2013-03-25

Rightward changes continue: the left-wing will become the leading racists

Why we on the Left made an epic mistake on immigration
In Leicester and Bradford, almost half of the ethnic population live in what are technically ghettos (defined as areas where minorities form more than two-thirds of the population). Meanwhile, parts of white working-class Britain have been left feeling neither valued nor useful, believing that they have been displaced by newcomers not only in the job market but also in the national story itself.

Those in the race lobby have been slow to recognise that strong collective identities are legitimate for majorities as well as minorities, for white as well as for black people.

For a democratic state to have any meaning, it must ‘belong’ to existing citizens. They must have special rights over non-citizens. Immigration must be managed with their interests in mind. But it has not been.

The justification for such a large and unpopular change has to be that the economic benefits are significant and measurable. But they are not.

One of the liberal elite’s myths is that we are a ‘mongrel nation’ that has always experienced high inflows of outsiders. But this isn’t true. From 1066 until 1950, immigration was almost non-existent (excluding Ireland) — a quarter of a million at the most, mainly Huguenots and Jews.
What's interesting about the policy is that it was forced upon the people by the left-wing governments across the West, just as the euro and European Union have been forced upon the people of Europe.
The fault lies with our leaders, not with the people who came for a better life. There has been a huge gap between our ruling elite’s views and those of ordinary people on the street. This was brought home to me when dining at an Oxford college and the eminent person next to me, a very senior civil servant, said: ‘When I was at the Treasury, I argued for the most open door possible to immigration [because] I saw it as my job to maximise global welfare not national welfare.
You can see the seeds of the major rightward swing unfolding. The traditional right wing is out of power in most countries, but it is very stable in belief because it elevates tradition. If you meet an actual paleoconservative in the U.S. for example, such as Pat Buchanan, you meet someone whose fundamental beliefs would be recognizable to someone from 100 years ago. The left, however, is far more dynamic and volatile. It was religious conservatives who opposed eugenics in the United States and Europe, while progressives pursued it 100 years ago. It was the right that opposed democratic revolutions (be they liberal, communist or fascist), it was the left that pursued them. Thus we see the left swing from minority eugenics and extermination policies 80 to 100 years ago, to the exact opposite today, of placing minorities above the majority. Yet it will swing back again, and the backlash is beginning. The right will play the same role as it did then and it does today, opposing the extremes of the left, but the difference is that the center of power will shift. Instead of being on the margin of society today, the right will take hold of the center because peaceful people will recognize it is the only way to avoid a bloodbath as the progressive utopia collapses upon itself.

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