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Oh good, so if it's the least difficult hoop, equivalent to a formality or whatever, then all the less reason to oppose it.

No problem. I find that writing out these posts have helped me better define what and why I think the things I do. The stripping of social services like Medicaid, SS, COBRA, etc. is more a consequence of having citizenship rescinded more the intended purpose (a healthier civic...

In that case they are objecting to a strawman because, as I stated, that isn't my position. Unfit, unworthy, undesireable, none of them are my position. Ignorance can be quantified (to an extent), having a minimum standard of knowledge isn't asking too much. Fair enough. I personally think...

I have few problems with some of the things you said. The word choice does not reflect my position accurately, I have a problem with the incompetent and ignorant. Blanket declarations like "unfit" are far too general and are easily twisted for evil purposes. It is a question of civic duty...

There is such a thing called diminished capacity and power of attorney. It's used all the time. My proposal is a natural extension of that from the legal to the civic. I don't think it's out of line to argue that the steward/executor/sponsor/whatever can make life changing legal decisions...

I did mention that I know I hold an extremely radical position that has not a chance in hell of being implemented. Also, it's not like I don't also support putting in place systems to encourage people to regain their citizenship easily afterward. High bar of entry, easy maintenance. But it's...

I mean, fair enough? I haven't interacted with him enough (on the site) to get a read of whether he'd use scumbag tactics or not so I generally give him benefit of the doubt.

I don't think @bintananth was meaning for this to be a gotcha-like question.

Any number of reasons. Fighter in the Revolution, friend of Jefferson (nepotism), the document itself is a philosophical basis (one of many) for our system of government. Edit: typo fix

I'm perfectly fine stripping people of citizenship for that let alone barring new immigrants. 90% of our domestic problems come from the snowball effect of ignorance about our history, our system of government, our culture. Which I know is a radically extreme point of view that will never be...

The point still stands, then. Especially since it's general knowledge.

Making it unpleasant to be here illegally is the point. The systemic bias against illegal aliens is the point. I will agree with your point about reduction vs elimination. However, sufficiently strict controls would limit the scale of the problem of an underclass. If your illegal alien...

Kick out the illegal aliens and you don't have an underclass. Simple. Of course, the incentive for cheap, under-the-table labor is just too good for the ruling elite to fix.

To expand on this, we have three... categories?... fronts?... to tackle domestically: cultural, economic, and legal. Culturally, we have a massive divide between high-density population areas predominantly liberal and low-density population areas predominantly conservative. At the founding...

Long term we should drastically reduce our international presence and focus on domestic issues that have been simmering for the last 50 years.