{"id":236673,"date":"2021-06-23T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=236673"},"modified":"2021-06-24T05:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T05:59:03","slug":"updating-lamms-plan-to-destroy-america-end-home-ownership-immiserate-americans-incite-anti-white-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=236673","title":{"rendered":"Updating Lamm\u2019s Plan to Destroy America: End Home Ownership, Immiserate Americans, Incite Anti-White Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>James Kirkpatrick &#8212; The Unz Review June 21, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Veteran immigration patriots will <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rsuA22V_zpw\">recall<\/a> Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/letters\/university-of-denver-responds-to-lamm-brimelow-charges-of-censorship-they-comment\">Richard Lamm<\/a> [D-CO] and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/richard-lamm-on-multiculturalism\/\">famous<\/a> 2003 speech \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/you-can-hear-it-now-governor-dick-lamm-s-famous-musings-on-how-to-destroy-america\">I Have a Plan to Destroy America<\/a>\u201d .He outlined nightmarish proposals that have now become unchallengeable public policy: making America a <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/in-puerto-rico-a-time-of-transition-and-a-vote-for-statehood\">bilingual<\/a> country; encouraging <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/lawrence-auster-on-the-floyd-riots-do-police-take-a-knee-to-rioters-due-to-fear-of-black-vengeance\">multiculturalism<\/a> instead of assimilation to the Historic American Nation; promotion of <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/dark-suggestion-darker-tropes-the-jonathan-pollard-case-and-questions\">divided loyalties<\/a>; and, perhaps most presciently, getting \u201cthe big <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/conservatism-inc-finally-admits-patriots-are-being-deplatformed-attacked-so-what-is-it-going-to-do\">foundations<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/conservatism-inc-finally-admits-patriots-are-being-deplatformed-attacked-so-what-is-it-going-to-do\">big business<\/a> to give these efforts a lot of money\u201d in the cause of \u201cVictimology.\u201d From the perspective of even just 15 years ago, America looks conquered and the Regime Media wants to finish the job of dispossession [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amren.com\/features\/2021\/06\/the-washington-post-treat-america-like-a-conquered-nation\/\"><em>The Washington Post: Treat America Like a Conquered Nation<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Gregory Hood, <em>American Renaissance, <\/em>June 11, 2021]. I\u2019d like to update Governor Lamm\u2019s speech with what\u2019s going on today.<\/p>\n<p>My revised plan to destroy America would have three parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, make sure ordinary Americans can\u2019t own property and thus build wealth by increasing equity in their homes.<\/li>\n<li>Second, immiserate Americans with low wages and create a second permanent underclass by what <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/joe-biden-may-be-dems-best-chance-but-his-immigration-record-is-hopelessly-weak\">President Joe Biden<\/a> has called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mextw93E3rg\">unrelenting<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/the-answer-to-hillary-s-charge-of-racism-is-the-charge-of-treason-against-america-and-its-founding-stock\">mass immigration<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, systematically teach those groups who are already given special privileges, protections and set-asides by government that they are actually oppressed and need to demand more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three elements of the program are in place today. If you <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/ilana-mercer-s-preface-to-into-the-cannibal-s-pot-lessons-for-america-from-post-apartheid-south-africa\">want to see<\/a> what our future looks like, it\u2019s probably <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/t\">South Africa<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/will-the-u-s-go-into-the-cannibal-s-pot\">worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s consider the question of property ownership. A popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=10153920524981479\">meme<\/a> quotes from a video from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/07\/to-build-back-better-we-must-reinvent-capitalism-heres-how\/\">World Economic Forum<\/a>, a \u201cnon-governmental organization\u201d that helps organize some of the most powerful people in politics, economics, and culture in pursuit of common goals. A video from this group in 2018 tells us that in the near future \u201cyou\u2019ll own nothing and you\u2019ll be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lBBxWtKKQiA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>Reuters assures us this is taken out of context and is simply a possible prediction and an attempt to \u201cstart a discussion\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-factcheck-wef\/fact-check-the-world-economic-forum-does-not-have-a-stated-goal-to-have-people-own-nothing-by-2030-idUSKBN2AP2T0\"><em>Fact check: The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people own nothing by 2030<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>February 25, 2021].<\/p>\n<p>Of course, given that the World Economic Forum is also where \u201cThe Great Reset\u201d (also promoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/the-not-so-great-reset-build-back-dumber\"><em>Time<\/em><\/a>) and the endlessly repeated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/patrick-j-buchanan-all-is-hype-for-the-biden-putin-summit\">Build Back Better<\/a>\u201d slogans come from, perhaps we should be a little suspicious of the Regime Media\u2019s assurances and start to wonder where this \u201cdiscussion\u201d is going [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/07\/to-build-back-better-we-must-reinvent-capitalism-heres-how\/\"><em>To build back better, we must reinvent capitalism. Here\u2019s how<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Peter Bakker and John Elkingo, World Economic Forum, July 13, 2020].