Who Deserves to Be Kicked Out of the Country First: Immigrants or the Non-Voting US Citizen?
230 years after the birth of our nation, the original concept of Politics, a tapestry once held together by ontological and philosophical discussions, has become frayed to the point that many American citizens believe that “freedom” means having the right not to vote. This is an argument of fools riddled with ignorance. Solely by happenstance, the great majority of us were fortunate enough to take our first breath on American soil; the rest of us immigrated purposely to this country for work, love, survival, and/or family. However we may have arrived here, we have at least one shared interest: the Social Contract. Both Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) believed in pre-political, “natural states” of human beings where they described imagined worlds of human interaction where no overarching authority existed. Though over-simplified, a major difference between the two theorists was that for Hobbes the world was a brutal place filled with selfish (but rational) individua
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