“I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

In 1980, 6.5% of the US population was hispanic.

In 2000, 12.5% of the population was hispanic.

Today, it's perhaps 19%.

What are the implications of this?

When you import millions of hispanics, don't be surprised to find your society becoming more hispanic.

One way in which this is happening is in increasing anti-gun attitudes.

"An early 2014 Pew Research Center survey asked U.S. adults what is more important — protecting the right of Americans to own guns or controlling gun ownership (Pew Research Center, 2014d). Hispanic registered voters nationally say they prefer gun control over the rights of owners by a margin of 62%-to-36%, as do black registered voters by a margin of 71%-to-26%, according to the survey. By contrast, white registered voters choose gun owners’ rights over gun control by a margin of 59%-to-39%."

"82% of foreign-born Hispanics think controlling gun ownership is more important than protecting gun ownership rights, compared with 59% of Hispanics born in the U.S."

The results of hispanic polling on the subject of free speech are no better.

"Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies."  –Nicolas Davila

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2014/10/16/chapter-2-latinos-views-on-selected-2014-ballot-measure-issues/

https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-america#overview

We all have enough strength to bear the troubles of other people.  -La Rochefocauld

Call someone an isolationist or an anti-war activist, call it a sin tax or a progressive tax, call it an incentive or an effort to "fight" the thing incentivized.  Either way, the wise man knows words don't change how a thing works by even one little bit.

"Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over it."  -La Rochefocauld

"Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire.  A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience, that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it."  –Hitchens

Many of the reactions upon OJ's passing were deeply disturbing.  I share them with you so you know what to expect.

"Pervasive antiwhite antagonism is perhaps the best-kept secret about black inner-city culture."  –Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops

"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

A man gave his coat to a homeless bum and the homeless bum up and stole his wallet as thanks.

Solar eclipses are so overrated as to be barely worth looking up for.  Rarity aside, solar eclipses are about as interesting as rain.

"Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”  -CS Lewis

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