I don't even know how this would work, but basically as a libertarian I started as against borders because they are government-created boundaries
Then I recognized that without borders it seemed difficult to decide who was and wasn't a citizen and that wasn't fair, and that it seemed like certain people in government wanted to bring in more people to get them to vote to destroy freedom, so actually the libertarian position would be for borders to protect freedom
However, now with covid we also see borders being used to prevent people from moving - some people have been stuck in countries they attempted to live in temporarily or were on vacation at, or haven't been able to visit countries because of border restrictions
The libertarian (ancap) position on borders is that private borders are fine (like, on land that a person owns, they can choose who can "immigrate" to it or not, or like private cities can decide who is allowed to visit)
So are any conservatives against borders or what do you think of this issue in light of recent developments?
It's possible for there to be different nations without there being government borders (there could be private borders)
nation-states are different than nations - without a government, different peoples in different areas might live choose to live differently
(I guess this takes understanding how "anarcho-capitalism" might work, there could be French or German institutions that serve those territories only, so it ends up being like a government, but not just one entity doing the things governments do)
Us Bohemians are natural merchants and community organizers. We get along with most people so long as they keep out of our personal business. We've been running like that for hundreds of years. America is perfect for Bohemians. Lots of different people who believe in personal rights, liberties and freedoms.
Yeah. Dr. Steve Turley brought up the idea of a nation with two separate societies. He used my family's home land Czechoslovakia as an example. During the Cold War they set up a separate, silent pro-west society in the borders of the USSR. It's sort of the render unto Caesar what is Caesar's mentality. They give the state what it wanted and they built around what the state didn't take away. Historically Bohemia was also fairly tolerant of other people in the area. The Czechs and the Slovaks got along well historically. This is why at the dissolution of the USSR neither of those countries objected to separating. They shared border for most of their history for mutual defense but were essentially two separate countries who swore fealty to the Bohemian king. In turn the king assured that both countries would remain stable. This is why Hitler was also able to take the Sudatenland with out may problems. The Czechs were predominately German and to the rest of the country they were just doing what they thought was in their best interest. So to an extent Bohemia exists only in the minds of two sets of people with different borders who agreed to live together.