This excellent column from Steve Sailer hits on something I’ve been mulling over for a while now. I’m not talking about the ethnic stuff. I mean this last bit at the end of his column:

Perhaps it’s time, for the good of your family, for you to study the secrets of successful minorities. Granted, they won’t make America a better country, but maybe it’s a little too late to worry about that anymore.

I had an exchange last week with someone about the future of the country. Specifically the future of the country after the Republicans push through another amnesty. His point, one with which I largely agree, is that amnesty pretty much ends the Right as a force in American politics. The Right has very little influence now, but it is an obstacle that causes problems for the Left and their enablers. Classical Liberalism, the only post-Christian alternative to the Jacobins, will die out in an America with another 30-50 million third world citizens. The political parties will resemble what we see in Europe, international socialism versus national socialism. Any discussion of reducing the role of the state in the lives of the people would be on the fringe.

I fully admit to a degree of sadness at that prospect. For most of my life, I have liked my country. No nation is perfect and a propositional nation like America is always going to be at odds with itself over the defects. That beats the homogenizing and stifling  conformity forced up the citizens of most civilized nations. It certainly beats the barbarism of the uncivilized lands. If you are going to love your country, loving one that loves you back is a good choice. That relationship, however, will soon be a thing of the past. My “countrymen” will have no more in common with me than a guy living in China. My rulers will see me as just another subject, no different than any of the other entries on the spreadsheet. That’s the reason fertility rates in Europe have collapsed. Why would anyone bring someone into a world of strangers?

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