A few days back columnist
Scott Morefield posted a piece arguing that all issues of concern to conservatives must be subordinated to imposing some semblance of order upon our wide-open immigration door. I fully understand Mr. Morefields position. Its incorrect in that the insecure power grid is an even more preemptive issue: abortion gender-engineering canceling" and all the rest go away if ninety percent of us die within a year of an EMP attack or powerful solar flare. But... put that to one side. The deliberate and overnight tribalization of electoral decisions is undoubtedly a clever way around the civil marketplace of ideas. In fact the detours diabolical path has been mapped out clearly by others for years. Ann Coulter leaps to mindbut I believe Pat Buchanan has been sounding the alert even longer.
The view has a certain squirm factor" in that it might be said to reflect genuine racism: i.e. it implies that immigrants of non-European origin are incapable of valuing freedom and instead bring with them a genetic craving for servitude. This may be an unfair interpretation of the Coulter/Buchanan hypothesis (Im more confident that it is in the former than the latter instance). Unfortunately rank-and-file proponents of restricted immigration rarely take the time to draw fine distinctions. Its worth stressingand is not stressed enoughthat comfort with subjugation is a
cultural acquisition; its not encoded in anyones DNA. I am not a racist if I discover and announce that a certain cultures preferred food is unhealthy even though Im sure to encounter resistance if I try to steer that cultures members toward a different diet. In the same way the proper objection to the ongoing deluge of non-European immigrants (both legal and illegal) is that they import with their other baggage a
learned and customary tolerance of paternalistic top-down governance. Its what theyve always known.
Now though I have a degree of sympathy with this argument when its emphasis falls in the right place it always fails to convince me fully. Many of our immigrants who fled from totalitarian regimes became quite logically our strongest promoters of basic freedoms. They or their immediate families had experienced the abject misery at the spectrums other end. Elia Kazan (pilloried in his lifetime and despised in memory for exposing the thorough communist infiltration of Hollywood) was born to Greek Orthodox parents who fled the oppression of Muslim Turkey. Sebastian Gorkas parents similarly fled Soviet-dominated Hungary to find asylum in England. Gordon Changs father had escaped Communist China into which Chang won further insights after working as a legal counsel for almost two decades in Hong Kong and on the mainland. Humberto Fontova was brought to America from Castros Cuba at the age of seven his father following after three months of detention and his cousin murdered while in the hands of interrogators.
The reason therefore that our present horde of immigrants votes almost to a person for Big Brotherly government (including those hundreds of thousands who vote illegally) isnt that its masses just cant say goodbye to the joys of having a
patrn peering down upon them from his proud snorting
alazn. No: the problem is that we
pay them to vote for new masters. They get free stuff" (a phrase which AOC has declared she will hunt to extinctionbut I hope to be dead to this world long before she has the power to act upon her whimsy). When you get paid by a corrupt system just to breathe air you probably dont hold your breath in principled protest. Im about to start drawing Social Security. I would willingly forego every dime of it if I thought the savings to the government would be fully deducted from our national debt (for Ive known throughout my adult life that Uncle Sam couldnt be trusted to provide for my retirement and I invested accordingly). But why strike that noble pose when the corrupt demagogues who lord it over us would only use my gift to fund further vote-buying schemes? Oh theyll do that anyway I know. Part of the Grand Plan is to spend the nation into ruinwhich will then precipitate the coalescence of a one-world government (with an elite oligarchy at the top after the Chinese fashion). All the more reason though just to grab my own few pennies while I can.
Im confident that nothing Ive written so far will have left anyone behind in the dust. This isnt climate science (which appears to be infinitely harder to grasp than rocket science). Yet we make a mistake I think to disdain others who will never visit a site like this and who instead are influenced by optics". It does
look bad to be advocating constantly an approach to political and economic life that puts one on the far side from people of color; and when ones program for political survival amounts to keeping more people of color from entering the country... well it looks even worse. We know that the situation is more complicated than that. From numerous angles however we should also be able to see that couching the struggle in Morefield/Coulter/Buchanan terms isnt the road to victory. (For instance even if we stemmed the flow of non-European immigration wed have our own self-hating tribe to contend with in colleges and the mediaa tribe that also doesnt reproduce at replacement-rate.) In the meantime... were surrounded by those terrible optics.
May I ask why we cannot strengthen our position by actively recruiting people of color for positions of power? Yes that flies in the face of our principled commitment to choosing the best man for the job"... but isnt it a little suspicious after all that so many
men are on the job for us and all of them (with the retirement of William Hurd from the House) white? And are they so plainly the best? I was in the fight to push Brian Kemp across the finish line ahead of rabid socialist Soros-and-Oprah tool Stacey Abrams a year ago. This past week I was treated to the prospect of our best man" appointing a career Romneyite to serve out Johnny Isaksons termand providing no other explanation to us his frustrated constituents other than the Peerless Leaders I know whats good for you." With friends like that....
So I submit that other things being equal theres nothing at all wrong with having a candidate who happens to be black and female anddare I say it?physically attractive. I know virtually nothing about the three women running for the House in Georgia-7 beyond what Ive read on their websites; but one of them Dr. Lerah Lee is of African descent. In addition to that credential" (if it be such) her site specifies the following objectives: Secure our borders defend our Second Amendment rights support our veterans hold the line on spending and taxes help the next generation have better opportunities." Not a bad list! If Dr. Lees competition is similarly inclined though should her racial heritage tip the balance in her favorwould I be condoning quotas and identity-politics if I pressed my thumb on her scale? Perhaps. But I dont think standing in inflexible defense of color-blindness is fully worth the sacrifice of the republic. Such a consequence may just be the price of principle.
And again... exactly why are there no black females in Congress with R" behind their name (President Trump having peevishly declined to support Mia Love in 16 after her lukewarm reaction to his lifestyle)? Is that absence just a statistical anomaly? An
ongoing statistical anomaly? Or is there some Al Campanis variety of explanation? Yeah... thats what Im afraid of.
Weve seen how courageously Kim Klacik stood up against both the corrupt Baltimore machine and the national news media. Isnt that recommendation enough? Shes running for the House seat in Maryland-7. I cant afford to give her muchbut she can have some of my first Social Security check when it arrives.
Has this discussion turned offensive to my typical readership? I can well imagine why it might have. We wish to judge people only by the content of their character. But its painfully evident that we havent done so with great successor that more likely some once-good characters were altered soon after entering the corridors of power. Maybe some day term limits will minimize the almost Satanic transformation of virtuous characters into caricatures of goodness which we observe in Washington over and over.
In the meantime why not give optics a chance? Why concede in Coulter/Buchanan fashion that the hive-advocates" have people of color permanently on their side of the chessboard and that only some move of inspired brilliance can save our democratic republic from checkmate?
