Posted: Sep 25, 2016 9:49 am
Bernoulli wrote:Coastal wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:This got shared by both Hack and Metatron on FB today:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-road-ahead_us_57e03be4e4b08cb1409749f2?
The Road Ahead
I have always been deeply proud to be an American. In the time I have left, I pray that will never change.
They say there is nothing new under the sun. Since I was born, our planet has traveled around it one hundred times. With each orbit, I’ve watched our country and our world evolve in ways that would have been unimaginable to my parents – and continue to amaze me with each passing year.
The longer I’ve lived, the less I’ve been surprised by the inevitability of change, and how I’ve rejoiced that so many of the changes I’ve seen have been good.
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Yet, I’ve also lived through the horrors of a Great Depression and two World Wars, the second of which was started by a man who promised that he would restore his country it to its former greatness.
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A few weeks ago we heard words spoken in Arizona that my wife, Anne, who grew up in Germany, said chilled her to the bone. They could also have been spoken in 1933:
“We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. It is our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish here…[including] new screening tests for all applicants that include an ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values…”
These are not the American values that we fought in World War II to protect.
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I have lived a long, good life. I will not be here to see the consequences if this evil takes root in our country. But your children and mine will be. And their children. And their children’s children.
This applies just as much to our local racist 'nationalist' who, while not as insane as Trump, is equally zealous in his desire to ban all people from the Netherlands that don't fit his view of Dutch culture.
He currently polls at 25-30 seats in our 150 seat parliament.
On the face of it, it makes sense, no? I mean, just that statement on its own. Why would you want people in your country that despise your very values and what makes you who you are? Some people hate the freedoms in societies like the Netherlands, why would you want them in your country?
Huh? Immigrants aren't going to migrate to places that they despise. That makes no sense.
Good point, however refugees might, out of necessity.