A Radical Reset
Our Republic has been converted into a democracy which is just another name for mob rule. The mob is getting what it wants, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, good and hard. One day soon, the entire edifice is going to collapse under its own weight and what takes its place historically will be tyranny. A Radical Reset is the alternative and the system is called Antipolitism. It calls for a new republic based upon merit and not ambition. No parties, no money in politics, no careers in politics, and only serving the public good.
A Radical Reset
Orange Cards: A Sensible Path Through America's Immigration Maze
The slow death of religion in modern society has left us with a devastating moral vacuum as faith becomes increasingly difficult to maintain in our scientific age. Where once religion provided clear answers to life's mysteries, now we struggle to find common moral ground, resulting in a breakdown of rational discourse on crucial topics like immigration.
Our immigration debate perfectly exemplifies this crisis of rationality. Trapped between extremes, we've lost the ability to discuss this vital issue with clarity and pragmatism. Yet the mathematical reality is unavoidable – America's aging population and declining birthrate mean we desperately need immigrants to sustain our economy and social programs. With Social Security's worker-to-retiree ratio having plummeted from 139:1 at its inception to just 2:1 today, immigration isn't just a cultural question but an economic necessity.
What would a rational approach to immigration look like? We must acknowledge the millions already here illegally and create a conditional pathway to legal status – perhaps an "orange card" system allowing them to work legally and live without fear, though without a path to citizenship as a consequence for their illegal entry. For future immigration, we need streamlined processes for law-abiding individuals who can support themselves, with automatic green cards for international students graduating from American universities in high-demand fields. When legal immigration becomes accessible and efficient, enforcement resources can focus on genuine threats rather than desperate workers.
This approach bridges the gap between competing worldviews, offering a pragmatic solution based on our actual needs rather than ideological positions. It's the kind of rational thinking that once underpinned our public discourse but now seems increasingly rare. Perhaps by restoring reason to our immigration debate, we can begin building the shared moral framework our post-religious society so desperately needs. Join me in exploring how we might navigate these challenging waters with wisdom, justice, courage, and moderation – the four pillars of Stoicism that offer guidance even when faith proves elusive.
Good morning and happy Wednesday everybody. This is Herbie K, your host for the Spiritual Agnostic, the podcast where we acknowledge that at the core of the breakdown of society is the ongoing slow death of religion, both in the United States and globally, as science takes the mystery out of the things that religion used to explain and faith has become something that was easy to have because it explained everything around you. To now, faith is believing in something that objectively, can't be true. Now, the reason I'm an agnostic and not an atheist just to explain it to you, those of you who have never joined me before is because I doubt it, but I really don't know. You know I'm getting to an age where I'm going to find out before too terribly long, but when I find out I won't be able to tell anybody. So I don't really know. Maybe there is a God. I hope so.
Speaker 1:I have what I would call a healthy envy of religion. I wish I could summon faith. I wish I could be a part of that community actively and participate, because I think the benefits far outweigh any inconvenience of my cause. And when I say that, I mean in the Western sense, as religion is practiced in less sophisticated that's not the right word less industrialized, less capitalistic. Frankly, societies in places like Africa and in parts of Central and South America, where you have largely an uneducated mass, religion is still strong and is practiced in ways that let's just say, are going to have to. They're either going to get further and further left behind between the gap between the poor and the rich, or they're going to have to join the party. But anyway, that's not what this podcast is about today, and I espouse using. You can't replace something with nothing. Religion is literally the foundation of society, so if we don't replace it with something, we're doomed. It doesn't matter. You know what else we do, because we're advancing our technology to the point where now our technology advances our technology. That's what AI is. Ai is technology that thinks, and once it starts thinking and thinking, I understand the wide range of what the definition. Ai is technology that thinks, and once it starts thinking and thinking, I understand the wide range of what the definition of thinking is. But it can perfect and improve itself, and you know that in a more of a microcosm sense and, by the way, I do this all the time. So you guys should try it too.
Speaker 1:Go on the chat, gpt or grok. I happen to prefer grok these days, but that's just me and you know. Talk to it and it I mean it really. It expands on the. It's like talking to a real person. It expands on the conversation. It helps with creativity. It's a tool to be used.
