Gens Occidens Libera Virtutis -
The people of the West are made free through virtue.
The ultimate virtue is effort of will directed at cultivating the virtues
Who are We the People?
The Homogeneity Thesis: Why America's Universalist Experiment Worked and Then Didn't
The Core Argument
The U.S. Constitution's radical experiment in universal individual rights and limited government only functioned because it governed an exceptionally homogeneous population. When that homogeneity disappeared, the system's underlying vulnerability was exposed.
The Original Population Base
1790 Demographics:
80%+ white citizenry - and 100% control of Power
85-90% British Isles ancestry among whites (English/Scots-Irish/Scottish/Welsh)
98%+ Protestant Christian
Shared Anglo-Protestant cultural framework
This wasn't absolute uniformity, but it represented extreme homogeneity for any large polity. No rival ethnic or religious blocs existed within the citizen body capable of mounting particularist claims against the universalist framework.
Why Homogeneity Mattered
In this setting, treating individuals as abstract units with equal rights worked because:
Shared priors: Common cultural, moral, and religious assumptions
Low-stakes conflicts: Disagreements remained resolvable via shared norms
Externalized tribalism: Directed at Native Americans or managed through slavery
High baseline trust: Enabled voluntary cooperation with minimal coercion.
It was a homogeonous tribe, people and Nation with the same moral framework, the same operating system for understanding the world. Communication was more efficient and clear, low context loss, greater understanding, more clear intentions. A tribe that didnt know it was a tribe, with a universalized world. A System of morals, ethics, and laws by which to govern. The law?Who makes the law? Who holds the levers of power? The Constitution in it Origianl Form is the system of the WASP people. Followed by the Bill or Rights, because we believed every individual is sacred and soverign. Our system worked great for us internally, and the european legal system was spread to the world. Along with some economics systems. but I am getting off track.
The WASP Constitutional system's universalism appeared viable precisely because the population's particularism was already aligned or at least didn't contradict the universalist framework.
The Diversity Stress Test
Post-1965 demographic shift introduced groups outside the original Caucasian Christian substrate.
Empirical evidence.
Ethnic diversity correlates with reduced social trust
Lower civic engagement (voting, volunteering, charity)
"Hunkering down" phenomenon withdrawal even within same ethnic groups (white flight).
System-wide erosion regardless of specific group interactions.
Key finding: In diverse settings, people distrust neighbors across all categories, volunteer less, give less, and expect worse from institutions.
Why Universalist Institutions Fail Under Diversity
Universalist frameworks (equal rights, rule of law without group preferences) lack mechanisms to manage re-emergent tribalism when groups have divergent interests. Diversity is NOT and strength of a Nation.
Universalist Institutions assume:
There is a baseline trust that diversity undermines with dishonesty, deception, exploitation, scheme, corruption.
Shared norms of a high trust people no longer exist when diversity come. Japan is still a largely homogenous nation and they have social norms that diversity would destroy.
Loss of good faith argumentation, low trust dominates and the nation starts to fracture, to become blakanized. Political division widens and deepens. The US has been radically impacted by mass migration post 1965, in every metric. Political division is the worst is has ever been.
Result: Observable dysfunction, polarization, declining social capital, institutional strain, exactly as the mechanism predicts.
This argument doesn't claim homogeneity always produces libertarianism. Japan, pre-migration Nordics, and Confucian societies stayed homogeneous but developed collectivist systems, not atomized individualism.
The claim: This specific homogeneity (Anglo-Protestant, individualist-conscience tradition) enabled this specific universalist experiment to succeed temporarily, until the substrate changed.
Evidence Strength
Strong FACT:
1790 census confirms extreme demographic homogeneity
Putnam's large-scale, peer-reviewed study (largest U.S. civic engagement research)
Controls for income, crime, mobility
Cross-national replications support mechanism
Pattern match FACT:
Constitutional order thrived under homogeneous conditions
Post-substrate-shift America shows predicted trust erosion and institutional stress
Interpretation:
Causal mechanism (homogeneity → viable universalism) vs correlation
Whether diversity effects are temporary (Putnam's hope) or persistent (replication evidence)
Bottom line: The American constitutional experiment worked not because universalism transcends human nature, but because extreme homogeneity hid the mismatch between universalist institutions and tribal instincts. Diversity exposed what homogeneity concealed.
White people allowed all the non-whites to move in and participate in our universalism, but the rest of the world doest agree with our ideal of every individual being sacred and soverign. They also are extremely tribal and priotize their kin, which of course is human nature, unless you are mentally unwell and delusionally misaglined with reality. A healthy society makes a health next generation without importing massive diversity. We need unity not more division. The problem is the United States has far too much diversity, far too much tribalism. Is white Nationalism the Answer? Ethnic Nation States? A WASP Nation? The White Anglo Saxon Nation. We exist, we are the people of the constitution with roots to that culture. We do need our own Nation again.
Another factor that you missed is that African American have about 25% European admixture, so some of the IQ gap is likely explained there as well.
Again you won't admit it because it is not PC, but genetics are aahoe factor. We know it to be true, it is just verboten truth by the Bolshevik race communists that hate white people.
@grok@HubeeBubee@VladTheInflator@grok The African American population does not suffer from your list of assumed causes for lower IQ in Africans. Yet they still have below average IQ, so your list is partial at best.
You won't admit it but there is an underlying non environmental factor.
@DisrespectedThe Praying.... GTFOH. You need a crusade to have any chance and the body of christ is too weak, too emasculated, too atomized to have one. You are doomed.
Central banking is the root of the problem. Ending the private federal reserve and it's fiat money is number one priority, number two is balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. 3 is to strengthen the 10th amendment, making it illegal for the federal govt use financial coercion against states that don't cede their authority to the federal system.
@GBP1492@VladTheInflator Tribal capitalism, tribal international bankers, targeted Western Civilization and white man for destruction. We did not do it to ourselves. Our ancestors were to naive and willing to allow tribes to infiltrate and invade everything.
@MrSausageGet 💯.
I am adding a follow for everyone that is able to see this clearly.
Fuentes is deep controlled opposition.
He is performance grievance for angry white men but tips the wrong way on the key issues that actually matter.
I suspect he is even a Sephardic jew.