"We have a majority of the U.S. Senate representing a foreign nation."
You know, I'm seriously to the point where I think I need to just sit down and have a huge, shoulder-shaking, chest-heaving cry over this. My country is leaving me. It's killing me.
And I am probably one of the most positive Freepers you will find on this site; an upbeat Crunchy Capitalist Conservative who sees all she's worked so hard for (and her 20 years of military service) being flushed down the toilet.
I've never understood people that are pessimistic, but this is really starting to grind me down. I'm not ready to give in completely, though. That's my one Saving Grace. :)
As President Bush said, a "Good scrubbing" is in order in our House and Senate. I plan on making that happen in '06 and '08.
It's hitting me hard now. For one thing, I'm having to deal with a school district that cares more about the kids of illegals than it does my kids (when I pay tons of tax dollars).
I'm sick of seeing Spanish everywhere.
I'm tired of going to fast food restaurants and the workers getting the order wrong because they can't speak English.
I long for what our country was like during the Reagan years (of course he did grant amnesty back then).
I feel the same loss of heart.
But I've decided to support the House Republicans; they put enforcement first.
And I read Michelle Malkin and listen to Laura Ingraham, they have both been rocks on this issue.
Yep! I see your posts all the time and you are indeed an optimist here!
I'm afraid that what our government is doing is flooding our nation with the type of constituents they want. We aren't the type they want. We're generally independent. We have jobs. We don't need government beyond the most basic services. Governments like dependent classes, because someone is more prone to tolerate abuses from government if they depend on that government for goodies.
In addition, we respect the system of limited government our founders gave us. The reason America has been so slow to embrace socialism (as have so many European nations and Canada) is that we were founded by independent type people who dislike big government. We're also more resistant to secularism and social liberalism because we are more religious and understand that immorality leads to bigger government. As Tocqueville said, America is great because America is good.
Our leaders want to replace us with people with no emotional or intellectual attachment to America as it was intended to be. They want multi-culturalism, where traditional American values are eventually swamped by competing values. Latin Americans may be good people as individuals but they come from lands with little tradition of self-government, and where coups and revolutions are frequent. Government is understood to be powerful by many of them, not limited, as we see it.
Our government is slowly replacing its traditional constituents with new constituents more to their liking. Constituents with more socialistic leanings, who are willing to accept powerful, centralized government as the norm, and are dependent heavily on that government, and who have so many varied religions and traditions that government must become ever more secular and licentious to maintain "separation of church and state".