Conservatism Is Dead. What’s Next?

In a recent post, “Novelty of Neoreaction,” Michael Anissimov traces the history of the term ‘reactionary’ and also discusses the history of conservatism.

While conservatism at one point served a purpose (whatever that was), today conservatism has become a nearly useless ideology.  If Russell Kirk is the gold standard of American conservatism, what you have today —  National Review and hundreds of other neocon policy institutes — has devolved into mud, a sort of makeshift propaganda operation that supports such things as sane immigration policy for Israel but open borders for Western nations, endless war in the name in the nation building, and every policy imaginable to decimate the white middle classes (e.g. mass legal immigration, free trade, in- and outsourcing, etc. ).

The biggest problem, early on, was that American conservatism divorced itself from the traditions of the European 19th century right — traditions such as anti-universalism, Nietzschean critiques of egalitarianism, volkish art and philosophy, etc.  This anti-traditionalist tendency reaches its culmination in Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind, where, always evoking the bogeyman of “relativism,” Bloom turns the right on its head, essentially outlawing traditionalist thought and championing a repackaged form of Jacobin universalism.

Despite ongoing motion of Conservatism Inc., conservatism as a vital system of ideas is dead, and, as philosophy precedes action, it is only a matter of time before the conservative apparatus comes crumbing down.

The more interesting question is what will replace conservatism?

The most interesting contender is the rise of identitarian thought, a philosophy that has become popular throughout Europe — from Golden Dawn in Greece to Génération Identitaire in France.  Imagine a synthesis of ethno-politics, HBD, pro-science and radical traditionalism.  That’s identitarianism, which has also been called archeofuturism.

Others have proposed that natioanlism vs globalism will be the next big division in Western politics, which will completely mix up and re-align the current left / right division.   Identitarianism and nationalism aren’t opposed, so one could see both occurring simultaneously.

The biggest problem in the West today is philosophical, that is, a new outlook is needed.  The second is political and, in particular, our degenerate elites.  Fun times ahead…

Updates:

Nick Land:  “Right and Left“

Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity

Our recent poll, “Should all Third World immigrants be deported from the West?,” has gained much attention but also highlights that there’s much confusion on what is central in discussing immigration into the West.  I thus offer this brief primer on immigration and human biodiversity.

Here are some key things to consider when discussing immigration.

Economics:  As Harvard economist George Borjas has shown, Third World immigration is driving down wages and lowering the standard of living both in Europe and the USA.  Third World immigrants also, since they use more in social services than they pay in taxes, drain the social services of Western countries.

Conservationism/ Infrastructure: More people in the West (through immigration) will put greater pressure on Western infrastructures and lead to environmental degradation.  (Do you want the West to look like this?)

IQ:  Outside Northeast Asia (China, Japan and South Korea), the rest of the world has considerably lower average IQs than European-descended countries.  As Helmuth Nyborg outlines in “The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian Selection,” allowing these people to immigrate to the West will prove dysgenic.

Crime and Corruption: Outside European-descended people and Northeast Asia, there might well be higher genetic tendencies toward violent crime. Also, outside European-descended countries (and isolated other places, like Japan), the rest of the world seems to consist of  low-trust countries, which results in more corruption, both in those countries and among those who immigrate to the West.  Bringing these problems into the West only makes the West more Third World.

Ethnic Genetic Interests:  As popularized by Frank Salter in “Estimating Ethnic Genetic Interests: Is It Adaptive to Resist Replacement Migration?” and “Misunderstandings of Kin Selection and the Delay in Quantifying Ethnic Kinship” (using ethnic genetic distances first outlined by Cavalli-Sforza), Ethnic Genetic Interests (EGI) shows that human populations are not fungible and that mass immigration could lead to the genetic extinction of certain groups of people.  It’s thus imperative for groups to maintain largely homogenous areas to further their genetic continuity.

There you have it.  Here are big four issues relating to immigration and, other than economics, they’re rarely discussed in the media.

Related:

“Who Supports Open Borders? Summary of Open-Borders Elite in USA”

Notes:

While IQ certainly is important, John Derbyshire doubts that the West needs to import any more high IQ people.

The French philosopher Alain de Benoist has offered the term “ethno-pluralism“: “a view stressing the ‘right of difference’ which asserts that each ethnic / racial group has the right to its own lands over which it can exercise complete sovereignty. This view envisions the world as a mosaic with a multiplicity of diverse races clearly delimited and with strict boundaries between them.”

