Remedial Citizenship

By David Bittinger

March 8th, 2026

You’ve probably noticed an outdoor activity that’s increasingly popular in America now: chaos and criminality in areas that once seemed safe. Take care on sidewalks, even ones where the most common crime used to be littering. Drive cautiously, even on roads that were safely relied on by drivers with an important destination, say, a job or a medical appointment.

Now these areas can quickly become sites for performance of political rage. Mobs of wild-eyed people waving angry slogans might swarm your body or block your vehicle. Try to avoid conversation. Drive through at your own risk.

If you live in a city where Republicans are rare as a snowbird in hell, your chances of having noticed this problem are high. The woke folks who vote for the warm embrace of collectivism are always spoiling for a fight and love their street riots. And they’re still identified as idealistic “protestors” by sympathetic media.

Like the exotically dangerous life? Try San Francisco. Attempting to walk its streets now, you need to weave carefully around drug paraphernalia and (yuck) human paraphernalia. Experienced San Franciscans parking on a street roll down car windows and leave the glove compartment open, hoping to reduce the likelihood of street progressives bashing windows in search of anything they can find.

How did our country get here? This path to public chaos and criminality could be described by the famous line of a character in a 1926 Hemingway novel. Asked how he went bankrupt, he replied, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

Acceptable public behavior in America changed gradually over many years, then, in recent years, suddenly. The suddenness of this change might be recognized by the tiny minority of younger people who are well read, but is obvious to people with long memories, people able to recall President Eisenhower, people my age.

Most American schools once provided students classes in the subject of “civics,” which included the country’s foundational documents, especially the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution; patriotic citizen’s rights and responsibilities, such as voting and jury duty; and American values and heroes, including pioneers and inventors.

Do civics classes sound antique, maybe relevant as a big old phone book (assuming you recall big old phone books)? Since civics classes are virtually gone now, could you guess in which decade they quickly disappeared?

OK, too easy. Everyone guessed the 1960s, right?

The public chaos and criminality so popular now might seem general, but it has two major sources.

One is easily identified: ideologues who think Israel is evil and its mostly Jewish population as well as supporters of Israel are evil-doers. In the past, these ideologues denied that this attitude was grounded in antisemitism, but now they’re likely just to rationalize it, muttering about “Zionism” and “international banking.”

Old-fashioned American antisemitism had old-fashioned sources. New England blue blood types tended not to want Jews in their Pilgrim-founded neighborhoods or country clubs. Some rustics harbored a prejudice against Jews comparable to a fantasized prejudice against Martian invaders: They knew little about Jews except that they seemed alien beings with threatening skills. In national politics, powerful Dixiecrats had about the same tolerance for Jews that they had for other minorities: little to none.

Those of us who recall significant detail about the previous century plus those younger people exposed to it (both groups are shrinking minorities) know what happened from 1933 – 1945 to Europe’s Jewish population of about nine million human beings: Approximately two-thirds of them were murdered in what is known as the Holocaust.

In 1949 The United Nations recognized Israel as a nation, a home for surviving Jews. Its tiny, roughly 20,000-square-mile area has always been dwarfed by the roughly 3,000,000-square-mile area of surrounding nations that are almost entirely Arab and Muslim. Today Israel’s residents are 25% non-Jewish, 21% of that Arab, while Jews are not permitted even to enter most Arab nations.

As any thinking person knows — and as some students at prestigious American universities will scream at you in an instant — the legitimacy of the state of Israel and of American support for it has been challenged for 77 years, again and again through war and terrorism.

Without recounting the never-ending political arguments on this subject, it’s worth considering that Jewish students at some prestigious American colleges and universities are now harassed and threatened in ways reminiscent of German territories very early in the Holocaust. Extreme violence and deportations are not yet common here, but the chaos and criminality in such resurgent antisemitism is growing. If you doubt this, talk to someone with a Jewish child at one of those prestigious colleges or universities. I’ve had such conversations. They’re disturbing.

Or try attending a lecture or “protest” on the Israel subject. Watch your back.

There’s another chaos and criminality movement more visible now. Its roots are in the 2020 – 2024 Democrat-sanctioned illegal immigration of 10 – 15 million people. (Nobody knows the actual number, which was an element of their strategy.)

