“What is America? It is not a race but a cohesion of all the races of the world. It will soon be a nation of 300 million, 10 per cent of whom were not even born there. Its creation from Europe, Africa and Asia is a continuing process, as countless immigrants arrive each year and are quietly absorbed and prosper. Moreover, these citizens, whose parents, grandparents or ancestors came from all over the world, are given the chance to participate in democracy at all levels, which exists nowhere else on earth. More than 600,000 offices in the US are elected. The entire public ethos of America is fashioned to finding out what the voters want and constructing policy on their wishes. America is successful precisely because it is a working multiracial democracy. To be anti-American, therefore, is to be anti-humanity. For no other country represents so clearly the current wishes and long-term aspirations of the human race.”
That is from “To hate America is to hate humanity,” an April 6, 2002 Spectator piece by historian Paul Johnson, who recently passed away at the age of 94. Five years earlier, Johnson published A History of the American People, a magisterial account that speaks to conditions at the time of the great author’s passing.
It’s hard to find any author, left or right, who devotes more attention to the issue of slavery, at the time of the American founding and leading up to the Civil War. In an 1855 election in Kansas, Johnson writes:
“Missourians crossed the border in thousands and swamped the polls. At all events the slavers swept the polls, expelled from the legislature the few anti-slavers who were elected, adopted a drastic slave-code, and made it a capital offense to help a slave escape or aid a fugitive. They even made orally questioning the legality of slavery a felony.” (emphasis added)
The demand for thought control and censorship derives from the people who kept human beings in subjugation and opposed all efforts to free them. This early version of the totalitarian mentality finds a counterpart in America under the Biden Junta.
The Department of Homeland Security, which the late P.J. O’Rourke said sounded like a failed savings and loan, proposed a “Disinformation Governance Board” to be headed by Nina Jankowicz. The would-be chanteuse was on record that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation” a “Trump campaign product and a “Russian influence op.”
Jankowicz is also a big fan of Christopher Steele, author of the eponymous dossier, a Clinton campaign product now exposed as pure disinformation. That faithful service doubtless played a role in her selection as the DHS disinformation boss, effectively the Biden Junta’s Minister of Propaganda. This was hardly the Junta’s only attempt at speech and thought control.
As Elon Musk is now revealing, the Junta outsourced censorship to social media platforms, which banned or restricted variations from the approved government position COVID, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci so forth. This attack on free speech was not limited to Twitter.
In a 2017 Senate hearing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he was cooperating with the Mueller investigation of President Trump, and he wanted that to be kept confidential. Zuckerberg also admitted that Facebook had taken down material at the request of the government. The Facebook boss didn’t reveal the content of the material, or the government official who made the demand but it is possible to guess. In California, meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom is leaving nothing to chance.
Last November, Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2098 which designates “the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19,’ as unprofessional conduct.” This poses a direct threat to doctor’s medical license and violates their right to free speech.
“California’s new ‘misinformation’ law is the result of an increasingly censorious mentality that has gripped many lawmakers in this country,” explains Jenin Younes, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) representing several California doctors. “That this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment. Our country has a strong historical commitment to free and open debate and to protect the ability of those who dissent from the government’s view to express their own opinions.”
The Democrats backing this bill are the moral, intellectual, and political heirs of those who wanted to make questioning slavery a felony. As Paul Johnson explained in A History of the American People:
“The anti-slavers and genuine settlers who wanted to remain neutral responded by holding a constitutional convention – elected unlawfully – drafted a constitution in Topeka which banned both slaves and freed blacks from Kansas, applied for admission to the US as a state, and elected another governor and legislature. Then the fighting began, a miniature Civil War of Kansas’ own.”
In the full Civil War that followed, the anti-slavers prevailed and the rest is history. With slavery abolished, America became, “a working multiracial democracy” like no other place on earth. “To be anti-American, therefore, is to be anti-humanity.”
