Great article. Multiply Minnesota by 50 and the scale of the problem becomes clearer.
We used to have an American culture, an American "story", that most of us bought into and expected immigrants to adopt in order to assimilate. That doesn't exist anymore. I believe we've reached a critical mass of natural born Americans who are either wholly ignorant of our history and founding principles or they actually reject them. There are generations of American kids who've been taught the Howard Zinn/1619 Project version of American history who then grew up to be voters who loathe their own Country. There's just no pressure put on immigrant groups like Somalis to adopt OUR culture rather, the pressure is on us to adopt THEIR culture. One wonders why it is they immigrated here in the first place if they wanted to keep their old way of life. Oh yeah, there is our easily scammed cradle to grave welfare state. You know, the one immigrants as a condition of their immigration are supposed to be ineligible for?
There's actual talk about making certain areas in cities "no go zones", autonomous, immigrant controlled areas governed by their own laws. Hell, the Muslim mayor of Dearborn MI tried to add Arabic writing to the police department insignia and told a Christian political opponent to leave the city because "he's not wanted" there. The Left is using mass immigration to change the demographics and politics of States and cities and there's no significant or effective pushback. As Minnesota and Minneapolis show, they're winning.
Also, we're living in a kleptocracy now. Government (at all levels) has grown so huge and the sums of money flowing into government coffers is so vast, accountability is impossible and the incentive for graft and corruption is great. Then, couple that with an immigration system that is untethered from the laws meant to regulate it and you have a recipe leading us towards national suicide.
I really hate to be a Debbie Downer but it seems like we've reached that point in the life of a Republic where a critical mass of the citizenry is either too ignorant or too morally corrupt to sustain it.
Another excellent piece. It's funny how just plain stating the obvious or explaining that which becomes obvious has become such a political liability. Of course people respond to incentives. Of course the US is a high-trust society that doesn't fare well when people don't play by the rules. We need to realize that some cultures will not play but the rules that this country runs on, and plan accordingly. I hope that all who are here can find ways to live peacefully and productively.
If we bring people - en masse! - into a successful country from medieval banana republics, and don't demand that they upgrade their skills, values and modus operandi to ours as a condition of them being allowed to stay, we end up with our entire society being degraded to their level. This article explains the hows and whys of it very well.
In Canada, a city of Surrey, British Columbia, has recently had to declare an emergency due to a wave of violent extortions. The perpetrators and victims are all from India, another backward country. I guess that's how they do "redistribution" in India...
There are reasons why the Indias and Somalias of this world are not successful societies.
This is precisely why globalization has failed. You cannot have a rules-based world that includes such disparate places as the USA on the one hand, and a bunch of Indias and Somalias on the other, with an equal seat at the table. This is why "world organizations" like the UN, WHO, WTO etc. have been corrupted and subverted to serve the interests of banana republics.
This is the best written, most logical and comprehensive essay presented on the topic of state and federal governmental fraud I have seen to date.
I was pleased to discover this Substack today and to become a paid yearly subscriber. I now have the pleasure of reading both past and future posts by this author.
Great article. Multiply Minnesota by 50 and the scale of the problem becomes clearer.
We used to have an American culture, an American "story", that most of us bought into and expected immigrants to adopt in order to assimilate. That doesn't exist anymore. I believe we've reached a critical mass of natural born Americans who are either wholly ignorant of our history and founding principles or they actually reject them. There are generations of American kids who've been taught the Howard Zinn/1619 Project version of American history who then grew up to be voters who loathe their own Country. There's just no pressure put on immigrant groups like Somalis to adopt OUR culture rather, the pressure is on us to adopt THEIR culture. One wonders why it is they immigrated here in the first place if they wanted to keep their old way of life. Oh yeah, there is our easily scammed cradle to grave welfare state. You know, the one immigrants as a condition of their immigration are supposed to be ineligible for?
There's actual talk about making certain areas in cities "no go zones", autonomous, immigrant controlled areas governed by their own laws. Hell, the Muslim mayor of Dearborn MI tried to add Arabic writing to the police department insignia and told a Christian political opponent to leave the city because "he's not wanted" there. The Left is using mass immigration to change the demographics and politics of States and cities and there's no significant or effective pushback. As Minnesota and Minneapolis show, they're winning.
Also, we're living in a kleptocracy now. Government (at all levels) has grown so huge and the sums of money flowing into government coffers is so vast, accountability is impossible and the incentive for graft and corruption is great. Then, couple that with an immigration system that is untethered from the laws meant to regulate it and you have a recipe leading us towards national suicide.
I really hate to be a Debbie Downer but it seems like we've reached that point in the life of a Republic where a critical mass of the citizenry is either too ignorant or too morally corrupt to sustain it.
Another excellent piece. It's funny how just plain stating the obvious or explaining that which becomes obvious has become such a political liability. Of course people respond to incentives. Of course the US is a high-trust society that doesn't fare well when people don't play by the rules. We need to realize that some cultures will not play but the rules that this country runs on, and plan accordingly. I hope that all who are here can find ways to live peacefully and productively.
Your output is prodigious at every level, Chris.
If we bring people - en masse! - into a successful country from medieval banana republics, and don't demand that they upgrade their skills, values and modus operandi to ours as a condition of them being allowed to stay, we end up with our entire society being degraded to their level. This article explains the hows and whys of it very well.
In Canada, a city of Surrey, British Columbia, has recently had to declare an emergency due to a wave of violent extortions. The perpetrators and victims are all from India, another backward country. I guess that's how they do "redistribution" in India...
There are reasons why the Indias and Somalias of this world are not successful societies.
This is precisely why globalization has failed. You cannot have a rules-based world that includes such disparate places as the USA on the one hand, and a bunch of Indias and Somalias on the other, with an equal seat at the table. This is why "world organizations" like the UN, WHO, WTO etc. have been corrupted and subverted to serve the interests of banana republics.
This is the best written, most logical and comprehensive essay presented on the topic of state and federal governmental fraud I have seen to date.
I was pleased to discover this Substack today and to become a paid yearly subscriber. I now have the pleasure of reading both past and future posts by this author.