But some here want you, border agent man, to do the ostrich and "leave things be". We have every right to know the truth while shouldering our obligation as citizens to protect and preserve our country and culture. Doing anything less (and there's no shortage of citizens doing less) means selling out the efforts of everyone who came before us.
More importantly - allowing the creeping corruption to continue unchecked robs our progeny of the future that would have been their birthright: a nation where they had a fair chance for success as equals under the law.
Today I see our formerly free market warped by artificial distortions designed to enrich a Mexican-style elitist class on the backs of a neo-slave caste of hopeless drones. The apologists cite the neccessity of retooling ourselves to compete in a world market while history has seen us constantly throw the baby out with the bathwater in the name of short-term profit (robotics to Japan, manufacturing to China, etc.). The well of our resources and ingenuity can only be milked so long before lack of reinvestment (in ourselves through education and local development) reaches the inevetible conclusion - Third World status, beholden to those who considered us the role-model to live up to.
I don't want to be alive to endure that, but if I have to I'd much rather say I did my best to stop it.
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