Equal Treatment Under The Law

It is impossible to save people who do not want to be saved.

Section 1 of the 14th Amendment states:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

We all are watching, in real time, governments ranging from city to state to federal doing things for illegal immigrants that they would never willingly do for citizens.

The left consists of the same socioeconomic strata as does the right. This is a zero sum game - funding and services redirected from helping citizens in these layers of society to taking care of illegal immigrants who haven't paid a dime of taxes in their lives, are funds and services denied to right and left.

I am reminded of something Martin Luther King wrote in his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail":

"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."

His point, well made, was that there are issues that impact every single citizen - and the government prioritization of non-citizens over citizens is one of those. People think of "equal treatment under the law" as a feature of jurisprudence, but it is not limited to that - every government interaction with the citizens from which it draws its power is governed by that Constitutional tenet.

I find it amazing they hate the right for trying to change (or stop) their own self-loathing course of self-destruction.

Remember Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. It states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

This is that.

The right won't start a new civil war, but the left is headed in that direction.

I don't think it matters if Trump or DeSantis wins the GOP nomination, if either win the general in 2024, the left will lose their minds and start it.

It is impossible to save people who do not want to be saved.

Americans should pay attention to what the people in power do rather than what they say.