February 12, 2014

Immigration and National Survival

By Selwyn Duke
When pondering our obsession with immigration, I'm reminded of how people in the ridiculous dystopian film Idiocracy were watering their crops with an energy drink called Brawndo. And even though the crops weren't growing, the suggestion to try water instead was met with the following conditioned response in the drink's defense: "It's got what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!" No one knew what electrolytes were. No one could explain why they were in Brawndo. It was all sloganeering. And so it is with immigration. Why do we have immigration? "Because it's got what America craves! It's got people!" But why does the US, the world's third most populous country, need more people? "Because they're in immigration! It's got what America craves!" The problem with a blanket advocacy of "immigration" is that, as with "ideology," it is a category, not a creed. If someone proclaimed, "We need ideology!" we should ask, will any do? Will liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, Nazism,...(Read Full Article)