Political
leaders far too often think the have all the answers. Their decisions
over decades have produced consequential results which have brought our
country to the unhappy state in which we now find ourselves. This item
puts this fact into some semblance of a perspective. See what you
think. Quote: "Countries are happiest when they have one national
culture, or at least one dominant culture to which all must perforce
conform. We see this in countries like Japan and Korea, homogeneous
societies which, because homogeneous, have no race riots or
religious wars. It was largely true in, for example, Sweden and France
until they began admitting immigrants from incompatible cultures.
Today, most of the news from such countries deals with the consequences.
Diversity, never a good idea, is in fact the cause of most of the
world’s conflicts: Shia and Sunni, Jew and Arab, Hutu and Tutsi, Tamil
and Sinhalese, Hindu and Muslim and, in America, black, white, and
brown. Diversity is the cause of the dissolution of American society.
Until roughly the Sixties, America was homogeneous enough,
overwhelmingly white, European, Anglophone, and Christian. This provided
sufficient commonalty that people all regarded themselves as Americans.
At the same time, there were many geographically separated subcultures
which had little in common and didn’t like each other, or wouldn’t have
if they had come into contact. Massachusetts, Montana, Alabama, West
Virginia, and New York were different civilizations." And, "Then
everything changed. Diversity began, not at first of people so much as
of ideas. Reasons were several. Communications improved. Interstates
appeared. The federal government gained in power and reach. The Supreme
Court began making sweeping decisions on manners, morals and faith–that
is, on culture and values–which it had not done before. Now
Washington–New York, really–could enforce these decisions. The result
was unwanted cultural diversity. The Court decided in decision after
decision that increasingly explicit pornography enjoyed protection as
free speech, imposing an alien ideology on small towns in Kansas. This
culminated in internet porn accessible to children of ten, uncontrolled
and uncontrollable. Obscene music poured out of New York as local
stations were bought by Manhattan, from which rap came–unfit, in most
regions, for a toilet wall. Towns could not defend themselves because of
the doctrine of free speech and the massively increased power of the
northeast. Television became national with similar trampling of local
values of faith, propriety, and
race.
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