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I’m going to SO hate myself in a few hours .. especially of all nights .. losing an hour of sleep, but John Adams pretty much graphically painted the situation there, didn’t he ? Our Founders have to be spinning in their graves.
It's so elementary, so very basic, this need to shut out foreign influence.
And we have tragically lost sight of it.
I'd written earlier about physical illustrations of the need for this protection. One example was a set of gates near a pedestrian railroad crossing. The gates were constructed with double gates such that a person could not walk straight across the tracks.
Another example is a dog park I saw. This park, enclosed by a chain-link fence, has a double set of gates for entry. You could take a group of schoolchildren to that dog park and ask them, "Why two gates? Why not just one?" Then explain to them that for the Presidency of our country, our Founders designed "two gates" of citizenship expressed in the fundamental concept of the law of nations, that of the natural born citizen. Born on the soil of the country (one gate) of parents who are citizens of the country (second gate).
Even a schoolchild would understand this. Our Founders understood this. But the voters have forgotten.