Wide open borders have caused Chaos for milenia, including things like the fall of the western Roman Empire.
The temporary period of Christian/European dominance that allowed laxer controls ended with the rise of international and globalist conspiracies that began to ruthlessly abuse things like lax borders.
OK, but the fixation on closing the borders
for its own sake ignores the bigger issues at stake. That's my point. It's the decline of Christian culture in the West that is the problem. Pre-WWI Europe was not simply "lax on borders", and they certainly enforced their continental borders and did not allow Ottomans, etc. to come wandering in if they felt like it. The reason the internal borders could be so "lax" was that common binding culture, which we have lost. We are even seeing this today, where maybe we do seal up our national borders, but the problem is we're just going to have to keep going down to sealing State-level borders as well, to keep the California hordes from invading the rest of us, etc. The problem is not merely logistics, the problem is cultural, but by engaging the Left on this issue, it's like the bull charging the red-flag waved by the bull-fighter. They
want to fight us on borders, because they know it distracts from the real issue, which is their cultural war on Christian culture and our American heritage.
Yes, there are ignorant libertarians who support throwing open the borders to the hordes of the world's prisons, which is insane. I'm not one of those, but I also see the trap that the Left is leading the Right into, and the Right as always, is falling for it.
That's utter nonsense.
Enemies will use it to destroy and conquer you no matter how much you leave them alone, just like conventional warfare.
If you have truly free domestic markets, there is nothing a foreign country can do to hurt your economy. "We won't sell you figs anymore!" Fine, don't sell us figs. We'll just buy them elsewhere or grow them here and let the market adjust prices accordingly.
That is highly optimistic.
But even if it were true we do not have such a society where there are an infinite number of employment and shopping options, we have a multigenerational Robber Baron society where a handful of wealthy and powerful can nearly dictate who can buy and sell and control everyone.
Sure, I get that. But the solution begins by challenging the
status quo at its very foundations. Too often, the Right lets the Marxist Left set the bounds of discussion. They lock horns on derivative issues that are so far removed from the root causes that it won't matter even if they win the argument. This is how the Left has been wagging-the-dog for over a century and the Right falls for this simple trick every time, because the Right is pugnacious and can never turn down a fistfight, even if it is only verbal. This is how the Left spins the Right around in circles without even breaking a sweat. And for a century and counting, the Right has been MIA because it has been completely nullified by these simple tricks which are really rooted in its own besetting sins. The Left may be the devil, but he's not wrong about our sins... a point that is too often forgotten...
The Corpotarians know this as well as the rest of us do, but they insist on fixing the problems in the wrong and destructive order (accepting for a moment that your idea would work in a different society for the sake of argument) because they are either complicit or slavish ideologues who care more about libertarian virtue signalling than the actual outcome of their policies.
Sure, I agree that there are reckless and indifferent libertarians like that, especially in the old capital-L Libertarian circles. But there is a new wave of libertarianism on the scene, mostly centered on the Mises Institute and the Ron Paul revolution, and we need to stop pretending that doesn't exist and that every libertarian is a 1980's-era "don't touch my porn-stash" libertine.
They do exactly the same thing with open borders while we still have a welfare state, even if open borders would work without the welfare state they will only lead to destruction and tyranny while we still have one and you have to get rid of it first.
I am not advocating for open borders. We need to have proper borders, obviously, just like a house needs walls. But it is
obvious that the Left is winning this issue and has been winning it for decades, easily, and the reason is because they are just luring the Right into a fight over stupid issues that are rooted in sinful attitudes in the Right, including things like racism. While the Right is not racist, there is racism in the Right, and this is one reason why the Left is able to keep winning this argument and keeps inviting us to fight them over it. The Right, as always, can never turn down a fistfight and smashes into the waving red-flag as predictably as a bull in a ring.
Even if you define all taxation as theft there are still lesser levels of taxation that are given to connected people to advantage them over everyone else.
Taxation
is theft (robbery, actually) because it is collected by means of compulsion. Yes, "tax breaks" are an implicit subsidy, I get it. But words matter. There is
no such thing as a "tax break". My paycheck is my property, and the government steals from it, plain and simple. If they steal less, that is not a "tax break", it's only what should have been to begin with. Our system of government is doomed because our rulers are unjust and the revenue system (including the central bank) is the beating heart of that unjust and corrupt system. Their only two options are (a) change and stop committing crimes or (b) be obliterated into the dustbin of history and forgotten.
It's utter corruption and yet many libertarians will defend it with "any decrease in taxes for anyone is a victory" as if they suddenly forget that tax increases for others and inflation exist.
Any "libertarian" that supports subsidy through selective "tax breaks" is a moron. And they invariably turn out to be RINOs and neoCONs in libertarian-clothing. "Look at me, I'm such a libertarian, I support all these big-government polices but don't mind that, I'm a
libertarian!"
Libertarians can be some of the best friends globalists have either through stupidity or complicity by wolves in Dodo Bird's clothing.
We need to invent a new acronym for the kind of people you're talking about... LINOs "Libertarian In Name Only".... there surely are lots of them!!
