Why I, a Race Realist, Will Be Voting for Joe Biden

 My most valued discovery from American Renaissance has been race realism. Professor J. Philippe Rughton explains race realism in his essay, “Race, Evolution and Behavior.” You can find it here:

http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/JP_Rushton/Race.htm

I recommend that you read it if you have not already done so. You will find why Professor Rushton was persecuted for telling what is obviously true to anyone with extensive experience with the three major races.

Race realism is the belief that race is an important biological classification of humans, similar to sub species among animal species, and breeds among domestic animals. Race realism asserts that the races differ significantly in average characteristics important to successful societies and civilizations. These are intelligence, obedience to the law, and monogamy. These have evolved differently among the races because of different populations pressures lasting for thousands of years. Evolving in cold weather selects biologically for intelligence and monogamy. Evolving in civilizations selects for those, and for obedience to the law.

This is why the two civilized races (you who which ones they are) have produced the most successful civilizations. It is why members of these races produce civilized societies everywhere in the world that they live, even when they are poor.  

One can be a white nationalist and a race realist. They are distinct. White nationalism is a movement. Race realism is a number of testable hypotheses.

I am ambivalent about political issues. I recommend ambivalence. It prevents fanaticism. I am a conservative Democrat. I am conservative because I am pessimistic about human nature and human potential. I think there is often wisdom in tradition. I am a Democrat because I believe that the government has an important role to play in society.

In practice this means that I am conservative on many social issues, especially criminal justice and race, and liberal on environmental and economic issues. I dislike the degree of economic inequality that has developed in the United States. Beyond a certain point I see little moral significance in the distribution of wealth and income. Hard work, honesty, and common decency will keep you off of welfare and out of prison. They will not make you rich. Many rich people possess none of those characteristics. 

The Democrat Party that I really like is the party that existed from the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to the assassination of President Kennedy thirty years later. I supported the civil rights movement as a child, a teenager, and a young adult. I have since then become disappointed with the black response.

I have had too many experiences with black criminals to have illusions about the Negro race. I have had too many black friends to dislike the entire race. Race realism asserts tendencies, rather than boundaries. There are intelligent, monogamous, and law abiding Negroes. There are stupid, promiscuous white criminals. There are whites and blacks who mix these three characteristics. I have never known an Oriental I disliked. The few Jews I disliked were not observant, so I did not consider them to be authentically Jewish.

A country with a large black population faces an unpleasant moral dilemma: if it denies blacks equal rights it will deny them to the minority who behave and perform as well as most whites; if it grants blacks equal rights it will suffer the social problems we have experienced since the 1960’s, and that South Africa has faced since the end of apartheid in 1994.

I think it would be unwise to try to repeal the civil rights legislation passed during the 1960’s. I would like for it to be interpreted in ways that prohibit affirmative action and reparations, while allowing racial profiling. 

During the Republican primary of 2016 I wanted Donald Trump to win. This was not because I thought he would be easier for the Democrat nominee to defeat; it was because he seemed to care about those who have been left behind by economic changes. Someone described Donald Trump as “a third party candidate running as a Republican.”

During the 2016 campaign Donald Trump pledged himself to protect Social Security and Medicare at present spending levels. He said that he was “open” to raising taxes on the rich. His first major decision as president was to cut taxes for rich people and corporations. Shortly after, when he went to his Mar a Lago resort, he told those rich enough to belong, “I just made you a lot richer.”

Yes he did. Nevertheless, that is not why factory workers in danger of losing well paying unionized factory jobs voted for him. It is not why family farmers trying to keep farms that have been in their families for generations voted for him either. Now the President is talking about making Social Security and Medicare unsupportable by cutting or eliminating the pay roll tax.

The Republican Party exists to make the rich richer. If you keep that in mind you will never be surprised by what Republican politicians do once they are elected. I hope you will be angered. You will never be surprised. 

I agree with what the President has said about the need to reduce immigration. I do not believe he will do anything that reduces the wealth and power of the Republican Donor Class. By competing for jobs, immigrants enable employers to reduce wages. By competing for places to live, immigrants enable landlords to raise rents. All population growth contributes to the growing income gap. Nevertheless, I like immigrants. I have been in love with a few. I like the cultural diversity they contribute to American society. You see what I mean by ambivalence.

President Trump has scaled back environmental regulations. The United States has one of the highest death rates from COVID-19. Disagreeing with these policies of the President makes it easier for me to notice and to object to his human deficiencies. I believe he lacks the intelligence, the knowledge, the integrity, and the gravitas to merit his position.

Unfortunately it is easier for me to criticize the Republicans than it is for me to praise the Democrats. I do not think Joe Biden is a statesman of genius. I have always liked him. I am glad that he opposed forced school busing in 1973. I wish he explained why when Kamala Harris challenged him on the issue in a Democrat primary debate. She was not my choice for Joe Biden’s running mate. I like her past as a tough prosecutor.

When I vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris I will not hold my nose. I will make the kind of compromise I have had to make often in life.