As a Texan, I’d almost be willing to keep most of the families if we could send EVERYONE else north.
I don’t know about policy, but this will lead to so called white flight. It won’t just be whites but anyone with the economic means to leave. It will also lead to more remote work which will have an effect on commercial property; something that is already happening.
The thing is, the Democrats are so arrogant that they will choose this hill to die on when most of the people who vote for them do not agree with these illegal immigration policies. It’s as if they’ve forgotten that Trump won just a few years ago.
@twojarslave - good read.
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This is a perfect example of an article I will have to read a second time on a later date. I find myself nodding in agreement too much for my own liking, while also finding myself unable to identify serious faults in the author’s thinking.
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I thought it’d be up your alley. I speed-read it and will also probably give it a more careful read at a later date.
The author mentions religion and I believe it’s true that for many Americans their political beliefs are de facto religious beliefs. Thus, as he writes, an opposing opinion is treated as if it’s heretical. And this is where the politicians have succeeded in becoming more powerful; they have made Americans hate their fellow Americans. If someone says he is pro choice, a typical response is, “so you are OK with murdering babies?” This is an uneducated, uncivil, unproductive and moronic response. You go from criticism of the opinion to labeling the person a murderer. It’s no different than how the woke call anyone they disagree with a racist or homophobe or whatever. It then becomes acceptable to treat these people, these murderers, racists and antitrans as less than human. These same people who are fanatical about their beliefs are the same ones who talk about how they hate this country. Even the ones on the right politically talk about how we need a civil war or some other destructive event to stop the decline of this nation. It makes sense as every utopia started with an apocalypse. People think The Prince is a lesson for those in power to help them stay in power when in reality, given Machiavelli’s preference for republicanism, it’s a lesson for the masses to understand how they are controlled by those in power. There’s a reason why the Catholic Church banned it.
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Thanks for sharing. Both of those articles offered a very thoughtful perspective. I particularly liked this part of Gen. Bolduc’s essay.
"Why has this happened? One reason is that telling the truth is not commonly practiced in our society today, and it is due to the prevailing culture of self-interests, self-preservation, and power and control. In a society where material possessions and social standing often measure success, truth-telling can sometimes hinder reaching one’s goals.
Moreover, the rise of digital media and its anonymity have also contributed to a decline in truth-telling."
Meanwhile Israel has just declared war for the first time in my lifetime. I don’t know what is coming next, but war has been declared, and that’s a really big deal. World stability looks very bad right now compared to, say, the 1990’s.
Every generation sees the next as a disappointing change, and labels the change as regression. Then they die and the world continues advancing. Even if books are read on screens instead of pages.
Every generation also has its fringe members with counterculture views. They make a lot of noise, affect some minor change in the grand scheme and ultimately are lost to the louder sounds around them. We are seeing this happen to the CRT crowd, the sexualization of school libraries et cetera. The vast majority was simply unaware initially, not onboard.
And regarding the religious twist there have been tons of religions throughout history. They come and go too. Todays lore and myths are yesterdays literal beliefs, and todays literal beliefs will be tomorrows pantheon of classical mythology. Good life lessons (for the most part) taught through fantastical stories.
We are certainly in a period of shifting priorities, but this isn’t necessarily bad. Some people have a hard time embracing change but it’s not like we are being herded in to trains headed for gas showers. Life is reproducing and advancing through more time, advancements are being made across nearly every sector, we are arguably the wealthiest people the earth has ever seen and on and on.
You might want to read a history book. Or just look at North Korea, Iran or Chicago.
@Njord I’m not sure where you live, but the broad narrative you present doesn’t seem to be holding true where I live. All I need to do is take a walk around my town to or read local news to conclude that your lofty vision of social trends doesn’t apply to my area.
In fact, I would argue that it is precisely the sort of aloof historical perspective you hold that impedes society from real self-reflection. I see this post of yours as an expected outgrowth of the notions you sprouted in the Bud Light thread, where you suggested that my concerns about the harmful effects of teaching children that they might be, can be and should be members of the opposite sex were without any real basis.
In simple terms, you are once again ineptly explaining away legitimate concerns, just like you did in previous threads.
History as a large body of evidence supports the general advancement of humanity throughout time - and over obstacles.
One off shitty situations are drops in the ocean and not worth framing the larger body with.
Yeah, he mentions this inconsequential counterculture but seems to omit that counterculture would apply to Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and Hitler. They were pretty inconsequential.
I would argue history shows that it repeats itself. The only advancements are in how we take advantage of one another. The Romans had bread and circuses, today it’s social media.
I live in Texas.
I travel significantly.
I would suggest you are chicken-littling your world view.
I said multiple times in the Bud light thread that I don’t support trans book readings to children, nor a sexual agenda of any kind in a child’s library. I did suggest that trannies drinking bud light aren’t the end of your world.
Maybe your penchant for misquoting and improperly overlaying context is part of your paranoid outlook?
Do you believe our quality of life is on par with ancient Roman times?
I don’t think I misquoted you or distorted the context in the Bud Lite thread. Our words are still there in that thread for anyone to read and draw their own conclusions. You were there, as you are here, attempting to diminish valid and specific concerns.
To give you credit, it could be that I’m entirely off-base with this particular thread. Perhaps we are, in fact, still marching towards the broad, sunlit uplands. Time will be the judge of that, but for now I can only observe the worsening local conditions that happen to coincide with the implementation of progressive policy priorities, now spanning generations, now being implemented at an accelerated pace across our land.
For the record, I’m considering fleeing my area to move to yours, but a few other states are higher on the list. I can also plainly observe that the number of places good people can flee to is also diminishing.
Nobody is coming to help the USA. We’re the end of the line for whatever freedom is to mean in the 21st century.
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Define quality of life. Misery doesn’t seem to be on the decline. But unlike the Romans, we have big pharma to rescue us.
Our words are still there. And I plainly state displeasure in an intentional indoctrination of trans or any sexuality at an early age. In plain English, as a direct statement. Separate from believing the world is ending because transvestites exist in general, which I do think is ridiculous.
I don’t see the point in continuing if you’re going to ignore direct statements in order to shade context and responses.