A civic people has responsibility to license voting

 Commenting on Jeffrey A. Tucker’s article, “Why We Need Border Control”, updated November 4, 2025

theepochtimes.com/opinion/why-we-need-border-control-5935885

Fallacies I perceive:

1.       Beliefs/ideologies may trump civic integrity.

2.       Permanent residence inside the border entitles adults to vote.

3.       Politics is synonymous with policy.

4.       The United States electorate may ignore/defeat the republic’s provision for state-citizenship.

5.       “Experiment” expresses pursuit, intention, and commitment.

6.       Party competition constitutes governance.

7.       Citing Murray Rothbard justifies imposition of “democracy” to muddy an essay about “constitutional republics”.

Conclusion:

My hero Jeffrey Tucker’s expression of shock is grounded in hidden-opinion I do not share.
I found seven opinions I oppose. First, beliefs/ideologies may trump civic integrity, where “civic” means collaboration for responsible opportunity rather than development of civil norms among humankind. Second, intention to reside inside the border justifies the adult-citizen’s vote. Third, politics, or power, is synonymous with policy. Fourth, the popular vote may defeat the United States republic’s provision for state-citizenship; in other words, United States citizens don’t reserve the opportunity to choose and govern their locale within the nation and humankind. Fifth, “experiment” expresses intention “to ourselves and our Posterity” (where “Posterity” includes legal immigrants). Sixth, party competition constitutes governance. And seventh, citing another author justifies substituting “democracy” for “constitutional republic”.

I think there’s no excuse for a United States republican to advocate democracy, which is political chaos.

The civic faction may and can license voting, depending upon whether or not the fellow citizen comprehends, trusts-in, and owns commitment-to amenability of the preamble to the United States Constitution. The age of justifying citizens who assume they are animals/sinners, who habitually avoid, change, or resist civility, let alone civic integrity, is, or may be, over.

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