is because of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA65), which created a situation wherein 85 percent of our new immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia. Moreover, the legislation has led to an increase in overall immigration from a historic average of 250,000 a year to approximately 1,000,000.
If you're Obama and his fellow travelers and believe in "fundamentally" changing America, you love this because, upon being naturalized, approximately 80 percent of these newcomers will vote for you. You know Republicans get close to 90 percent of their votes from whites, so the formula for ideological conquest is simple: reduce the percentage of whites in America as much and as fast as possible. And INA65 certainly fits that bill. Non-Hispanic whites were close to 90 percent of the population in 1965.
Now they're just under 63 percent.
And California is the model for the leftist hegemony in question. Once a solidly Republican state that launched Ronald Reagan to national prominence, it would not be carried by him in a presidential election today. The last time the state went Republican was 1988, when George H.W. Bush edged Michael Dukakis by four points. Since then no Democrat has carried the state by less than a double-digit margin; the best showing the GOP had was when it held Lurch-like John Kerry to 10 points. Obama won the state by 24 points in 2008 and 23 points in '12. And in this year's Republican wave election, it was considered an accomplishment that the GOP denied the Democrats supermajorities in CA's legislative chambers.
Oh, did I mention that whites in CA are no longer even a plurality?
And here's the reality:
Once the rest of the country looks like CA demographically, it will look like it politically.
This isn't to say Republicans would disappear. They'd reinvent themselves as parties and politicians do, winning some elections by moving, to use our provisional terminology, "left." It also must be mentioned that immigration isn't the only factor in our decline; the media, academia and entertainment arena do a superb job fashioning leftist foot soldiers. And we should also note that with a world generally to the "left" of the US, it's hard to imagine where we could find traditionalist immigrants; importing socialist Swedes, Germans and French is problematic as well. (A notable difference, however, is that while the latter assimilate into our more conservative white population, Hispanics often operate within America's Hispanic milieu, which reinforces their socialist beliefs.)
Yet this is simply another reason why I adamantly oppose all (im)migration. When Ben Franklin famously answered the question of whether the 1787 Constitutional Convention had given us a republic or a monarchy by saying "A republic, if you can keep it," there would have been no "ifs" about it if our nation had comprised mainly monarchical Englishmen. So the message here is simply a statement of the obvious: foreigners cannot be relied upon to preserve authentic Americanism because they're not American. Full stop.
This is especially true when they harbor deep-seated un-American ideologies, hail from non-Western cultures and enter a multiculturalism-infected land that tells them "When in Rome...feel free to do as Ostrogoths would do."
Despite this, most conservatives don't get it. Imbued with what I've termed "immigrationism" and Proposition Nation pap, they're very diligent about conserving the Immigration and Nationality Act status quo. An example that will shock many is Senator Ted Cruz, who last year proposed not only increasing the number of "high-skilled temporary workers fivefold" – as if there aren't high-skilled Americans looking for jobs – but, unbelievably, also the doubling of legal immigration (the relevant portion of the video starts at 3:27).
Given that Cruz seems like a good man, I'll just assume he's out to lunch (in Tijuana) on this issue. But let's be clear: if you had to pick your poison and choose just one culture-rending policy, a giant amnesty one year would be preferable to a giant legal-immigration increase applicable every year.
So what's the bright side to amnesty? The well-known metaphor about a frog in a frying pan of water tells us that since frogs can't sense incremental temperature changes, a very low flame under that pan may mean the creature will remain fixed in his position until he boils to death. In contrast, turn the burner up high enough and he'll jump out and save himself.
Along with our many other problems, "Americans" (insofar as they still exist) are enduring the slow boil of cultural and demographic genocide. And executive amnesty, as with other kinds of leftist overreach, just may serve to turn that flame up high and rouse people from their torpor.
Yet this is the dimmest of bright sides, a 1-in-50 shot whose mention is mainly valuable in service to a larger point: we do need fundamental change. We need a revolution of mind, heart and spirit in which we return to our Christian foundation and dispense with moral relativism and all its corollaries – of which cultural relativism is one. Related to this, John Jay wrote in Federalist No. 2:
I do not believe the US will survive long in its present form. And when chroniclers finally write The Rise and Fall of the American Republic, they may record that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was the most destructive legislation in her history, a turning point from which there was no turning back.
© Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2014
To many, the above title may seem much like speaking of the bright side to malignant cancer. And did it really come out of this writer's pen? Long a staunch immigration critic, I've written many articles on the subject; Pat Buchanan used one of my lines in his book Death of the West; and Congressman John Conyers quoted me in the House on May 16, 2007, saying, "[C]onservative commentator Selwyn Duke just yesterday inveighed against any immigration (legal or not). He warned, '[R]eplace our population with a Mexican or Moslem one and you no longer have a Western civilization, you no longer have America. You have Mexico North or Iran West.'" (Conyers wasn't exactly in agreement.) And, no, it's not that a pod from outer space has taken over my body or, worse yet, that I've become a liberal. I inveigh against all immigration still. I still oppose amnesty in all forms and under all guises. Nonetheless, the latter would have, perhaps, a small bright side.
