OpLibertas on Nostr: Thoughts on immigration: It’s a wonderful aspect of Americanism that we can accept ...
Thoughts on immigration:
It’s a wonderful aspect of Americanism that we can accept people from all over the world, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion and we can absorb them while allowing their unique cultures to survive and thrive
But part of Americanism is to not let those cultures overtake the values of America. We can debate endlessly about what exactly those values are but generally they’re classical liberal ideas about governance, freedom, individualism, the scientific method, and open-mindedness
Many people will laugh as they think of a hillbilly or a liberal elitist as being open-minded but on the grand scheme of history we are a wildly open-minded and accepting nation
Those two archetypes have far more in common for the fact that they can peacefully coexist with mutually exclusive ideologies
The rest of world can have 99% in common and get stuck on one minor detail that causes them to fight and kill each other
It is a small segment of the population who commits these violent acts, but enough to reverberate for hundreds and even thousands of years
Those are the segments of the world population we must limit from taking over because they’re close-minded anti-American values and their violence will destroy us
There is also the issue of how many immigrants America can financially and geographically support to maintain not only American values but also to maintain a flourishing society that can take on more immigrants down the ground
It’s not anti-American to want to maintain American values and prevent an invasion of your nation. If the nation falls, the ability to take on future generations of immigrants will cease, and immigrants would likely not want to come to what the nation turns into
If you want to help immigrants, then do so thoughtfully and responsibly, so that future generations may enjoy the same benefits
It’s a wonderful aspect of Americanism that we can accept people from all over the world, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion and we can absorb them while allowing their unique cultures to survive and thrive
But part of Americanism is to not let those cultures overtake the values of America. We can debate endlessly about what exactly those values are but generally they’re classical liberal ideas about governance, freedom, individualism, the scientific method, and open-mindedness
Many people will laugh as they think of a hillbilly or a liberal elitist as being open-minded but on the grand scheme of history we are a wildly open-minded and accepting nation
Those two archetypes have far more in common for the fact that they can peacefully coexist with mutually exclusive ideologies
The rest of world can have 99% in common and get stuck on one minor detail that causes them to fight and kill each other
It is a small segment of the population who commits these violent acts, but enough to reverberate for hundreds and even thousands of years
Those are the segments of the world population we must limit from taking over because they’re close-minded anti-American values and their violence will destroy us
There is also the issue of how many immigrants America can financially and geographically support to maintain not only American values but also to maintain a flourishing society that can take on more immigrants down the ground
It’s not anti-American to want to maintain American values and prevent an invasion of your nation. If the nation falls, the ability to take on future generations of immigrants will cease, and immigrants would likely not want to come to what the nation turns into
If you want to help immigrants, then do so thoughtfully and responsibly, so that future generations may enjoy the same benefits