Posted on 11/27/2012 11:56:54 AM PST by Altura Ct.
The ongoing and not-so-gradual loss of American Civilization is the result of two related phenomena: the invasion of our country from the southern border, and our elites' culture of self-loathing that oozed out of the noxious slime of the 60's.
Western Europe is rapidly losing its own civilization for identical reasons (with invaders more poisonous than America's, and its own reproductive decadence, thrown in to expedite the process).
The first phenomenon -- the invasions -- wouldn't be happening in either place had they not been preceded by the second -- our elites' descent into cultural self-hatred.
All self-respecting civilizations defend themselves vigorously from hostile invaders.
Examples from the West's own past are legion:
Europe, circa AD 732 (Battle of Tours -- the Franks, in the heart of Europe, halt the onrush of imperialistic Arab Islam); the Spanish Reconquista, circa 800-1492...
The list could go on.
...Our task is not merely to stop the ongoing physical invasions of America and Europe. Those unopposed invasions, by groups most of whom who seek fundamental, culturally destructive revolution in both places, are the symptoms, not the causes, of our decay.
We must teach the young, and many others who've forgotten, the remedial truth that they are the luckiest generation in human history -- because they are the inheritors and beneficiaries of 2500 years of accumulated human material and moral improvement, about 95% of which has been the gift to them and to the world of the Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian civilization of the West.
Once this indisputable truth is again widely appreciated in the West, the other critical insight can emerge: that the West has at least as much right as any other culture to preserve itself from the collapse that mass invasion by will cause.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
First off you would have to replace the moral decay in Hollywood and the MSM, they hurt the very people they are so
fond of.
Their loathing by libtards of the traditional values that made America great is a product mainly of a combination of three atheistic and materialistic worldviews that despise the values of the Founding Fathers and Christianity: secular humanism, Marxism, and postmodernism.If left unchecked, the ideas of these three have or will utterly destroy America.
I seriously doubt this claim.
The massive influx of Irish in the early/mid 19th century was not composed of well-educated professional people, nor the huge numbers of Italian peasants coming in in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Chinese "coolies" of the second half of the 19th were not educated. To quote only three examples.
To be fair, of course, education was not nearly as critical to life success back then.
To address your other issues, it is probable that we assimilated the Jews, Italians and others that came in such huge number pre-WWI is probably because there was a decades-long moratorium on immigration, cutting them off, as you say, from fresh blood. No choice but to assimilate.
But I still firmly believe that the real issue is ideological. Immigrants are taught by our media that "their" culture is one to take pride in, and that "our" culture is one to be ashamed of. Why would anyone want to assimilate from a culture to be proud of into one they would need to be ashamed of?
Agreed. The 100 years of Education Control by the Feds have finally destroyed America.
If parents made sure that their children were taught the constitutional statutes which divide state and federal government powers, Section 8 of Article I, Article V and the 10th Amendment, and you could probably fit those statutes on two pages, then we probably wouldn't have the unconstitutionally big federal government that we have today.
In fact, since you indicated immigration issues, please note the following. Noting that Section 8 mentioned above says nothing about immigration, the 10th Amendment clarifies in general that the states had reserved government power to regulate immigration uniquely to themselves, not the Oval Office and Congress. But don't take my word for it. Consider Thomas Jefferson's 10A-based clarification that immigration is a state power issue.
"4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the -- day of July, 1798, intituled "An Act concerning aliens," which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
Again, when citizens are not taught the constitutional division of federal and state government powers, they tend to naturally, but wrongly conclude that the federal government has unlimited powers.
Nearly a quarter of American adults had less than five years of schooling in 1910. Only 13% completed high school and 2.7% from college. In 1900, only a little more than 10% of high school age children were actually enrolled in school.
Immigrants who arrived before the 1840s were for the most part similar to the native population, if not superior in education and ambition; they were rarely considered a problem by the native-born population. With the arrival of large numbers of Irish and German Catholics in the two decades before the Civil War, however, immigrants began to be seen as a threat to American society. The number of immigrants tripled between the 1830s and the 1840s, and the country received as many immigrants in the 1850s as in the two previous decades combined. Between 1845 and 1854 immigration increased the American population by 17.6 percent, a much higher rate than in the latter half of the twentieth century.
To address your other issues, it is probable that we assimilated the Jews, Italians and others that came in such huge number pre-WWI is probably because there was a decades-long moratorium on immigration, cutting them off, as you say, from fresh blood. No choice but to assimilate.
There was no decades long moratorium on immigration. We had reduced immigration levels that began in the 1920s that remained in force until 1965.
But I still firmly believe that the real issue is ideological. Immigrants are taught by our media that "their" culture is one to take pride in, and that "our" culture is one to be ashamed of. Why would anyone want to assimilate from a culture to be proud of into one they would need to be ashamed of?
We will agree to disagree. Here is a piece by Professor Huntington dealing with the problems of assimilation as it pertains to Hispanics
I don’t thinkso/
Its awareness. I believe America is unaware, uneducated and ill-informed. Most have no idea who or WHAT obama is/ represents.
There is no doubt his activities and the death of America is now at warp speed.
Perhaps I am the ill informed. I believe the movie needs to get out there... and be”in their faces”.
This article is a very nice way to say that white people are under attack by savages. I’ve given up trying to divide the warring groups by conservative vs liberal. Anyone with a brain in their head knows that Mau Mau Buckwheat hates white people, and he wants to kill white people by the millions. He is America’s Hitler. Fortunately, his army is composed of 20 IQ apes who can’t hold a glock straight. And fortunately for us, white Americans are the best fighters in the world, bar none.
Ban me.
“I ran across the fact that in 1860 a majority of the inhabitants of WI were foreign-born”
They certainly were, but the difference is that the ‘foreign-born’ cited came from countries that had their foundation in European cultural values and philosphy.
That is certainly not the case now.
Well, yes it is.
Unless Spain is not considered part of Europe. No reasonable person will determine that Spanish-American countries don't have their (primary) foundation in Spanish "cultural values and philosophy."
Now you can make quite a decent case that Spain is a special case in Europe, with its culture dramatically impacted by Muslim conquest and occupation. Although a Spaniard of the time would likely have killed you for saying so.
But Spain is still part of Europe, and Latin American countries are all more European than native in their culture, though the mix varies.
And I have yet to see anybody point out why an individual Mexican peasant in 2012 is inherently less capable of assimilation than a Sicilian peasant in 1912. Both were culturally dramatically different from the American mainstream.
In the early 20s the rate of immigration fell off a cliff, and in the next half-century the immigrants pretty thoroughly assimilated, being isolated from cultural influences from the mother country.
I see no reason the same couldn't be done today, except that our elites won't allow another hiatus in massive immigration.
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