But Iowa talk show host Steve Deace speaks for many concerned citizens when he describes this GOP wordplay as “Sound and fury signifying nothing.” Yes, Republicans intend to do a lot of litigating, and they will be holding some Congressional hearings. Meanwhile, Obama headed to Las Vegas to begin selling his proposal to shield millions of young immigrants and some of their family members.”Įven those who recognize that Politico leans left might be hard pressed to identify any error in the above paragraph. “Congressional Republicans woke up on Friday morning with no clear legislative response to the president and with their membership scattered across the country on a 10-day Thanksgiving break. Here’s another Politico headline: “Lack of immigration plan flusters GOP.” As the story puts it, So we might ask: In the face of this onslaught, what of the Republicans? Aren’t they supposed to be leading the opposition? For the most part, the Republicans seem strangely ineffective. It’s to be expected, of course, that The New York Times would be cheerleading Obama’s effort, but here’s a similar headline from The Houston Chronicle: “Momentum gathers in Houston for Obama’s immigration order.” Meanwhile, the Main Stream Media is doing its best to speed up the Multicultural Bandwagon.

If there’s one thing that Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and La Raza can probably all agree on, it’s that it’s high time for the rule of Americans of European descent to come to an end. “Democrats bet on diversity”–that was the blunt headline in Politico. We might consider, for instance, the evidence of President Obama’s Executive Order granting amnesty to millions. The world, after all, is Fallen men are not angels.Ĭome to think of it, maybe American politicians today, too, should be reading Gibbon, because America today is under threat, not least from the sort of demographic transformation–some might call it an invasion–that toppled Rome. So to the Founders, Gibbon’s sober worldview–his statement, for example, that “history is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind”–coincided with their own thinking, which began with a basic mistrust of human nature. Indeed, as recently noted here at Breitbart News, the Founders looked to history to tell them what could go wrong with a government then, with that knowledge in mind, they sought to build in protective checks and balances. They rebelled in 1776 to uphold their ancient liberties, not to try new fads. were revolutionaries, but they were definitely not radicals. Indeed, Gibbon’s conservative turn of mind made him particularly popular among the American Founders, who were, after all, themselves conservative. Gibbon was English, and yet even after the American Revolution, his work was widely read in the new republic known as the United States we know, for example, that George Washington included Gibbon in his library. Could America ever fall like that? Could America collapse like the Roman Empire? And the first appearance of that work, of course,–in that evocative year of 1776–has led many to consider its significance to American history. In particular, if the demography of the population changes, its loyalties will change.Įdward Gibbon’s famous work of history, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes, from 1776 to 1788. Indeed, as immigration is a hot issue today, we might look to long-ago scholarship to remind us that the basic patriotic loyalty of the home population can never be taken for granted.

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