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E3: Multiculturalism and American Identity Amidst Crisis · The Junto Podcast

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Music.
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Hello, and welcome to the Junto podcast, where we promote the practical application
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of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I am your host, Edgar Mills.
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Hello, good people, and thank you for tuning in to episode three of the Junto podcast.
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This time, we're going to be talking about multiculturalism and American identity.
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But first, I'm going to start out by saying a few things. This is not a news
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outlet, and I am certainly not an investigative journalist,
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but I want to talk a little bit about the Los Angeles wildfires because they
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can loosely be tied into this episode to the topic that we're going to be on.
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Now, I wrote these papers well before the wildfires started.
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However, I'm going to tie those wildfires in with this episode with one key
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word, and that key word is priorities.
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The more you watch the news or read about the fires in L.A.,
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you will see that this tragedy was, if not preventable,
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at very minimum, the scope and scale of damage could have been mitigated. considerably.
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But of course, the priorities of the state's governor was political posturing
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and environmentalism or environmental theater.
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So his priorities were not on preventing fires in a place that's known for fires.
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The absentee mayor, who was in, I want to say, Ghana during During this process,
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her priorities were obviously on foreign soil and at some point cutting the
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budget to the fire department or reallocating money elsewhere.
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And then more importantly, the person most directly associated is the fire chief,
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who her priorities obviously were DEI-based, diversity, inclusion groups.
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Equity, whatever that acronym stands for, right?
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So her priorities were ensuring that we can hire women or lesbian firefighters
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to, in an article I read today, get the job done.
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Well, the job is not getting done.
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So where are her priorities?
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So preventable? Maybe not, because I think we're going to find that as this
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goes on, I think we're going to find that all of this was from arson.
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Various different arsonists, maybe. Was it a coordinated effort or not? Who knows?
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However, somebody was starting the fires or not.
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And I will stand by that 98% that someone was out there starting these fires at any rate, at any rate.
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So this episode, we're going to be talking about, I put, I recently put two
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essays up on the website talking about diversity, multiculturalism,
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immigration, and those sorts of things.
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And, and it's to start a conversation, folks, I'm not pooping on one,
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one team or the other necessarily, but I want to start a conversation and examine
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how is there better ways to do things. so I,
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Immigration, diversity, crime, national identity, and Western nations.
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These things are under fire.
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And what we're going to do is focus on the immigration and non-citizens.
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However, some of these points that we're going to make today,
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folks, some of these points can apply to some American citizens.
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The black community, the LGBT community. Anyone who lives in America but harbors
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ill will, anger, unresolved blame for whatever your circumstances are.
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Now, we could talk about history, folks, but we also here we talk about moving forward.
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I think ownership has been taken of all the wrongs in the past.
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I don't think that reparations or anything like that is ever going to be a thing.
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In fact, reparations were made, maybe not on the scale that modern people want to see,
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but some of these things do apply to citizens who do live here,
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who want to see America completely, completely remade, I guess, over in their own image.
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But this first paper we're going to talk about is Streets and Weaknesses,
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right? Is diversity a strength or a weakness? It depends on who you ask.
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Largely, I think culturally, when I say culturally, I mean the arts,
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I mean religion, friggin' food, music.
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I think everybody will say that, yeah, diversity is a big strength.
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But, but, but, what about national identity?
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When people come over to America, should they adopt an American identity?
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Does that have to be radically different from what their own identity is from
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whatever country they're coming from? I don't think so. I don't think so.
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But I'm going to argue that while diversity can be culturally enriching,
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and it is, it also presents an imbalanced number of challenges.
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And when I say imbalanced, I mean relating to crime and immigration.
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And one of these points on crime is correlation between diversity and crime.
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In areas where cultural integration is not effective or hasn't been effective,
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there's higher crime rates. And that's the facts.
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We can argue numbers all day long, but those numbers are facts.
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Now, I am mindful enough to emphasize that that's not direct causation, right?
