@wajoma said
You appear to be opposed to any immigration, am I reading that right?
spruce:
..."if the migrant goes back and establishes a democracy that protects his rights where he came from."
LOL are you sure you like left the LP and weren't like kicked out? Democracy is no guarantee of your rights being protected. If 51% of the pop think you must take experimental drugs ...[text shortened]... w that works, democracy has nothing to do with freedom. The tyranny of the mob is no less a tyranny.
Why would I be opposed to immigration? My dad was an immigrant and so is my wife. Hell, so was my dog...
But large migrations away from dictatorship and economic hardship aren't possible anymore. The world is too crowded.
Hard left into COVID... ok. I'm against any sort of mandated medical procedure. It is fundamentally your right to decide what you take or don't take. But you also have no right to infect others with diseases you carry (i.e. don't place others at risk without consent). So there is a rights-balancing that has to take place in the public space in the time of a pandemic - your right to move around vs. other people's right not to be infected by you.
Big 'D' Democracy: rights are decided by a super-majority, not a simple majority. Also, a simple majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority, i.e. pass a law that applies to the minority but not the majority. Those conventions are enough to keep 'mob rule' in check.
I left the LP because their commitment to the idea that we are all obligated to help protect each other's rights was not 100%, and seemed to me to be weakening. They've called 3? times to see if I would come back.