12-16-2018, 08:19 AM
(12-15-2018, 10:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Dude, only a dumb or foolish or overly sympathetic or naive or completely impoverished and worthless nation would insist and allow its borders remain open to whoever wants to enter, any time they please and for whatever reason. As I'm mentioned before, we aren't the native American Indians who had no concept of the world at the time.
What is it with you folks on the right that you can't see any middle ground. Worse, you insist that your opponents see it the same way. Here's a hint: try nuance. I assume you use that concept in the other parts of you life. For example, if you ask a friend to attend a ballgame and he or she says no, that does not imply that your friend is no longer your friend. If so, marriage is totally out of the question.
But back to the topic. No one wants blindly open borders -- no one! By the same token, we shouldn't want hermetically sealed borders either. Everyone benefits by cultural and trade interactions with people from other countries. Everyone gains. That's clearly not the same as open borders, nor does it imply a willingness to roll over and play dead for the benefit of others. If you want to see slavish boot licking and subservience, try the relationship we have with China. Big Business wanted access at all costs, now they're whining that they had to give away all their intellectual property. The solution was simple: demand trade deals that made that illegal and make them enforceable. Oh yeah, we had one called TPP and the Trumpster pissed all over it.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.