Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Immigration

  • The Melting Pot

    A melting pot can't do its job if unmeltable ingredients are thrown into it.

  • A Response to Liccione on Border Enforcement

    From my Facebook page, 22 March 2019   Michael Liccione writes,   Totally open borders would be a surrender of sovereignty. Totally closed borders would be inhumane. There must surely be a via media that would be neither. But Washington seems unable to define it, because both Capitol Hill and the White House see more…

  • A Socialist Argument for Border Control

    Three years ago on this date on my Facebook page.  Redacted and improved.   ………………..   Suppose you want a massive expansion of the welfare state. You want, among other things, a college education to be free to anyone who wants one. In addition, you want free health care for all, and perhaps a guaranteed…

  • Why Not Allow Illegal Immigration?

    It is important to present calm, rational arguments for the few people left who can be reached in this way.  

  • No Polity without Comity

    No polity without comity, and no comity without commonality. E pluribus unum is a noble goal. But a durable and vibrant One cannot be made out of just any Many.  Not just any diversity is combinable into unity. This is why the oft-repeated 'Diversity is our strength' is foolish verbiage that could be spouted only…

  • Did Sexism Bring Elizabeth Warren Down?

    That's what she thinks, but she is fooling herself. Her extremism brought her down. 'Progressive' politics is like a progressive disease: it just gets worse and worse as leftists compete to see who can go farthest Left.  But while the leaders of the Democrat Party are sick with the disease and barking mad, most rank-and-file…

  • Will Leftists Now Re-Evaluate their Espousal of a “Borderless World”?

    We of the Coalition of the Sane understand that one of the many reasons for enforced national borders is to impede the spread of deadly diseases. So I am hoping that such globalist nitwits as John Kerry and Hillary Clinton will learn something from COVID-19.  They will perhaps learn the importance of border control. If…

  • Is Meaningful Dialog Possible with Leftists?

    I rather doubt it. Suppose a bunch of leftists such as the editors of Commonweal say the following: We reject the xenophobia and racism of many forms of ethno-nationalism, explicit and implicit, as grave sins against God the Creator. Violence done against the bodies of marginalized people is violence done against the body of Christ.…

  • Illegal Aliens and Black Reparations

    Here is another problem for the ill-starred notion of black reparations. Should those who reside illegally in the U. S. pay them? Why not? Don't they benefit from the putative legacy of slavery like everyone else?  On the  other hand, if you think that only the  descendants of slave-holders should pay reparations, then we citizens…

  • Kevin Kim on John Pepple on Sweden as Europe’s Sacrificial Lamb

    A tip of the hat to Bill Keezer, and greetings to fellow bloggers Kim and Pepple. The titles of their blogs do not, however, earn the coveted MavPhil transparency of content award. Feed: BigHominid's Hairy ChasmsPosted on: Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:22 AMAuthor: Kevin KimSubject: Pepple on Sweden Is Sweden Europe's sacrificial lamb, to be…

  • I am not Totally Opposed to Open Borders

    I'm for half-open borders, borders open in the outbound direction.  Anyone who wants to emigrate should be allowed to do so.  Communists need walls to keep people in; we need walls to keep them out.  Hence the rank absurdity of the comparison of a wall on our southern border to the Berlin Wall.  Now the mendacious…

  • Gun Violence and Border Control: A Plea to Our ‘Liberal’ Brethren

    Dear 'Liberal,' If you are concerned with gun violence, then you ought to be concerned with controlling the border. A porous border allows for human trafficking, drug trafficking, and — wait for it — gun smuggling. Now can you grasp that weaponry illegally brought into the country can and will end up in the wrong…

  • Michael Kearns, Profile in Civil Courage

    Erie County Clerk Michael "Mickey" Kearns took his first legal step to fight a new state law that allows immigrants in the country illegally to obtain a New York State driver's license. At the time the illegal aliens receive, illegally, their driver's licenses, they will be able to register to vote, again illegally. Now in…

  • The Greatest Risk We are Taking

    Patrick J. Buchanan: But the greatest risk we are taking, based on utopianism, is the annual importation of well over a million legal and illegal immigrants, many from the failed states of the Third World, in the belief we can create a united, peaceful and harmonious land of 400 million, composed of every race, religion,…

  • Nationalism: Ethnic and Civic

    Here: Much of today’s debate fails to distinguish between two types of nationalism: ethnic and civic. The former is based on language, blood or race. American nationalism is the latter, civic in nature, holding that the United States is a nation based on a set of beliefs — a creed — rather than race or…