Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Recently, our family traveled to Johnstown, Pennsylvania to be with my father-in-law when he was in the hospital there because of a major medical issue. During this time, I had the opportunity to observe the city firsthand. I hate to admit, but what I saw was both unimpressive and a bit depressing. Johnstown is very definitely a city that has seen better days. Certainly, it has many beautiful buildings dating back to its prime, days when American architectural choices demonstrated much more grandeur than they do now, back when ours was a culture full of confidence and self-assurance. But just as evident are the many empty homes and buildings, many former factories or other industrial-style edifices now sitting barren, or housing charities of one kind or another, or even the occasional church. Everything is dingy looking, almost as if to say that the town has given up, that it no longer has the drive to keep up appearances.

Johnstown is emblematic of what decades of globalism - both external and imported - have done to the Rust Belt, and to America as a whole.

There was a time when Johnstown was an integral part of that dynamic industrial machine that drove American prosperity. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an industrial hub, especially in the steelmaking and coal mining industries. Johnstown was home to the Cambria Iron Company which was started in 1852 and quickly grew to become one of the largest iron and steel manufacturers in the country and was a major supplier of railroad equipment for railroad companies across the continent. In 1923, Bethlehem Steel began local operations in Johnstown and quickly became a dominant employer in the city. Bethlehem Steel produced structural and vehicular steel that supported the war effort in World War II and at its height in the 1970s, the company employed more than 13,000 workers in the area. In support of this industry, other areas of major economic interest for the city included coal mines (such as the Rolling Mill Mine) and railyards, which also employed thousands.

Johnstown’s population peaked during the period from the 1920s-1950s, when the city itself had around 67,000 residents (including the surrounding area, it pushed up to around 100,000 or so). But clouds were already gathering on the horizon. Throughout the 1960s, offshoring of jobs overseas to places (primarily in Asia) with cheaper labour gradually increased, with this trend accelerating greatly through the 1980s and 1990s. NAFTA and other “free” trade policies put the final nail into Johnstown’s coffin. From a height of around 67,000, Johnstown’s population had declined to around 24,000 by 2000 and the latest estimate for 2023 places it at just 17,950 residents. All of this accompanied ongoing closures of factories and steel plants, with railroads cutting back their presence and the coal mines being shuttered.

The thing we need to understand is that Johnstown’s woes are part of a much deeper problem caused by the globalist impulses of transnational corporatism combined with feckless politicians. The story of Johnstown has been repeated in other formerly prosperous communities across the United States, and indeed, across the Western world. What we must understand, further, is that sending jobs overseas to take advantage of cheap labour is only part of the problem. Even more damaging has been the importation of cheap labour into this country. It’s worse because not only does it involve displacing American workers with cheap substitutes, but it also introduces alien, and often hostile or non-assimilatory, elements into the country which disrupts our social cohesion and creates all kinds of distortions that reduce the quality of everyday life. Both of these phenomena - massive outsourcing and massive immigration (both illegal and legal) - are part of the same overall drive to replace Western populations with non-Western ones. Big corporations get to shave a couple of percentage points off the corporate bottom line while progressive politicians get to import millions of new voters to replace the old voter base that was increasingly turning against them.

None of this, of course, is accidental. After all, the purpose of a system is what it does.

The purpose of this system is to use third world populations to destroy first world nations - something which originated with the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in the 1920s, and which was accelerated beginning in the 1960s. In the USA, the floodgates were opened up with the passage of the Hart-Celler Act in 1965, while Europe and the rest of the Anglosphere have seen similar loosening of immigration restrictions which have similarly introduced large, indigestible chunks of ethnic aliens into their societies. People who don’t want you to notice this phenomenon as it is happening in real time try to dismiss this as a “conspiracy theory.” Indeed, Wikipedia, that ever reliable font of curated information, says this about the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan,

But really, if one looks at what is going on across the West today, one is hard-pressed to deny that “mix[ing] and replac[ing] white Europeans with other races via immigration” is precisely what appears to be taking place. For a “conspiracy theory,” it seems to have quite a lot of diagnostic value.

