NYT Op-ed: Time to Abolish U.S. States, Adopt China-style Regional Government

Big “thinkers” like Khanna usually believe that there should be some top level dictocrats running everything in order have better “efficiencies.” They do not have one example where that has worked, and it is certain that they imagine themselves as part of the elite running the world. Unfortunately, there are plenty of leaders on the Left that also believe in this nonsense, and they are willing to take away our freedoms, autonomy and local control in order to create their imagined ideal world.

Instead of the 50 states, Khanna argues that America’s new map should be based on regions, each with its own regional government. “We don’t have to create these regions; they already exist, on two levels,” the CFR operative explained. “First, there are now seven distinct super-regions, defined by common economics and demographics, like the Pacific Coast and the Great Lakes. Within these, in addition to America’s main metro hubs, we find new urban archipelagos.” Federal policy should be used to bring it all about, he said.

Of course, Khanna, who was born in India but lived in Arabia and Europe, is hardly the first to push such a radical reorganization of America. In 1975, The Daily World, a Communist Party propaganda organ, published a piece by Morris Zeitlin headlined “Planning is Socialism’s Trademark.” “In socialist countries, metropolitan regions enjoy metropolitan regional government and comprehensive planning,” the communist operative argued. “The economic and functional efficiencies and the social benefits that comprehensive national, regional and city planning make possible in socialist society explain the Soviet Union’s enormous and rapid economic social progress.” The Soviet Union ostensibly imploded less than two decades after that drivel was published, but only after murdering tens or even hundreds of millions of people in Russia and around the world.

Western countries, Khanna claims, “are following suit.” He points to Italy and Britain, populations now subjected against their will to being ruled by the unaccountable regional regime in Brussels, as examples. Indeed, sounding enamored with central planning, the CFR globalist boasts that U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is “driving investment toward a new corridor stretching from Leeds to Liverpool known as the ‘Northern Powerhouse’.” Why politicians should be “driving investment” in the first place was not explained.

But it will not be enough just to abolish and make irrelevant America’s state borders. National borders need to go, too. “Where possible, such planning should even jump over international borders,” Khanna  argues, citing the “Detroit-Windsor region” as a good target for the effort. “Both sides are deeply interdependent because of their automobile and steel industries and would benefit from scaling together rather than bickering over who pays for a new bridge between them. Detroit’s destiny seems almost obvious if we are brave enough to build it: a midpoint of the Chicago-Toronto corridor in an emerging North American Union.” (Emphasis added)

And here you thought the North American Union was a “conspiracy theory!” But who can blame you? The New York Times itself, which published Khanna’s pro-NAU diatribe, has long demonized those who exposed the agenda, including this magazine. “If you haven’t heard about the NAU, that may be because its plotters have succeeded in keeping it secret,” wrote the Times‘ Drake Bennet in 2007, even while the CFR and the U.S. government were concocting plans for a European Union-style regime to rule over North America. “Or, more likely, because there is no such thing. Government officials say a continental union is out of the question.” Bennet must not have good sources, or he was simply lying to readers, because years before he wrote his factually challenged diatribe calling the NAU the “quintessential conspiracy theory for our time,” the U.S. embassy in Canada was working on precisely such a plot, as revealed in leaked cables. Oops! Neither the Times nor Bennett has retracted the piece or apologized for the embarrasing errors. Before he died, though, the architect of the plot, the CFR’s Robert Pastor, blamed The John Birch Society, an affiliate of this magazine, for helping to stop his scheme to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico. It is hardly dead, however.

To get the radical globalist vision off the ground requires thinking “beyond states,” Khanna continued. The out-of-control federal government, which already tramples all over the states and the U.S. Constitution that authorized its existence in the first place, “needs to go much further, even at the risk of upsetting established federal-state political balances,” he said. Among other schemes, the New York Times piece called for a “national infrastructure bank” that, as part of its charter, would have an “obligation” to ignore state lines in deciding what projects to support.

All of that is, of course, nonsense. But it is not surprising to see the arguments, brought to you by a lackey of the same globalist establishment that got America involved in countless no-win wars, shredded its manufacturing base, built up the United Nations, aided international communism for decades, helped usurp more powers for the federal government, and has done everything in its power to crush American sovereignty and the U.S. Constitution. That globalist cabal is the Council on Foreign Relations, where Khanna serves as a “term member,” along with a who’s who of globalist hacks that have dominated the administrations of presidents from both parties for generations. Khanna is also a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the globalist World Economic Forum’s “Global Agenda Council.” His work is funded by, among other sources, the UN Foundation and the globalist Ford Foundation.

Khanna is also a “global contributor” to CNN, which, like the Times, first ridiculed those opposed to the NAU before openly promoting the agenda. In his capacity as CNN contributor, though, Khanna has been making similarly ridiculous globalist arguments. In December, for example, he called for a “global passport” run by Interpol, the self-styled planetary law-enforcement agency that was once controlled by the National Socialists (Nazis). “The bottom line is that anyone can be ISIS,” Khanna claimed, absurdly. “Terrorism is more than ever a borderless problem requiring cross-border solutions. The time has come for a ‘global passport,’ a parallel digital certification of a person’s identity, background, criminal record, travel history, and other details. The digital record would be regularly updated based on databases from airlines, customs agencies, banks and other sources, and could be managed by an independent international authority such as Interpol.”

Americans are seeing their freedoms slip away, and the federal government is expanding its power like never before. Perhaps it will take a new revolution to bring down the supposed “royalty” like Obama and Khanna, and there are countless Americans ready to sign up for the cause.

Unfortunately, Khanna and his ilk have missed one very important thing in their planning and plotting to bring down America, and that is the Constitution, which they assuredly have never read. And while American patriots all subscribe to the 1st amendment and the right of free speech for everyone, Lefties and elites like Khanna surely make us want to reconsider on occasion.

Source: thenewamerican.com

Here’s Parag Khanna calling for a borderless world: