tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6766250354074072342..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: "The Progressive War On the Middle Class"Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-90198638061169313482012-04-21T08:39:31.792-07:002012-04-21T08:39:31.792-07:00The Wall Street Journal interviews demographer Joe...The Wall Street Journal interviews demographer Joel Kotkin, who speaks in despair of the ruin of California that has been leading more people in recent years leave the former paradise state than enter it. California’s decline is driven by a large set of leftist government policies and social factors which Kotkin describes, including insane anti-business measure in the midst of a fiscal crisis. But some of these—such as tight controls on development, and the growth of the welfare class—have obviously been driven by mass Third-World immigration, the very immigration that Kotkin, in past decades, idealistically and aggressively championed. His desire was to change America from the historical Anglo-European nation which he disdained into a multiracial, multicultural society. But in his WSJ interview, he doesn’t acknowledge any connection between the immigration he applauded and the deadly social and political problems he laments.<br /><br /><br />As Kotkin wrote with co-author Yoriko Kishomito in the late 1980s, the mass influx from Latin America and Asia into the U.S. represented, not a departure from our history, but its fulfillment, a typical line of open-borders propaganda:<br /><br />Nor is this [demographic and cultural] transformation contrary to American tradition, Throughout our history, America’s racial and cultural identity has been in constant flux, reacting to each new wave of immigration. Today’s immigration, primarily from Asia and Latin America, continues that pattern…. From its earliest days, the U.S. has always been something of a “world nation.” [quoted by me in The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism, 1990.]<br />Indulging in his imperial fantasies, Kotkin even presented Alexander the Great’s attempt to create a multicultural empire as the model for America to follow.<br />Kotkin, in short, is another destructive liberal Jew, who walks down the street while houses collapse behind him. He then turns around, is shocked by the spectacle of ruin, moans, “Oh, this is terrible,” and it never occurs to him that he had anything to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com