My exploration of the themes in the last blog post led me to two series of videos by the same filmmaker, Peter Santenello. I have spent hours watching his videos on one group among the “ultra-Orthodox” Jews (we prefer “Torah Jews”) in Brooklyn, and his videos on the Amish and Mennonites. Here are links to the two playlists.
Both groups have their own versions of “plain” living, living with a whole lot of rules, lifestyles that differ substantially from the cultural mainstream. Both groups display lives of intense meaning and intense personal connection. I believe there is a strong connection between those two sentences.
Both groups have rejected the CoVID injections, and both groups are experiencing rapid population growth. The Amish claim to have a retention rate of 85% (people who remain in the church where they were raised). In contrast, a population survey of American Jews in 2000-2001 found that American Orthodox Jews have a retention rate of just 42%.
Both groups express their profound gratitude and love for America. The Anabaptists also make it clear that they are pacifists. They believe they are not permitted to kill, even in self-defense. This raises again a difficult question in political philosophy: how can you preserve such a beautiful lifestyle if you are not willing to kill those who would destroy you?
I am starting to suspect a possible answer to this question, which may be paraphrased thus: just look at us. We continue to thrive and grow through our faith, as it says in Chabakuk 2:4: “The righteous man shall live by his faith.”
Jews have a story that when the king of France asked the philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal for evidence of a modern miracle, the latter replied, “The Jews”: that is, the survival of this outcaste group. Perhaps someone will say something similar one day regarding the “plain” people as well.
Hat tip Nitzakhon (now recovering at home): “Entire U.S. supply of diesel engine oil may be wiped out in 8 weeks… no more oil until 2023 due to “Force Majeure” additive chemical shortages” No diesel engine oil means no trucks, which means no food. Are you ready?
“Suit hits Loudoun schools’ ‘mafia tactics’ against students and parents” What is going on in northern Virginia? Perhaps another home for the deep state.
“Lead Secret Service Agent Will Testify Trump Did Not Try to Commandeer Car on January 6” It’s too late. The lie got halfway around the world while the truth was still putting on its pants. All the brainwashed “educated” masses believe it.
The misplaced morality of the left: “Murder by malnutrition: Vegan mother is found guilty over death of 18-month-old son who weighed just 17lb when he died after being fed diet of only raw fruit and vegetables“
This time series, which should have been included in my economic report, depicts the ratio of the net worth of households and nonprofits (excluding for-profit businesses) to GDP. The ratio remained below 4:1 for decades. It almost hit 5:1 leading into the financial crisis. It is now over 6:1. That means we have a lot of paper wealth without the GDP to back it up.
The best revenge? Being happy! “Clarence Thomas: Driving Libs Crazy“
Victor Davis Hanson: “The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind” Oh boy, do I know that type! “Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them.”
We don’t do science very often, but I found this interesting – enough to make (so far) the only comment on the story: “The Elemental Composition of the Human Body“
Here is the cover art I created for a book I began to write long ago, “The Suicide of the West”. The artwork is copyrighted by me.
It depicts a crumbling America under assault from the left and from the right, being undermined by Islam, and having an undetermined relationship with Christianity. This relationship depends on two things: what is America, and what is Christianity?
New America will be what America should have been: a nation committed to the preservation of Judeo-Christian Western civilization. Such a statement belongs in its declaration of independence. The Western experiment in civic nationalism has failed. Its opposite, ethnic nationalism, has caused the slaughter of tens of millions. New America is dedicated to cultural nationalism.
America was founded largely as a haven for marginalized groups of Christians, including Protestants fleeing Catholic persecution, Catholics fleeing Protestant persecution, and an endless supply of small Anabaptist and Pietist churches. The heritage of these latter groups deeply impresses the past and present of the mid-Atlantic region, where the colonial past is still visible.
The Wikipedia article on Anabaptists states: “Anabaptists view themselves as primarily citizens of the kingdom of God, not of earthly governments. As committed followers of Jesus, they seek to pattern their life after his.” The article quotes a letter written in 1524: “True Christian believers are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter … Neither do they use worldly sword or war, since all killing has ceased with them.”
It is fair to inquire whether a nation composed of people with such beliefs can long endure. Survival of an individual or of a group requires the maintenance of boundaries, and the enforcement of those boundaries, be they geographical (national borders) or cultural.
