“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”.
The Founders of this Country bequeathed us a system of government that led to generations of success. Unfortunately, as your essay illustrates so well, in that success lay the seeds of our eventual destruction.
“A republic, if you can keep it” was Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
The current generations of Americans are in the process of showing him they couldn't.
Once again Mr. Arnell has explained the importance of a National Identity in clear and certain language that even a 5th grader can understand. That is unless the 5th grader is from one of the cities or states that have been deluged with more immigrants than their traditional school systems are capable of educating. Lost in the moral posturing of people who don’t actually want immigrants in their communities, but believe that every human being is somehow magically entitled to every advantage and privilege of the historical citizenship, are the underprivileged children who live in jurisdictions where schools are failing in every aspect solely because of their inability to accommodate more people than they are economically capable of educating.
Thanks Chris, you are trying hard to educate us and we appreciate it. Sadly, most moral warriors don’t understand the realities of what it takes to achieve the society they dream of, a society that has never existed anywhere in the world to date. Feeling good and superior to others is an addictive experience, and like all addictive behavior it requires the willing abandonment of the common sense that protects the lives of others who do not engage in addictive substances or behaviors. Similarly, this addiction to moral posturing, like all others, creates a wide circle of those, who while not addicted themselves suffer from the consequences of the addicted group’s behaviors and their refusals to accept reality!
At some previous time we could have excused the damages to lives, families, and society, that we would say were caused by the unexpected adverse consequences of addictions. That time is long past! With the experience of decades of addiction research and medicine, incontrovertible evidence has been documented by the scientific community, evidence that shows the direct relationship between addiction and the horrors that always occur in the exact same sequence of the downward spiral that occurs each time an addiction takes hold of a human being.
Excellent illustration of how we slowly and methodically arrived at the current immigration crisis. This essay offers a clear view of how government expansion (regardless of intent) develops organic advocate constituencies (lobbyist) with their hands out. I truly believe the growth of government agencies a.k.a. deep state, and by extension, the semi-privatization of the deep state in the form of NGO's, will prove to be the single greatest contributor to the ultimate demise of the United States.
I am reminded of the great Thomas Sowell who has repeatedly stated "Good intentions tell you nothing about actual outcomes." He has also said, “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” These two quotes are in perfect alignment with your excellent essay. Clearly, the working class (including immigrants) are paying the price for the mistakes of the intellectual elites (politicians and NGO CEOs) while the later live within the comforts of their "gated communities."
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”.
The Founders of this Country bequeathed us a system of government that led to generations of success. Unfortunately, as your essay illustrates so well, in that success lay the seeds of our eventual destruction.
“A republic, if you can keep it” was Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
The current generations of Americans are in the process of showing him they couldn't.
Another fine column. Assimilation is a major key.
Once again Mr. Arnell has explained the importance of a National Identity in clear and certain language that even a 5th grader can understand. That is unless the 5th grader is from one of the cities or states that have been deluged with more immigrants than their traditional school systems are capable of educating. Lost in the moral posturing of people who don’t actually want immigrants in their communities, but believe that every human being is somehow magically entitled to every advantage and privilege of the historical citizenship, are the underprivileged children who live in jurisdictions where schools are failing in every aspect solely because of their inability to accommodate more people than they are economically capable of educating.
Thanks Chris, you are trying hard to educate us and we appreciate it. Sadly, most moral warriors don’t understand the realities of what it takes to achieve the society they dream of, a society that has never existed anywhere in the world to date. Feeling good and superior to others is an addictive experience, and like all addictive behavior it requires the willing abandonment of the common sense that protects the lives of others who do not engage in addictive substances or behaviors. Similarly, this addiction to moral posturing, like all others, creates a wide circle of those, who while not addicted themselves suffer from the consequences of the addicted group’s behaviors and their refusals to accept reality!
At some previous time we could have excused the damages to lives, families, and society, that we would say were caused by the unexpected adverse consequences of addictions. That time is long past! With the experience of decades of addiction research and medicine, incontrovertible evidence has been documented by the scientific community, evidence that shows the direct relationship between addiction and the horrors that always occur in the exact same sequence of the downward spiral that occurs each time an addiction takes hold of a human being.
Excellent illustration of how we slowly and methodically arrived at the current immigration crisis. This essay offers a clear view of how government expansion (regardless of intent) develops organic advocate constituencies (lobbyist) with their hands out. I truly believe the growth of government agencies a.k.a. deep state, and by extension, the semi-privatization of the deep state in the form of NGO's, will prove to be the single greatest contributor to the ultimate demise of the United States.
I am reminded of the great Thomas Sowell who has repeatedly stated "Good intentions tell you nothing about actual outcomes." He has also said, “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” These two quotes are in perfect alignment with your excellent essay. Clearly, the working class (including immigrants) are paying the price for the mistakes of the intellectual elites (politicians and NGO CEOs) while the later live within the comforts of their "gated communities."