Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: “There shall be open borders.”
Bartley accepted what the erasure of America’s borders and an endless influx or foreign peoples and goods would mean for his country.
Said Bartley, “I think the nation-state is finished.”
His vision and ideology had a long pedigree.
This free trade, open borders cult first flowered in 18th-century Britain. The St. Paul of this post-Christian faith was Richard Cobden, who mesmerized elites with the grandeur of his vision and the power of his rhetoric.
In Free Trade Hall in Manchester, Jan. 15, 1846, the crowd was so immense the seats had to be removed. There, Cobden thundered:
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“I look farther; I see in the Free Trade principle that which shall act on the moral world as the principle of gravitation in the universe — drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonisms of race, and creed, and language, and uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace.”
Britain converted to this utopian faith and threw open her markets to the world. Across the Atlantic, however, another system, that would be known as the “American System,” had been embraced.
The second bill signed by President Washington was the Tariff Act of 1789. Said the Founding Father of his country in his first address to Congress: “A free people … should promote such manufactures as tend to make them independent on others for essential, particularly military supplies.”
In his 1791 “Report on Manufactures,” Alexander Hamilton wrote, “Every nation ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, habitat, clothing and defence.”
This was wisdom born of experience.
At Yorktown, Americans had to rely on French muskets and ships to win their independence. They were determined to erect a system that would end our reliance on Europe for the necessities of our national life, and establish new bonds of mutual dependency — among Americans.
Britain’s folly became manifest in World War I, as a self-reliant America stayed out, while selling to an import-dependent England the food, supplies and arms she needed to survive but could not produce.
America’s own first major steps toward free trade, open borders and globalism came with JFK’s Trade Expansion Act and LBJ’s Immigration Act of 1965.
By the end of the Cold War, however, a reaction had set in, and a great awakening begun. U.S. trade deficits in goods were surging into the hundreds of billions, and more than a million legal and illegal immigrants were flooding in yearly, visibly altering the character of the country.
Americans were coming to realize that free trade was gutting the nation’s manufacturing base and open borders meant losing the country in which they grew up. And on this earth there is no greater loss.
The new resistance of Western man to the globalist agenda is now everywhere manifest.
We see it in Trump’s hostility to NAFTA, his tariffs, his border wall.
We see it in England’s declaration of independence from the EU in Brexit. We see it in the political triumphs of Polish, Hungarian and Czech nationalists, in anti-EU parties rising across Europe, in the secessionist movements in Scotland and Catalonia and Ukraine, and in the admiration for Russian nationalist Vladimir Putin.
Europeans have begun to see themselves as indigenous peoples whose Old Continent is mortally imperiled by the hundreds of millions of invaders wading across the Med and desperate come and occupy their homelands.
Who owns the future? Who will decide the fate of the West?
The problem of the internationalists is that the vision they have on offer — a world of free trade, open borders and global government — are constructs of the mind that do not engage the heart.
Men will fight for family, faith and country. But how many will lay down their lives for pluralism and diversity?
Who will fight and die for the Eurozone and EU?
On Aug. 4, 1914, the anti-militarist German Social Democrats, the oldest and greatest socialist party in Europe, voted the credits needed for the Kaiser to wage war on France and Russia. With the German army on the march, the German socialists were Germans first.
Patriotism trumps ideology.
In “Present at the Creation,” Dean Acheson wrote of the postwar world and institutions born in the years he served FDR and Truman in the Department of State: The U.N., IMF, World Bank, Marshall Plan, and with the split between East and West, NATO.
We are present now at the end of all that.
And our transnational elites have a seemingly insoluble problem.
To rising millions in the West, the open borders and free trade globalism they cherish and champion is not a glorious future, but an existential threat to the sovereignty, independence and identity of the countries they love. And they will not go gentle into that good night.
Free trade is one of the greatest misnomers of all time. It is perhaps the costliest proposition ever made. This is, essentially, the embodiment of our troubles as individuals. By surrendering our autonomy as human beings to fulfill our needs; feed ourselves, bear and raise our own children and to be sovereign over our lives and impose our will over our immediate environment we have become slaves to another. A man who cannot raise his own sustenance, but is dependent upon a stranger to do it for him is a prisoner of his own hunger. A woman who hands over her child in infancy to be cared for and educated by strangers is not a mother to a child, but a servant to both the child and it’s charge.
Every ill of modern society lays directly at the feet of those who chose to surrender their rights voluntarily for cheaper eats, fads and gadgets and the illusion of choices when the menu is fixe prix.
TANSTAAFL
Specialists cannot see the workings of the world as a system in balance, it is merely a patchwork of pieces unconnected to one another. There is no flow from source material to finished product that he can observe and make sense of, it is merely an elephant’s tail in the hand of a blind pauper that he seeks to describe.
I have complained bitterly over the years about the role of foreign influences, the corruption of character, the poison that is fractional banking. I could go on with lists of grievances, but as I became less dependent upon the system that defined my time and learned how to live a life dependent upon myself, my family, my close friends and neighbors I began to see that these were symptoms, not causes of the larger problem that lurked beneath. We are the problem and our sickness has spread so far and wide that entire nations, historical lineages of people and place have been hollowed out by the rot of dependency and isolation. A global community is not a system that brings people together, on the contrary it is the very system that atomizes people on even the local level, turning family members into strangers and robbing everyone not only of their future, but the present lives they lead. It is a path to complete and utter collapse, built upon the promises of charlatans and thieves.
