Source; https://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/forum/topics/biden-s-border-bull-s
Source; Sent from "A Friend"
Sent from a friend and they are right....... our government no longer supports we the people of this country. They are purposely trying to destroy our country and culture from within.
THEY MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!
Sent: 12/13/2022 8:45:21 AM Central Standard Time
Subject: biden's border baloney
Subject: biden's border baloney
Overall recent immigration has helped bring about the Balkanization and trivialization of our nation.
Mexican Immigration Agent Makes Asylum Cards for Sale. for profit.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/thousands-of-illegal-aliens-storm-el-paso-in-one-of-the-largest-mass-crossings-ever
Gov. Greg Abbott declares an 'invasion' at the southern border
https://apple.news/AP7okSqIMTcyWU3nSUFtypg
biden's border numbers for October break record with 277,464 encounters
https://apple.news/ACDbiDZraRlSCO9TeiHaKvA
https://apple.news/ACDbiDZraRlSCO9TeiHaKvA
Murder BY illegals up 1,996% in 2 years
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/large-number-criminal-juveniles-entering-us-through-daca
Gov. Greg Abbott declares an 'invasion' at the southern border
https://apple.news/AP7okSqIMTcyWU3nSUFtypg
Culture, shared purpose and trust are critical for America’s prosperity
https://apple.news/AyzmkhrmDOu6mEdaFyXMSwQ
https://apple.news/AyzmkhrmDOu6mEdaFyXMSwQ
"Multiculturalism? My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure…Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want... a society where communities coexist side by side…If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France" —French President Nicola Sarkozy
"...responsible men proceed cautiously and tentatively in abrogating our modern myth that primitive people showed no interest in armed conflicts, territorial behavior or savage brutality and that the cause of such aggressiveness is Western culture." ---L.H. Keeley
"The times before the development of Western civilization were marked by short life expectancy, high infant-death rates, deficient nutrition, dwarfed human beings, coerced religious conformism, negligible medical care, wide spread illiteracy, little or no vertical economic mobility, and despotic government."---L.E. Birdzell, Jr.
“The most fundamental problem of politics…is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. Nothing is more dangerous than people convinced of their moral superiority, since they deny their political opponents that very attribute. Every statesman must attempt to reconcile what is considered just and what is considered possible. What is possible depends on the resources, geographic position and determination of his body politic, and on those of others.”---Henry Kissinger
Ages ago it was Socrates that taught Western civilization (as opposed to other civilizations such as that of the Middle East or the Orient for example) to be skeptical so as not to be lead astray. By being skeptical he meant to expose error, question assumptions and demand sound logic, coherent explanations and germane factual evidence. This sound skepticism has long been the function of critical consciousness that is Western civilization’s priceless heritage. And Western civilization, among other things, can be defined in terms of its adversarial stance to every public system of values and power. This tradition of critical consciousness is a Western creation, a self-critical imperative unique to the West and one of the most valuable contributions to not just its own society but indeed for all of humanity's well-being.
When first tried in this country, the liberal experiment, of the Classic variety, worked because the society was a largely homogenous one, united in religion and culture. Today’s concept of Multiculturalism, a concept derived to serve as a tool to achieve a political agenda and not a socially beneficial goal, is at odds with the aforementioned Western civilization’s critical consciousness since it is at its base a most dangerous false knowledge. Today’s Multiculturalism isn’t inclusive and hardly populist. It isn’t about respecting cultural differences or even the diversity of ethnic groups. It is predictably elitist, narrow and self-serving. It is simply a distorted melodramatic tale designed to concoct the alleged solely unique wickedness of the West and its alleged role in destroying the peaceful paradises in which other peoples lived. A mythological paradise before Europeans and then Americans came along to inflict on them their racism, sexism, slavery, colonialism, imperialism, homophobia, technocracy, environmental degradation, yada, yada, yada. Even the liberal Arthur. Schlesinger concedes this fact, stating: "Self-styled ‘multiculturalists’ are very often ethnocentric separatists who see little in the Western heritage beyond Western crimes... They contend that the spread of Western culture is due not to any innate quality but simply to the spread of Western power." Thomas Krannawitter nailed it saying: “In so far as it has become a doctrine or ideology, multiculturalism represents something truly pernicious.”
