Showing posts with label the Founding Fathers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Founding Fathers. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2010

they'd all be extremist right wingers

One hears the leftists chirp that "the GOP has gone so far right they used to be moderate" one way or another.

But i realized the truth is that about 10-20 years ago the left went far left, not economically or militarily but in totally abandoning national intrest, with amnesty, etc. I would bet a great deal of cash that every American President of any party save Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford (and perhaps FDR) would, if they had to vote today, vote Republican down the line. I gaurntee that if you gave Woodrow Wilson or Andy Jackson or FDR or Truman or JFK or Thomas Jefferson a week to re-adjust themselves to the current political landscape, would all report revolt and disgust at the existence of such a thoroughly and proudly nearly treasonist Democratic Party. I mean could you imagine if any of the founding generation got to hear about Eric Holder or about what happened in Brown v. Board of Education and dispirate impact law?


What do you think Jefferson and Madison would say if they heard that when Californian voters voted to not give there tax dollars to illegals in free welfare that the Supreme Court in 1996 over ruled California and deemed there voicing of their will unconstuinal? They would become nihillists i'm sure and booze it up.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Is Affirmtive Action really breathing its last gasp?

For years, liberal apologists for legalized anti-white discrimination aka affirmtive action have been claiming, as a way of shuting up critics that affirmtive action won't be in place 20, 30, 50 years from now. I'm sorry to say as a former, current and soon to be future white male victim of affirmtive action and racial quotas, that its seems unlikely that affirmtive action will be going anywhere any time soon. In fact, I'd go so far as to not even see racial preferences against males been lifted in my life time or perhaps ever. in America. Why is this, you ask? Since, polls have been showing for years that more racism existists among blacks and latino than whites, and since the biggest victims of discrimination in the legal justice system are now whites. Cornell just came out with a study that shows that in the South a white man is more than 5 times more likely to be sentenced to death for the same crime as a black man is. Of course, if this where true in reverse it would be making blacks rich with discrimination lawsuites but whites are allowed to be systemically discriminated against. It's all part of "balancing the playing field". How is it far if white males don't have to exsperience blatant racism and discrimination, right?
The reason affirmtive action is here to stay and will certainly be in place in 50 years is, as with so much else, exsplained in the demographics. I've said before and I'll say it again, America is going to be demographicly/racially transformed in half a century from a overwhelmingly white/European nation to a majority-less nation where the dominant poltical entity or group will not be European-Americans but a latino-black voting bloc that will be much larger than it is today in very short period of time. Around 2050-2040 whites will no longer be a majority and then its downhill from there fast as whites fade rapidly into coomparable electoral irrelevence bythe year 2059 and the 2060's. By the 2030's and 2040's Jesse Jackson could very easily be president, thats how much the white vote will shrink. Things that naive whites think unimaginable will become commonplace poltically in the near future. I mean that Louis Farrakhan or Reverend Jermiah Wright will be able to get elected to the senate and possibly become minority or majority whips. Whites will complain bitterly about the new President Vasquez in 2032, as he appoints a nation of Islam racist to be his head of the department of Education. There will be alot of things soon enough making white Americans made as hell. As white Americans become electorally impotent, black and hispanic Presidents (there won't be anymore white ones after a certain point in the next few decades) will do things that will drive whites up the wall. They'll do stuff like get radical chicano communists to redue American history class textbooks and they will potray the Founders and the first 40 American Presidents as monsters, they will take out any mention of Paul Reverr, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, etc. and put in whole chapters devoted to biographying Mohawk chiefs and glorfying the Iroqious indians as the true inventors of democracy. The KKK will be mentioned 40 times in the book, Joe McCarrthy will be mentioned 29 times, Theodore Roosevelt will be mentioned once on page 123, Andrew Jackson will be mentioed 4 times, Polk will be potrayed as a war criminal rather than a hero who exstended the Union to the Pacific Ocean. You get my drift about who will not long from now be running this nation. It will be the era of "revenge" poltically in America inwhich the "oppressed" get control of the Goverment and put the new white minority through a century of hell, of huge taxes, and many other forms of humilation. This is to ignore the fact that because we will be a far less white nation taht America will no doubt be a far poorer nation with a worse culture, very overcrowded, etc.
But do you think that the blacks and hispanics when they get control of the nation are going to give up racial spoils? Do you the think Supreme Court circa 2020 when it has 1 orginalist on its bench is going to strike down anti-white legal discrimination and the like? Ofcourse not, black and hispanic politicians trust me, will only exspand affimrtive action, quotas and discrimination against whites more. The goverment will start doing what the South African goverment does which is give out loans to blacks only to start business, buy homes, etc (with whites and asians tax dollars oofcourse). I promise you that latinos and blacks will pay (as they do now) almost no taxes, and probably account for 6% of tax dollars collected from Americans, whites and asians will pay over 80% of the huge taxes blacks and hispanics will create, no doubt.
Another reason why the blacks and hispanics will never willingly give up racial preferences for themselves is the fact that they will need affirmtive action to even get into many elite schools at all. If affirmtive action where stopped tommorow at all American instuition, less than 10 blacks would be accepted to all ivy league schools the next year and no blacks would probably get into Princeton or Yale at all. So 1. they want to keep the racial spoils system and 2. they need it to even go to elite colleges (sad but true). The average liberal doesn't realize how large the achievment gap and the IQ gap between whites and blacks is, the public schools have been making tests easier and easier for 30 years in order to lessen the gap by cheating (e.i. they give a test that is so easy that most white students get 97% plus on it and blacks get an average score of 80% thats less of a gap but only because if the test ws proper, whites would get .....).