This cannot be understood without grasping that illegal migration is not the problem.
It is an exacerbation of the problem.
What does this mean? Aren't the only problems posed by migration ones unique to the illegal variety, such as an uncontrolled entry into our country that can allow diseases, terrorists and WMDs to cross our borders?
The real problem – the only one that really matters over the long term – is that we are importing socialist-oriented voters with mindsets contrary to Western ideals. This is because of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA65), which created a situation wherein 85 percent of our new immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia. Moreover, the legislation has led to an increase in overall immigration from a historic average of 250,000 a year to approximately 1,000,000.
If you're Obama and his fellow travelers and believe in "fundamentally" changing America, you love this because, upon being naturalized, approximately 80 percent of these newcomers will vote for you. You know Republicans get close to 90 percent of their votes from whites, so the formula for ideological conquest is simple: reduce the percentage of whites in America as much and as fast as possible. And INA65 certainly fits that bill. Non-Hispanic whites were close to 90 percent of the population in 1965.
Now they're just under 63 percent.
And California is the model for the leftist hegemony in question. Once a solidly Republican state that launched Ronald Reagan to national prominence, it would not be carried by him in a presidential election today. The last time the state went Republican was 1988, when George H.W. Bush edged Michael Dukakis by four points. Since then no Democrat has carried the state by less than a double-digit margin; the best showing the GOP had was when it held Lurch-like John Kerry to 10 points. Obama won the state by 24 points in 2008 and 23 points in '12. And in this year's Republican wave election, it was considered an accomplishment that the GOP denied the Democrats supermajorities in CA's legislative chambers.
Oh, did I mention that whites in CA are no longer even a plurality?
And here's the reality:
Once the rest of the country looks like CA demographically, it will look like it politically.
This isn't to say Republicans would disappear. They'd reinvent themselves as parties and politicians do, winning some elections by moving, to use our provisional terminology, "left." It also must be mentioned that immigration isn't the only factor in our decline; the media, academia and entertainment arena do a superb job fashioning leftist foot soldiers. And we should also note that with a world generally to the "left" of the US, it's hard to imagine where we could find traditionalist immigrants; importing socialist Swedes, Germans and French is problematic as well. (A notable difference, however, is that while the latter assimilate into our more conservative white population, Hispanics often operate within America's Hispanic milieu, which reinforces their socialist beliefs.)
Yet this is simply another reason why I adamantly oppose all (im)migration. When Ben Franklin famously answered the question of whether the 1787 Constitutional Convention had given us a republic or a monarchy by saying "A republic, if you can keep it," there would have been no "ifs" about it if our nation had comprised mainly monarchical Englishmen. So the message here is simply a statement of the obvious: foreigners cannot be relied upon to preserve authentic Americanism because they're not American. Full stop.
This is especially true when they harbor deep-seated un-American ideologies, hail from non-Western cultures and enter a multiculturalism-infected land that tells them "When in Rome...feel free to do as Ostrogoths would do."
Despite this, most conservatives don't get it. Imbued with what I've termed "immigrationism" and Proposition Nation pap, they're very diligent about conserving the Immigration and Nationality Act status quo. An example that will shock many is Senator Ted Cruz, who last year proposed not only increasing the number of "high-skilled temporary workers fivefold" – as if there aren't high-skilled Americans looking for jobs – but, unbelievably, also the doubling of legal immigration (the relevant portion of the video starts at 3:27).
Given that Cruz seems like a good man, I'll just assume he's out to lunch (in Tijuana) on this issue. But let's be clear: if you had to pick your poison and choose just one culture-rending policy, a giant amnesty one year would be preferable to a giant legal-immigration increase applicable every year.
So what's the bright side to amnesty? The well-known metaphor about a frog in a frying pan of water tells us that since frogs can't sense incremental temperature changes, a very low flame under that pan may mean the creature will remain fixed in his position until he boils to death. In contrast, turn the burner up high enough and he'll jump out and save himself.
Along with our many other problems, "Americans" (insofar as they still exist) are enduring the slow boil of cultural and demographic genocide. And executive amnesty, as with other kinds of leftist overreach, just may serve to turn that flame up high and rouse people from their torpor.
Yet this is the dimmest of bright sides, a 1-in-50 shot whose mention is mainly valuable in service to a larger point: we do need fundamental change. We need a revolution of mind, heart and spirit in which we return to our Christian foundation and dispense with moral relativism and all its corollaries – of which cultural relativism is one. Related to this, John Jay wrote in Federalist No. 2:
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Providence 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, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs....
I do not believe the US will survive long in its present form. And when chroniclers finally write The Rise and Fall of the American Republic, they may record that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was the most destructive legislation in her history, a turning point from which there was no turning back.
© Selwyn Duke
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