This one uses a favorite tactic of the left: projection. If your political axis is creating chaos and criminality, accuse the opposite political axis of chaos and criminality. In this case, the enforcement of immigration law, a federal responsibility made increasingly difficult by cities and states declaring themselves “sanctuary” jurisdictions, has been turned into a raging battle fought on city streets.

If you’re an American citizen who traffics drugs or children, assaults a woman jogging through a park or shoots a police officer sitting in a squad car, you might benefit from a soft line of defense: Soros prosecutors in Democrat cities who prefer to dismiss criminal charges and often decline to prosecute even repeat criminals.

But if you travel from another country, simply stroll across the southern border, and commit such crimes, you can find a hard line of defense: a sanctuary jurisdiction that actively protects criminals from immigration law enforcement.

Criminals south of the border don’t get such service.

Pointing out the human and financial problems of this extended, actual insurrection should be obvious. But after four decades of the sanctuary movement, the costs are “progressively” denied. Leftists who still mistake such Marxist utopianism for functional government have been in ideological denial for over a century.

These problems involve an obstruction of law, of course, but also a perversion of basic citizenship. Maybe we could propose a modernized American civics course here.

Such a proposal has a creative antecedent, one made by Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and brilliant essayist Viktor Frankl. In the 1962 American edition of Frankl’s masterpiece translated from German as Man’s Search for Meaning, he floated an idea theoretical yet meaningful. Noting the increasingly irresponsible and socially destructive behaviors he’d been observing in his patients and society at large, he suggested that the Bill of Rights and Statue of Liberty on America’s East Coast should be counterbalanced by a Bill of Responsibilities and Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Of course, that was 1962 and a California in which civic responsibility had not yet become as illusory as Hollywood. Frankl’s revolutionary theory of psychology, which he called logotherapy, moved on from the injury/illness focus of Freudian therapy to a focus on values — what an individual saw as truly meaningful in life. Frankl’s theory produced life-changing experiences in many people. Laughable as the elevation of values and responsibility might seem today, his Statue of Responsibility produced no critical laughter at that time.

Now, my idea for a bill of Remedial Citizenship could justifiably produce laughter, but that’s OK. I like a good laugh in a good cause.

Remedial Citizenship for the 21st Century 

  1. Unless the new wave of Marxism overwhelms sovereign nationhood, you as a legal citizen of the United States should respect your citizenship. The freedoms of citizens guaranteed by the Bill of Rights must be sustained by citizen responsibility.
  2. Citizens should vote faithfully for their representatives in municipal, state and national elections. Non-citizens taking up residence here may not vote at all. Respecting our country’s legal immigrants past and present, recognize that illegal immigrants are also ineligible for free schooling or health care and any type of public assistance, which are funded by citizens. Non-residents scamming taxpayer money in fraudulent schemes will be prosecuted, not protected for their votes.
  3. As a patriotic American who shares responsibilities of safety and solvency with your fellow citizens, you should respect the legal necessity of returning residents who are here illegally to their own countries. Once there, if they have no criminal record, they can apply for legal American citizenship after getting in line behind all previous applicants. (It’s a long line.)
  4. Responsible demonstrations and public protests are protected by the Constitution’s first amendment. But any public activity interfering with other citizens’ rights, travel, or exposure to violence is prosecutable. And if you glue yourself to anything public, you might just get left there.
  5. Responsible citizens don’t interfere with, through objects at, use vehicles to attack, or bring weapons to demonstrations that can impact other citizens, especially police or other agents enforcing standing law. Violent interference will be prosecuted even if praised by The New York Times.

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Long ago Bittinger moved from Chicago to a cheese-based land with Democrats not quite as nefarious as Illinois’. He misses proximity to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the occasional good White Sox game, but enjoys writing for JKN’s savvy subscribers and re-reading “A Confederacy of Dunces.”

Comments 47

  1. Good morning. I heard a wonderful Speaker a Black man say that America is Becoming Black and Gay. Please some of your writers find out the facts and write about this. Also Latinos are taking over America. If this is true it is so sad. We will be a Socialist Country soon and end up like Cuba.
    What has happened to America? Please research and write about it. Take good care John.

    1. Almost 10 years ago I wrote to Trump’s transition team that Mexican Immigration shall be halted for 10 years since they already are numbered more than 65,ooo,000 about 1/5th of the population of this land. And apparently it never got to his attention. And now they are more than 25% of this country’s population.

