Your humble author has long held a view, with some refinement, regarding legal immigration and what ought to be America’s policy thereregarding. To wit: Since America is the civil and societal heritage we hold in common, rather than blut und boden bereft of a uniting ideal, we should not be opposed to augmenting our numbers with those who embrace and take to heart those fundamental pillars that make America superlative amongst nations. To this end, we ought to take in such who wish to become American, but no more than we are capable of assimilating and only amongst those who desire to assimilate. Complimentary to this, we should seek to export American ideals, the American way, and any other cultural aspects that can supplant those aspects in the foreign realm that run counter thereto. It is that core American essence that we hold in common that we should seek to maximize. The particulars, of course, can and will change, with reasonable people disagreeing therewith.
But it is that essence or unique civilization, even within the broader Western Civilization, that is the core dynamo of our innovation and prosperity. Sober and rational people can disagree as to what that is since it was not some proscriptive ideology, but a descriptive one over which people can disagree, again, over the particulars. If history is any true guide, than it has shown that what that is, however it may be described or explained, is far superior to any and all other civilizations, nations, peoples, cultures, or—most importantly—ideologies in the world, and has been since the very founding of the United States of America.
What, then, of immigration and it’s the effect on America’s vitality?
To say that immigration either causes or prevents cultural and economic stagnation is to engage in a false dilemma fallacy which begs the question whose answer revolves around the question of immigration. Yet, some foolishly insist on so begging said question, and quite laughably in the attempt.
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