Speaker 1:You know there's a there's a big debate going on as to, for example, should students be allowed to use AI to write term papers and so on and so forth, and the answer is just that this is not what this podcast is about. But yes, yes, because they're not going to uninvent it. You know, I'm old enough to remember back in the day and when I say back in the day, we're talking 1960s, when handheld calculators first came out and the kind that they would give you for free now in a million different places was cost over $100. And that's when $100 in those days would be more like $500 today, when they just add, subtract, multiply, divide. No memory. That's all it did and we thought it was amazing and they used to.
Speaker 1:I'll never forget once I was sent to the assistant principal's office for math class, literally because I was using one of those calculators. My stepfather had brought one home that he bought somewhere. I forget it was a Texas Instruments. I think I remember that Anyway, or did I just tell myself it was Texas Instruments, but it was definitely the calculator. And the math teacher was Ms Hutchinson and she sent me down to the assistant principal's office, mr New, for using a calculator. And he said to me you know, you know you're not allowed to do that. And I said, why are they going to un-invent it? I mean, even then I was a wise guy and anyway it's turned out to be. Now, of course it's required to have.
Speaker 1:You know, when my kids went to high school they went to South Point Catholic High School in Tucson, arizona, a fine Catholic college prep school. And yes, I'm Jewish and I sent my kids to Catholic school because a little different religion isn't going to kill anybody and I liked the moral underpinning of the institution, generally speaking, and you know we live in a country with mostly Christians, so this doesn't hurt Jewish kids to learn about Christianity. Anyway, that was another digression. They were required. I had to buy these expensive, again, texas Instruments that I'm positive of, these very expensive Texas Instruments calculators that did all kinds of algorithmic. You know, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Math is not my strong suit, I'm a humanities kind of guy. So, anyway, but what I do want to talk about today is immigration, and I want to talk about immigration rationally, because it's all over the place, and now I'm not going to get into the politics of it, I'm going to get into the objective reality of it, and then, whatever your political affiliation is, then that's just fine To have a country. You can't have an open border. I think that that's a common realization among everybody except the stupid. Now remember going back to an earlier podcast that I did on.
Speaker 1:Stupidity is the greatest threat to our culture, which I do maintain, and it's a theme I'm going to repeat. I'm going to repeat it here Stupidity is not a measure of intelligence. You can be extremely smart and be stupid. Stupid is when you don't listen to anybody else but the echo chamber in your head and the group of people you belong to. In other words, you're impervious to debate. You have made up your mind. This is what you believe. It doesn't matter what objective facts you're presented with. You're stupid. So I'll give you a good example of stupid.
Speaker 1:Yesterday evening, when I was just basically multitasking and I was on X on my phone and I was watching some true crime dreck in the background. I was just basically enjoying my evening and there was a thing about there was a march in Poland and it had a bunch of people carrying torches and the march was this is subsequent to the conservative candidate winning the Polish. I should say not a conservative, a nationalist candidate won the presidential election in Poland, who is perceived as right-wing. I don't like the right-left thing, so I'm not going to get into it, but anyway, they're having a march declaring that Poland was a Christian country. It was at night and everybody was carrying torches and I just quipped on an ex-post. That just is something that I, as a Jew, don't enjoy seeing. Okay, so that set off the anti-Semites. I had them coming at me from every direction to the point where X stopped counting the responses to my tweet, or whatever Do they call them tweets anymore? My X post, whatever the hell they call it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, the nutcases came out of the woodwork and for about I don't know a half an hour, I engaged a few of them and a lot of them were in Poland, writing me in Polish, which was fascinating, because I don't speak word one of Polish. And although Polish is a Slavic language and I do speak Russian, as I've told you, not only do I speak Russian, I can understand Ukrainian because it's so close and I can read it, but that's because Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic letters but Polish is written in anglicized letters. I forget what those letters are called, I forget what we call our alphabet, but anyway they write there in our alphabet, but it's all Slavic. Anyway, it looks like a mishmash to me. So I was using Translate and trying to figure out what was going on and these were very, but it all boiled down to this they all hate the Jews.
