The Future of Multiculturalism

Not long ago, Richard D. Lamm (D) governor of Colorado, demonstrated before an attentive audience how he would go about the destruction of America (if he wanted to do so).

"Turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

"The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."

Lamm went on: "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.

"We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically and what it meant to be an America, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.'"

Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America reinforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."

"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."

"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population."

"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other."

"A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy Persia threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to over come two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell . In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'unum,' we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."

"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits ~ make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate."

"Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual
immigrant sympathetic and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."

Finally he said, "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book Mexifornia. His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."

Everyone knows that everything Governor Lamm enumerated in that speech is being implemented even now. Local politicians fall all over themselves rushing to extoll their support of “diversity.” Instead of striving for a strong American culture, we encourage immigrants, legal or otherwise, to bring their own.

How far are we from our own destruction by national suicide? History says it is at hand.

Bush's Mistakes???

A woman recently wrote the Dallas Morning News that the public should be patient with the Democrats in congress as it was going to take some time to correct all of the Bush Administration’s mistakes. Maybe it would help if we would go over some of them now and see if we can help the Democrats correct them.

1. The Iraq War

Sorry, we can’t bring back the former leader of Iraq, but maybe we could install another despot to rule the country who would bring back the rape rooms, the torture chambers, and the killing fields.

Pull out all our troops right now as the House Democrats have voted to do. Maybe Al Queda and other jihadists would be too busy slaughtering everyone who has dared to help the U. S. here to bother with attacking us for a couple of months.

We will, of course, have to annul the Iraq free elections as they were sanctioned by the Bush Administration.

2. Afghanistan War

We can probably persuade the Taliban to come back and resume control of this country. After all, we all said this was an unwinnable war to start with. If the Russians couldn’t do — for sure George W. Bush couldn’t do it. Another one of his blunders.

3. The Economy

It may be hard to correct this Bush mistake. Unemployment is at near record lows, home ownership is at an all-time high, the Dow sets new records almost daily, and the powerful and productive economy is the envy of all the world.

Maybe we can cancel the tax cuts and, with a bit of luck, bring back the double digit inflation and unemployment of the Carter years. It will surely be a relief to get this Bush mistake corrected.

4. Homeland Security

The fact that we have not had a successful attack on U. S. territory since 9/11 is certainly not due to anything George W. Bush has done. It’s probably just a show of good will by the jihadists to demonstrate that their intentions are peaceful, and if we would just leave them alone they would do the same for us.

However, if Bush continues to harass them by disrupting their cells and plots and arresting their leaders, they may not continue such forbearance. Another example of the many mistakes made by this administration. The esteem of this country by the militant Islamists is at an all-time low.

Conclusion

Won’t this be a wonderful country when the Democrats finally get a handle on all these mistakes that Bush has made and corrects them? I’m really looking forward to it.

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