Imagine a World Without Borders By James Reed

     Here is a great article attacking the ideology of the open borders world of the global corporate elite, but also that held by the antifa and progressive Left, who, when they grow up, if ever, will probably abandon the social Justice Warrior life, and take jobs supporting a system that in their youth they denounced as racist and oppressive. You see, we heard and saw this all before from the 1960s radicals, most of whom all sold out on their  ideals of youth, however misplaced,  and became part of the system they once despised because they wanted money, comfort and the security of a good job. And power. It is easy to be radical when one is subsidised by mom and dad’s income, but try fighting the system, whatever side of the fence you are on, later in life. See if you can put a career on the line for principles:
  https://www.city-journal.org/html/imagine-theres-no-border-14608.html

“Driving the growing populist outrage in Europe and North America is the ongoing elite push for a borderless world. Among elites, borderlessness has taken its place among the politically correct positions of our age—and, as with other such ideas, it has shaped the language we use. The descriptive term “illegal alien” has given way to the nebulous “unlawful immigrant.” This, in turn, has given way to “undocumented immigrant,” “immigrant,” or the entirely neutral “migrant”—a noun that obscures whether the individual in question is entering or leaving. Such linguistic gymnastics are unfortunately necessary. Since an enforceable southern border no longer exists, there can be no immigration law to break in the first place.

Today’s open-borders agenda has its roots not only in economic factors—the need for low-wage workers who will do the work that native-born Americans or Europeans supposedly will not—but also in several decades of intellectual ferment, in which Western academics have created a trendy field of “borders discourse.” What we might call post-borderism argues that boundaries even between distinct nations are mere artificial constructs, methods of marginalization designed by those in power, mostly to stigmatize and oppress the “other”—usually the poorer and less Western—who arbitrarily ended up on the wrong side of the divide. “Where borders are drawn, power is exercised,” as one European scholar put it. This view assumes that where borders are not drawn, power is not exercised—as if a million Middle Eastern immigrants pouring into Germany do not wield considerable power by their sheer numbers and adroit manipulation of Western notions of victimization and grievance politics. Indeed, Western leftists seek political empowerment by encouraging the arrival of millions of impoverished migrants.

The end of borders, and the accompanying uncontrolled immigration, will never become a natural condition—any more than sanctuary cities, unless forced by the federal government, will voluntarily allow out-of-state agencies to enter their city limits to deport illegal aliens, or Mexico will institutionalize free entry into its country from similarly Spanish-speaking Central American countries. Borders are to distinct countries what fences are to neighbors: means of demarcating that something on one side is different from what lies on the other side, a reflection of the singularity of one entity in comparison with another. Borders amplify the innate human desire to own and protect property and physical space, which is impossible to do unless it is seen—and can be so understood—as distinct and separate. Clearly delineated borders and their enforcement, either by walls and fences or by security patrols, won’t go away because they go to the heart of the human condition—what jurists from Rome to the Scottish Enlightenment called meum et tuum, mine and yours. Between friends, unfenced borders enhance friendship; among the unfriendly, when fortified, they help keep the peace.”

     The quest of the Left and the economic globalists thus will end in disaster, and the ultimate creation of new walls, even if it means that every house, or fortress, becomes walled within itself. The power elite can never be satisfied, but must keep pushing, pushing, always attempting to undo boundaries that civilisation has erected. They are about to find that one day, they too will seek their own walls:
  https://www.ft.com/content/0dcabab4-1c44-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6

     They may not find them, and they too, will become, “borderless.”

 

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