The beliefs of the Anabaptists seem exceptionally close to the original teachings of Jesus: “Do not resist evil; turn the other cheek” (Matthew 5:39); “Love your enemies” (Matthew 5:44); “Judge not, lest you be judged” (Matthew 7:1); “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36). The last of these, regarding a kingdom not of this world, is particularly troublesome in light of these two verses from the Hebrew Bible: “Your kingdom is a kingdom of all worlds” (Psalms 145:13); “The whole earth is full of His glory” (Isaiah 6:3).
History is full of nominally Christian nations and empires that were powerful, yet illiterate, not truly understanding their heritage. It is probably not a coincidence that as the printing press allowed the general population to read scripture directly, pious Christians became more spiritual and more detached from worldly affairs.
I can detect the echoes of this movement in modern conservative Christianity. Blog comment sections are filled with highly upvoted comments to the effect: “I am ready for the rapture. Jesus, take me home now!” If America’s founding fathers had thought the same way, we would never have had an America.
Even though our souls are eternal, and this physical world represents but a drop in eternity, the question must still be asked: why did God place us in this physical world? Was the purpose solely to determine if we would give the correct answer to certain theological dogmatic questions? No! We are here to move the world in a spiritual dimension; and that requires interacting with the world, not shunning it.
The other area that requires our investigation is the ambivalent relationship between Christianity and the law. Christians whom I have read have written of their immense relief at being liberated from “the curse of the Mosaic law”.
Let us set aside the fact that “the Mosaic law” is not Moses’s law. It is actually God’s law, intended to be observed by only one people: the Israelites (together with the converts that choose to join them). The Torah was never intended by God for all of humanity. Consequently, there is nothing to be liberated from. The only laws God designated for all of humanity are those given to Noah and his progeny.
Reading the writings of Christian believers, I cannot avoid the conclusion that they agree with John Lennon: “All you need is love”. Any manifestation of social friction, they seem to think, is the sole responsibility of Christian believers, who failed to express their love with sufficient enthusiasm. In consequence, I have observed many nominal Christians groveling, debasing themselves, their culture, their society, their nation, their civilization, in the futile attempt to appease evil.
When candidate Donald Trump began discussing his immigration policies in 2016, his supporter Newt Gingrich explained that, of course, Trump obviously could not be serious regarding deporting all the 22 million illegal aliens; it just wouldn’t be right to the invaders (forget about justice for the native people). In the Jewish view, this is a case of mercy overcoming justice.
Christians protesting the starvation of Terry Schindler submitted meekly to arrest, not attempting seriously to save her life. ANTIFA and BLM are not meek; they are permitted to publish terroristic threats and to create mayhem.
An election was stolen. A small number of people came to the US Capitol to protest peacefully. One and a half years later, political prisoners are still in jail, being tortured. One cancer patient has been denied his medicine; one prisoner with Celiac disease has been denied a gluten-free diet, and is wasting away.
Children are being corrupted in school by perverts, and they are being turned against one another on the basis of race and sex.
The response of Christians is spiritual. They pray vigorously, but they will not act. Acting as if enforcement of written law is paramount, is considered “legalism”. This is a philosophy that is seen as obsolete, superseded, “Old Testament”, “Old Covenant”.
I wonder by which Biblical laws Christians see themselves bound. Some Christians state candidly that they feel bound by no Biblical laws whatsoever, although I presume an exception is made for two commandments proclaimed as universal by Jesus: “And you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5); “And you shall love your fellow as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). Other Christians include the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-14).
The rest of the commandments in the Torah are dismissed as strange, somewhat like the massive United States Federal Register: complex and irrelevant.
What about the commandment about not bribing a judge? Is that obsolete? How about the commandments against gossip? Are they obsolete? How about the commandments prohibiting incest? Are they obsolete? What about homosexuality, transvestitism, or transsexualism? Looking at the news reveals the price of setting aside God’s eternal wisdom.
There is a hard-edged response on the far-right fringe of the Christian community. It is often found under designations like “militant”. That alarms me. Theocracies have their own set of cruelties. I do not advocate for an American theocracy.