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But it is a symptom. It is a big symptom of a broader social integration issue
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that crime follows unregulated immigration. excuse me, unregulated immigration.
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So what about national identity then?
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Does diversity strengthen or weaken our national identity? Do we need a national identity?
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I say that a strong national identity that includes and adapts to diverse cultures
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to a degree can mitigate some of the challenges that we have today.
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Just being more welcoming, but being welcoming does not mean overt change to your culture.
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There's too many representatives of too many nations living in America to just
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simply change our culture from the American culture to the XYZ,
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the Ugandan culture or the Honduran culture or the German culture.
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That's not the way history played out. That's just not the way history played out.
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So, yeah, I think it's important that we do have a national identity,
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but it needs to be inclusive. I do agree with that.
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What about Gen Z and Gen X? I'm Gen X, I guess.
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And I do believe in a national identity. And I think America is great and all those things.
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But what about Gen Z and younger? Do they care about that?
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Is there a national identity for Gen Z? Do they think, yeah,
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I'm an American. I love America.
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Or they're just, are they already citizens of the world? I don't know.
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Do they know how good they have it. Does anyone in America know how good they have it?
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Now, you can point out a lot of weird stuff. People who are losing their homes
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in these wildfires don't have it good right now.
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Still, it's a damn sight better than most places on earth. So what about generationally? I don't know.
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I think if we foster a strong national identity, even amongst the younger generations,
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certainly amongst immigrants, legal immigrants, and we have smart policies that.
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Financial policies, immigration policies. I think crime rates will lower on that front for sure.
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And what's important to those policies is ownership.
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Now, many immigrants come here, they get loans at lower rates,
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or they get some kind of grants or things like that, and own stores and shops
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and auto shops and restaurants and things like that, and they do well.
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So I think, and I think the ones that do that, not completely,
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but I think they have a sense of, yeah, America is good. I'm here to succeed under her blanket.
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Now, that's not always the case either, but I think you'll see less crime amongst
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shop owners, business owners.
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I think ownership matters. I think when somebody owns or has a small piece of
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the pie, that they are far more apt to care about it and care about it deeply
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and take care of it and assign some pride to it.
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You can assign your own nation's pride to your restaurant and still be proud to be an American.
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Ownership matters to be a part of the society that we're in. Ownership matters.
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But it's it's definitely there's there's
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so many more nuances some so much more complex than just
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that but smart economics will
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will foster that ownership that sense of ownership when you can actually work
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and save when you get taxed to death i mean that that that hurts everyone i
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think i don't think it helps the economy and i don't think it helps our government
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they it's just more money and on the debt.
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They're taking your money and not paying for what they're supposed to pay for it with.
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But at any rate, smart economic policies that include immigrants,
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legal immigrants, I'm making a distinction here, folks.
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I think that helps foster that ownership I was talking about.
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I think diversity, equity, and inclusion policies for their own sake are a failure.
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Just like everything else in America legal-wise, voluntarism matters.
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If you force those types of unnatural policies, and when I say unnatural,
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I mean that they're not a natural solution to any problem.
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They're helping someone with feelings. Oh, well, we don't have enough women
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or blacks or Hispanics or Asians or whatever.
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That's not a natural fix for a business problem or a technical problem.
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That's not a natural fix. That's a forced policy based on feelings,
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literally only on feelings.
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Adoption and adherence to basic human values by every individual is a must.
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By every company, by every organization, every governmental entity,
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that is your DEI right there.
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It's having basic human values and basic manners, good manners with other humans,
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whoever they are. There's your DEI.
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And then merit. I know that's an ugly word for some people. I have no idea why.
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Merit-based policies in the workplace.
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If Habib or Juan can fix a thing better than Edgar can, then Habib or Juan should have the job, not Edgar.
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If they cannot, then they shouldn't get the job simply for being from another
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country or of another race or whatever.
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So just simple, basic human values applies across the whole scope of society,
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whether it's business, government, or just on the individual daily basis.