Regarding IQ, here’s a roundup on the recent Richwine controversy where Richwine argued the US should not import low IQ immigrants.

Ted Sallis argues that ethnic genetic interests should be the primary concern when debating immigration.

Richard Spencer on the prospect of allowing white South Africans to immigrate to Western countries.

Updates:

[Coming….]

Our card for Heroes of the Dark Enlightenment

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Poll: Should all Third World immigrants be deported from the West?

Regarding our recent posts here at Occam’s Razor about immigration (“Riots in Sweden are about race, not religion,” “Why white girls were groomed by South Asians for prostitution ring,” “Third World Immigrants Burn and Loot Sweden,” “Black Muslim Uses Meat Cleaver on British Soldier on London Street,” “Dominique Venner’s Suicide Note,” “Who Supports Open Borders? Summary of Open-Borders Elite in USA” and “Are Christian Leaders Today a Bunch of Girly Men?”), here’s a poll.

Should all Third World immigrants be deported from the West?

Leave comments below.

Related:

“Can Multi-Racial States Ever Function? Some Examples with Caveats.”

Frank Salter: “Estimating Ethnic Genetic Interests: Is It Adaptive to Resist Replacement Migration?”

Helmuth Nyborg: “The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian Selection”

Updates:

Baron Bodissey: “A Racial and Cultural War on the Indigenous People of Britain”

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“

Human BioDiversity and Functional Socialism

In a previous thread, a commenter said that Robert Lindsay is a leftist and shouldn’t be trusted.  Actually, of all leftists, I think Robert Lindsay is one of the more interesting, especially his belief in HBD / race realism.  In a recent post, “Liberal Race Realism – A Brief Definition,” Lindsay writes that he believes in race realism but is also a committed leftist.  Elsewhere, he has said that he supports socialism.

I don’t find this to be problematic. As those in the Dark Enlightenment know, economics is a subset of HBD.  An economic system cannot make a dysfunctional group of people functional, but functional groups of people can probably make most economic systems work.

So, when does socialism work?

The prerequisites for functional socialism are:  racial homogeneity, small country, high social trust, a minimum IQ, etc.

For socialism to function, you must have high levels of altruism, and people are hardwired to show more altruism toward co-ethnics than toward people of other races.  Thus, racial homogeneity is a necessary (not a sufficient) condition for functional socialism.

However, you also need a high level of social trust.  People must believe that there are not many cheaters.  And if a country is smaller, people will feel more trustful and generally be more altruistic.  And a country must have a minimum average IQ to make any system work.

Haiti might have racial homogeneity, but it lacks social trust and IQ, and every form of government has been a failure in Haiti.

Pre-immigration Scandinavia and Japan meet all these criteria.  For instance, pre-immigration (homogenous) Sweden had one of the best functioning socialist systems the world has seen.

So, yes, I think that socialism can work, if certain criteria are met.   But, as I note in the post on distributist economics, under any system you must still have selection pressure so that it doesn’t become dysgenic.

Related:

“Riots in Sweden are about race, not religion“

Why white girls were groomed by South Asians for prostitution ring

Much has been written about the recent Oxford sex grooming case, where men of South Asian descent groomed white British girls for a prostitution ring.

What hasn’t discussed, however, is the question why these gangs always seem to target white women and not their own women for prostitution.

From a sociobiological perspective, it seems to be a classic case of in-group / out-group dynamics.  The South Asians protect their own women to save for marriage and procreation, while prostituting the out-group, white women in this case, for economic benefit.

In a chilling article for Gates of Vienna, a Norwegian describes the double-standard that the more aggressive Third World immigrants have created in the pursuit of women:

“There is one thing that annoys the hell out of me. They can start chasing Norwegian girls, but we cannot go after theirs. It’s something you learn early on. You just don’t go after a Pakistani girl, but Norwegian girls are available to immigrant boys. Norwegian girls prefer them. I don’t know why. I guess it must be that brown skin. That they are tough, that they have money despite not having jobs. They don’t see that they fight in packs, that they are cowards.”

In short, whites are at a great disadvantage in multiracial societies.  Part of the problem is the individualism of whites; whites think in terms of individuals, thus giving other groups who bond together an advantage.  In a broader sense, whites too often think in universalist terms (rather than in-group / out-group dynamics).  Such universalist thinking is probably harmless in isolated racially homogenous societies, but it’s suicidal in multiracial societies.  This in part explains why white journalists are so naive when confronted with the fact that South Asians were deliberately targeting white women for prostitution rings.