Multiculturalism was born in the desperate search by Neo-Liberalism’s need for a defense of their own discriminatory policies, hence the political basis for Multiculturalism. Neo-Liberalism concocted the notion that without “cultural” based preferences and quotas, there would be no "diversity." Multiculturalism was the result and was intended to lend academic authority to the discrimination politics.
It’s true that group identity (the core cohesive concept of today’s Multiculturalism), and subsequent membership defines an individual in unique ways peculiar to that group. And such a belief originated from Western civilization’s ethnic groupings. However, the difference and hence danger today is as A. Finkielkraut notes: "contemporary fanatics of cultural identity confine individuals to their group of origin. They carry differences to the absolute extreme, and...destroy any possibility of a natural or cultural community among peoples."
Today’s Multiculturalism assumes an unrealistic Romantic view of human nature, as benign only if it remains uncorrupted by and hence unaccountable to what it believes is a dysfunctional Western culture and ideology. That view, of course, is wrong on simple empirical grounds. World history is filled with evidence of universal human depravity and evil, a wickedness that knows no distinctions of race, religion, culture, or gender. Conquest, plunder, war, torture, cruelty, slavery, oppression of women or minorities all stain the record of human life no matter what period or what part of the globe. Multiculturalism is a conclusion that denies its founding assumptions, a clear example of deeply significant nonsense.
True, at times, Western civilization’s evils may have been a magnified, more efficient expression of universal human evil, but its great good has been its invention alone. That invention alone has provided for the view that the individual is a rational human being who should be free to choose, and who possesses certain inalienable rights that should demand our respect regardless of gender, race, religion, or culture. The West has been more efficient at evils because of its intellectual dynamism: its ability rapidly to adjust to new circumstances, its voracious appropriation and improvement of whatever advantages it encounters in others, and its creation of a rational procedure for acquiring knowledge that has allowed it to harness the forces of nature and subject them to its will. A capacity however, that has, in sum, produced a much, much greater net good. Since the apparentness of that is oblivious to Multiculturalists, it also apparently must be truly traumatic for some to acknowledge cultural differences in nurturing and developing human capabilities. Perhaps because acknowledging such would require of others the effort of “catching up.” For today’s liberal anti-Westerner (another description for the Multiculutralist) it is more emotionally satisfying and politically more acceptable to simply blame others, to denounce others, to make them pay for those perceived transgressions and/or the transgressions of their ancestors.
And since no group of human beings has been without sin, anecdotal evidence for various accusations will never be lacking, even when these sins are less of an explanation than a fatal distraction from the work necessary to develop the needed human capabilities.
In fact it was Western philosophies that both identified and struggled against universal human evils, such as slavery or racism or sexism. It is the West that has discovered natural rights, which inhere in all humans simply because they are human, creating societies in which freedom, justice, and respect for individuals take precedence over the appetites or whims or superstitions of various elites. J. Ellul pointed this out when, in reviewing the non-Western world, said of them: "[they] inherited the consciousness of and desire for freedom. Everything they do today and everything they seek is an expression of what the Western world has caught them."
Western civilization’s science and technology are often vilified as instruments of oppression and hegemony. Yet they have improved the lives of billions of people, freeing them from starvation, disease, suffering, and backbreaking labor. That this knowledge and the attendant material prosperity have, at times, had grievous costs and unforeseen consequences cannot be denied. But little or no thought is given to what the prior conditions or alternatives wrought. For example, Richard Pipes reminds us that: “In Western feudalism the lord was both sovereign and landlord to his vassals, assuming an obligation for their welfare. Not so of Oriental feudalism which exhibited no reciprocity.”
The lesson to be learned here should be clear; that here are no unalloyed human goods. In choosing among them we must make trade-offs-and be mature enough to pay the price. And recognized that at times we may have to accept the possibility that the price ultimately may be high. But as we have seen, in denial of this truth, anti-West sympathizers want to possess simultaneously all the goods of Western civilization, its freedom and equality, material well-being and spiritual richness, the freedom to choose and the freedom from accepting the responsibility for our choices, all without footing the bill.
