The rights of the majority

Stopping the subversion of Western society

America has been convulsed for the last few months for the last few years for the last few decades by the temper tantrums of various minority groups. I am not referring to “identifiable” minorities in particular, just grievance-mongering groups in general. These groups often have tacit support and training from foreign adversaries, especially China, sometimes in conjunction with their allies Russia, Iran, and North Korea (CRINK).

The majority is accustomed to being gracious and allowing the protestors rioters wide latitude to destroy. Should the protestors rioters prevent the timely delivery of an organ for a transplant operation, well, that is just the price of “democracy”. (Incidentally, that alone justifies the Founding Fathers’ skepticism of democracy.)

One begins to wonder: does the majority have any rights?

The brief answer is that in America, no group has rights, only individuals. This answer, while technically correct and appropriate, naively overlooks the group identity agendas associated with the mainstream left and the far right.

As a professor, I am witness to the suicide of academia, a crazed group that wishes to replicate its experiment on society as a whole. Bad philosophy combined with unlimited public funding and media control form the recipe for a lethal brew of subversion.

A substantial portion of the American and European public believes that it is “fascist” or “far-right” to demand the enforcement of a country’s borders, or to be displeased about mass rapes by invaders. These “educated” people plainly admire violence, although that admiration is qualified based on the perpetrator’s skin color.

It is a biological imperative for an organism to try to survive. The same is true for societies as well. The academy was created as an institution to preserve the collective learning of a society, and to transmit that learning to future generations. If the academy no longer serves that purpose, its public funding should be ended completely and immediately.

No society is obliged to be complicit in its own demise. Western civilization is the best civilization ever in human history, as witnessed by the tens of millions of migrants seeking entry to Western countries. Apparently, Western civilization has achieved something of great value to the rest of the world, so Western countries should assume a mission of preserving that civilization.

Our civilization, like any other, does not achieve absolute unanimity on many issues. In life, disagreements are inevitable. The minority and majority have rights in such disputes.

The minority have the right to an opinion. They have the right to state their opinion and to publish their opinion, provided it does not incite to violence. They have the right of peaceful assembly. This does not include the use of amplified sound or banging objects.

The majority have the right not to be taken hostage. They have the right to travel where they wish unimpeded and unthreatened. They have the right to police protection, with police using whatever level of force is necessary to subdue riots.

One must wonder what America would look like today if the university campuses had been controlled by the US Capitol Police in the way they acted on January 6, 2021.

I conceive of the relationship between the minority and the majority in Confucian terms. The minority need not assimilate, but it is imperative that they respect the cultural preferences of the majority. The majority, in turn, behaves with magnanimity.

There is no written, constitutional, legal definition of the cultural survival rights of the majority. There doesn’t need to be such a definition, because it is implied in the very establishment of society. Every civilization wishes to survive. Western civilization must survive, even if its enemies are some of its own, in government, academia, media, entertainment, other big business, invaders and traitors. As a US Supreme Court justice once said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

I have observed on my Wordpress blog that the Democrat party is a coalition of the fringes: manipulators on top, the dependent on the bottom, both squeezing the middle class. It is essential to minimize the influence at both extremes. I would like to see the following constitutional amendments:

1. Government employees, other than active-duty military and veterans, should not have the right to vote. This is an interest group dedicated to the expansion of their own power.

2. There should be a 100% confiscatory income tax on all income over the GDP divided by the square root of the population. Currently, that amount is about $1.57 billion, which is enough to live on. It should constrain the malevolent influence of Bill Gates, George Soros, and the like.

3. Divide the population into 5 quintiles by household income: the bottom 20%, the second 20%, the third 20%, the fourth 20%, and the top 20%. Voters from these five categories would have their votes weighted by the following fractions: 5/16, 5/4, 15/8, 5/4, and 5/16. The average of these five numbers is 1, so the total number of votes remains the same. However, the middle 60% of the population would get more weight at the expense of the two fringes. See the graphic.

Below is a much more modest version of the above, presumably more palatable to the majority.

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