Posted on 10/07/2021 4:27:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Only a little more than half of the current world's 7 billion people are citizens of fully consensual governments.
That lucky 50 percent alone enjoys constitutionally protected freedoms. Most are also Western. Or at least they reside in nations that have become "Westernized."
Migrants, regardless of their race, religion or gender, almost always head for a Western nation. And most often their destination remains the United States. The more it is now fashionable for Americans to take for granted or even to ridicule the idea of their own country, the more the non-American global poor risk their lives to crash America's borders.
Constitutional systems easily perish because they ask a lot of their citizens -- to vote, to be informed about civic and political issues, and to hold elected officials accountable. That responsibility is perhaps why, of the world's true republics and democracies, only about 22 have been in existence for a half-century or more. We are seldom told, then, that America is a rare, precious and perhaps even fragile idea, both in the past and in the present.
American citizens are clearly also not the custom of the past. Unlike history's more common peasants, citizens are not under the control of the rich who, in turn, seek undue influence in government through controlling them.
Instead, viable citizenship has always hinged on a broad, autonomous middle class. Those Americans in between lack both the dependence of the poor and the insider influences of the elite. Suffocate the middle and we know that a binary feudalism will soon replace it. We are seeing just that medievalization in contemporary California.
Nor are American citizens mere migratory residents who drift across nonexistent borders in expectation of receiving more rights than meeting responsibilities. Forfeit a sacred national space, a place where common customs,
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Sorry, but VDH is babbling to himself in his house.
About 350 million Americans just left the “citizens of fully consensual governments” category while Victor was sleeping.
I can’t help it if you’re to ignorant to get his point.
MFLR.
Well, thank you for that. I don’t mean to criticize you, and I appreciate your posts. I just always reply to the OP in response to an article. Maybe there is another way, but I don’t know it.
I am not sure I am “ignorant” to see what VDH is apparently going through. I have admired him greatly. He is apparently becoming more and more isolated and less relevant, however.
He does not see, for instance, that the American people lost consensual government in the last election. That is very significant, and I think more so than his concerns about the citizenry.
When I became an advocate for life of the unborn we had a well worn saying....
‘They can’t do that, can they?’
Through many years I have found out the enemy of life.....and freedom .....can do just about anything they want .
May God have mercy.
I respect VDH and I love how he explains where truth abides
But nothing is as it was ....and I’m sure it breaks his heart to acknowledge this
“That lucky 50 percent alone enjoys constitutionally protected freedoms.”
That statement is no longer true, Professor.
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I LOL’d at the idea that we are not under the control of the rich.
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