Speaker 1:And the point I made was is that there's a reason that every single death camp, except for three small ones, were in Poland in World War II? I just don't know if you guys know that here's an objective reality. Okay, this is a good example of debating an objective reality and how fast it can spin out of control in the world we live in. I made someone kept saying why does that bother you? And I said because all the death camps were in Poland, except for there were three small ones that were in Ukraine and Belarus. Two of them were in Ukraine, one was in Belarus, poland's, the most anti-Semitic country in the world. It's not some kind of coincidence. And you can't kill 6 million Jews and another 6 million gypsies and Slavs without having a lot of local cooperation and help. You need employees. You know this wasn't three Nazis with. You know swastikas, you know doing it and nobody knew they built.
Speaker 1:There were no death camps in Germany, my friends. There were no death camps in France. There were no death camps in Scandinavia. There were no death camps in Mussolini's Italy. There were no death camps in Bohemia and Moravia, which is what we today, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. There were no death camps in Romania, which was a Nazi ally. There were no death camps and the reason was the people weren't anti-Semitic, generally speaking, in the general population. Yes, the Nazis were fanatic anti-Semites in Germany, but the mass of the population would have never stood for death camps.
Speaker 1:They were okay with Dachau. I've been to Dachau. Dachau was a concentration camp outside of Munich. Dachau was not a death camp. It was a punishment camp for political prisoners and Jews and people died there and their bodies were cremated. But it wasn't a death factory. The death factories, the ones where they brought them in by the train load, took them to the quote unquote showers, gassed them, burned them and did it 24-7. Those were in Poland Okay, almost all of them and the worst ones Auschwitz, majdnek, treblinka all in Poland, not a coincidence.
Speaker 1:And the thing is is that when people I bring this up, see, I got emotional as I'm talking about this, as I had the discussion people. There was no discussion, it was the anti-Semites and the people, me and the people who were agreeing with me, and I just broke it up and got away from it and blocked all the anti-Semites and moved on. The point of the matter is stupid is when you don't listen to reason. I don't know why I went into that whole digression, maybe just to give you a feeling for it all.
Speaker 1:But anyway, when you're presented, I'll use another subject the climate. On the climate, for example, it's come out in the last month that 65% of the temperature readings in the IPCC report that everyone's freaking out that the world is already one and a half degrees warmer Relax, it's not. Sixty-five percent of the readings were taken in urban heat islands. If you don't know what that is, I live in one. Phoenix. Arizona is an urban heat island. It can be 105 in Phoenix during the day in the summer, which is going to be today. So I'm going to use that as an example. But if you drive out of the city and go into the desert, the temperature drops about 5 to 10 degrees because all the pavement isn't heating up. That's just all there is to it. Use your head, and then at night, phoenix stays fairly warm, where the desert gets freezing cold even in the summer because, again, there's no concrete to hold in the heat, which is why sometimes you'll see rattlesnakes out on the pavement in the middle of the night in Phoenix in the summer, because they're cold-blooded animals retaining their body warmth. So, anyway, but you bring all this up to a climate cultist, and I call it a cult because they won't listen. There's no point. So what a rational person does is disengage, but that doesn't really advance anything.
Speaker 1:So now let's talk about immigration, the issue that I really wanted to talk about today, and what's going on. So, rationally, we have to have borders, and Trump has successfully shut down the border. That's an objective reality, and so you would have to come to the conclusion, therefore and this is why it's not being discussed that in fact, the previous administration, under our senile president, literally opened the border because the laws haven't changed. So one president has 20 million people during his presidency conservatively flock across the border that are in the United States and the other one shuts down the border, to where, last month, I believe, the crossing number was three, not 300, not 3,000, not 3 million. Three. So okay, so now our border's shut, but that is not the answer.
Speaker 1:And now we're talking about taking away student visas because of what's going on with the Ivy League, and I support President Trump in his fight with the Ivy League, because if you take public money, you can't operate against the public interest. It's really, really simple. And the people elected the executive branch who controls that money, and if they make the rules and you don't want to live with them, fine, don't take the money, but you don't get to have it both ways. So I support Trump in that, and particularly because of the anti-Semitism involved in the whole Ivy League thing. And so he's taking, but rather than using a scalpel, he's using a meat cleaver and he's taking away the visas of, not just students from the Middle East, but he's taking away the visas of, or at least he's in the process of it and we'll see what turns out. But he's attempting to take away the ability to issue student visas as new visas at all, and Chinese, latin American.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of foreign students that don't come from the Middle East and who are not anti-Semites. And there are a lot of students and I can tell you this from firsthand experience from the Middle East who are also not anti-Semites. By the way, another quick digression anti-Semite you really, if you took the term literally, would mean you hate Arabs too, because Arabs are Semites. So all the Semite is just for you guys to know, is someone who comes from that region, the northern Africa, the crescent of northern Africa, where the Arabs and Jews live. Those are Semites. When you go south of that, into what's called sub-Saharan Africa, that's where Africa becomes black. But in northern Africa, from you know, like Tunisia, all the way across to Iran, africa, they're all Semites. The Persians are Semites. So to be anti-Semitic is to say you hate people from the Middle East. But of course now you know colloquially we we understand it as hating Jews. But anyway, I understand and there, but there are plenty of that.
Speaker 1:I of Arabic students that I've known firsthand over the years I'm not Arabic students studying Arab Arab students. My sister, when she was in college, as far back this is quite a ways ago, used to actually date several Saudi Arabians, jordanians, because they have a thing for curvy girls, and my sister is curvy. So, and, by the way, interestingly, my Jewish sister got a degree in Middle Eastern studies, a master's degree in Arabic, and went to work at the National Security Agency as an Arabic linguist, and she agrees with me. Okay, jewish girl who speaks fluent Arabic and can therefore read their press. It's not monolithic Like, for example, mbs Mohammed bin Salman, the heir apparent of the senile king, by the way, openly known to be senile King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is out of commission. He's still the king, but everyone knows he's not there. So MBS runs the country, his eldest son, and he's not anti-Jewish. He gets along fine with Israel, in fact he's definitely going to, sooner or later, depending on the. You know there's a war going on, so on and so forth, but ultimately the Sunni Arab states are going to join the Abraham Accords and the historic accomplishment, in my opinion, of Donald Trump that will last for the ages and put commerce over conflict, as Trump says.
Speaker 1:But what I'm saying is, you know, it's not freezing all the student visas is a mistake. It's a mistake on an immigration point of view for a couple of reasons. The first is we here in the United States. Our population isn't keeping up with our death rate, frankly, because we're not having enough children. There are lots of reasons for that and we'll discuss those in other podcasts the breakdown of the nuclear family and modern feminism encouraging women to have babies later and later, and then them discovering that they can't really have babies later and later, and then them discovering that they can't really have babies later and later.
Speaker 1:By the way, side note, if anyone says to you as a woman, if you're a woman, to freeze your eggs and then pursue your career and then you can have a baby later by, you know, having the egg implanted and fertilized, da, da, da. A lot of times it doesn't work and a lot of women are finding themselves in near suicidal depression over this, even as we speak. So don't fall for that joke. If you want to have a baby, have a baby and then work your career around it. No one's saying you, as a woman, shouldn't have a career. It can't have a career, but the sooner you have children, the happier you're going to be as a woman. It's a simple fact of nature. You want to know if you're in your 30s and 40s. Now you're a woman and you consider yourself a feminist, but not even a fanatic. But you drank the Kool-Aid and you put off having a baby and now you're having trouble getting pregnant. You can blame modern feminism.
Speaker 1:Anyway, again a digression. So let's go back to immigration, where I seem to have a hard time staying on track. Today, we basically we need the population In order to pay for all of the things that we take for granted, including Social Security, medicare, for all of the things that we take for granted, including Social Security, medicare, medicaid, the social safety net and we can get into the minutiae of how all those are done, right or wrong later, but if you like the fact that there is a social safety net and if you like the fact that these programs for older people and poor people exist, we don't have the population to maintain them. These are all pay-as-you-go programs. The Social Security Trust Fund, for example, is an accounting fiction. That was just something that was made up by Franklin Roosevelt and it looks like it exists on paper, but it doesn't really exist. Because what kind of trust fund can only invest in one thing, which is government bonds, which means that the government's been borrowing the money out of the Social Security quote-unquote trust fund for years and the whole thing's unsolvent. Blah, blah, blah. It's really pay as you go.
