All national governments are not perfect

Some are more or less perfect than others. We in the new world have had opportunities for the more perfect kinds of national and state governments. This is historically a rare opportunity to be savored, and exploited by the savvy and those who sense the opportunity to be better.

And even national governments are not automatic, as exhibited by all the frictions in the old world and the various nation-states created in the last century or so. One trend is the ability of the old world to have us new world types carry the waters of our ancestors’ past. It is a strong trend that is alive and well, even today in our new world. But we do not have to carry the waters of our ancestors if we choose not to do so in our new world.

Along the theme of national governments not being perfect is the trend for our USA governments, local, state, federal; and our ruling national parties, republican and democrats, to have crossed the rubicon to be a point of financial self-destruction enjoying our new world wealth. We in the new world can “kill the goose that lays the golden egg”. Many humans who have lived in both worlds, old and new, know and sense this (they often have dual citizenship). In the best human instincts, they connive and exploit to take advantage of both worlds, both types of governments, and their relatives in both the old and new countries. And for the racially motivated, try hard. The human instinct and taking advantage of USA naivety is, well, human. Asians and Eastern Europeans and south of the border Americans are pretty much equal in the new world, to include love of family and willingness to work hard. Oops, I forget the Africans to be politically correct. But most immigrants today are from other than Africa.

So much for political and historical history. People voting with their feet and pocketbooks suggest a powerful vote about our human history to date. Most trends are towards the new world. That many are just trying to improve their family opportunities is probably most of it. That many of us USA types want to take care of our families along the way is also part of it. That our Congress still does not still get this is part of why all national governments are not perfect. Just what we USA humans do about this is mostly voting, and being practical. Said another way, we USA types are still in charge of our future, to include immigration and new world principles that should be our future.