I’m impressed by the long lines of people who keep coming to the United States.
They give up familiarity, family, and sometimes fortune to brave an unknown future in a strange land.
Many of them are among my home care agency clients. They are hard workers, and they see this country as filled with opportunity. The businesspeople among them are self-starters. The sales expert Grant Cardone says that when he interviews people for a job, he tends to give a nod to immigrants rather than native-born Americans.
Why do they come?
It’s a question I remind my teenage son on days like today.
Here in the U.S., we have a lot to be proud of. We have a strong economy, even in a recession. We have some freedom of religion – more than many other countries. We have the rule of law, meaning that you cannot bribe a judge with three chickens.
When asked what kind of government we have, Benjamin Franklin said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
What makes us strong?
The way I see it, there are two strong roots to our culture. One is our Constitution. The other is our Judeo-Christian ethic, which keeps us on the straight and narrow.
Two recent events have shined a light on threats to our Constitution.
One was an attempt on Jan. 6 to storm the Capitol. This was for the most part a public relations message of a desire to spark a forceful revolution. Their complaint was that Biden was not legally elected. But even if the presidential election was flawed, or worse yet, manipulated, the better path would be to work within the system.
The other big event in our recent news was the Supreme Court ending nearly fifty years of nationally-sanctioned legalized abortion. In strong and clear language, the Court declared that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled….”
It is amazing that our country endured the legalized destruction of unborn children for nearly fifty years before the Supreme Court came to its senses in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.
Ripped apart the arguments
I understand that there are many who believe that taking the life of an unborn child is moral, ethical, or at least should not be prohibited by law. But legalizing abortion cannot be done by the Supreme Court. In the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court ripped apart the Court’s arguments over the years about a “right to privacy” or a ““right to define one’s own concept of existence….”
It’s just not in the Constitution.
It seems to me that the 1973 Roe v. Wade and subsequent decisions stepped outside the bounds of constitutional precedent as much as a drunken fisherman steps outside of his boat into deep waters.
In 147 of its 213 pages, the Court did a thorough job of explaining its horrendous mistake.
In his concurring opinion, Justice Kavanaugh said, “The Court in Roe erroneously assigned itself the authority to decide a critically important moral and policy issue that the Constitution does not grant this Court the authority to decide.”
He added that the Roe court “damaged the Court as an institution.”
I suppose that my article will prompt some of my readers to unsubscribe to my marketing newsletter. For anyone who prefers ideology over clear thinking and sound morality, so be it.
In this age when many big corporations are bold in proclaiming their support of a progressivist change in social policy, I will take my stand.
Let’s keep this nation strong, with clear laws that respect the Constitution and protect the innocent.
And let’s give some real reasons why those hard-working and hope-filled immigrants should keep coming to our shores.