Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, is a must-read for all human beings. I must admit, although I have refined my talents and strengths in many areas, I have always been weak in setting boundaries and limits. For 38 years, I’ve allowed people to run roughshod over my preferences, refused to say “no” because I thought it would be selfish or harm the other person (people pleasing), and failed to observe boundaries placed by others because I was largely unaware of the concept. This may come as a surprise given that in my twenties, I had no problem aggregating and disseminating intelligence that was used to annihilate enemies on the battlefields of Afghanistan. These struggles for me have only intensified as I’ve become a national figure regarding election integrity, but fortunately are on the path to being brought to proper alignment.
I recently picked up and devoured that book and was stunned at what I had been missing all these years. Boundary deficits first appear in childhood, when we are learning to relate to other people, especially our parents or caregivers. These deficits accumulate as we learn to make friends and will continue into adulthood if we let them remain unchanged.
Failed friendships, relationships, marriages, and business alliances are among the casualties that lie in wait for those who fail to learn about and apply boundaries. Since a people collectively make up a nation state, it is appropriate to say non-existent boundaries are the ultimate reason people suffer under ineffective or tyrannical government. While our early revolutionaries revolted in Boston Harbor over a tax on their breakfast drink of choice, thereby exercising strict boundaries with government, we have allowed encroaching government thieves to rob us of our liberties as a people, a little bit here, a little bit there – one distraction at a time.
Since a boundary conjures up the thought of a land marker, it seems immigration offenses are the greatest boundary offenses a government can inflict upon itself and upon its own people. I am of the belief that most of the malaise in the West is deliberately inflicted, designed to erode individual liberties and the very concept of freedom that is lacking in the Islamic world and most of the East. The tallest mountain of freedom is America, and the impact of this forced change is felt the most by those standing in defense of Constitutional liberties and restoring systems and institutions that have been destroyed.
Immigration should not serve as a charity function for the rest of the world. It should benefit the host nation. The case can and should be made that America and other western nations have the capacity to meet workforce needs with the people who are already in those countries. America cured polio, put a man on the moon (supposedly), pioneered manned flight, split the atom, and won two world wars. We can also teach our own people to do various trades and meet professional demand without importing the third world.
Immigration is not about race or color. It is ultimately an economic and cultural issue.
Will the people we are bringing in be proud of their new country, and while preserving customs and traditions of the old land, adhere to American (or French, English, Spanish, etc.) values and customs?
The porous U.S. border is not being left open to take care of the poor, regardless of what government or any misleading charity has to say. Anyone who believes otherwise should become familiar with the gumball theorydenouncing mass third-world immigration to the West. The deliberate erosion of American borders presents a Cloward-Piven approach to overwhelming, destroying, and overhauling an existing system to bring about a new order, namely the destruction of the American immigration system, moving it as far away from merit-based as possible by flooding a land of global prosperity with desperately poor people who will act as parasites and demand government benefits until the host dies, or flood the streets with criminality to survive.
France, now making headlines for the reap-and-sow fulfillment occurring in the streets of Paris, is paying the piper for recklessly importing millions of unassimilable Muslims into a nation that has long believed in basic human rights, such as those preventing women being stoned if they learn how to read. Western feminism is such an affront to those who have died in defense of liberty because it doesn’t consider the darkest parts of the world in which women are viewed as property and stoned for learning how to read. I have spent a year of my life in a land like that, and those who decry “toxic masculinity” owe it to themselves to load a rucksack and pay a visit.
America’s founders believed liberty and rights come from God. It goes like this:
We are made in the image of God.
Since we are made in God’s image, we have dignity.
Dignity demands we have rights.
We are free.
Governments lacking healthy boundaries, in relation to the citizens they represent and to the rest of the world, worry about how they are perceived. Many government officials certainly back the immigration stances they hold because they are made to feel guilty for depriving the poor and desperate of the world access to a prospering nation and its benefits. This is especially true of the left-wing commentariat that are so woke it has rainbows flying from their ears. Of course, there are no limits to just how many poor and desperate people will be allowed to come to the new country, no matter how much pain and suffering is inflicted to those already here.
The governments of the world and their media allies are abusing the boundaries of the people, who are allowing the government to do so because they don’t want the guilt trip of being called racist or xenophobic. The result is a snowball effect in which the left stomps about cheering on demographic change and citing a quote from the Statue of Liberty to justify the planned chaos in the streets of major metropolitan areas.
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