Lee Kuan Yew for President?

I've advocated importing Vladimir Putin and making him President before, because he seems to be pro-Russian, and maybe he'd be a pro-American President.  But I haven't heard from him, so now I'm thinking maybe would could get Lee Kuan Yew, who I've blogged about before, instead.  Unlike practically all our politicians, he recognizes that there is a downside to multiculturalism, and it isn't all sushi and tacos. In fact, there are a lot of downsides to multiculturalism, and damn few upsides, as it turns out.  Whenever anybody does any actual research on the subject, it turns out that diversity is not strength, but weakness, and that the more diversity — ethnic, racial, religious, linguistic — a country has, the less mutual trust there is, and, consequently, the more conflict there is.

A commenter over at Steve Sailer's blog gave this link at the Kansas Citian, and I repost it here:

Don't Take the Fruit Pickers Says the Sage of Singapore

When speaking of of Nobel Prize winner Lee Kuan Yew, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, "He has become a seminal figure for all of us. I've not learned as much from anybody as I have from Mr Lee Kuan Yew. He made himself an indispensable friend of the United States, not primarily by the power he represented but by the quality of his thinking."

President Obama said he is, "one of the legendary figures of Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries. He is somebody who helped to trigger the Asian economic miracle."

He has been praised world-wide, receiving prestigious honors from countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Russia and among others for his efforts to bring Singapore from a third-world nation to a first.  In other words, he is one of the world's few true experts on economic development.  So, when he speaks about the virtues of immigration, policy makers should take heed.

"America will not be reduced to second-rate status.  Historically, the U.S. has demonstrated a great capacity for renewal and revival.  America’s strengths include an ability to range widely, imaginatively, and pragmatically; a diversity of centers of excellence that compete in inventing and embracing new ideas and new technologies; a society that attracts talent from around the world and assimilates them comfortably as Americans; and a language that the lingua franca of those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world."

Lee credits the resounding success of the United States with two key factors: a unifying language, English, because of it's ease to learn and demographics.  But, he warns the country's mass immigration policies risk destroying all that.

“Multiculturalism will destroy America. Do you make the Hispanics Anglo-Saxons in culture or do they make you more Latin American in culture?”

That is the key question, says Lee.  In this interview with Charlie Rose, Lee explains why the U.S. must stop taking "fruit pickers" and go back to importing the world's smartest and brightest: