Restoring America

By “Jeffersonian”

N.S.: The author sent me this work yesterday, asking me to pass it along. And so I am doing that, in serial form.
 


“Don’t Hate, Separate”

(Anonymous)




CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION


It is widely agreed that the United States of America has been functioning poorly in recent years. Among the many signs of this are:

1) Wildly unbalanced federal budgets.
2) An accumulated federal debt of astronomical proportions.
3) Government shutdowns.
4) Persistent high unemployment (and underemployment).
5) Persistent inability to defend our borders against illegal immigration.
6) A decline in our industrial base.
7) Large and persistent foreign trade deficits.
8) Increasingly shrill levels of partisan discourse.
9) High levels of racial mistrust and hostility.
10) A steady rise in illegitimate births.
11) Lengthy participation in unpopular wars.
12) Increased government surveillance of the civilian population.
13) Declining respect for our constitution and our Founding Fathers.
14) A marked decline in the feeling that our leaders rule with the consent of the governed.

Perhaps the most obvious of these are the enormous deficits that the federal government has been running. Under President George W. Bush, these deficits reached 400 billion dollars a year, a figure that both parties considered intolerably high. Under President Obama, those yearly deficits ballooned to well over a trillion dollars a year. It is clear that these deficits are driven by extravagant government spending; but despite many exposés of government waste Congress has been unable to curtail its spending habits.

Many news sources state that the accumulated federal debt is now 17 trillion dollars. Alas, the reality is much worse than that. If the government included unfunded liabilities (such as the present value of future social security payments) as a debt – as any private organization would be legally required to – the accumulated federal debt would be over 60 trillion dollars.

There was a partial shutdown of the federal government in 1995, and another in 2013, in both cases caused by disagreements between Congress and the President, and it is not clear that they are now able to work together or to find a compromise. Furthermore, there are repeated crises concerning the debt limit, raising the real possibility of a default on the federal debt.

Despite the claim that the recession that began in 2008 has ended, unemployment levels remain high. Furthermore, since the official figures do not include those persons who have become so discouraged that they are no longer actively looking for a job, they probably understate unemployment. In addition, even among those persons listed as working, there has been a sharp decrease in the number who are working full-time.

The federal legislative process is no longer working well. Our Founding Fathers intended that all important federal legislation would be carefully considered by Congress before being voted on. In recent years, however, important legislation is often in the form of enormous, lengthy bills that nobody has even read – let alone carefully considered. One example was the federal “bailout” passed in late 2008.

Another example was the “stimulus bill” passed in early 2009, with little discussion and no Republican votes. A third was the “Obamacare” bill − over 2000 pages long – which was not even read (let alone carefully considered) by a single congressman. In all those cases, and various others, Congress was told that the crisis was too severe to permit detailed consideration of the bill being considered. Such cases have turned our system into a parody of representative government.

Part of the reason for bypassing normal procedures is that partisanship and mistrust between the major parties is the worst it has been since the Civil War. Politicians in both parties routinely insult each other and deny that their opponents are acting in good faith. Journalists are little better, and are frequently even worse.

Much of the partisanship is fueled by racial mistrust. Although the unjust “Jim Crow” laws were dismantled over 40 years ago, and slavery was abolished a century and a half ago, and although colleges and universities no longer discriminate against black applicants (and indeed, for several decades have given preferences to blacks) the memory of slavery and Jim Crow laws still fuels black rage and mistrust. The frequency of black-on-white violence far exceeds that of white-on-black violence, but most blacks do not know this. The mainstream media continue to portray blacks as innocent victims of white cruelty and prejudice, and to harp on injustices that occurred long ago, with the result that a high level of black resentment against whites continues. For many purposes, we are not “one nation, indivisible,” but two nations. Indeed, since Hispanics now outnumber blacks, we may be three nations.

Many of the rights that were protected by the Constitution are no longer secure. For example, eighty years ago it was agreed that the Fourth Amendment prohibited the government from reading our mail or tapping our phones without first obtaining a search warrant based on probable cause. Even during the height of World War II, facing a powerful and ruthless opponent, our phones were not tapped. But today, the National Security Agency routinely intercepts and records our emails, without obtaining – or even asking for − a search warrant. Some people have protested this practice, but not enough to get the government to change it. (Many other violations of our constitutional rights will be described later in this book.)

Over the course of the past 70 years, there has been a sharp decline in patriotic feelings. There are still many people who love this country; but many citizens no longer honor our Founding Fathers, or the constitution they bequeathed us. Indeed, many people no longer feel pride in America or loyalty to it, but rather are ashamed of our history. The Declaration of Independence proclaims that governments “derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” However, many recent polls show that a large proportion of Americans no longer feel that the federal government is ruling with the consent of the governed.

