Posted under Conservatism & Immigration & Pro-Life & Republican Party & Survival of the West
This week Pat Buchanan posted an article about whether the Republican Party has a future at all. Most of his arguments are tied to demographics and raw numbers, but he also brought up the fact that massive immigration–both legal and illegal–has created a vast new base of entitlement-seekers who will always vote for Democrats to expand the welfare-state. This effect is doubled when you factor in the abortion rate and subsequent reductions of native-born Americans.
To be sure, the Republican Party has never been a comprehensively conservative party. They’ve become the de facto conservative party in contrast to the Democrats. In reality, the Republicans represent soft liberalism whereas the Democrats are basically socialists. Even so, continued losses by Republican candidates are indicative of a declining conservative movement. With controlled immigration a distant memory, the Republicans seem destined to remain a minority party.
But what about abortion? After all, abortion is a huge factor in what drives mass-immigration. The nearly 50 million children murdered through abortion in America since 1973 represent 50 million less native-born workers in the labor market. Immigration has filled that gap and then some. The vast majority of immigrants come from nations that have virtually no concept of limited government, the rule of law, or federalism which are rooted in America’s Anglo-Protestant heritage.
The result of this demographic shift has been painfully obvious. In their attempt to emulate Democrats in their level of pandering, the Republican leadership has supported amnesty for illegal aliens, an expansion of entitlements, and numerous bailouts for disaffected groups. Yet none of this has benefited the GOP electorally. Today’s Republican Party is a mess and the prevailing sentiments are to move the party even further to the Left.
In their failure to seriously bring an end to legalized abortion, the Republicans have committed political suicide. To be sure, there probably would have been increased immigration even if abortion had remained illegal. However, there would not have been the type of mass third-world immigration that has been the American experience as of late. Culturally, socially, and politically the alternative would have been a much more conservative America.
For decades, the Republicans held over the heads of social conservatives the possibility of reversing Roe v. Wade without any real intention of doing so. In fact, the Republicans have a policy of preemptive concession when it comes to abortion. Superficial gains may be made here and there–just enough to keep pro-lifers coming back to the polls to support them every election cycle.
With Democrats having strong majorities in both houses of Congress, amnesty for illegal aliens is virtually inevitable. If given the chance, President Obama will most certainly push for it the way Bush did. In doing so, the Democrats are guaranteeing their own political future as amnesty will mean a permanent Democratic majority. From that point on, the Republican Party will fade away into relative obscurity, taking with it the conservative movement it never represented in the first place.
One Dove on 22 Jan 2009 at 11:41 am #
Abortion, immigration issues, and the death of conservatism are indications of an increasingly self-centered, individualistic, political paradigm shift that’s taking place in the United States, right now.
Your statement, “Republicans represent soft liberalism whereas the Democrats are basically socialists,” is, I believe, a very accurate assessment of the two parties’ positions.
Conservatism is dying, and with its death, there will be new challenges for new generations, whose children will have to live with the consequences of their parents’ actions, just as our children have.
To expect everything to remain the same may fuel news, discussion, and debate, but it is naive.
roho on 22 Jan 2009 at 2:25 pm #
I agree, but feel that the historical timeline is behind. “Conservatism” was placed in a wheel chair cripled, long ago. Many years later it died. And just over the past 8 years it was burried.
Conservatism was the “Dixiecrats” and George Wallace was the last man standing. Neocons were never able to “infiltrate” the Dixiecrats. After the death of George Wallace, the GOP hijacked a new force called “TV Evangelism”, inorder to create “Christian Zionism”. One of the most destructive forces against Conservatism was LBJ, whom became the Architect for the destruction of any conservative vallues, heritage, and continuity.
Long ago, George Wallace knew that only through a 3rd party, would Conservatism survive. But, it was new Republicans still trying to find their place in the GOP under Reagan that true conservatism was leaving it’s roots out of hatred for liberalism. And now they lay on the floor underneath the GOP table waiting for table scraps, still listening to their TV evangelists and wondering how much farther they will move to the left?
God bless Strom Thurman and George C. Wallace.
Ivan on 22 Jan 2009 at 2:32 pm #
Problem is: the vast majority of those aborted babies were Black. Blacks vote for Democrat candidates at an even higher rate than immigrants. The Republican strategy (which is still in progress, and may or may not backfire in the long run) was to appeal to the support for traditional family and limited government one finds in Mexican immigrants. The problems the Republicans have faced in this strategy is that in a couple of generations, the descendants of Mexican immigrants no longer embrace traditional family values, or an appreciation for limited government. They begin to resemble the typical American, and embrace the rejection of tradition and limited government, in favor of “progressive values” and socialism.
To claim that Barack Obama was elected because there are fewer Blacks than there would have been if abortion was illegal is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
telecomsearch on 22 Jan 2009 at 4:39 pm #
Indeed, the purpose of unfettered allowances for illegal immigration is also to continue the support of the great Ponzi scheme known as FICA and SSI aka the Social Security System.
Without new legal and illegal immigrants feeding the bottom, it would quickly wither away in a great political debacle, of which, all Washington pols with to cowardly avoid. Indeed, “white” citizens do not supply enough new contributors.
roho on 22 Jan 2009 at 6:44 pm #
Take a walk down memory lane and read this speech:
George C. Wallace, “The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax”. July 4, 1964.
The greatest orator of the 2oth century IMHO.
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/wallace64.html
ERIC on 24 Jan 2009 at 6:42 pm #
roho
AMEN BROTHER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!