<\/p>\n<p>If anything like one of the Regime Media\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/ferguson-eric-holder-called-us-a-nation-of-cowards-but-who-are-the-cowards-now\">conversations about race<\/a>,\u201d it\u2019s going to be something more like a screeching lecture from our rulers.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, <em>Bloomberg <\/em>tells us that home ownership is probably going to be out of the question for most Americans but this is actually a <em>good thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-09\/home-prices-soar-in-frenzied-u-s-market-drained-of-supply?sref=zlXcQw6H\">Rising real-estate prices<\/a> are stoking fears that homeownership, long considered a core component of the American dream, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2021-millennials-are-running-out-of-time\/?sref=zlXcQw6H\">slipping out of reach<\/a> for low- and moderate-income Americans. That may be so \u2014 but a nation of renters is not something to fear. In fact, it\u2019s the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2021-06-17\/america-should-become-a-nation-of-renters?sref=YHNVyzVY\"><em>America Should Become a Nation of Renters<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Karl Smith, June 17, 2021]<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is the exact opposite of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/affordable-family-formation-the-neglected-key-to-gop-s-future\">Affordable Family Formation<\/a>\u201d that a serious country would pursue for its citizens or constituents. The financialization of the housing market means that people can\u2019t build up equity and wealth by owning and developing property. A country of renters isn\u2019t a country at all, but simply a conglomeration of consumers who have no ties to any locality, community, or people.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, <em>someone <\/em>can afford to buy all those homes. It turns out that it\u2019s BlackRock, among other investment firms [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/blackrock-investment-firms-killing-dream-home-ownership\"><em>BlackRock, other investment firms \u2018killing the dream\u2019 of home ownership, journalist says<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Charles Creitz, <em>Fox News, <\/em>June 12, 2021]. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world and one of the leading champions of Woke Capital [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackrock.com\/corporate\/investor-relations\/larry-fink-ceo-letter\"><em>Larry Fink\u2019s 2021 letter to CEOs<\/em><\/a><em>, Blackrock<\/em>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/letters\/a-reader-says-ben-shapiro-before-condemning-identity-politics-said-amnestied-illegals-wouldn-t-vote-republican-because-of-their-identity\">Ben Shapiro<\/a> assures us that this is all just fine, the free market at work and all that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And if you&#39;re mad at Blackrock and want to artificially prevent them from buying single-family homes, I&#39;d like for you to explain to those who currently own the homes why you&#39;re taking money out of their pocket.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1402985738577219586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t mention that BlackRock essentially operates as an arm of the government, helping the Fed manage bailout payments and bond purchases [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/07\/wall-street-fed-bailout-304362\"><em>Massive bailout leaves Wall Street giant exposed to fire from all sides<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Victoria Guida, <em>Politico, <\/em>June 7, 2020].<\/p>\n<p>As is so often the case on every issue that matters, the liberal media is on the same side as <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/audacious-epigone-today-s-conservatives-are-yesterday-s-liberals\">Respectable Right<\/a> opinion [<em>\u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/wealth-redistribution-blackrock-and-other-institutional-investors-buying-entire\"><em>This is wealth redistribution\u201d: Blackrock and other Institutional Investors Buying Entire Neighborhoods At Huge Premiums<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by \u201cTyler Durden,\u201d <em>ZeroHedge, <\/em>June 12, 2021].<\/p>\n<p>All agree the real problem isn\u2019t BlackRock, but local governments who don\u2019t want their communities turned into overdeveloped urban hellscapes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/06\/blackrock-ruining-us-housing-market\/619224\/\"><em>BlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing Market<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Derek Thompson, <em>The Atlantic, <\/em>June 2021<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/infrastructure\/housing\/blackrock-buying-houses-meme-single-family-rental-market\/\"><em>The Problem With the \u2018BlackRock Buying Houses\u2019 Meme<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by David Dayden, <em>The American Prospect, <\/em>June 16, 2021<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22524829\/wall-street-housing-market-blackrock-bubble?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=vox.social&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=voxdotcom\"><em>Wall Street isn\u2019t to blame for the chaotic housing market<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Jerusalem Demsas, <em>Vox, <\/em>June 11, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, wouldn\u2019t you know it, the Biden Administration is advancing a plan, under the guise of \u201cinfrastructure,\u201d that would <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/biden-to-more-or-less-abolish-the-suburbs\">prevent communities from limiting neighborhoods to single-family housing<\/a>. It\u2019s simply a continuation of the \u201cflood the suburbs\u201d agenda the Obama Administration pursued with its housing policy [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amren.com\/features\/2020\/09\/affh-four-letters-that-spell-trouble\/\"><em>AFFH: Four Letters that Spell TROUBLE<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Gregory Hood, <em>American Renaissance, <\/em>September 18, 2020].