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But what are we dealing with today that is so prevalent that we weren't dealing
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with even 30 years ago as much or even 50?
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It's always been around, but propaganda.
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Yeah, propaganda, folks. Propaganda and divisiveness.
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It's running rampant. It's on every medium. It's on every media outlet.
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And there's always someone pulling the strings to try to get you to feel one way or another.
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That's what advertising is, for crying out loud.
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It's crafted statements, pictures, sentiments that are crafted to make you feel
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one way or the other, to make you want to buy a product or do business with XYZ company.
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Ultimately, when you start getting into politics and you start getting into
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race and inclusion and tolerance, it becomes propaganda.
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Someone gets demonized and someone gets lionized.
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And either one of those may be undeserved at any time.
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So I think, especially from the media outlets, everybody's on their social medias 24-7.
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You have to take a step back and assess race, assess inclusion,
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assess all these things from an objective lens, through an objective lens.
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Now, this is assuming you know how to be objective. Some people just absolutely are not.
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Some people are bought into the red team or the blue team 100%.
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The other guy's wrong. We're right. And guess what?
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That is the whole point of propaganda to dehumanize the other team. We have to be objective.
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We have to step back and look through an objective lens and be honest,
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intellectually honest, folks,
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with ourselves about who deserves what and in what capacity and why.
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Why is simply showing up on the American shore guarantee you any special treatment?
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No, I don't think it does. Diversity is not inherently a witness, folks. It's not.
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It's how we manage it. It's how we integrate the diversity that determines the
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impact on our community, on our country.
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And we have not done a very good job at it, especially from a national level.
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There are plenty of communities that do just fine individually.
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And like all other things that I say so far on this show is centralized planning is bad.
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Decentralized planning is good.
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But anyway that's diversity right that's what
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we're talking about in that main the second paper we started getting
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a little bit into immigration unregulated immigration into the to the western
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nation the westernized nations in this paper i kind of went on about the implications
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of immigration policies or the lack of or the lack of and we focused on the
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socioeconomic and the cultural impacts of unregulated immigration.
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And now, folks, if you look at Germany, all of Westernized Europe,
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all of Westernized Europe, even up into Sweden.
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Finland, and those places, Ireland, you're starting to see huge,
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huge problems with crime, Huge. That never existed before.
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Now, don't get me wrong. Ireland's had plenty of crime, but it's different kinds of crime.
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But these problems are starting to manifest themselves in America.
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We saw these things happening 10 or 15 years ago in Europe.
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And the Europeans wanted to have wide open borders. They didn't want anybody
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to think they were being ugly.
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And now we're seeing the exact thing here. I'm a libertarian,
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folks. However, I do not believe in just open border, completely open border policy.
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Without some kind of regulation, immigration can and has led to strains on our
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public services, on our literal social cohesion,
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how we get along with each other based on the topic, our school systems,
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our economic policy, our political policy.
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Because why? Now, we can argue about the voting system and the electoral college all day long.
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However, the states are allocated seats based on the number of citizens they have in their district.
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Well, not just citizens, the number of humans, right?
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So if we flood a district or several districts with literally tens of thousands
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of undocumented, illegal aliens,
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undocumented citizens, however you want to call them, that is going to make
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a significant change. And that's being used as a weapon.
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You can say it's not. If you're on the left, you can tell me all day long that this is natural.
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That's not happening. Nobody gets bused anywhere to affect districts, but that's bull crap.
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That is exactly what happens.
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So, yeah, open border, unchecked immigration is bad.
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Now, how we do the borders is another thing altogether.
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We can modernize. People can be tracked digitally, and I'm not advocating big
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brother type tracking like with GPS trackers or whatever. That's not what I'm saying.
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I'm saying these people can come in with honest papers, with honest intentions,
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and have a pathway to citizenship.
