Hi Emily (fake name)
Good to hear from
you. I miss the days when we talked more
often. I enjoy seeing the pictures and
updates of your family.
The alt-right is a
term used for a lot of different people.
I tried to find some specifics on what defined them and found that the
term is used for a broad umbrella that certainly could include neo-Nazis and
white supremacists, but it could also include people who just want to restore
America to the country it was founded to be.
And that would include me. We are
constantly being told by the media and other people about “who we are,” but
most of the time they are trying to lead us to new places rather than actually
knowing and defending what we are supposed to be as a nation.
I have not
spent too much time at Breitbart News, though I recently subscribed to their
daily emails. I constantly find that
site cited for news articles, and none of them have anything to do with
neo-Nazis and white supremacists. The
left is very quick to use labels to put people into boxes and brand them as
evil, because they disagree with some of the things they say, and they don’t
want you to read them for yourself. I
read a lot of news sources and hadn’t even heard of Steve Bannon until he was
selected by Trump. I suspect that most
of what is being said about him is what has been fed to us by the media and not
from those who have actually spent much time on the site. I
heard some people on the radio say that all this Bannon talk is not true at
all.
The person who
has probably influenced Trump the most on immigration is Ann Coulter. He read her book Adios America: The Left’s
Plan to Turn our Country into a Third World Hellhole shortly before he
announced for President.
Trump’s focus on
immigration and the wall has been on illegal immigration. A country has the responsibility to know who
is coming into it and the right to refuse someone. We have diseases that had long been
eradicated here which are on the rise again, like polio and tuberculosis. We have a drug epidemic due to Mexican drug cartels. We even have a lot of Middle Easterners who
come through Mexico, and who have intentions of bringing death and destruction
to our country. The fact is that with
illegal immigration, we just don’t know who is coming in. Trump’s announcement came shortly after the
murder of Kate Steinle at the hands of an illegal immigrant, someone who had
been deported several times yet still was able to come back again and again.
Is the government is trying to bring minority
immigrants into the country to the "almost entire exclusion of whites.?” Actually, yes. Prior to 1965, it was the policy of our
government to try to retain the current demographics of the population of the
United States with immigration. There
were even quotas on how many from what countries could enter, and they were
primarily if not exclusively European.
In 1965, immigration was opened to all the
countries of the world, and it has been focused almost entirely on
minorities. Is this political? You only need to look at the maps of the
Presidential elections for evidence, but that is certainly not the only
evidence, though you may not find somebody saying so much in public.
Trump, for
example, won the majority vote in probably 95% of the counties in our
country. The 5% of counties he didn’t
win were the large cities which are magnets for new immigrants. A person from a third world country will
vote for almost anything, because anything is an improvement over that from
where they came. And, yes, this is
mostly the work of one political party, the one that favors government
involvement (control) over as much of American life as possible.
You mention a
fear of minorities. It’s not a fear of
minorities per se, but they are visible reminders of what is happening to and
in our country.
Our country
is changing and has been changing for a long time. These changes are intentional, and they are
not good ones. They include the rise of
post-modernism, secularism, political correctness, revisionism, and
deconstructionism, and, yes, these overlap at points. Western Civilization itself is at stake, and
it is losing as each generation knows less about what it is, how it started,
and whether it should be preserved. Has
the West prospered because of inherent differences with other cultures, or did
it prosper because it repressed, oppressed, and exploited other people?
The mantra
of diversity is code for we don’t want what America used to be, and we are
working to make it as different as possible.
Older people see how much our country has changed over the last 60
years, and they are not happy about it.
We remember when prayer, the Bible, and God were removed from our public
schools and the public square, and it’s going to be a lot harder to try to
bring that back when diversity has done its intended work.
Consider the
refugee ‘crisis’ today. There are
between 19 and 55 million refugees in the world today, depending on who’s
counting. Almost all (over 99%) of the
refugees brought to our country in the last two years have been Muslim, though
Christians are being killed and driven out of their homelands throughout the
Middle East.
It’s not “that
white people will lose out”, but we (not white people per se, but long time
citizens) are losing our country, and these are all visible reminders. We used to be the richest country in the
world, the freest, with the best schools, the highest standard of living, very
low crime, and the most Christian country in the world. Even though people might question how many
people were ‘true’ Christians, everybody respected and knew basic Christianity. All the department stores played Christmas
hymns during the Christmas season, schools sang Christian songs, Spring break
was Easter break, and winter break was Christmas break. The Ten Commandments were the moral code of
our nation. They were often displayed in
schools and other public places, and more people knew and accepted them as
being the right way to live.
Now we are arguably
the poorest country in the world. When
our federal debt is $20 trillion, our state debt is over $120 billion, and the average
credit card debt is over $10,000, we are living on borrowed money.
