Our beautiful shining moment.

Our elites are traitors.

In the legal sense treason is a more limited concept that contemplates, we suppose, the existence of armed enemies in the field against us and the rendering of aid and comfort thereunto.

A broader but more useful concept (not legally actionable) is the turning of one's back on what is one's own. If you despise what your nation is generally, you are as much a traitor as the man who loves an identifiable enemy. It makes no difference that those whom you benefit by your treason are part of a mass of individual foreigners, none of whom necessarily has a present, personal desire to undermine your culture or to cause you harm.

Of course, we're wrong. Our bubble in time, our apex of history, our beautiful shining moment was just that. The world has always been, and will likely always be a vicious struggle for wealth, power, privilege, and utter disregard for anything (or anyone) that stands in the way of that.

This is the real way of the world. And as we open our borders to millions of barbarians who were bred in cultures steeped in this behavior, our little moment is ending.

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It turns out nothing has really changed in the world. It's the same savage and primitive rule of the srongest and most ruthless as it has been from the day the biggest caveman killed his neighbor and stole his food. It's just that the bubble of sanity and graciousness and civility and prosperity and democracy, faith and decency, in which "the people" held power and ruled, has protected us from that reality. But now, the bubble is shrinking and thinning, and we're seeing the real bloody world of tooth and claw that is reaching for our throats.

The question is: What shall we do? In the face of ruthless violence and utter ambition and corruption, will we be "tolerant"? Will we honor this "diverse culture"? Will we be too frightened to declare it evil, morally bankrupt, inferior, undesireable, primitive, savage, barbarian, uncivilized?

Or will we decide that Camelot is worth fighting for, against the weight of human history and uncounted millions who seek our destruction?

Seen in this light, our present political theater seems pointless to fret about. Whether this immigration bill or that one passes seems to me to be of no moment. So long as the present indifference to or rejection of the unique culture of the United States or the West, is operative, any "solution" devised in accordance with these flawed views will be flawed too. A compromise that pays lip service to, say, (an illusory) border control will only slow down the inevitable arrival of disaster.

A vigorous and intelligent rededication of our leaders to U.S. interests, and only U.S. interests, is the only meaningful goal. Were that the operative political approach, the border could be sealed in 30 days and illegals removed by vigorous enforcement of the law. Hardship in the removal would be a necessary consequence of the initial decision to violate our immigration laws and not a reason to ameliorate the decision to remove.

At least according to a way of thinking that does not necessarily involve a betrayal of the nation.

"The Lucky Few." The Gunslinger's Journal, 5/18/07.