Gee, tell 'em how you REALLY feel…

Shorter Steve Sailer: “Can’t sleep…clown will eat me negros will rob me…”:

I intend to do in 2008 what I did during the Bush-Kerry whoop-tee-doo: write in the name of a public figure who is actually trying to solve a major, long-term problem, my friend Ward Connerly. Just as Social Security can’t afford too many retirees per worker, America won’t be able to afford its affirmative-action system when the racial ratio of minority beneficiaries per white benefactor reaches excessive levels. As America becomes majority minority (by 2042, by latest Census projection), the cost of affirmative action will become crippling. (emphasis mine)

Obviously, as someone who doesn’t support government-mandated anything, I don’t support government-mandated racial preferences.  That said, Steve’s remark is a ball of ridiculous assumptions disguised as rational argument:

1. Key difference between affirmative action and social security: one involves a transfer via taxes of money from one person to another.  The other doesn’t.
2. Hypothetically, what would happen if the ratio of minorities to whites were to pass this mythical trip wire?  Does Steve think Kwanzaa will become a federal holiday?  Wu-Tang Clan will be commissioned to rewrite the national anthem?  Serving chicken w/o hot sauce in a restaurant will be a felony?  Time to give that copy of White Man’s Burden in the DVD player a rest…
3. My question from before still stands: define “white”.

Two wars, a threatening crack-up of the US — and possibly global — economy due to funny money and fiscal cloud chasing, & a “security” apparatus digging its teeth in more by the moment, to the point where even the least observant of people notice.  And his big fear is more people merely existing in the US who don’t trace the majority of their ancestors to an arbitrary cross-section of western & northern Europe than would suit his particular tastes.  Funny…

Bonus bloggage: the article linked above is part of American Conservative’s collection of essays from various people asking who they’re voting for and why (or, if they’re not voting, why not).  In another one, Rod Dreher says the following:

The present and future economic traumas brought upon the nation by elites in both parties will minimize the role politics will play in the lives of ordinary Americans. The binge spending that Democrats and Republicans alike engaged in over the past 30 years, and the concomitant failure to be good stewards of the country’s long-term economic future, will enervate the government in the decades to come, though the growth of Leviathan in the short term is assured. Local, intermediate institutions—Burke’s little platoons—will become more important to the survival of communities. There is a rich treasury of traditionalist conservative wisdom ready to be liberated from the hegemony of the conservative establishment that failed. (emphasis mine)

I would elaborate on the following comment, but IMO it wouldn’t sound right hemmed and hawed about so fuck it: what stops someone who’d consider the above from shifting towards anarchy?  Or a radical decentralism at the least?  Seriously, delete the word “conservative” from that and read it again.