Steve Sailer writing in Taki's Magazine
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There’s been a lot of talk about Trump as the so-called
“alt-right” candidate, but he’s actually been running an “alt-center” campaign,
staking out positions that are controversial because they dissent in a
commonsensical fashion from the increasingly bizarre mainstream globalist
ideology.
One of the striking side effects of the Trump phenomenon
is how he encourages more "respectable" sorts to attempt to
articulate their Establishment principles, which, when spelled out, turn out to
be terrifying in their implications.
There are genuine concerns about a President Trump’s
garrulousness disrupting sleeping-dog foreign policies by stating out loud
something that’s usually best kept diplomatically hushed up. For example, ever
since Nixon went to China, Washington and Beijing officially agree that China
and Taiwan have a single legitimate government; they just agree not to specify
which one. This is kind of stupid (obviously, China and Taiwan are separate
countries). But it’s also kind of brilliant in that 44 years of peace have gone
by.
And yet, consider what the current secretary of state
just said.
John F. Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in
2004, recently delivered Northeastern University’s commencement address. His
artless enunciation of today’s elite conventional wisdom of Invade the
World/Invite the World offered Americans a glance at the coming dystopian
nightmare their leaders are complacently expecting them to smilingly welcome.
The world today is organized around the principle of
nationalism, with which Trump identifies. All land except the South Pole and
(on paper) the West Bank and the Golan Heights is divided up under the dominion
of territorial states. Perhaps this isn’t ideal, but it is the way the world
works. Everybody more or less controls their own territory. And the world works
relatively well under the current order. Interstate wars have been decreasing,
in part because borders are (finally) reasonably well established and enduring.
In particular, Americans benefit from their ancestors
having carved out a huge chunk of temperate land protected by oceans from the
teeming masses of the Old World.
And yet, fashionable opinion in America is increasingly
hostile toward the very existence of borders, which provide the essential
building blocks of peace and prosperity.
How would the world work without borders? Nobody knows,
other than that billionaires would probably do better than ordinary Americans.
But that doesn’t cause much reflection upon the part of Establishment icons.
Kerry began his speech by winning easy applause by
praising the Northeastern graduating class’ diversity:
"Now, graduating class, I've got to tell you, you really do look spectacular. I want you to... I mean... just look around you. Classmates of every race, religion, gender, shape, size — 85 countries represented and dozens of languages spoken. You are the most diverse class in Northeastern’s history — in other words, you are Donald Trump’s worst nightmare."
* THEY'RE MY WORST NIGHTMARE AS WELL - AND I'M AN ALUMNUS!
But then Kerry decided to spell out just why Trump is
wrong, giving the rest of us a look into the nightmares that the American establishment finds appealing.
First, though, to understand Kerry’s speech, keep in mind
that ... America’s colleges these days love international students (for
example, over a quarter of Northeastern’s students, 4,775, are foreign) because
they can charge them list price ($182,120 for four years). Northeastern’s
endowment is only 2% of Harvard’s, so it’s desperate for rich foreign students
who will pay full fare.
* YEP. TRUE!
In contrast, many American applicants expect to receive
financial aid (i.e., discounts off the rack rate), a tradition that emerged in
the 20th century when American institutions were expected to stand by their
fellow citizens, rather than to simply lecture them on the globalist
imperative.
Receiving financial aid on college tuition is one of the
bigger tangible benefits of being an American citizen, as is emphasized by the
advertising for birth tourism businesses that help Chinese deliver anchor
babies in the United States.
(Chinese nationals will deposit their pregnant womenfolk
in Southern California for months so that their scions can qualify for American
college financial aid in 18 years.)
You might think that this remaining privilege accruing to
American citizens would be denounced as discriminatory. After all, policies
favoring Americans are more and more portrayed as a violation of foreigners’
civil rights. But instead, it’s simply not discussed much in public because the
right to charge foreigners more than Americans benefits universities.
* ANYWAY... BACK TO KERRY...
