THE JOHN ADAMS SOCIETY
David W. Downing Derek Suszko Christopher T. Wolff Marina Wolff
Chairman Secretary Chief Whip Chancellor
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Location: Burger Moe’s
Nothing makes conditions more unbearable than the knowledge that no effort of ours can change them; and even if we should never have the strength of mind to make the necessary sacrifice, the knowledge that we could escape if we only strove hard enough makes many otherwise intolerable positions bearable.” - Friedrich Hayek
WHAT IS A SLAVE BUT SOMEONE WHO IS NO LONGER MASTER OF HIS TIME AND MEANS? The mass importation of low-skill migrants into America represents the new slave “caste” designed to snuff out the prosperity of an independent American middle class. The large corporations love migrants because they can be used as cheap labor to beef up the bottom line. The AWLs (affluent white liberals) love migrants because of cheaper consumer goods and abundant opportunities for virtue signaling. Is mass migration to the developed world not an obvious form of a modern slave system? In many cases, the migrants have no choice but to retain employment with the predatory companies that shield them from deportation. All the delusions about “better life” and “pursuing the American dream” can’t hide the fact that they are here to serve the cheap whims of a moneyed class inoculated from the devastations of a ruined economy. The migrants give the liberals ample means to flaunt their humanitarian “compassion” from the distance of prosperously-gated suburbia. Meanwhile, young heritage Americans confront shrinking job markets and mounds of college debt. This new slave system threatens the very survival of a 21st century American middle class.
The influx of illegal, low-skill migrants represents the rise of a compelled service caste that jeopardizes the life of American prosperity. For decades illegals have been given access to driver’s licenses, housing subsidies and other forms of welfare to facilitate the demolition of the American middle. Young Americans for decades went to college under the assumption that they would have access to “professional,” “skilled” employment that would allow them to enter the upper middle class with hard work. That has proven to be a lie, as many of the “professional,” “email” jobs are fake consequences of a bubble economy that now has the technological capacity to render them obsolete. We are returning to a new feudal serfdom, and the glory days of the American dream are nothing but nostalgia.
ON THE OTHER HAND, Americans (especially the young) have an unhealthy obsession with status and an aversion to hard work. The foreigners congenially shuffling into the new middle and working classes are willing to do the jobs that heritage Americans just won’t do. Millions of “credentialed” and indebted Millennials and Zoomers find their degrees in “sociology,” “communication” and even "software engineering” increasingly worthless in a rapidly-changing technological world. Migrants are not “slaves” as much as proactive adapters to the modern technological economy. If consumptive Americans continue to demand cheap goods, Uber rides, and Doordash the economy will find a place for migrants legal and illegal. And pretty soon, those migrants who were willing to “pull themselves up by the bootstraps” will find that they and their families are simply more useful and productive in a world of tech barons and AI.
The CHAIRMAN, finding his 100 applications on LinkedIn for various administrative roles met with radio silence, ponders renouncing his citizenship and taking up work as an illegal farmhand. But not before he summons a debate on the matter.
RESOLVED: Migrants Are the New Slaves
The Debate will be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at Burger Moe’s(back room), 242 7th St. W., St. Paul, MN 55102. The Chancellor will preside over drinks beginning at seven o’clock p.m. The debate will begin at half past seven. There is no dress code, however gentlemen who wish to speak must wear a tie; ladies are encouraged to adhere to a similar sartorial standard. For those gentlemen arriving sans tie yet wishing to discourse on the resolution, the Purveyor of Ties will keep on hand several remarkable selections. In addition, the Chairman encourages all to join him as early as 6:30 pm for a bite to eat. Let us thank our host location for the use of their room in the most sincere way possible – by spending our money. God Bless Free Enterprise! Questions regarding debate caucus procedures or about the John Adams Society itself may be directed to the Chairman at (651) 485-1699 or the Secretary at (651) 263-6224.