  2. Good morning Dave and thanks. There’s always truth in humor.

    Under Article 1 I do have a wonderful appreciation of my freedom granted by the Almighty himself. (Not by the almighty billionaire in the guvs mansion who hides his fortune from the usurious government confiscation he imposes on the common citizen.)

    I do believe that implementation of Article 2 (no freebies for illegals) would motivate many to follow Article 3. But hardcore criminals and terrorist guests of the Democratic Socialist Party will need a more aggressive approach to leave our country.

    Which leads to Article 4 and the black clad crowd will crawl out of their parents basements necessitating a stronger response by law enforcement and the armed retired curmudgeons they bravely attack.

    Bringing us to Article 5 and my comment to the ARC crowd is be careful if you move to assist the LEOs. There are many on the left mixed in with the black pajama crowd that look similar to normal retirees (crazed, glazed look and all) that the LEOS could mistake you as an estrogen ingesting significant other of some AWFL in the riotous crowd. I can no longer tolerate spicy foods so pepper spray would upset my stomach.

    Happy Sunday all.

  3. Thank you David. In theory your proposal makes perfect sense, in practice with 20 t0 30 percent of the youth population illiterate, maybe a cartoon edition of Remedial Citizenship would be more appropriate.

    John, we pray everyday for your recovery. Easy does it. N0 man is an island, allow Dave and others help lift your burden, your faithful readers are not going anywhere and will be there for you upon your healthy return.

  5. I last taught Civics as a separate subject in 2010 [7th graders]. The next year we shifted to World Geography -6, US I -7, and US II -8, though both US I and US II [both M/S & H/S] incorporated Civics in the instruction.
    I’ve always felt that Civics is best taught within the context of a US History course since it seems to make more sense to the students that way: however, I have come to believe that K-5 Social Studies should consist of Q1 US or World Geography, Q2 US I, Q3 Civics, Q4 US II. The redundancy of having Civics [and Geography] every year for five years would imbed its principles, structure, and vocabulary within most students’ heads by the time they are actually able to begin comprehending it.
    As an old nun once told me children rarely fully understand what they’re saying when the memorize their prayers, but when they are old enough to understand them, the task of memorizing it is already done. I’m no longer surprised, but still troubled, by how little my 9th graders [and too many of my colleagues] know about Civics and how much of that is misinformation. Fixing it is a generational task.

    1. In a country full of first- and second-generation immigrants ending dual citizenship would do little to help this country and much to inconvenience or harm the dual citizens. The ability to quickly visit ill, dying, or suddenly marrying relatives without waiting for a visa, inheritance laws, property ownership restrictions, business travel freedom are very important and the reason why so many US citizens opt for dual citizenship. Restricting the countries eligible for dual citizenship does make sense and the current rules are too loose, but ending it altogether goes to far.
      In my own experience, eg, I knew a dual US-Irish citizen [salesman/purchasing agent] who could travel throughout the EU without visa concerns and would use his US passport in Israel and his Irish passport in the rest of the Mid East. I have colleagues who have dual US and Colombian and US -DR citizenship. They have both had to travel for sudden funerals they might have missed otherwise, and one was able to inherit family property as well. The later, BTW, is a Vietnam Combat vet.

    2. Could not agree more with your call to end dual citizenship. It makes up for a lot of misuse than for the easy travel cause raised by Mr. Horniacek below, considering easy access to the foreign embassies and consulates throughout the world in this age.

  7. The combination of social media and the dumbing down of American education that started 50 years ago has turned out to be a disastrous recipe resulting in what we see in our cities today.

    The hard left has been very good at positioning themselves as the radical-chic cool kids that everyone wants to be accepted by.

    Common sense seems to be making a comeback, albeit in baby steps. It’s time for the silent majority to stop being silent!

  8. The “hard left” and “hard right” are a creation of the oligarchs and the CIA/deep state. They do not exist where real people live, those who go to work everyday, pay their bills, try to be good people, take care of their family and friends, which is most of America.

    Kass wrote about Soros. He told the truth about how he was funding prosecutors who would be soft on crime. Why would people like Soros, who live in gated communities and have private security, want to empower criminals and have honest folks live in fear? Fear is how they control you.

