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World News See other World News Articles Title: Happy New Year, America!—At Least We’re Not Canada, or Britain [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] What will 2023 hold? I’m going to strive to ’take a positive outlook. Yes, that goes against the grain; I am, after all, the guy who wrote a book titled We Are Doomed. We may indeed be doomed, but I’m going to turn my thoughts in the other direction, striving for optimism on the principle: ”Fake it until you make it.” The main reason for that turn: baby Michael, our first grandchild, who will be one year old on January 21st. I wish and hope for the best for him and for the world he’ll grow up into. Wishes and hopes aren’t reality, of course, but they make reality easier to bear. Last week, inspired by Professor Robert Weissberg, I lamented the appalling state of our federal government, its incompetence and impotence. One listener pushed back: It’s not impotence and incompetence. The government is growing ever more powerful and competent. It’s just that the power is directed against us, not them. Government officials want to eliminate the border, turn homosexual pedophiles loose on our children, and let criminals riot, rape and murder us. The goal is to eliminate the nation-state, with the U.S. leading the list. As all other sources of power and influence disappear—nations, corporations (with obvious exceptions), smaller businesses, churches, and the family—the rule of globalist government elites and their corporate and NGO allies will extend their rule over all of us as atomized individuals. So is it incompetence and impotence, as I lamented last week? Or is there, as my listener says, a goal, a master plan, being pushed forward with competence and ruthless power? There is an old saying (it’s usually attributed to Napoleon although scholars tell us Boney never said it)—that you should never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Having observed U.S. foreign policy this past thirty years since the Cold War ended, I strongly favor an explanation from stupidity. Those futile foreign wars with thousands of dead Americans and trillions of dollars wasted; the purposeless, relentless insulting and provoking of Russia; the naivety of thinking that the Chinese Communist Party would yield up its power to liberal democracy if we just opened ourselves to their shoddy goods and shipped our own manufacturing base over there; all of this has been gross, suicidal stupidity. It’s hard to believe that stupidity was restricted to just the sphere of foreign policy. And yes, it is leading us in the direction of authoritarian government. Authoritarian government—”despotism” for short—is, after all, the default state of human society. The great majority of human beings all through history, when they have not been in a brutish state of nature, have lived under despotic government; from Egypt and Babylon, through the Hellenic and Roman empires, the Persians and Byzantines and Chinese, the Caliphates and Emirates of Islam, the Ottomans and Moguls, the empires of Spain and Russia… there hasn’t been a whole lot of law, liberty, and constitutionalism in the human experience. Law, liberty, and constitutionalism have been the exception, not the rule. They are the exception in the world today—look around. Wise men imbued with wise ideals can keep law, liberty, and constitutionalism going here and there for a century or two; but it may be that if the wisdom fails and the ideals are misplaced—if great numbers of citizens sink into fantasies of perfect justice, perfect equality, perfect global harmony—it may be that then society easily slips back to the historical default: corrupt, lawless despotism. So, bottom line here: Yes, I believe that stupidity is an adequate explanation for our current condition; and yes, if things continue in the same direction we may slip into despotism. Do I think we actually shall so slip? In line with my opening remarks, I’m going to choose to believe not. We’ll return to our senses somehow, to our Constitution. The Swamp will be drained; the fools and the fantasists will be sent packing; and the USA will again be a free commercial republic, minding its own business, with liberty and justice for all. Please let it be soon. Meanwhile, in line with what every grandparent tells his grandchildren, as I shall tell baby Michael when he’s old enough to comprehend, there’s always someone worse off than yourself. Let me offer some illustrative examples of that in hopes of cheering you up. Example #1: Oh, Canada! As hostile to its own citizens as our federal government may be, Canada’s is worse. With Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister, this is not surprising. Back in 2016, shortly after he was first elected to national leadership, Trudeau declared Canada to be the world’s, ”first postnational state” [The dangers of Trudeau’s ’postnational’ Canada, by Douglas Toddy, Vancouver Sun, April 28, 2016]. There is no such thing as a Canadian identity, Trudeau explained, only ”shared values” and a ”search for equality and justice.” The nation-state is an evil thing, Trudeau believes; and the most evil thing of all is a nation-state with a majority-white population. Under Justin Trudeau’s government, Canada has in fact become the beating heart of white ethnomasochism. Canada’s leading intellectuals and parliamentarians have for years been accusing their nation of ”genocide” in the treatment of indigenous peoples. For example: The first Prime Minister of independent Canada was John A. Macdonald, who held office for almost a quarter century, from 1867 to 1891. Macdonald wanted indigenous people to be able fully to participate in the life of the nation. As part of that, he approved placing indigenous youngsters in residential schools, mostly run by the churches, where they’d get a European, Christian education. In October this year a motion was put before Canada’s parliament to declare that policy ”genocide.” The motion was passed unanimously [MPs back motion calling on government to recognize residential schools program as genocide, CBC, October 27, 2022]. As Jonathan Kay pointed out at the time on Quillette, the last of these residential schools was only closed in 1997, so that the first twenty of Canada’s twenty-three Prime Ministers are all guilty of genocide, according to the Canadian parliament. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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