To do for oneself is the first step in becoming free.
Preach it brother. AMEN.
I read a book like that once; Candide. It said we must tend our own garden.
Lee Chen
My Father and I read it to each other when I was 13, it must have stuck.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
You know that reading it will get you automatically excommunicated from the Catholic church since it has been on the list forever.
You’ve been on fire lately HSF. Must be all the low pressure from 3 N’Easters in 2 weeks. You’re going to get alot of exercize hoofing up and down those lower soonipi hills after the dumping we are getting today and tonight. Free trade has always been a snow job.
The big advantage of sugaring is that we’re further into Spring than 99% of the population. The snow has demoralized everyone, but for us it’s an extension of the season and right under it is the Spring. The soft maples are already budding, tree swallows are back and I’ve heard purple martins a couple of days ago. The lengthening day gives us more energy, actually boiling sap and having to feed that fire every four or five minutes revs you all up. It’s been coming down all day today so there’s a odd silence behind it all.
Plus a lot of interesting topics lately to dwell on.
Stop by when you’re in the neighborhood, bring snow shoes.
I plan to. Took the dogs for a half mile hike in the woods, no snowshoes. Let them do the work for me.
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I plan on and am looking forward to it. Took the shepherds for a half mile romp in the woods a bit ago, no snow shoes. Let the dogs blaze the trail and do the work.
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I usually do not get past the first paragraph of his writings. This one kept my attention.
edit, HSF always gets my attention…
Open borders is an easily understood policy.
We built it, it belongs to us:
They want it.
We give it to them.
It is no longer ours, we didn’t deserve it in the first place anyway.
Think of it as the same situation on a larger scale as when squatters move into someone’s home while they are away and refuse to leave when they return. It can take extreme effort, time, and legal expenses to get rid of them, if you can, and when you finally succeed in getting them out they leave the place almost destroyed and you have to do extensive repair or rebuild it all over again to resume living in it yourself.
“….I see in the Free Trade principle …. .drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonisms of race, and creed, and language, and uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace.”
I love the smell of stupidity in the morning.
It is a singularly insipid thing to say.
Front-loaded with fail.
The article posted the other day about an Irish town being forced to take in immigrants shows who is winning in my book.
Yes, BUT. The winning is by those of us who see the stupidity of the preening Euroweenies flaunting their moral vanity by essentially shitting in the drinking water and inviting in unsupportable numbers of parasites.
We will stand against this with the knowledge of how far we must take it to prevent the destruction of our world. The fools provide us a template and road map although they are likely unaware they do so.
Give the residents time to disappear the hotelier
KoKo- All those Irishmen had to do was use the phrase, “don’t be here when the sun goes down”. That is universally understood, if you know whut ah mean.
Free speech or hate speech? Right-wing activists ‘banned’ from Britain (VIDEOS)
https://www.rt.com/uk/421030-free-speech-martin-sellner/
What you need to know is the masked thugs of the Antifa group are members of an international terrorist organization funded by George Soros and other treasonous gangsters. These thugs travel the world attacking true conservatives and patriots who are fighting to take back control of their nations and to stop the invasion from the Islamic and third-world. It is sad day when the land of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare and the Industrial Revolution no longer allows free speech but allows mass rape of young girls in England by Islamic criminals spouting Satanic verses. One of those detained is the courageous Lauren Southern from Canada. BTW, the coverage of this news is suppressed by the propaganda and subversive MSM in what is becoming the Marxist State of Canada and a certifiable third-world hellhole. Justin Trudeau is not only grossly incompetent…but a dangerous traitor as well.
I think you Canadians should find a suitable lamp post.
If we start hanging traitors in Canada…we will quickly run out of lamp posts. There may be enough highway poles to do the job however…from coast to shining coast.
Antifa was involved in the LV shooting. Massive FBI coverup.
https://truepundit.com/fbi-insiders-blow-whistle-massive-las-vegas-cover-agents-told-not-investigate-key-evidence-including-isis-terror-link-mandalay-bay-massacre/
The Reality of South African Farm Murders by Lauren Southern
If we were all taking bets on who owns the future, I would place a huge wager on the .001% and their smoke screen/entertainers who you believe to be legit. Haggling over the finer points of free trade is a waste of time at this point.
So much verbiage, so little said.
As of today, the future belongs to cockroaches.
Which ones Z, the ones with two legs or six??
Why allow those who choose to overpopulate the world walk freely into our country to suck us dry economically? Overpopulation is still THE issue of our day in whatever manifestation . CLOSE the borders and extradite all illegals. Sooner the better.
With all of the doom and gloom these days I feel like a dad cleaning his guns while waiting for my daughter to return from her first date . I know that the guns will be ready if some punk ass man ever laid a hand on her but I hope they are never used.
The open borders mantra always leaves out the fact that a welfare system is incompatible with open borders. The other factor is that no matter what, when one demographic gains control they will always use force to make those under their thumb conform.
Our Forefathers knew this and of course laid down an incomplete foundation for us to keep the 0.01% from ruling over us. Unless we are willing to use the 2nd amendment one day when the intolerable act become to onerous then we will become the slaves the 0.01% want .
With a population of less than 1% of the whole world, globalists are confident that their monopoly money will save them from the rest of humanity. They have deep holes to hide in, run by cheap labor and built by the lowest bidder. Even if the whole world is destroyed, they can stay underground forever. That elevator probably won’t work and three miles of stairs is too damn high for old fogeys who live lives of sloth and gluttony.