    Fear is how you get God loving people to endorse the killing of women and children on our streets, in Gaza, in Iran, everywhere. Fear is how you get people to ignore the Ten Commandments and kill in God’s name. It’s almost comical if it wasn’t so tragic.

    I’ve seen the loops of Benjamin Netanyahu saying Iran is on the cusp of a nuclear bomb for thirty years. I’ve seen him say that when “we” topple the clerics who run Iran, how the people will be “free”. He said the same thing about Iraq. How did that turn out?

    Libya gave up their nukes, look what happened to them. Ukraine gave up theirs too. Ditto. Kim Jong Un has nukes. No one messes with him. Also, what VDH and JKN don’t mention is the USA toppled a democratically elected government in Iraq in the 50’s and put ion a repressive Shah, which led to the Islamic revolution on the 1979.

    Come to think of it, we’ve done similar things, back scum in distant lands many times. It’s never worked out well. It’s a hustle. The military Industrial Complex is a hustle. Fear is a hustle. Just like the “woke” have their coddling of criminals, foist some implied virtue on minorities, ignore biology and blur the genders, the “right”, peddles fear, division, racism, Amalie, to justify all manners of violence and deprvity.

    How the hell does a strong woman like Marjorie Taylor Greene get banished form MAGA, a party she worked her ass off for? “My friends will get hurt”. That’s how.

    These same friends know no party, have no allegiance to anyone other than themselves. They are comprised of the wealthiest, most powerful families and they fund most of these programs that we fight over. Wokeness, DEI, Planned Parenthood, Drag Queen Story Time, Educating people in Nigeria about Trans gender. They want us to argue, so we don’t pay attention to how they rob us. We cannot demand better care for our sick, elderly, disabled, because we have to topple Iraq, Iran, fight CHINA!

    If you polled the nation anonymously, without regard to party, I’m certain the vast majority would not want homeless shooting drugs and crapping in the streets. They would not want all the violence, all the bombing, all the illegal immigrants draining our resources and suppressing wages, yet, that’s what we get.

    The oligarchs want it this way. You see POTUS doesn’t work for us. America first is a sham, just as Hope and Change was a sham. You people out there dislike Obama, Sleepy Joe, and Kamala, but Trump is stealing with both hands, and you’re okay with it because he’s fighting the “hard left’.

    As Jake and Elwood would say, “We’re on a mission from God”. I guess what we’re doing in Iran must be a holy thing. It’s so important that hundreds of thousands of Orthodox in Israel do not fight. They are Schnorers, or what Shaun for Elmwood Park might call welfare roaches.

    1. Ah, the old Mossadegh’s Overthrow Begot The Mullahs trope so beloved of lefties.

      What stupidity.

      The Mullahs overthrew the Shah because he was westernizing Iran, not because they cared about a secular Socialist like Mossadegh. Commies in Iran made common cause with the Mullahs because they thought they could liquidate them once the revolution succeeded. To their great surprise, they learned that 7th century Muslims are more ruthless than 20th century commies and they were the ones that were purged, plunging Iran into a decades long theocracy that makes the Shah look like Thomas Jefferson.

      1. So it was a holy thing propping up the Shah. I get it now. Just has Al Queda is our friend now running Syria. Keep enlightening me. We need more intervention, not less. We need to bring “freedom” to the Middle East! We care about the women on Iran!

        1. “So it was a holy thing propping up the Shah.”

          What a stupid thing to say. It was the exact opposite as far as the Ayatollahs were concerned and that’s why they overthrew him, not because of some upset 25 years earlier over a secular Mossadegh.

          Oh, and your sarcasm? You really suck at it.

  9. Let me add to #2. Noncitizens counted in the census WON’T be added to the population figures to pad Democrat cities’ numbers for congressional seats and federal aid.

  10. Iran is using drones that cost maybe 20 grand, We are shooting them down with missiles that cost millions. Some say they are holding back on their super sonic missiles. If this is true, God help us.

    It’s also said that Israeli censorship is prohibiting the publication of the destruction Iran is heaping on Israel and the Gulf. There are implications for the destruction of the Gulf states.

    There may be a grand awakening of Shiite Muslims in the Middle East, which would be bad for Israel. The Sunni’s who control much of the oil, may turn against us and turn away from the Petro Dollar. If they do that, we are screwed.

