Multiculturalism Has Been Institutionalized by the Midterm Election
Paul Craig Roberts
Every group is blaming the Republican’s loss on their pet peeve. For free market economists Trump’s tariffs lost the election. Multiculturalists blamed Trump’s closing of the border and ICE deportations. The woke liberal-left blamed Trump’s hostility to DEI. And so on.
I gave it to you straight. Trump and the Republicans sold out MAGA Americans for Israel’s hegemony over the Muslim Middle East. Imagine the stupidity of starting a war that will push up energy costs while simultaneously supporting the construction of data centers that drive up electricity costs just before an election. It shows extraordinary lack of consideration for Americans who can barely pay their bills and cannot afford health insurance. America is the only rich country in which the citizens cannot afford medical care and are stressed to pay the coming months’ bills. Trump’s war for Israel’s expansion in the Middle
East is spreading the inability to pay household expenses throughout the world.
Marjorie Taylor Green gave a straight answer. Trump preferred serving Netanyahu to serving America.
Vice president J.D. Vance almost gave a straight answer. He said the Republicans lost because of the war started by Trump’s attacks on Iran. By blaming the war on Trump and not on Israel, Vance avoided the charge, still lethal for Republicans, of being an anti-semite.
Democrats who won big, such as Melat Kiros and Abdul El-Sayed, seem unbothered by charges of anti-semitism. Their attitude is that those who hold Israel accountable are the good guys, not the bad ones.
Ethiopian born Melat is one of others, such as Chicago alderman and New York’s mayor, who are transforming the Democrat Party into the Democratic Socialists of America Party, and the growing problems of cities are helping them. She and others like her, not the old line Democrat Establishment, is where Democrat leadership is coming from. She defeated her Republican opponent in Colorado with 78% of the vote. This is a woman who gave up her position at one of America’s most prestigious law firms in order to be free to speak her mind. Her confidence and determination will enter Congress with her. How many Republicans can we say this about?
Similarly, Abdul El-Sayed strikes me, given the information that I have, as a person who was elected to the US Senate without having to be a whore for monied interests. Like Melat Kiros, he is a competent person. A University of Michigan graduate. A Columbia University medical school M.D., a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford who also excelled on the athletic field as captain of Oxford University’s lacrosse team.
It is disturbing when the best and the brightest see revolution, not reform, as the salvation of America’s future.
Thanks to the dishonesty and mendaciousness of the American liberal-left, especially the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, and NPR, the Trump phenomena was misrepresented as ignorant “Trump deplorables.” Closing the border and deporting millions of illegals welcomed into America by the Obama and Biden regimes and by US corporations seeking to replace US workers with lower paid illegals was intentionally misrepresented as white racism in action, not what it is, which is protest against new burdens while experiencing declining American living standards, no health insurance, wars for foreign interest, no career prospects, no prospects for children.
What gives the lie to the white racism thesis is the elections of Melat to the House from Colorado, Abdul to the Senate from Michigan, the first black governor of Florida, Byron Donalds, the first black governor of Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms, the first Hispanic governor of Texas, Gina Hinojosa, the first Hispanic governor of California, Xavier Becerra. These people were elected with Democrat and Republican votes. With both Republicans and Democrats failing to deal with Americans’ concerns, voters turned elsewhere to socialists and to “oppressed ethnicities” for leadership. Some insist elections were stolen. On the other hand it is a natural progression for Keisha from mayor of Atlanta to governor of Georgia. If the elections are stolen, it shows where the power resides.
Conservatives, Republicans, and older Americans do not understand that years of education at all levels of schooling amounting to indoctrination of students that all white people are racists who oppress peoples of color has acquired status as the truth enshrined in the New York Times 1619 Project. Born into a system that is in the process of transforming itself, acceptance of multiculturalism is understood as appropriate restitution and the way to go forward. Everything reflects acceptance that multiculturalism is the future–corporate advertising in which the white family has disappeared, school lessons, the multicultural emphasis of university alumni magazines, DEI’s replacement of merit, movies that turn white historical characters, both real and fictional, into blacks, studies that conclude the original Swedish people were black, that Mozart stole musical position from a more capable black, and so on.
I have pointed out, not because I oppose “people of color,” that a multicultural society is problematic because how does it arrive at a unifying mores that unifies disparate cultural, religious, and historical interests? Which ethnicities give up their mores and assimilate to the mores of other ethnicities? The more likely outcome is unresolved disparate interests, or violence. Enoch Powell, Jean Raspail, Wilmont Robertson have explained why the Western World will come to a violent racial ending. No one has explained a preferential ending. Targeting white people who cannot pay their bills as providers of restitution to peoples of color is more likely to provoke violence than peace.
A nation must consist of common interests or it is not a nation. It is merely a geographical boundary, and it might be that its borders are open, leaving the country undefined. A nation is a people united by ethnic identity–the French, the Germans–and by assimilation as Americans once were and as Russians seem to be. A collection of racial ethnicities, each with its own mores, is a Tower of Babel, not a nation. Without common mores, there is no society or political entity.
This problem that is bequeathed to the unprepared young insouciant American and Western youth, who have no sense of what has been lost as what they know as normal is what they are born into, is how do white ethnic peoples survive when they are denied their own nations and demonized as racist oppressors. To emphasize that there is a problem, I have suggested that they will survive as exhibits in zoos of the evil that once afflicted the world. I am open to a better prognosis, but a bright future is not something that awaits insouciant Western youths.