I Have a Plan to Destroy America

This is the text of a speech given by Richard Lamm, a former governor of Colorado in 2004 at the Immigration-Overpopulation Conference in Washington, D.C. It outlined eight methods for undermining the nation’s unity and prosperity through multiculturalism, immigration, bilingualism, and other factors. He is not proposing this, but outlining how America could be destroyed. When you finish reading, I think you’ll conclude that this is actually happening now.

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe,
as many do, that America is too smug, too white
bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, lets destroy
America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that
nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No
nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold
Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they
all fall, and that “An autopsy of history would show that
all great nations commit suicide.” Here is my plan:


I. We must first make America a bilingual- bicultural
country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can
survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two
competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an
individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be
bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this
way: The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that
do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and
tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon – all face
crises of national existence in which minorities press for
autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus
have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion.
France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons, and
Corsicans.


II. I would then invent “multiculturalism” and encourage
immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make
it an article of belief that all cultures are equal: that there
are no cultural differences that are important. I would
declare it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic
dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by
the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.


III. We can make the United States a “Hispanic
Quebec” without much effort. The key is to celebrate
diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in
the Atlantic Monthly recently: “…the apparent success
of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might
have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony.”
Without the dominance that once dictated
ethnocentrically, and what it meant to be an American,
we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us
together. I would encourage all immigrants to keep their
own language and culture. I would replace the melting
pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor. It is important
to insure that we have various cultural sub-groups living
in America reinforcing their differences rather than as
Americans, emphasizing their similarities.


IV. Having done all this, I would make our fastest
growing demographic group the least educated – I would
add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated,
and antagonistic to our population. I would have this
second underclass have a 50 percent drop out rate from
school.


V. I would then get the big foundations and big business
to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in
ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of
Victimology. I would get all minorities to think their lack
of success was all the fault of the majority – I would
start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on
the majority population.


VI. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided
loyalties. I would “celebrate diversity.” “Diversity” is a
wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences
rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are
mostly engaged in hating each other – that is, when they
are not killing each other. A diverse,” peaceful, or stable
society is against most historical precedent. People
undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together,
and we can take advantage of this myopia. Look at the
ancient Greeks. Dorf’s World History tells us: “The
Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and
they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in
the Olympic games in honor of Zeus and all Greeks
venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common
enemy Persia threatened their liberty. Yet, all of these
bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two
factors…” (local patriotism and geographical conditions
that nurtured political divisions…). If we can put the
emphasis on the “Pluribus,” instead of the “Unum,” we
can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.


VII. Then I would place all these subjects off limits –
make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to
“heretic” in the 16th century – a word that stops
discussion and paralyzes thinking – a word like “racist”
or “xenophobe” that halts argument and conversation.
Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country,
having established multiculturalism, having the large
foundations fund the doctrine of “victimology,” I would
next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.
I would develop a mantra – “that because immigration
has been good for America, it must always be good.” I
would make every individual immigrant sympatric and
ignore the cumulative impact.


VIII. Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis’s
book, Mexifornia. This book is dangerous – it exposes
my plan to destroy America. So please, please – if you
feel that America deserves to be destroyed – please,
please, don’t buy this book! This guy is on to my plan.
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