If You Build It, They Will Come

The deaths of Barbara Billingsley and Tom Bosley marked the passage of an epoch. White America was already given notice that by 2050 they will no longer be in the majority, and now Mom and Dad are dead. Of course we're angry. Angry and afraid. All these foreigners keep showing up on our doorstep, wanting a piece of our apple pie. What little solace we might have taken from the notion that the world would end in 2012 was shattered when we found out that we weren't that good at reading a Mayan calendar after all. Now we're stuck with this ever-churning melting pot, soon to become just another minority.
And so, while the clock continues to tick, we who are Caucasian sit and stew in our own juices. Bitter and frustrated with the way that our country has become a repository of the world's huddled masses. Why should we care if they're yearning to breathe free? It was some chick who stuck that poem on the front of the statue given to us by the French that started all this touchy-feely stuff in the first place. This is our country, after all. We cleared all the Native inhabitants off pretty much all by ourselves, thank you very much and now we'd like to be able to sit around and enjoy it for a couple hundred more years without having to worry about any other languages or religions or cultures beyond the amusing and comfortable mash-up that we've all become familiar with over the years.

Angela Merkel understands. As she told a gathering of the Christian Democratic Union last week in Potsdam, "The approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other ... has failed, utterly failed." Her sentiments echoed the a study from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation that found more than thirty percent of people believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners" who had come to Germany chiefly for its social benefits. This thirty percent were probably not Germans "of color." The study also found that thirteen percent of Germans would be happy to have a new "Fuhrer" to run the country "with a firm hand." Some sixty percent of Germans would "restrict the practice of Islam," and seventeen percent think Jews have "too much influence," according to the study. The study does not mention whether or not sales of brown shirts have gone up as well.

And the Germans are not alone. Last year, the Swiss voted to ban the construction of minarets in their country. The French may have missed the boat on the whole Coalition of the Willing thing, but they have been more than happy to get on board with banning headscarves and other "conspicuous" religious symbols in their schools. I assume that means they won't be getting any visits from the Pope anytime soon. We're building a big wall on our southern border. No word on whether we will call in any German architects for consultation on that one.

In the meantime, we can sit in our bunkers, having fever dreams about the Beav's little friend from Mexico, Chuey, and how Arnold's was really owned by Mister Miyagi.