I want a tolerant nation with a dominant central culture, to which smaller groups assimilate publicly. This nation must be willing to enforce all of its boundaries, for as the old Jewish teaching goes, “He who is merciful to the cruel, will wind up being cruel to the merciful.” A wise president recently said, “A nation without borders is not a nation.”
This nation, New America, must shoot people who cross its borders without permission. It must ban same-sex marriage. It must protect its schoolchildren from perverts. It must ensure that it is not governed by a “coalition of the fringes”, be they excessively poor and dependent, or excessively wealthy and manipulative. It must expel those who will not conform to its culture. Its constitution will not match the current Constitution of the United States.
Its people must understand that the best way to lay up treasure in heaven is to engage fully in this world, to act to defeat evil. It must gain new respect for the rule of law, as an expression of God’s will for his people.
Two hundred forty-six years ago, many British colonists in America opposed secession, preferring to reform the monarchy. If your sentimental nature causes you to oppose secession for New America, then you are insisting on the retention of a malevolent cancer that is warring against God almighty, and is winning the culture war. To save ourselves, and the light of Judeo-Christian Western civilization, we must separate.
A word to my Christian friends… I hope you have perceived by now in this blog that I have great respect for some of the teachings of Jesus. They give one tremendous spiritual strength. I disagree with other such teachings. It is also entirely possible that I misunderstood some of the teachings I quoted. Please feel free to respond in the comments section below.
If you do so respond, I will ask you one more question. Are you willing to explain to your fellow Christians how they are obliged to support national borders and cultural boundaries; how they are misunderstanding true Christianity? I am still awaiting a small popular book by a Christian author on that theme. If one of you writes such a book, please let me know so I can feature it here at this blog.
Yesterday’s comment by Kynarion Hellenis has me very upset and angry. I am relieved that he survived his ordeal, but there are important lessons to be learned from this episode.
Our old world is gone.
Take nothing for granted.
First, a reminder to the readership: I read all your comments, even though I do not have time to respond to everyone. Your triumphs I enjoy; your obstacles frustrate me. I learn from you as much as you learn from me. I feel more in tune with you than I do with most of my family members and colleagues.
I have read many stories like KH’s story in blog comment sections over the past two years, but this hits closer to home. We now know that what we thought of as the “healthcare” system is no such thing. They are, like the government, an institution with the power to channel your money (and thus your work) to the already wealthy and powerful. For your own good, you must drop any sentimental pretense that they actually care about you and want to save your life.
Our own family practice informed us that they will not prescribe hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. At the bottom of this blog, there are many links in the “Health and nutrition” section explaining a home treatment protocol for CoVID, such as the AAPS protocol. You can do a telemedicine consult using tools such as those provided by AFLDS and have the medicine delivered to your local pharmacy, or to your mailbox.
The important thing is to act now. You must have the medicine at home ready to go. You cannot write in a comment here that you or a family member are not feeling well, and what should you do about it? The thing to do about it is to prepare. Now. You do not wait until mealtime to buy food from the supermarket; you have it at home. You do not wait until you get into an accident to buy care insurance; you buy it before you need it. The same is true for CoVID preparation. According to the articles I have read written by doctors, most of us can self-treat if we are prepared. Please do it now. I have given you the tools, but only you can make the choice to act.
These are the end times for America. A maudlin attachment to images from the previous century is as dangerous as the actions of that mother from Buddhist legend, who carried around her dead baby with her for weeks, unable to acknowledge what had happened. I do not celebrate Independence Day or any other national holiday, because America is dead. The monstrosity growing on our soil does not deserve the allegiance of God-fearing people who follow the principles of America’s founders.
There are two possible paths to survival for those of us who cherish the best of Western civilization.
We separate/secede and form New America.
The left takes 6 injections, as the Dutch are proposing, and they die.
At the time this blog started, I was focused more on option 1. Now I am gradually thinking that option 2 is realistic. It is tragic, of course, but it is clear that patriots are unwilling to fight for America. That does not mean that option 2 will be peaceful. A dying predator can be extremely dangerous. As always, we will be blamed for the imprudent choices of the left. In the words of Ayn Rand: “They hate the good, because they are good.”
