If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will
(By David
Frum)
I. general
gist of the article (which provides many useful data to support each statement).
1. Immigration is a mess.
2. Immigration policy is a mess.
3. Immigration policies are outdated, decades old, and
do not help solving current social and economic problems.
4. America badly needs meaningful immigration policies.
5. The right wing politicians use immigration to
agitate economically squeezed middle class and guide voters toward authoritarian
solutions to social and economic problems.
6. The left wing politicians must step in and offer
meaningful immigration policies, including certain restrictions and
limitations, or the country may lean more and more toward fascist-like state of
governing.
II. Some commentaries
1. Imagine the U.S. economy is so strong that all Americans
have a good job, and many employers are struggling to find workers. No one
would even think about building borders or slowing down immigration – legal or illegal.
The meaningful state of immigration depends completely on the state of the
economy.
2. Over the last three decades American middle class
was losing its prosperous sate because the economy has been shifting from using
money to making things and services to using money for making money. Less and
less Americans could participate in the process of wealth creation. In the end,
millions of Americans felt squeezed, economically degraded, “forgotten” (or
literally, forgotten).
3. No immigration
policy can solve the fundamental economic disbalance of the American economy.
However, immigration has become a scapegoat for the right wing politicians who
blame immigration for the economic decline of the middle class families.
4. No immigration
policy can solve the fundamental economic disbalance of the American economy.
However, since immigration has become a scapegoat for the right wing
politicians who blame immigration for the economic decline of the middle class
families, the left wing politicians must find the right strategy to regain the control
of the discussion on the immigration. Sadly, so far they have no idea how to do
that (David Frum’s piece has some).
5. Overall, politicians on both sides have no idea how
to address the root of all current
social and economic problems – which is the
disconnect between the current mechanism of the wealth production and the
ability of the masses to participate in the wealth production.
6. Overall, politicians on both sides are not smart or
visionary enough to even design their own activities in accordance with their
own long-term goals. For example (taken from an old post on the matter), in
terms of boosting birth rate of native-born Americans: #5.
The Republicans wage a war on women,
specifically, on white women. In their “defense”, they do not understand
that they do it. Recently we all had another confirmation of how stupid (or
idiotic) the Republicans are (again, in the original sense of the words “stupid” and
“idiotic”). It happened when American
representatives defended the use of the artificial milk for babies. No sane
person would ever agree that an artificial milk is better for infants than the
natural mother’s milk. The very goal of the artificial milk was using it when a
mother could not produce enough milk for her baby. Then things got out of
hands. The result is the
rise of allergies, reproductive disorders, immune system deficiencies, and
organ damage.
But the main
point is that the Republicans support measures which defeat one of their own
main goals – which is to increase the population of white people. If they would
be smart enough they would support every measure other developed countries
already have, such as a paid maternity leave, paid kindergarten, etc. Even
abortions! The reason the Republicans do not do any of this is because they are
afraid of the rise of non-white population who would benefit from all that
social support for women. In reality, non-white families do not rely much on
that type of support because those families are traditionally large, and family
members traditionally support each other. Who would benefit the most from all
forms of a women social support is white women! But the Republicans are too
stupid or idiotic to see that (again, in the original sense of the words “stupid” and
“idiotic”).
III. Further reading
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