Many people don’t understand that government power MUST be limited in a democracy if you wish to slow the spread of tyranny.
Assume you live in a country 50/50 red and blue people. Red wins the election and the new leader cracks down on the blues hard for how they look. Replace this with any arbitrary law that benefits one group at the expense of another for no purpose.
Assuming one of the arbitrary rules is not to destroy the elections (yet), and blue manages to gain back control, the same arbitrary power now falls into blue hands. You will rarely see power being returned (the root cause of rot), and now blue is free to make arbitrary rules and persecute any color they wish. In effect, red voted against their interests long-term, for short-term advantage.
At the moment we have masked and license plate tampering hit squads (with no accountability, they can claim even a daylight bank robbery wasn’t ICE.. try to prove or fight it).
Imagine the next president is a man like Putin, with not just the intelligence, but the will to seize permanent control. We’re handing keys to our jailers over overblown online rhetoric and fear. Now we’re targeting specific groups, profiling based on if they look “illegal”. Where have we seen this happen before and leading to a second war?
STOP giving the government power people. It doesn’t end well. Of the people and for the people only works when don’t give deity-like power to our stewards.
As much as a like to fantasize how a Cincinnatus-esque figure could emerge to fix things, the unfortunate truth is that many times the system needs to be rebuilt to secure balance again. It needs to be equal measure of the government protecting the civilian population as well the citizens protecting themselves from the government to be a successful democracy.
And if the particular governmental system that is the US federal government was in fact destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up, why would the set of people who are currently legal citizens, legal permanent residents, and legal immigrants remain the same as is today under the laws established by that system? If the US Constitution is moot because there's been a successful military uprising against the US federal government, and people are sitting down to write a new constitution that will actually establish the rules of governance for (some subset of?) the land area of the current United States of America, why would that new constitution have the same rules governing illegal immigration enforcement as the current one? Before citizens can protect themselves from the government to be a successful democracy, they have to decide who is in fact a citizen who can legitimately vote in that democracy.
I think this assumes a scenario where the past ceases to exist. However democratization and transitions back to democracy are built upon on taking the past and building it better. Brazil and Chile did not christine a state of no citizens when they returned to democratic forms of government.
I don't see any benefit to not determining everyone who is in an area at a specific time a citizen or eligible for citizenship.
Assume you live in a country 50/50 red and blue people. Red wins the election and the new leader cracks down on the blues hard for how they look. Replace this with any arbitrary law that benefits one group at the expense of another for no purpose.
Assuming one of the arbitrary rules is not to destroy the elections (yet), and blue manages to gain back control, the same arbitrary power now falls into blue hands. You will rarely see power being returned (the root cause of rot), and now blue is free to make arbitrary rules and persecute any color they wish. In effect, red voted against their interests long-term, for short-term advantage.
At the moment we have masked and license plate tampering hit squads (with no accountability, they can claim even a daylight bank robbery wasn’t ICE.. try to prove or fight it).
Imagine the next president is a man like Putin, with not just the intelligence, but the will to seize permanent control. We’re handing keys to our jailers over overblown online rhetoric and fear. Now we’re targeting specific groups, profiling based on if they look “illegal”. Where have we seen this happen before and leading to a second war?
STOP giving the government power people. It doesn’t end well. Of the people and for the people only works when don’t give deity-like power to our stewards.