The Nation State is a Rational Construct which yields benefits of both a purely pragmatic and more subtle cultural kind, benefits which are clearly in peril today. A complex topic one can’t possibly exhaust in a few paragraphs, I shall cite just a few examples of the results of the Left’s obsession with Inclusiveness which reveal its utter absurdity as a defining Principle.
While the Biden government has claimed America’s southern border is under control, this is clearly a lie. A few days ago Elon Musk went to Eagle Pass, Texas, where he spoke with Republican Tony Gonzales who said that town was utterly incapable of dealing with the repercussions of the migrant invasion. Just last Fri.[Sept. 22], Gonzales said, 11,000 had entered the U.S. in the vicinity of Eagle Pass. Musk concluded this town had had to deal with approximately 700,000 non-citizens in the last year alone, the U.S. as a whole, with 2 million! “Strange,” he said, “that there is almost no media coverage of this.” His comment aptly explains the anger of “conservatives” who feel they live in a world of narrow-minded “liberal” bias whose proponents hypocritically fancy themselves the champions of Democracy.
N.Y.C. Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat formerly supportive of the city’s status as a “sanctuary” for the “undocumented,” said at a recent town hall meeting that the influx of approximately 10,000 migrants per month “will destroy N.Y.C.” AOC, another N.Y. Democrat and staunch supporter of Biden’s border policies, is now lamenting the crisis caused by those policies. Apparently neither of these two had considered the destructive impact their mindless “inclusiveness” would have on the already overburdened social services designed to assist America’s legal “underprivileged” citizens!
Phil Murphy is the Democratic Governor of New Jersey, apparently proud of its status as a “sanctuary state.” Yet when the Biden administration recently suggested helping N.Y.C. deal with its migrant crisis by shipping thousands of migrants to New Jersey, he objected, saying his state simply didn’t have the financial resources to accommodate them. The noble “inclusive” sentiments of the Left, it would seem, immediately disappear when challenged by the harsh facts of Reality, facts which ought to be reflected in any sane political ideology.
On Sept. 19, a peaceful crowd of Staten Islanders took to the streets to protest the ever increasing number of undocumented migrants being released into their residential communities, focusing specifically on a seniors’ facility about to be turned into a haven for them. Several of the protesters having been arrested for impeding the progress of a bus loaded with the new arrivals, their lawyer, Mark Fonte, pointed out incredulously that “police are arresting law-abiding American citizens to protect law-breaking non-citizens.” No doubt he had in mind the hundreds of thousands who had protested the death of George Floyd in 2020, often violently, with few legal repercussions whatsoever.
The “compassionate” suspension of those legal protocols whereby each new entrant into the States is thoroughly vetted by immigration authorities, has predictably allowed human trafficking cartels based south of the border to massively increase their profits. A Sarah Arnold article published on Oct. 1 by Townhall PM revealed that 219 had recently been arrested in Florida for the crime of human trafficking, this, according to Polk County Sherriff Grady Judd, the largest such bust in U.S. history. It is estimated Mexican and South American “traffickers,” due to the enlightened border policies of the Biden administration, are earning approximately 13 billion dollars a year!
Michigan’s Oakland County Sherriff Michael Bouchard contends the recent increase of home invasions and burglaries in local upscale neighborhoods is the result of South American gangs who entered the country through its porous southern border. Such criminal activity, which includes a surge in the availability of dangerous drugs such as fentanyl, is, he says, “a ticking time bomb ” across the U.S.A.. Homeland Security’s Immigration and Custom Enforcement Department concurs, recently asserting that transnational gangs “strike fear into out local neighborhoods, commit violent crimes against our citizens and facilitate criminal activity such as narcotics and firearm trafficking, sex trafficking, human smuggling, etc., etc.”
In a Blaze article published on Sept. 25, Mark Levin points out the absurdity of the fact that various border crashers recently arrested had in fact previously been deported a dozen or so times on suspicion of crimes as serious as rape and murder! When “conservatives” respond to such facts with criticisms of the open border policies endorsed by “progressives” both here in North America and throughout the European Union, they are habitually characterized as alt-Right haters against immigration of any kind. What they really want, of course, is a return to the protocols of a Nation State legally entitled to control which and how many migrants might enter its domain in any given year, based on both its fiscal ability to accommodate them and the illiberal if not criminal quality of their beliefs and behavior. These pragmatic/moral concerns, apparently, are inconsistent with the Inclusive dementia of the Left.
A devout Catholic as a teen, I moved to the foggy realm of Agnosticism upon reading the works of Sartre, Camus, etc.. I therefore have no problem in asserting I am appalled that the contemporary Pope seems to have abandoned his role as a spiritual/moral leader and become a staunch supporter of the Political Left. He would no doubt argue that in preaching the Gospel of Inclusiveness, he continues to champion the fundamental Christian virtue of Charity. But Morality implies Volition and Personal Responsibility, whereas the ethos of the Left sees nothing but Victimization amongst those who have failed to flourish. The Pope, in other words, now subscribes to the superficial, materialistic notions that one’s Economic Condition somehow reflects one’s Moral Status, and that those who have failed in that realm are never responsible for their failure. These are hardly the convictions of a spiritual/moral leader!
Sixty percent of Brits think immigration has been out of control in their land for some time now. Hence the Brexit vote. Countries such as Italy and France have experienced increased levels of social unrest and criminal activity, clearly the result of the E.U.’s open border policies. Yes, some of these issues are the result of European Racism, but most of them stem from the sort of pragmatic, economic problems cited above, as well as the very real cultural differences between Western Europeans and many Muslims. In a statement directed at French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis recently suggested that the very idea of an immigration “emergency” in Western Europe was a fiction promulgated by populations corrupt with “affluence, consumerism and waste.” Implicit in his statement is the lie that Western Affluence is merely a matter of “privilege,” that the wonderful lifestyles of so many in Europe and North America are in no way a product of the amazing achievements of their cultural forbears, including their rational, pragmatic approach to improving the human condition, but merely a matter of luck, or even worse, of oppression. In a single word, of course, the implied villain is Capitalism, which those on the Left simplistically demonize as a vehicle for the worst of Man’s impulses. Yet astoundingly, hypocritically, they demand various non-Western peoples who continue to live in relative squalor have every right to share in the proceeds of this vile Economic Cancer!
As I have said repeatedly, all decent people ought to endorse programs designed to help those born into difficult circumstances. But the pervasive Leftist belief that the gap between the world’s most affluent peoples and those still struggling in abject poverty is a “moral abomination” born of the former’s “privilege,” is a gross neo-Marxist lie which simply ignores the historically verifiable and very real Diversity of our species. In smugly suggesting the wealthy of Western Europe have in no way earned their wealth, Pope Francis simply removes Human Intelligence, Ingenuity, Hard Work and Perseverance from the Historical Narrative. That he does so in what he sees as his “moral” responsibility, perfectly illustrates the superficiality of the Left’s definition of “morality.”