The Demoralization Of The Republic

I learned something this week, and it is utterly dispiriting. Most people know that the Electoral College elects U.S. Presidents, by allocating electoral votes to each state. The number of electoral votes is based on that state's population. That's why California has the most Electoral College votes, because it's the most populous state.

But those votes are not allocated by proportion of citizens. They are allocated by proportion of "whole number of persons." If California's representation were based on its number of citizens, it would have 50 electoral votes. But since it's based on number of persons, California has 55 electoral votes.

California is, like most other states, a winner-take-all state.

In essence, then, it's over. The great demographic transformation ushered in by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is bearing fruit. That legislation ended the immigration quota system that favored Western Europeans.

If Western Europeans are so undesirable, why is everybody trying to get in there?

The net effect of the Immigration and Nationality Act is to change the destiny of America. Instead of celebrating the American experiment, progressives are determined to import every third-world hellhole here.

It's peculiar to feel the nativism and xenophobia in my veins. In this sense, I identify with people who hold pretty retrograde ideas about race and ethnicity. Lots of these people are open about being anti-semitic. The anti-semitism doesn't seem to bother me so much, for a number of reasons. Number one, being an ardent Zionist, I believe Jews are entitled to any moral authority they claim for preserving Israel. I believe Jews can and should defend themselves in any way they see fit, and today Jews are strong.

American Jews tend to be a different story. They bloc-vote and donate to the Democratic Party, which I could never accept. I believe this springs from the anti-anti-Communist inclinations of the Democrats. There are communists in my family, and it was accepted because the communists opposed the German National Socialists.

So when I see a right-wing nativist talk about how America is trying to devalue its European heritage, I get it. The Scots-English half of me has an uneasy co-existence with the Ashkenazi Jewish half of me.

My Scots-English mother once opined about my father that he was not a Jew though he could be nothing else.