WHO IS MORE RACIST THAN THE MEX FLAG WAVERS???
The Left and the Democratic Party are now so committed to open borders and illegal immigration that they cannot reverse course without a major upheaval within their ranks. Do they really give a damn about the African American population, native born or naturalized Hispanics, and the low-income white working families? Or, are the potential votes of the illegal population more important? With the spending plans outlined above how will they buy off these groups as there will be no money or jobs? How will they avoid the inevitable friction and potential hostility with so many in the marketplace and a limited number of jobs in the low-income sector?
Bernie Sanders Vows to Go to ‘War with White Nationalism and Racism’ as President
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Saturday at the Young Leader’s Conference in Atlanta, 2020 presidential hopeful, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pledged to go to war against white nationalism and racism if he wins the presidency.
Sanders said, “I’m Jewish. My family came from Poland. My father’s whole family was wiped out by Hitler and his white nationalism. Too many people have fought over the years. Too many people have died against racism to let it resurface and flourish in America.”
He continued, “We will go to war with nationalism and racism in every aspect of our lives.”
He added, “When we combat white nationalism, and when we combat racism, we are going to use all the laws in our power.”
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Pollak:
Barack Obama Wrote the Playbook on Political Division
Left-wing pundits have accused President
Donald Trump of using his tweets last weekend to launch a divisive re-election
campaign.
Heading for civil war
La Raza Founder – Kill the Gringos (José Angel
Gutiérrez)
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA
“THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Can the Democratic Party Govern America?
Can the Democratic Party Govern America?
Pollak:
Barack Obama Wrote the Playbook on Political Division
Left-wing pundits have accused President
Donald Trump of using his tweets last weekend to launch a divisive re-election
campaign.
David Axelrod, former adviser to
President Barack Obama, tweeted: “With his
deliberate, racist outburst, @realDonaldTrump wants to raise the profile of his
targets, drive Dems to defend them and make them emblematic of the entire
party. It’s a cold, hard strategy.”
That is debatable — but if so,
Axelrod should know; Obama did it first.
By 2011, Obama knew that re-election
would be difficult. The Tea Party had just led the Republicans to a historic
victory in the 2010 midterm elections, winning the House and nearly taking the
Senate. The economy was only growing sluggishly, and Obama’s stimulus had
failed to keep unemployment below eight percent, as projected. Moreover, the
passage of Obamacare had provoked a backlash against Obama’s state-centered
model of American society.
Facing a similar situation in the
mid-1990s, President Bill Clinton had “triangulated,” moving back toward the
middle, frustrating the GOP by taking up their issues, such as welfare reform.
But Obama rejected that approach.
Having watched his icon, Chicago mayor Harold Washington, settle for an
incremental approach when faced with opposition in the 1980s, only to die of a
sudden heart attack before fulfilling his potential, Obama chose the path of
hard-left policy — and divide-and-rule politics.
The first hint of his strategy
emerged during the debt ceiling negotiations in the summer of August 2011. As
Bob Woodward recounted in his book
about the crisis, The Price
of Politics, then-Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) had
wanted to reach a “grand bargain” with the president on long-term spending
cuts. But Obama blew up that agreement by demanding $400 billion in new taxes,
to his aides’ surprise. Obama wanted an opponent, not a deal. (Last week,
Boehner told Breitbart News
Tonight that Obama’s decision was his worst disappointment in
35 years of politics.)
In the fall of 2011, a new left-wing
movement, Occupy Wall Street, was launched. A mix of communists, anarchists,
and digital pranksters, the Occupy movement cast American society as a
struggle between the “99 percent” and the “one percent.”
Obama and then-House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
embraced the movement — and failed to distance themselves from it even as
it collapsed into
violence, sexual assault, and confrontations with police.
Instead, Obama picked up on Occupy’s
themes and used them to shape his campaign.
In December 2011, Obama gave a speech at
Osawatomie, Kansas — a place steeped in radical
symbolism — at which he doubled down on his left-wing policies. He focused on
the issue of economic inequality, and attacked the idea that the free market
could lift the middle class to prosperity. “This isn’t about class warfare.
This is about the nation’s welfare,” he insisted.
Then, in the spring of 2012, Obama
made a controversial play on race. When a black teen, Trayvon Martin, was
killed in Florida during a scuffle with neighborhood watch volunteer George
Zimmerman, Al Sharprton — who was serving as an informal adviser to Obama at
the time — made the local crime story
into a national racial controversy. Obama, following Sharpton’s lead, weighed
in: “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama said at the time.
Poll numbers suggest that race
relations, which had been improving, dropped precipitously after that. But to
Obama, it was worth it: the campaign needed to find a way to motivate minority
voters. (Vice President Joe Biden did his part, telling black voters
that GOP nominee Mitt Romney was “gonna put y’all in chains.”)