Related:

Ed Rubenstein: “Lesson From 1965: More Third World Immigrants = More Violent Crime“

Fjordman: “Immigrant Rape Wave in Sweden” and “Sweden Tops European Rape League — But Why?“

Rushton: “Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals?”

Salter: “Estimating Ethnic Genetic Interests: Is It Adaptive to Resist Replacement Migration?“

Updates:

“Riots in Sweden are about race, not religion”

Ted Sallis:  “What the Immigration Debate Really Should Be About”

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“

Riots in Sweden are about race, not religion

Yes, this is a strong title.

Yes, on a basic level, the riots are about religion.  Many  of the Third World immigrants who are burning and looting Stockholm are Muslim.  And, yes, despite what our elites say, Islam is not a religion of peace.

Nonetheless, there is much more going on than mere religion.

Most Westerners tend to think of religion in universalist terms, since Western Christianity for the past few centuries has become an ideological, universalist religion.  But this is not the historical norm.  Throughout almost all of human history, ethno-religion has been the norm, as ethno-religion provides one of the most powerful group identities. (Just ask the Ashkenazis.) Even early European Christianity was an ethno-religion.

Many culturalist critics of Islam (such as the EDL) seem to think that racial groups are fungible and that somehow Islam has descended from the stratosphere making otherwise peaceful Middle Easterners, Africans and South Asians violent.

What these people fail to realize is how much HBD and religion are intertwined.  Islam didn’t descend from the stratosphere; certain groups of people created this violent religion and certain groups of people are drawn toward it.

We know now that much of violent behavior is genetic, so, even if these people cease to be Muslim, they will continue to be violent.

As we saw in the Paris riots in 2005, many of the North African rioters were secular.  Many wore American “gangsta” style clothing (e.g. NY Yankees caps turned sideways) and many were flashing American gang signs at the cameras.  After an expensive investigation into the cause of the 2005 riots, French authorities could not determine the cause.  It seemed that Africans just wanted “to tear shit up.”

Obviously, we don’t want the West to become Muslim, but there’s a much deeper problem here:  If you import the Third World to the West (regardless of their religion), the West will become the Third World.

All these people should be deported.

Related:

Ed Rubenstein: “Lesson From 1965: More Third World Immigrants = More Violent Crime“

Fjordman: “Immigrant Rape Wave in Sweden” and “Sweden Tops European Rape League — But Why?“

Rushton: “Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals?”

Salter: “Estimating Ethnic Genetic Interests: Is It Adaptive to Resist Replacement Migration?“

Updates:

“Why white girls were groomed by South Asians for prostitution ring”

“Human BioDiversity and Functional Socialism”

Ted Sallis:  “What the Immigration Debate Really Should Be About”

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“

Mindweapon:  “They are fighting back in Sweden“

John Horgan wants to ban war in addition to race!

John Horgan, the dimwit who writes for the Scientific American, previously wrote that all research on race and IQ should be banned.  Now he thinks that war should be banned too!  He writes:

“There are so many things that a smart, courageous, imaginative leader can do to help move humanity toward a world without war! Call me a fool, but I still have hope that Barack Obama can become that leader.”

And how does Horgan hope Obama can end all war?  Does he plan to rewire human nature in the next few years?  And Horgan puts his faith in a man who has dropped bombs on civilians for about four years straight now?  Next will Horgan urge Obama to outlaw death and maybe even gravity?

Instead of proposing a modest goal, such as making the West more peaceful by deporting Third World immigrants, Horgan proposes the impossible goal, thus setting the stage for even more violence, especially in the West.

It must be nice to live in a bubble so insulated from the reality of human nature that one can make such ridiculous claims.  Eventually, Cultural Marxism makes the brain go soft.  The Horgans of the world are the next generation of Lysenkoists.

Updates:

Regarding Obama saving humanity from war, I get that feeling that Horgan has watched more “numinous negro movies” than he has read serious scholarship on warfare.   On a crude “philosophical” level (if you want to call it philosophical) I suspect that Horgan’s blind ambitions aren’t much different from this kid’s.

Third World Immigrants Burn and Loot Sweden for 5th Day Straight

For the 5th night in a row now, Third World immigrants are burning and looting Stockholm, Sweden.

Here’s a recent video from night four:

All of these people should be put on boats and deported immediately. Either the Third World must be deported from the First, or the First World will become the Third World. When will Westerners wake up?

