POLITICAL LOYALTY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS By T.S. Khanna

 

Political Loyalty of American Immigrants

By T.S. Khanna, July20, 2022.

Foundation For Better Government.

 

               Issue: Immigrants’ loyalty, when their Homeland is at odds with America.

America (USA) is a nation of immigrants from all over the world.  What transforms a country to a nation is the bonding of citizens by common values (Individual liberty), common purpose (economic welfare), common faith (struggle for success), common conviction (can-do-self-confidence), common dream (better life), and common devotion (pursuit of happiness).  This bonding has created a nation of “American Exceptionalism”.

 

One of the hardest decisions in life is to leave one’s home, family and the familiar society, breaking ties to plunge into unchartered waters, no matter how glamorous from a distance.  Legal immigrants take courageous decision, leaving the country of their birth and come to the country of their choice----America.  They are noted for their courage to brave the risks of living in a social vacuum of a strange society with powerlessness and loneliness, while trying to establish their new home.

 

What motivates them to make America their new home?  It is the opportunities that become available only in a free society of America.  Here the culture of freedom with risks and rewards prevails with individual liberty and personal responsibility.  Here the government encourages innovation, not obstruct it.

 

The emphasis on individual liberty is to facilitate full growth of the individual potential to improve his/her lot, thereby of the society.  The spirit of individual liberty is to encourage faith in one’s-self; the practice of such liberty demands not to obstruct others’.  It is this spirit and practice of liberty that eventually percolates in every immigrant’s mind and becomes his conscience and courage, a part of the “American Exceptionalism”.

 

Successful immigrants give full credit of their success to themselves, ignoring the opportunity this society and the U.S. Government provided.  They forget that much more struggle in their birthplace may have been fruitless.

 

This society and American Government have not occurred accidentally; they are the result of great efforts and thoughtful verbiage of Founding Fathers of this great nation.  Their experiences under a dictatorship had transformed their thinking for the benefit of the future generations and the humanity.  They regarded freedom of human beings as a God given right that cannot be taken away by any government.  They are still living in every word of the American Constitution; they are still resounding in every corner of America.

 

It was because of their supreme effort that a unique society and an exceptional form of government were established, never conceptualized before in history.  Part credit of immigrants’ success in America goes to the make-up of the society and the Constitution as the basis of governmental operations.

 

The brewing worldwide conflict may bring some immigrants homelands at odds with America.  Here the issue of political loyalty arises.  Logically speaking, the immigrants owe their political loyalty to the U.S. Government for two reasons: 1. Personal indebtedness to the society and the government (moral Obligation) and, 2. The defense of American society for the benefit of the future generations.

RUSSIA-CHINA ILLUSION: WORLD DOMINATION By T.S. Khanna, July 10 2022.

 

Russia-China Illusion: World Domination

By T.S. Khanna, July 10, 2022

 

In the United States, technologically, we have advanced rapidly, but politically, we are still operating “Model A” of democracy.  As a result, today, from technical perspective, we have solutions to most problems, and from political perspective, we have a problem to every solution.

 

The spectrum of our political thought and choices is inadequate to meet new challenges.

 

In democracy, technological advances are harnessed for public benefit while dictators make their focused use to enhance their military power ; look at Russia and China.  Russia’s Putin is reckless in threatening the use of Nukes, China’s Xi Jinping has warned of the “Battle of Armageddon”.  Are these threats a coincidence or an indication of an alliance to move in a coordinated manner?

 

There is an innate human desire to dominate and exploit the weaker.  The weak, somehow, arouses the evil spirit in the strong to dominate.  Russia and China are feeling strong enough to dominate the energy-dependent Europe and the poverty-driven Asia, respectively.

 

If the war they envision starts, it will not decide who is right but who is left.  With an intoxicated vision of their own overestimated power, they assume they will survive thru the annihilation of the opponents.  There will be no encore once the Nukes are released.  There will be no victory in mutual annihilation.  What are Putin and Xi Jinping thinking?

 

Putin has still not realized the limitations of his power.  He believed he would capture Ukraine within a week.  It seems Putin’s failure in Ukraine delayed China’s plan to attack India and India to discover the impotence of Russian made defense weaponry at the war front, as noted in Ukraine.

 

The World War Putin-Xi Jinping are inducing is rooted in imperial ambitions, not in economic reasons.  In the 1940s, Russia took by force parts of Germany and Poland as Kaliningrad.  In 2014, Russia forcibly took over Crimea from Ukraine, and now Putin has pronounced that Alaska belong to Russia.  China has an eye on Taiwan and northern part of India, including Kashmir and other states.

 

Russia-China joint struggle is to establish a new World Order under their domination.  This would be an expansion of dictatorship at the expense of human rights and individual freedom recognized in democracy.

 

Now the only significant force of resistance to Russia-China illusion is the USA.  NATO has been only verbal but not reckless in language, so far.