In either case, we must construct very carefully the constitution (in every sense) of a new society that is worthy to carry on the best of Western civilization. At some point I will return to that topic. I am considering publishing some of those thoughts on Substack:
That is a prestigious bit of real estate on the internet, home to many original thinkers banned on the establishment websites (as well as a number of leftists who loathe us). We shall see.
“More preliminary evidence that the vaccines have led to a spike in deaths” From some life insurance companies, death benefit payouts increased 80%+ compared to one year earlier.
Destroying the family and substituting the state in its place. Just like the hostility over parents’ concerns about the curriculum.
The White House’s COVID vaccine promo video for children. Note: there isn’t a single parent to be found.
“We are allowing the state to insert itself into the family and make decisions by mandating vaccination.” -Dr. Robert Malone pic.twitter.com/C1qPZVtcYn
Stew Peters with Dr. Malone – 44 minutes: “MRNA Inventor Faces Tough Questions as Jab Deaths Explode“
“Supreme Court could end Biden’s vaccine mandates” I believe arguments will be heard Friday, January 7. I am not optimistic – I think SCOTUS is compromised – but pray.
This man was kicked off Twitter for this observation. The now unplayable video showed a PBS reporter interviewing an Amazon researcher about new AI software that was trained to recognize the sex of a person from images. However, she was embarrassed that the software “mistakenly” identified Michelle Obama as male…
Letting the mask slip: “Medical Ethics Prof on CNN: ‘Penalize’ Unvaccinated Americans—Deny Them Affordable Health Insurance” I can’t print what I want to have happen to this alleged “bioethicist”.
“Deputy DA Who Opposed Mandates and Died of Coronavirus Was Unvaccinated: Husband” That is not my question. I demand to know – was she given therapeutics – or far more likely – DENIED them? Her death means more money to the system.
“An estimated 10 million people PER DAY are set on irreversible countdown to vaccine death that could exterminate BILLIONS if not stopped in the next year” Very detailed analysis. Important graphic below.
“Alcoholics Anonymous group censured for Reciting the Lord’s Prayer” It is essential that the enemy (should I say the Enemy?) cut us off from God. On this topic, did anyone else notice this? In the 2016 presidential campaign, Melania Trump led one of the crowds in a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer; Donald won. In 2020, Melania did not recite the Lord’s Prayer before a crowd, to the best of my knowledge; and – you know the rest. Interesting data point.
One small step for Texas: “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells his National Guard Biden is NOT their ‘commander-in-chief’ as he sues the White House over ‘unconstitutional’ military vaccine mandate“
“A Record Number Of Americans Just Quit Their Job, As Job Openings Surpass Unemployed Workers By A Record 3.7 Million” 4.5 million Americans quit? Or did they die?
“The Year of Living Stupidly” “How long will America continue witnessing our unalienable rights and political freedoms weakened?” Until America dies, because you will do nothing to stop this.
“The Joe Sixpacks of America must demand their country back“
Why are all the political eggs being placed in Joe Manchin’s basket to protect us from Build Back Better? Why aren’t patriots in toss-up states such as New Hampshire, Montana, and others with Democrat senators like Maggie Hassan and Jon Tester bombarding them with phone calls and showing up en masse at their local offices?
Why aren’t patriots abandoning the ego-driven and narcissistic Facebook and Twitter platforms?
Since President Brandon has now delegated/abdicated the COVID solution to the states, why can’t the governors take the lead to solve problems? Or follow the lead of good men like Ron DeSantis? The Constitution says there is a lot of power in the states but, while Democrats lust after that power, Republicans just sit there.
Why don’t people start demanding a reckoning that compares the number of abortions in the USA last year to the number of COVID deaths? (Betcha abortions beat COVID by 2:1.)
Where is the outrage at the Swamp’s blatant corruption? Shouldn’t more people be angry, rather than cynical? Why are 50% of congresscritters millionaires compared to less than 2% of the rest of us? And worse, why do they start like the rest of us and end up as millionaires? …
Been on a long flight lately? The draconian mask mandates are stifling. …on a 9-hour flight from Rome to Atlanta in October, I was awakened twice to adjust my mask. Why must we wear masks inside all air terminals and not inside all buildings in “free” states like Florida and South Carolina, for example? I know Brandon ordered it, but it’s stupid.
