Gee’s Reviews > The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return > Status Update

what we somehow “owe” the rest of the world: America is neither an “economy” nor a refugee camp. We’re a country, with our own particular citizen body and interests. Serious countries enact polices to serve those interests. Oligarchies enact policies to further partial, private interests.

Schlesinger criticized multiculturalists as “very often ethnocentric separatists who see little in the Western heritage other than Western crimes,” whose “mood is one of divesting Americans of their sinful European inheritance and seeking redemptive infusions from non-Western cultures.”

On some level, leftism knows that it is parasitic on conservatism—just as vice is parasitic on virtue, incompetence on competence, consumers on producers, and disorder on order—which makes separation frightening to many leftist elites

“conservatives” are not unaware that the left is now at least fifty years into a scorched-earth campaign against virtue, morality, piety, liberty, industry, enterprise, thrift, decency, modesty, and courage

The core purpose of mass immigration for the left specifically (as opposed to the ruling-class passion for cheap labor) is demographically to overwhelm red America so that, first and foremost, no Republican can ever win the presidency again and, second, the Republican Party becomes irrelevant in as many states, counties, and cities as possible

there are only two ways to hold the current ruling coalition together: generate and distribute enough spoils to keep everyone happy, and stoke the constituent parts’ common resentments.
The more that the former can be accomplished, the less necessary is the latter.

is the ruling class vision of a deracinated economic-administrative zone conducive to or even consistent with America remaining a superpower over the long term?
Regarding the first question, we know from history that it’s possible for a ruling class to exercise power and maintain their own predominance for a long time without their country itself enjoying anything like great-power status.

American institutions prioritize factors other than qualifications. The ruling class have (while in part exempting themselves) placed a giant bet that this focus will not erode the overall competence and functioning of institutions that hire on such bases, or, eventually, of society itself

we’ll still go through the formality of elections, but for show, like senate votes in imperial Rome. The less consequential elections become, the more our elites will insist on their sacrosanct significance. The mere fact of holding elections will become ipso facto proof that the regime is “democratic” and therefore legitimate.

If present trends continue, the Constitution has no future. Not only will neither its letter nor spirit be honored—either in ordinary circumstances or in the breach—not only will none of its guarantees be upheld nor any of its limits respected, but the document itself will be increasingly denounced as a hateful tool of racist oppression, a relic of a benighted, evil past best left on the ash heap of history