I had a good friend who died a few years ago.\u00a0 He was about ten years older than I was and had served in the Green Berets during Vietnam, was a chemist, became an engineer as a second career, raised a family, was a musician and late in life took up sailing.\u00a0 He was also universally acclaimed an honest, hard-working, friendly and just Christian man.\u00a0 He kept me around, I think, as a mascot and probably, by comparison, as a cautionary tale for the young.\u00a0 One day after he retired he called me up and asked me if I wanting to go sailing with him on Narragansett Bay.\u00a0 He was in remission from cancer and I hadn\u2019t seen him in a while so I said sure.\u00a0 After all I was in relatively good health and younger than him so I figured I\u2019d go along and enjoy a peaceful and restful morning sail.\u00a0 Well, by the time we came back I was sun-burned, wind-burned, and aching in bones and muscles I had never known I had.\u00a0 Suffice it to say my knowledge of boats can be written in billboard sized letters on the narrower face of a grain of rice.\u00a0 I did learn that starboard probably means right.\u00a0 So, there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n
Now this is what we call foundation material for a call back later.\u00a0 So, hold on to the nautical theme.<\/p>\n
There exists a range of opinions of how things will unfold in the future.\u00a0 The Alt-Right has claimed that the hypocrisy about race that prevails today precludes the possibility of honest relations in a multicultural society.\u00a0 But they go well beyond that idea.\u00a0 Their claim is that different ethnic and racial groups cannot coexist in harmony.\u00a0 They contend that the open immigration of the last fifty years has drowned out the former nation that existed in America before and that the new population shall produce a third world society closer to Brazil or South Africa than to the former United States with respect to culture, stability, prosperity and quality of life.\u00a0 Their draconian solution is partition of the country.\u00a0 The Establishment Republicans on the other hand, contend that all that\u2019s needed to restore America is a good illegal alien amnesty bill and some inspired After School Specials.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the last few years I have concluded that the Establishment Republicans are worse than useless.\u00a0 They have ignored or abetted in the steadily increasing damage done to the native population by off-shoring of whole industries along with wholesale destruction of jobs through competition from illegal aliens.\u00a0 In addition, they ignore the ceaseless and ever worsening assaults on the foundational institutions of a healthy society by the Leftists.\u00a0 In fact, they continuously adopt the latest assault as if it were a cornerstone of traditional society.\u00a0 You only have to watch the NeverTrumpers embrace gay marriage or transgender identity rights to see how far they\u2019ve travelled down the road to nihilism.<\/p>\n
At the same time, although I readily concede that the Alt-Right was correct about many critical issues, \u00a0I don\u2019t concede that it is impossible for significantly different groups of people to coexist in a society that follows the founding precepts of the United States of America.\u00a0 While I grant that it will differ from the nation existing at the Founding and even the country that existed fifty years ago I have not surrendered all hope that it could maintain the traditions and institutions that have existed here.\u00a0 And as a practical matter I even think I can outline a program that will answer the most pressing issues afflicting the American people while allowing a fair test as to whether something short of apartheid will preserve the character of the country as it was two generation ago.\u00a0 This is my olive branch, such as it is, to the Alt-Right.\u00a0 Having been right about so many things that everyone else got wrong, I feel they deserve it.\u00a0 Here is my modest proposal.<\/p>\n
And so, I unveil the Allegory of the Sinking Ship<\/strong>.\u00a0 Plato eat your heart out.\u00a0 See how I came back to the sailing theme?<\/p>\n Let\u2019s compare our present situation to an ocean-going ship striking a reef.\u00a0 What are the steps needed to save the ship?\u00a0 Let\u2019s enumerate them.<\/p>\n Step One<\/strong> \u2013 Plug the hole.<\/p>\n Step Two<\/strong> \u2013 Pump out the water.<\/p>\n Step Three<\/strong> \u2013 Repair the damage.<\/p>\n Step Four<\/strong> \u2013 Review cause of crash and take measures to prevent recurrence.<\/p>\n Now let\u2019s identify the analogous steps to save our \u201cShip of State.\u201d<\/p>\n The first two steps are self-explanatory and for the most part only require normal executive and legislative actions to proceed.\u00a0 President Trump has taken the first baby steps toward these actions.\u00a0 Much more is needed but part of that process is his moving of the Overton Window on what can and what needs to be done on illegal immigration.\u00a0 Hopefully some gains in the midterms and possible improvement of the conservative leaning of the Supreme Court will accelerate the actions being taken by the President and Congress.<\/p>\n The third step is an enormous task.\u00a0 So much needs to be repaired that it\u2019s hard to believe it wouldn\u2019t be easier to start from scratch.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll throw some things out here for consideration.\u00a0 One of the requirements is the re-establishment of the freedom of association.\u00a0 Basically, the government has to get out of the business of telling people who they associate with.\u00a0 And that means eliminating affirmative action and all of the protected groups that have been created.\u00a0 This is an enormous change.\u00a0 And basically, it will decriminalize being a straight white man.\u00a0 It is the cornerstone of getting back to a functional America.\u00a0 Another requirement is reducing the overreach of the federal government and stifle its impulse to redistribute wealth.\u00a0 And finally, we must restore Constitutional authority.\u00a0 This means the Supreme Court is going to have to strike down all the unconstitutional over-reach that has occurred in the last fifty years (and in some cases more).\u00a0 This overlaps the first requirement because a number of the anti-free association rules were court mandated.\u00a0 But there are many more that impinge on the rights of the various states to follow the will of the people in their states.<\/p>\n The fourth step is completely unknown territory.\u00a0 How do you protect the United States from nihilists?\u00a0 Perhaps a number of Constitutional Amendments can be put in place to protect us from the Marxist ploys we\u2019ve run up against but it seems that you can\u2019t legislate common sense.\u00a0 This step will require a lot of thought.<\/p>\n So that\u2019s the outline. \u00a0And throwing in one last analogy to the sinking ship is my point about it being a way to test the possibility of restoring the country.\u00a0 If at any point along these steps the ship starts to sink you can always resort to life boats and escape.\u00a0 In our situation that equates to the situation where we fail to stop illegal immigration and the Democrats achieve a permanent majority and immediately institute the full Marxist program including functional elimination of the First and Second Amendments.\u00a0 At that point it will be obvious that I was wrong and the Alt-Right civil war can commence.\u00a0 See, no fuss no muss.\u00a0 My plan is just an interim step if you\u2019re convinced of Armageddon.<\/p>\n The way I see it, following a plan like mine is no worse than waiting for the apocalypse and depending on outcome could be a whole lot better.\u00a0 Now as I alluded to earlier, my maritime knowledge is less than comprehensive but anyone who has dealt with a busted pipe knows that the first order of business is shutting off the supply.\u00a0 After that comes the cleanup.\u00a0 But we need to start at the beginning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [socialpoll id=”2489142″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a good friend who died a few years ago.\u00a0 He was about ten years older than I was and had served in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[784,26,160,143,786,785],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-allegory-of-the-sinking-ship","tag-american-exceptionalism","tag-american-greatness","tag-drain-the-swamp","tag-freedom-of-association","tag-illegal-immigration"],"yoast_head":"\n\n