BALKANIZATION BECKONS

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America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people

Pat Buchanan cites ways ‘diversity’ has harmed United States

Speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Albuquerque in 2001, George W. Bush declared that, as Mexico was a friend and neighbor, “It’s so important for us to tear down our barriers and walls that might separate Mexico from the United States.”

Bush succeeded. And during his tenure, millions from Mexico exploited his magnanimity to violate our laws, trample upon our sovereignty, walk into our country and remain here.

In 2007, supported by John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy and Barack Obama, Bush backed amnesty for the 12 million people who had entered America illegally.

The nation thundered no. And Congress sustained the nation.

The latest mass border crossing by scores of thousands of tots, teenagers and toughs from Central America has killed amnesty in 2014, and probably for the duration of the Obama presidency.

Indeed, with the massive media coverage of the crisis on the border, immigration, legal and illegal, and what it portends for our future, could become the decisive issue of 2014 and 2016.

But it needs to be put in a larger context. For this issue is about more than whether the Chamber of Commerce gets amnesty for its members who have been exploiting cheap illegal labor.

The real issue: Will America remain one nation, or are we are on the road to Balkanization and the breakup of America into ethnic enclaves? For, as Ronald Reagan said, a nation that cannot control its borders isn’t really a nation anymore.

In Federalist No. 2, John Jay wrote, “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. … ”

He called Americans a “band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties.” The republic of the founders for whom Jay spoke did not give a fig for diversity. They cherished our unity, commonality and sameness of ancestry, culture, faith and traditions.

We were not a nation of immigrants in 1789.

They came later. From 1845-1849, the Irish fleeing the famine. From 1890-1920, the Germans. Then the Italians, Poles, Jews and other Eastern Europeans. Then, immigration was suspended in 1924.

From 1925 to 1965, the children and grandchildren of those immigrants were assimilated, Americanized. In strong public schools, they were taught our language, literature and history, and celebrated our holidays and heroes. We endured together through the Depression and sacrificed together in World War II and the Cold War.

By 1960, we had become truly one nation and one people.

America was not perfect. No country is. But no country ever rivaled what America had become. She was proud, united, free, the first nation on earth. And though the civil rights movement had just begun, nowhere did black peoples enjoy the freedom and prosperity of African-Americans.

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Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that America is today in “a fundamentally better place than we were 50 years ago.”

In some ways that is so. Equality of rights has been realized. Miraculous cures in medicine have kept alive many of us who would not have survived the same maladies half a century ago.

But we are no longer that “band of brethren.” We are no longer one unique people “descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion.”

We are from every continent and country. Nearly 4 in 10 Americans trace their ancestry to Asia, Africa and Latin America. We are a multiracial, multilingual, multicultural society in a world where countless countries are being torn apart over race, religion and roots.

We no longer speak the same language, worship the same God, honor the same heroes or share the same holidays. Christmas and Easter have been privatized. Columbus is reviled. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee are out of the pantheon. Cesar Chavez is in.

Our politics have become poisonous. Our political parties are at each other’s throats.

Christianity is in decline. Traditional churches are sundering over moral issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. Islam is surging.

Our society seems to be disintegrating. Over 40 percent of all births now are illegitimate. Among Hispanics, the figure is 52 percent. Among African-Americans, 73 percent.

And among children born to single moms, the drug use rate and the dropout rate, the crime rate and the incarceration rate, are many times higher than among children born to married parents.

If a country is a land of defined and defended borders, within which resides a people of a common ancestry, history, language, faith, culture and traditions, in what sense are we Americans one nation and one people today?

Neocons say we are a new kind of nation, an ideological nation erected upon a written Constitution and Bill of Rights.

But equality, democracy and diversity are not mentioned in the Constitution. As for what our founding documents mean, even the Supreme Court does not agree.

More and more, 21st-century America seems to meet rather well Metternich’s depiction of Italy – “a geographic expression.”

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BUCKHED
BUCKHED
July 15, 2014 9:20 pm

I watched one of the commercials from some product were the son and his friends were pulling for the U and his dad for Mexico in the world cup. I told my wife that was perfect example of how immigrants think they want their culture in our country. No need to assimilate.

I read a biography of Vince Lombardi in it the author talked of how Vince’s father didn’t allow Italian to be spoken by the family. He stated that they were Americans now and Americans spoke English. That is how the mindset used to be among immigrants.

AKA Chen
AKA Chen
July 15, 2014 9:23 pm

I told you it was a drug related/ private prison boondogle, but you didn’t listen, you stupid, fuck, look at you now.

