The Trouble with Pluralism – 1Plus1Equals2.com

Pluralism without the wisdom to make determinative choices only ensures that the largest voting bloc wins, which (thanks to rampant immigration) won’t be the producer class much longer. Today, let’s examine how the old definition of pluralism evolved into a license to destroy an entire civilization of makers using our own embedded systems of law and equity turned against us. By gaming the system, we see process win over acceptable outcomes—the inevitable consequence: a system run amok and a loss of sanity.

I must have been five years old when my Dad told me we lived in a pluralistic country, not quite grasping the concept or what it meant. Let’s commence with the old definition:

Pluralism — the principle or practice that diverse cultural, religious, ethnic, and interest groups coexist in a single society and participate in public life, with institutions allowing them to maintain distinct identities while engaging in standard civic processes.

Historically, pluralism could be boiled down to three tenets:

1. Religious Tolerance
2. Political Freedom
3. Shared Values of all kinds

An entirely different view of pluralism as it functions today is:

Multiple authorities and interests exist and must be balanced — not a progressive celebration of cultural difference but a practical account of competing powers and unavoidable moral plurality.

Pluralism in the American context is the idea that multiple distinct cultural, religious, ethnic, and interest groups coexist within a single polity, participate in public life, and compete or negotiate to influence public policy and social outcomes, no longer assimilated into a single monoculture.

In other words, America is no longer a melting pot.

The traditional white slice of American growth has shrunk, with little likelihood of change unless our values change. Blame the destruction on fewer traditional households, women choosing to bear children later in life, LGBTQ+ (majority white), smaller families, or couples opting out entirely from childbearing; cumulatively, caucasians are on the skids.

What this suggests is that Society, with a capital ‘S’, is creating a future without a dominant white class for the first time. We can’t say it won’t happen; dominant cultures in Asian, African, and South American countries have done so on their own, certainly in the generations since European colonization has faded.

Evolution of American Progressive Pluralism Movements:-

This evolution is pursued with intensity by the American Progressive movement, Democratic Socialists, Communists, China, and other lesser blocs. The dominant white class of producers for the last five hundred years is fading into history as their numbers and, therefore, their ability to remain relevant diminish. But will the world be better off for it?

I used to have a Lotus when I was young. Never really a speedster, it was its cornering ability that set it apart. Nevertheless, I pushed it to its top speed every chance I got, only to be thwarted by a built-in rev limiter that both protected the engine and my future driving privileges. View that rev-limiter as a kind of suicide prevention device. You can likewise see that rigid adherence to a strict interpretation of pluralism will inevitably spell the demise of what remains of the dominant white power structures. The Devil’s handmaiden, in this case, is a large body of both colorblind law and law that is specifically tailored to right perceived wrongs of the past, now enthusiastically pushing our society off a cliff through:

• Laws or regulations requiring conformity judged by tests of legality, legitimacy, proportionality, and necessity: possessing a lawful basis, pursuing a legitimate aim (public safety, integration, equal rights).
• Sociocultural laws: baselines a tenet that a social environment dominated by a single culture, taste, or set of norms (a prevailing homogeneous culture) is prima facie evidence of unlawful behavior in societies, workplaces, or in the media.

In essence, being successful and white paints our producer class as pariahs. But I’ll go a step further. Taxation has become a form of punishment for success that lacks its most crucial proof of fairness: universality.

40% of Americans pay no federal income taxes at all. Federal individual income taxes paid by non-Hispanic White taxpayers: approximately 62%–67% of total federal income tax liability despite making up only 57.5% of the population. But it goes further than that, since white’s own the majority of private companies and pay the vast majority of death taxes, which amount to another form of income redistribution, not generally recognized.

Sources: U.S. Department of the Treasury and The Tax Foundation

Progressives loudly proclaim that the American economic system is unfair. Various versions of the above are operative in majority-white countries across Europe and Australia. Standards are falling in many countries as what was once termed the producer class is gradually replaced by a system favoring non-whites, immigrants, and anti-capitalists, replacing the relatively few conservatives remaining. It’s been called the Great Replacement Theory, which holds that there is some guiding force behind the rapid changes evident to all. At some level, there is truth to that.

More likely, though, it’s benign neglect, as we allowed a small minority of predominantly (and here’s the irony) progressive whites to do what they can to dismantle a socioeconic system that has raised billions out of poverty and saved hundreds of millions more from political enslavement.

Conclusion:-

Isn’t it rich that the progressives, whose closest cohorts, the communists and socialist adjacent leaders, have managed to kill hundreds of millions of people all over the world in the name of brotherly love or “fairness”, either through starvation, imprisonment, war, or economic misery? They have nothing better to offer.

The problem with pluralism is that it leaves out an essential factor. There are no standard people. Each of us has our gifts, foibles, and ambitions. The very unequalness of people leads to unequal results. No government can legislate fairness even though they have tried mightily. Pluralism must acknowledge the fact of uneven outcomes while hailing those among us who have the capacity to build a better tomorrow for all.

From there, a rising tide raises all boats.

God Bless America!

Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com.

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