Timothy Carney, in his book Alienated America states “Cohesive communities and regular work-place are both institutions of civil society. Institutions of civil society provide material resources such as pay and a support structure, but they also provide more abstract resources such as a sense of security and a sense of purpose. If pay and family stability go together, it’s because both depend on the the same thing: social capital.”
Mass immigration of the past fifty years has eroded pay and cohesive communities – the building blocks of the American Dream. It has depressed wages, while increasing the price of rent, tuition and other limited resources. What little sense of community remains is the small balance of social capital remaining from a balance saved by a stable demographic over a hundred years. If trends in mass immigration continue, we will be a society of untrusting strangers, conniving to grab what can be gotten, rather than building for future generations.