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Citizens of modern Western nations like to think that we have abolished the hereditary privileges once associated with aristocracy. No longer does a person born a noble enjoy a vast array of rights denied to commoners. Nor do we any longer have a class of serfs tied to the land, condemned to poverty and oppression for life. But, as conservative columnist Rachel Lu points out in an insightful recent article, we have a system of hereditary privilege that in many ways is just as pernicious as the aristocracy of old. We call it citizenship:
Yes we are lucky enough to be born into the greatest country and society ever. The world knows it and we have had steady immigration for hundreds of years because people want their own slice of the American Dream.
I can't help but think of other great societies in History where the people have enjoyed a high level of living such as the Roman Empire. It fell for many reasons but one of them was too much diversity where it lost its identity.
I wonder if that Libertarian nut is willing to step down from his lofty perch and give everything he owns to say a poor family in Honduras to save them the dangerous trip to sneak into America.
If he feels so much guilt why doesn't he open his home to a poor family of refugees?
These people talk and talk a good game but that is about it.
Don't they have higher IQs than both liberals and conservatives?
Libertarians are always making inane statements about themselves and their politics.
Like their politics, this statement never manifests in reality.
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Originally Posted by saltine
smartest person in the room
You'd think that the "smartest person in the room" would be able to point to an instance of their politics, or successfully defend its hypothetical modern manifestation.
Neither is the case.
Smart people generally don't indulge in purely fantastical thinking,
systems that more full of holes than other systems,
systems that are easily and accurately categorized as transitional, or a
system whose best use is as a political weapon to reduce the political defense of the nation in which they live.
Yes we are lucky enough to be born into the greatest country and society ever. The world knows it and we have had steady immigration for hundreds of years because people want their own slice of the American Dream.
I can't help but think of other great societies in History where the people have enjoyed a high level of living such as the Roman Empire. It fell for many reasons but one of them was too much diversity where it lost its identity.
I wonder if that Libertarian nut is willing to step down from his lofty perch and give everything he owns to say a poor family in Honduras to save them the dangerous trip to sneak into America.
If he feels so much guilt why doesn't he open his home to a poor family of refugees?
These people talk and talk a good game but that is about it.
Well, that was interesting. I'm not much for libertarianism, but this writer at least takes his stance to a logical conclusion that may not ultimately benefit him, and that's praiseworthy.
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