Friends, I'm nothing if not flexible. When the Bidenist stormtroopers break down my door, I'll proudly profess my undying loyalty to Never-Slept-Once-in-his-Life Joe. I'm no idiot.
On the other hand, we conservatives, patriots, and Trumpers have to assess our options carefully, as this country descends incrementally down the rabbit hole of neo-Marxism. In fact, we even have to be prepared to ask: does America deserve our fidelity and respect, when it's rapidly becoming a place in which people like us aren't welcome? It's a question worth asking, no?
That's why my latest article tackles this epic conundrum in a humorous way. In essence, I expand on my recent suggestion to Ray that, perhaps, the USA and Central America ought to engage in a little population exchange. America wants all the Hispanic "refugees" it can find, but it also wants to rid itself of as many white, Christian conservatives as it can tactfully disgorge... I see the groundwork for a beautiful compromise, don't you?
Read all about it...
Hey, Central America! Have I Got a Deal For You...
Recently, the Biden administration rolled back key elements of President Trump's strong border enforcement policy — an approach that saw illegal crossings fall. Now, the drumbeat of changes is starting to imperil more than just border security: our national security hangs in the balance.
Biden has decided that “asylum seekers” will no longer wait in Mexico, and they will no longer have to prove that they are victims of political persecution. Instead, merely fearing criminal and/or domestic violence, or claiming to fear it, will do. In addition, construction on the Wall has been halted; deportations, even of criminals, have been sharply curtailed; Obama-era “catch and release” programs for recent arrivals have been resumed; immigration agents tasked with homeland enforcement have been reassigned; a path to citizenship has been proposed for every illegal immigrant currently in the country; and the prospective Attorney General, when asked if illegal immigration laws would be enforced at all, could only reply “I don't know”.
For those concerned about the security and integrity of our border, these are all red flags. For aspiring illegal immigrants, however, they are like manna from heaven. The number of people surging across the southern border has already picked up. It threatens in the next few months to become a veritable tidal wave. Most will come from Central America, but increasing numbers are also from as far afield as Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Needless to say, the more the Earth's poor feel that they will be welcomed in the United States, the more they will come.
Republicans, who are much more likely than Democrats to be concerned about this problem, are unfortunately powerless to do anything about it. Democrats and progressives, who tend to regard illegal immigrants as morally and culturally superior to benighted “Anglos”, control the presidency, all federal agencies regulating migration, the House, and the Senate. Thus, if they wish to open the door to illegal migrants — even millions or tens of millions of them — “We the People” can do nothing but sit back and take it. In 2022, assuming our elections are at least vaguely fair, we might reacquire a voice in these matters, but until then we have to accept that a “refugee” tsunami is headed our way.
As it turns out, this is just one of the reasons why Republicans and conservatives are despondent. Frankly, our views have become an irrelevance not just in immigration matters, but in all policy areas.
For instance, the Biden administration is plowing ahead with plans for ruinous levels of new federal spending. The $1.9 trillion COVID “Relief” Bill is just a down payment. Massive outlays on “infrastructure”, green energy, health care, free college education, and “social justice” initiatives like slavery reparations are in the pipeline. Anyone with sense can see that inflation and higher interest rates are coming...but, as usual, there is nothing we can do about it. Combine this looming disaster with the unprecedented threats to the unborn, to Second Amendment rights, to free speech, to religious liberty, and even to our basic ability to operate businesses and to make a living, and it's easy to see why many patriots are questioning their futures in this country.
As if all this were not bad enough, there is also the growing stigmatization of dissent to consider. Conservatives are increasingly being hounded from the public sphere, banned from social media platforms, fired from their jobs, and derided as “traitors”, “white supremacists”, and “extremists”. The bar for such accusations, needless to say, is low, and it sinks lower every day. Those of us who voted for Trump find ourselves not just on the losing end of a presidential election, but despised and persecuted in our own land. We were driven out of most educational and cultural institutions long ago. Now the business and political worlds are conspiring to make our isolation complete. No, we're not like the Jews in Nazi Germany, but we often don't feel welcome in our own communities anymore either, and that's a sad thing to admit.
And so, a ready (if “outside the box”) solution presents itself! If soon the cities and villages of Central America are to be emptied of their “huddled masses” — that is, of every intrepid/beleaguered soul who imagines that life in America may offer a ray of hope — then it is inevitable that vacancies will arise in these tropical locales.
Might I suggest, therefore, that, instead of suffering from depopulation and destabilization, the governments of these Central American nations should seize the opportunity that 74 million forlorn Trumpers represent. Most of us, after all, are industrious, conscientious, law-abiding, family-oriented, God-fearing, honest, and decent. We're exactly the sort of migrants that any country — except America, apparently — would want. Why not make an even trade, therefore? Biden's USA wants all the impoverished Guatemalan subsistence farmers it can get its hands on, and American conservatives want a fresh start, a fair shake, and a land of opportunity and relative freedom in which they can pursue their dreams and live according to their values. Who's to say, then, that Make America Great Again (MAGA) couldn't just as easily become Make Guatemala Great Again (MGGA)? 74 million Trumpers would go a long way to breathing new life into a region that has long fallen short of its promise. What say you?