Trump is pushing a non-racial,
nationalist message. But if he actually wanted to divide America for political
gain, he could learn from the master.
Joel B.
Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social
Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard. He is a
winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the
co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside
Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter
at @joelpollak.
Heading for civil war
Donald Trump’s opponents are completely
unhinged. The hate and slander directed towards the president and his
supporters is off the charts. The vitriol comes not just from the Democrat
party, the media, and the world of entertainment, but also from a sizable
proportion of the federal bureaucracy and many seemingly ordinary
people.
The media coordinates this campaign and
amplifies the hate at every opportunity. Media twist every event, be it
big or small, into a criticism of the president. The goal is always to present
Trump in not just an unfavorable light but to make him appear too loathsome for
polite society. And Trump is not the sole target of this demonization. It is
directed at his supporters, too.
Where will all this lead? No less
than Angelo M. Codevilla fears it could ultimately result in a bloody civil
war. And if it comes to that, there's no doubt where he places the blame.
The story of the contemporary American
Left's sponsorship of hate and violence began around 1964, when the Democrats
chose to abandon the Southern constituencies that had been its mainstay since
the time of Jefferson and Jackson. In less than a decade, the party found
itself increasingly dependent on gaining super-majorities among
blacks, upscale liberals, and constituencies of resentment in general
-- and hence on stoking their hate.
For the past half century, America's
political history has been driven by the Democrats' effort to fire up
these constituencies by denigrating the rest of America.
Codevilla notes that prominent Democrats
like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton have led millions of their
followers "to think and act as if conservatives were simply a lower level
of humanity, and should have their faces rubbed in their own inferiority."
It’s not surprising that many ordinary
followers have concluded that harassing conservatives in restaurants, airports,
and public functions is "not just permissible but praiseworthy,
and if thousands of persons who exercise power over cities, towns, and schools
have not concluded that facilitating such harassment and harm is their duty."
This is the toxic environment that the
Democrats, in conjunction with the media, have created. Has Pandora's box been
opened? Are we beyond the point of no return? Are leftists and their liberal
soulmates too obtuse not to expect that hate and violence will someday be
answered in kind? These questions are up in the air. Right now, one thing is
clear. As Yeats wrote: "The best lack all conviction while the worse
are full of passionate intensity."
Codevilla's worry about a civil war
dovetails with The Fourth Turning,: What the Cycles of History Tell
Us About American's Next Rendezvous with Destiny (1997) by William Strauss
and Neil Howe. To my reading, these authors predict a Fourth Turning Crisis
period around the years 2020-2022. Then, many things that Americans have always
taken for granted will unravel.
Just to touch on a few of the changes that
Strauss and Howe see: today's soft criminal justice system will become swift
and rough. Vagrants will be rounded up and the mentally ill recommitted.
Criminal appeals shortened and executions hastened. Pension funds will go
bust and Social Security checks become iffy. The full spectrum of society
will be under distress. All the problems will be combined into one -- the
survival of society.
Aren't the seeds already planted for a
crisis? Trust in Washington and in government institutions is at an all-time
low. Political violence is tacitly condoned and often openly encouraged by
Democratic officeholders. The political establishment encourages massive Illegal
immigration. The
mainstream media is highly partisan and corrupt beyond reform. The American
flag, the country's history, and even its nationhood are openly despised in
universities. American public schools are a disgrace despite the money poured
into them. The country is burdened by a $22 trillion national debt to
which many trillions more of unfunded government liabilities must be added.
Students owe a trillion dollars in school loans that can never be repaid.
Someday there has to be a reckoning for
all this dysfunction. Irrespective of the election results in 2020, the time
frame of 2020-2022 sounds about the right for things to come to a head. It
would be prudent to be ready.
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
THEN VOTE DEMOCRAT! ILLEGALS ARE!
ZOGY POLL ON MEX RACISM AND VIOLENCE….. Half the
murders in CA
are by Mex gangs, and 93% of murders in La
Raza-Occupied Los Angeles are by
Mexicans.
ZOGBY
“In Mexico,
a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of Mexican citizens
hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated with racism, yet in
denial, having never endured the social development of a Civil Rights
movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign Whites are
often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact, racism as workplace
discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the illegal alien
Latino works--the vast majority of the workforce is usually
strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians, and others.”
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is
replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
THE
U.S. TAX DOLLAR SUPPORTED MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” IS NOW
CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus.
La Raza Founder – Kill the Gringos (José Angel
Gutiérrez)
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA
“The Race”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called
"The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing
identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have
succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both
Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San
Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino
organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you
imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of
white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates
and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic
lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished
truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your
tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
Here
are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses
for illegal aliens.
