Strange, unpleasant, uninteresting men, simple-minded men filled with bile and a desire to destroy nations. Each is a master at introducing disharmony into nations. Moneybags Soros has used his money to ignite a plague of conflict in Europe, especially in the U.K. for which he has a special animus, the country who fought the Nazis who threatened his family, the country that took him in and gave him an elite education at the London School of Economics. He showed his gratitude by breaking the Bank of England. Then he retreated to the city that became Marxist headquarters in the U.S. See "When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism" By Maurice Isserman (The New York Times). It is amazing that a single man can do so much harm just with money. Not with ideas like Marx but only money. He doesn’t inspire, he buys, and there are thousands like him, the so-called NGO drones, filled with hatred of their homelands who are willing to be bought to carry out his nefarious ambitions. They become his assassins and immigrants are their weapon. Apparently he seeks to follow in the footsteps of his ancestor Apostle Paul who sought and accomplished the destruction of gentile classical civilization. Paul was also motivated by hatred, the man who, in Catherine Nixey’s words, caused the destruction of the classical world. A world that never appealed to Soros or Biden or to that crafty opportunist Donald Trump. America has been unlucky with its presidents. Two good presidents come to mind: George Washington and FDR, separated by two centuries. Jimmy Carter was too good to be a good president among viperous politicians. Even the magnificent Eisenhower did a deal with the devil—British Petroleum—and made America an accomplice in Operation Ajax, a supreme betrayal of democratic principles that has caused havoc for the West and Middle East for decades.
Biden is a strange man, like a penny flattened on a railroad track. He reminds me of the nihilist in Thomas Mann’s story “Disillusionment” who says to his young listener, “Shall I go on to tell you of my happiness? For I have had my happiness as well and it too has been a disappointment. No, I need not go on; for no heaping up of bald examples can make clearer to you that it is life in general, life in its dull, uninteresting, average course which has disappointed me—disappointed, disappointed!” Life is a disappointment to dull-minded men.
Biden came to be president as a disappointed man. He would never have won had he not been running against a buffoon. The disappointment never left him and he became resentful. He blamed a nation for his never having been loved and appreciated. He would teach them, not to love and appreciate him but to hate him. His weapon? Unbridled immigration like God’s Great Flood. Does resentment fuel Soros’ hatred as well? Who knows? The fog of hatred in his case conceals its cause.
But Biden isn’t a nihilist, only an empty man, a hollow man. In the words of T.S. Eliot that seem to characterize such men:
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion.
But with politicians there is always motion. Invasions then wars and if not war then unending conflict that eats away within a country like voracious worm.
Biden called Japan and India “xenophobic” because they do not welcome immigrants. He said “Immigrants are what makes us strong. Not a joke.” But America has become a joke, a nation rife with discord. The division of the country caused by open-borders immigration now ranks with the Civil War and the Vietnam War. America may be strong militarily and economically but it is no longer united. He said, “we welcome immigrants.” To whom does “we” refer to? The welcome mat has always been put down by those who benefit from immigrants. Once upon a time it was the Republicans who welcomed them as cheap labor even if they arrived illegally and today it’s Democrats who welcome them as potential voters once they become citizens. The question of welcoming new immigrants was never put to the American people. But they have always made their preference known. Were they asked when Biden opened the boarders to thousands of immigrants? Were the citizens of the cities to which immigrants arrived daily in buses and planes asked? No, they weren’t.
Biden is a wannabe authoritarian politician. As with Putin, it’s his way or the highway. He simply has to put up with being the president of a democratic nation. And now like Soros he demands that all nations open their boarders to immigrants. Seven observations:
1. Native Americans were not xenophobic, and how did that turn out for them? And should Hopi and Navajo reservations be opened to Irish, Italian, Iranian immigrants?
2. America was a nation opened to immigrants when the government sought to fill it up with mostly European stock. Now the national cup overfloweth with 341,521,493 bodies. When is enough enough? Would Biden smile if the population reached a billion?
3. The cause of endless immigration is the overabundance of humanity fleeing poor nations (caused by more people than the economy can support) for new homes in other nations. This is a problem, not an opportunity, that can’t be solved by opening borders:
one billion in 1804;
two billion in 1927 (123 years later);
three billion in 1960 (33 years later);
four billion in 1974 (14 years later);
five billion in 1987 (13 years later);
six billion in 1999 (12 years later);
seven billion in October 2011 (12 years later);
eight billion on November 15, 2022 (11 years later).
From 2011 to 2022 the world population increased by a billion people. There is a positive feedback at work here that can only lead to disaster of one kind or another. Megacites (more than 10 million people) is a problem unless the nation is wealthy enough to support them. Then there is poverty, crime, and environmental degradation in overpopulated nations. Biden reveals his dull-mindedness when he expects Japan with a population of 125 million but the size of California and India with 1.5 billion people to take on more immigrants. When is enough enough?