What the anti-West Multiculturalists sympathizers can't be is honest! They can’t admit how well off the West is because of what they, the anti-Westerners, condemn. How much freedom we Westerners enjoy because our individual rights are protected by shared codes and laws; how much physical comfort and good health and leisure are ours because science and technology have liberated us from humanity's epic struggle for survival with an indifferent nature; and how much wealth and leisure lie at our disposal because of Capitalism. In fact, not just our minds, but also our bodies, including those of the anti-Western Multiculturalists, are the product of Western culture, technology and science. And how well Western foundational principles would work for lifting the rest of the world out of their militaristic tendencies, their pervasive poverty and banal existence.
A true analysis of today’s Multiculturalism shows its willingness to subordinate the autonomous, rational individual into a group defined in terms of its absolute, non-negotiable differences from other groups. Any student of freedom would realize that this endangers democracy. Democracy is founded on a radically different assumption. That our shared humanity, comprising reason and free will (both of which are more essential to what we are than the accidents of race or ethnicity) bestows on us inalienable rights and allows us to form a political community whose main purpose is the protection of those rights for individuals. And this "public thing" embodies abstract laws and procedures that guarantee the freedom and rights of individuals regardless of their group origin. It also brings to light the very idea that individuals should be free to criticize their society, an ideal that is also Western in origin and one that has been harder on itself than on non-Western cultures.
None of the enthusiasts for non-Western cultures actually want to live in countries where the fruits of western civilization, such as safe food and water, dependable electricity and gasoline, efficient and competent hospitals, legally restrained police and military forces, and functioning public utilities are all a rarity. We have not seen hordes of Westerners fleeing an allegedly racist, sexist, soul-killing, high-tech, fast-paced society for the simpler, more fulfilling, more egalitarian, less repressed "organic" lives of non-Western "primal" peoples. As Aristotle said, also long ago, “Virtue is a question of action, not words.” Until the Multiculturalists have the courage of their convictions to live without all the benefits of their wealth and freedom and leisure that only Western culture has created, they’ll remain mere absurd hypocrites. The burden should be on the Multiculturalists to account for the West's unique benefits, including recognition that human oppression, including slavery, is an evil that violates universal principles.
Today’s Multiculturalism then, for all its pretensions, is not an accurate description of history or a coherent ethical system. It is instead, at best, a therapeutic myth. A version that often serves to only gratify the feelings, and allow the transgressions, of those who are unable to act responsibly within modern civilization. It is a type of Free-rider effort to provide compensation for some alleged, often fuzzily defined damages, to a large number of members of a defined group that results in a political power gain for those who can proclaim themselves as the cause of the “solution” agreement. Multiculturalism is an attempt to indoctrinate with a tendentious ideological program that at its heart is incoherent and antiliberal and that limits its adherents to the prison house of race or ethnicity or gender. It demands obedience to a particular ideology that stifles thinking, opinion and questioning. It is a sort of Apostles Creed that certifies one’s self-proclaimed superior conscience and sensitivity to the so-called “oppressed other.” It gratifies the new cosmopolitan aristocracy of brains with bits and pieces it can try on for a while, taste, and enjoy, and throw away, all the while justifying this trivializing consumption as tolerance for the other and sensitivity to difference. As Judith Friedlander stated:”Multiculturalists demand the right of everybody to wear a uniform.”
Intellectually, Multiculturalism is indefensible. It is embarrassingly inconsistent. It is refuted and undermined by its own argument. Politically, Multiculturalism is dangerous. Through its rejection of both reason and nature, multiculturalism represents nothing less than the political suicide of Western civilization, in particular the United States. Multiculturalism attempts to undermine the sound, valid principles upon which America is built. Though it operates subtly, Multiculturalism is no less a threat to our free institutions than the terrorists who attack our cities with airplanes.
“Multiculturalism pretends to be its what it literally means but, it is actually anti-cultural, characterized by all the totalitarian impulses to use massive power of government, even ‘thought police,’ to bring to heel those who decline, for whatever reason, to go along…All differing opinions and perspectives need to be suppressed, and the holders of those opinions persecuted, pilloried, and publicly humiliated…ironically, Multiculturalism’s objective is not diversity at all, it instead is fostering tribalism and identitarianism that is eroding our culture and politics. ”--Anthony Esolen
“Multiculturalism absolves one from knowing anything of substance about other cultures as long as one feels warm and fluffy toward them…celebrate diversity with a uniformity of ignorance.”---Mark Steyn
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Yup, here is how the Swamp is securing the border.........