14."The Race" demands in-state tuition
discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S.
citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on
the southern border.
11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
10. "The Race" opposed the state of
Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to
illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
8. "The Race" bitterly protested
common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
7. "The Race" has consistently opposed
post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
6. Former "Race" president Raul
Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S.
English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was
referring to U.S. English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group
dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United
States. "The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and
advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while
avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
4. "The Race" is currently leading a
smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called
for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off
the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut
up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race"
president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be
tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment
rights."
3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic
nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8
million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in
Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez
Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los
Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White
water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of
collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain …
ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of
life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
2. "The Race" has perfected the art of
the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy
-- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian
Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
The
fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza.
*
ALIEN
NATION: Secrets of the Invasion
Why
America's government invites rampant illegal immigration
It's
widely regarded as America's biggest problem: Between 12 and 20 million aliens
(MOST SOURCES SUGGEST THERE ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY NEARLY 40 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE
NOW) – including large numbers of criminals, gang members and even terrorists –
have entered this nation illegally, with countless more streaming across our
scandalously unguarded borders daily.
The
issue polarizes the nation, robs citizens of jobs, bleeds taxpayers, threatens
America's national security and dangerously balkanizes the country into
unassimilated ethnic groups with little loyalty or love for America's founding
values. Indeed, the de facto invasion is rapidly transforming America into a totally
different country than the one past generations have known and loved.
And
yet – most Americans have almost no idea what is really going on, or why it is
happening.
While
news reports depict demonstrations and debates, and while politicians promise "comprehensive
border security programs," no real answers ever seem to emerge.
But
there are answers. Truthful answers. Shocking answers.
In
its groundbreaking May edition, WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine
reveals the astounding hidden agendas, plans and people behind America's
immigration nightmare.
Titled
"ALIEN NATION," the issue is subtitled "SECRETS OF THE INVASION:
Why government invites rampant illegal immigration." Indeed, it reveals
pivotal secrets very few Americans know. For example:
Did
you know that the powerfully influential Council on Foreign Relations – often
described as a “shadow government" – issued a comprehensive report last
year laying out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North
American economic and security community" with a common "outer
security perimeter"?
Roughly
translated: In the next few years, according to the 59-page report titled
"Building a North American Community," the U.S. must be integrated
with the socialism, corruption, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada.
"Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada. As Phyllis Schlafly reveals in this issue of Whistleblower:
"This CFR document asserts that President Bush, Mexican President Vicente
Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin 'committed their governments' to
this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.
The three adopted the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America'
and assigned 'working groups' to fill in the details. It was at this same
meeting, grandly called the North American Summit, that President Bush pinned
the epithet 'vigilantes' on the volunteers guarding our border in
Arizona."
The
CFR report – important excerpts of which are published in Whistleblower – also
suggests North American elitists begin getting together regularly, and
presumably secretly, "to buttress North American relationships, along the
lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde conferences, organized to support transatlantic
relations." The Bilderberg and Wehrkunde conferences are highly secret
conclaves of the powerful. For decades, there have been suspicions that such
meetings were used for plotting the course of world events and especially the
centralization of global decision-making.
Did
you know that radical immigrant groups – including the League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund (MALDEF), the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and the National
Council of La Raza (La Raza) – not only share a revolutionary agenda of
conquering America's southwest, but they also share common funding sources,
notably the Ford and Rockefeller foundations?
''California
is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of
MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave." And MEChA's goal
is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this
organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. So why would the Rockefeller and
Ford foundations support such groups? Joseph Farah tells the story in this
issue of Whistleblower.
Why
have America's politicians – of both major parties – allowed the illegal alien
invasion of this nation to continue for the last 30 years unabated? With
al-Qaida and allied terrorists promising to annihilate major U.S. cities with
nuclear weapons, with some big-city hospital emergency rooms near closure due
to the crush of so many illegals, with the rapid spread throughout the U.S. of
MS-13, the super-violent illegal alien gang – with all this and more, why do
U.S. officials choose to ignore the laws of the land and the will of the people
to pursue, instead, policies of open borders and lax immigration enforcement?
The
answers to all this and much more are in Whistleblower's "ALIEN
NATION" issue.
Is
there hope? Or is America lost to a demographic invasion destined to annihilate
its traditional Judeo-Christian culture, and to the ever-growing likelihood
that nuclear-armed jihadists will cross our porous borders and wreak
unthinkable destruction here?
There
most definitely is hope, according to this issue of Whistleblower. Although
most politicians of both major political parties have long since abdicated
their responsibility for securing America's borders and dealing effectively
with the millions already here illegally, there are a few exceptions – most
notably Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo.
