But the greatest risk we are taking, based on utopianism, is the annual importation of well over a million legal and illegal immigrants, many from the failed states of the Third World, in the belief we can create a united, peaceful and harmonious land of 400 million, composed of every race, religion, ethnicity, tribe, creed, culture and language on earth.
Where is the historic evidence for the success of this experiment, the failure of which could mean the end of America as one nation and one people?
There is no such evidence. Most people with a bit of life experience know that one can get along and interact productively only with some people. Productive interaction requires a broad base of shared agreement on all sorts of things. And to discuss and mediate the differences that inevitably arise even with broad agreement on fundamentals a common language is needed. So, unless you are foolish, there ought to be only one language in the USA for all public purposes, English. This is entirely consistent with the view that learning foreign languages is wonderfully enriching and ought to be encouraged. It was a huge mistake when voting forms were allowed to be published in foreign languages. For it permits and encourages non-assimilation without which there can be no lasting social cohesion.
No comity without commonality as one of my aphorisms has it.
The Left, however, wants the end of America as she was founded to be, "one nation and one people." That is why leftists support the illegal invasion from the south. This was evident in 2018, but blindingly evident now. Then they tended to hide behind the Orwellian obfuscation of "comprehensive immigration reform." But now the former stealth ideologies are out in the open with their support for the destructive policies of the Biden administration.
The enemy has been identified.
Do not think of leftists and 'progressives' as mere political opponents who differ with us on issues about which reasonable disagreement is possible; they are better thought of us as disorderly elements and domestic enemies. There can be no peace with them because they represent an 'existential threat,' not to our physical existence so much as to our way of life, which is of course far more important than our merely physical or biological existence. They are a threat to our language, our culture, our traditions, and our Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman heritage as is evident from their attempted distortion and indeed erasure of our history and its memorials.
But I must add, contra certain of the Alt Right, that "one people" should not be understood racially or ethnically. An enlightened nationalism is not a white nationalism. America is of course 'a proposition nation.' You will find the propositions in the founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence.
I don't care whether you are Hispanic or Asian or Black. If you immigrated legally, accept the propositions, drop the hyphens, assimilate, and identify as an American, then I say you are one of us. I'll even celebrate the culinary diversity you contribute.
That being understood, it is also true that whites discovered these America-constitutive propositions and are well-equipped to appreciate and uphold them, and better equipped than some other groups. That is a fact that a sane legal immigration policy must reflect.
My view is eminently reasonable and balanced. It navigates between the Scylla of destructive leftist globalist internationalism and the Charybdis of racist identity-political particularism.
Unfortunately, what I have written is little more than an academic exercise. Too little too late. A twilight retrospective: “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk.” (Hegel) This particular owls fears that our once-great republic cannot last. It could quite possibly collapse within a year or two. I’ll now hand off to Kurt Schlichter who is better equipped than I am to make the case for political pessimism.