AKA Chen
AKA Chen
July 15, 2014 9:28 pm

Yeah, Bucky. On the other hand, I was of the idea that if those guys are so bent on raising Mexican children, they should stay home. Otherwise, what they get is ‘Pochos” and ‘Cholos”. But do they listen, hell no, and they pay the price. No one comes here and stays loyal to the old country, they assimilate, whatever that may mean to them, they assimilate the way of the ghetto, the suburbs, whatever. My own kids, they’re fucking coconuts – as maybe I appeared to my dear old poppa.

SSS
SSS
July 15, 2014 9:44 pm

Speaking of Balkanization, some billionaire in California is proposing that the state be broken up into 6 different states ………..

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llpoh
llpoh
July 15, 2014 10:45 pm

What a great idea – give those fucking nutters six times their current voting power in the Senate and even greater representation in the House of Reps.

Damn, unbelievable how people can be so frigging stupid.

llpoh
llpoh
July 15, 2014 10:52 pm

AWD – I know you want it to change, but it ain’t going to happen. Obama will not be impeached (at least not convicted) and no states are going to secede. Furthermore the next president is almost certainly going to be a Dem, and I am expecting it to be either Cliton or Warren (thinking of that should really get your juices flowing), as I see 1) no viable Republican or Libertarian candidate, and 2) the Free Shit Army overall is just too damn big, and the electoral college is now seriously swayed toward the Dems.

I advise you to look after your own interests, and forget about any political help as it is not coming anytime soon.

Eventually there will be a reset, but I think they will be able to kick the can down the road for a few to many more years yet.

So the best thinking folks can hope for is to find a nice, like-minded community and keep ready for the reset. Political answers are not going to be an option anytime soon.

Sorry.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
July 15, 2014 11:47 pm

They can break California into 6 states, as long as – in exchange – we consolidate Delaware into Maryland, make one state out of RI + CT+ MA, make one state out of NH+VT+ME and chop Texas into 4-5 states. California liberals sure are a whiny bunch, bragging about how they punch above their economic weight (when they don’t), bitching about being a “tax “donor state” (like a lot of other states are) and bitching about a conservative state like Wyoming having a disproportionate say in the nation’s governance. They never seem to remember to bitch about small liberal states having too much influence or Texas not having enough.

AKA Chen
AKA Chen
July 16, 2014 12:31 am

LLPOH, it does seem like the fix is in for Hillary. I read in the propaganda news: It’s official, Millenials hate conservatives.

It’s like the crooked FIFA. Folks hear the rumors that a certain country or other will win. Still, folks hope against hope that things are not fixed, that there is justice in the world and rich fuckers don’t really have that much power. The only comment left for me to add is Billy’s trademark BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Reverse Engineer
Reverse Engineer
July 16, 2014 4:16 am

The FSoA like the old USSR is bound for a dissolution of the one to the many. The energy to hold together such a large construct simply is not there anymore.

Far as Da Goobermint giving to you what was taken from somebody else, this is the meme of Capitalism, not Socialism. Everything you have was taken by force by the FSoA Military, controlled by the Wall Street Banking Cartel.

In the words of Smedley Butler:

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Capitalism is just organized theft, a racket that steals resources from the less powerful and hands them over to the more powerful Socialism has fought against this for years, mostly a losing battle overall as the Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer.

What is really sad of course is that idiots like AWD don’t grasp this, they think it’s the People of Walmart who are doing the big stealing here. If that was true, they would be living in the fucking Hamptons, not in places like Camden and Detroit.

Far as who is elected next POTUS, it is as irrelevant this time as it has been in every election since George Washington crossed the Delaware river. The POTUS isn’t in charge, the folks running the Banking system are, the Capitalists.

Unfortunately in one of the examinations he did in Med Skule, AWD got his head stuck up the ass of some cadaver, and it has remained there ever since.

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GilbertS
GilbertS
July 16, 2014 7:51 am

Reverse-how can you pile our problems on Capitalism? Capitalism didn’t create our problems-Fascism created our problems. We haven’t had Capitalism for a long, long time, so don’t blame it. The era that Butler served in the USMC, he was protecting fruit and mining interests on behalf of the US Govt. That’s NOT Capitalism-that’s Fascism. Look up that quote attributed to Mussolini about Fascism being Corporatism, or the perfect blending of Govt and Business.
You can’t blame a system we don’t use for our problems.

winter
winter
July 16, 2014 1:22 pm

Illegal Mexicans have ceased to exist in the minds of most people, other than as political volleyballs. The side that ends up with the volleyball is reviled for not fixing the game. And the game can never be fixed.