May's
Whistleblower includes an exclusive sneak preview of Tancredo's forthcoming
blockbuster book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and
Security." In an extended excerpt, Whistleblower presents Tencredo's
expert and inspired analysis of exactly how to solve the nation's most vexing
problem.
*
THE
AZTLAN INVASION & THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY
“The
radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States whether to
form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire
reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's
"lost" territories in the American Southwest.”
MULTICULTURALISM,
IMMIGRATION AND AZTLAN
By
Maria Hsia Chang Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
One
of the standard arguments invoked by those in favor of massive immigration into
the United States is that our country is founded on immigrants who have always
been successfully assimilated into America's mainstream culture and society. As
one commentator put it, "Assimilation evokes the misty past of Ellis
Island, through which millions entered, eventually seeing their descendants
become as American as George Washington."1 Nothing more vividly testifies
against that romantic faith in America's ability to continuously assimilate new
members than the events of October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles. On that day, 70,000
people marched beneath "a sea of Mexican flags" protesting
Proposition 187, a referendum measure that would deny many state benefits to
illegal immigrants and their children. Two weeks later, more protestors marched
down the street, this time carrying an American flag upside down. Both protests
point to a disturbing and rising phenomenon of Chicano separatism in the United
States — the product of a complex of forces, among which are multiculturalism
and a generous immigration policy combined with a lax border control. The
Problem Chicanos refer to "people of Mexican descent in the United
States" or "Mexican Americans in general." Today, there are
reasons to believe that Chicanos as a group are unlike previous immigrants in
that they are more likely to remain unassimilated and unintegrated, whether by
choice or circumstance — resulting in the formation of a separate quasi-nation
within the United States. More than that, there are Chicano political activists
who intend to marry cultural separateness with territorial and political
self-determination. The more moderate among them aspire to the cultural and
political autonomy of "home rule". The radicals seek nothing less
than secession from the United States whether to form their own sovereign state
or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are
irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the
American Southwest.
Whatever
their goals, what animates all of them is the dream of Aztlan. According to
legend, Aztlan was the ancestral homeland of the Aztecs which they left in
journeying southward to found Tenochtitlan, the center of their new
civilization, which is today's Mexico City. Today, the "Nation of
Aztlan" refers to the American southwestern states of California, Arizona,
Texas, New Mexico, portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, which Chicano
nationalists claim were stolen by the United States and must be reconquered
(Reconquista) and reclaimed for Mexico. The myth of Aztlan was revived by
Chicano political activists in the 1960s as a central symbol of Chicano
nationalist ideology. In 1969, at the Chicano National Liberation Youth
Conference in Denver, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales put forth a political
document entitled El Plan de Aztlan (Spiritual Plan of Aztlan). The Plan is a
clarion call to Mexican-Americans to form a separate Chicano nation: In the
spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historial
heritage, but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our
territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the nothern land of
Aztlan from whence came our forefathers ...declare that the call of our blood
is...our inevitable destiny.... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds,
water the fields, and gather the crops, and not to the foreign Europeans. We do
not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.... Brotherhood
unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come ....
With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the
independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze
culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers
in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we
are Aztlan.
How
Chicanos are Unlike Previous Immigrants Brent A. Nelson, writing in 1994,
observed that in the 1980s America's Southwest had begun to be transformed into
"a de facto nation" with its own culture, history, myth, geography,
religion, education, and language. Whatever evidence there is indicates that
Chicanos, as a group, are unlike previous waves of immigrants into the United
States. In the first place, many Chicanos do not consider themselves immigrants
at all because their people "have been here for 450 years" before the
English, French, or Dutch. Before California and the Southwest were seized by
the United States, they were the lands of Spain and Mexico. As late as 1780 the
Spanish crown laid claim to territories from Florida to California, and on the
far side of the Mississippi up to the Great Lakes and the Rockies. Mexico held
title to much of Spanish possessions in the United States until the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war in 1848. As a consequence,
Mexicans "never accepted the borders drawn up by the 1848 treaty."
That
history has created among Chicanos a feeling of resentment for being "a
conquered people," made part of the United States against their will and
by the force of arms. Their resentment is amply expressed by Voz Fronteriza, a
Chicano student publication,
which
referred to Border Patrol officers killed in the line of duty as "pigs
(migra)" trying to defend "the false frontier."
Chicanos
are also distinct from other immigrant groups because of the geographic
proximity of their native country. Their physical proximity to Mexico gives
Chicanos "the option of life in both Americas, in two places and in two
cultures, something earlier immigrants never had." Geographic proximity
and ease of transportation are augmented by the media. Radio and television
keep the spoken language alive and current so that Spanish, unlike the native
languages of previous immigrants into the United States, "shows no sign of
fading."
