a lot of nations started with groups of men with guns who went from there. a solid millitarized populace is the bootloader for a potential shake-up of government or splintering off.
fair, but it's bullshit. amounts to elites deciding that The System is so good we should ossify it now. consent of the governed should be ongoing and enthusiastic.
people should be able to disengage from society and not pay tax. income and property taxes are retarded and extortionate; we can create a model that fixes this with higher consumption taxes and much lower spending.
i do not trust foreigners and their governments with my information. i don't even trust our own government, but we can at least not hand that over to others.
most of the people entering America right now are not doing so under passports or visas.
and actually i have no problem with opening up immigration contingent on ineligibility for all social services. that way, people will be forced to leave if there is no work and can easily come if there are open jobs.
that said, i think practically this would harm our quality of life. our cities are already breaking. look at how poorly the yankees handled the few thousand illegals we shipped to their "sanctuary cities".
they work much less well washington -> ca because the regulatory diff is larger.
and it was more okay for prior immigrants because we had systems like sponsorship. you couldn't show up and get on the dole. this has changed, which is why central american refugees will skip mexico (a closer country they MUST instead stay in to be legitimate refugees) and come through to here.
there are hordes of people who would come here and take advantage of social programs if we let them. those programs effectively keep people here - you can't argue for supply and demand if you tip things such that people are never forced to go elsewhere to look for work, support a family.
Idk why the seeming schadenfreude. There seems to be this ridiculous idea now that no nation can possibly grow or shrink and that no new nations can break off or form, but that we must stick with the current set of nations and their boundaries ad infinitum. I don't get it.