Speaker 1:When Social Security was set up, we had 139 workers for every one retired person. Today there are two. I could go into a longer discussion as to how that happened, but the number's dropping. We don't have enough people paying in to support the people that are collecting, and since almost everybody, when you bring up the subject, particularly of Social Security, screams I paid in, I paid in, I want my money, then if you want to solve that, you better be pro-immigration. The only solution is going to be immigration, particularly in the short to medium term. I've, then, deal with it right now, today, in the present that we live in and in the foreseeable not that the future is ever foreseeable, but in the anticipatable future. Let's say we have a serious accounting problem that only immigration can solve. Now we're very, very fortunate because we happen to live.
Speaker 1:Our southern border is with Mexico and the rest of Latin America, which have the healthiest demographics in the world. They're still having babies down there, and a lot of people in Latin America in particular want to come into the United States, and they've come illegally. Now I understand that there are. You know people like this Egyptian who burned up the people in the March in Boulder the other day, who have come in illegally and overstayed their visas and yada, yada, yada. But the mass border migration is mostly Latino and most of those people you know one of the arguments that's put forward by people who talk about, you know, murders being committed by illegals like that poor girl, lakin Riley, in Atlanta always retort with as a percentage of their population, illegal aliens commit less crime than legal.
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, that's an impossible statistic to calculate, because illegal aliens don't submit to census taking and poll takers, they're not answering polls. That's just a number, someone kind of extrapolated from what data they could get pulled out of their ass. But let's say that's true. It's also irrelevant. The reason that that's an erroneous argument in the crime perspective is that if you're the family of Lake and Riley, you don't really give a shit that the rest of the, and neither does anybody else in the whole country who understands this. And this is the difference between being stupid and smart.
Speaker 1:The people who want to support unlimited immigration and leave the illegals in the country to be illegal the way they are always say they commit less crime than the people that are already here. But that's a non sequitur. You're repeating something that logically makes no difference, because one is too many. You understand that those two statistics don't go together. It doesn't matter. Maybe it's true, it still doesn't matter. The fact of the matter is, for Lake and Riley and all the people that have been murdered by illegals and there's so many, you can't count them they would all be alive today. If the border wasn't opened up by Biden in the last term. Lake and Riley would be alive today. It's as simple as that, and that's why people are really angry. But when people become really angry, they get stupid in the other direction and they don't want to talk about immigration rationally.
Speaker 1:We have basically a war of the stupids. We have the stupids who want illegal immigration against the stupids who want to close off immigration, and we can't, otherwise our country's going to collapse. We need the population. So what would a rational, stoic person do? Now let's review the four pillars of stoicism Justice, courage, moderation and wisdom. Justice, courage, moderation and wisdom.
Speaker 1:So what would a person who is being governed by those four things do? Well, the first thing you would do is you would say to yourself already there's one of the criticisms of the Trump administration is they're not rounding up these millions of people they said they were going to round up and there's some criticism about that. They're not good. It's impossible Unless we become Nazis. Even the Nazis, okay, who could kick down doors with impunity and kill whoever they wanted in their own population, couldn't round up all the Jews in Germany At the end of the Second World War. There were over 5,000 Jews still left in Berlin, okay, who were able to hide from the Nazis in the capital of Nazism, okay. So understand now. They got most of the Jews, but even the Nazis couldn't get them all.
Speaker 1:So the idea that we're going to start kicking down doors like stormtroopers, in violation of the Constitution and I know that those with Trump derangement syndrome believe that's already happening, but that's again another case of stupid it's not happening. It's simply not happening. You can repeat, it's happening over and over, but if you can't cite an objective, real example in context in current time, you're full of shit, have a PhD, but you're stupid, that's a good example of stupidity. So, and conversely, if you think that every illegal alien is running around the street raping and pillaging, you're stupid. And if your resistance to the simple, objective reality, that most of them are here because they want to earn a living. And if you think they're here to undermine the United States and that's their reason for being, you're stupid. Okay, they're here like every other. They just cut the line. Okay, and that's a problem, because you cannot.