A
result of all that is the failure by Chicanos to be fully assimilated into the
larger American society and culture. As Earl Shorris, author of Latinos: A
Biography of the People, observed: "Latinos have been more resistant to
the melting pot than any other group. Their entry en masse into the United
States will test the limits of the American experiment...." The continuous
influx of Mexican immigrants into the United States serve to continuously renew
Chicano culture so that their sense of separateness will probably continue
"far into the future...." There are other reasons for the failure of
Chicano assimilation. Historically, a powerful force for assimilation was
upward social mobility: Immigrants into the United States became assimilated as
they rose in educational achievement and income. But today's post-industrial
American economy, with its narrower paths to upward mobility, is making it more
difficult for certain groups to improve their socioeconomic circumstances.
Unionized factory jobs, which once provided a step up for the second generation
of past waves of immigrants, have been disappearing for decades. Instead of the
diamond-shaped economy of industrial America, the modern American economy is
shaped like an hourglass. There is a good number of jobs for unskilled people
at the bottom, a fair number of jobs for the highly educated at the top, but comparatively
few jobs for those in the middle without a college education or special skills.
To illustrate, a RAND Corporation study forecasts that 85 percent of
California's new jobs will require post-secondary education. For a variety of
reasons, the nationwide high-school dropout rate for Hispanics (the majority of
whom are Chicano) is 30 percent — three times the rate for whites and twice the
rate for blacks. Paradoxically, the dropout rate for Hispanics born in the
United States is even higher than for young immigrants. Among Chicanos,
high-school dropout rates actually rise between the second and third
generations. Their low educational achievement accounts for why Chicanos as a
group are poor despite being hardworking. In 1996, for the first time, Hispanic
poverty rate began to exceed that of American blacks. In 1995, household income
rose for every ethnic group except Hispanics, for whom it dropped 5 percent.
Latinos now make up a quarter of the nation's poor people, and are more than
three times as likely to be impoverished than whites. This decline in income
has taken place despite high rates of labor-force participation by Latino men,
and despite an emerging Latino middle class. In California, where Latinos now
approach one-third of the population, their education levels are far lower than
those of other immigrants, and they earn about half of what native-born
Californians earn. This means that, for the first time in the history of
American immigration, hard work is not leading to economic advancement because
immigrants in service jobs face unrelenting labor-market pressure from more
recently arrived immigrants who are eager to work for less. The narrowing of
the pathways of upward mobility has implications for the children of recent
Mexican immigrants. Their ascent into the middle-class mainstream will likely
be blocked and they will join children of earlier black and Puerto Rican
migrants as part of an expanded multiethnic underclass. Whereas first
generation immigrants compare their circumstances to the Mexico that they left
— and thereby feel immeasurably better off — their children and grandchildren
will compare themelves to other U.S. groups. Given their lower educational
achievement and income, that comparison will only lead to feelings of relative
deprivation and resentment. They are unlikely to be content as maids,
gardeners, or fruit pickers. Many young Latinos in the second and third
generations see themselves as locked in irremediable conflict with white
society, and are quick to deride successful Chicano students as
"wannabes." For them, to study hard is to "act white" and
exhibit group disloyalty. That attitude is part of the Chicano culture of
resistance — a culture that actively resists assimilation into mainstream America.
That culture is created, reinforced, and maintained by radical Chicano
intellectuals, politicians, and the many Chicano Studies programs in U.S.
colleges and universities. As examples, according to its editor, Elizabeth
Martinez, the purpose of Five Hundred Years of Chicano History, a book used in
over 300 schools throughout the West, is to "celebrate our resistance to
being colonized and absorbed by racist empire builders." The book calls
the INS and the Border Patrol "the Gestapo for Mexicans."
For
Rodolfo Acuna, author of Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward
Liberation, probably the most widely assigned text in U.S. Chicano Studies
programs, the Anglo-American invasion of Mexico was "as vicious as that of
Hitler's invasion of Poland and other Central European nations...." The
book also includes a map showing "the Mexican republic" in 1822
reaching up into Kansas and Oklahoma, and including within it Utah, Nevada, and
everything west and south of there
"This
is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a
common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is
taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational
program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA
$800,000.00 in March of 2009!
‘Diversity,’
Illegal Immigration and Destroying America
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Center for Security Policy, February 20, 2018
Now
that official Washington’s political oxygen is being consumed by the latest
school shooting, it’s easy to forget abiding disagreements about immigration
policy. Yet, until supplanted by the current children’s crusade for gun
control, it was the so-called “DACA kids” who had to be accommodated with a
massive amnesty.
Just as we seem determined to ignore factors in mass murders like the pop culture’s role in inculcating a lust for violence – the more, the better, what passes for debate about illegal aliens is increasingly unmoored from any discussion of their impact on American society.
