I like to play a game called ‘how did we get here?’. This game is really just another name for the study of history. I think most people like to play it too. Only without a knowledge of history it becomes a game of ‘what if’. I saw there is a new show coming out called Utopia, something like Bio-Dome of the 80’s, basically just a closed system social experiment, that is supposed to reveal something about these what ifs. Now you have all these stupid shows like Survivor or Lost exploring groups of people cast into the wilderness. But this has all already happened for real. It’s called American History. Cast members signed contracts with the King of England, Spain or France, then they got on a boat and sailed over to the wilderness to try and make a go of it. Instead of getting voted off the Island, if you were an idiot you straight-up died. There were a million ways to die in the west, Indians, animals, disease, starvation or winter. In addition they wrote accounts of what happened. You can go and read them, they are very good because these people were far more literate than we are today. They tried communism and socialism, and constitutional monarchies and democracy. A variety of different groups came over and gave it a try. You can watch spoiled London elite men crash and burn and meek Christians families flourish. You don’t have to play ‘what if’, and you can learn about our heritage. Oh that’s right modernism told us that we are more evolved so we can throw out history, what was I thinking? Oh, I was thinking.
How did we get here with health insurance?
Once upon a time Abraham Lincoln needed money for his illegal war against the South so Government decided to invade our lives with Income Tax. It kept getting higher and higher and the exceptions kept piling up as politicians fought over handouts. Then FDR promised everyone a cushy retirement plan and Social Security was passed. So they started taking it out of your paycheck with your income tax withholding. One exception to this mess was benefits employers could give to their employees without having to take out social security and other BS taxes. One of these benefits was health insurance. So people became dependent on their employer for insurance. Then Clinton and Barney Frank decided that everyone deserves a house even if they couldn’t afford it. So they required banks(due to federal reserve law banks are basically government) to give money to people who had no chance of paying it back. So then the housing bubble grew and then popped, and then wrecked the whole economy. And people lost health insurance with their jobs. So then comes Obama with a 30 year old 360,000 word mess to ‘solve’ this new problem. Now the law forces even more people to lose their jobs, or be cut back to part time. And millions of existing insurance plans are being canceled. Not only that but now doctors are retiring and many are refusing obamacare patients. Then the Democrats paint this as a good thing, unemployment will give you more time to water your plants and hang out with your kids. And your healthcare plan theoretically gives you perfect care but no doctors will accept it. Oh what a wonderful utopia.
How did we get here with the border mess?
Well we all know that colonial powers got wealthy by stealing from and enslaving the noble savages all over the planet. And nowhere was that more prominent than in what is today South America and Central America. The Spanish mixed the savage culture with their culture while loading up ships full of gold and copper. They wiped out millions of these peoples and so today South and Central America are so prosperous that everyone from North America and the rest of the world is flocking to their country. Wait a minute, something is wrong here. Perhaps raping and pillaging isn’t responsible for civilization.
In reality, theft never results in prosperity because the sin of theft is usually coupled with the sin of consumption an that of sloth. There are no pirate hordes because they blow it all when they come to shore on wine, women and song. The same reason there are no lottery winners on the Forbes top 100 list. Instead there is the Sudden Money Institute to help people fix their lives after they are destroyed by large inheratances or winning the lottery. Successful civilization is the result of hard work and the rule of law based on biblical religious conviction.
And closely related: How did California become so liberal?
I was surprised to hear it, California has always been liberal in my lifetime. But it was not always the case. The state overwhelmingly elected Ronald Reagan as governor twice and President twice. Ronald Reagan, that guy who the left and half of the right think is too right to be right. Then a little piece of legislation known as the Simpson-Mazzoli Act was passed in 1986, by that same Reagan, who was tricked. It was sold as the solution to all of our immigration problems. It was suppose to allow for cheap labor and stem the tide of illegals coming into the country. Sound familiar? Of course all it did was fast track the illegals that were already here to citizenship, and the border was never secured. It changed the demographics of California from a conservative producing state to a haven for Mexico to export it’s lower class. As a result L.A. is by all accounts a third world city. The rest of the state is suffering from liberal policies and deflated pension funds. When economies are growing, passing out huge pensions seems like a great idea, until demographics and hight taxes forces the middle class to move out of the state. Many stay because they like the weather, and the scenery, but at heart the state is broke. Resources are off limits due to environmental worship and taxes are high in order to pay for the welfare state. Also, Republicans never get elected. And now the Democrats are learning from history, they kind of like the way California has turned out. If only we could turn the whole country into California. And so it’s happening, by Presidential fiat. The southern border is gone, amnesty has been granted and illegals are being shipped to conservative neighborhoods near you. All without even passing a bill this time. The lesson of California is only 28 years old but it might as well be ancient history, with the caliber of history education, but at least we teach Spanish.
We are not a nation of immigrants, we are a nation of immigrants who became Americans. We came here for various reasons but we all subscribed to the idea. America is an idea, unlike most countries. Chesterton playfully mocked our immigration forms of a hundred years ago, for the questions they asked trying to understand your adherence to our idea. Other countries don’t ask you such questions because they are not about ideas. If you come here and undermine that idea, how much longer will we remain America? Many immigrants from Mexico are not interested in becoming Americans. As exhibited by the anti Americanism in California. They wave Mexican flags on the 4th of July and they think California is theirs and that we stole it. And so they have turned much of California into Mexico. Should we let them do it to the rest of the country? Siestas and poverty all around.
Further Reading:
The Light and the Glory, Peter Marshall, David Manuel