Being an American
I find the whole idea of being an American, especially a Nationalist is a particularly strange thing. On the one hand, I am uncomfortable and disturbed by the fact that our nation is brainwashed (by sports, mostly, I assume) to pick a SIDE, rather than to follow their own brains.
On the other hand, I am not immune to similar influences and I HAVE lived here all my life. I also understand that a lot of the people who claim to be nationalists and patriots don't know jackshit about the United States or its symbols.
So, here is something topical to the whole immigration debate. Here, I give you, what is inscribed on the inside of the Statue of Liberty:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Those bloody frogs, right? Right. They only secured our freedom during the revolutionary war. Goddamn frogs.
And then there is the irony that the man who libertarians claim is a "constitutionalist" wants to amend the constitution. I like how he calls gives the "drug dealer" anecdote. As if that's the only sort of immigrant.
I can't address the entire immigration debate. I can talk about specific things, like the irony of the South Carolina obsession with "the immigrants are keeping the wages low!" BULLSHIT. YOU opposed labor unions. The wages were ALREADY low because of lack of any support of organization, and it's obviously shit you don't want to do anyway (because you can't make any money).
I do understand the fear that with too many immigrants, the entire community is in danger of having to lower living conditions to accommodate too many people.
However, it concerns me that so many people like to boast their closeness with the founding fathers and nationalism without understanding what that means. Besides, wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." We've already done that in the name of "Patriotism"
I hate politics. All they do is confuse me and make me afraid for my sexual freedom. Sometimes they make me cry, but whatever.
On the other hand, I am not immune to similar influences and I HAVE lived here all my life. I also understand that a lot of the people who claim to be nationalists and patriots don't know jackshit about the United States or its symbols.
So, here is something topical to the whole immigration debate. Here, I give you, what is inscribed on the inside of the Statue of Liberty:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Those bloody frogs, right? Right. They only secured our freedom during the revolutionary war. Goddamn frogs.
And then there is the irony that the man who libertarians claim is a "constitutionalist" wants to amend the constitution. I like how he calls gives the "drug dealer" anecdote. As if that's the only sort of immigrant.
I can't address the entire immigration debate. I can talk about specific things, like the irony of the South Carolina obsession with "the immigrants are keeping the wages low!" BULLSHIT. YOU opposed labor unions. The wages were ALREADY low because of lack of any support of organization, and it's obviously shit you don't want to do anyway (because you can't make any money).
I do understand the fear that with too many immigrants, the entire community is in danger of having to lower living conditions to accommodate too many people.
However, it concerns me that so many people like to boast their closeness with the founding fathers and nationalism without understanding what that means. Besides, wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." We've already done that in the name of "Patriotism"
I hate politics. All they do is confuse me and make me afraid for my sexual freedom. Sometimes they make me cry, but whatever.