It’s evident when you add it all up – serfdom, indentured servitude, slavery, the Holocaust, genocide, ethnic cleansing, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, dust bowls, pandemics, epidemics, famine, wars, human trafficking and every day skirmishes – that a significant portion of the population has experienced, or has ancestors who have experienced horrendous times, conditions, or upbringings.
No Break in the Action
As the world proceeds towards eight billion people, en masse, humankind doesn’t seem to be progressing toward a more hallowed state, wherein we learn to share the planet effectively. Ancient rivalries and hatreds, some lasting thousands of years, appear as molten today as they were in antiquity:
Armenians and Turks, Sunnis and Shias, Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics, Albanians and Serbs, Tutsis and Hutus, Jews and Palestinians, Japanese and Chinese, Indian and Chinese, everybody and Chinese, Indonesians and Malaysians, and Assamese and Bengalis, among dozens of others.
Currently persecution of Jews is occurring on many levels, particularly in France, but alarmingly in Great Britain, Germany, and other supposedly enlightened nations, largely fomented by extremist Muslims. Muslim attacks on Christians are occurring worldwide. Christians are not the instigators.
The Statute of Limitations
With so many people here and abroad descending from ravaged lineages, how much acknowledgment are surviving members supposed to receive? Is everyone, or anyone, to be entitled because of what occurred 100, 500, or 1000 years ago? What is the expiration date on special status? When does engendering a “protected class” impinge upon the rights of everyone else?
How long should the state be responsible for the income and livelihoods of those who are downtrodden, perhaps legitimately so? Where is the sunset clause that says after so many years of welfare, it’s time to get going on your own?
What about our immigration policies? Socialism, extreme poverty, and corruption in South America and particularly Latin America leads to untold masses who want to escape to America. What do you do with the actual family at the border? Biden has very bad answers.
This is Not Wheel of Forune
Those who, to this day, have experienced indentured servitude or slavery; genocide, earthquakes, other natural disasters; pandemics and epidemics; and man-made hostilities and skirmishes, cannot come to our shores or our southern border en masse, where we will accommodate them in such numbers and with such benefits that our sovereignty will eventually be lost.
In America, we cannot open our doors to every refugee on earth, or even those in our own hemisphere. Nor can any one nation. It is time for a global response and the shared burden of responsibility.
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