If many Freepers can’t decipher what a natural born citizen is, how can we expect the LIVs to understand?
Carry on and thank you for the post.
Yes, it’s really too bad that people are so dumbed-down that they can’t see that the Founders made a distinction between the President and Senators and House members when it came to qualifications. I have YET to see anyone explain the difference.
If any of you are a “low information” citizen, please read the constitutional requirements for President, as opposed to Senators and Congressmen, and tell me WHY the President is required to be a “natural born citizen” and the others are just required to be “citizens.”
It took a while to get here. The last ~40 yrs of public education has been leading up to this moment. Kids have been taught to devalue citizenship, to the extent it has nothing to do w being raised by foreign and/or anti-American parents, but only to do w over which patch of dirt a baby was dropped. As if being raised American, with a knowledge of our traditions, history & mindset plays no part in it at all.
Then they’ve been carefully guarded from critical-rational thinking skills, taught that everything is relative/subjective, and above all indoctrinated to believe that all discrimination is wrong/bad/evil. Thus, to discriminate against the citizen children of foreigners is an unthinkable evil in the minds of the last 2 generations, at least.
You have a few older conservatives who ought to know better but who jumped on the anti-discrimination bandwagon, and now try to convince others that it represents the Framers’ thinking. As if the Framers cared more about PC than guarding the country from chief executives w foreign allegiances. People in the last category are the ones most wanting in intellectual depth & fiber. The rest can blame their public school indoctrination. Above a certain age, it’s just weak thinking—provided actual *thinking* plays any part in it at all.