Posted on 09/18/2016 3:22:00 PM PDT by Lorianne
It can feel disorienting to contemplate borders as negotiable rather than fixed. History demonstrates that there are always people who wish to expand their borders to include additional territory, and those who wish to close them to preclude immigration. Old maps reflect constantly evolving political divisions; those territories that coincide with geological formations can have a reassuring aura of permanence, but even these can be breached. Walls seem to take over from geography, and DonaldTrump isn’t the only one to contemplate their fortressing singularity.
Britain is planning to build “the great wall of Calais”, as it has been named in some areas of the press, in the hope of reducing illegal immigration into the UK, though it seems likely the wall will simply make refugees adopt a more circuitous route. François Guennoc of Auberge des Migrants, a French aid group working in Calais, has said, “When you put walls up anywhere in the world, people find ways to go round them. It’s a waste of money. It could make it more dangerous for people, it will push up tariffs for people smugglers and people will end up taking more risks.” There has likewise been talk of a wall between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. And many citizens, post-Brexit, want to build a trade wall (a metaphoric rather than concrete structure) to protect local manufacturing.
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Gentry liberals don’t see the negative, but see the positive near-term effects. They live like the Victorian rentier class while the damage is felt below.
They get cheap child care and bathroom tile work. They and their children are shielded from the cultural deterioration.
Meanwhile, the illegitimacy rate among working-class whites has neared 50 per cent.
If one had a premonition of the current state of our culture in the mid-1980s, the questions would abound: what had happened? another Great Depression? A civil war or military conflict on our shores?
Excellent answers.
Is it? Where do I sign up!
To stop the invasions from incompatible cultures whose members demand welfare and cultural accommodation when they arrive, and to stop terrorists who think they have the right to conquer their destinations.
bttt
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