[ExI] Just some thoughts, nothing new really

[John Clark]

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 7:19 PM Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *### No, not all leaders are the same lying jerks, but the same lying
> jerks always flock to power, no matter what specific lies they spout. *


I would agree that usually the best people to have in positions of power
are the ones that don't like power but are forced by circumstances to have
it, however there are exceptions; Churchill wanted and got to be Prime
Minister in 1939 and I think it's pretty clear the world would be in a much
less desirable state today if he had not.

*> a movement which perpetuates the lie that hostile immigration is good
> for a country is likely to have a lying jerk as its leader. *


I always thought you were a libertarian but I guess I was mistaken because
libertarians believe people have the right to live how they want where they
want as long as they're peaceful, and today the USA has the lowest crime
rate its had in many decades and areas of the country with the sharpest
drop in crime have the most undocumented immigrants. That doesn't sound
very hostile to me.

No Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/upshot/illegal-immigration-crime-rates-research.html>


Even the libertarian think tank The Cato Institute concluded that illegal
immigrants in Texas committed fewer crimes than native born Americans:

https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/criminal-immigrants-texas-illegal-immigrant

John K Clark
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