If citizenship means so little that the government doesn't even want to count how many of us there are - because they simply don't care - then is it really our government?
Or is the US government just another stationary bandit like Dubai? Delivering services in exchange for tribute? And if so, why should anyone pay income taxes...i.e. share the wealth with anyone else?
If the borders are open and the government is just a technocracy validated by people who show up at polls without ID or better yet fill out and mail in a form, then why share wealth with this ever shifting global craps game called America?
Governance becomes completely transactional....fee for service and if service gets bad.....
Nobody in their right mind would DIE for Dubai. Maybe since citizenship would be meaningless under CA style rule nobody should die for America.
Of course if citizenship increasingly means nothing then there really isn't an America is there?
In that world the universal longing for belonging would be filled by places like.....Texas or Minnesota who would strive mightily to sustain and bolster the critical sense of belonging that is required for people to be willing to sacrifice their wealth and lives.
Maybe that sense of belonging, that sense of responsibility and commitment is why the social breakdown we see in CA isn't spreading to TX or MN. Maybe we poo differently because our loyalties are different, more real.
The canary in the already collapsed California coal mine would be a second Texas Revolution: Flight from Sobbing Woke Pointlessness to True Meaning.
Because the true meaning of life is what we do, who we love and sacrifice for. Not how big a victim we are
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