If Democrats don't want foreigners involved in our elections, why do they think it's OK for illegals to vote?
George Rebane
The Cato Institute is the nation’s foremost libertarian thinktank. It has a long record of publishing well thought out and researched policy analyses which it freely makes available on its website. I have now and again cited their research, and even a few of their opinion commentaries, although I don’t always agree with all their libertarian viewpoints – that is why I call myself a conservetarian.
Yesterday (31jul18) Dr Jeffrey Miron, Cato’s Director of Economic Studies and director of undergraduate economics studies at Harvard, published a commentary in USA Today titled ‘Forget the Wall Already, It’s Time for the U.S. to Have Open Borders’. In it he argues that the US should open its borders to allow free ingress and egress to one and all with no interference or mediating actions by our government. When I read Miron’s piece I was shocked at what appears to be an insane policy proposal by an organization which the Rebanes have supported for years. I still don’t know whether this is Miron opining on his own, or announcing Cato’s considered policy on borders and immigration.
The main takeaway from my now several readings are that his proposed policy will end America as we know it in literally all dimensions. Open borders will do away with the sovereign nation-state, the first attribute of which is that it controls transit across its borders, and what goes on within those borders. This is the fundamental tenet of the Westphalian order under which the international order has been conducted since 1648.
The United States, and any country for that matter, with such open borders will quickly experience the full brunt of the tragedy of the commons (cf Garrett Hardin) as people across the globe make their way into America in the attempt to enjoy our economy, freedoms, and social welfare programs. The duration of such happy times will end very quickly as Americans of all political hues realize what a tragic mistake we have made as the country’s institutions begin to collapse. (more here and here)
And such migrations will be doubly disastrous if the borderless world envisioned by Miron comes to pass. Miron promotes global government with central planning and control taken to the limit. And he naively asks us to believe that massive cross cultural human movements will not immediately require draconian control measures put in force to stop lawlessness and riots on a scale never before witnessed on this planet. Miron is unaware that for good reason nature abhors monolithic structures of control and repositories of data/knowledge. What the man advocates across the world is nothing less than the end of civilizations with a Mad Max world contending with Big Brother trying to maintain control.
I annotated Professor Miron’s commentary. You can download the annotated pdf file and read it in your Acrobat reader if you wish. Download Forget the Wall Already – GJR
[3aug18 update] Here It’s again worth pointing out that the Right believes America to be exceptional because of the system of governance and commerce our Founders bequeathed us. The Left continues to tell us that America is not exceptional, it is evil, and that our system must be changed. Now the rest of the world, especially those who vote with their feet, fervently believe that America is indeed most exceptional since they are willing to leave everything and risk everything to enter our land by hook or crook. So here’s the ongoing contradiction that the Left and the so-called centrists ignore – since by the world’s vote America is exceptional, and yet by the Left’s argument it was not our social systems that made us so, then the only explanation that remains is the racist one that it was the white Europeans and their melded cultures rewarding work and risk that have made America the most desired destination on this planet.
This explains the Left’s insane (and racist) assault on western culture and America as the exceptional sovereign nation-state. Our continued existence as a capitalistic country populated by a free and entrepreneurial people flies in the face of everything that the Left preaches in our schools, throughout our public forums, and in concert with our enemies around the world.
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