The liberal idea of open borders springs I think from their conception of diversity, which is “people who think, act, and dress just like I do, but who have different skin colors.”

Open borders can only work with countries roughly on the same level of socioeconomic development and culture. Otherwise, it essentially destroys both countries and cultures over time. But…I am not so sure the left is against this destruction. That might be the point for some of them?

Anyway, belief in open borders is totemic and aspirational rather than based on anything real. It’s a way of signaling commitment to harmful ideas as a proof of allegiance. It’s nothing more than that, and when it is more than that, it’s invariably from someone who’d experience no consequences from the terrible “open borders” idea.

That said, I am for open borders.

Doesn’t that seem to contradict the above? It does, but I am for it in a world where the socioeconomic and cultural status of societies is closer to convergence. If climate change doesn’t end civilization, I’d say that’d occur in about 500 to 1,000 years from now.