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by blackbagboys 3550 days ago
Frequently it seems that caring about immigrants or refugees in the abstract is an oblique way of attacking your fellow citizens.

Additionally, if government officials are supposed to be governing the nation for the benefit of all mankind rather than looking after the interests of the people whom they theoretically represent, we might as well dispense with the pretense of representative government and try to formulate some other basis for state legitimacy.

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I grew up with a lot of "college democrats" types who think big about being "citizens of the world" but will happily shit on people from "flyover country," "rednecks," etc.