The Constitution Made Me Do It – David Stringer, Publisher

This week’s Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship removes all doubt, if any remained,  that the country most of us were born into, no longer exists.  As we celebrate the 250^th anniversary of our founding, dated by tradition from the July 4^th 1776  Declaration of Independence, it is clear that the descendants of our founding stock—both literal and cultural descendants–have lost the country. For most of our history,  America has been a nation of European heritage and culture. Until the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 opened the floodgates to third world immigration, our immigration policies reflected that reality.

But this week, by a 5 to 4 majority, the Supreme Court handed America a death sentence. Henceforth,  being an American will have nothing to do with a common culture of language or religion, or shared ancestry or ethnicity–none of the things that have historically defined nations and peoples and created stable, cohesive societies. American citizenship is now simply a matter of real estate—anyone born on American soil is as much a citizen as anyone else. The children of illegal immigrants are as American as you are. Birth tourism and anchor babies are legitimized. Even an infant born at an airport layover is  as American as your children and grandchildren. Has any nation in the history of nations ever bound themselves by such a law? The United States prides itself on being a nation of laws.  But what happens when the law takes leave of common sense?

You don’t have to be a legal scholar to know that our Founders understood a free and democratic society required a common culture to maintain a stable, socially cohesive society. That’s why the Preamble to the Constitution is explicit in stating its purpose is to ‘Ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.’ Our founders did not envision a multicultural or multiracial democracy. The first Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1790 limited future citizens to ‘free, white persons of good character.’

This is how our country was founded and how it remained for most of its history. As recently as 1970,  the US Census reported that 88.9% of Americans were white. But as a result of changes to immigration laws that most Americans were unaware of, the 2020 US Census reports that all whites under the age of 18 are now a racial minority. The Supreme Court’s ruling on birthright citizenship can only accelerate the racial transformation of the United States, which is now irreversible. Within twenty years or less, all whites in the United States will become a racial minority. Until then, larger and larger non white voting blocks will prevent a change of course.

The 250^th anniversary of the founding of our country comes with the sober realization that we are facing inevitable internal strife and the prospect of national dissolution. The question is no longer “Can America be saved?” The only question now is “Can anything be saved?” Can we preserve anything for our posterity—our culture, our wealth, our freedom—as it was  preserved for us?

The cartoon video that accompanies this article is based on the familiar Old Testament story of Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac. In the biblical story, God stays Abraham’s hand and Isaac is spared.  But the Supreme Court has not spared America from temporal death through a misplaced, magical faith in the power of law. There is no going back. We must look to a new foundation on new stone.