Are we suffering from Dynamic Apathy? Everyone must know we are no longer at the precipice of the abyss; we are in it… Why aren’t we doing what the left did last year, by taking to the streets to make our voices heard, although without the bloodshed, looting, and arson?
Why are we allowing ourselves to be terrorized by a virus with an average 1% mortality rate? FDR was right: the only thing we need to fear is fear itself. Also, even as we fight against the vaccine mandates, why aren’t we yelling from the treetops that it’s time to focus on treatments?
We hear that “saving lives” is a focal point of government. Who among us thinks immortality is achievable?
What are the differences between the seasonal flu, COVID and its variants, and the common cold?
This may be the only blog in which you will find Britney Spears and Immanuel Kant mentioned in the same article. The reason is my concern regarding autonomy.
Britney Spears (image: Wikipedia)
“Baby One More Time” and “Oops I Did It Again” Britney Spears is in the news at age 39, some 20 years after her greatest hits. She is seeking to end a long-standing conservatorship by her father. Discussion of this issue online is passionate, with most people supporting Spears’s bid for independence.
Her father’s conservatorship began in the context of some reckless behavior a long time ago. However, if she has a disabling mental illness, it has not stopped her from having a career as an entertainer, making a lot of money for a lot of people.
I have not heard anyone allege that Spears is suicidal or homicidal. She once shaved her head, but so what? Many of us have incidents in our own pasts we would rather forget. Perhaps she spends a lot of money, or drinks a lot – I do not know; but so do many others. I would also like to know the reason why she is compelled to have an IUD inside her against her will. If she has too many children she cannot care for – well, so do many others.
It is hard for a person to grow up and learn responsibility without being given the opportunity to make mistakes and not be saved from them. This is part of the essence of autonomy.
For Immanuel Kant, acting autonomously – subject to no external coercion – was at the heart of ethics.
Immanuel Kant (image: Wikipedia)
Kant believed that no decision is truly ethical unless it is completely uncoerced – even by God! One must arrive at one’s decision solely through the use of practical reason (that is, informed by experience and history). The action you undertake must be one that, at least in theory, could be undertaken by everyone else as well.
With all due respect for Kant, my knowledge of practical reason informs me that most people are capable of a great deal of rationalization. I am happy that God provided my ancestors with an instruction book called the Torah (Hebrew for instruction or teaching).
Kant would say that I am not acting ethically when I am obeying God’s commandments for His sake. Of course, I can reply and say that as Creator and King of the universe, God has the right to command whatever He chooses.
Maimonides urged a middle path. He said that Israel is compelled to obey God’s commandments; nevertheless, we should expend every effort to understand the rationale behind them. It turns out, not surprisingly, that many of them, the so-called ethical commandments, satisfy the generalizability criterion for categorical imperatives (actions that must be taken, or avoided, for their own sake).
This is where planning for a new America becomes difficult. How can someone like me insist on the importance of Judeo-Christian Biblical values in a society without trampling on autonomy, which is just as important to me?
The answer, I believe, is to be able to find a community of like-minded people. I agree with the Qur’an on just one point, stated in the Meccan (early, peaceful) verses: there must be no compulsion in religion. If others wish to engage in activity that the Torah describes as abominations, I will not stop them; but neither will I be compelled to approve those activities.
The only way for all parties to be content is to separate into two nations. One nation can be the nation of decadence and abomination; the other nation will be the nation of ordered liberty. People who find themselves living in the wrong nation can immigrate to the other nation, but without voting rights for a period of time, such as ten years, until they assimilate to the new culture. Those who do not assimilate will be repatriated.
Let me explain. You have dropped into the middle of an ongoing discussion among old friends who met in the comments section at Front Page Magazine. We know each other, and have been discussing many things since this blog launched one year ago.
As I said two days ago, I believe the United States of America is finished as a republic. There is a landmass, and an ongoing government that rules without the consent of the governed: hence the urgent need to replace the population.
It seems clear that the population living in this landmass is irreconcilably divided; that half of the population views the other half as deplorable and “literally worse than Hitler”; that the former half delights in reading stories about suffering in the other half, or inflicting suffering in the other half.