Related:

Ed Rubenstein: “Lesson From 1965: More Third World Immigrants = More Violent Crime”

Fjordman: “Immigrant Rape Wave in Sweden” and “Sweden Tops European Rape League — But Why?”

Rushton: “Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals?”

Salter: “Estimating Ethnic Genetic Interests: Is It Adaptive to Resist Replacement Migration?”

Updates:

“Riots in Sweden are about race, not religion”

Ted Sallis:  “What the Immigration Debate Really Should Be About”

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“

Shocking Video: Black Muslim Uses Meat Cleaver on British Soldier on London Street

Apparently a black Muslim has viciously attacked a British soldier on the streets of London while yelling ‘Allah Akbar’.  From the Daily Mail:

Clutching a bloodied meat cleaver after executing a soldier on a crowded street, he delivers a chilling message of hate.

‘You people will never be safe,’ he declares in a clear south London accent. ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’

In broad daylight, he and an accomplice had just repeatedly stabbed and tried to behead an off-duty soldier in front of dozens of passers-by.

Here’s the shocking video:

But, as our elites tell us, this attack has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, which is a religion of peace.  But, propaganda aside, what most don’t realize is that religion and HBD are intertwined.  Particular groups probably have particular genetic dispositions toward particular kinds of religion.

Please, let’s deport the Third World from the First.  We can wall off the Third World countries and anthropologists can study them from afar.

Meanwhile, Third World immigrants burn and loot Stockholm for the third day in a row….

Updates:

Colin Liddell: “Extremism and the displacement of the political spectrum”

HBD Chick:  “Chickens … home … roost”

“Why white girls were groomed by South Asians for prostitution ring“

Ted Sallis:  “What the Immigration Debate Really Should Be About”

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“

Translation of Dominique Venner’s Suicide Note

Dominique Venner, a well-known French intellectual and writer, committed suicide today inside the Notre Dame de Paris.

Here is an English translation of Venner’s suicide note:

The Reasons for a Voluntary Death

Dominique Venner

[Translated by Greg Johnson]

I am healthy in body and mind, and I am filled with love for my wife and children. I love life and expect nothing beyond, if not the perpetuation of my race and my mind. However, in the evening of my life, facing immense dangers to my French and European homeland, I feel the duty to act as long as I still have strength. I believe it necessary to sacrifice myself to break the lethargy that plagues us. I give up what life remains to me in order to protest and to found. I chose a highly symbolic place, the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, which I respect and admire: she was built by the genius of my ancestors on the site of cults still more ancient, recalling our immemorial origins.

While many men are slaves of their lives, my gesture embodies an ethic of will. I give myself over to death to awaken slumbering consciences. I rebel against fate. I protest against poisons of the soul and the desires of invasive individuals to destroy the anchors of our identity, including the family, the intimate basis of our multi-millennial civilization. While I defend the identity of all peoples in their homes, I also rebel against the crime of the replacement of our people.

The dominant discourse cannot leave behind its toxic ambiguities, and Europeans must bear the consequences. Lacking an identitarian religion to moor us, we share a common memory going back to Homer, a repository of all the values ​​on which our future rebirth will be founded once we break with the metaphysics of the unlimited, the baleful source of all modern excesses.

I apologize in advance to anyone who will suffer due to my death, first and foremost to my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, as well as my friends and followers. But once the pain and shock fade, I do not doubt that they will understand the meaning of my gesture and transcend their sorrow with pride. I hope that they shall endure together. They will find in my recent writings intimations and explanations of my actions.

In a recent essay on religion, Venner wrote:

Europe since earliest antiquity has always been ruled by the idea that each individual is inseparable from his community, clan, tribe, people, city, empire, to which he is linked by a bond more sacred than life itself. This unquestioned belief, of which the Iliad offers the oldest and most poetic expression, took various forms. Think of the worship of ancestors for whom the city owed its existence, or the loyalty to the prince who was its visible expression.

The first threat was introduced by the individualism of early Christianity. The idea of ​​a personal god emancipated men from the hitherto unquestioned authority of ethnic gods of the city. Yet the Church itself reimposed the idea that the individual will could not order things as it pleased….

