America is a nation of people, not just ideas, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) declared as he accepted his party’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s vice president.
“One of the phrases you hear from time to time is, ‘America is an idea,'” Vance said from the podium, adding:
To be clear, America was indeed founded on great ideals, like the rule of law and religious freedom, and they are enshrined in our Constitution and national framework. But America is more than just ideas. America is a people with a common history and a common future. It is a nation.
Vance’s remarks, emphasizing a common American identity in a mixed-race society, drew cheers from the audience and echoed earlier comments by 99-year-old World War II veteran William Peckrall.
“People say America is an ideal, but I believe America is much more than that. America is our home,” Pekrul declared. “When I came home after fighting in Europe, I kissed the ground and thanked God that I was back home,” added the father of 11 children.
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Progressives condemned Vance’s emphasis on people and country: “Vance’s speech marks a significant step in the continuing evolution of right-wing Trumpism.” Complained Left-wing writer at The Nation:
With his nomination, Trump’s sloppy, xenophobic excesses of his last two campaigns have been refined and sharpened into a powerful, if corrupt, brand of pseudo-populist nationalism. But Donald Trump’s country will never be a country of unity and workers’ sovereignty. And J.D. Vance’s home country is a country no sincere populist would fight for.
The theme of “nation, not ideas” is significant in asserting the common rights of ordinary citizens and political leaders in a competitive, noisy, yet cooperative society.
“For our country to thrive, our leaders must remember that America is a nation, and the people deserve leaders who put the country’s interests first,” Vance said.
“Democrats allowed millions of illegal immigrants into this country so our citizens had to compete for precious housing with people who shouldn’t even be here,” he said.
“We’re going to stop the importation of foreign workers and fight for the American people and their good jobs and good wages,” Vance said.
“Americans know that this is their home and their children’s home, and they’re willing to fight and die to defend it. That’s what makes America great,” he said.
“We need leaders who answer to workers, union and non-union, not just those who line the pockets of big corporations. We need leaders who won’t bow to multinational corporations, but who will stand up for American companies and American industries,” Vance said.
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“Together, we will protect the wages of American workers, union and non-union, and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building a middle class at the expense of hardworking Americans,” Vance declared.
“To the people of Middletown, Ohio, and to forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and every corner of this country, I promise you this: I will be a vice president who never forgets where he comes from,” Vance said.
Vance, who is married to the child of Indian immigrants, said the country is open to outsiders and ideas: “Of course, it’s part of our tradition to welcome newcomers, but when we welcome newcomers into the American family, we do so on our terms. That’s how we maintain the continuity of this project for the past 250 years and hopefully for the next 250 years.”
For Vance, focusing on nation means accepting vast disparities in wealth, luck, character, hard work, and ambition while ensuring respect, self-reliance, and civic support for the least fortunate Americans.
In contrast, many Democrats and business leaders argue that the United States is an idea, not a country, a “nation of immigrants,” not a nation of people.
This competing argument by the elites opens the door to further immigration that transfers wealth, further diversity that dissolves citizenship, and further deprioritization of ordinary Americans.
“Right now, we have more shortages of workers than we’ve ever had before,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a 2022 press conference, rejecting pro-family, pro-natalist policies and supporting increased immigration.
we [American] Our population can no longer reproduce itself at the same levels as before, and the only way we can build a great future in America is to welcome and embrace immigrants, dreamers, and all of them. Our ultimate goal Helping people with dreams [illegals who were brought in by their parents] Give all 11 million people, or however many illegal immigrants are here, a path to citizenship. [emphasis added].
In 2018, immigration advocate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Declared:
American ideals are embraced by people all over the world. As the old saying goes, “E Pluribus Unum.” Diversity has always been our strength, not our weakness. In immigration reform, we cannot lose sight of this American ideal.
“America is an idea… Around the world we look to America as one of the greatest ideas in the history of mankind,” says Irish musician Bono. Claimed year 2012.
“America is a cause,” Biden argued in 2020, rejecting the distinction between Americans, immigrants and foreigners. “It’s for everyone.” stand As One beacon To of world, There are part of something Greater than than It is us.”
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Extract Migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has quietly adopted extractive migration policies to grow the consumer economy after helping investors relocate high-wage manufacturing sectors to low-wage countries.
Immigration policies extract vast amounts of human resources from impoverished countries. Under President Biden’s administration, the United States has admitted at least 10 million legal, semi-legal and illegal immigrants — a ratio of one immigrant for every American birth.
Additional workers, white-collar graduates, consumers, renters Boost stock prices By cutting American wages, subsidizing less productive businesses, raising rents, and sending real estate prices soaring.
Poorly-advised economic policies have loosened the self-regulation and feedback signals that allow for a stable economy, democracy, and shared prosperity. This has driven many native-born Americans out of careers in a variety of business sectors, reduced American productivity and political influence, slowed high-tech innovation, contracted trade, and led to a decline in the U.S. economy. Citizen solidarityand government officials and progressives Rising mortality rate of Discarded, Low status American.
Donald Trump’s campaign recognizes the economic impact of immigration: Biden’s unpopular policies “flood the American workforce with millions of low-wage illegal immigrants, a direct attack on the wages and opportunity of hard-working Americans,” the Trump campaign said in a May statement.
This secretive economic policy has siphoned jobs and wealth from the Midwestern states by providing coastal investors and government agencies with a flood of low-wage workers, over-occupied renters and subsidized consumers. Similar policies are harming the people and economies of Canada and the UK.
Policies like colonialism have also harmed small nations and killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of immigrants, including: Taxpayer-Funded Jungle Trail Through the Darien Canyon in Panama.
