Sunday 9 November 2008

Anything But Isolation

Call Obama old-fashioned if you will, but he sees it as the job of the President of the United States to protect American jobs, American lives and American culture.

He has been elected, and wishes to be re-elected, by economic patriots and foreign policy realists who believe that immigration must be strictly legal, that legal immigration must be strictly limited, and that English (uniting black and white) must remain the language of the United States severally and collectively. They are right. And they will not, nor should they, feel themselves obliged either to re-nominate or to re-elect him. He has to deliver. And he will.

How should we react? Most positively.

It is morally repugnant to export high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs to un-unionised, child-exploiting sweatshops in Asia or Latin America. The Americans should stop doing this. And so should we.

It is morally repugnant to send off young men and women to be slaughtered in the inherently doomed, and already discredited, cause of global coercive utopianism. The Americans should stop doing this. And so should we.

And it is morally repugnant to import, including by illegal means, a new working class which understands nothing of the national language except commands, knows little or nothing about workers’ rights in the host-country, can be deported if it steps out of line, and can be moved around at will because it has no local patriotism, while ever-more economic, social, cultural and political power is transferred to a publicly funded bilingual élite. The Americans should stop doing this. And so should we.

The reaction to the election of Obama must be the election of our own economic patriots and foreign policy realists who believe that immigration must be strictly legal, that legal immigration must be strictly limited, and that English (uniting black and white) must remain the language of this United Kingdom as such.

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