Now, why would someone want to do this? Well, it’s because white Westerners are the most capable of building high civilisation. This is shown by the fact that they are the ones who actually did so. They were the ones who escaped the Malthusian population traps, who overcame both the technological and the social hurdles that make industrial revolution such a huge leap. They are the ones who created the modern world, who created prosperous societies with broad populations of people who didn’t have to live on the razor’s edge of starvation and destitution. And The Powers That Be who constitute the global transnationalist progressive movement don’t want any of this because people who live in prosperous societies are, overall, more capable of existing outside of the boundaries which global transnational progressives wish to impose.

It’s similar to the rationale for gun control. The excuses that are given revolve around “gun violence” and “safety,” but the real reason is that armed populations are simply harder to control. If you push them too hard, there’s the very real chance that you could end up looking like a cheese grater. That’s why TPTB can roll out their agenda items in places like the UK and Australia pretty quickly, but have to slow boil the frog in the USA, moving slowly enough that they never quite tip over the average white American’s sense of normalcy and their respect for the rule of law.

Rich people are less dependent on others, being able to act more independently and without restrains imposed upon them by others to whom they may be beholden. They don’t need handouts to survive day to day. The necessities of life can’t be held over their heads as leverage. They can often act in ways “the boss” doesn’t want them to. So it is with rich and prosperous societies. It’s harder for globalists and other bad actors to leverage them to their own benefit. Hence, under “normal” historical circumstances it would be a lot harder to force the USA or Germany to give up chunks of their national sovereignties to globalist institutions than it would be to do the same to Honduras or Sierra Leone. Further, since the populations of Western nations are generally richer than elsewhere, they are also generally more internally stable, meaning that they’re harder to subvert with promises of aid monies or other benefits.

So the obvious solution to the problem is to make these societies poorer and less stable. And you do that by subverting key elements within their governments to allow them to be opened up to the mass influx of socially and economically destructive populations from the third world. After all, societies reflect the people who make them up. Third world countries are poor, unstable, and stagnant because they’re inhabited by third world peoples. When you import third worlders en masse into first world societies, they act to make those societies more third worldish in charactre, which suits the agenda of the progressive globalists. What we get in return is a decline in prosperity, a decline in social trust, an increase in crime and various types of fraud, and a host of other social ills. It’s entirely an unforced error.

One of the starkest examples of what happens when you exchange control by high trust, high capacity white populations with non-white ones within a first world society can be seen in southern Africa. Both South Africa and Rhodesia were high functioning, high trust, highly capable first world societies when under the rule of Anglo-derived minorities (South Africa actually managed to develop its own nuclear weapons despite being under nearly worldwide economic and military embargoes). Through a combination of armed internal communist subversion and globalist international pressure, both governments were overthrown and replaced by native African regimes. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, but in the process became unable to feed itself because it drove off the whites who did the big magics for making food grow from the earth. South Africa, meanwhile, can barely keep the lights on even in their major cities.

The same process is being played out in various stages all across the Western world as hordes of third world biomass continue to be imported. Europe faces a rape epidemic, Sweden is full of no-go zones, Pakistani child sex traffickers freely operated in the UK, Canada is being overwhelmed by subcontinentals, US towns in flyover country, and even entire major cities, are being “demographically revised” as thousands of Haitians or Somalians or whatever else are dumped into them. This past election cycle, the nation learned of the plight of Springfield, Ohio (which is just one story among hundreds of similar), a town which was gutted of economic hope for decades and then had thousands of Haitian airdropped into its midst, completely altering the charactre of the town for the worse (and yes, they really were eating the cats, by the way). If this wasn’t planned, then it might as well have been.

This leads me back to my discussion about Johnstown. Per “the Plan,” towns like Johnstown were hollowed out economically so that the country could then be “refilled.” Jobs went away so that that middle class which used to be able to buy a house and two cars and raise four kids on a factory worker’s salary would also go away. In its place, if whites could even find jobs (and as we’ve seen, DEI was designed to prevent this, or to at least prevent them from advancing very far in those jobs), would be a gig and clerk economy, full of low paying jobs rendered by inflation incapable of supporting families, or even often oneself.

