{"id":4961,"date":"2017-12-12T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/12\/on-immigration-once-more\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:08:27","slug":"on-immigration-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/12\/on-immigration-once-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Once More on Immigration and the Retromingent Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

One point that needs to be made over and over in the teeth of retromingent leftist incomprehension is that immigration is justified only if it benefits the host country.<\/em>  Donald Trump understands this; Hillary and her ilk do not.  <\/span><\/p>\n

This is another reason why his defeat of Hillary is cause for jubilation among those who can think straight. It is also a large part of the explanation why Trump won the 2016 election and why it is an excellent bet that he will win again in 2020, assuming that the Wirtschaftswunder<\/em> he has ignited continues.<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt it is good for Muslims<\/em> that they be allowed to flood into Germany; but what the Germans need to ask is whether there is any net benefit to them<\/em> of this in-flooding.  And the same for every country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The guiding idea here is Country First. America First is just a special case. A good government looks first to the welfare of its own citizens, just as good parents look first to the welfare of their own children.*<\/span><\/p>\n

Good governors also understand that one cannot force the integration of worldviews in collision. Sharia and the West do not mix.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not 'racist' and for two reasons. First, Islam is a religion and its adherents, Muslims, do not constitute a race. Second, even if Muslims did constitute a race, there is nothing 'racist' in any plausible sense of the term about recognizing that comity presupposes commonality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Far from being 'racist,' what I am urging is just common sense, a commodity in short supply among lefties whom I call retromingents<\/a> because of their tendency to micturate<\/a> on the past and its wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

These 'progressives' are transgressive of tradition, and to that extent regressive. <\/span><\/p>\n

To say it again: there is no right to immigrate. Correlatively, there is no obligation on the part of any country to accept immigrants.  <\/span><\/p>\n

On the growth of Europe's Muslim population, see here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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*To ward off any misunderstanding of the analogy: I am not suggesting that government stands to citizens as parents to children. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One point that needs to be made over and over in the teeth of retromingent leftist incomprehension is that immigration is justified only if it benefits the host country.  Donald Trump understands this; Hillary and her ilk do not.   This is another reason why his defeat of Hillary is cause for jubilation among those who … Continue reading “Once More on Immigration and the Retromingent Left”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}