I think there is a core confusion and overreaction which has plagued the right or late. Illegal immigration is bad. Mass illegal immigration is worse. Unvetted mass illegal immigration of people who don’t share your values and don’t respect your country is the nut low.
I think the evidence for that is clear. But here’s where they overreact and lose the plot.
America is a country of immigrants. It’s the most prosperous country in the history of the world. People of disparate ancestry creating untold wealth for society, despite the parasites, corruption, etc. How is this possible?
Because the foundational axioms of the US (the constitution, rule of law, private property, etc.) were the best. You didn’t have India’s caste system, Europe’s strict class divisions, or the communist regimes. You had a system where the individual who applied himself could thrive (with notable exceptions.)
The solution to one’s country losing its core axioms upon which its prosperity depends is only to let in those who are willing to adopt them. You don’t need to worry about racial makeup or quotas, just values. You need to vet people, make the process simple bureaucratically but arduous in terms of demonstrating fitness. No vetting system is perfect, but a strong one will ensure the people who arrive believe in American values. Free speech, private property, civil liberties, etc.
If your religion or culture is antithetical to these things, and you are insistent upon it, that’s fine, but you’re not entitled to live in America. There’s no need to adopt the identity politics of the left. It’s just merit based and voluntarily.
I agree with all of this, in theory. In practice, a lot of the success of America was driven by a strong culture of shared Christian values and a free and capitalist economy. We are losing both of those, and that is a huge problem for our country.
Democracy and our founding principles are amazing tools in a world with some level of baseline social cohesion. They do not work in every situation.
It seems like we agree on way more than we disagree. If you acknowledge that immigration currently is an issue, then we are on the same page.
We can dream of a vetting process based on values, ran by great people who want the best for us, but while we dream about that we will become a minority in our own homelands.
The “overreaction” is our culture and races immune system. It’s not always justified, but it certainly is something to be thoughtful about.
Yeah, I can understand the reaction, but you don’t want to make a leftist solution to a leftist problem. Group-identity is a communist ideal. Rugged individualism based on Western values, many of which did come from Christianity, is the culture I would choose. Dissent from everything and everyone, carve your own path, don’t do things because other people think you should.
You may choose that culture in thought, but I guarantee you don’t currently live in it. That’s why people like me react the way that we do.
The real world has been becoming a commie welfare state filled with subsidized immigration, nihilism, anti-Christian values, corruption, sexual perversion, and white guilt. And that is a big problem which didn’t happen organically and will need to be addressed.
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