The process has been systematic, too. It was recently revealed that Biden’s Agriculture Department was buying up American agricultural assets - farms and ranches and so forth - and giving them away to foreigners even as American farmers were going bankrupt. American taxpayers are bilked for billions by foreign grifters allowed to operate without oversight (the latest example being the Somali-fake-daycare-ring up in Minnesota, exposed by independent journalist Nick Shirley). American workers - both blue and white collar - were replaced by cheaper alternatives which were sometimes literally trucked over the border, and it has all been justified in the media and in the minds of many with the lie about “jobs Americans just won’t do.” We’ve gutted America’s tech sector by replacing high quality American workers with low capacity H-1B visa holders from India and other countries (which I had to deal with first-hand extensively). The end result of this last, especially, has been the importation of a whole “scammer class” of Indians who game the system to illegally manipulate the American job market for their own ethnic benefit (similar to how they manipulated DEI and preferential SBA loans to take over America’s motel industry).

The whole purpose to all of this is to create a system in which Heritage Americans are systematically excluded from substantive economic activity within their own country (with the same process taking place in other Western countries as well), either by sending their jobs overseas or by replacing them with foreign imports here. This exclusion is then used to “prove” that Americans “don’t want to work” and thus we need to bring in more immigrants “to do the jobs Americans won’t do” in a vicious and dishonest cycle. The short-term interest - the one used to get business owners on board - is marginally improved profit margins through savings on labour costs. The long-term goal is the eventual replacement of our population via despair and desperation, cratering birth rates, skyrocketing drug abuse and overdosing, slow attrition through violent crime, displacement and slow, ongoing destruction. In short, creating an entire “Johnstown nation.”

This, of course, can be reversed, though the longer this is prolonged, the more difficult and disruptive the process will be. The questions before us boil down to “what is a nation?” and “should a government protect the interests of its people or of a few corporate donors?” The question of nationhood was recently brought into the mainstream as a result of Vivek Ramastarwarsname’s recent TPUSA speech (and I plan on addressing it again on this Substack at some point in the near future…hopefully).

The second question is best addressed by recognising the difference between “capitalism” and “the free market.” The latter is what most people are actually thinking of when they think of the term “capitalism” - the freedom to buy and sell on the market, start businesses, operate for profit, compete freely in an unhindered way, all the while facing off against the vicissitudes of a market economy. Actual “capitalism” as it plays out in the real world, on the other hand, is a different animal altogether, and mainly involves extremely large economic entities (corporations or things approximating corporations) using their power to sway government policies and create monopolies or cartels.

The free market is generally good because it involves real people doing business with each other. It’s what encourages innovation, investment, growth, and all that other good stuff that we often see on PowerPoint presentations. Capitalism, on the other hand, involves faceless entities doing whatever they have to do to squeeze out another 0.3% for their shareholders, even if it means biting the national hand that fed them. That’s…gonna have to stop. Eventually, these entities will have to be brought to heel. They’ll need to be made to suck it up and hire American if they want to do business here. Not doing so is to basically consign us to being a Johnstown nation in perpetuity.

The Trump administration has been making some good starts toward addressing many of the systematic elements that have been putting this Plan into motion. I know a lot of folks are impatient with it so far, but understand that what we’re trying to reverse is literally a decades-long process of subversion and replacement which has been embedded into all of the relevant institutions. Removing these will be similar to removing a deeply-embedded arrowhead - a lot of damage has been done already and a lot of damage will probably accrue as the issues are dealt with. This will take time. That’s why blackpilling is so counterproductive. All it does it short-circuits the drive to fix the problems just as the solutions are starting to be implemented. Chimp out? Absolutely. Blackpill? Keep a lid on it. Whatever the cost, we need to keep pushing to reverse the replacement and preserve our people.