A Response to Babs
NOTE: The following comment of mine first appeared in the comments to the post below, but since it touches upon a point that I feel is central to understanding not only where I am coming from but where we as a people are I thought to re-post it on its own:
It is true that those of us who have left those areas of the US that have already experienced massive Mexican and Central American immigration constitute a type of vanguard. We can point to our experiences with our new neighbors and argue against the Mexicanization of our new homes.
At times, this argument seems strong. After all, it is an easy thing to go to a school board just considering adopting bilingual education and point to the fact that California and Arizona tried it, it failed and it was abolished.
Ultimately, however, such arguments are bound to fail given the lack of any counter-narrative for a right-wing political movement to appeal to for American authenticity. Right now, the entire political culture is captured by liberalism. It is a necessary pre-requisite to winning such battles that there be seen to exist an alternative story, an alternative rhetoric that has cultural and political acceptance.
Going back to my biligual example above, no matter how good the facts are, the reviewing officials, the credentialed experts they will rely on, the educational establishment and the educational unions all will offer a much-stronger counter-narrative. One of inclusiveness, service, community-outreach, etc., that will prevail at the end of the day.
I know that you have interpreted such comments from me in the past as a type of fatalism, that we're bound to lose.
In a way, I plead guilty as charged, in the same I way I feel sure in saying that, given the current rules structure and environment in the modern NBA, me and my four closest friends are sure to lose if we play the Lakers.
The key to eventual victory is to realize that we are not in a reform or movement era. Arguments, facts, examples, questions will not suffice.
We are in a revolutionary era, one that requires the birth and construction of a new nationalist political party and movement which has the will to disobey and the guts to not only disregard the rules, but to mock them. Until then, there is no point in fighting City Hall.
As I never tire of telling people: The FBI sends its agents to CAIR fund-raisers.
Until we truly grasp what that means and act accordingly, we conservatives are just sheep that bleat slightly louder than the rest.
It is true that those of us who have left those areas of the US that have already experienced massive Mexican and Central American immigration constitute a type of vanguard. We can point to our experiences with our new neighbors and argue against the Mexicanization of our new homes.
At times, this argument seems strong. After all, it is an easy thing to go to a school board just considering adopting bilingual education and point to the fact that California and Arizona tried it, it failed and it was abolished.
Ultimately, however, such arguments are bound to fail given the lack of any counter-narrative for a right-wing political movement to appeal to for American authenticity. Right now, the entire political culture is captured by liberalism. It is a necessary pre-requisite to winning such battles that there be seen to exist an alternative story, an alternative rhetoric that has cultural and political acceptance.
Going back to my biligual example above, no matter how good the facts are, the reviewing officials, the credentialed experts they will rely on, the educational establishment and the educational unions all will offer a much-stronger counter-narrative. One of inclusiveness, service, community-outreach, etc., that will prevail at the end of the day.
I know that you have interpreted such comments from me in the past as a type of fatalism, that we're bound to lose.
In a way, I plead guilty as charged, in the same I way I feel sure in saying that, given the current rules structure and environment in the modern NBA, me and my four closest friends are sure to lose if we play the Lakers.
The key to eventual victory is to realize that we are not in a reform or movement era. Arguments, facts, examples, questions will not suffice.
We are in a revolutionary era, one that requires the birth and construction of a new nationalist political party and movement which has the will to disobey and the guts to not only disregard the rules, but to mock them. Until then, there is no point in fighting City Hall.
As I never tire of telling people: The FBI sends its agents to CAIR fund-raisers.
Until we truly grasp what that means and act accordingly, we conservatives are just sheep that bleat slightly louder than the rest.