For further reading on events in 1850s Kansas, Johnson recommends chapter 25 of Mark Twain’s Roughing It. Also worthy of attention is Harold Keith’s novel Rifles for Watie, about a Kansas farm boy who joins the Union army.
Worthy of attention for the history of the Jews, the history of Christianity, modern times, and countless other topics, is Paul Johnson, the historian who loved America. Johnson deserved his Presidential Medal Of Freedom, and his vast body of work lives on.
Johnson was entirely too optimistic in his predictions for the future of America ; the fact is that it’s all gone so seriously wrong and the best we can hope for is to pragmatically salvage what we can from the failed United States of America … Red States need to announce ”states rights ” ASAP and go there own way before the cancer of Leftism destroys them all
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL FOR ALL SENSIBLE FOLKS TO SEE
“It will soon be a nation of 300 million, 10 per cent of whom were not even born there…America is successful precisely because it is a working multiracial democracy.” – Paul Johnson in 2002.
Diversity is NOT our strength. That foreign born population is likely 30 percent today, 20 years after Johnson wrote the words above. Our government studiously avoids keeping foreigners out out or counting them. American is successful not because of its “multiracialness,” as Johnson asserts. Naked, unassimilated racial diversity creates cultural warfare that destroys the culture that created the United States.
Protestant Christianity brought western civilization to its greatest expression, and Protestant Christianity alone forms the moral and religious people required to create, defend and live under the Constitution. All others chafe, but desire to live in its prosperity and blessings. They destroy its integrity and purpose “like a whale through a net.”
We should not be a global economic zone.
Racial warfare is sown by Marxists trying to destabilize a functioning Republic. That said, xenophobia is part of the human condition. Sharing ideas is also part of the human condition, and the ability of the US to adapt to new influences, yet reject others. has always been a strong point.
The demand to accept all ideas, no matter how bizarre, dangerous, or idiotic, is what has been destructive. That comes from the Left’s pretend belief that all cultures are equal.
Kynarion Hellenis seems to have a pretend belief that all branches and denominations of Protestant Christianity are equal. Even though for centuries they kept persecuting and killing each other for heresy and blasphemy.
Some of the ideas contained in Christianity and Judaism are pretty damn bizarre, dangerous, or idiotic. The Parting of the Red Sea, Adam and Eve and A Talking Snake In the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Ark, The Resurrection, The Rapture, etc.
Which denomination of Protestant Christianity are you talking about? Because for centuries different Protestant denominations persecuted and made war on each other over orthodoxy. They viewed each other ‘s interpretations of Holy Scripture as blasphemy and heresy.
So which Protestant church is the true and peaceful Christianity?
Some Democrats in the House are putting forth a bill that would make it a felony for white people to criticize non-white people. I have little doubt that a majority of non-white people living in the US would support it, just as they apparently support all Democrat policies. This redefinition of the US as a “working multi-racial society” composed of people from all around the world minimizes its Western roots and our role in its foundation. We are being made unwelcome in the nation our ancestors created. While the US has always been multi-racial, it was never meant to become non-western or even anti-western. This is why we maintained a large white majority. Too many heritage Americans naively assume that foreigners like us. In a general way, they don’t.
There is an effort afoot to destroy the America Mr. Johnson praised. This effort is a new and artificial movement. My life’s experience recognizes this change. A good metaphor is the movie, “The Bedford Incident.” The America I grew up in (starting in the mid 40s), had a singleness of purpose: self-improvement that “raised all ships.” It worked! Meritocracy worked! By any measure individual Americans are head-and-shoulders more prosperous and more healthy than ever before. If we have a problem it is that we have no problems … so we must make stuff up, the crisis du jour, to worry about. (E.g.. global cooling – no – global warming – no- climate change.) OK, I do hear a protest from the audience: education. Yes, someone has decided to destroy our education system and replace it with either no teaching or false teaching. That’s a problem we need to work on or Mr. Johnson’s hopes will die.