Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!

Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,
As home his footsteps he hath turnd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!

Sadly, Sir Walter, yes. Mr. Stein even thinks this is a good thing, not to be bothered by matters of birth. I guess that explains why liberals are so into government prpgrams as parenthood is also just an accident of birth. Why care what happens to Mom in her dotage - all she did was bear and raise you? I fimd it interesting on how our lefties (his word) deny the best sentiments of the human condition for a mythology of socialism and globalism that is falser and hollower as any of the old myths it is supposed to replace. Unfortunetally, they are likely to drag the rest of us down with them when their beloved nanny-state collapses under its own weight. (Hat tip to Prof. Reynolds)