Citizenship and Nationalism - Introduction

For centuries, the People have been burdened with the shameful counterfeit known as democracy.  The practice has its roots in antiquity, when land-holders and those who had a legitimate stake in the affairs of the body politic were granted suffrage.  The practice has undergone countless modifications since its first appearance in this world until the present, where it is equated with majority rule.

In granting universal suffrage, democracy castrates itself by equating the Nation with the majority, lowering it to the level of the lowest common denominator. As a result, even those with no stake in the Nation's prosperity, i.e. its professional victims, law-breakers, malcontents, and other assorted low-lives, are given a voice in the Nation's future.  How does an unconvicted rapist vote concerning matters of safety and privacy? How does an unconvicted drug peddler vote on narcotics laws? How does an unconvicted welfare scam artist vote when it comes time to decide how much cash will be poured into the welfare state? How does a murderer who has never been caught vote on the death penalty? Do you intend that such as these should have a voice in the future of the Nation? Are you truly that irresponsible? You would build a wooden galleon, fill its hold with gun powder, and allow a pyromaniac aboard? For shame!

The Nation must be considered from the point of view of quality rather than quantity.  We do not ensure a brighter future for the Nation by granting suffrage to those who have a stake in its downfall, nor those who have no clear idea what the Nation is, nor those who wish to live off the labor and sweat of other people when they themselves are perfectly capable of working.  The Nation must find the expression of its political will in its principles, not its personalities.  The People must be forged from a mob into a Nation by means of instilling pride in what they do in their various professions, by the enactment of laws that will not tolerate a breach of the peace or any harm to life, liberty, and property.

Of course, this begs the concept of Nationhood and Citizenship. Only a true and genuine citizen can be said to care for the overall health and welfare of the body politic. Only a citizen has a stake in the well-being of the Nation. It therefore becomes necessary to define a citizen not only in terms of his rights, but his responsibilities as well. It cannot be denied that liberty must go hand-in-hand with responsibility if the Nation is to steer its way out the present age of decadence and chaos.

I propose to examine the rights and responsibilities of human beings as citizens and their relationship to the Nation. This is merely the preface to those investigations.