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Restoring America Paperback – February 16, 2015

by Michael Hart (Author)

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Secession? Peaceful secession? Why would patriotic American want to do that? How, in any case, is it possible? Michael Hart lays out the answers in clear expository prose, pinned to reality at every point by historical precedent and scientific fact. The heart of his argument is a separation of the U.S.A., at county, not state, level into a rump "blue" nation purusing current federal policies and a new "red" American Federal Republic (A/F.R.)--'a constitutional republic, with civil liberties fully protected.' The A.F.R. will begin with a new Declaration--Dr. Hart provides a full text--followed by a new Constitution containing clauses to prevent the evils that today threaten our liberties.

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February 16, 2015
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vdare. (February 16, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 210 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1312875704
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1312875708
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.48 x 9 inches

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The only solution to America's worst problem

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018

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Dr. Michael Hart explains the demographic forces that will soon make it impossible for conservatives to win national elections in the USA, despite Trump's lucky victory, which was close to being a loss. The Left will continue to become more extreme as they get farther and farther from traditional Christian values.

Hart provides the only solution that would put permanent control of immigration policy in conservative hands: helping states secede and then join into new federations (one for the red states and one for the blue states). Hart proposes that every county be allowed such a choice, but I find this unrealistic and illegal. In the USA, states are sovereign, so if a state legislature does not assent, a county can not split off peacefully and legally. I don't really expect California, Louisiana, Illinois, or New York to allow counties to leave because the opposition party voters there are not numerous enough to be a nuisance to the party in control. I believe purple states would let certain counties split off to avoid unrest and to strengthen the position of the party in power in that state. Hart's predicted border map suffers from the fact that he wrote the book before Trump's election, which was the first election in a while that was based on identity. The borders I predict can be found at www.facebook.com/PeacefulRedStateSecession

This book explains why any other option, whether less extreme or less peaceful, will fail to happen or fail to allow a sustainable free republic.
Dr. Hart underestimates the value of helping a single state secede first to force the issue. Only 52% of Californians are opposed to California secession (#CALEXIT) as of the last poll (March 2017) and both California and Texas poll higher than successful and nearly succesful secession movements did before their referenda, such as the UK (BREXIT from the EU, Catalonia from Spain, and Scotland from the UK.

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Baraniecki Mark Stuart

E Pluribus Unum no more

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2016

Author Michael Hart is concerned with the breakdown of Constitutional America giving many examples such as the NSA mass collection of private communications (in violation of the 2nd Amendment, “ The rights of the people… against unreasonable searches and seizures.”), or the wholesale infringement of States rights (in violation of the 10th Amendment, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited to it by States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.”)

In what could be called a de facto Post-Constitutional America he sees a polarization of power not uncommon to mature Democracies as the system is gamed by special interests.

On the one side voters are bought by public spending/benefits transfers creating a giant debt based welfare system (what he calls the Wolf/Sheep problem – Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner), and on the other, a multitude of special interests hook into a corrupt political process to secure government contracts, favourable legislation, bank bailouts etc. at the expense of the public.
He sees a big problem with special interests since their political action for private profit is often directly opposed to the interests of the general population, with issues such as mass immigration of low wage labour, uncontrolled outsourcing, vastly expensive (and useless) wars or ballooning healthcare costs. Logically these forces oppose nationalism and support multiculturalism and neo-liberalism (as collected in the P.C. package).

Hart’s opinion is that the US has become so polarized between the Liberal left and Traditional right (not establishment Republicans) that things have past the point of no return. So, as in an irreparable marriage, the only solution is divorce and the division of the present United States into two independent countries. The greater part of the book covers the practicalities of the divorce settlement, with the hope that it can be accomplished amicably – basically along the lines that Red counties form the American Federal Republic (AFR) and the Blue counties form a new United States.

This reviewer sees some problems with the idea, 1) on the positive side that the Democratic system may not be as broken as he thinks, with cultural affairs having more of a cyclical aspect and racial integration offering more possibilities than he allows, and 2) on the negative side, that special interests derive too much power from the present United States to allow the separation of the AFR.

