I hear you… however I must caution you to understand
the difference between the political and the economic…
it is quite clear far too many people mix and match the two
distinct and different ism’s…the reason I offer up this caution is
because of a phrase you used… Neo-liberals… are you using this
in the economic phrase “Neoliberalism” or are you using this
in a political sense? it is important to keep the two distinct
and separate because therein lies the failure of say, soviet communism…
they, Lenin and Stalin, they tried to stretch an economic theory into
a political theory and it fail, a rather spectacular failure to be sure…
and that failure has tainted communism… but we must understand
what the failure was…
we cannot use an economic theory as a political theory…
this is done all the time and in fact what has happened in the U.S…
the economic theory of democracy has gone underneath the economic
theory of capitalism…the political has become subservient to the economic…
to the detriment of both… we view the United States as an economic entity
whereas our founding fathers saw it as a political entity… and therein lies the great
problem we are facing…
the real question becomes this: what does it mean to be an American?
I view the questions you raised from a different standpoint then you,
questions like democracy, open borders, globalism, “radical” feminism,
radical individualism, multiracial societies and foreign immigration…
is American still America if whites are no longer a majority?
and the answer is, of course it is…
you view America through a certain lens as do I…my lens is far
different then yours because I don’ see white Americans as being
somehow superior to other races or ethnic minorities…for example,
America has always, always been a multiracial society…I am Irish-English…
in the 1820’s to the start of the civil war, the Irish was the most despised
nationality in America, bar none. it was quite common for signs to be
in stores, bars, restaurants “Irish not allowed”… simple and to the point…
the Irish was the single most discriminated against nationality in America for over
30 years…it wasn’t until the Irish entered various police forces en masse that the Irish
became part of America and that was in the 1870’s to 1900…now tell me, what has
the Irish contributed to America over the last 120 or so years? what haven’t they
contributed? in every aspect of America life, the Irish have help create modern America…
without the Irish, America would have been a whole lot poorer…
your idea’s, your viewpoint would keep the Irish out and we would have been the worse
for it…
I am a amature historian… I love reading about history…
Rome was a falling society around 270 to 300 AD… what saved it?
Rome brought in various tribes into the Roman society… The Visigoths for example
were one tribe that Rome brought into the empire peacefully…it was known as the
“volkerwanderung” “the Wandering of the peoples”
this stabilized the Roman empire to the point where Rome lasted 170 years past
the point where it should have collapsed… the mass migration of gothic tribes
allowed the Roman empire to last another several generations…
did the “Roman’s” ever become a minority? no, but is that important?
no… it depends upon how you define the “Romans”? how do you view
the Romans and more importantly, how did they identify themselves?
the incoming tribes wanted to be Romans, they wanted the higher standard
of living the Romans has… does this sound familiar to immigration today?
I believe in open borders because I don’t think of people as being
different…we human beings have certain needs that must be met…
we need love and food and water and shelter and security and health
care and education… all those basic needs are what every single person
on planet earth needs…the great damage isn’t from the common person
seeking a better life, no the great damage comes from those who already
have the basics and they want more, more power and money and
fame and influence…the great damage done to America isn’t being done
by the average immigrant, but is done by the wealthy like the Koch brothers
and Sheldon Anderson… those who contribute to the dangerous and damaging
Neoliberalism that infects the landscape of America…
but once again it depends upon how you view America…that is the
criteria that is needed to decide what is “right” or “wrong” for America…
Kropotkin