http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/ Live Hard . . . Die Free! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:19:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-19 John Merryweather Cooper Sat, 05 May 2007 22:42:30 +0000 http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/#comment-19 If we do not act to change, Mao's statement that "Power flows from the mouth of a gun" will be apt. If nothing else, the birth rates of non-Protestant, non-Caucasian people is accelerating while the birth rates of the affluent are shrinking. The Conservative approach of either walling them off (do any of them have any true idea of how many thousands of miles of borders the United States has?), deporting them back (at a return rate of maybe 5%?), or shooting them (East German style--we all should remember what a stunning success the DDR was!) will keep fill-in-the-blank racial/ethnic group(s) out. Insanity! Big chunks of the world would exchange the poverty of our lowest for the desparation of their current lives in a millisecond. They vote with their legs every day. If we do not act to change, Mao’s statement that “Power flows from the mouth of a gun” will be apt. If nothing else, the birth rates of non-Protestant, non-Caucasian people is accelerating while the birth rates of the affluent are shrinking. The Conservative approach of either walling them off (do any of them have any true idea of how many thousands of miles of borders the United States has?), deporting them back (at a return rate of maybe 5%?), or shooting them (East German style–we all should remember what a stunning success the DDR was!) will keep fill-in-the-blank racial/ethnic group(s) out. Insanity! Big chunks of the world would exchange the poverty of our lowest for the desparation of their current lives in a millisecond. They vote with their legs every day.

]]> http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-18 burbachcooper Sat, 05 May 2007 21:29:53 +0000 http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/#comment-18 Yes - but only because people think sociology is stupid and because we fail to believe that we have any power to change. We fear change. We fear metamorphosis. We fear loss of status. We fear. Yes – but only because people think sociology is stupid and because we fail to believe that we have any power to change. We fear change. We fear metamorphosis. We fear loss of status. We fear.

]]> http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-17 John Merryweather Cooper Sat, 05 May 2007 20:52:39 +0000 http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/#comment-17 Santyana, even as a conservative, was very correct when he pronounced: "Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it." The oppression, discrimination, and vile hatred exhibited by WASPs for the succeeding waves of: Irish, German, Italian, Polish, and now Hispanic is a historic fact. That each generation repeats the same stupid mistakes over-and-over again sometimes leads me to feel that Nietzsche may not have been so far off when he pronounced the existence of the "Eternal Re-occurrence" of things. Are we really that stuck in a loop? Santyana, even as a conservative, was very correct when he pronounced: “Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.” The oppression, discrimination, and vile hatred exhibited by WASPs for the succeeding waves of: Irish, German, Italian, Polish, and now Hispanic is a historic fact. That each generation repeats the same stupid mistakes over-and-over again sometimes leads me to feel that Nietzsche may not have been so far off when he pronounced the existence of the “Eternal Re-occurrence” of things. Are we really that stuck in a loop?

]]> http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-15 burbachcooper Sat, 05 May 2007 20:38:56 +0000 http://borgsdemons.com/blog/2007/05/01/immigration-and-the-weakening-of-america/#comment-15 Your conclusion is so very true - but no one would admit it. We justify our own racism in a variety of ways - including cloaking ourselves as upholding the rule of law. We are threatened by people who don't look, speak or act like "US". It is a typical in-group/out-group conflict. Your conclusion is so very true – but no one would admit it. We justify our own racism in a variety of ways – including cloaking ourselves as upholding the rule of law. We are threatened by people who don’t look, speak or act like “US”. It is a typical in-group/out-group conflict.

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