The wider left’s play acting that cultural change via immigration is not a valid concern only loses and alienates people rather than wins them over.

Remember, it only takes a few percent of people in the US to swing elections completely.

Culture matters to people. Whether it should or should not, it just does. Having your neighborhood or your city transformed by newcomers nothing like you is not just a concern of cackling racists. Or even of white people.

I know this automatically makes me a horrible racist — and perhaps Hitler himself — in the Manichean monocolture of the puritan left, but communities and their construction and destruction is something that people are rightly concerned with.

Denying that this matters will not help you, or them, or immigrants, or the country.

James Franco would have a much cooler name if it were Frames Janco.

I know it seems very strange to many who aren’t Americans but in most American cities and rural areas, if you can’t scrounge up enough money for a car, that also means you can’t get or hold a job.

You see, the public transportation infrastructure outside of a very few major cities in the US is terrible to non-existent, and many employers if they discover you are using public transit simply will not hire you anyway.

Even if they do decide to hire you, using the paltry and pathetic public transit available just does not work.

For instance, I live about seven miles away from my office, in one of the densest areas in the state. It takes me about 15 minutes to drive to work. Taking public transit would cost me nearly three hours — one way. I could literally walk there faster, if the area had sidewalks. But it does not, like most of the US.

In this country, often one cannot get a job due to a lack of a car, and one cannot easily buy a car due to a lack of a job. And if your car breaks down and you cannot afford to repair it, you lose your job by default.

You can obviously see what a trap this leaves people in.

No, not a dystopia. Not a dystopia at all.