Article by Civus Americanus in The American Thinker
Stop the Balkanization of America
It
is always useful to have a single word with which to identify and
marginalize the enemy in any kind of conflict, and "Balkanizer" seems to
fit the bill.
Balkanizers, who include white nationalists on one side and purveyors of Critical Race Theory on the other, are useful idiots
for foreign and domestic enemies of the United States who would like
nothing more than to get our people to self-identify by race (e.g.
"person of color"), ethnicity, and/or religion as opposed to
self-identifying as Americans. These enemies would like nothing more
than to have the "woke" left persuade Black people that American society
is their oppressor and they do not have an equal stake in our society
while White supremacists foment hatred of all non-White Americans.
Balkanization is why a Serbian terrorist
murdered the heir to the Austrian throne in 1914. Archduke Franz
Ferdinand was a reformer who wanted to make the Austro-Hungarian
Empire's Slavic peoples equal to the ruling Austrians and Hungarians —
that is, create an entity in which all of its people would think of
themselves as Austro-Hungarians as opposed to Czechs, Slovakians,
Bosnians, Croats, and so on. These reforms would have obstructed
Serbia's agenda of creating a southern Slavic, or Yugoslavian, empire by
breaking up Austria-Hungary. Serbia succeeded at the cost of tens of
millions of European lives and roughly 115,000 American ones, but
Yugoslavia later broke apart because its people continued to think of
themselves as Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes rather than Yugoslavians. The
very weapon Serbia used against Austria-Hungary in 1914, Balkanization,
later destroyed Yugoslavia itself.
Today's
Scottish independence movement suggests that the United Kingdom never
succeeded entirely in getting its people to think of themselves as
Britons rather than Scots, Irish, or Welsh. A "Bavaria Independence
Party" wants similarly to secede from Germany, while the Soviet Union
fell apart when Ukrainians, Lithuanians, and others reminded themselves
that they were not Russians, had never been Russians, and did not want
to be Russians. Ferdinand and Isabella did not completely unify Spain,
either, because now many people in Catalonia want to leave.
Balkanizers = Enemies of the United States or Useful Idiots
The
agenda of Balkanization is therefore to transform a unified country
into a squabbling aggregation of different racial, religious, and ethnic
groups. This makes its promoters useful idiots for foreign and
domestic enemies who seek to undermine the foundation of American
nationalism as described by Theodore Roosevelt. This
is the proposition that America is one indivisible nation for all who
share our values regardless of what they look like, how or if they pray,
where they or their ancestors came from, or when they or their
ancestors became citizens.
Cui
bono? (Who benefits?) Rival nations such as Mainland China and Russia
have much to gain from internal division within, or even the outright
breakup of, the United States. Vladimir Putin was formerly in the KGB,
he knows how Balkanization broke up the former Russian Empire, and he
doubtless knows how to use all forms of propaganda to undermine another
country. It would not surprise me if at least some Balkanizing
movements are projects of hostile foreign intelligence agencies, under
the influence of hostile foreign nations, and/or supported with
untraceable cryptocurrency from hostile foreign nations or non-state
actors. Some far-right entities involved with the Capitol riot did
apparently get Bitcoin donations, so we have to ask which other divisive entities in our country are getting them as well.
Meet the Balkanizers
Nobody
knows who QAnon's Q really is, which is exactly why Russia, Communist
China, Iran, and foreign terrorist organizations cannot be ruled
out. They all have the means and motive to create an anonymous online
personality to spread divisive disinformation about a shadowy global
cabal of Democrats and Jews who harvest the adrenal glands of children
to make adrenochrome, a chemical that can be purchased legally from
chemical supply houses.
The
Black Lives Matter movement uses Balkanizing language such as
"allyship," which demotes the relationship between Caucasian and Black
Americans from "fellow citizens" to "allies," and also "white privilege"
to divide rather than unify African-Americans and their Caucasian
neighbors. This aspect of the BLM movement, as well as so-called
"educators" who teach Critical Race Theory,
allyship, and White privilege, makes them useful idiots for genuine
foreign and domestic enemies of the United States. On the other hand,
anybody who does treat an African-American as anything less than a
fellow citizen is equally part of the problem.
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) had a web page that depicted "whiteness"
as including values such as the nuclear family and the Protestant work
ethic, as if non-White people lacked similar values before they
encountered Caucasians. Japanese workers have a reputation for putting
in far more hours than Caucasians, Protestant or otherwise, and the same
goes for Asian-American immigrants. Black-majority nations in Africa also have a strong work ethic.
The
NMAAHC adds the Balkanizing statement, "People of color must always
consider their racial identity, whatever the situation, due to the
systemic and interpersonal racism that still exists." White
supremacists also call on their followers to always consider their
racial identity; it's the same Balkanizing trash from two different
dumpsters.
Systemic
racism — i.e., the proposition that the entire country is somehow
racist as opposed to a small but visibly odious collection of White
supremacists on one side and the likes of Louis Farrakhan on the other —
is another phony Balkanizing canard. It is definitely in the interest
of our country's enemies to help the "woke" left persuade
African-Americans that the United States is a systematically racist
country and that all Caucasians are tainted with some kind of racist
original sin, and simultaneously encourage and finance white
supremacists to foment hatred of African-Americans to aggravate the
division even further.
Squad
member Ayanna Pressley said, "If you're not prepared to come to that
table and represent that voice, don't come, because we don't need any
more brown faces that don't want to be a brown voice. We don't need
Black faces that don't want to be a Black voice." If a White member of
Congress said that about White faces and White voices, we would ask
where he kept his sheet and hood, and we would probably find them. Squad
member Rashida Tlaib said similarly, "When will the world stop
dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free?" We do
not have Palestinian people here. We have American people, some of whom
may have emigrated from Hamas-infested "Palestine" the same way the
ancestors of other Americans emigrated from various countries that were
good places to be from, and I stress "from," like tsarist Russia, Nazi
Germany, and fascist Italy.
Balkanization
has already resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, and the Russian Empire. Balkanization is the reason for
proposals for Scottish, Bavarian, and Catalan secession. This makes
those who want to similarly Balkanize the United States useful idiots
for foreign and domestic enemies of the United States. We need to
marginalize them as such.
