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Not as a failure.
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Hey Darryl,
I heard you talking about how the USA is becoming non-white and that you think we should stop immigrants. I get that we need to be careful not to overload infrastructure and services, but I don't think the USA has to be white dominant. Don't you think the USA should belong to all citizens, regardless of their ethnicity?
What are your thoughts on this?
Thanks for your work that I really appreciate!
To tag on, what is the harm if whites become a minority?
Find me a single non white majority country you'd be happy to move your wife and kids to... The harm is that peoples create cultures. Culture is an expression of a collective consciousness of a given people in a time and place. If you invite the 3rd world into a liberal democracy you become the 3rd world, culturally, economically, spiritually.
The crazy thing is that while the left has embraced collectivism as a weapon to be used by its various interest groups, the vast majority of the mainstream right still holds an extreme taboo on any sort of Euro-descended collective consciousness, almost like their hyper individualism is what defines and unifies them as an ideology. While I can understand the merits of that, it’s very difficult to win an ideological struggle when your ideology is inherently disunifying.
I'm ever the cynic so my perspective is that this ideological emphasis on "rugged individualism" was tactically redefined and reframed in the collective consciousness of the average right-leaning American with the intent of neutering any potential collective action toward political goals. Where I think this perspective is most insidiously manifested is in the average working class conservative's worship of "free market" exploitative capitalism and the tolerance of libertine ideals on the basis of muh individual rights. The other side of that individualist coin that works against the powers that be is on things like gun rights and school choice. It's definitely a mixed bag of good and bad but I think it's obvious that on the most important issues this "every man is an island" idea has played directly into the hands of the people that actually understand power dynamics.
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