Speaker 1:If a nation doesn't have, if a nation doesn't have laws and borders, it's not a nation. Okay, there's a reason that God, in the Noahide laws they were handed down after the flood, there were seven. These were called Noahide laws that were handed down after the flood, kind of, let's say, a restatement of the ten commandments, getting rid of a few of the extraneous, extraneous commandments that don't matter. And it had the only affirmative commandment. There was an affirmative commandment. In other words, instead of thou shalt not, there was one affirmative and it was you shall make laws. Thou shalt make laws, you shall, however you want to. God didn't speak in old English either, by the way. You know who knows what he's spoken, probably Aramaic, but whatever. Having said that, no laws, no country, no civilization.
Speaker 1:So what do we do about it? So here's what a rational person would say. The first thing we're going to have to do is we're going to have to declare an amnesty. Now, as soon as I say that, that's like no one ever talks about it because it's the A word, it's like I don't know, it's like the modern equivalent of the C word. You know, like that I used to teach my children although everyone says the C word now that that was the worst word, that you can never use it because you can never take it back. But now it's been replaced by amnesty. God forbid we should give amnesty. Oh my God, they broke the law. Blah, blah, blah. You're opening up the border again. Listen the way to avoid it. If you can, let's play chess and not checkers. How could we avoid having an amnesty turn into a rush to the border? The answer is you declare a date prior to the day you declared the amnesty as the cutoff. So let's say they declared the amnesty. Today is let's see what is today Today's June the 4th. So let's say today, on June the 4th, we declare an amnesty.
Speaker 1:Magically the Congress gets a brain and there's an amnesty for everyone that's illegal in the country to come forward and become legal. I'll get into how that happens in just a minute. You could do it as to May the 31st. Then today, june the 4th, you get a pardon. You get an amnesty. However, you have to come in. It's not an amnesty without conditions. It's not unconditional. Here are the conditions of an amnesty However, you have to come in. It's not an amnesty without conditions. It's not unconditional. Here are the conditions of the amnesty you have to come in and get your orange card. So you're not going to get a green card Because you came to the country illegally. The penalty for that is there will be no path to citizenship. So if you come in, you're not illegal anymore. You'll get an orange card. You'll get a social security number. You can work and live in the United States. You can pay taxes, you can buy property and cars, you can live in the sunshine. You don't have to worry about the police. Your children, if they're born in the United States, are US citizens under birthright citizenship, which I don't think we should monkey with, because when you start playing with the Constitution, monkey with, because when you start playing with the Constitution, there will be unintended consequences that we haven't thought of yet, but it won't be good. So just this takes care of the whole problem. You can live and work here in the sunshine. The only thing is you yourselves, parents of the children that are citizens, will never be citizens. You will never be allowed to vote. This is the penalty. You or hold office. This is the penalty that you pay because you broke the law. Coming United States, on the other hand, you can now live in freedom and most of them be thrilled out of their minds. And I can tell you, living in Arizona and a family in the produce business, and that's why we came to Arizona and I worked and lived with Mexicans and fields. I worked in the fields of Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley and packing houses and I speak Spanish and I know these people up front and personal in a way that most of you listening to me do not, and I assure you they don't care. They're not here to vote, they're not here to be in American elections. What most of them would do and I'll get to the next part of it is they would go home part of the year, particularly the agricultural workers. The reason they stay in the United States is one of the unintended consequences of shutting down the border without a good plan, without a reasonable immigration policy because they're afraid to go home. They're afraid that if they go back home and for, let's say, six. They come up here, they work for a harvesting season let's say, in Yuma, arizona, working there and picking strawberries or whatever they're picking, and then when the season's over, they go down to Mexico and they come back for the next growing season. That's the way it was in the old days, before we became irrational. But today, and so many illegals stay in the country because they're afraid that they can't get back. They paid a lot of money to get into coyotes in the first place quote-unquote human traffickers. But how do you end all that human trafficking and everything else? No-transcript really want to become US citizens can simply go back to their country of origin, reapply at the local American consulate, come back in the right way, get their green card. It won't be held against them that they made a prior mistake. So that fixes. Now every illegal alien is out in the open. Okay, now how do we keep this problem from repeating? Well, we have to