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2019-10-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

[National Review] Migrants from Honduras approach the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, December 26, 2018. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters) Open borders and sanctuary cities are blurring the distinction between illegal immigrants and Americans, and activist judges are eroding the Bill of Rights.

The American Founders institutionalized the best of a long Western tradition of representative government, with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These contracts outlined the rare privileges and responsibilities of new American citizens.

Yet the concept of citizenship is being assaulted on the premodern side by the legal blending of mere residency with citizenship.

Estimates on the number of
ILLEGAL ALIENS
undocumented American residents range from 11 million to more than 20 million. The undocumented are becoming legally indistinguishable from citizens and enjoy exemption from federal immigration law in some 500 sanctuary jurisdictions. An illegal resident of California will pay substantially less tuition at a California public university than will a U.S. citizen of another state.

Multiculturalism has reduced the idea of e pluribus unum to a regressive tribalism. Americans often seem to owe their first allegiance to those who look like they do. Citizens cannot even agree over once-hallowed and shared national holidays such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July.

It is eerie how such current American retribalization resembles the collapse of Rome, as Goths, Huns, and Vandals all squabbled among themselves over what was left of 1,200 years of Roman citizenship ‐ eager to destroy what they could neither create nor emulate.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-08 08:38|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 As your predecessor said "O Tempora! O mores!

Not too long before they killed him.

Posted by Bugs Schwarzeneggar3591 2019-10-08 09:00|| 2019-10-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I expect in the next Constitution, Article I will be Citizens and Others. We'll all be born residents, citizenship will be earned by exam, taking of oath of loyalty, and registration with the militia with the fundamental right to own and bear arms. Only citizens may vote or hold elected or appointed governmental positions.

Posted by Javiper Elmusonter1375 2019-10-08 10:31|| 2019-10-08 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ ooops, was me.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-08 10:32|| 2019-10-08 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds very Starship Trooper-ish, Procop.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-10-08 12:11|| 2019-10-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 ...only you don't have to 'serve' just enroll. It's called 'skin in the game'. Of course, if you are called upon and refuse, you're shipped back to resident status (or convicted of commission of high crimes). When you are release from the militia, usually age 45 you return to resident status as well, unless you have the equivalent of a DD-214 with an original discharge status of general or honorable service. Those keep it for life unless they commit one of those high crimes thingies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-08 12:29|| 2019-10-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Kind of ironic that the assault on citizenship is coming from the left.

Citizenship is the foundation of a democratic republic and the antidote to slavery, to monarchy, to oligarchy.

Citizenship is what the civil rights movement was all about.

Today's woke morons have no understanding of citizenship, civil rights or republican or democratic values. They're just stooges for oligarchs.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-08 13:13|| 2019-10-08 13:13|| Front Page Top

#7 For the left, it's always been about distributing the fruits of one group's efforts to an undeserving, but malleable second group.

Only now, it's not solely about property, but the patrimony itself.

Posted by charger 2019-10-08 16:30|| 2019-10-08 16:30|| Front Page Top

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