There is no Founding Father that is more popular with liberal Democrats than Alexander Hamilton.
I don't know if that is because he was the leading advocate for big government among the Founders, he was a migrant himself or that he was only 21 years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
All of these were probably factors in why Lin-Manual Miranda decided to make Hamilton the focus of his Broadway musical that further added to the aura that surrounded Alexander Hamilton as the darling of the liberal elites.
The 'Hamilton' musical recently celebrated its 10th anniversary on the stage.
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Source: https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/a-timeline-of-hamilton-on-broadway-and-beyond |
I have never seen 'Hamilton'. I have heard it is a great production.
However, I am a "facts and data" guy who also believes that history matters.
I can't see the sense of depicting our Founders as a diverse cast of characters any more than I would go see a play or movie that would cast a white man as Nelson Mandela or an Asian playing Christopher Columbus.
It is nonsensical for my simple and sensible mind to comprehend.
Just as nonsensical is what is going on in Los Angeles right now.
The rioting and mayhem is bad enough.
Worse yet are the Democrat politicians and mainstream media who are attempting to defend it.
An image from the "peaceful protest" in LA.
Compare this to the worst image you can find of the so-called "insurrection" of January 6th, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol.
Attacking the police and setting at least one cruiser on fire in the mostly peaceful protest.
Credit to Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) who is willing to call it anarchy and chaos.
How is it that John Fetterman, who suffered brain damage as a result of a stroke, displays more common sense and clear thinking than almost every other elected Democrat?
Or any number of members of the mainstream media.
"It's just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn" according to one mainstream media reporter in LA.
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Link: https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1932067165856829818 |
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is attempting to blame President Trump for the riots because ICE was enforcing the immigration laws.
If Trump and ICE would just continue to ignore the law and their oaths under the Constitution then everything would be fine.
Of course, looking at the images from the protests it does not appear that many are concerned about the the Constitution and laws of the United States of America.
Were truer words ever said than by this woman?
This brings us back to Alexander Hamilton.
What would he say about all of this?
Hamilton was a migrant himself having arrived in Boston in 1772 at the age of 17 from Nevis which was then part of the British Leeward Islands.
By 1776 he was fighting on behalf of the United States in the American Revolution and later became an aide of General George Washington.
He signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787 at the age of 32.
It turns out that Hamilton had an opinion on mass migration that he shared in an article in the New York Evening Post in 1802 warning that unrestricted immigration would weaken national unity, introduce foreign biases and complicate and confound public opinion.
You can read Hamilton's words below as if they were written today rather 223 years ago.
This is what Hamilton wrote about uncontrolled immigration in 1802.
“The consequences that must result from a too unqualified admission of foreigners…
The safety of the republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.
The mass influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.
The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils, by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others. It has been often likely to compromit the interests of our own country in favor of another.
To admit mass foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens, the moment they put foot in our country, would be nothing less, than to admit the Trojan Horse into the Citadel of our Liberty and Sovereignty.”
The present desire of America, is to produce rapid population, by as great importations of foreigners as possible. But is this founded in good policy?” “Are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale, against the advantage expected from a multiplication of numbers, by the importation of foreigners?
It is for the happiness of those united in society, to harmonize as much as possible, in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
Every species of government has its specific principles: Ours, perhaps, are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English Constitution, with others, derived from natural right and reason. To these, nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing as is usual, from one extreme to another.
It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. Their principles with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us in the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass. I may appeal to experience, during the present contest, for a verification of these conjectures: but if they be not certain in event, are they not possible, are they not probable? Is it not safer to wait with patience for the attainment of any degree of population desired or expected? May not our government be more homogeneous, more peaceable, more durable?
It appears to me that those liberal and progressive elites that adore the character that Lin-Manuel Miranda created in his musical may be surprised to find out what the actual views of Alexander Hamilton were on mass immigration--legal or illegal.
Hamilton also understood the importance of law and order to the fabric of a society.
The immigration laws exist to provide order and to protect our society from masses who might undermine the character and values of our society if immigration is not controlled.
The immigration laws were established to provide order for our society. The laws were considered necessary to provide for the entrance of an established number of immigrants annually that could be assimilated without disrupting and degrading the experience of U.S. citizens and others who are rightfully here.
The compounding effects of uncontrolled immigration is the reason that the immigration laws were put on the books in the first place.
When the law is ignored or not enforced, chaos is sure to follow due to the compounding effects of large numbers of people the society is not prepared for.
Adding too many immigrants, too quickly, puts added pressure on the social order if those immigrant numbers outpace the ability to integrate and assimilate them into the general population.
What we are seeing in Los Angeles underscores exactly how right Hamilton was.
We have millions of people who have entered this country illegally that have no allegiance to our country, its values or its principles.
Many have no heart and soul for the United States. They are only here for a paycheck or welfare check.
The problem was ignored by both parties for years like a pot simmering on a stove at low heat that no one was unwilling to confront.
Joe Biden took office and turned up the heat to such a degree that the pot boiled over and touched everything in our society.
Supporting these illegals has puts unnecessary economic strain on everything in our society---our water, our sewer systems, our roads, the electric grid, our infrastructure and our environment. It contributes to congestion and urban sprawl. It has put financial strain on our schools and health systems. It has fueled cost increases in housing and rents due to the mass influx of illegals.
Even worse is the social discord and disunity that has come with it.
Donald Trump did not cause any of this. He is just trying to clean up the mess.
As for Alexander Hamilton...he warned us.
Why didn't anyone but Donald Trump pay attention?