In 2016, 93% of the District of Columbia voted for Hillary Clinton; 89% in Prince George’s County, MD and Bronx County, NY; 87% in Manhattan; 86% in San Francisco. In 2017, St. Louis suffered 66 homicides per 100,000 population; in Baltimore, 56 per 100,000; in Detroit and New Orleans, 40 per 100,000. I expect that when homicide numbers come out for 2020, they will be much worse.
It is my goal to get defensible borders for a new America that will protect Western civilization from its many enemies, including “Americans”. That is the purpose of the maps that have appeared in this blog from time to time, and are maintained in the right margin of this page.
What should the borders of New America be? Although I appreciate the criticism of James Wesley Rawles’s “American Redoubt” given by some commenters, this was one source for my thinking. Here is his map.
James Wesley Rawles’s “American Redoubt”, from survivalblog.com
His argument for limiting the size of the redoubt to this region is that these mountainous areas are more defensible. That is a serious consideration.
The first map in that article has been updated at readers’ request.
You wanted scores and a legend – and you got it! Those scores are aggregates of measurements of 7 variables:
the Cook Partisan Voting Index, which measures how far left or right of center a state is;
fertility rate;
arable land per capita;
violent crime rate;
homicide rate;
unemployment rate;
net migration rate.
If you demand the exact formula, be prepared for a lot of mathematics…!
The 7 highest scoring states are Idaho, Utah, North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. This forms a contiguous landmass overlapping substantially with the redoubt, and could serve as the core for a New America.
This region is landlocked. Is that a problem? How do landlocked countries fare in GDP (PPP) per capita? In the rankings, the top country is Liechtenstein – landlocked; the third country is Luxembourg – landlocked; and the seventh country is Switzerland – landlocked. They all have a higher GDP (PPP) per capita than the USA. These countries have nowhere near the size and resources of the seven states listed above.
For comparison, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia are landlocked as well. Hungary is doing so well in regaining its sovereignty that the EU now feels threatened!
Several readers have drawn attention to the divisions within states. Even the largest, most leftist states often have large rural areas that are conservative. Below is my partial county map from the 2016 election, depicting only the counties in which the winner received at least 2/3 of the vote. In this map, as above, I use the traditional color scheme in which red is left, blue is right. The darkness of the color corresponds to the percent vote margin.
Clearly, a New America could draw support from eastern Washington and Oregon, as desired by Rawles; northeastern California; northern Nevada; northwestern Arizona; northwestern and eastern Colorado; Kansas; Oklahoma; much of Texas northeast of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande valley; parts of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana; downstate Illinois; the Tennessee River valley and up through Appalachia; and most of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
My previous blog on quality of life in the states, linked above, includes a list of 21 counties or county-equivalents from which the remainder of those states could secede and gain political self-control. That in turn could greatly affect the grades of the states listed in this blog post: https://surakblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/24/grading-the-states/
That linked blog post indicates that despite the conservative political leanings of much of the old South, it is plagued by violence. That explains why the scores for those states were not higher.
All the maps in the world mean very little unless the new entity is willing to enforce its border. Dennis Prager points out the terrible damage done by John Lennon’s song “Imagine”, with its utopian borderless world. While social justice warriors are certain that it is immoral for America to enforce its border, they dare not convey that message to China, India, Japan, or Russia. “Imagine”, if you will, any of those countries allowing themselves to be swarmed by 22 million invaders.
The best first line of defense for a country is a border wall. China’s Great Wall worked successfully. The only reason China was invaded from the north is because a frustrated general ordered the opening of a gate in that wall.
America’s partial wall is not complete, and it is not as tall as China’s wall. The next question for patriots is this: what do you do when an army comes to breach your wall?
For Ann Coulter, the answer was obvious; American armed forces have no higher obligation than to prevent the invasion of the homeland. She was right. This is not a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. No commander-in-chief has chosen to deploy the military to protect our own country. Instead, the Border Patrol act as welcome guides, shipping invaders deep into America’s interior at taxpayer expense. In other words, we are subsidizing our own destruction.
If you have the opportunity to set policy for New America, and a column of invaders comes to your border, ignoring your warnings, what do you advise the border guards to do? If your response is anything less than “Shoot them”, then the new country will fail as surely as America has, and your concern for your family is less than your concern for a criminal. China, India, Japan, Russia, and every other self-respecting country protect their borders with force. New America must do the same.
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