09/11/2021
Twenty years ago tonight, on September 11, 2001, many Americans felt that they had just seen Francis Fukuyamaās End of History revoked in the most brutal and dramatic way possible. The sense of rage, shock ā and, somehow, pride ā is impossible to recapture. It almost seems like it didnāt happen, or that it happened to someone else. Thatās because it did happen to someone else. What weāre living in now has no relationship to the Historic American Nation.
Now, on this twentieth anniversary, there isnāt righteous anger, gut-wrenching sorrow, or even much remembrance. It means nothing to the country that exists now. Vladimir Putin may care more about it than our own elites. The Russian government successfully pressured the Taliban to avoid an āinaugurationā ceremony for the new government on September 11 because it would be āinhumanā [Taliban cancel Afghan govt inauguration ceremony slated for 9/11 anniversary: Report, India Today, September 11, 2021]. Meanwhile, the current government of our own country is spending its days threatening its own citizens to take vaccines, even if they have already caught and recovered from COVID-19.
President George W. Bush told the world after the attacks that the enemy āhate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each otherā [Text: President Bush Addresses the Nation, Washington Post, September 20, 2001]. In fact, of course, the 9/11 hijackers objected to US support for Israel. But, in any case, none of these American āfreedomsā now exist. In 2021, after collusion between the federal government and powerful corporations to impose censorship, deplatforming, and sweeping programs of imposed cultural and demographic change (with more on the way), claiming America is a āfreeā country just merits a derisive snort.
Indeed, speaking today at a memorial to Flight 93 in Shanksville Pa., Bush echoed the totalitarian UniParty line and insinuated that the January 6 Mostly Peaceful Protesters, whom the Regime Media has acknowledged were ordinary Americans and whom even the FBI (!) acknowledges were not part of a conspiracy, were āchildren of the same foul spiritā as the 9/11 hijackers. Driving home the UniPartyās determination to get on with its Great Replacement agenda, he added āAt a time when nativism could have stirred hatred and violence against people perceived as outsiders, I saw Americans reaffirm their welcome of immigrants and refugeesā i.e. America was not allowed to change its out-of-control immigration policy.
Remarks by President George W. Bush at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/ETi0JaCF1p
ā George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) September 11, 2021
[Remarks by President George W. Bush at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania]
Itās not surprising Afghanis questioned Americaās moral superiority over the Taliban ā the Biden Administrationās last act of the war was to blow up the family of one of our supposed allies [Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb, by Matthieu Aikins, Christoph Koettl, Evan Hill, and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, September 10, 2021].
Rather than killing Osama Bin Laden and leaving, the West spent its time and money trying to inflict the same post-modern horrors that destroyed our civilization on Afghanistan.
Still not over this video of some NGO trying to teach women in Afghanistan how to create "conceptual art". pic.twitter.com/BFzcTP6tZw
ā Lina Arabi (@LinaArabii) September 9, 2021
After the last year of BLM and its iconoclasm, we canāt even claim that America is superior to the cultural vandalism practiced by the Taliban.
A relic from the George W. Bush years, Leftist movie director Michael Moore, unintentionally brought home the nature of Americaās defeat in his new essay claiming that āIn The End, Bin Laden Won: He couldnāt have done it without usā [MichaelMoore.com, September 7, 2021]. No-one can dispute the title, considering the Talibanās victory. However, what āusā could Moore be referring to?
As anyone who has seen his documentaries knows, Moore tends to meander. His argues America destroyed itself by going to war in Afghanistan instead of focusing on ācapitalismā and the āclimate,ā which are apparently āour two true terrorist threatsā to America, and indeed to the entire species. This rhetoric isnāt surprising, given his career. Whatās shocking is his racial hatred against Americaās majority population:
Osama, are you happy now? We were never āgreatā as the MAGA hats proclaimed, but we were good, we were, at least, most of us, trying. Of course the Black and Brown people know thatās not entirely true. They know that they may just have to save themselves and deal with us in the way weāve dealt with them. Donāt worry white people ā weāve got 340 million+ guns in our homes! Thatāll hold us for a while.
The āAmerica was never greatā line (also chanted by flag-burning Revolutionary Communist Party members) isnāt really about āAmerica.ā Itās about whites.
Moore revealed his underlying motivation recently when he commented on census data showing that the number of whites had declined for the first time in American history. To Moore, this was the ābest day ever in U.S. history.ā
Not surprisingly, Moore reportedly has no children. Only a true moral pervert could say such a thing is the ābest day ever in U.S. history,ā instead of July 4, the end of the Civil War, or the Moon landing.
Of course, Moore may just be cynical. He reportedly lives in northern Michigan, one of the whitest areas of the country [Michael Moore said Torch Lake house, now for sale, not his āvacation home,ā by Jiquanda Johnson, MLive, January 20, 2019].
Indeed, marveling at the whiteness of Northern Michigan is something of a literary genre:
Mooreās NIMBYism isnāt unique or even that significant. Like most Cultural Marxists, he sees patriotic whites as the group obstructing his preferred social order. If heās hypocritical about this in terms of where he chooses to live, thatās to his credit ā hypocrisy and self-interest mean that at least heās not insane.
