Texas plans to construct a military base along the border with Mexico
But in the Republican 21st Century the pretend contract-with-America politicians, needing fodder upon which to tread with their upwardly mobile inflammatory jack boots – told us that it was okay to belittle and disrespect the poor.
In the past we have been told by broadcast stampeders like Flush Limbaugh to be indignant. (“of course MY child could never be one of those welfare addicts. How could that child ever humiliate ME? Of course I’m for Welfare Reform!)
With immigrants today aren’t we really left with a bad-seed idea that the flow of illegal immigrants into this country has been a major contributor to finding ourselves on the verge of economic and political collapse? Because we don’t have a Berlin wall on our borders keeping the pestilence out?
For every “Berlin wall-advocate” I’d like to see an acknowledgement – not of the criminality of businesses that knowingly hire illegals – but the politically moral criminality of demonizing workers with families who pay taxes for which they cannot get refunds since their ss#’s are false.
“We hate illegals but we sure do love the taxes they pay!” Isn’t that a form of unwilling reverse graft of the Donald Trump ilk?
I’d like to at the same time see an acknowledgement that the same illegal-alien-acquired tax revenue is part of the entire tax base from which Rethuglicans continuously siphon cash for their corporate managers.
Much political thinking never seems to evolve to the kind of depth with a modest sophistication that sees through the inflammatory fog of bull. We might be living among mere civic dupes who self-consciously agree with the liars who make no-substance mountains out of molehills.
From my own experience as a Caucasian bi-lingual social worker in a state public assistance office, locally the only American citizens I met who whined about immigration reform seemed to be the laziest applicants whose justification about not being able to find a job was because the Mexicans took them all.
These are the same folks who have always claimed that it wasn’t economically feasible for them to look for a job at the minimum wage rather than get off welfare. These lazy I-don’t-want-a-job-I-want-free-government-money Americans were the closest you’d ever come to seeing what uninformed voters look and sound like.
… Americans who behave like their national political role models: the politicians who proclaim one false thing in order to pursue another more lucrative true thing: hard earned tax dollars – the fruits of someone else’s labor – to which they have no justifiable moral claim.
The Saga of Crooked Donald 