In the last piece I was talking about the regular Southerner-turned-hippie took it for granted that the Coca-Cola man should feel guilty that his Coca-Cola bottling plant was a thing of beauty — and a beacon of hope — in the misery of 1950s India.
If you ever wonder how our thinking ever got so screwed up relative to immigration, you can stop wondering.
As always, what passes for thinking among suburban Southerners is what all the other suburbanites were thinking a generation ago. Southern “liberaism” is always a fossil enclosed in amber.
The apprently harmless crap that the hippies were pushing in the 1960s is the basis of natioanl policy today. Everybody from the Marxists to the libertarians agrees that whatever we have was STOLEN from the third world.
Libertarians don’t SAY that, any more than liberals outside the South say it today.
What libertarrians say is that the border should be open because any third worlder walking across the border magically gets paid ten times as much on this side of the border.
Therefore, says the libertarian, since the market will pay him ten times as much on this side of the border, you are ROBBING him if you don’t let him in.
In other words, the libertarian and the Southern liberal are saying exactly the same thing: the only reason workers get paid better on this side of the border is becauswe they happen to be on this side of that magical border. The libertarian says we have no right to it.
#1 by kane on 04/19/2006 - 11:27 pm
The big business supporting Republican does it for economic reasons.
The iberal Democrat does it for “blame whitey” reasons.
The libertarian does it for “freedom.”
Only the populist aka the paleocon will protect the border. Too bad neither of the major parties have paleocons.
#2 by Shari on 04/20/2006 - 8:11 am
I would suggest that the rich ARE stealing, not from the third world, but from us. They want us and our children to be as poor as the third world. Leftist just SAY they care about the third world because they have a nice little racket going that they want to protect and cover with a “moral” figleaf.