The End of America's "classless' Society

though far from perfect, the prior to the 1965 immigration reform act, the US had what was considered one of the most 'classless' (and I don't mean our manners) societies in the world. Importing servitude labor as a specific underclass that is a distinct ethnic group (or groups) spells the end of that. Do the idiots profiting off this care? Of course not, in fact given their attitude, they probably want to live in such a society.... Do they care that it is damaging for the long term future of the US? No.

The end of the classless society
The immigration bill brought forward and apparently likely to pass demonstrates an unattractive new political trend in the United States: the end of the classless society for which the U.S. has been famous and the opening of yawning political as well as economic gaps between rich and poor.

Traditionally, the United States has been economically unequal, but without a sharp divide between rich and poor in the political arena. Democrats represented the South, minorities and unionized labor, while Republicans represented small business and the professional classes. The truly rich have always been more or less evenly divided between the parties. Thus, except for a brief period in 1932-46, the U.S. never had a real class-based politics.

One economic force was always likely to change this; the steady increase in inequality seen in the United States since about 1969.

by way of James Fulford

and from Lawerence Auster:
Too stupid for this earth

At the Corner:

Amnesty: An Honest Question [John Podhoretz]
What action, short of deportation or imprisonment, wouldn’t be amnesty?
05/21 11:46 AM

Posted by Lawrence Auster at 02:57 PM

[my note John Podhoretz is strong argument against the idea that intelligence is inherited. ]