It’s time to reprise a 2003 warning by Democratic former Colorado governor Dick Lamm about a “secret plan” that is destroying our country through the combined effects of unchecked immigration, the “diversity” agenda and abandoning our national principle of “out of many, one.” This lunacy must end.
Just as we seem determined to ignore factors in mass murders like the pop culture’s role in inculcating a lust for violence – the more, the better, what passes for debate about illegal aliens is increasingly unmoored from any discussion of their impact on American society.
It’s time to reprise a 2003 warning by Democratic former Colorado governor Dick Lamm about a “secret plan” that is destroying our country through the combined effects of unchecked immigration, the “diversity” agenda and abandoning our national principle of “out of many, one.” This lunacy must end.
. . .
The
Left and the Democratic Party are now so committed to open borders and illegal
immigration that they cannot reverse course without a major upheaval within
their ranks. Do they really give a damn about the African American population,
native born or naturalized Hispanics, and the low-income white working
families? Or, are the potential votes of the illegal population more
important? With the spending plans outlined above how will they buy off
these groups as there will be no money or jobs? How will they avoid the
inevitable friction and potential hostility with so many in the marketplace and
a limited number of jobs in the low-income sector?
Can the Democratic Party Govern America?
I recently had a lunch meeting with a
client of 25 years who is a lifelong member and financial supporter of the
Democratic Party. While we managed to avoid politics as best we could,
the inevitable subject of Donald Trump and the Democratic presidential field
reared its head. Once my friend got past the usual left-wing
talking points about Trump, I asked him a simple question. Given the
current state of the American Left and their domination of the Democratic Party
would the Democrats be able to govern a nation of 330 million people the size
of the continent of Europe if they assumed all the reins of power in Washington
D.C.? I was met with a blank stare and a stammered “I really don’t know.”
So, for the benefit of my friend and
his fellow Democrats and leftists some further questions to help them answer
that fundamental inquiry.
This same cabal that would be charged
with governing the nation has, for the past three and a half years,
marginalized, physically confronted and repeatedly accused 63 million Americans
who voted for Donald Trump of being not only racists but fascists and white
supremacists, as well as homophobic, xenophobic and among the most vile people
on the face of the earth. What will be their intentions for these
rightfully incensed citizens? Ignore them and hope they go away (which
they will not)? Or succumb to their base in order to stay in power and
continue to vilify nearly half of the voters in 2020, thus potentially fomenting
serious ongoing confrontations and retaliation.
Over the years 154 million fundamentalist, evangelical or
Catholic Christians have been denigrated, mocked and pilloried for their
beliefs as religious liberty is under continual assault by the Left and the
Democratic Party. What can this segment of society look forward to under
a government committed to promoting unfettered abortion and infanticide as well
as a determination to purge society of its basic Judeo-Christian
foundation? It is almost certain that the hierarchy of the party, in
order to placate their base, will continue, by litigation, administrative
decrees, and intimidation, to force their secularism on the nation.
How will they respond to what will be increasing anger and resentment by
48% of the population?
In a nation of 330 million people
there will always be those who will commit mass murder. When and if the
current iteration of the Democratic Party takes over, these occurrences will
increase. The left has always blamed rhetoric and guns as the primary
causation. Thus, when mass murders occur, a Democratic Party in power
will have no choice but to appease their left-wing voters (the bulk of their
base) and continue to ignore underlying factors such as societal breakdown and
mental illness and actively focus on limiting speech and gun control.
Currently 235 million Americans either own or could see
themselves owning a gun. How will the Democrats in power go about confiscating
guns in a nation of 3.8 million square miles? Utilize a national registry
of all gun owners? Outlaw all semi-automatic weapons? Impose
onerous taxes and insurance requirements making gun ownership unaffordable?
Pass open-ended red flag laws allowing virtually anyone to file a
complaint against someone, ostensibly based in their suspicions, thus allowing
the police to seize the guns of the accused? As for speech, will certain
words, phrases and organizations, as determined by the Left, be considered
inciteful and dangerous and thus outlawed? How will the Democrats deal
with the inevitable resistance and potential violent pushback from upwards of
72% of the nation’s citizenry?
Once in power, the Democrats are
committed to Medicare for all, reparations for African Americans, and new
environmental programs amid a myriad of spending programs. The estimated
average annual cost of these proposals exceeds $6 Trillion over and above
current spending. At present the federal government spends $4.7 Trillion
(which includes $1 Trillion of deficit spending). Income taxes account for 50% of all government revenue
and Social Security and Medicare withholding account for 36%. Thus,
individuals account for 86% of all revenue. In order for the Democrats to
pay for these programs, revenue from individual taxpayers would have to be
increased by 200%.