When people
talk about our country being a nation of immigrants or that we are all
immigrants, they are trying to cover the real issues. Any person not now living here is potentially
an immigrant, and they want you to think that one is as good as another, and we
have no right to be picky about who comes here.
I have a
government textbook from 1949 that lists 11 different standards that were
applied to all immigrants before they would be accepted, including literacy,
health, basic intelligence, good morals, job skills, and the expectation that
they would not require government assistance.
Now those
standards are ignored for legal immigrants, and who knows about those who come
illegally?
We are
bringing into our country hundreds of thousands of people that we support for
upwards of $35,000 a year at a time when our country is $20 trillion in debt,
and we have more people out of the work force than at any time in probably the
last 50 years.
Yes, the
Indians preceded the Europeans coming here, but they say that the Indians came
from Asia through Alaska. Did they
displace anyone when they came? My
family has been here for a hundred years, so I wouldn’t think of myself as an
immigrant.
You mention
that most immigrants these days are coming from Central and South America, with
China and India second. Those pie charts
are missing something. They list the
names of the individual countries with the most immigrants, but then there is
the large blank of about 40% of the total immigrants from ‘other countries.’ This would be the Muslims that our President
is so eager to bring over here. There
are almost 50 Muslim countries in the world, and it doesn’t matter which one
they come from, just as long as they come.
The
Christian response is to, as you say, welcome and help them. But the government is not acting in the name
of Christ, the Church, or the Christian.
It has been enabling the weakening and gradual destruction of our
country.
Right around
the time all this was starting to happen, political correctness began
emerging. Among the ideas that came with
that was that our country was founded as a secular nation and that of diversity. Diversity is another way of diluting and
diminishing the influence of the dominant culture, in this case, Christianity,
white, and traditional.
We used to
have an American (Western) culture that we were proud of and taught our
students in all of our schools. Colleges
used to have required classes on the history of Western Civilization. That has all been rejected in favor of
multiculturalism. WestCiv has been
branded the belief system of dead white people who became rich by oppressing
people of color.
One of the
most important things that should be considered in answering any questions
about immigration and everything else is the Constitution. The most important part of the Constitution
is the beginning. That is the part that
tells us the purpose of the whole thing, the goal of what government is
supposed to work on, what it is exactly that our country fought a war in order
to obtain.
“We the
People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote
the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America.”
First of
all, it is the people who are in control of the country, not the
government. The government doesn’t run
the people. We run the government.
The first
goal mentioned is to form a more perfect union.
We are constantly being told that diversity is our strength. To me, diversity weakens and divides a
nation. But either way, our country is
about forming a more perfect union. If
there are controversial issues about immigration, the government has no right
to do something and then tell the American people to like it.
Establishing
justice is not referring to foreign or immigration policy. It is about protecting the rights of the
people of the United States. The
government has no right to put the welfare of people who are not of the United
States above those who are. It’s like a
family. You have three kids and a
husband. You take care of them
first. That doesn’t mean that you don’t
care about the other kids on the block, but your focus is on these four people
first. Hopefully, those other kids on
the block have parents who care about them.
The purpose of our government is to take care of the people of the
United States first. If individuals in
the United States want to help people from other countries or if the United
States votes to do something, that’s fine.
But most of what is happening with immigration today is not the will of
the people, but the will of certain people in our government with an agenda
that is far more than about helping people.
Number three
is insuring domestic tranquility. Tranquility. I have read so many times where the Founders
actually talked about the happiness of the American people as being the goal of
government. You don’t make people happy
when you try to cram things down their throats, no matter how worthy it is or
may seem to some people.
Provide for
the common defense. War isn’t really
about killing people. The goal is
usually to change the government of the other country. Killing people is usually just the means of
doing that. But if people can change our
government without killing people, all the better. There are a lot of people who are trying to
change our country in innumerable ways that are contrary to what our country
was intended to be. If we don’t know
what that is, we have no way to counter what they are trying to do.
Promoting
the general welfare essentially means doing things that benefit everybody and
not just a select group. When the government
gives free housing and thousands of dollars a month to certain people, that is
not promoting the general welfare. That’s
for private organizations or individuals.
That’s not the role of our government.
And lastly
to secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity. That means basically that we don’t live on
borrowed money, where we jeopardize our children’s future for present
gain. All this money that we are spending
on immigration frankly is borrowed money.
We have destroyed our middle class by sending millions of good jobs
overseas, and we are spending money we don’t have. We have changed the rules by which our
country used to work, and too many people don’t know how it is supposed to
work.
Sorry for
taking so long to answer your concerns.
There is certainly so much more that could be said.
Wish you the
best.
Larry
