Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Reply #1186 –
I happen to recall that California and Texas and everything in between used to be Mexico up to 1845. So Hispanics used to inhabit those areas, as have Native Americans, while the falsely-named "Americans" are recent immigrants there.
Mexico belonged to Spain, then France... The indigenous people were badly treated by both, and after "independence" badly treated by the majority that claimed Spanish ancestry.
Hispanics never did inhabit Noodle Island (East Boston) until the 1980s.
My father's family was part of the Yorkshire Immigration, in the 1770s, but that was to the Maritime provinces of Canada; and they were Tories!
The first "Americans" were not immigrants. They were colonists. After the colonies were established, immigration -properly called- began. (German and Irish and Scots, most notably.) Do you seriously contend that, unless one can trace their origins to the land they inhabit back to the last ice age, their sovereignty has no legitimacy?
(If so, I think you're being overly restrictive! Where are the civil rights organizations bemoaning the plight of the Neanderthals?)
About voter registration:
If your country shared a large border with another poorer one whose culture was in many ways at odds with yours, you'd take citizenship more seriously! Since the Democrats are dead set against any determination of how many actual citizens we have... And -because we've never changed it- our representatives (members of the lower house of our congress), that is, their numbers, are determined by population alone; thence their state's share of remittance from the federal purse. For populous Democrat-controlled states, this is ideal: The influence of the voting public is diluted, the power of the pols is inflated!
You say we "occasionally manage" to disenfranchise large numbers of "actual citizens". You can't spend the rest of your life viewing the world around you from a comfy perch in your WayBack Machine, ersi... Since the mid-1960s, the only people who don't vote are those who choose not to, or non-citizens.
Registering own citizens properly should be basic. The prevalent mood in the USA seems to be that things must remain as they are - own citizens should have the "liberty" of being free from ID cards.
I'm confused: What is your point, since you both decry ID cards but insist a rational state must "register" its citizens?
Help me out here.