Now that census data show — for the first time in American
history — the number of white babies born exceeded by the number
of babies born to non-white minorities the question is: What does
this mean for the future of American society?
Politically, it means that minorities who traditionally vote
overwhelmingly for Democrats can ensure that the country veers ever
further to the left over the years, making America more like the
welfare states of Europe, whose unsustainable spending led
ultimately to financial crises and widespread riots.
But this is not strictly a matter of whites versus non-whites.
Jews vote consistently, and almost as overwhelmingly, for Democrats
as blacks do. Moreover, Asian Americans are by no means as likely
as other non-whites to vote for the class warfare, tax and spend
agenda of the Democrats.
Yet when all is said and done, the future political direction of
the country seems painfully clear from these demographic trends,
unless something happens to change the current correlation between
race and political party affiliation. Moreover, even that may not
be enough.
Even if Republicans can siphon off enough votes from groups that
normally vote for Democrats to keep the two-party system alive, the
preservation of the Republican Party is a trivial issue compared to
the preservation of American society.
If Republican politicians save themselves by becoming Democrats
under a different label — and appeal to minorities as minorities,
rather than as Americans — the same policies and attitudes will
have the same destructive effect on the American economy and
society.
Refusing to cut back on entitlement spending, for example, means
that the current generation can continue to enjoy
government-subsidized amenities, at the expense of future
generations, who can be left to struggle to get necessities, after
the money runs out and government’s promises can no longer be
kept.
The growth of ever bigger and even more intrusive government
means that the freedom, for which generations of Americans have
fought and died on battlefields, around the world can be slowly but
steadily lost within our own country.
Painful as such outcomes can be the dangers do not end there. A
continuation of the current political tendency to take away the
money required for national defense, and spend it instead on
handouts that will win votes, means that our enemies around the
world will have golden opportunities at our expense.
Again, the dangers may not be immediate. But they can be
catastrophic when they catch up with us — and catch us unprepared.
We recovered from Pearl Harbor at enormous cost, including the
needless deaths of American soldiers, fighting for their lives with
obsolete military equipment against enemies with state of the art
weapons.
But even such sacrifices, which brought us time to catch up
during the Second World War, may not even be enough in a nuclear
age.
What can be done now, to head off the many dangers in our
current political policies and attitudes? There is not much we can
do about demographic trends. But the changing composition of the
American population is not, in itself, the fundamental danger.
After all, vast millions of immigrants crossed the Atlantic for
generations on end, and began the process of becoming Americans.
Millions of black people likewise began that process after being
set free.
Demography is not destiny. But the history of Balkanized and
polarized societies in the 20th century is a history of horrors
that we dare not ignore.
We are not at that terrible point yet. But that is the direction
in which we are headed, under the spell of magic words like
“multiculturalism” and “diversity,” which have become substitutes
for thoughts, even among those who pride themselves on being
“thinking people.”
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the
universities, is permeated with ideologies of group grievances and
resentments, painting each group into the corner of its own
separate subculture, instead of drawing them into the mainstream of
the American culture that made this the greatest nation on
earth.
Unless this fashionable Balkanization is stopped, demography can
become destiny — and a tragedy for all.
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