Great series Chris! We only need to reference England for look at what bad immigration policies lead to.
We should offer every native British/irish Christian US citizenship to get over our birth rate problem and save them from becoming victims of the empire’s murderous depopulation scheme.
Thank you, BT. England is absolutely one of the clearest warnings of what happens when immigration policy outruns assimilation and political leaders become afraid to defend their own culture.
Immigration policy is not just about labor shortages or GDP. Over time, it changes the population, the electorate, the culture and eventually the country itself.
I really appreciate you reading the whole series and supporting the work.
Chris! Love you man and your writing & research talents equal anything a tenured college professor would envy But the lengths of your astutely written articles are normally beyond even college degreed & history major me time-wise and having the ability to stay the course which is generally the same reaction that I get from the friends I share your amazing work.
Saying, can you shorten up content within each paragraph a bit while I really like your use of bold paragraph headings.
Hope I haven't been too hard on you and of course this is only my opinion.
Bill, not too harsh at all. I really appreciate it.
And I get what you’re saying. The funny thing is, I tried shortening the essays a while back. More in that 800 to 1,000 word range. My numbers dropped. I think I just started blending in with everybody else throwing out shorter opinion pieces.
Once I went back to the longer stuff, things improved a bit.
So yeah, I feel your pain. Some people absolutely think they’re too long. I get that. It’s a balancing act. I want enough research and evidence in there that nobody can say I’m just making shit up, but I also don’t want to wear people out.
I also look at a lot of these as resource pieces. They are supposed to be fairly comprehensive. One of the problems I have with shorter essays is that, in the effort to make them concise and easy to read, something usually gets left out. I totally understand why people do that, but it can also leave the reader a little exposed when he gets into an argument with one of our friends on the left and suddenly finds out there was another part of the story he never knew about.
Take “The Parties Switched.” I tried to make that a by-the-numbers, as-close-to-definitive-as-I-could-make-it piece on the subject. I wanted to explain every major part of the argument because when I went looking for something like that myself, I could never find it. There was always one piece missing. Somebody covered this part but not that part.
My goal was that if somebody read the whole thing, he would walk away understanding the argument well enough to defend it himself. That is a big part of why I write the way I do. I actually tried pretty hard to keep this last one as tight as I could, but at some point, I write the way I write. It is what it is.
Nobody tells Eddie Van Halen, “Hey, maybe tone the guitar thing down a little.” Or tells Pavarotti, “Maybe ease up on the opera thing and sound a little more like George Michael in Wham.” Not that I’m putting myself in that company. :-) You get my point.
And yes, I realize my response to your comment somehow became longer than I originally planned. So maybe you’ve identified the problem. LOL
And really, thank you for not only reading and sharing the work, but supporting it too. I really do appreciate that. Keep the criticism coming.
Paid subscribers, I'd love to hear your thoughts after reading all three: Which one do you think America is failing at most right now, and why?
Borders can be fixed with policy. Language can be learned. Culture seems like the hardest one to get back once you’ve lost it.
Interested to hear your opinions.
Great series Chris! We only need to reference England for look at what bad immigration policies lead to.
We should offer every native British/irish Christian US citizenship to get over our birth rate problem and save them from becoming victims of the empire’s murderous depopulation scheme.
Thank you, BT. England is absolutely one of the clearest warnings of what happens when immigration policy outruns assimilation and political leaders become afraid to defend their own culture.
Immigration policy is not just about labor shortages or GDP. Over time, it changes the population, the electorate, the culture and eventually the country itself.
I really appreciate you reading the whole series and supporting the work.
Chris! Love you man and your writing & research talents equal anything a tenured college professor would envy But the lengths of your astutely written articles are normally beyond even college degreed & history major me time-wise and having the ability to stay the course which is generally the same reaction that I get from the friends I share your amazing work.
Saying, can you shorten up content within each paragraph a bit while I really like your use of bold paragraph headings.
Hope I haven't been too hard on you and of course this is only my opinion.
Bright regards, "Lightbulb" BILL in SAV, Ga
Bill, not too harsh at all. I really appreciate it.
And I get what you’re saying. The funny thing is, I tried shortening the essays a while back. More in that 800 to 1,000 word range. My numbers dropped. I think I just started blending in with everybody else throwing out shorter opinion pieces.
Once I went back to the longer stuff, things improved a bit.
So yeah, I feel your pain. Some people absolutely think they’re too long. I get that. It’s a balancing act. I want enough research and evidence in there that nobody can say I’m just making shit up, but I also don’t want to wear people out.
I also look at a lot of these as resource pieces. They are supposed to be fairly comprehensive. One of the problems I have with shorter essays is that, in the effort to make them concise and easy to read, something usually gets left out. I totally understand why people do that, but it can also leave the reader a little exposed when he gets into an argument with one of our friends on the left and suddenly finds out there was another part of the story he never knew about.
Take “The Parties Switched.” I tried to make that a by-the-numbers, as-close-to-definitive-as-I-could-make-it piece on the subject. I wanted to explain every major part of the argument because when I went looking for something like that myself, I could never find it. There was always one piece missing. Somebody covered this part but not that part.
My goal was that if somebody read the whole thing, he would walk away understanding the argument well enough to defend it himself. That is a big part of why I write the way I do. I actually tried pretty hard to keep this last one as tight as I could, but at some point, I write the way I write. It is what it is.
Nobody tells Eddie Van Halen, “Hey, maybe tone the guitar thing down a little.” Or tells Pavarotti, “Maybe ease up on the opera thing and sound a little more like George Michael in Wham.” Not that I’m putting myself in that company. :-) You get my point.
And yes, I realize my response to your comment somehow became longer than I originally planned. So maybe you’ve identified the problem. LOL
And really, thank you for not only reading and sharing the work, but supporting it too. I really do appreciate that. Keep the criticism coming.