A Green Card in Every Pot

A Green Card in Every Pot
By Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 31, 2007

Americans - at least really stupid Americans like George Bush -
believe the natural state of the world is to have individual self-
determination, human rights, the rule of law and a robust democratic
economy. On this view, most of the existing world and almost all of
world history is a freakish aberration.

In fact, the natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish
aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world.

The British Empire once spread the culture of prosperity around the
globe - Judeo-Christian values, tolerance, equality, private property
and the rule of law. All recipients of the British Empire's largesse
benefited, but the empire's most successful colony was the United
States.

At the precise moment in history when the U.S. has abandoned any
attempt to transmit Anglo-Saxon virtues to its own citizens, much less
to immigrants, George Bush wants to grant citizenship to hordes of
immigrants who are here precisely because they are fleeing cultures
that are utterly dysfunctional and ruinous for the humans who live in
them.

Yes, this country has absorbed huge migrations of illiterate peasants
in the past - notably Italian immigrants at the turn of the last
century. But also notably, half of them went back. We got the good
ones. America was not yet a welfare state guaranteeing room and board
to the luckless, the lazy and the incompetent from cradle to grave.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, immigrant and first Jewish
member of the Supreme Court, said that Americanization required that
the immigrant adopt "the clothes, the manners and the customs
generally prevailing here" and that he adopt "the English language as
the common medium of speech."

But, Brandeis said, this is only part of it. "(W)e properly demand of
the immigrant even more than this - he must be brought into complete
harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for
their attainment. Only when this has been done will he possess the
national consciousness of an American."

Or as George Bush would call it, "empty rhetoric." And as Linda Chavez
would call it, "racist."

I wish our new immigrants had come to America back when the
foundations of civic society and patriotism were still inculcated in
all immigrants (and when half of them went home). But traitors who are
citizens have destroyed all acculturating institutions. Traitors who
are citizens have also destroyed all incentive for the poor to work or
even keep their knees together before marriage.

Until the recipient culture is capable of doing an effective job of
Americanizing immigrants, it's preposterous to talk about a massive
influx of Hispanic immigrants accomplishing anything other than
turning America into yet another Latin American-style banana republic.
And it is simply a fact that no one is trying to turn immigrants into
Americans.

To the contrary, Democrats are trying to turn new immigrants into
wards of the state - and with some success! - so they will be
permanent Democratic voters. Rich Republicans and their handmaidens in
Washington are trying to turn immigrants into a permanent servant
class.

In an astonishing exchange on Fox News last weekend, Dan Henninger of
the Wall Street Journal responded to Heather MacDonald's point that
Hispanics in this country have a 50 percent illegitimacy rate, the
highest teen pregnancy rate of any group and the highest high school
drop-out rate of any group, by asking: "Why don't we feel we are under
cultural assault in New York City? You have no sense of this at all
here."

You also have no sense of the existence of a middle class in New York
City. The rich have hidden the evidence, transplanting all but the
massively wealthy to the suburbs. Manhattan is white and getting
whiter, while the boroughs are noticeably less white and more
dysfunctional.

What evidence is there for the proposition that American culture will
leap like a tenacious form of tuberculosis to today's immigrants?
Americans display no evident desire to defend their culture, much less
transmit it, and immigrants show no evident desire to adopt it.

To the contrary, immigrants are replacing American culture with Latin
American culture. Their apparent constant need to demonstrate is just
one example.

As Mac Johnson wrote in Human Events last year, these immigrant
protests represent "the colonization of America by the Latin style of
politics." He listed just some of the demonstrations drawing thousands
- sometimes hundreds of thousands - of protesters over the last few
years in Mexico alone. Among the targets of the protests were a new
regional trade pact, plans to allow private investment in the state-
owned electricity industry, energy and tax reforms, and support for
the mayor of Mexico City.

In 1993 - long before 9-11, before the USS Cole bombing, before the
bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania - the eminent Harvard
political scientist Samuel P. Huntington predicted that the greatest
threat to Western civilization would come from a clash of
civilizations, noting with particular concern the "bloody borders" of
the Muslim world.

So it ought to be of some interest that Huntington is now predicting,
in his book Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity,
that America cannot survive the cultural onslaught from Latin
America.

American Hispanics responded to Huntington's book with a flurry of
scholarly papers and academic debates to counter his thesis that
Mexicans were not assimilating.

Just kidding! They called for national protests against Huntington,
his publisher and Harvard University.

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