Saturday, January 10, 2009

History Doesn't Repeat, But Sometimes It Rhymes

Mark Twain said that.

I was just reading a story in the UK Daily Mail called The Great White Backlash: Working Class Turns On Labour Over Immigration And Housing, and realized that this is what the US went through in the late 1960's and early 1970's, when the Democrat Party began treating the white working class (especially in the South) with such contempt and disdain that those worthies fled to the Republicans.

Now, decades later, we can see that the Democrats have become the party of minorities and immigrants, while whites make up the majority in the Republicans. The same thing is beginning to happen in UK: Labour, the traditional party of the white working class, is taking them for granted, and those worthies are shifting to the Tories or even to the British National Party.

It may be that the US Democrats and UK Labour are smarter in the end, because the fecundity of the minority and immigrant populations will tend to overwhelm the native white population demographically, and open-border policies only guarantees that such will remain the case.

1 comment:

the pawnbroker said...

yeah, those folks and their fecundity...plus, they breed like rabbits...jtc