Crawford, in the comments:
Can anyone tell me just WTF is the value of being a US citizen? Don’t need it to vote — at least, according to Holder’s DOJ. Don’t need it to work in the US — according to just about everyone in DC. Don’t need it to get handed taxpayer money — ditto. Having it means you’ll actually have to serve time for crimes, and you’re on the hook for taxes.
Well. There’s the flag lapel pin. Plus, if you’re into it, you can often find a hot Irish chick in Galway who’s willing to take you home and bang you, provided you let her berate you about your imperialist colonialist consumerist evils for about an hour or two before hand.
— Which is really more pleasant than it sounds, provided you like Guinness.
But other than that, yeah. I take your point.
I just wish the GOP establishment — featuring Jeb Bush and the other proponents of open borders and demographic panders (it’s the only way to stay relevant, as the kids say) — would realize that Crawford’s argument evinces a better electoral strategy than the “us-too” RINOism they propose.
Which I suspect they already do. Meaning that the arguments they use they use on purpose. And rhetorically. So. Full circle!
Alexandre Kojève meant it.
Importing a
bettermore dependent class of voter worked out so well for (no longer)Great Britain, didn’t it?Ha. The internationalist left would turn the very fact of that transitory disconcert points — and can only point — to the ultimate universal truth embodied by their global vision. History working itself to the absolute moment!
You get jury duty. And you get your turn in the barrel as the jingoistic nationalist bitter clinger Emmanuel Goldstein that the bien pensants need to make themselves feel superior.
There is the privilege of them telling us how much freedom we have the US while continually speaking like they are trying convincing us of it.
place an “in” where needed.