Still, despite this individualistic and materialistic logic, we have long maintained communal ties of birth and fatherland and all the obligations these imply. These ties have been progressively destroyed across Europe in the decades following World War II, while the triumphant consumer society arrived from the United States. Like other European countries, France has gradually ceased to be a nation (based on nationality, common birth) to become an aggregate of individuals united by their pleasures or the ideas they have of their interests. The former obligation to “serve” has been replaced by the general temptation to “serve oneself.” This is the logical consequence of the principle that founds society solely on human rights, thus on each individual’s interests.

And now, before our eyes, this repulsive logic faces a revolt from the depths. We are witnessing the unexpected awakening of all those who, through atavistic reflexes, feel deep down that unquestionable ancestry is what make a clan, a people, or a nation.

More on Venner:

Recent essay by Venner on religion (English translation):  “They’re All Rotten”

Srdja Trifkovic: “Dominique Venner, a French Samurai”

Wikipedia entry on Venner.

Related:

“Are Christian Leaders Today A Bunch of Girly Men?”

Updates:

Deutsche Welle: “France’s Le Pen hails far-right Notre Dame suicide”

Roman Bernard: “His name is Dominique Venner”

Greg Johnson: “Suicide in the Cathedral: The Death of Dominique Venner”

Jean-Yves Le Gallou & Michel Geoffroy: “Dominique Venner Dies for Europe”

Richard Spencer: “The Passion of Dominique Venner”

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“

Roundup of the Heresy of Jason Richwine: Guilty of preferring truth to PC

Under the Cathedral, perhaps the single greatest form of heresy is the denial of blank-slate racial egalitarianism.  Nevermind that evolution and loads of data say racial egalitarianism is a fiction. This even strengthens the mindset of the believers, elevating such a belief to a religious doctrine, which means that those who poke holes in the dogma are castigated like heretics.  To the believers in the Cathedral, this is not a rational debate, it is an affront to their religious worldview — the religion being one of racial egalitarianism.

This week Jason Richwine has been found guilty for having noticed what you’re not supposed to notice:  that some racial groups, like Hispanics / mestizos, have lower average IQs than European Americans.  As Sailer notes, Philip L. Roth, looking at 39 studies with a 5,696,529 sample size, found the average IQ of Hispanics to be about 11 points lower than whites.  But don’t expect this data, or any other substantial points, to be brought up in the public lynching of Richwine.

The parts are already in motion. Richwine recently helped author a study by the Heritage Foundation showing that mass amnesty would cost tax payers around $6.3 trillion, since, to put it bluntly, most of these immigrants are Third World rejects who will use more in government services than pay in taxes.  Since this study is generally sound — and since the Cathedral wants nonetheless to flood the USA with the Third World — someone went back and found Richwine’s Harvard dissertation, “IQ and Immigration Policy,” where Richwine wisely argues against flooding the USA with low-IQ hordes. (They also recently discovered that Richwine penned an article or two for Alternative Right.)  Somehow, if the Cathedral points and sputters enough, this indignation will, by association, discredit the Heritage study.  Or so they hope.

Pointing and sputtering is here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc.

Substantial discussions here:

Are Christian Leaders Today a Bunch of Girly Men?

The purpose of this blog wasn’t primarily intended to discuss religion but since two of the most popular posts at Occam’s Razor (“Why the Religious Should Reject Intelligent Design” and “Is Christianity Inherently Left-Wing?”) are about religion, I thought I’d put up another.

In the “Song of Roland,” a heroic French poem about the  Battle of Roncesvalles in 778 during the reign of Charlemagne, one cannot help but be impressed by Archbishop Turpin.  A Moorish invasion of Charlemagne’s kingdom is taking place and his retainers do not hesitate to take up arms. Archbishop Turpin, although a man of the cloth, arms himself, splitting a head or two of the invaders.

That was then.

Today we have a similar invasion taking place.  The Third World  is pouring into Europe (Africans, Middle Easterners, Indians) and into the United States (mestizo hordes from Mexico and Central America) but the religious leaders today have taken nearly an opposite position.  Instead of opposing the invaders, Christian leaders whine about mistreatment of the invaders and have actually sided with them.

This treason ranges from Pope Benedict siding with African invaders against Europeans to Cardinal Timothy Dolan supporting open borders to Protestant leaders like Richard Land and Russell Moore supporting the Third World invasion of the United States.

Clearly, as others have noted, these men suffer from both both ethnomasochism and pathological altruism.  Channelling Roissy, one cannot help from noticing that these men are often pathetic beta males.

