{"id":78846,"date":"2015-11-07T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T02:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78846"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T02:16:34","slug":"a-nation-of-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78846","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Of Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/justnotsaid.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/a-nation-of-immigrants.html\">From JustNotSaid<\/a>: The other day Ed Gendreau pointed out:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People always say &#8216;We&#8217;re a nation of immigrants&#8217; as a rationale to allow illegal immigrants to stay, find a path to citizenship, and so on. In other words, since we started that way, that path must be continued indefinitely. But aren&#8217;t we are also a nation born of, and founded by revolution? And does that mean we should continue to revolt? Why work with a dysfunctional government?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Indeed. <\/p>\n<p>A few other thoughts: <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a nation of slaveowners. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a nation of indigenous people-killers.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a nation of atomic bomb-droppers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a nation of Jim Crow law-enforcers. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a nation of polluters. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a nation of people who drove many animals, like the buffalo, to near extinction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From JustNotSaid: The other day Ed Gendreau pointed out: &#8220;People always say &#8216;We&#8217;re a nation of immigrants&#8217; as a rationale to allow illegal immigrants to stay, find a path to citizenship, and so on. In other words, since we started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78846\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78847,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78846\/revisions\/78847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}