Potholes on the Road to Serfdom
I don’t understand the new paradigm.
Actually, it’s been coming on for a while now, but it’s become clearer to me lately that the far Left and the far Right share the same interest in —what do we call it? Transnationalism? Post-nationalism? Whatever it is, the conventional notions of sovereignty are succumbing to a new vassalage for schlubs like you and me.
The Left has always had an open-borders attitude. They embody Einstein’s opinion that nationalism is infantile. But they have also always had to rely on native support for economic and social empowerment —something that cannot easily mix with unconditional support for a borderless America. I mean, do these pro-immigrationists even care what Black America (the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting bloc) thinks about unfettered Mexican immigration —as well as the concomitant ubiquitization of Spanish and that awful polka music the Mexicans enjoy so much? I doubt it.
The Right —associated with Big Business, the super-rich, and the aspiring upper middle-class— may not like the social or cultural consequences of open-borderism, but they certainly like the cheap labor. So, they turn their heads and abide in silence the colonization of Mexican labor in their own back yards (sometimes, literally) because they know that, if push comes to shove, they will still be able to retreat to their gated communities and send their lily-white spawn to private schools.
So who stands up for the lower and middle classes in America —that is, the vast majority of our population? The Republicans may be impaled on these polls we hear so much about, but I don’t see how Democrats are going to really capitalize on the negative numbers.
