We have all known extended families where some have it together, and some members are a complete mess. Nations like Great Britain were tempered by war, disease, and struggle for hundreds of years. They emerged as a successful people through perseverance and faith in God.
Unsuccessful nations are like dysfunctional family members. They have made a mess of their own lives and their own households. Their own sins have come down upon their own heads. Drugs, booze, sloth, arrogance, infidelity......you name it. One day, they checks run dry. They gaze over at the home of their well off relative. Good family, beautiful home, well behaved and grounded children, money in the bank. The dysfunctionals WANT what the other relatives have, and move in with them. They are like fleas; uninvited and parasites. These are the "refugees." These are the Muslim invaders. These are the Mexican squatters.
Well said
Stolen and pasted on my FB with you cited as author