    Further, Israel has nukes. If they are getting pummeled as some say they are, they may end up using a tactical Nuke. Who knows where this may lead.

    Then there’s the Greater Israel Project. I’m not supposed to talk about this because, well, it paints Israel in a negative light, and we all know this is allowed. If anyone saw Tucker Qatarlson take Mike Huckabee to the woodshed, you may know that he admitted Christian Zionists believe Israel is entitled to rule from the Euphrates to the Nile.

    This could get ugly really quickly. We already squandered 6 trillion in the Middle East. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump, multiple administrations have bombed the hell out of them.

    Meanwhile our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. We have people sleeping on the street. We have unsafe streets. As Kass writes, you can’t even go to a Sox game and not get shot.

    Let’s keep fighting the “hard left”.

  11. Excellent column.
    I think we should demand reparations for being forced to take civics classes in our youth. It seems to be the modern way of doing things these days.
    Bob.

    1. Back at ya, Raymond. Appreciation sure returned during this period when many of us in the JKN orbit are worried and off-kilter. That would include readers and, for instance, a Chicago expatriate who this week failed to proofread himself accurately, maybe because he’s having trouble facing another White Sox season. Good reason we’re all concerned. But I’ve been coaching myself on belief that the most brilliant and entertaining columnist around will soon return to write for us right here.

  13. Civics are the way to responsibly mix people into the melting pot of our successful (everyone wants to come here, right?) USA culture & country. Civics unite our country.

    Reminds me of a quote by Henry Stimson (Secretary of War) made in 1941: “For I feel that this country united has practically nothing to fear while the apathy and divisions stirred up by unpatriotic men have been hitherto very discouraging.”

  14. Very well stated. We can’t undig the hole that Marxist-infused government schools have consigned our students into for two generations or more. But we can’t continue to look away. Our school tax dollars must be made to follow the student as per the parents’ choice. In the meantime the thankless job of being elected to the public school board is still too important to be left to those like the ones we now know have spoiled civics education thus far by design or default.

  15. I think its high time that the Bill of Rights shall be augmented by a Bill of Responsibilities and renamed Bill of Rights & Responsibilities – meaning one doesn’t exist alone without the other.
    Nambi

    1. Dear Nambi and Frank,

      I’m heartened that well-read and thoughtful JKN readers appreciated Viktor Frankl’s brilliant “Bill of Responsibility” thesis. The cynic in me worried that this relic of 1962 would be met only with eye-rolling today. But the idealist in me should have expected that members of the superbly savvy JKN audience would recognize the profundity of Frankl’s idea. SoI’m focusing on that . . . and not on the most obsessively stupid troll since Diogenes of Sinope. (Please, please, you obscurant leftist — move to actual therapy and give up these pathetic rambles.)

  17. Good points, David. I’m concerned that your “Bill of Responsibility” might impede upon our precious Bill of Rights. For instance David, a proscription against “bring(ing) weapons to demonstrations that can impact other citizens” is a set up for further erosion of the 2nd amendment. Clearly bringing a weapon – under present “concealed carry” laws and in fact under present “open carry” laws – to a “peaceful” demonstration is presently a constitutional right under the 2nd (in the vast majority of states) even if the “impact” might be to “upset” some fellow citizens. This reminds me of the “slippery slope” regarding “responsible” speech where the Left views all “unpleasant” speech (for instance critiquing Islam or trans pathology; even the Right got in on the act by trying to ban willful symbolic destruction of the American flag) as hateful (akin to “falsely shouting fire in a crowded movie theatre”) and therefore not protected by the First. Fortunately the Supremes have not bought into that argument. But history shows that attempts to limit our rights – in particular the First and 2nd – via governmental mandates are always cloaked in virtuous slogans and virtuous ideas like “responsibility.”