<\/p>\n<p>Who will be populating these emerging favelas? Naturally, the worldwide flood of migrants (legal and illegal) that are coming to America now that border enforcement has <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/trump-right-biden-s-immigration-moves-show-he-doesn-t-want-america-to-be-a-nation-at-all\">essentially been abolished<\/a>. Illegal immigration has surged by 674% from last May [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/15\/ted-cruz-wallops-joe-biden-for-touring-europe-instead-of-inspecting-southern-border-crisis\/\"><em>Ted Cruz Wallops Joe Biden For Touring Europe Instead Of Inspecting Southern Border Crisis<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Wendell Husebo, <em>Breitbart, <\/em>June 15, 2021].<\/p>\n<p>President Biden is already seeking to expand legal immigration, which will further the already disastrous housing conditions in tech hubs like San Francisco [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/31\/us\/politics\/biden-immigration.html\"><em>Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Michael Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, <em>New York Times, <\/em>May 31, 2021].<\/p>\n<p>This process leads to a negative feedback cycle. Progressives move away from cities suffering from soaring costs of living and crime and go to conservative areas, where they vote in the same destructive process they just fled [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petertaylor\/2021\/03\/11\/covid-19-set-americas-housing-market-on-fire-that-could-alter-us-politics-for-a-generation\/\"><em>COVID-19 Set America\u2019s Housing Market On Fire. That Could Alter U.S. Politics For A Generation<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>by Peter Lane Taylor, <em>Forbes, <\/em>March 11, 2021]. One is reminded of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cjf5-tePFdM\">locust<\/a>\u201d aliens from <em>Independence Day <\/em>traveling from place to place, leaving desolation in their wake.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cjf5-tePFdM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>This population pressure from mass immigration is a feature, not a bug, from the Progressive perspective. The combination of endless immigration, population increase, and urbanization ensures a permanent Progressive majority.<\/p>\n<p>It also means that any allegedly Progressive goals, such as reducing inequality or protecting the environment, become impossible to achieve. But who cares about that when you have power?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s a final ingredient for this program of national deconstruction to work. There must be eternal racial conflict and powerful incentives for people <em>not <\/em>to assimilate to a common culture. This is where <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/base-dragging-gop-conservatism-inc-into-fight-against-critical-race-theory-but-they-still-flinch-from-calling-it-anti-white-racism\">Critical Race Theory<\/a> comes in.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps uniquely in the history of the world, the American government is actually inciting its population into a state of permanent resentment and lawlessness, creating an ever-swelling parasitic class. There is <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/charles-murray-vs-ibram-x-kendi-murray-has-facts-and-logic-on-his-side-but-kendi-has-the-us-navy\">no point at which \u201cequity\u201d can realistically be attained<\/a>. And so the racket will continue forever.<\/p>\n<p>We are already trapped in this situation with African-Americans, the bulk of whom at least have the excuse of having been brought here as slaves. (Vice President Kamala Harris does not have that excuse, her cringe-inducing attempts to relate to most black Americans notwithstanding.)<\/p>\n<p>Mass immigration means that we are importing <em>another <\/em>permanent underclass, <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/demographic-change-leads-to-san-antonio-city-council-electing-two-hispanic-socialists\">incentivized and rewarded<\/a> by academia, media and the government into destroying American institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ccountry\u201d will emerge at the other end of this process will be barely worthy of the name. It will be a landmass full of shiftless, random consumers desperately trying to flee each other but trapped by permanent financial serfdom. There will be <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/patrick-j-buchanan-who-is-really-killing-american-democracy\">no uniting culture<\/a>, ethnicity, or even political myth. There will be just permanent, simmering conflict with an increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/fbi-announces-war-on-white-supremacist-terror-actual-racial-terrorism-against-whites-ignored\">authoritarian government<\/a> using naked repression against the na\u00efve white Americans who keep the failed experiment stumbling along.<\/p>\n<p>If I were deliberately trying to destroy the country, I wouldn\u2019t be doing anything differently than what our rulers currently are.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one problem with Governor Lamm\u2019s speech, it\u2019s that he didn\u2019t anticipate just how malevolent our Hostile Elite really is.<\/p>\n<p>(Republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/updating-lamm-s-plan-to-destroy-america-end-home-ownership-immiserate-americans-incite-anti-white-hate\">VDare<\/a> by permission of author or representative)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/updating-lamms-plan-to-destroy-america-end-home-ownership-immiserate-americans-incite-anti-white-hate\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps uniquely in the history of the world, the U.S. government is actually inciting its population into a state of permanent resentment and lawlessness. 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