During the course of my life I have seen the British empire dissolve and to be truthful I never shed a tear. Of course, it was helped on its way to oblivion by America under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt and I bear him no grudge - although at the time he might have spent his energy better by concentrating on the growth of the Soviet empire rather than the already tottering British one! Even so, he did not destroy the British empire, it was already a crumbling folie de grandeur and given that it was costing us a fortune - which we did not have! - then I am duly grateful for the extra push he provided. Also, it must be said loudly and clearly, that having woken up to the Soviet menace, America did not retreat behind its oceanic defences but stood to the ramparts in Europe and elsewhere.
Even so, it's time for another poem:
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Now, with the happy demise of the Soviet empire, America faces its most dangerous national threat since the civil war, not (yet!) from an outside force but even more insidiously dangerous from internal forces. I have mentioned before how deeply shocked I have been by the internal dissensions in American civic life. Partly, of course, this is because of the internet which allows me, 'over here', to observe far more closely the growing civil war 'over there'. I am open to arguments that it was ever thus in American life and that I should stop re-acting like an elderly, Victorian spinster catching a glimpse of an ankle, to which I would respond by saying 'maybe, baby', but sometimes the outside observer sees more than the internal combatant!
As I said earlier, this feeling of unease has been with me for sometime but it continues to grow and yesterday I read an article which confirmed my worst fears. I hasten to add, that I do not necessarily accept everything in the article but enough of it confirms my instincts over recent years. As a Brit, I have an instinctive liking for America and (most) Americans and thus my uneasiness is compounded. The article concerned is by Mr. Selwyn Duke (no, me neither!) writing at The American Thinker. I will quote from it but I would urge you all to read the original. Here are his opening two paragraphs:
Truly great disasters come like a thief in the night. How many foresaw Rome’s sacking in 410 A.D., her collapse 66 years later, WWI or WWII? As for today, how many see that the United States is at what some call a tipping point, what others may call a Fourth Turning? Whatever you call it, the American republic is in its last days. This is too scary for many to contemplate, but there’s something far scarier: playing ostrich and not being prepared for things to come.
The so-called Left, ever violent since its French Revolution birth and as power hungry as ever, wholly controls the culture: the media, mainstream and social; academia; and entertainment. This means it controls long-term politics, since the latter is downstream of culture. So is big business, mind you, which is why the Left controls most of it as well; this, of course, translates into funding.
Like me, Mr. Duke is still amazed at Donald Trump's win in 2016, a win which I would put down mostly to the inherent stupidity and egotism of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party - 'it was her turn, after all'! However, Mr. Duke doubts that the Republicans can count on that in 2020.
Digging into the electoral numbers also tells a tale. Ninety percent of blacks, 79 percent of Jews, 77 percent of Asians, 69 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of women voted Democrat — same as usual. Can we stop now with talk about “Blexit,” the “Walkaway” movement, how “Hispanics are natural conservatives,” how Jews are waking up to the Left’s anti-Semitism and all the other connedservative self-delusion? People vote in accordance with their emotional and philosophical foundations, and “You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into,” as Jonathan Swift put it. Fooling oneself doesn’t help.
To alter a much-loved but out of date political 'truth', "It's the economy, stoopid", it is more accurate to say, 'It's the demographics, stoopid'.
This [The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965] has caused a historic demographic shift (and attendant electoral one) that has seen our nation go from 85-plus percent white in 1965 to only 61 percent non-Hispanic white today. Let’s define further the political impact, using conservative figures.
We absorb approximately 1.3 million legal immigrants annually. If one million ultimately remain and are naturalized and 50 percent vote, and 80 percent of that group breaks Democrat, it means a net plus for Democrats of 300,000 voters every year and three million every decade.
I have no wish to upset my elderly American readers but there is also this demographic to remember:
So let’s crunch some more numbers. Between Trump’s 2016 victory and Election Day 2020, more than 10 million Americans will have died; mostly older, they’re a relatively conservative voting demographic. They will more or less be replaced, however, by approximately 16 million young people who’ll turn 18 during those years. Unlike their elders, though, they’ll disproportionately cast ballots for hardcore statists.
Given this ongoing immigration and indoctrination-enabled electoral-degradation process, is it now clearer why Republicans have lost the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential contests?
There is no need to quote Mr. Duke at length on the nature of the modern Democratic party, it is there, in all its brutal, stupid, childish reality for all to see should they dare to open their eyes. Perhaps their most grotesque feature is that beneath their cries for 'universal love' there beats a deep and abiding hatred for anyone who fails to bend the knee to their world-view. It is only a matter of time before these savages - I use the term carefully - control the Congress and the Presidency at which point it will no longer be "God bless America" but more like "God help America"!
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