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Could you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what you mean, especially when its current incarnation is as a rubber stamp.

Thanks for your detailed reply. I really appreciate the thought you clearly put into it. I'm more sympathetic to the idea of restricting the franchise (vote), even if I am leery of it for many reasons (potential for abuse, historical abuse, general principle). And to some small extent I can see...

That is one of the objections people have to your position, yes. That's a good clarification, because most people talking about restricting citizenship consider denying the vote to the unfit a key part of the whole proposal. (And I think that term is accurate to the proposal, which would make...

Why does that matter, though? I thought your position was based on the justification of the people in question being incompetent/unfit for citizenship. Whether this is true due to squandered potential or lack of it does not affect the end result. Disabled people are given considerations on...

I don't know what kind of sense it makes to deny citizenship to people based on their ignorance except if that ignorance is a result of mental deficiency.

TBH they'd at least have tribal sovereign rights to fall back on, unlike other native born people who would otherwise have been citizens.

I doubt the first: I think it's the Europe-Russia entanglements that are the limiting factor. Russia does have some things worth shipping halfway across the world to the US (not much Siberia-Alaska critical trade AFAIK) but I am confident that stuff can be gotten elsewhere at reasonable cost...

I have more opinions than just this, but this is the only one I want to throw out off the cuff: I agree that America won't—can't, really—go isolationist again. But let's be serious. If it did attempt to disentangle from its global footprint, it wouldn't retreat to its own borders. It would...