We explore real-life reformation here in this informed, online community.
Some positive lessons, and some negative, like this important lesson:
In 1980, Reagan opened the border "both
ways” so that immigrants could cross and work
with visas and pay taxes with almost
unrestricted travel.
His object was to help short-term economic migrants.
In 1982, the Supreme
Court forbade schools to deny services based
on illegal immigration status.
So then illegals flooded-in to game the system.
The crime problem grew. In 1986, Reagan tried a remedy by giving the biggest amnesty in U.S. history,
which legalized a small number of illegal aliens. But this error created the margin of welfare recipients which turned California from a strongly Republican state to a Democrat state with even larger welfare programs, higher taxes and power-hungry bureaucrats, and an ever-growing illegal alien problem.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
