Communal Salvation

The dominant issue in the West is immigration. The ruling elites are obsessed with filling up our lands with people from other lands. It’s nearly impossible to get members of the elite to discuss the matter, much less explain their reasoning. A politician or party that embraces immigration reform, even mild reform, is treated like a Holocaust denier. Even climate change, which is pretty much a religion at this point, is more open to debate than immigration.

Wholesale, uncontrolled immigration has become a spiritual good. It’s not a means to an end, as is often argued by critics. There’s no doubt greed drives some of it, but money is the not the goal for most open borders fanatics. Across Europe and now in the US, immigration is scrambling the political calculus, hamstringing the major parties as fringe parties surge. Yet, they refuse to debate the topic. Yet, the topic remains a taboo.

There’s an old line about fanatics that they cannot change their mind and they won’t change the subject. A corollary to that, with regards to immigration, is that immigration fanatics won’t change their mind and will never permit the subject to be raised in their presence.

That’s what comes to mind when reading a story like this one if the Imperial Capital Gazette:

In a gesture of German goodwill, the administration in this medieval city leased a newly renovated apartment building here to humanely — even comfortably — house dozens of desperate ­asylum-seekers. The newcomers from Syria and other war-
ravaged nations would enjoy freshly redone floors, cute balconies and shiny, modern appliances in a cheerful building near a timber-framed pub.

Then Meissen’s goodwill went up in smoke.

On a cool night six weeks ago, suspected right-wing arsonists struck the building, scorching its interior and rendering it uninhabitable days before the ­asylum-seekers were to move in. The attack added Meissen, a gothic castle town of 30,000 on the Elbe River, to a string of German cities caught up in an escalating rash of violence against refugees.

The acts include an ugly spate of arson targeting refugee centers as well as physical attacks on refugees themselves, marking the return of what critics say is an unnerving brand of xenophobia to Western Europe’s most populous nation.

A normal person would look at this and think, “Maybe it is not such a great idea after all to import tens of thousands of aliens and plop them into unsuspecting neighborhoods.” Of course, normal people would wonder why the locals never got a say in this great social engineering program launched by their government. What good is democracy if you don’t get a say in who is and who is not allowed into your country?

Immigration is one of those issues that exposes the big lie of democracy. There’s nothing more important to the life of a nation than deciding who is and who is not permitted to settle in the nation. The whole damn point of having countries is to keep the other people out. If the people are going to have a say on anything, it is the question of whether or not a country is going to remain a country.

Yet, the elites say that is not permitted. The rubes can vote on who gets to move some commas around the tax code. The rubes can vote on who will run the regulatory state. You can pick your own breakfast cereal, but the people in charge run the store, set the hours and decide what’s on the shelves.

The reason for all this is the people in charge believe, with the fanaticism of a convert, that they have a moral obligation to help the poor on your dime. This interview of Bernie Sanders is revelatory:

Ezra Klein: You said being a democratic socialist means a more international view. I think if you take global poverty that seriously, it leads you to conclusions that in the US are considered out of political bounds. Things like sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders. About sharply increasing …

Bernie Sanders: Open borders? No, that’s a Koch brothers proposal.

Ezra Klein: Really?

Bernie Sanders: Of course. That’s a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States. …

Ezra Klein: But it would make …

Bernie Sanders: Excuse me …

Ezra Klein: It would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn’t it?

Bernie Sanders: It would make everybody in America poorer —you’re doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don’t think there’s any country in the world that believes in that. If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don’t believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country, I think we have to do everything we can to create millions of jobs.

In other words, open borders is about getting grace on the cheap by, on the one hand, bringing in the world’s poor, but avoiding the cost by dumping them into the proletarian neighborhoods. Sanders, for all his faults, should be lauded for leaving his religion in the synagogue and sticking with the economics.

You see this in the Post article:

The attacks are undercutting Germany’s image as the country leading the effort to aid a record flow of refugees into Europe, highlighting the rising social tensions in the region amid the avalanche of asylum-seekers. At the same time, the violence has ignited a heated national debate over what pundits here say is a rise in overt racism and intolerance — in a nation highly sensitive to both because of Nazi-era atrocities.

All this is happening as Germany takes in more asylum-
seekers than any other nation in Europe — a number set to reach an estimated 500,000 this year alone — while quickly running out of places to house them. As a result, the national government in Berlin is turning to insular and almost wholly white enclaves to take in the newcomers, who are mostly from the Middle East and Africa.

