(Oct 23, 2018 04:24 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: who outsourced all the american jobs overthe last 40 years ? republicans
Both parties promoted it. But sure, the Republicans were certainly complicit in it. But what kind of Republicans have been in charge of the party since the 1980's? The Bush dynasty. (Since the 1980's, the Democrats have been shaped by the would-be Clinton dynasty and by Obama in much the same way.)
That's why Donald Trump's nomination in the 2016 primaries and his election in the general was a revolution in the entire Washington establishment. In both parties. Trump is something different, he represents the actual arrival of the "Change" that Barack Obama used as his slogan in 2008.
What's notable about both parties since Ronald Reagan, is that none of them have been American nationalists. They've all been airy idealists of one sort or another. That idealism about principles like "globalism" and "free trade" led them to lose sight of the interests of the American people, including American workers.
Trump most emphatically is an American nationalist. (So am I, that's why I voted for him and why I continue to strongly support him.)
Quote:is zenophobia a positive or negative community value ?
"Xenophobia" is a left-wing pseudo-scientific buzz-word. It takes a perfectly good word from the psychiatric vocabulary ("phobia") and attaches it to "xeno-" (Greek for "different"), suggesting a psychiatric illness, a fear of difference. One could just as easily invent another bogus mental illness and call it 'koinophobia', fear of community.
That's just the thing, difference and community tend to be antithetical. In order for there to be a "community", people need to share more in common than what divides them. There must be a common sense of belonging to us rather than being surrounded by them.
And if, as so many university professors constantly tell us, our values are all "socially constructed", then what happens to values when society disappears and turns into a collection of isolated social-atoms with nothing in common with their neighbors? Where community disappears into 'me' surrounded on all sides by 'them'?
It's a perfect definition of anomie, the breakdown of bonds between individuals and community, resulting in normlessness, the fragmentation of social identity and the loss of self-regulatory values.
And everywhere in the world where this vision exists by default or is being enforced by the elites, we see the rise of crime, school failure, welfare dependency, social division and identity politics. It's true in Europe, in London, in urban America, and throughout the 'third world'.
So, what is to be done?
I think that America once had a good solution: its famous "melting pot". Welcome immigrants but expect them to assimiliate into an existing American community. A solution where immigrants are expected to join us. If they don't want to become Americans, then why did they come here in the first place? Is America nothing more than the rest of the world's get-rich-quick spot?
That means that immigration has to occur at a slow enough rate that the new arrivals can be absorbed into the American cultural community without destroying it. The ideology that drives the whole thing has to emphasize the value of the larger community and of becoming part of it, as opposed to incessantly attacking the community and trying to subvert it, while encouraging new arrivals to set themselves up as separate communities in supposedly righteous opposition to their new home.
It's pretty obvious where all that is leading. To social fragmentation and ultimately to the collapse of Western Civilization.