I Have a Plan to Destroy America

In
2004, Richard D. Lamm, former Democrat Governor of Colorado, gave this speech
at a conference hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform in
Washington D.C. Mr. Lamm is the former Democrat Governor of Colorado
(1975-1987)

I Have a Plan to Destroy America
By Richard D. Lamm

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
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% 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
– that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like "racist",
"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 Davis Hanson'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.

Printed and posted here with the
permission of Mr. Lamm.