As the Democrats have promised not to
touch Social Security and Medicare withholding, all the increase would have to
be in the income tax arena. Based on the most recent IRS analysis the effective average income
tax rate would have to be 80% on the top 10% of income tax filers, a rate of
65% on the next 40%, and a rate of 40% on the bottom 50% of filers. This does
not include Social Security and Medicare withholding of another 8 to 12
percentage points plus an average state income tax rate of 8.5 percentage
points. Further, the corporate tax rate would have to be increased from a
current rate of 21% to 60%.
How would the Democrats enforce these
new rates as people either refuse to pay or go into the underground
economy? How would they pay for massive unemployment and welfare
benefits as a result of an avalanche of layoffs and business closures?
What are their plans for the recession and potential depression that would
ensue? From whom would the government borrow money and at what exorbitant
interest rate? Would they successfully coerce the Federal Reserve into printing
trillions of dollars in new money creating massive uncontrolled inflation?
On the other hand, if they do not
initiate some if not all of these programs, how do they placate their base and
voters without blaming it on the other side as they are wont to do -- thus
further antagonizing and pitting segments of society against each other.
Recently the Democratic Party has
become the party of open borders and amnesty as well as ultimate citizenship
for upwards of 22 million illegal immigrants and with
open borders at least another 2-4 million more every year. The vast
majority of these illegal immigrants are functionally illiterate and lacking in
employable skills.
Currently 30% of all working families
(or nearly 50 million Americans) are essentially unskilled and low income but
above the poverty threshold. 60% of these are families headed by racial/ ethnic minorities. African-Americans, while 13%
of the population (41 million), account for nearly 30% of low income working
families. Another 39 million Americans live below the poverty level.
Thus, a total of 89 million live in low-income families or in
poverty. Yet the Democratic Party, that claims to be the champion of
minorities and low-income families, is pushing to ultimately legalize upwards
of 22 to 30 million unskilled illegal immigrants (equal to 55 to 73% of the
current African American population) which will devastate low income working
American families.
The Left and the
Democratic Party are now so committed to open borders and illegal immigration
that they cannot reverse course without a major upheaval within their
ranks. Do they really give a damn about the African American population,
native born or naturalized Hispanics, and the low-income white working
families? Or, are the potential votes of the illegal population more
important? With the spending plans outlined above how will they buy off
these groups as there will be no money or jobs? How will they avoid the
inevitable friction and potential hostility with so many in the marketplace and
a limited number of jobs in the low-income sector?
In summary, while the
current American Left dominated Democratic Party and its propaganda arm, the
mainstream media, may be good at sowing confusion, communicating overt
falsehoods and vilifying their opponents in order to win elections, they cannot
and will never be able to successfully govern a nation of 330 million people
the size of the continent of Europe. If they ever fully control all the levers of
power, this nation will, in due course, cease to exist.
The
Left and the Democratic Party are now so committed to open borders and illegal
immigration that they cannot reverse course without a major upheaval within
their ranks. Do they really give a damn about the African American population,
native born or naturalized Hispanics, and the low-income white working
families? Or, are the potential votes of the illegal population more
important? With the spending plans outlined above how will they buy off
these groups as there will be no money or jobs? How will they avoid the
inevitable friction and potential hostility with so many in the marketplace and
a limited number of jobs in the low-income sector?
Can the Democratic Party Govern America?
I recently had a lunch meeting with a
client of 25 years who is a lifelong member and financial supporter of the
Democratic Party. While we managed to avoid politics as best we could,
the inevitable subject of Donald Trump and the Democratic presidential field
reared its head. Once my friend got past the usual left-wing
talking points about Trump, I asked him a simple question. Given the
current state of the American Left and their domination of the Democratic Party
would the Democrats be able to govern a nation of 330 million people the size
of the continent of Europe if they assumed all the reins of power in Washington
D.C.? I was met with a blank stare and a stammered “I really don’t know.”
So, for the benefit of my friend and
his fellow Democrats and leftists some further questions to help them answer
that fundamental inquiry.
This same cabal that would be charged
with governing the nation has, for the past three and a half years,
marginalized, physically confronted and repeatedly accused 63 million Americans
who voted for Donald Trump of being not only racists but fascists and white
supremacists, as well as homophobic, xenophobic and among the most vile people
on the face of the earth. What will be their intentions for these
rightfully incensed citizens? Ignore them and hope they go away (which
they will not)? Or succumb to their base in order to stay in power and
continue to vilify nearly half of the voters in 2020, thus potentially fomenting
serious ongoing confrontations and retaliation.
Over the years 154 million fundamentalist, evangelical or
Catholic Christians have been denigrated, mocked and pilloried for their
beliefs as religious liberty is under continual assault by the Left and the
Democratic Party. What can this segment of society look forward to under
a government committed to promoting unfettered abortion and infanticide as well
as a determination to purge society of its basic Judeo-Christian
foundation? It is almost certain that the hierarchy of the party, in
order to placate their base, will continue, by litigation, administrative
decrees, and intimidation, to force their secularism on the nation.
