Showing posts with label tyranny of the majority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tyranny of the majority. Show all posts

Sunday, October 25, 2009

While we abstain from making babies…

“Be fruitful and multiply” – that Biblical admonition is out of favor in the West.  The Mormon and Catholic churches have it right.  Large families serve a civilization-building purpose.  But many Catholics don’t care much for this doctrine, and Mormons are too few to have an impact.  Birth control, abortions, higher costs of raising kids, the popularity of deferring marriage and having promiscuous fun while single – these practices are hastening the demise of our western civilization.  “Why is that?”, you might ask.

Because at the same time the Islamic world IS being fruitful and multiplying.  They now constitute 25% of the world’s population and growing much more rapidly than any other sectarian or non-religious group.  Within as few as fifteen years several currently “Christian” countries will have Muslim majorities. France, the Netherlands and Britain are our canaries in the coal mine.  They will likely experience Muslim majorities within the next 15 to 20 years.  With the growing popularity of Sharia law, the tyranny of the majority is not far off.

The findings of a recent Pew research study are ominous for the West:

New Muslim Demographics Data Calls for Hard Decisions on Immigration

Watch the video…

Many European nations must address the issue of immigration quickly if they want a chance of preserving their existing culture and freedoms.  In this country, we need to decide whether Islam is a religion or an all-encompassing fascist political movement worthy of prohibition before we can stem the tide here.

Proliferate and Regulate or Succumb.  These will be our choices in the coming decades.

Two excellent books on this topic include Mark Steyn’s “America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It” and Pat Buchanan’s “The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization”.

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Tugging at Liberal, Law-Evading Heartstrings

So, Barack Obama's Aunti Zeituni is living in taxpayer funded public housing as an illegal alien.

This is a unique situation on several fronts. I'll point out the obvious.

* She is an illegal alien, flaunting the laws of her host nation.
* She is receiving public taxpayer assistance while violating our immigration laws.
* She is the poverty-status aunt of an affluent presidential candidate who calls the rest of America "selfish" for "not sharing our wealth with those in need."
* She is not unknown to Mr. Obama - he mentioned her in his book “Dreams From My Father.”
* Understandably, she is called "an exemplary resident" by the very bureaucrats who make their living off of providing taxpayer dollars to those who break laws and don't work.

This is the change we can look forward to in the coming years: Polices that discourage the dilligent and successful and enable (in the self-destructive psychological sense) those who need the most motivation to help themselves. Providing handouts (public or private) to lawbreakers and unmotivateds is not the path to motivation. This is the certain path to destroying our nation's productivity, quality of life, and greatness as a nation - growing the pool of lawbreaking entitlement recipients and reducing the pool of law abiding producers.

An Obama victory is the beginning of democracy's "tyranny of the majority" - the majority being those who see the chance for more government entitlements at the expense of those who have been the most productive because of the incentives to personal effort freedom used to offer.

An Obama victory will truly be a momentus occasion for this country. It represents the first time in our history that tax policy isn't just used as an equitable system of raising revenue to fund critical federal government programs, but as a conscious policy of shifting wealth from the haves to the have nots - " from each according to their ability, to those according to their need" as Karl Marx was fond of saying. As Frank Miele in the preceeding linked article opined, Mr. Marx may have lost the the battle but it appears he is winning the war. Thank you, Mr. Obama and all the voters seeking government entitlements and those who feel guilty for being motivated and successful. We've had affirmative action based on race. We will now have affirmative action based on degree of indolence.