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Letter of the Week: The Stupid Vs. The Evil Party

Democrats, IMMIGRATION, Politics, Republicans

Letter of the Week: The Stupid Vs. The Evil Party
By Carlos

The Dems could have stopped Jorge’s Mesopotamian misadventure in its tracks if they were anything other than a party of corrupt leftist ideologues. They could have at least forced an open debate on the reasons for spending the precious lives of our soldiers there, and asked the hard questions about how such an invasion defends the United States.
Instead, they went along with the Messiah from West Texas’ crazy mission to spread the gospel of democracy in the Ummah. Of course, at the same time, Muslims continue to enter the Dar-al-Harb unimpeded.
Larry Auster gives a run-down here about our wonderful open borders with the Ummah policies. The number here is for legal immigrants only, from Muslim countries. Muslims from Europe, Canada, and elsewhere aren’t counted, nor are those walking across our unprotected borders illegally.
Paul Gottfried’s final paragraph in a recent article over at VDARE sums it up quite nicely: “As my late friend Sam Francis never tired of pointing out, the stupid party may have become an even greater obstacle to Western survival than the evil party it formally opposes.” It’s way past high time for a new party, or at least some folks who are willing to face reality.

–CARLOS

Party of Traitors

Britain, Democrats, Republicans

“The Republican Quislings have contributed greatly to the convergence of Left and Right. What we have now is a cartel, the traditional ideological differences between the political parties having been permanently blurred (both Democrats and Republicans, for instance, see merit in wars for democracy, limitless immigration, and a massive expansion in Medicare and other entitlements). If anything, antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.”

The excerpt is from my new column, “Party of Traitors,” in which I quote Sean Gabb, Director of Communications at the Libertarian Alliance of Britain, extensively. (The above lines are my own, though.) Sean and I had admired one another’s work from afar, until we met at a Liberty-Fund colloquium, last month.

What I find so extraordinary is that Sean is very involved in Britain’s public political life. He is on the television or radio (BBC, no less) just about every week , discussing the issues of the day from a libertarian perspective.

Bush Answers Kennedy’s Calling

Bush, Democrats, Republicans

…all immigration policy by definition amounts to top-down, statist, central planning. But the least invasive policy is one that respects a nation’s historical and cultural complexion and the property rights of its taxpayers. Bush’s batch of soon-to-be amnestied illegal aliens are voracious tax consumers, who will cost more in social services than they pay in taxes over a lifetime. By contrast, immigrants who arrived between 1870 and 1920, during the Great Migration, although poor, did not constitute a burden, because the Welfare State as we know it did not exist.
Moreover, what Bush in his dotage termed “the great American tradition of the melting pot” is no more. In previous decades, immigrants assimilated. In the spirit of the times, they are now encouraged to acculturate to the politics of petulance. As a result, too many seem to harbor a vestigial resentment toward the host society and to cling to an almost-militant distinctiveness.
Clearly, unfettered immigration and the interventionist state, as Ludwig von Mises noted, cannot coexist.

The excerpt is from my new WorldNetDaily.com column, “Bush Answers Kennedy’s Calling.”

Bush Answers Kennedy's Calling

Bush, Democrats, Republicans

…all immigration policy by definition amounts to top-down, statist, central planning. But the least invasive policy is one that respects a nation’s historical and cultural complexion and the property rights of its taxpayers. Bush’s batch of soon-to-be amnestied illegal aliens are voracious tax consumers, who will cost more in social services than they pay in taxes over a lifetime. By contrast, immigrants who arrived between 1870 and 1920, during the Great Migration, although poor, did not constitute a burden, because the Welfare State as we know it did not exist.
Moreover, what Bush in his dotage termed “the great American tradition of the melting pot” is no more. In previous decades, immigrants assimilated. In the spirit of the times, they are now encouraged to acculturate to the politics of petulance. As a result, too many seem to harbor a vestigial resentment toward the host society and to cling to an almost-militant distinctiveness.
Clearly, unfettered immigration and the interventionist state, as Ludwig von Mises noted, cannot coexist.

The excerpt is from my new WorldNetDaily.com column, “Bush Answers Kennedy’s Calling.”