Here is a jarring fact: the white sons and daughters of parents from the lowest socio-economic strata the children of jaintors, wrestlers, etc. do better at school than the black children of black parents from the highest socio-economic level-in other words, the children of the Obama's.)

Friday, January 15, 2010

Democracy is a challendge not a gaurntee



One of the most dangerous misunderstandings of contemporary America is about that subject which we are supposed to know the most about: democracy. The liberals have hijacked the Founding Fathers and what they "believed" and have, essentially, turned those men into bland, wooden figures. One of the most consquential misconceptions the new ilk of liberal historians have created is about the Founding Fathers and Democracy. Students learn that the Founders where just pro-democracy. That's all. No nuance, no caveat. The truth is that the Founders where completly against the pure one-man one-vote democracy we have today, wherein voting is a unalienable right of women, gays, African-Americans, everyone. They conceived voting as we conceive of driving. It's something that only those who are able to drive well enough that should have the right to drive so that we have safety on the roads. With Democracy they belived if everyone got the vote, no matter how little they care about poltics or know, that democracy would be as hazard as letting everyone from 5 upward to drive. As a way of making sure only the most informed particpated in democracy they limited to the white male property owners of the gentry. Women where not inclined to be meant for poltics or war, blacks, to them, didn't have the intelligence and the poor white male masses couldn't nesscarily be trusted not to get greedy and lazy and vote themselves the uppercrusts wealth by fiat.

Democracy was not thought of nearly as highly as today. To be a democrat in 1772 was to be for mob role, to be for chaos and the sucide of a civilation. Indeed, the Founders thought pure democracy, nothing short of, sucidal. They believed that a poor democracy would destroy America over time as the masses given the vote would eventually figure out that they could just vote themselves money and descend into the duldudrums of socialism, class warfare, communism, etc.

So what did the Founders want? They want a hybrid. They wanted a combiatation of democracy and monarchy. They thought that balance was essential. That sense of balance is utterly lost today. No one would even think of requiring Americans to know where Iraq is on map (even if we could logistically find that out) as a requirment for voting. Making sure only citizens who take democracy seriously and take the time to study the issues are those who in the Founders eyes where entitled to voting.

We really, i would argue, are suffering from our ungrounded, chronically lofty view of democracy. A nation, ideally, at bare mininimum should see democracy as a chllendge for an electrorate rather than a gaurntee of national prosperity. We seem to think that democracy ensures success and that ones you go democratic nations go on auto pilot, up, up, up and away into the straphoric heights of national honor and glory. The Founding generation and many generations that followed them, as i say, saw themselves as having a duty to show that the European aristos where wrong and that the American system of democracy and self goverment could work without descending into mob role and socialism as so many pessimists predicted. We lost that sense of proving the critiques wrong. Its crucial that Americans of the 18th and 19th and early 20th century understand the downsides and potential downsides of democracy and that made them better, more dutiful and serious "proffesional citizens" as Ralph Nader would say. After America became so prosperous and the gasy poltical rhetoric of self congradulations emerged as a unbearable mainstay of American poltics. After polticians began wearing "We're Number 1!" sterophome big hand thingy, Americans forgot the potential downsides of democracy gone awry.

For instance, older generations of Americans didn't think that all peoples where meant for self government and democracy (like say the Hiatians or Africans). Leaving aside there view of Hiatians abilities to self govern themselves, America's ethnic and religous/cultural composition and roots where essential to the success of the American democracy. Democracy is fragile and in order to succed its citizens must police their vices and desires with unusual discpline. Citizens must take there voting rights seriously as a responcibilty as well as a sort of proffesion, where they all have to be informed and vote on non-veceral but cerebral grounds.

The need for these charcterstics of displine, steely self control, moral restraint, personal responcibility, a sence of community and a responcibility to the whole, which are all central to working democracy where provided in America by the Puritans in paticular, who pratised succsful small self goverment well before 1776. The Puritans showed that people could manage there own affairs as small villages and hamlets was a obvious example of posssibilities for our founding fathers many of with came out of PUritan New England such as John Adams.
The Puritans where made for democracy and self goverment because with freedom comes the responcibility for a citizenry to control and restrain itself and its vices and veceral desires. Democracy falls apart at the seems if everyone abuses freedom, citizens must not see freedom and/or democracy as licence to do whatever they want. Citizens must have there own morals and values (which Puritanism provided) in order to make democracy work.

Those Puritan values are so faded and we see the effects in the decline of our democracy. I wouldn't deny that women's suffrage and the Voting Rights Act have probably hurt our democracy. No one can say that our democracy would be better, more informed, if blacks didn't have the vote or women. And that is taboo as hell! But truth is truth. African Americans are woefully uninformed about poltics, not very intrested, they vote on race usually, etc. and this obviously is not a asset of American Democracy