Broadcasting Obama

Great post here on the Great Scam of Multiculturalism. It's an ideal so other-worldly and unworkable that only Americans could believe in it. And the notion that electing the son of a Kenyan ne'er-do-well will dazzle the world with our goodness makes even less sense, especially now that the rest of the world is putting the brakes on their own discredited Open Borders policies. The old imperial goal of forcing different peoples into a one-size-fits-all political system is being energetically rejected:

As you read this, Europe grows less tolerant still, with far-right nationalists making their way to higher and higher office. Still, Europe is a hippie musical compared to Asia and Africa, where ethnic and religious segregation is not only institutional, but fatal. Moving east to west: There are frequent, sometimes deadly, clashes between Hui Muslims and Han Chinese. Throughout the Arab world, racism against blacks is rampant, and in Mauritania pockets of Arab-on-black chattel slavery still exist. Then backtrack a little to the Levant. In 2006, when Condoleezza Rice was on a diplomatic mission to the Middle East, the daily Palestinian Authority periodical, Al Hayat Al Jadida consistently referred to her in racist terms and ran a cartoon of the Secretary of State pregnant with a monkey.

Once again, the world is learning that good fences make good neighbors. The solution to ethnic and racial conflict is not to subdue others, and force them to live under a hated regime, but to let them go their own way. And remedial tolerance classes will not accomplish anything but provide jobs to otherwise unemployable tolerance coaches.

Indeed, says the author, the multicultural ideal can only be propped up by constant effort within a society possessing unlimited resources and the willingness to remain blind to reality:

The notion that there’s a soft and cuddly world just waiting for America to catch up is not “global consciousness” but the very opposite: it is an American fantasy born of prosperity and isolation. If neoconservatives are criticized for their arrogance in assuming the universality of American ideals, how will Obama supporters of this stripe answer similar charges?