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Congress has kicked that down the road for literal decades,
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literal decades, because no one wants to solve that problem in Congress because
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every four years, it's an awesome,
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awesome topic to battle over to get their bases heated up.
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Nothing gets a conservative heated up like illegal immigration.
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In the words of South Park. They took our gerbs.
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Nobody gets, that'll get a conservative fired up. And then nothing gets a liberal fired up.
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Like, what do you mean? You don't want brown people in your town?
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You're a racist. They love to call people racist at the drop of a hat because
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these poor people just want a better life.
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They may or may not, but there has to be a more functional legal way to do it.
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And it's Congress's fault. It's not conservatives or liberals,
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people, individuals fault.
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It's Congress's fault that the problem is so contentious because they don't
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have a rational, cohesive, manageable immigration plan.
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Job market. This is a good hot topic down along the farm communities. Cheap labor.
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Everybody wants to cheap labor. But what does that lead to? What does that lead to?
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Well, next thing you know, then there's, well, the conditions are inhumane conditions.
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Next thing you know, you got a frigging union. And I'm not, hey, I'm an anti-union guy.
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I believe in voluntary unions. That's fine. Workers should be able to unite
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and bargain with their employer.
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I don't believe, much like the Northeast or up along the Great Lakes,
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that everything's unionized and anyone who tries to work outside of the union
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should get threatened or murdered or anything else.
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Or any company that hires a scab should get boycotted and basically run out of business.
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All those things are mafioso tactics.
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So I don't believe in the unions either. However, the common phrase you hear
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all the time is, well, Americans won't do it, so we need immigrants to do it.
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Americans will do the work, most likely, if there's work to be done, and it pays well.
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Why people like the immigrant labor is because the immigrants will work for
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unreasonably low amounts of money, in many cases, in many cases.
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So that, too, leads to social tensions, right? That leads to you don't like
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Mexicans because they'll do it cheaper than white guys or whatever. It's madness.
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So cheap labor is one or job market competition.
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And then I talked a little bit in the paper, I talked a lot about cultural integration.
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That's another focal point.
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Rapid demographic changes can outpace a society's ability to keep up.
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And if any of you ever heard about the Cloward-Piven Doctrine,
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you'll know that that is exactly correct.
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And not only is it correct that that can happen, but it's a tactic that some
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people on the progressive left want to make happen.
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And that is to overwhelm the system, to overburden the system so much that it collapses,
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therefore being completely taken over by the government, which is why it's bad
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in the first place, and then run in some communist utopian fashion.
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But a rapid change in demographics in certain places can create all kind of
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problems, namely one crime, right?
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Over the past four years, there have been busloads of illegal immigrants dropped
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off in random towns across America.
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And then magically, those towns see issues. You get YMCAs and you get schools
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whose gym gets shut down because they have to house immigrants and things like that.
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That completely ill-prepared, unplanned, and then just a big kind of FU by the
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federal government to these smaller towns that do this.
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Small towns can't handle that. They're not prepared. Hell, they can barely manage
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to repave a road in the middle of town without creating a disruption on the
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scale of frigging World War II. It's ridiculous.
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So how can we handle 50,000 more humans?
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Never mind if they're illegal or not. How can you handle 50,000 more humans
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in the housing market, in the job market of a small town whose population may be 70,000?
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The U.S. has around 50 million legal immigrants.
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I believe. And I believe there's a sort of guesstimated number that there's
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around 12 million illegal immigrants.
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Divide that 12 million up. Never mind the 50 million legal. Never mind those guys.
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The illegals. Divide those up. Do math. I'm not a mathematician.
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But 12 million more humans in any region will create a significant, significant burden.
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12 million humans in any
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region of america will create a significant
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burden and this is petty petty
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political booger flicking that's what
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it is they don't want to solve the problem but
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guess what and i hate to be so gross here but it's a sticky
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booger they don't want to get rid of the booger they just want to flick it
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onto the next guy they wanted to stick though because it's
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an It's an awesome point to battle on CNN so that Anderson Cooper can belittle
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you for being a racist and not wanting 12 million illegals floating around in
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the Midwest or the Southeast because they just can't handle it.
