The key social conundrum in America’s first antebellum period was triggered by the Dred Scott Decision; were runaway slaves in free Union states freemen or merely misplaced property? That crystallized the antagonism between Free States and Slave States and led to Civil War. The key  conundrum  in current antebellum American society is: Whether illegal aliens are merely undocumented immigrants or claim jumpers, usurpadors? That crystallizes the profound antagonism between the residents of 2016 America who believe themselves to be Global Citizens ( 43%) and those in America who define themselves as American Citizens( 57%) Defining Claim Jumper- “ a  supplanter, usurper - one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another.” The Global Citizens in America believe in Open Borders, that nationhood does not matter, or that nationhood is racist. Global Citizens believe that anyone, from anywhere in the world, have a right to come to America illegally, violate t

Is it racist to advocate for the repatriation of Somali refugees from America back to their homeland? Or patriotic?  Somali patriotism. Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin and Ohio have given sanctuary to many Somalis fleeing war conditions in Somalia. “Since the 1990s more than 100,000 Somalis have come to America as refugees. Many settled in the Minneapolis-St Paul area, which today is home to around 75,000 immigrants from Somalia and their children. The Cedar-Riverside neighbourhood in the Twin Cities is sometimes called “Little Mogadishu”. After they arrived, Somalis clustered and kept to themselves;….. Somali women made little effort to learn English. ……Somalis are one of the most troubled groups of immigrants. Many young Somali men are in prison; many Somalis of both sexes drop out of high school. Unemployment hovers around 21%, the highest of Minnesota’s five largest immigrant groups. More than half of Minnesota’s Somalis are poor. Many are isolated from other immigrants

One of the main concerns of this Blogger about the future is  the inability of Millennials to think in Gestalt terms; they only think in Silos, never connecting the dots of one issue to the grand pattern. Millennials believe that the trade policies foisted on America by the Liberal Elite and the Mass Incarceration of Young Black Males imposed on America by the Liberal Elite are distinct aberrations of policy. They are not; they are both manifestations of Globalization as practiced by the Liberal Elite. In the early 1990s, the Liberal Elite residing at Harvard University mingled with the Globalized Elite vacationing at Harvard and decided to help the global poor by redistributing wealth  from the Rich United States  to the poor countries of the world. This could be accomplished by sending American jobs to first China and Mexico, then everywhere. Capitalism would benefit by cheap labor, and the poor in China and Mexico would benefit by having their standards of living raised