Stop The Conveyor Belt - Assimilation First, or the Republic Comes Apart at the SeamsThe Last WireAmerica is not a hostel with a flag out front.
It is not an Airbnb for the global crisis class.
It is a living, breathing civilization with rules, rhythms, and a civic operating system that does not survive unlimited stress.
Right now, we are stress-testing the republic like it owes us money.
This is not about hate.
It is not about race.
It is not even about immigration, at least not the way the slogans frame it.
It is about
sequence.
And we have blown the sequence.
Every successful immigration era in American history ran on the same basic formula. Come. Work. Learn the language. Absorb the norms. Raise American kids. Become American. Then the next wave arrived.
That order mattered.
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