come up with a rational border policy and immigration policy moving forward so that takes care of the 20 million behind this. Rationally, what do we do about the ones that still want to and are going to come? And the answer is we have an unlimited. We need these people Understand. The basis of this is the objective fact that we need these people to support our welfare state, basically. So in order to do that, we have to have an unlimited immigration policy. So if you apply at a US consulate in your country of origin and if you do not have a criminal record of any kind, where you're from, whether it's Mexico or Uruguay, not many Uruguayans are coming because it's a great country. But you know, like Ecuadorians or whatever it might be, if you don't have a criminal record and you want to come here and work and you do not and you can support yourself when you get here, you're not asking for as an immigrant. No immigrant, until they've achieved citizenship or with the orange card, should be eligible for any kind of federal aid. Now, if a state wants to provide aid, that's fine, but I warn the states any state that starts doing that and hanging out the free shit here sign is going to get swarmed by the worst part of the immigrants coming into the country. You hang out the free crap sign. The good people don't come, but the bad people come like crazy. And there are good and bad people, sorry, there are people that are permanently broken. So you basically say you can come to the country as long as you can get here. You don't have to pay a coyote, you know you can come, you'll get a green card five years, you're a citizen. Work hard, yada, yada. We need you. It doesn't matter whether they have degrees or money or not. Okay, because we need the bodies to go to work. We have plenty of things for them to do. Okay, we have no shortage of places for immigrants to find their way and, by the way, start their own businesses and create Again. Nothing's stopping them Take part in the American dream. The other thing that we have to do as part of a rational immigration policy is kill all bilingualism. The official language of the United States should be declared to be English and all forms should be in English, and all official government signage all official government forms only in English, not as we do now with Spanish. On the other side. The reason for that is not because I don't like Spanish, because I speak and love Spanish. I literally spoke Spanish before I spoke English. That's a true story, but I'm not going to repeat it. I think I've already told it in another podcast. Even if I didn't, it's not that interesting, but anyway, I'm the furthest thing from anti-Spanish. However, a country has to have one language because otherwise it's not going to be a country. Look at Canada and how the French speakers and the English speakers absolutely hate each other. And Canada is constantly on the brink of dissolution more so lately for other reasons, but I won't get into that. And a country has one official language, that's it. And the official language of the United States is English. Everybody speaks English, the world speaks English. It's the language of commerce, and unless you want your kids to grow up digging ditches the rest of their lives, you would want them to speak English. So, like every other wave of immigrants, including my own grandfather, who came to this country speaking only Russian and Yiddish but learned English without any classes because he had to. Necessity is the mother of invention. That's the way it has to be, because that creates. That's how you begin to inculcate a immigrant population into the country. Now the other part of rational immigration is we have all these students. Let's go to the students that are in the university systems. What do we do with them? And the answer is automatic green card upon graduation. As long as you haven't taken part in a Hamas protest, it is completely reasonable to revoke the visas and I was going to say expropriate, that's the wrong word and to expel those people out of the United States who basically come here and try to sell hate, like anti-Semitism on campuses. You don't get to come here and be anti-American and anti-anything. You know you come here. It's a privilege. However, most foreign students are coming here because they love the privilege and a lot of them would like to stay and we need them desperately. We have a shortage of most foreign students are studying STEM subjects science, technology, engineering and math S-T-E-M STEM that's what that means, and we need these STEM graduates. We don't have enough of our own, partially because of our miserable public school system another subject for another day but also because we just don't have enough Americans that want to do these things. So if a Chinese national or a Saudi national or a French national or a Dutch national, or whatever it might be, comes to the United States to study here and finishes their STEM degree, they should be offered an automatic green card. If you'd like to stay, you can stay and become a citizen. If you want to go home, go home. But I'm telling you right now, if you offered the green cards a large percentage. I have no idea what it is, I haven't read a study, I'm not going to pull a number out of my tuchus, but a large percentage are going to stay and we need them. This Senate are going to stay and we need them. This is a rational immigration policy. Now, when you have a rational immigration policy, when anybody who can come into the country can come into