What we have is an entire population -- north and south of the border -- being reduced, by the 'present tensers', to the only thing that matters to them. A human being with all his immense and limitless capacity for imagining and capable of connecting across time and space, being reduced to the only two things that matter to the masters of this new world order; the worker bee, and the consumer. ...
The primary concern of the "present tensers" is to use other human beings as worker bees and consumers in the interest of maximizing their own profits. "Fair enough" some might say, "what's wrong with that? Isn't that just free enterprise at work?" But can free enterprise long endure in a country where citizenship is degraded and the rule of law is defiled? Where the bed-rock of America, its middle-class, is undermined, ignored and pushed aside? Where it is burdened by ever increasing taxation to pay for expenses that are not of their own making or of their own choosing, where fair-play is thrown by the boards, and where even the language they speak is not good enough by itself anymore?
And:
Our borders are turnstiles for coyotes, drug lords, human traffickers and terrorists. Our border patrol agents are being incarcerated for doing their jobs. We're under attack, under assault and our government is looking the other way. Even making excuses for illegality and promising rewards for law-breakers. Yes, unbelievably they are promising the reward of US citizenship to anyone who can run the gauntlet of the US Border Patrol and make it into the United States. Home free home! And then, to add insult to injury, they want us to believe this should not be called amnesty.
Our neighbors, fellow citizens and tax-payers -- know it is they, not the businesses who are luring them here and making money off their cheap labor, who are footing the bill for these increasing millions of third world migrants -- for health care, for education, for welfare, for added security and for their own depressed wages. The American people are a generous people - but they are not dupes and fools. They have moved from skepticism, to mistrust, to outrage. Where is our leadership? Who is defending America and our way of life? Not just in Iraq or in Afghanistan -- who is defending it here - in our own homes and our own communities? It's a healthy feeling of self-survival that the American people are feeling and which they are finally turning into political action and imposing on their elected officials who sometimes forget who elected them and whom they are supposed to serve. Americans intuitively understand that what's at stake here is nothing less than the survival of our country.
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Osvaldo Mandias, Thx.
Osvaldo Mandias, I've been thinking about the Derb piece, and am starting to understand why I don't jive with Conservatives much of the time. He writes: Most of the people of a nation...like their culture...They're attached to it. They don't want to see it transformed in ways they do not approve...This is called "conservatism." I'm more of the opinion that America needs to change big-time, and that the culture has gone off the deep end. I'm a Trad, not a Con, I guess.
M_David, I'm not sure you'll understand this, but here goes: I find myself feeling a deep admiration of you for your last bit of self-honesty, capable of erasing all the ire I've felt in reaction to some of your writing here. For me, toleration is not a (grudging) acceptance of difference. I see it as the ability to understand regardless of the level of agreement that goes with it. I believe I understand you much better now, with your statement of being a Trad rather than a Con. I still disagree with you on alot of things. But, I see why I've had difficulty tolerating those things up to now. That difficulty is over. Anyway, there it is. :)
I'm more of the opinion that America needs to change big-time, and that the culture has gone off the deep end. I probably agree, but in my view mass immigration in todays time is likely to reinforce the worst aspects of American culture, instead of replacing them. The children of Hispanic immigrants assimilate down. Hollywood movies are full of pathologies because those pathologies have the most universal appeal.
"Children of Hispanic immigrants assimilate down"? There we go again painting all Hispanic "immigrants" with the same broad brush. First, what is happening in this country with regards to the lack of assimilation of large segmenst of people from mostly Mexico and Central America is that we are really talking about "illegal aliens" who, with little or no education have crossed our southern border by the millions with no other purpose than to work, (some to commit crimes, but that's another matter). Surrounded by poverty and living in the worst places in the U.S. leaves the children of illegal aliens with no "American" role models to emulate. Many grow up with little or no contact with peers that are "Americans" or fully assimilated. Many grow up with very little exposure to the English language as Spanish language television, radio and newspapers are consumed by the illegal alien community.
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