How will they respond to what will be increasing anger and resentment by
48% of the population?
In a nation of 330 million people
there will always be those who will commit mass murder. When and if the
current iteration of the Democratic Party takes over, these occurrences will
increase. The left has always blamed rhetoric and guns as the primary
causation. Thus, when mass murders occur, a Democratic Party in power
will have no choice but to appease their left-wing voters (the bulk of their
base) and continue to ignore underlying factors such as societal breakdown and
mental illness and actively focus on limiting speech and gun control.
Currently 235 million Americans either own or could see
themselves owning a gun. How will the Democrats in power go about confiscating
guns in a nation of 3.8 million square miles? Utilize a national registry
of all gun owners? Outlaw all semi-automatic weapons? Impose
onerous taxes and insurance requirements making gun ownership unaffordable?
Pass open-ended red flag laws allowing virtually anyone to file a
complaint against someone, ostensibly based in their suspicions, thus allowing
the police to seize the guns of the accused? As for speech, will certain
words, phrases and organizations, as determined by the Left, be considered
inciteful and dangerous and thus outlawed? How will the Democrats deal
with the inevitable resistance and potential violent pushback from upwards of
72% of the nation’s citizenry?
Once in power, the Democrats are
committed to Medicare for all, reparations for African Americans, and new
environmental programs amid a myriad of spending programs. The estimated
average annual cost of these proposals exceeds $6 Trillion over and above
current spending. At present the federal government spends $4.7 Trillion
(which includes $1 Trillion of deficit spending). Income taxes account for 50% of all government revenue
and Social Security and Medicare withholding account for 36%. Thus,
individuals account for 86% of all revenue. In order for the Democrats to
pay for these programs, revenue from individual taxpayers would have to be
increased by 200%.
As the Democrats have promised not to
touch Social Security and Medicare withholding, all the increase would have to
be in the income tax arena. Based on the most recent IRS analysis the effective average income
tax rate would have to be 80% on the top 10% of income tax filers, a rate of
65% on the next 40%, and a rate of 40% on the bottom 50% of filers. This does
not include Social Security and Medicare withholding of another 8 to 12
percentage points plus an average state income tax rate of 8.5 percentage
points. Further, the corporate tax rate would have to be increased from a
current rate of 21% to 60%.
How would the Democrats enforce these
new rates as people either refuse to pay or go into the underground
economy? How would they pay for massive unemployment and welfare
benefits as a result of an avalanche of layoffs and business closures?
What are their plans for the recession and potential depression that would
ensue? From whom would the government borrow money and at what exorbitant
interest rate? Would they successfully coerce the Federal Reserve into printing
trillions of dollars in new money creating massive uncontrolled inflation?
On the other hand, if they do not
initiate some if not all of these programs, how do they placate their base and
voters without blaming it on the other side as they are wont to do -- thus
further antagonizing and pitting segments of society against each other.
Recently the Democratic Party has
become the party of open borders and amnesty as well as ultimate citizenship
for upwards of 22 million illegal immigrants and with
open borders at least another 2-4 million more every year. The vast
majority of these illegal immigrants are functionally illiterate and lacking in
employable skills.
Currently 30% of all working families
(or nearly 50 million Americans) are essentially unskilled and low income but
above the poverty threshold. 60% of these are families headed by racial/ ethnic minorities. African-Americans, while 13%
of the population (41 million), account for nearly 30% of low income working
families. Another 39 million Americans live below the poverty level.
Thus, a total of 89 million live in low-income families or in
poverty. Yet the Democratic Party, that claims to be the champion of
minorities and low-income families, is pushing to ultimately legalize upwards
of 22 to 30 million unskilled illegal immigrants (equal to 55 to 73% of the
current African American population) which will devastate low income working
American families.
The Left and the
Democratic Party are now so committed to open borders and illegal immigration
that they cannot reverse course without a major upheaval within their
ranks. Do they really give a damn about the African American population,
native born or naturalized Hispanics, and the low-income white working
families? Or, are the potential votes of the illegal population more
important? With the spending plans outlined above how will they buy off
these groups as there will be no money or jobs? How will they avoid the
inevitable friction and potential hostility with so many in the marketplace and
a limited number of jobs in the low-income sector?
In summary, while the
current American Left dominated Democratic Party and its propaganda arm, the
mainstream media, may be good at sowing confusion, communicating overt
falsehoods and vilifying their opponents in order to win elections, they cannot
and will never be able to successfully govern a nation of 330 million people
the size of the continent of Europe. If they ever fully control all the levers of
power, this nation will, in due course, cease to exist.
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