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And this is the kind of stuff that leads to.
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So, you know, somebody said very simplistically that racism was kind of solved
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before Obama came along. And that's that's incorrect.
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What I do believe is that institutional racism has been solved.
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It's been legislated away.
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You cannot legally discriminate against anyone anymore. Well,
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I'm sorry, except for Christians.
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You can discriminate against Christians.
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But anyone else, you can't discriminate on the grounds of race or sex or sexual
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preference or religion other than just Christianity.
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But that is simplicity. It wasn't solved. However,
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the politicians like the problem to persist because this is the kind of problem
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that exacerbates xenophobia and racism and isolationism and things like that.
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So it energizes the left base and it polarizes the right base and you just you
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just stay polarized the whole time.
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The two parties, they stay polarized.
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They don't want to solve it. They like to be polarized.
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I offer some generic, simple solutions or at least start points. anyway.
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A balanced approach to immigration policy will recognize humanitarian values
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and at the same time recognize our sovereignty as a nation, our national interests,
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and our national identity.
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I was a child. I was four years old in 1976, but I remember everything.
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Everything was red, white, and blue.
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The spirit of 76, harken back to that.
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Think about that. And for those of you who remember, everything,
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everything was red, white, and blue.
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Everybody was patriotic as hell. Everybody loved it.
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This balanced policy with humanitarian values and national sovereignty,
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national identity, will require better integration programs.
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Now, I think of the movie Stripes, if you guys remember that,
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where Harold Ramis was teaching a class to a classroom full of immigrants from all over the world.
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And he was teaching an English class.
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And that's what that's what i think of when
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i when i think of this integration program and education that
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is a picture of what i think the government thinks education is 30 immigrants
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in a classroom with a dude trying to teach them they were saying curse words
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anyway it was funny It was funny, but ineffective.
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It was ineffective, right? We need actual educational programs to integrate people.
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Now, you can't do nothing about people who are here under false pretenses, right?
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The cartels using drug mules and things like that.
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These people aren't going to volunteer to come to a class to learn English and
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to learn about the economic system and political system of America.
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Terrorists, genuine terrorists, not, not just Muslims, but I mean,
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genuine terrorists coming across the Northern border.
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And I got to come take a class, you know, well, then I go take a airplane pilot
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class, but we have to be, we have to be better about that. We have to have better programs in place.
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And, and I'm not talking about $21 billion programs that never see a dollar.
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I mean like just simplistic but effective programs.
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Our economic policy has got to be in place. America's got a horrible economic.
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Let's start by taxation, right? We get taxed to death.
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Our money that we actually touch, that we get physically after taxes and that
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we spend, it gets taxed so many times.
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Oh my God, it gets taxed so many times.
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Now, some liberal economist tells me that illegal aliens pay tax just like American
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or, well, yeah, citizens, immigrant citizens.
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I find that very, very hard to believe. And you can correct me if I'm wrong. Email me.
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Inbox me on the socials. If I believe that, in theory, a man from Mexico who
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is 72 years old could get across the border,
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move into an apartment with his family, however many, and file to draw Social Security and get it.
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Happen. You doubt me, look it up. You want to talk about it, we will.
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That can happen. Social Security is bad enough of a scheme as it is without
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illegals being able to get Social Security as well.
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So economic policy, right? We need integration policies to actually get the
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people who want to be here, who are here,
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who are trying to come legally, to integrate them, Not indoctrinate,
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but educate and integrate for sure.
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And we need economic policies that's going to allow them to work and contribute.
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And these policies need local and national.
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The federal government needs to leave room for communities to come up with better
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plans that they can affect.
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Effect and put into work.
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The federal government needs to get
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out of the way of many of these local governments to be able to do that.