4. That platitude “A Nation of Immigrants” has neither inherent legitimacy nor obligation. It is flaunted by American presidents because America was to be the great immigration experiment. Yet, the experiment hasn’t proven to be an unblemished success as recent events in the U.S. and elsewhere have proven. In Great Britain “One third (33%) [of leave voters] said the main reason was that leaving offered the best chance for the UK to regain control over immigration and its own borders” (Wikipedia). And why the increasing power of the far-right in Europe? “For most right-wing populist parties in Europe put the immigration issue on the top of their agenda exploiting anxieties over cultural disintegration and rising crime” (European Insights). The fact is that many nations believe that unbridled immigration causes instability. But facts don’t matter to Biden, only platitudes. He is a politician after all. He is also one who has made impulsive decisions on his own authority that turned out to be very big, messy boondoggles. Of course, that is the American way—Do your thing, do what you wanna do and to hell with everyone else.
5. Cultural integrity is more important to many nations than the needs of immigrants or their economic benefits. Take as an example Native American tribal names such as Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Utes, Sioux, Apache, and so on. Each name represents a unique culture that defines each member of the culture. Indians fought to preserve their cultural heritage. They didn't want to change their culture for the white man's culture of convenience. One difference between the white man and the Red man is how each relates to nature. Here expressed by Chief Luther Standing Bear: “The Lakota was a true naturalist—a love of nature. He loved the earth and all things o the earth, the attachment growing with age.” The Lakota hunted and revered the bison. Before the arrival of the white man an estimated 30-60 million bison roam North America, mostly on the great plains, the home of the Lakota. With the arrival of the white man the Bison population fell to 325 in 1884. Again do your thing, do what you wanna do and to hell with everyone else including nature’s creatures.
Another difference is religion. Again Chief Luther Standing Bear: “For one man the world was full of beauty; the for the other it was a place of sin and ugliness to be endured until he went to another world, there to become a creature of wings, half-man and half-bird.” Of course, Hell would be filled with Indian pagans who had not converted to the white man’s religion. Religion and ideology do cause conflict. In India and Japan Buddha is revered. In Afghanistan the Taliban regime blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan (created about 1500 years ago) after declaring them to be un-Islamic. Some cultures are incompatible. Biden doesn’t understand this because like Soros and Trump he is a postmodern man whose culture is himself. Postmodern men are post-culture men. All that matter is the bling, that which is fashionable and attracts attention to oneself. A multicultural society is a society without culture. A helter-skelter collection of cultures “full of sound and fury signifying nothing” ultimately. It’s postmodern and post-cultural like America itself. The difference is seen between a statue of Buddha and the Statue of Liberty. The one represents a single idea that is profound, tranquil, and timeless. The other represents freedom and a cornucopia of cultures. But America’s cornucopia has been a ruckus and filled with conflict from its very beginning. Japan ranks 9th among the safest nations of the world. The United States ranked 129th in the Global Peace Ranking for 2022. “The United States' ranking has fallen every year since 2016, a drop usually attributed to a decrease in life satisfaction, rising political division, and an increasing wealth gap.” Freedom is essential to self-realization, but pursued as an end in itself it can lead to nihilism and chaos. And that is how many nations perceive America—a nihilistic, chaotic nation, exciting, thrilling, and self-destructive. No lover of freedom wants to live in a national prison such as Russia, China, and Iran. However, the lover of freedom doesn’t want to live in a lawless society overrun by Charles Mansons, where freedom is unrestrained by a shared culture. Laws are not sufficient. “The U.S. prison population was 1,230,100 at yearend 2022, a 2% increase from yearend 2021 (1,205,100).” Japan had 40, 881 people in prison in 2023. Why so few criminals? A shared culture is one reason. A culture that is inherently spiritual is another. An American saying is “If it ain't broke, don't fix it.” Perhaps that is what Japan and India think about immigration.
Yet, certain cultural ideologies—religious and secular—are all about fixing other people’s cultures. Apostle Paul’s Christianity was perhaps the first. It sought to fix the pagan cultures of the Greco-Roman empire—the ones that produced Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Epicurus, Aristotle, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Lucretius, not to mention a host of great artists and scientists. Two millennia later came Karl Marx who sought to fix the entire world including that nemesis the U.S. According to Nathan Glazer’s The Social Basis of American Communism, “The dynamic forces that had created an immigrant base or the Communist Party in America stemmed from the immigrant generation. Nothing new was added.” In other words, the communist movement in the U.S. was imported. The problem with Communism can be seen in what it did to Russia and China. Russia freed itself from communism but remained a broken. Apparently communist us-versus-them aggression is alive and well in both nations.