The creepiness here is that they don’t give a damn about the immigrants getting the business from the locals. What matters is the goodthinkers in Germany are being embarrassed by the conduct of the bad thinkers. Again, it’s a spiritual exercise, not a political or economic one.

The mistake immigration patriots make is in thinking the motivation behind open borders is simply monetary. There’s no doubt that greed-heads like Mark Zuckerburglar are in it for the cash, but most of these people are in it for salvation. They no longer believe in God, but they still believe in salvation and their brand of salvation is communal. To save themselves, they must save the world, however much it cost you.

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  3. Just today the German Interior Minister revised the official estimate about the expected number of 2015 asylum seekers to 800,000. And can we be sure it’s going to be the last upward revision for this year?

    As an aside, being a German I don’t quite know how to cope with the fact that the quoted article apparently doesn’t contain any Nazi reference, not even a veiled one (“still haunted by the specters of its past, Germany … “). I feel like perhaps a disappointed masochist would who, despite seeing the whip in his master’s hand, then doesn’t receive the expected lashing. What happened? Do the old rules no longer apply, does water now flow uphill, have Muslims given up on slashing jugulars?

    But we won’t be able to enjoy the luxury of worrying about “image” much longer anyway, as the threat ever more builds up to the level of existential.

  4. Soon there will be no concept of countries. Such an old-fashioned idea! We have it in England now: the EU (to whom we must repeatedly doff our caps) sees us a ‘region’ and not a country. My own Yorkshire is a region in a country, but thanks to Brussels it will be a sub-region of a region.

    But, there is a good reason. The libtards hate war, or so they say, which means cleverly if you don’t have countries there can be no wars. Open the doors to millions of people who don’t have any allegiance to the host country then who will fight for honour and flag? Who will join the army or navy when you get more from doing nothing? There is no reason to ‘defend’ a patch of land if you don’t care where you are. Some immigrants may have zero knowledge of history or culture or traditions, so where they end up is only a matter of who gives them money and guarantees their benefits. No point in defending or cherishing what is essentially a temporary home, so no-one will go to war when you cannot maintain a military.

    War won’t end, of course, as the terrorists and shits of the world know, but as it can’t be declared as a war (you know, with real goals and measures of victory) then there is ‘peace’ wherever we go. true, it is a peace that may mean people are randomly blown up by some lunatic worshipping some fuzzy ‘holy cause’ based on vengeance, but it isn’t a war. Libtard politicians can tell themselves we have finally got what we all crave: thanks to open borders we all can enjoy a world without conflict.

    We may have death and humiliation and fear and the poverty that low-expectations bring, but not war.


  5. I would add that the ‘open borders’ religion depends on
    an unshakable faith in the ‘blank slate-ism’.
    They believe that we are all them same.
    That everyone is a fungible human Lego block.
    Whether filled with Somalis or Swedes, Minnesota will be just the same
    prosperous, industrious place it has always been.

    They’re never going to read Nicholas Wade, or Jason Richwine.
    That Wade was Science Editor of the NY Times for over twenty years
    counted for nothing – He committed heresy and he’s joined the disappeared.

    These people will certainly never read Derbyshire,Sailer,
    or the impenetrable Razib Khan.
    If you dissent you will be disappeared.

    Remarkably, Trump has trumped the Republican establishment by giving Americans a choice about endless immigration.
    Now conservative Americans have at least one man willing to defend America
    as a country with actual borders.
    More remarkably, Trump has doubled down on his anti- immigration program.
    Any other Republican would have been already walked-it-back,
    groveling to La Raza, the whole way.

    Now, who do we get to replace Boehner, McConnell,
    Grahmnesty, McCain and the rest of the cheese eating surrender monkeys?

    Remember the iconic Variety headline from “Yankee Doodle Dandy”:
    “Stix Nix Mix Pix”.

    How about:
    “Trump Stumps – Dumps Chumps”

  6. I was reading Der Spiegel yesterday. A German paper with notably leftist bend. They were bemoaning callousness of the Greeks who refused to offer any help to a wave of refugees from ME. Fifty thousand refugees land in Greece EVERY month. Couple of years and Greeks will become a minority in their own country but that didn’t dawn upon Der Spiegel’s writers.

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