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Tancredo: Bush doesn’t want America to be an actual place
Exactly right. And of course that is what liberalism is all about. WorldNetDaily reports:
The president of the United States is an internationalist,” said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. “He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that – it’s an idea. It’s not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where this guy is really going…. [E]verything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American Union, it’s not something that just is written about by right-wing fringe kooks. It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it….”Randall Parker at ParaPundit comments:
Different cultures should be allowed to be separate and different. That’s what’s great about borders. On the two sides of a border the different peoples can live differently, believe differently, speak different languages, and organize their affairs in ways that best suit their values, dispositions, and abilities.A commenter at ParaPundit puts it well:
Our illustrious elites are merely aping their European counterparts. Create an economic union, then a free customs zone with a common currency and finally, political integration. Add another crushing level of bureaucracy and voila… the NAU! In our case they want to do it all at once, sans referendums and debates.Let us also remember the very purpose of a national state. It is to serve as the political expression of a people. The first sentence of the Declaration of Independence makes this clear:
When … it becomes necessary for ONE PEOPLE … TO ASSUME … THE SEPARATE AND EQUAL STATION to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…The state comes into being because there is a people that requires that state for its liberty, its safety, and its very existence. The Declaration of Independence, the political act by which the United States of America came into being, was, first and foremost, a declaration of the independent political existence of a people. The purpose of modern politics is to do away with that people, to do away with all peoples, or rather with all Western peoples. The belief in peoplehood, in nationhood, has been cast aside and lost, and we must restore it if we are to return to a true politics and save ourselves and our civilization. The conventional view is that the Declaration of Independence establishes the United States solely on liberal terms. As it says in the second sentence of the Declaration, all individuals, as individuals, have certain unalienable rights, and they constitute a government in order to secure those individual rights. But this Lockean view of the Declaration misses the existential fact that precedes and underlies the creation of such a government. That existential fact is the existence of an actual people, who feel themselves as one and can act in political concert because they are a people.
This is the missing key of modern politics, the possession of which will enable us resist the nation-destroying liberalism of our time. Email entry |