    1. 1. Civics not only MUST be taught in high school but must be PASSED before being allowed to vote.
      2. Illegal immigrants should be granted emergency care while waiting to be deported. Nothing more, nothing less.
      3. One can demonstrate all you can but you are NOT allowed to touch/interfere with law enforcement. If you do u go 2 jail. Throwing objects at LE deserves time in jail even if 1st offense.
      4. The Great Books of the Western World should again be taught in high school and college.
      I still have my set and return to it frequently.
      5. MERITOCRACY MUST BE RETORED IN EDUCATION. NO MORE ADMITTANCE BCAUSE OF RACE, CREED, SEX, ETC. Nurses, physician assts. SHALL NOT PRACTICE MEDICINE UNLESS UNDER DIRECT SUPERVISION OF BOARD CERTIFIED PHYSICIANS.
      6. For those not skilled in arts and Sciences should have the ability to be trained in trades with technical schools re established in greater numbers.
      7. Teachers must be able to read and write. Dont laff, many CPS so called teachers can’t. Like physicians they should be expected to be tested at appropriate intervals and if fail should receive remedial education and help to regain certification.
      8. ONLY FOOLS WILLFULLY BRING LEGAL WEAPONS TO CHAOTIC EVENTS. THOSE OF US TRAINED TO CARRY A WEAPON WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE THAT. NEVER.
      9. BTW the new mayor of San Francisco has performed miracles in that city. Visit, you’ll be surprised,

      1. Thomas. How about addressing my points other than with your typical sanctimonious gasbagging rants? Incidentally I was one of two physicians in the US during my career with board certification in anesthesiology, internal medicine, critical care and cardiology. So please refrain from the lecture about merit and excellence. I likely know more about merit and excellence than you’ll ever know. As far as #8, I agree. But that is not the point I was making if you bothered to read what I said. The point is the government cannot prevent you from exercising your 2nd amendment rights at a protest – even if it is “foolish” (in your judgment as well as mine) to do so. True, it does open up a can of worms if things get out of hand. But the fact is – if you enrolled in the Illinois CCL course and its refresher – as I have done – they point out you have a constitutional right to carry at a protest, but be aware of the pitfalls of doing so. You, or I, may not choose to exercise those rights, but others may certainly choose to do so – even if “foolish.” And here is a key to the Bill of Rights. It makes NO distinction between “wise folks” like you and “foolish folks” like me. We are equal. As far as the First is concerned – my other point which you ignored – the government has no right to prevent me – or you – from using the N word, or ranting about trans and Islam and a whole host of things that might be labelled as foolish, hateful, and IRRESPONSIBLE. In fact your viewpoint ultimately leads to the UK and Canada narrative: “we absolutely have free speech … unless it is insulting, hateful or IRRESPONSIBLE.” How’s that working out? And SFO? The Mayor’s security detail was recently violently attacked. What planet are you on?

        1. Our problem is a lack of leadership. I respect the hell out of Rand Paul and Thomas Massie for having principles and standing up for them.

          Did you folks see all the pastors praying about this catastrophe they are calling a holy war?

          When Lindsey Graham is a leader in the Senate and not Rand Paul, we are in serious trouble.

          1. Agree. I’m very familiar with Rand Paul, more so than Rep Massie. I always admired his father Ron Paul. Both are “strict” constitutionalists – that is their guiding North Star – much to the horror of the far Left as well as the Right. It is amazing how the US Constitution seems to be an alien doctrine not only to the “commies” on the Left (hey, I expect that) but many of those mouthing their support for Mr. Trump. A lesson is Civics would be very informative, valuable and surprising to many. Indeed.

        2. Never said u have no right to conceal and carry a weapon to a demonstration were ARMED ILL TRAINED ICE AGENTS R. U have the right but u r incredibly stupid for doing so. and that individual paid the ultimate price and nothing will be done about his death.

  19. Indeed, civics should be taught, or memorized as the wise Nun said years ago. But in my life (b. 1960) our parents, on numerous occasions, needed to remind my five brothers and sisters to be civil. Though separate words, one a noun the other an adjective, they are intertwined in what is required for respect and responsibility in a free society. The bottom line; without either a society will eventually falter and collapse inward. We were taught civics but being civil was instilled by our Mother and Father, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles along with our church and neighbors. These traits, yet again, require a cohesive, functional family operating as one in a loving environment.

  20. Good column and great points. My only fear is that civics education might be taught in a non-objective way. It’s nice to read work by a college classmate with the right ideas.

    1. I remember you at Vassar, Gilda, bright and charming. You and Meryl Streep both had Vassar paths crossing mine back then, but I only appreciated a different wonderful Gilda and that wonderful Meryl a few years later. Life is strange.

