It seems the war of the states is beginning with CA and AZ, with Arizona threatening to cut off power to California in response to Los Angeles’ economic boycott of Arizona’s illegal immigration laws.
As with any controversy, we seldom reach beyond the crisis at hand to the root cause of the system that produces the crisis. To start with, I believe a free human being should be able to go wherever she wants without papers of any sort, in a world of sovereign, representative states. Please don’t confuse this ideal with the globalist wet dream of a “borderless world” or an “open society”, George Soros style, which is a nice platitude for global, unrepresentative totalitarianism.
Illegal immigration is only an issue because we've created a culture of handouts to rich and poor alike, with a sham democratic system that amounts to votes for other people's money, all carefully managed by the elite through various think tanks which write the laws to be carried out by paid-in-full henchman and the usual cast of useful idiots. As a result, cracking down on illegal immigration becomes the inevitable result of protecting wages and a zero-sum game of direct and indirect handouts and subsidies. Most Americans understand that to not enforce immigration laws is to economically self-destruct quicker because we're a nation that doesn't live by what we produce. We're a nation that lives by the debt we print.
Imagine though if we had a direct capitalist system based on a limited Constitutional government, not a corporatist, monopoly capitalist, welfare system...yes, I know it is actually very hard to do. And by "welfare" I'm not referencing welfare in the traditional sense of care for the poor ranted about by the Rushbos, but instead the wide swath of government subsidies of all sorts from Medicare and Social Security entitlement program that is insolvent, to the constant drain of what’s left of the productive economy by the parasitic international G20 financial class, to a global war “on terror” that is actually a global war for private profit (e.g. oil, opium and pipelines), to a profitable police state mechanism here on the “homeland”, to a self-perpetuated war on drugs that benefits the private interests that do the “enforcing” and imprisoning and so forth and so on.
In that world, you would attract people purely because they wanted to better their lot in life by working hard to provide a good or service based on inherently improving the quality of life of someone else.
And of course, there would be less of an impetus to escape their countries to begin with if you take away the destabilizing interventionist policies, due to the global warfare-welfare corporatist system, that result in poverty and tyranny. For instance, instead of a positive feedback loop of higher drug prices funding more corruption and oppression resulting from the "war on drugs", imagine the impact of simply legalizing drugs and collapsing the prices that fund the corrupt narco-political system in both the US and Mexico. If you really wanted to really hit the drug cartels, wouldn’t you just collapse the market and the price by legalizing the product? But that of course doesn't benefit the few that matter in this game, since drug-funded regimes are friendliest to multinational exploiters and the cat and mouse game benefits those with budgets.
But I'll get off my soapbox because I know this is silly idealist thinking that doesn't jive in our world of an empire in its death convulsions and a larger population desperate to sustain a status quo that is unsustainable. For that we need scapegoats and pretend enemies, vote-for-handout politicians need new voters and the elite are only too happy to stoke those self-destructive flames. A Balkanized American population at war with one another is one that can be more easily manipulated for a broader agenda.
Don’t be a sucker for it.
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