The Secretary of State declared:
"So I think that everything that we’ve lived and learned tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from sound-bite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt…. You’re about to graduate into a complex and borderless world."
Do Americans really want a “borderless world?" Has
anybody asked the voters?
You might think that protecting and preserving the
national borders is a duty of America’s senior Cabinet officer. After all,
America has rather desirable boundaries. But that’s not how many leading
American statesmen describe their goals in the 21st century.
For instance, the “ultimate wisdom of a borderless world”
was the message of a speech given by former president Bill Clinton in Australia
on Sept. 10, 2001, according to an article that appeared the next morning in
Melbourne’s The Age under the headline “Open Borders to All.” Now, you might
think that was bad timing... but it actually turned out lucky for the Clintons
because in all the excitement of the next day, the lunacy of Bill’s call was
forgotten.
To make the Americans in the audience feel better about
their onrushing borderlessness, Kerry reminded them of the benefits of
globalism they had already enjoyed:
"And many of you were in elementary school when you learned the toughest lesson of all on 9/11. There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousand miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others."
Obviously, that’s a factually disingenuous recounting of
9/11. Mohamed Atta & Co. didn’t scale a giant wall to get onto American
domestic airliners, they were instead welcomed by officials who had been
repeatedly warned by George W. Bush about the evils of profiling jittery Arab
terrorist-looking guys.
* ACTUALLY... TO BE FAIR... NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT
PROFILING PRIOR TO 9/11.
But even if Kerry was being honest, isn’t referencing
9/11 a slightly insane way to put down Trump?
(Especially when Kerry combines demands to keep our
borders wide open with demands to continue bombing Muslims in their home
countries?)
Kerry responded to 9/11 by voting to authorize Bush to...
invade Iraq.
(*SMIRK*)
Kerry even called attention to a graduate who was the
victim of porous borders and government negligence:
"I mentioned Victoria McGrath earlier, who was injured in the Boston Marathon attack. So Boston and Northeastern need no lessons in how important it is to win the battle against terrorists."
But, of course, the Tsarnaev brothers were in America as
refugee guests of the American government, probably because their Uncle Ruslan
had been the son-in-law of the CIA station chief in Kabul.
Similarly, Kerry brought up the smartphone-equipped flash
mobs of migrants besieging the West, but as a reason not to defend our borders:
"We know that there are millions of young people across the globe with no jobs, no opportunity, but they have smartphones in their hands. They can see what the rest of the world has. And in the seeing of that, they also see and know what they don’t have…."
Instead, that’s a reason not for defense but for more
war:
"There used to be a famous song during World War I, “Over There,” sang about the distant shores where our soldiers traveled to fight. But in our time, in your time, there is no “over there”; in a digital, well-traveled world — in a global marketplace — those distant shores are practically always right at our doorstep."
There’s an empirical debate over what fraction of
Chancellor Merkel’s Million Muslim Mob are war refugees versus economic
migrants, but Kerry assured the grads that the real danger is America minding
its own business:
"And yet the specter of isolationism once again hovers over our nation."
* FRIGGIN' MORON...
(*SIGH*)
Kerry climaxed his speech with an inspiring story about
all the patriotic Americans who sacrificed their lives propping up Chiang
Kai-shek’s regime in the 1940s:
"That is the most that anyone could have asked of them. It’s what history demands from the United States of America. And it’s what the future asks of you."
Swell…
Of course, what Kerry left out was that America’s
involvement in China was perhaps the biggest foreign-policy disaster in
American history - leading immediately to the Korean War.
(*SMIRK*)
China is the world’s largest example of how borders make
people happier. You may wonder how the Communist Party can continue to rule in
China, despite all the catastrophes of the Maoist years. It’s because the
Chinese feel that, horrible as the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap
Forward were, at least Mao threw out the foreign devils.
Nationalism actually works pretty well. Do we want to
toss away today’s hard-earned world order out of Kerry-level boredom,
faddishness, and shallowness of thought?
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