the country as long as they're law abiding and can get here on their own two feet and apply properly to an American consulate without a quota, then there's no excuse for any illegal crossings. That means the only people crossing illegally are criminals. Okay, now let's talk about that very, very briefly. No, no, you know what. There's another element to the immigration crisis, and this is where there's overlap. These things do not exist in a vacuum, and I want to talk to you about the drug war, but you know what? I'm going to resist the temptation of going into the drug war in this podcast. I think I'll talk about it either in the next one or at least soon in the future. The reason I'm not going to be committal on that while I talk about it on Friday is simply because something could happen that I want to comment on between now and Friday. That will change my mind. But all things being equal, the drug war is a big reason. But anyway, back to the logic and what I'm saying as far as immigration policy is concerned, when you don't have to chase down decent people, you can concentrate your resources on indecent people. And since you're letting all the decent people in anytime they want to come, then the only people crossing the border are going to be the indecent people. There are going to be very, very, very few of them. In comparison, the decent outnumber the indecent. The indecent make a lot of noise, but they're a small group relative to the mass coming in. So you can concentrate your enforcement resources on a much smaller number of people and much more efficiently catch the potential terrorists and terrible things that can come into the country that will still bypass the legal system because they could never get through it. Do you understand the rationality? Now, all of this has been discussed in bits and pieces by other people than me. Before these things work They've been tried before, they've been done successfully before but for various like, for example, under Ronald Reagan, we had a Bracero program, which was just what I'm talking about you could come to the United States, work, pick, do your thing. Go back to Mexico, come back next year and work and pick. It was all. You were a bracero, a guest worker. That's what it was all about. A guest worker, and it worked. For some reason, we stopped doing it. I don't know why. It's politics. Politics are irrational, politics are stupid. Okay, so that's why, by the way, I invented antipolitism. This would be my perfect segue into the ending. Rationality is only possible, okay, when, at least in the big picture of running a country, when the people leading us are rational, and we don't have rational people leading us because of the system of democracy that we've set up. Democracy is mob rule. We had a republic. We have destroyed all but the very thinnest of protections for our republic, and now we're a democracy, and democracy is always, historically 100% of the time, ends in tyranny, and that's where we're headed now. So I invented a different version of a republic, called an antipolitist republic. Antipolitism is the system I invented. It is a republic by merit-based lottery. You'll understand it when you read the book. It's called A Radical Reset. It's there for you to buy on Amazon. Pick it up on Amazon. A Radical Reset by me, herbie K, where I lay out what anti-politism is and when I say it's the manifesto of anti-politism, and it also lays out possible solutions to almost any problem that we face today, based on rationality. Now, none of it. I didn't write the book like it was a Bible being handed down from you know, I almost said being handed down from Olympus it's a mix of religions, but anyway, from Sinai, but anyway. But it starts the discussion. We have got to get away from. The very fact that a person pursues power should be a disqualification for power because it indicates sociopathy. Ok, but we'll discuss about that. I have discussed it and we'll discuss it again in the future. But if you want to learn more about anti-politism and how we can save ourselves and have the first successful republic that lasts in history, read the book A Radical Reset on Amazon Kindle paperback hardcover. You take your pick, it's available on all three. Also, please don't forget to tell your friends how wonderful this podcast is. And that's it for today. Have a beautiful rest of your week. I'll talk to you on Friday. Possibly we'll talk about the completely stupid drug war, or possibly we'll talk about what's happened between now and then. We will wait and see, or possibly we'll talk about what's happened between now and then. We will wait and see. In the meantime, remember if you have faith, please go to church. If you're wavering, waver on the side of, go to church, reestablish the values that made this country great. And if you don't read the meditations, in addition to reading a radical reset, do yourself a favor Pick up a copy of the meditations of Marcus Aurelius and read those. It will open your eyes to the way life has to be lived. A life to have value must be lived with virtue. If you can live that virtue through religion, great. But if you don't have faith, then find philosophy and find your virtue there. And Stoicism is in fact the philosophy that says to live a life of value, one must live a life of virtue. Anyway, have a beautiful day. That's my last and final thought for now. Final thought for now. Does that even make sense? But anyway, you guys get the drift. Have a beautiful day. Talk to you next time. It's Herbie out.