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Immigration can and has positively contributed to our society over years,
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but you must acknowledge that it can and has had negative impacts as well.
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And the politicians in our media, it's just voter bait and election cycle rhetoric.
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They don't care about fixing the problem.
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But we should look at people who are willing to put the work in to fix that problem.
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Anyway, those are my thoughts. Those are my thoughts. I know that was a little fragmented, maybe.
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Moral of the story, immigration, good.
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Not bad, however, needs to be managed and not just kick the doors open.
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We need to care about our citizens and we need to take care of American citizens
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who are homeless, living on the streets,
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defecating on the street corner, getting abused by each other with no access
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to any credible mental health whatsoever.
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We need to take care of those people before we start putting illegal immigrants
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up in hotels and schools and things like that. It doesn't make any sense.
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Immigration is very valuable, not just financially, culturally, but it needs to be legal.
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The system needs to reward compliance in such a way that people who immigrate
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here immigrate with a good attitude that they're not going to be tied up in
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a bureaucracy for years and years,
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that they can take very clear steps and meet very clear guidelines to become citizens,
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and then they need to be held to a standard of citizenry.
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And there needs to be a delineation that there is a clear benefit to being a citizen versus not.
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Right now, that benefit is very murky, the clear benefit. It's very murky because
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there's plenty of illegals here doing what they want to do and getting away
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with what they want to get away with.
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So, again, I don't mean to say any of this in that I want to become a police
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state, but just practical application, a nation.
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I want to say there was Reagan, and I quoted this in one of those papers.
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Nation without borders is not a nation. It's simply not. There is no border
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on this face of this earth, or no nation that doesn't have a border.
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Even the poorest border in Pakistan has a border.
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Loosely enforced, yeah. Places that are far more tribal, and yeah,
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it's a little more fluid.
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But also their economics don't depend on the number of citizens they have either.
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Their political system doesn't depend on the number of citizens they have. where ours does.
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About those things. Think about what you've seen in Europe. And if you're one
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of those folks, now look, I know I'm sounding a little conservative today.
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If you're one of those folks who, without question,
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blanket supports riots in the streets for whatever perceived injustice,
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without looking at the whole story or without looking at the damage being caused,
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You probably need to rethink that a little bit as well.
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Injustice sometimes needs to be treated with rebellion for sure, hence America.
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However, you need to also recognize that that's become a tactic.
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It's become a tactic of the progressive left to riot and do damage for whatever
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any minor perceived injustice.
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So it's not okay to destroy things. I don't believe it's okay for arsonists
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to set fire to frigging Los Angeles.
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They have, but it's not okay for whatever perceived injustice.
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Now, if you're on the receiving end of that injustice and you're looking at
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me like, well, who the hell do you think you are?
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Well, you know, everyone's had something done to them in their life.
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Whether it's been a racial injustice on a large scale or whether it's been an
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individual injustice of being sexually abused or whatever, yeah, you want retribution.
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But if we can't move forward positively, then I don't know.
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And speaking of that, speaking of moving forward positively,
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there's a weird phenomenon.
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It's not weird among young people for some reason. And it's not weird among
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professed liberal pacifists, but we saw Luigi,
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forget his last name, the guy who, who point blank executed the pharmaceutical
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CEO in the street a few weeks ago.
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That guy is, is, has become like a local legend, like a local hero in some places.
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He's he's committed cold-blooded
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murder and whatever his
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his gripe was and i
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don't even think he specifically was denied any
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coverage or anything like that but that murder has been glorified and by people
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i know and follow and like and and respect that murder has been glorified because
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the guy who was the CEO was a piece of shit, apparently.
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Or he denied claims that he shouldn't have. Or he okayed some AI that was just
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generic, whatever, to deny claims and things like that.
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And I'll be the first guy to tell you that there are some people on this planet
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that need killing. There are evil people on this planet, right?
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Think many of us have the, the depth of, of, of insight to know who all those
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evil people are and aren't.
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Some people make it obvious. Others don't.
