Mexico: Observations of a Failed State

The above teacher is an example of someone who does not appreciate the country in which he lives. He, like many others, has not acculturated to the customs of this great nation; as a matter of fact he resents the success of a people who forged a world superpower out of a lawless wilderness.

Mexico is a failed state. Not only is it a failed state now, but it has always been one. Alexis de Tocqueville the Frenchman who toured the United States in the early 1800's observed:

The Constitution of the United States is akin to those fine creations of human endeavor which crown their inventors with renown and wealth but remain sterile in other hands.

Contemporary Mexico has illustrated this very thing.

The Mexicans, aiming for a federal system, took the federal constitution of their neighbors, the Anglo-Americans, as their model and copied it almost exactly. But although they transported the letter of the law, they failed to transfer at the same time the spirit which gave it life. As a result, they became tangled endlessly in the machinery of their double system of government. The sovereignty of states and Union entered into a collision course as they exceeded the sphere of influence assigned to them by the constitution. Even today Mexico veers constantly from anarchy to military despotism and back again.

Tocqueville further observes:

To the south, the Union has one point of contact with the Mexican Empire, where one day serious wars may well develop. But for a long time to come the backward state of civilization, the degeneration of its morals, and its extreme poverty will stand in the way of any hope of achieving high status among nations.

Tocqueville's observations are true today as they were in the 1800's. Mexico, and for that matter, Latin America as a whole is a failed culture. And the only safety valve that these poor oppressed people can turn to is the United States. Unfortunately they refuse to accept the culture of their adopted country, and want to turn us into the hell hole from which they escaped.