  21. “Smoking jars of metal and fuses” is what The New York Times initially reported an improvised explosive device thrown at protesters in New York. Luckily police grabbed the Islamic terrorists and the device, a jar filled with gunpowder, nails, bolts and other metal projectiles didn’t detonate. I recently watched a film, a comedy about AI and how
    ” Hivemind” ( now there’s a new word!) manipulation inspires people to mass and attack, much like kicking a beehive. Just in case you were wondering how these rioting mobs assemble, seemingly instantaneously. Dave, your article brings up many great points , lets add American Citizenship as a requirement to hold any public office. Anyone with dual citizenship should not be eligible to hold public office either. If successful American communists like Mamdami or Ocasio were to move to the “Socialist ” paradise of China would they be allowed to enter the Communist apparatus that rules that country. They would still be considered “foreigners”. Why do we allow non citizens to enter our political apparatus to dictate our laws of governance?

    1. “Hivemind” superb. Except on our farm in Virginia, bees were our friends. Black, Red and White kids, in the early 20th century, would climb “Peter’s Mountain” and harvest fresh honey near the top, where a homeless guy lived in seclusion, and spoke perfect Elizabethan English.

      Then that honey would be spread on biscuits warmed in a low, banked fire. Warmed in the ashes.

      And this lived experience, I’m old enough.

      In the center of the multi cultural, multi ethnic middle ground of which the United State was borne.

      Only here at JKNews

  24. Mr. Rajupal made an interesting point about immigration. He specifically cited Mexican immigration, but it seems quite clear to me that all immigration needs to be halted for a period of years until we can weed out the criminals and give the hordes that are here time to assimilate.

    We have numbers of foreign born here equal to what it was in the 20’s. Immigration was essentially shut does until after the war in the 40’s. There were restrictions and stipulations.

    I remember in Trump’s first term Republicans had an actual immigration bill. It had many great elements, but it was shot down for “two”reasons.

    First, it was not harsh enough for some legislators as it did not mandate every single illegal alien be kicked out of the country. This is not only cruel, you’d be kicking out productive workers, business owners family of citizens here for years. No one has sympathy of drug dealers or violent criminals, or white collar criminals and scam artists.

    Second, and the “real” reason is that we like the cheap labor. We like having a underclass we can exploit. There are a significant number who like the chaos the drugs, the trafficking, they don’t mind it. CTU gets butts ion the seats at 35 grand a pop. Pritzker gets numbers to paper over the exodus caused by his lousy policies and unsafe streets. Liberals hire them to watch their kids, cut their lawns, cook their food, etc.

    Who do you think cuts the grass at Mar a Lago? Republicans hire them too. I remember the pretty blonde Iowa student who was murdered by an illegal alien. He was working for one of Trump’s biggest donors.

    Bush tried to get a guest worker program, but it was shot down. Let’s face it. If the border were truly closed, and the smuggling stopped. Lots of swells would make less money. Wages would go up. Workers in private industry would be in a better position to demand better salaries and benefits.

    How many of the rich want that?

  25. I agree 100% with Mr. Robert Maitino that all immigration shall be halted for a specific period, say 10 years to clean up the existing which I was going to suggest after I talk some about my own fellow countrymen and their H-1B qualified worker visas -85000 a year. I have always maintained that off-shore employment is preferable since only about 1 in 6 of these fellows entering this country are good and the rest of them simply sponge off from the good. Then during their stay (up to 6 years) here, almost all of them apply for Green Cards and bring their families here. That was why I asked to stop this extended family immigration which Trump proposed for his 1st term which he dropped since then for reasons not known to me. The 85,000 visa holders along with their imported families would multiply that number by 10 times a year. You should have noticed this from the supermarkets the number of retired, old personnel and housewives working in the supermarket grabbing the opportunities for poor citizens. Also, H-1B holders make good wages since they are subject to strict wage requirements—often high—to protect the U.S. labor!
    Also I suggested a 45 year age limit for aliens for citizenship applications since what kind of contribution a 60 old person from a foreign country could make to this nation other than working in a supermarket?

  26. Born & raised in Texas, went to public schools, graduated HS in ’79, zero “civics” taught the entire 12 years of public education. We had “social studies”. I learned civics on my own. Civics should be mandatory IMHO. Oh, and our HS mascot was the “Rebels”.

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