Immigration is always someone else’s problem which should not be in x backyard.
Maybe our system of nation-states, of republics and federations and parliamentary governments, is not scalable to the faster pace of human migration and communication, nor is it adequately responsive to the issue of external perception of a nation-state, nor is it responsive to how politics within and outside of the nation-state is increasingly defying the left-right spectrum.
The republican nation-state as it is currently conceived needs to be succeeded with something better. Small-r republican rule is still dominated by zero-sum, power-scarce thinking, by demographic anxieties.
Democracy, as it stands right now, privileges the in-group over the out-group, no matter how the out-group may be affected by the in-group’s actions.
We need something better, more scalable than any democratic republic which currently exists.