But as already noted that other immigrant ideology Christianity has been for centuries hell-bound fixing other cultures via conversion, mostly violent. Jesuit missionaries invaded Vietnam in hopes of converting Buddhist Vietnamese to Christianity. “During the French colonial campaign against Vietnam from 1858 to 1883, many Catholics joined with the French in helping to establish colonialism by fighting against the Vietnamese government. Once colonial rule was established, the Catholics were rewarded with preferential treatment in government posts and education, and the church was given vast tracts of royal land that had been seize” (“Christianity in Vietnam,” Wikipedia). All Buddhist monks could do was set themselves afire. Then came communism. It’s understandable that many nations want to keep immigrants with alien ideologies and cultures out of their homelands. Unlike Biden and his Marxist supporters, they are proud of their culture and of who they are. Biden and his Marxist friends are hollow people who have no culture, only an ideology of hatred toward the nation in which they thrive.
Biden’s and Trump’s response to the Vietnam War says a lot about both men. There were only two genuine responses to the war: You either fought in the war or against the war. There was no middle ground for a person of character. Here’s Biden response: “I wore sports coats. You’re looking at a middle-class guy,” Biden told reporters in 1987. “I am who I am. I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts and — you know, that’s not me” (“Biden didn’t protest or fight in Vietnam,” The Washington Post). No it isn’t. Biden received five student draft deferments for asthma yet played football and worked as a lifeguard in high school. Trump Donald took four draft deferments one for Bad Feet and played football, tennis, and squash, and “seemed the picture of health" prior to his medical exemption (USA Today News). Like I said, hollow men. Men of substance either fought in the war or against the war because it was a crime against humanity, killing an estimated 1,353,000 Vietnamese mostly civilians. Why not conscientious objector? Because they weren't against the war just against their fighting in a war.
Did America ever achieve a culture worth preserving? It almost did just after World War II, but then the country was divided by the Kennedy-Johnson Vietnam War—both of whom wanted to keep Vietnam Christian—Catholic or Protestant. They weren’t really interested in defending Buddhism from Communism. America’s crazy quilt culture was made from Indians, pioneers, and cowboys and blacks who were slaves, Indians, pioneers, and cowboys (The Black West by William Loren Katz). It was a culture created from violence, lots of injustice, blood, sweat, and tears, always imperfect but edging slowly and naturally towards a new, remarkable perfection without an artificial ideology. The American dream was expressed first and best by Walt Whitman and later by writers such as J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac, Harper Lee, Rachel Carson, Dee Brown, Toni Morrison, and movies and music galore. Then the music died and the fire went out and all that was left of that enchanting culture was puff of smoke that finally vanished into the thin air of America’s present culture if it can be called a culture at all. In Turgenev’s words: “All seems for ever changing, on all sides new forms, phantoms flying after phantoms, everything hurrying, flying towards something, and everything vanishing without a trace, attaining to nothing.” So given what America became maybe unbridled immigration really doesn’t really matter, especially when no one thought the culture was worth preserving or even worth remembering. Unlike Native Americans, the Japanese, the Indians of India, USA Americans tend to live in forgetfulness. "To infinity, and beyond!" is their motto.
6. What is Biden’s motivation behind open borders? Given the Democratic “hate-America” cabal that pulls his strings three ideas come to mind. The first is to increase the number of Democratic voters. (That was Bush Jr.’s motivation before the 2004 election, welcoming immigrants from south of the border by waving the Mexican flag. Politicians are so predictable!) The second has to do with the influence of “hate-America” cabal’s Marxist ideology that has created a conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie for decades in the U.S. To Marxists capitalistic America is inherently evil. Perhaps Biden’s motivation to flood America with the world's proletariat was ideologically motivated with the hope of causing a political revolution that left only one viable political party. On the other hand, the Trump MAGA cult, inspired by the Marxist cabal’s burning of cities and pulling down statues, decided to have their own little revolution. Both political parties believe two political parties is one too many. Finally, opening the borders could have been motivated by a hatred of the nation born out of frustration and resentment, succinctly expressed by Biden’s supporters as they were setting American cities on fire: “No borders, no walls, no USA at all!” It’s not surprising that Russia, Japan, and India and many other nations find the American model more threatening than inspiring.
7. Apparently, Biden has always been more devoted to immigrants than to Americans. He was never loved by Americans. Being a big supporter of the credit card companies didn't endear him to Americans: "Over the past 20 years, MBNA [Maryland Bank National Association] has been Biden's single largest contributor.” Senator Biden represented Delaware for 36 years and had little sympathy for Americans who maxed out their credit cards to pay medical bills and sought relief via bankruptcy. So if he wasn’t going to be loved by Americans (he still isn’t), who's left?
“I’m proud of the American record on culture and economic integration of not only our Muslim communities but African communities, Asian communities, Hispanic communities. And the wave still continues. It’s not going to stop. Nor should we want it to stop. As a matter of fact, it’s one of the things I think we can be most proud of.” He certainly has a right to his opinion. But Biden has made it clear that the opinion of American citizens doesn’t matter all that much.
