User:RD/9k/Q50,99/WhyNotICE501

> Why do United States people want to rehabilitate veterans but punish ICE?
I think to some extent you're forgetting what the purpose of political parties in the United States is: to slowly split the U.S. into multiple countries. So, it shouldn't be surprising that Democrat voters are effectively trying to claim veterans as Americans because they might vote Democrat, while they treat ICE as foreigners because they're Republican allies.
There's a huge and bizarre contradiction that everything about recent U.S. politics is about embracing immigrants, but fundamentally the system isn't really set up for that and there will always be a point where when people aren't part of the Democratic Party they become an invading force that everyone accepts isn't truly subject to the laws of the United States and Republicans must be treated as foreign militants the more they contribute to creating their own armies like ICE. We like to pretend there is a point where the United States stops being an empire but really, each of the internal bourgeois parties are separate empires that are busy conquering each other and treating each other as foreigners.

I blame Immanuel Kant. Kant — as far as I know — laid out this vision of Liberal-republicanism where it really begins with ethics and interpersonal interactions and building laws over the top of tiny arbitrary groups of people as opposed to entire discrete national populations becoming republics. When you think like Kant does it's really easy to start thinking that only the group of people who vote for the 'correct' party and thus are controllable and accountable to you are actually part of the country, while until everyone submits to the Democratic Party specifically, they aren't even part of the system of U.S. laws and U.S. courts and "U.S. ethics", until "the real United States" brutally conquers them as happened in the US Civil War. very nasty loophole in Kantian ethics