In the 21st century, the United States is not a country of, by or for the people as the Constitution suggests.
Real countries have borders and this country, through the indifference and negligence of its leaders, lacks anything to resemble that. This is also blatant disregard for the will of the people, as the majority wants politicians to acknowledge and safeguard the border. But the politicians in our representative democracy seem not to care, as they are constantly looking to help others defy and undermine national boundaries. Arguably, nearly half the population of the U.S. does not recognize or want borders, so at least the politicians could be said to be implementing the will of a people. But just who are the people whose will is being represented? It is nearly all the non-citizens in the U.S. and those who wish to exploit them here, whether by hiring under the table to avoid taxes or suppress wages. Gangs, cartels and those connected to them are also benefiting from the fluid border, especially if engaging in human and drug trafficking. Most recently, they are flooding our neighborhoods with a cheap, highly addictive drug we will be hearing about for years to come: fentanyl.
Of course, these are not the only people who support open borders. Some are citizens harboring loyalties that prioritize a different country or seek to bring in those with whom they clearly identify to advance that collective, which exposes the problem: random people here, buying or leasing property with nothing in common with the whole and with nothing binding them to the whole - what "people" is this, anyway? To suggest an amorphous, agglomerous people-blob is somehow the same "we the People" enshrined in the Constitution is a joke.
Even if one can look past all of this, the idea that the country is working for a random people-blob is an even bigger joke. The elite, not unlike the old planter class under slavery, use money power and lobbyism to assure that the machinations of the state are working in their interest, for their portfolios and bank accounts, instead of anything that could be even weakly construed as a nation.
In just one example demonstrating disloyalty to the people and prioritization of an elite's agenda, the government is pushing forward with NAFTA, in spite of all the protestations, to appease those who seek to move production and manufacturing to cut out the American worker while importing his replacement for whatever economy remains. Again: where is for the/a people when the open border is the gateway for notorious cartels and drug gangs, arguably more powerful than the nations they come from, to expand their activities into the American backyard? The open border is also a disaster when it comes to preventing the spread of deadly disease epidemics and the spread of terrorism, neither of which offers the people much. And what about the population exchanges that NAFTA is built upon? The country already has problems with mass homelessness and poverty, yet it is being flooded with welfare dependent who live on the taxpayer dime and driving out two important categories of people: first, the retired and well-do-to, who wish to escape the growing crime and live where their money will go further and taxes will be lower and, second, those with ambition and initiative, who know they deserve better. Everyone is on their own going their own way and the reason could not be clearer: everywhere you look, the nation that the Declaration of Independence was supposed to free, and the people therein who the Constitution was supposed to protect, are being cast aside, forgotten and replaced. It is high time we listen to the message of the Founding Fathers and exercise the rights bestowed upon us for exactly one reason: to take our country back!
Real countries have borders and this country, through the indifference and negligence of its leaders, lacks anything to resemble that. This is also blatant disregard for the will of the people, as the majority wants politicians to acknowledge and safeguard the border. But the politicians in our representative democracy seem not to care, as they are constantly looking to help others defy and undermine national boundaries. Arguably, nearly half the population of the U.S. does not recognize or want borders, so at least the politicians could be said to be implementing the will of a people. But just who are the people whose will is being represented? It is nearly all the non-citizens in the U.S. and those who wish to exploit them here, whether by hiring under the table to avoid taxes or suppress wages. Gangs, cartels and those connected to them are also benefiting from the fluid border, especially if engaging in human and drug trafficking. Most recently, they are flooding our neighborhoods with a cheap, highly addictive drug we will be hearing about for years to come: fentanyl.
Of course, these are not the only people who support open borders. Some are citizens harboring loyalties that prioritize a different country or seek to bring in those with whom they clearly identify to advance that collective, which exposes the problem: random people here, buying or leasing property with nothing in common with the whole and with nothing binding them to the whole - what "people" is this, anyway? To suggest an amorphous, agglomerous people-blob is somehow the same "we the People" enshrined in the Constitution is a joke.
Even if one can look past all of this, the idea that the country is working for a random people-blob is an even bigger joke. The elite, not unlike the old planter class under slavery, use money power and lobbyism to assure that the machinations of the state are working in their interest, for their portfolios and bank accounts, instead of anything that could be even weakly construed as a nation.
In just one example demonstrating disloyalty to the people and prioritization of an elite's agenda, the government is pushing forward with NAFTA, in spite of all the protestations, to appease those who seek to move production and manufacturing to cut out the American worker while importing his replacement for whatever economy remains. Again: where is for the/a people when the open border is the gateway for notorious cartels and drug gangs, arguably more powerful than the nations they come from, to expand their activities into the American backyard? The open border is also a disaster when it comes to preventing the spread of deadly disease epidemics and the spread of terrorism, neither of which offers the people much. And what about the population exchanges that NAFTA is built upon? The country already has problems with mass homelessness and poverty, yet it is being flooded with welfare dependent who live on the taxpayer dime and driving out two important categories of people: first, the retired and well-do-to, who wish to escape the growing crime and live where their money will go further and taxes will be lower and, second, those with ambition and initiative, who know they deserve better. Everyone is on their own going their own way and the reason could not be clearer: everywhere you look, the nation that the Declaration of Independence was supposed to free, and the people therein who the Constitution was supposed to protect, are being cast aside, forgotten and replaced. It is high time we listen to the message of the Founding Fathers and exercise the rights bestowed upon us for exactly one reason: to take our country back!
