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THE IDEOLOGY OF UNRESTRICTED IMMIGRATION

and have been nations, but a "proposition country," having no history and no identity apart from certain eighteenth-century political
notions embodied in its Constitution and common law. Allan Bloom
described the United States as a system founded by philosophers
and their students, a great stage on which political theories are
personified. But those eighteenth-century notions were mainly
British ones, as of course the common law is, while the "philosophers" and "students" were of British descent. And since the colonies that created the United States were British ones, so too, in
that sense, is their creation of 1787.
There is no space here to argue the proper definition of a
"nation." Suffice it to say that the propositionists' arguments are
even less remarkable for the thinness of their historical sense than
they are for their determination to depersonalize the United States
by reducing the country from a historical fact to an intellectual
abstraction, which in its concrete form is a vast machine designed
to manufacture democracy-and democracies. The quickest and
surest way to destroy the American nation is to treat it as something other than the historical nation it really is, as the fastest way
to kill a horse is to feed it on stardust and moonbeams, as if it were
a unicorn.
Whoever claims to act from "conscience" in supporting immigration proves his moral bona fides. But "conscience" is best thought
of as a phrase fragment. There are bad consciences as well as
good ones, and societies, like individuals, are bound in duty to
distinguish between them. Many people in America have been
working for many decades to "weaponize" immigration, as the
U.S. military has recently declared that Russia and ISIS are using
migration from the Third World to destroy the European Union,
and ultimately Europe itself.
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