Christian leaders today are effeminate, as is seen in the emotional tactics used by people like John Piper in cajoling white people into adopting non-white babies.  In discussing the recent Christian fetish of transracial adoption, Christian HBD blogger Generation5 notes that this impulse in part derives from a complete feminization of Christianity.

This feminization is probably nowhere more apparent than in male leaders of the pro-life movement, where it is not uncommon to see grown white men crying like little girls in public because some black person unknown and unrelated to them somewhere is getting an abortion.  (Contrast this to alpha male Michael Corleone whose anger at his wife is not because of some abstract concern about abortion but because she reduced his inclusive fitness.)

Here is some telling visual evidence.

Maudlin evangelical leaders praying for poor immigrants:

Or beta male Matthew Soerens, US Church Training Specialist for World Relief, whose panties are in a knot over whether some black child is unadopted or some illegal immigrant is mistreated:

You decide:

Updates:

Russell Moore and Matthew Soerens are calling us at Occam’s Razor “white supremacist Darwinists.” (Actually, guys, HBD shows that North Asians and Ashkenazis have above average IQs too!) Such a sniveling display of political correctness only substantiates this post.

Ann Coulter seems to agree about these girly men; apparently she has a bigger pair than they do.

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“

“Religion 2.0:  Identitarian Religion“

Do we need more amateur scientists?

Steve Hsu asks: “Is the age of the talented amateur over in science?”

Hsu here in particular means a specialist from one field a contribution in another but this question could be expanded to mean a non-scientists doing scientific research (such as the gentleman scientist, which would include the majority of figures from the Scientific Revolution in Europe) or scientists doing research outside the official channels of government or corporate funding.

For instance, Dmitri Konstantinovich Belyaev’s famous fox experiment in the Soviet Union is perhaps one of the most important experiments ever performed in evolution, as it sheds much light upon the domestication of animals and human evolution.  And this experiment was performed under the radar of the Soviet government, since the official scientific doctrine of the Soviets was Lysenkoism (not Darwinism).   (Lysenkoism meshes better with Marxist egalitarianism than does Darwinism.)

In the United States today, similar politically correct constraints are put upon research.  For instance, the landmark Minnesota twin study — which has perhaps shed more light upon the nature vs nurture debate than any other single study — received funding from the Pioneer Fund since hardly any major institutions would fund the study.  And even today the study is largely ignored as its findings shatter many egalitarian blank-slate illusions.

Giving the constraints in the West today (but apparently not in the East), I wonder whether we Westerners need the amateur scientist now more than ever?

Who Supports Open Borders? Summary of Open-Borders Elite in USA

Dennis Mangan’s recent reminder about some Anti-Western Goldman Sachs executive demanding that the EU undermine national homogeneity in Europe got me to thinking about the open-borders elites in the United States.  While the American media paints immigration as a “divisive issue,” nothing could really be less divisive, as polls constantly show that an overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to illegal immigration and want massive reductions in legal immigration.   In short, the immigration battle is between most Americans and a small open-borders elite.

Who is this elite?

Going from Kevin Lamb’s report “The Open Borders Network” and other resources, this elite is composed of:

– Big Business: mega-corporations like WalMart and others who want cheap labor.

– Christian Organizations:  Especially, the leadership of the  Catholic Church and Evangelical organizations, although the overwhelming majority of parishioners of these organizations seem to be opposed to immigration.  (I have long suspected that pro-immigration Christians suffer from pathological altruism.)

– The NAABP (the National Association for the Advancement of Billionaire People, as Sailer calls them):  People like Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, et al.

– Jewish Groups: These groups have been lobbying for Third World immigration since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924. (Interestingly, roughly half of American Jews now seem opposed to illegal immigration in the USA, although the vast majority of Jews oppose African immigration into Israel, even going as far as sterilizing African immigrants and deporting many of them.)

– Ethnic Activists:  Anti-white groups such as La Raza or a recent surge of Indian activists.

– The US Media:  The one-sided reporting on immigration is mind-boggling.

– Clueless Ideologues: Here I would include ethnomasochists like Bryan Caplan and Cheap Chalupas who seem not to live in reality but in some libertarian fantasy land.

As I’ve said before, we need new elites.  Despite all their faults, the old WASPs did after all pass the Immigration Act of 1924.

Updates:

Regarding the length of influence of these elites, some Europeans have suggested that their immigration problems ultimately stem from the importation of American political correctness, which is supported by Mangan’s recent post.

“Primer on Immigration and Human BioDiversity“