RLK, is that your coinage? Pardon me for not citing more of your essay, I would have to do so much cut and pasting that it would be too tedious, the best I can do is flag individuals to read it.
Therein lies the problem.
FR readers represent perhaps the top 5% of our society in terms of an understanding of freedom and the generation of a high standard of living and individual rights. Yet even on FR I doubt that more than a tiny % will take the time to read your essay.
I agree with all of your premises, I see a tide coming in which will sweep away the last islands of individual property rights, and hence freedom. Clearly the West, and America, has already passed the tipping point beyond which the unproductive takers cannot be stopped from voting tax increases on the wealth producers. And I see no solution.
And of course you correctly identify the problem with the Mexican flood. We are today Serbia writ large in this way, our Southwest is Big Kosovo. The Kosovo Serbs also enjoyed their cheap Albanian maids and gardeners, and in time were swallowed by them as the Southwest will be by Mexicans. Again, I see no solution.
If there is any small consolation to be found, it is that history does not long move in straight lines, and we may have a massive breach which will result in an entirely new set of opportunities and dangers. Of course, the risk is that the man on a white horse is more likely to ride to the rescue than a new Thomas Jefferson.
For me, I consider myself to be a free agent, a Ronin in a chaotic period, hoping to land upon islands of sanity and stability and freedom in an insane and increasingly unstable insane world.
Of course, such "islands" will become "tax havens" for the "rich" who are "attempting to evade their global duty", and will be ruthlessly saught out and crushed to prevent their serving as symbols to the global serfs of the possibility of resistance to central control.
I only hope that my children will be able to experience some of our legacy of freedom before the last vault is looted and the last book from the library is burned to heat the last can of spam.
PS: stand by to be angrily condemned by the Bush Beatification Society.
Bush is God's Anointed President. Why in the world should people need anything else except his press releases?
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It's all mine. I go systematically go through the premises and slogans of the left and give them realistically-based psychoanalytic interpretations.