Dear Reader,
Now that the level of buffoonery has been taken up to 11 this week, between fevered debates about the extent to which Haitian migrants are, or are not, eating pets, and the Mossad setting off pager bombs (nice to know that Hezbollah is using ’90s technology), perhaps we could take a step back.
When I posted about immigration last week, and linked to a number of stories, including this one out of Springfield, Ohio, little did I know that 36 hours afterwards, Donald Trump would reference Springfield in the Presidential “debate.” Since then, an enormous amount of time has been consumed in the public discourse about this, but perhaps we are missing the forest for the trees.
For one thing, perhaps a distinction may be made between the organic and the inorganic components of mass migration into the United States, and the ensuing cultural and social sea change. And perhaps before we entrust our civilizational fate to a particular wing of the Uniparty, some history could be remembered.
The Organic
It is beyond the scope of this post to get into a religious, moral, ethical, or even scientific debate about lifestyles and choices. The point here is simply to report on facts, such as those contained in these articles:
From Guttmacher — May 2021: Around 99% of Americans aged 15–44 have practiced some form of contraception at some point as of 2008
From Pew — December 2022: In the USA, “Following the baby boom from 1946 to 1964, birth rates plummeted through the early 1970s, then fluctuated little in succeeding decades.”
From the CDC — April 2024: US fertility rate hits all-time low
Again: this post is not about debating or arguing religion, morality, ethics, or science (if you do want my thoughts on that, you can read Casti Connuubii by Pope Pius XI or Humanae Vitae by St. Paul VI). For this post, let us just say that regardless of what one may think of the morality—or lack thereof—of certain choices, choices have consequences, and choices at scale…have large-scale consequences.
This is why no matter what candidates win elections and what government policies are pursued in the coming years and decades, the USA is almost certainly going to become a lot less Anglo-flavored, there will be much less English spoken in it, and—for those obsessed with skin pigmentation—yes, there will be a lot less “white” (whatever that even is)-pigmented skin in this country.
Some may take this as defeatist and fatalist. But I don’t think it is defeatist or fatalistic to point out that an earthquake has taken place since the early-to-mid-20th century, and that a tsunami is on the horizon. Indeed, quite the opposite; I would put it to you that it is those who cling to politics and government policy as sufficient solutions for the preservation of civilization, who are leading others to defeat and fatality.
That said, there may yet be a role for politics and policy to play in mitigating what appears to be coming. And this leads to —
The Inorganic
Even things like declining birthrates have an inorganic aspect to them; from toxic chemicals introduced into biosystems, to weaponized culture war ideologies, and even the culture of sterility itself (many people have been induced—especially through “education” and entertainment—to adopt lifestyles of sterility), much of this is inorganic and directed.
Additionally, certain things related to immigration have been especially inorganically directed, since at least the mid-1960s.
Consider Richard Cloward’s and Frances Fox Piven’s treatise The Weight of the Poor, published in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Frequently dubbed the Cloward-Piven “Strategy,” The Weight of the Poor called for collaboration between government bureaucracies and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) to exploit as many people (including vulnerable and easily-manipulated immigrants) as possible, to ‘collapse the system.’ Although I highly recommend that you read The Weight of the Poor in its entirety, consider here a few excerpts:
To generate an expressly political movement, cadres of aggressive organizers would have to come from the civil rights movement and the churches, from militant low-income organizations like those formed by the Industrial Areas Foundation (that is, by Saul Alinsky), and from other groups on the Left. These activists should be quick to see the difference between programs to redress individual grievances and a large-scale social-action campaign for national policy reform.
Cadres of aggressive organizers would have to come, but to what purpose?
The ultimate aim of this strategy is a new program for direct income distribution. What reason is there to expect that the federal government will enact such legislation in response to a crisis in the welfare system?
No, the ultimate aim (whether Cloward and Piven realized it or not) was to implement full-scale totalitarian tyranny. “A new program for direct income distribution” was a means to that ultimate aim.
By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention. Public trouble is a political liability, it calls for action by political leaders to stabilize the situation. Because crisis usually creates or exposes conflict, it threatens to produce cleavages in a political consensus which politicians will ordinarily act to avert.
When social order collapses, tyranny—however much Cloward and Piven may have dressed it up as humanitarianism—almost always has its day.
Although immigrants and immigration are not mentioned by those terms in The Weight of the Poor, one would be naïve to discount the value of vulnerable, easily-manipulated migrants to “cadres of aggressive organizers.” One would have to be even more naïve to miss how government agencies and NGOs have been using migrants for years.
However strictly and explicitly the Cloward-Piven Strategy is being followed today, and however much coordination there may or may not be around it, its spirit is part of the tyrannical project in which we live.
So yes, there may be a role for politics and policy, but…
A Word of Caution
As much as there may be something to be said for politics and government policy in mitigating the further rise of tyranny—and the next six to seven weeks will probably feature a plethora of reminders of this—be on guard.
Although the Republican party is trying to capitalize on the news this week, a pattern exists of the Uniparty utilizing Republicans and Democrats, particularly as relates to “security” — Democrats typically play the role of problem-creators, and Republicans play the role of problem-“solvers.” But the ultimate problem being worked on is this: that you have too much freedom, and our tyrants don’t have enough power.
In other words, for every Bill Clinton and Janet Reno, ‘letting Al-Qaida run wild,’ there’s a George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzalez to further implement the surveillance state. For every Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch ‘letting violent Marxist thugs run wild,’ there’s a Donald Trump and Bill Barr to push the police state even further, and the thing is, ultimately, the same people are utilizing the police state to their ends, regardless of whether Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden/Harris is in the role of figurehead-in-chief…
I believe that there are many honorable and well-intentioned people in the US government, but I suspect that the further you go up their chains of command, the less interest you will find in actually protecting people from Al-Qaida, Antifa, and violent immigrants, and the more interest you will find in protecting the regime from annoying concepts like ‘inalienable rights, endowed by the Creator.’
Al-Qaida, Antifa, and—now—Haitian migrants are not the target of the surveillance and police state — they are the cheese in the mousetrap.
You are the target of the police state.
Conclusion
Of course, none of this is as interesting as the ABC moderators of the Presidential debate last week, or as debate-worthy as what Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating. In fact, I am going to go ahead and call it — as of this week, it’s official: it’s Silly Season.
But amid Silly Season, don’t lose sight of the reality that civilizational changes have been underway for decades (if not centuries), and WWIII is on.
Stay vigilant. Stay defiant.