Taking the positive side, the public are at last finding a voice (written Feb. 2016) in Republican candidate Donald Trump advocating controlled immigration and outsourcing, and rejecting fake WMD stories and Middle East wars. He’s proposing to democratically fix the whole of the US and not divide it in two. Also the author could have taken a more cyclical view of US society (e.g. The Fourth Turning ) showing a growing societal rejection of decadent and corrupt late stage neo-liberalism with a return to societies foundational ideas. Again this suggests coming together rather than separating.

The book goes at some length into the question of race saying that Multiculturalism doesn’t work, but it may have been clearer if the author had that said that racial integration only stopped working in the 1970’s when the US abandoned the Pluribus Unum “Melting Pot” idea in favour of divisive Cultural Marxist “Multiculturalism”. Differences in intelligence can be found in other places apart from the Black/White divide, for example in rural/town populations or the management/employee divide in any company, suggesting that differences in intelligence are much less important that loyalty and commitment to a joint project and making the best of everyone’s ability (excluding no one). Also the melting pot does work, although it can take time. For example Britain is an integrated mixture of Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Danish-Scandinavians, Old British (Welsh) and Normans with surnames still showing the origins although no one pays any notice. It did take centuries and it’s interesting that when Julius Caesar successfully conquered Britain, the Saxons hadn’t yet arrived to teach the British to speak English.

On the negative side the outlook seems much darker than he suggests. Hart politely hopes that the very well entrenched Establishment will quietly transfer Federal power over the Red counties to the AFR when in reality this is probably the last thing that they will do. Unfortunately, a much likelier outcome is that they use readymade rhetoric about “Southern Racists” and “Rebellion” to claim the moral high ground, drawing parallels with the Civil War to launch an attack on the AFR and destroy it.

The author seems to believe the hollow idea that somehow the 2nd Amendment will protect the AFR, which it may have done in the 18th Century, but not in the 21st. Small arms are no match for the weapons of the US military. This suggest that the Blue Alliance will make an extreme effort to control the US military command structure and bribe/confuse troops for sufficient time to destroy the AFR. History shows that successful coups work this way. The Bolsheviks (1917) broke the command structure (General Order Nº1) and subverted the loyalty of the 125.000 soldiers in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) with promises of private land, farms, stopping the war, avoiding the return of landowners etc. with the result that only 25.000 or so remained loyal. Of course they used the troops against the Provisional Government itself. When the elections to the Constituent Assembly eventually came (far too late) at the end of November 1917, they filled the assembly hall with soldiers armed with rifles, grenades and machine guns and rejected the result of the vote (Social Revolutionaries 20,893,743, Bolsheviks 9,023,963 out of 36.257.960 votes cast). The Bolsheviks declared that Constitutional Democrats were to be arrested and Lenin established his dictatorship.

Recommended as an interesting book, certainly worth buying.

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Why read fiction?

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2022

Just the blurb about the 'new' red country and 'rump' blue states....based on what?
The red states appeal to medieval thinking about women and 'non-whites. The blue states are rump?? They provide the federal dollars to all those new red states.
A real distortion of fact and a fanciful fiction.....that is the authors bias.

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Baraniecki Mark Stuart

E Pluribus Unum no more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2016

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Author Michael Hart is concerned with the breakdown of Constitutional America giving many examples such as the NSA mass collection of private communications (in violation of the 2nd Amendment, “ The rights of the people… against unreasonable searches and seizures.”), or the wholesale infringement of States rights (in violation of the 10th Amendment, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited to it by States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.”)

In what could be called a de facto Post-Constitutional America he sees a polarization of power not uncommon to mature Democracies as the system is gamed by special interests..

