Open borders is still a touchy subject in libertarian and conservative circles. Many see the concept of open borders as a threat to the nation. Nationalism isn’t dead, but it’s definitely evolving. More and more people are coming to the idea that culture and people make a nation, not lines on a map.
America’s borders have changed constantly throughout its history. Like other nations, America never needed borders for national identity. Israel is a nation because of the long Jewish traditions from the days when the Israelites were a wandering people, not because nationalist social democrats drew lines on a map of British-occupied Palestine. In the words of Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, “We are the Jewish nation. Our homeland is our Torah, our Holy Bible.”
In Los Angeles County, home of 12 million people, city borders have become irrelevant...
Read more at The Libertarian Republic
No comments:
Post a Comment