Worst of all, perhaps, is that all these conditions appear to be getting worse, and there is no obvious end in sight.

America started out as a few small colonies, thousands of miles from the centers of learning, trade, and power. From that humble beginning, it gradually developed into a great country. Future historians will record that we were for a long time the richest country in the world, and that we were often very generous in helping countries less fortunate than us. They will also note that we had unparalleled military might, and that we used that power to prevent first Nazi Germany and then the Soviet Union from imposing their tyrannical systems on the world. Our scientists have been awarded far more Nobel prizes than those of any other country, and we have produced a much larger number of useful inventions than any other country, to the great benefit of the world at large. We may have no playwright who rivals Shakespeare, nor any composer to compare with Beethoven or Mozart, but we have produced a truly impressive assortment of fine novels, poems, dramas, popular songs, musical productions, and motion pictures. We could easily say that America is not just a great country, but the greatest that has ever existed.

Back in the 1940s there was a popular song whose lyrics included the refrain, “Our country’s strong, our country’s young; her greatest songs are yet unsung,” and most Americans agreed with that sentiment. Unfortunately, not many Americans would say that today. Instead, there is a widespread belief that our best days are behind us. Somehow − despite all our wealth, power, and accomplishments – we have lost our confidence, and our social fabric has been badly torn.

The demographic problem we face is very serious. Although this country was founded by European whites, whites are rapidly becoming a minority in this country. Worse still, many white Americans think this is a good thing. For example, in a State of the Union address President Bill Clinton said that he welcomed predictions that whites would become a minority by mid-century.1 In 2009, he again brought up those forecasts, adding that “This is a very positive thing.”2

Tim Wise, a popular lecturer on college campuses, was more explicit. In an open letter to white conservatives he said that he looked forward to the day when whites will be outnumbered by other races.

“We just have to be patient, and wait for your hearts to stop beating… Do you hear it? The sound of …your nation, as you knew it, ending permanently? Because I do, and the sound of your demise is beautiful.”3

Many similar comments are listed in White Identity (2011) by Jared Taylor, pp. 234-239. (See also section III in chapter 9 of this book.) It is impossible to imagine people of any other race speaking of themselves that way.

This book will discuss two main questions:

1) What has caused the decline of America?
2) What can be done to restore America?
Among the principal causes of our decline are: (a) large-scale immigration from Latin America (in particular from Mexico); (b) the decline of pride in our national heritage; and (c) racial hostilities. These problems cannot be solved unless we discuss them openly. Sad to say, in many circles it is politically incorrect to talk about these problems at all. We cannot even state publicly that blacks are, on average, less intelligent that whites; and we must pretend that “diversity is our greatest strength,” whereas it is in reality a great weakness.

It is a major thesis of this book that ethnic hostilities within the present United States of America are so great that we can no longer function effectively as a single unified country. We must therefore split into two countries. One of those will be a Red country, consisting mostly of those regions in which conservatives make up the majority; the other will be a Blue country, consisting primarily of those regions in which “liberals’ make up the majority. (The terms come from a map published in the aftermath of the presidential election of 2000 A.D. in which the counties that voted for George W. Bush were colored red and the counties that voted for Al Gore were colored blue.)

Let me emphasize that the split will be completely voluntary. No state will be forced to secede. Secession will merely be an option that some that some states or counties will choose. Those regions that do not deliberately choose to secede will remain part of the United States. No individuals will be expelled, and nobody will have his house or land taken away from him.

Let me also make it plain that I am not a white supremacist. I have absolutely no desire to rule over blacks or Hispanics, or Asians, or to have someone else do so for my benefit. I do not hate blacks or Hispanics or Asians and I hope that they will prosper both before and after the partition of the United States.

The bulk of this book will elaborate the thesis that the United States should be partitioned, and will deal with questions such as:

1) How can the partition of the present United States into two independent countries be achieved?
2) What will be the boundaries of the two countries?
3) Which citizens of the present United States will become citizens of the new “Red” country − which we might tentatively call the American Federal Republic − and which ones will remain citizens of the United States?
4) How will the new country operate?
5) What will be the relationship between the two countries?
6) How can the new country avoid the problems that have led to the decline of the United States of America?

All these questions are important. However, since the question of national identity is so crucial, that will be the one taken up first, starting in the next chapter.
 


FOOTNOTES − CHAPTER 1

1) State of the Union address (Jan. 27, 2000).
2) Bill Clinton, addressing a meeting of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Reported in the Associated Press (June 14, 2009) in an article (“Bill Clinton: United States growing more diverse”) written by Christine Simmons.
3) Tim Wise, “An Open Letter to the American Right,” reprinted in Amren.com (Nov. 4, 2010).