On the one side voters are bought by public spending/benefits transfers creating a giant debt based welfare system (what he calls the Wolf/Sheep problem – Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner), and on the other, a multitude of special interests hook into a corrupt political process to secure government contracts, favourable legislation, bank bailouts etc. at the expense of the public.
He sees a big problem with special interests since their political action for private profit is often directly opposed to the interests of the general population, with issues such as mass immigration of low wage labour, uncontrolled outsourcing, vastly expensive (and useless) wars or ballooning healthcare costs. Logically these forces oppose nationalism and support multiculturalism and neo-liberalism (as collected in the P.C. package).

Hart’s opinion is that the US has become so polarized between the Liberal left and Traditional right (not establishment Republicans) that things have past the point of no return. So, as in an irreparable marriage, the only solution is divorce and the division of the present United States into two independent countries. The greater part of the book covers the practicalities of the divorce settlement, with the hope that it can be accomplished amicably – basically along the lines that Red counties form the American Federal Republic (AFR) and the Blue counties form a new United States.

This reviewer sees some problems with the idea, 1) on the positive side that the Democratic system may not be as broken as he thinks, with cultural affairs having more of a cyclical aspect and racial integration offering more possibilities than he allows, and 2) on the negative side, that special interests derive too much power from the present United States to allow the separation of the AFR.

Taking the positive side, the public are at last finding a voice (written Feb. 2016) in Republican candidate Donald Trump advocating controlled immigration and outsourcing, and rejecting fake WMD stories and Middle East wars. He’s proposing to democratically fix the whole of the US and not divide it in two. Also the author could have taken a more cyclical view of US society (e.g. The Fourth Turning ) showing a growing societal rejection of decadent and corrupt late stage neo-liberalism with a return to societies foundational ideas. Again this suggests coming together rather than separating.

The book goes at some length into the question of race saying that Multiculturalism doesn’t work, but it may have been clearer if the author had that said that racial integration only stopped working in the 1970’s when the US abandoned the Pluribus Unum “Melting Pot” idea in favour of divisive Cultural Marxist “Multiculturalism”. Differences in intelligence can be found in other places apart from the Black/White divide, for example in rural/town populations or the management/employee divide in any company, suggesting that differences in intelligence are much less important that loyalty and commitment to a joint project and making the best of everyone’s ability (excluding no one). Also the melting pot does work, although it can take time. For example Britain is an integrated mixture of Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Danish-Scandinavians, Old British (Welsh) and Normans with surnames still showing the origins although no one pays any notice. It did take centuries and it’s interesting that when Julius Caesar successfully conquered Britain, the Saxons hadn’t yet arrived to teach the British to speak English.

On the negative side the outlook seems much darker than he suggests. Hart politely hopes that the very well entrenched Establishment will quietly transfer Federal power over the Red counties to the AFR when in reality this is probably the last thing that they will do. Unfortunately, a much likelier outcome is that they use readymade rhetoric about “Southern Racists” and “Rebellion” to claim the moral high ground, drawing parallels with the Civil War to launch an attack on the AFR and destroy it.

The author seems to believe the hollow idea that somehow the 2nd Amendment will protect the AFR, which it may have done in the 18th Century, but not in the 21st. Small arms are no match for the weapons of the US military. This suggest that the Blue Alliance will make an extreme effort to control the US military command structure and bribe/confuse troops for sufficient time to destroy the AFR. History shows that successful coups work this way. The Bolsheviks (1917) broke the command structure (General Order Nº1) and subverted the loyalty of the 125.000 soldiers in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) with promises of private land, farms, stopping the war, avoiding the return of landowners etc. with the result that only 25.000 or so remained loyal. Of course, they used the troops against the Provisional Government itself. When the elections to the Constituent Assembly eventually came (far too late) at the end of November 1917, they filled the assembly hall with soldiers armed with rifles, grenades and machine guns and rejected the result of the vote (Social Revolutionaries 20,893,743, Bolsheviks 9,023,963 out of 36.257.960 votes cast). The Bolsheviks declared that Constitutional Democrats were to be arrested and Lenin established his dictatorship.

Recommended as an interesting book, certainly worth buying.

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