However, the problem remains: what Moore sees as a problem to be solved via demographic change is the country itself. The Historic American Nation, of which the United States of America was once the political expression, was a real thing. We were a people with a shared culture, code, and identity. While it would be a mistake to say that America was uniformly white, it would be wrong to say that any other racial group created or could preserve the American nation.
More than that, it was English-speaking, Anglo-Protestant whites who created the nation. It was the WASPs who created the core culture that people were supposed to assimilate to. It was the loss of WASP elites in the early 20th century that enabled American decline. It was the forced demographic transformation after 1965, continuing and even accelerating after 2001, that guaranteed it.
In the 2000 Census, 77% of the American people were reported as āwhite,ā with over 75% being āwhite aloneā [The White Population: 2000 Census Brief, Census Bureau, August 2001].
In the 2010 Census, those who called themselves āwhite aloneā were 72% of the total population, but while they had decreased as a share of the total population, their total numbers had increased [2010 Census Shows White Population Growth Fueled By Hispanics, Census Bureau, September 29, 2011].
The 2020 figures that Moore gloated about shows that āwhite aloneā had declined to just over 60 percent of the American population [2020 Census Illuminates Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Country, Census Bureau, August 12, 2021].
I can at, least theoretically, understand why someone might celebrate increasing diversity. But the decline in absolute numbers of whites was also openly celebrated by Moore and many others [Why Do Leftists Celebrate White Decline? By Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, August 25, 2021]. If speech like this was directed against any other group, there would be universal acknowledgement that it is simply āhateā and met with disgust.
The Taliban retaking Afghanistan had something of inevitability about it. Afghanistan, after all, is the āGraveyard Of Empires,ā with ancient tribal patterns and histories that canāt simply be rearranged by a few NGOs.
However, in the 20 years since September 11, 2001, it has been America that has been fundamentally transformed from what it was. And itās not simply inevitable cultural change, but a deliberate program of demographic replacement.
More than this, it is coupled with an elite drive for a Second Reconstruction on a massive scale, with Americaās heroes, values, and identity redefined into a mirror image of what existed before. This is what VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow calls āAnti-America.ā Itās what reveals the utter obscenity of young men (and worse, women) being told to fight and die for the āAmerican Way Of Lifeā only for that way of life to be mutilated and deformed.
Thus, on September 11, 2021, our Rulers donāt honor the heroes of Flight 93 or the firemen in New York City [The Betrayal of the Spirit of Flight 93, by Alexander Riley, Chronicles, September 2021]. Instead, the government is smearing the FDNY as racist. They keep the borders open, and carefully ensure that illegal aliens are exempt from the mandates imposed on lowly citizens [Bidenās vaccination mandate doesnāt include illegal immigrants, by Michael Lee, Fox News, September 9, 2021]. They plot to smuggle in Amnesty in a bill thatās supposed to be about helping the U.S. recover from a pandemic they enabled and a recession they imposed [Democrats make case to Senate parliamentarian for 8 million green cards, by Jordan Carney, The Hill, September 10, 2021]. Meanwhile, many Establishment Conservatives think the correct strategy is to attack the Biden Administration from the Left on immigration, faulting it for not bringing in enough Afghans. The idea of defending the American Way Of Life isnāt even mentioned.
Of course, what is our Way Of Life today? The America of 2001 still bore some resemblance to the America of 1776. It was radically changed, but as Orwell wrote of wartime England, it was changed in the way a child changes into a grown man.
But the Globalist American Empire of 2021 is, at best, a continent-wide shopping mall that peddles filth. At worst, itās the base of operations for a fanatically anti-white elite that wants to spread its filthy creed to the entire world.
Either way, my country is gone. And European-Americans are a stateless people.
In retrospect, it was obvious it would end this way. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Ann Coulter wrote a memorable column calling on the United States to āinvade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.ā For this, supposedly in the ānationalistā aftermath of 9/11, National Review fired her.
I donāt think it was for calling to āinvade their countriesā or ākill their leaders,ā both of which America in fact proceeded to do. Instead, it was for the implication that America had a (Christian) culture and a civilization ā that America was something more than a lump of dirt defined by egalitarian abstractions.
That implicit attack on the āProposition Nationā was what really infuriated Leftists ā and, I suspect, some Conservative Inc. donors [National Review fires Ann Coulter, by Anthony York, Salon, October 2, 2001].
When Coulter wrote in 2001, the United States of America was still a nation. Today, āAmericanā means almost nothing.
If āAmericansā have a civic religion, itās self-hatred. If āAmericansā have a unifying faith, itās racial cuckoldry. If āAmericansā have a national goal, itās collective suicide.
Twenty years after 9/11, even after the Afghan defeat, the war goes on. Itās just that now itās being fought against the very people āourā government was supposed to be defending.
James Kirkpatrick is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelowās Preface here.