Friends, my latest article analyzes the political decline of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, caused by, more than anything else, her disastrous decision to let her country be overrun with "refugees" in 2015-16. I argue that mainstream politicians who refuse to enact sensible immigration policies are courting a right-wing, nationalist, and anti-immigrant backlash. The most notable effect of that backlash, to date, has been the election of Donald J. Trump as the U.S President, but more may be coming. Merkel, if she falls, would confirm what you and I have known for a long time: the silent majority simply won't accept weak immigration enforcement, and facile hero-worship of all alleged refugees, forever. As always, the Left could do itself a great service by acknowledging that the law is the law, even for people of color and Muslims, and thus all illegal immigrants should face prompt repatriation. That they cannot bring themselves to accept this reveals their pusillanimity and their reverse racism. Let us hope that the public finally catches on and acts accordingly.
Thanks to Townhall for publishing the article!
https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2018/10/01/the-decline-and-fall-of-angela-merkel-is-a-warning-sign-for-immigration-apologists-everywhere-n2524379
Dr. Waddy: Great article, I hope you are right. I'll digress a bit and then return to your main point.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much German guilt and a desire to make up for Germany's monstrous history or to show that Germany has repented might have been in Angela Merkel's mind when she exposed younger Germans (who cannot be held responsible for Germany's crimes - they did not in any way benefit from them)to the travails of ill considered acceptance of many, many immigrants from cultures vastly different from that of Northern Europe? Germany did not have the extended colonial history of other great European powers and the perhaps historically mitigated invasion of these other powers by descendants of their subjects, is not to be attributed to them, for the most part.
We face an in some ways analogous situation in the continuing effort to secure reparations for black people for the evils of slavery and Jim Crow. I'll not argue that: David Horowitz has given it well formed criticism in his book arguing against reparations ( I cannot recall the title but it is readily findable in Horowitz's bibliography). We cannot reprise our past; how much credit accrues to our sincere efforts to address the wrongs visited upon the undoubted victims of that past? Perhaps Germany should consider massive payments to Israel and all provable holocaust victims to the third generation. But a multitudinous infusion into their country, their culture, their polity, of persons inimical to their ways cannot but generate resolute resistance, be it morally defensible or no.
Its entirely plausible that Obama, with his "anticolonial" and America doubting convictions, saw illegal immigration from south of our country as deserved recompense. Not for him was contemplation of what Mexican rule of New Mexico, Arizona and California would have meant. He himself, is of course,personally insulated from the historically speculative consequences of this together with the very concrete consequences his dreaming has visited upon states profoundly effected by illegal immigration and the attack on the rule of law he has so blithely enabled.
I am very hopeful that your belief that what I call the real America has reacted decisively and will continue to enact
resolute resistance to the purposeful leftist resistance to our nation's immigration laws, is affirmed. It may well have a profound influence on our elections.
That said, there are yet ways which blessedly rich nations such as the U.S. and Germany can render aid to the unblameable wretched of the Earth. But forced assimilation into nations for whom cultural, sociological, and political integration is proven impossible bids only to generate profound reaction on the part of those unfairly disadvantaged therefore.
Jack, you're right that the Germans have had a soft spot for "refugees" ever since WWII, when so many Germans became refugees themselves. Nonetheless, Germany since WWII has also had some very restrictive policies about allowing entry, and especially citizenship, to non-Germans. I certainly can't think of any flood of refugees that Germany accepted before 2015, although there was a definite uptick during the Bosnian conflict. Anyway, presumably Merkel didn't anticipate the consequences of her kind-heartedness. She got an education!
ReplyDeleteYou're right that Merkel, Obama, and people like them are utterly insulated from the ramifications of their loose enforcement of national sovereignty. In Obama's case, let's not forget the racial/political motivation too -- he likely assumed that, the more Hispanics who show up at the border, the better, since they will surely end up voting for Democrats! You can understand why he would think that he could get away with it too. After all, if America had already put up with 11 million illegals...what's a few more?
Dr. Waddy: I think the answer to "what's a few more?" has been and is President Trump.
ReplyDeleteRight on, Jack! Politics is full of surprises. I think it's clear that the Dems never saw Trump(ism) coming...
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: How could any of us have anticipated this miracle? Historians and Political Scientists will identify plausible reasons for it in good time but it could not have been predicted - both his victory and his increasingly confirmed suitability for the office. We may well have been the beneficiaries of the only true Miracle Maker (in my opinion). It may also well be that it IS darkest before the dawn and that the dawn is about to break. There have been other resolutely defended but ultimately failed causes in American history (eg. the Confederacy) and the left may be the latest and yes, how very much they deserve it and for reasons very much different from the Southern cause.
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope all you say comes to pass, Jack. One thing that Left has never lacked for, though, is confidence. There aren't many of them who doubt that the "progressives" will inherit the earth. A red wave would help to dissuade them, but only when we wrench some of our nation's key institutions out of their clammy, manicured hands will we have won a definitive victory, in my opinion. When people start talking about "conservative bias" in academia, for instance...we'll know we've arrived at the promised land. :)
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: I think the American academy is beyond help and that it should be isolated, like a benign but inoperable tumor. The state of New York may soon require the same from the real America, I hate to say. Dissenters in both setting stand to be profoundly wronged but the left is the oppressor and its nationwide defeat is the solution.
ReplyDeleteI am regretfully coming to the same conclusion. The opinion leaders on the Left are showing themselves to be without scruples and without any concept of proportionality or fairness. The leftist mind is so beclouded with vicious propaganda that it's becoming impossible to engage in rational discourse. I fear we're approaching a tipping point.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: I think we may well have met our 1863, our tipping point, with Hillary's defeat. At least we kept the radical left from cresting the summit and showering real and falsely symbolic glass fragments on the Javits Center and our beloved country. 1863 had to be followed through on by ones convinced that it was a yet unfulfilled but fully creditable victory - President Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Thomas. Their latter day equivalents are President Trump, Mitch McConnell, Charles Grassley,all the Fox pundits and the faithful though not reflexive law abiding Justices with whom we are now blessed. We have a fighting chance to save our country and we must follow through in November.
ReplyDeleteAmen, Jack. I must say, it comforts me that the Susan Collinses of this great nation are siding with us. That bodes well. She represents the sort of moderate, educated white woman who could very well be the swing element in 2018.
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