What is a nation?

by on March 29, 2025 at 12:01 am
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What is a nation? It is a collection of people consisting of a common culture, common language, and common border. It allows for mutual understanding, mutual communication, and mutual protection. Most nation states are around the size of each of our American States. And our own States were effectively nation states of their own, with their own cultures, languages, and border defenses, until advancing technologies like railroads made communications and travel faster. Now that every city has real time communications and daily travel links, our cities in general have a single common culture while the rural regions around them continue to hold to the old cultures that the States were once known for. Now those are considered backwards by many, especially in the cities, and that has created a problem in America.

https://pryderock.substack.com/p/what-is-a-nation

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Elected versus Unelected

by on March 28, 2025 at 12:01 am
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The United States is currently having a bit of a disagreement between our Elected and our Unelected classes. The Unelected classes have been telling Americans how we are supposed to live for a while. It’s been getting worse over the last twenty years or so, and really bad over the last four. Bad enough that Americans Elected someone to go in and tell the Unelected class to just stop it. America’s new Elected leader started firing the Unelected bureaucrats who see it as their mission to stop the Elected class from doing what it wants to do. But the Unelected judges have stepped in to declare that the Elected can’t fire the Unelected and must keep them in their jobs where they can stop the Elected class from doing what it wants to do. This is not good. There’s an old joke about what happens when the leaders of a nation refuse to listen to the ballot box. That’s when the people resort to the cartridge box. This has very rarely turned out good for anyone. Elected OR Unelected.

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A Nation of Language

by on March 27, 2025 at 12:01 am
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One issue that the United States has run into the last few years, with tens of millions of illegal aliens having crossed our border, is one of language. English has never been the official language of the United States, but it has been the effectively official language. Children are taught English in school, and immigrants who wish to become citizens must learn English before becoming a citizen. The problem is that many of the tens of millions of illegal aliens inside our borders don’t speak English and aren’t taking any steps towards learning it. And some of the languages are so obscure that we don’t have translators. A nation must assimilate people into both its language and its culture if a nation is to remain united. Many nations have died because they did not do this.

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A Nation of Borders

by on March 26, 2025 at 12:01 am
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One of the difficult issues with the border between the United States and Mexico is that Mexico has been through a rather large number of failed governments over the centuries. And they don’t like the fact that we… negotiated their land from them. They in fact make it a national past time to print maps of Mexico including the territory we bought from them as part of Mexico. And Mexican people crossing the border carry those maps with them and often claim the territory as belonging to them. Tens of millions have crossed the border illegally in just the last few years in fact. With many tens of millions in the decades before that. And for an extra bit of joy, Mexican drug gangs are crossing the border with drugs, selling them to Americans, and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans over the last few years. The border is a serious problem that must be addressed. All nations that wish to remain nations must address such issues.

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A Nation of Borders

by on March 25, 2025 at 12:01 am
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The United States border with Mexico has been a chaotic border most of its existence. Mexican gangs, and even the Mexican army, have crossed it many times to raid American towns. And American military units have crossed the border south to track down and kill Mexican gangs numerous times. Criminals wanted by one government or the other have crossed over the border to get away from the law for literal centuries now. It’s a national past time for criminals, and basically no attempt to fully close the border has ever been fully effective. Different administrations over the last hundred years have deported millions of Mexicans who crossed the border illegally, often by using the military, but actually closing the border and keeping it closed has always been a very difficult process.

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