Heck, we could probably sweeten the deal still further: Biden and the Dems would presumably be happy to throw a few trillion dollars (what's it to them?) at us would-be exiles, and the countries that agreed to take us in, to grease the wheels of this ideological cleansing. It's a small price to pay to rid yourself of millions of “deplorables”, right?
All this, of course, is mostly tongue-in-cheek...for now. We conservatives are not yet ready to abandon the country we love, but we are ready to begin asking the question: will it someday abandon us?
Donald J. Trump is not the only patriot, therefore, who may eventually find that the prospects of a life in exile are arguably superior to the constant derision, harassment, and persecution he faces here at home. It's a big, wide world, after all, and sunnier climes abound. The United States of America has been the “shining city on a hill” for over 200 years, yes, but, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end...
Food for thought.
Dr. Nicholas L. Waddy is an Associate Professor of History at SUNY Alfred and blogs at: www.waddyisright.com. He appears on the Newsmaker Show on WLEA 1480/106.9.
And here it is at Townhall:
In other news, Emperor Cuomo's sins appear to be catching up with him, although his approval rating is still above 50%! What a state, huh? You can kill old people and hide their corpses, in effect, and the voters still like you, as long as you have a "D" after your name... Oy!
Keep a close eye on the Dems' efforts to pressure cable providers to drop conservative news networks. Congress probably won't be front and center in this effort. I expect the agitation of leftist grassroots activists will be more significant. Boycotts, tweet storms, picketing -- this sort of thing gets the attention of big corporations, and the lefties are masters of it. Their chief goal, as always, is to destroy the opposition.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/23/fox-news-oann-newsmax-crosshairs-democrats-push-co/
Finally, conservatives of every stripe are uniting to protect election integrity, and for good reason. If we can't trust that our elections are fair, or at least minimally fair, we'll never win another important state or national election again. This one is non-negotiable, people!
Hey Dr. Nick
ReplyDeleteI really don't have time for your fascist shit. All I care about is Tiger Woods.
Just joking. Ha!
Dr.Waddy from Jack: All leftist political efforts, electoral or public opinion altering,have as their central, administratively enforced goal the leftist totalitarian dictatorial takeover of the US.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I heard Tiger plays golf or something? Good for him!
ReplyDeleteJack: you always keep your eyes on the prize! Seems to me that the only thing that most progressives are really, truly passionate about is hating conservatives. And they're very good at it!
Dr.Waddy from Jack: Please correct me if you think I use this term incorrectly but I would venture that the left hasproven itself historically and consistently to be of philosophically ( certainly not religiously) Manichaean belief. "There are we and there are they and they are by definition opposite to us because they doubt us! Therefore, since we are ever for justice they are surely UNJUST! And that justifies any measure of suppression of their beliefs and, if necessary, their very civil rights or their physical existence (uhh, 100 million killed by "their own" governments in the 20th century?).
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy et al from Jack: This view is surely still essential to the left and we see it manifested in such as Cuomo's dictatorship, in Biden's executive onslaught and in numerous social and political settings discussed on this blog. Its lesson to us? The American left has as its essential principle the complete defeat and subjugation of all "elements" deemed opposite to it. We must believe this and resolve,as did 20th century defenders of freedom, that we must defeat them, thoroughly!!
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly agree, Jack. The creed of the Left seems eminently "Manichean". I think that might be a bit of human universal, though -- us versus them thinking -- since we can detect it on the right in many cases too. Anyway, Manichean thinking is great for riling up the troops and motivating people to take action. You can see why it lends itself to political propaganda...
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree, Jack, especially given the enfeeblement of our democratic institutions, that the battle between red and blue can be seen as an existential one. I fully expect one side to prevail, and the other side to experience very severe persecution and a long spell in the wilderness. What I don't know is which side will be which.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I would disagree only in that the radical left consigned to the gutter would be persecuted only in the denial to them of the totalitarian rule which is their cherished dream. Look at the tantrum they threw when Hillary was denied.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, Jack. Maybe. On the other hand, there are many right-wingers far more vituperative than you or I. As leftist insanity grows more acute, the urge among some of our ilk to seek vengeance intensifies. I would love to see "everyone get along", but as time passes that becomes harder and harder to imagine.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack:The Marxist conned boomer enabled New Left madea conscious decision to adopt a vicious, comprehensive iconoclasm in the 60sand it hws produced a level of civil hatred and distrust on both sides unseen since the 1850s.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: But in saying that I ignored your well taken point; there are many who would, in the hour of our victory, glory in the prolonged shaming of the left. Churchill wisely urged "in victory: magnanimity" as a preface to his memoirs of the existential fight he led against an opponent comparable to the American left in its fell intent!
ReplyDeleteJack, I say: first, let's defeat the Left -- utterly and definitively -- and then we'll debate how magnanimous to be towards them. The key is that, when we get them down on the ground, we never let them rise up again!
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