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Originally Posted by Knalus
I understand that, most people do. Perhaps ridiculous is too strong a word, but I do have a point. Most people don't ever question what countries really are for, what they are supposed to do, and what they should instead be doing. Nationalism has been around for so long, most people don't know what things might look like if it didn't exist. I know this is a bit of hyperbole, but we really hated the communists for keeping their people within their own borders, imprisoning them and not letting them be "free" to come and go as they would. Now that this argument isn't needed, now we can arm the border, right? Now that someone elses wall no longer needs to be torn down, now we have the right to build our own? I once believed it was a point of pride that Canada and the US had the world's longest undefended border. Now we have guns on the border guards - I guess we can't say that anymore. Are we supposed to no longer be proud of that? It's now gone, does no one else find that a little sad? The freedoms of the free world are being eroded - and too many are cheering.
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We don't keep anyone in our country, they are always free to leave so you cannot compare communist Russia to today's democratic governments in the Western World.
Maybe one day we can all be on nation but the world is not even close to that point in time. I give it about 500-1000 years.