If Things Fall Apart, Will There Be a Balkanized America Left Over?

It’s a notorious fact that American politicians seldom miss an opportunity to exacerbate cultural differences if it will garner them votes ( = power).

While they pay lip service to the idea of “E Pluribus Unum,” for political advantage they will aggravate racial, religious, and social disagreements.

They have played this particular political “game” for a long time and gained greatly from it; but with the steady deterioration of the American economy and practically porous borders in all directions, the game has taken a deadly turn.

Unless politicians quit this, nothing short of a civil war could be the ultimate result.

And when all the dust has settled, in the aftermath we could see a Balkanized America broken into semi-feudal city states.

'Balkanized North America' — Click on image to enlarge.

Depending upon whom you consult, the process may have gone a long way already:

A hundred years ago, President Teddy Roosevelt said, “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

Following that wisdom, the USA immigrated 175,000 people annually from compatible countries from 1924 through 1964. They assimilated by speaking English and became a part of our fabric of life. They met the criteria for religion, culture and similarities with America.

In 1965, Senator Teddy Kennedy committed the greatest act against the continuation of America by stealth introduction and passage of the Immigration Reform Act that countered Roosevelt’s wisdom. From 175,000 compatible immigrants annually, he added a “human tsunami” of one million people from the four corners of the globe—annually. They included people from third and fourth world cultures still living in grass huts,
those who never saw a toilet or water from a spigot, ethnic-strife-ridden countries and religions totally at odds with America which maintained Christianity as its major religion for 231 years.

At that point, the Balkanization of America began. — Frosty Wooldridge, “Balkanization of America Accelerating.”

Is Wooldridge exaggerating? The European experience seems to support him:

In Europe, victim-countries of diversity overload and multicultural internal conflict prove debilitating in Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, France and Sweden.

Only fools and corpses don’t change their minds. — Ibid.

So far there haven’t been any glowing reports about Europe’s multicultural wonderland.

President Roosevelt said, “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American …There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” — Ibid.

Nowadays such rhetoric would be condemned as “racist,” and a movement to impeach President Roosevelt would be well underway.

Indeed, this problem has become mired in pro- and anti-racialist rhetoric to the point that, wherever you may go on the Internet, you’ll meet up with too many unsavory people of diametrically opposed political and religious persuasions, from Marxists and socialists to so-called “Christian identity” groups, from the Left to the Right — all of them comprising polarized factions wholly unwilling to change their minds.

Seymour Lipset, the great historian said, “Great nations don’t die, they commit national suicide.” — Ibid.

Representative Allen West basically agrees with Wooldridge about this attempt at “national suicide”:

We have become a nation of “special interests” — but what interest can be more special than preserving the greatness of the United States of America and the freedoms of all its citizens?

We have politicians who would rather divide us based on income, gender or race than unite us as Americans. They want citizens to believe that “all men were created equal” really means “all men are entitled to an equal share.” They want their fellow Americans to believe anyone else’s economic success always comes at their own expense.

Those same politicians build their careers and re-election on the promise to redress these differences and guarantee equality of achievement — an impossible task unless we are all reduced to mindless, identical drones.

It is a seductive and dangerous promise that ultimately will lead to the destruction of our nation. As Alexis de Tocqueville repeatedly observed, “The majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”

We cannot allow this to happen. We cannot continue to foment and cultivate the divisive rhetoric that threatens to rend the very fabric of our nation. We will not survive with leaders who parade before a cacophony of groups, submitting to their whims in return for their electoral support.

The freedom for individuals to live however they choose is fundamental to our nation. But the balkanization by gender, race, sexual orientation or income in these United States will lead us on a path to ruin. — Rep. Allen B. West, “The Balkanized States of America”, Washington Times, July 3, 2012

A pertinent question would be why it is that the so-called “conservative” component of the American political machine largely ignores this issue.

In the final analysis, though, is all of this just empty, the sky-is-falling rhetoric, a double bluff to garner more political support? Or is it even worse than described?

You decide.

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Some writers have dealt with the concept of a Balkanized North America in fiction:

Sic Semper Tyrannis – Seamus Branaugh