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But my point is that I don't think that being a vigilante murderer is necessarily
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the way to go, go about business.
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Again, some people need killing.
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If you, well, after the fact, that was clearly premeditated,
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right? It's clearly premeditated.
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In the moment, self-defense type stuff. Yeah. You can, you can kind of justify
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that stuff fairly easily.
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And even then it gets cloudy and young Luigi will probably go to jail for a
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long time. I doubt he'll get a death penalty.
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Well, that was in New York and they probably don't have the death penalty.
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And even to be politically consistent, I used to be for the death penalty because
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like I said, I believe there are people that need killing.
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But as I grew older and realized how incompetent and unreliable the system,
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the court system, the jury, eyewitnesses are even unreliable.
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How biased some judges and prosecutors and even defendants are.
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I realized that the death penalty, though sometimes warranted.
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Is beyond us. And that's sort of come from a Christian point of view,
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that who are we to pass the judgment?
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Well, we do have a legal system. Judgment is passed.
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However, I think there's enough
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mistakes within the system that there have been falsely accused guys.
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There have been guys put to death who were innocent. So anyway,
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enough about the death penalty.
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My point is this. we have to stop with the extremes on all fronts.
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The extremes are bad.
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I think Will Rogers once said, all things in moderation to include moderation.
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Yeah, have a good time, right? But extremes will hurt you eventually.
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Even extreme good times will hurt you eventually.
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But this extreme rhetoric that we get off of the news, And you can say what
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you want about the incoming administration.
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Sometimes there's some extremes there too, but no
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one has been more extreme in their rhetoric than like MSNBC as far as really
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just spewing pure hatred and anger and egregious perceived injustices and wrongs.
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Strictly on a political basis, strictly on a political basis.
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So anyway, I lost where I was going. Diversity, multiculturalism.
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It is so good and can be so good that we need to embrace it,
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but we need to embrace it with common sense, unlike Germany and unlike France.
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We cannot have no-go zones in America where police or white people can't go. We can't have that.
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We can't have grooming gangs, gangs of rapists roaming the streets.
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We cannot have that, folks, because that's going to provoke vigilante justice.
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I don't think we're enough like Europe that it could happen. It does happen.
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We still have young boys and girls picked up, kidnapped, trafficked for sex. We still have that.
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But some of these European nations, England, France, it's overt.
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It's an overt slap in the face.
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And we simply can't have it here. We just can't have that here.
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I know I'm a believer that all folks in America should be carrying guns.
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Just know that there are a lot of people in America that carry guns.
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I believe that we are at 28 states right now that have a constitutional carry in their state.
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So that's over half and growing and growing.
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And a few of those are Northeastern states, by the way, which is a little surprising, but refreshing.
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So just understand actions have consequences.
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Understand that if you treat people with with good manners,
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black white brown yellow old young male female gay or straight chances are they'll
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treat you with good manners back you guys don't have to go be swinger buddies
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or go to the same church together you can you can still just have good manners
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and carry on about your day what we're
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What we want to do is try to get those good manners into our political process.
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We want to try to get those good manners into our political process to where
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we propose things that don't violate individual rights,
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that recognizes that we are sovereign and responsible and can manage things
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well on our own without a lot of crazy laws.
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But as far as immigration goes, I welcome it. I welcome it.
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But it needs to be done in a way that supports the system we have,
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the political system we have, the Republican form of government,
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the constitutional republic.
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It's still a good system. It's still a damn good system, as good or better than
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any that's out there. So thanks for listening.
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Please, please give me some feedback. I would love to hear it.
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And if you have any opposition to what I've said, please, by all means,
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if nothing, I'm confrontational.
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But nowadays, a little more manageable, right?
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I love a good debate anyway. so reach
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sure that it's grammatically correct, but we won't change your content.
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And feel free to suggest some topics.
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So again, I'm Edgar Mills. Thanks for listening, and we'll talk to you next time.
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