I woke to a British (I think) reader complaining about yesterday's piece on the insane media reaction to Donald Trump's immigration restrictions. Judge her comments and my answer for yourself.
Like all liberal women everything is about “feelings” it’s all fine and dandy until it affects her directly. If she feels so bad why doesn’t she take in the women and her four kids. Oh that’s right it’s not really her problem!
Yes it's quite simple. Don't look at our neighborhoods - clean, safe upper to high income. Look at the racist Walmart smelling middle classes - they are the racists and don't want to share their communities with the migrants - "they" meaning us means racist, greedy, smelly, bigots, ignorant - that is how they see us and they are more than happy to send whole armies of migrants into our communities.
This is why we can't have nice things. It's also why projection and irony are tightly correlated.
The real white privilege is the privilege to deport migrants within 24 hours of their arrival, like on Martha's Vineyard, without fear or reprisal. Undocumented, Unvaccinated, Unmasked....OH MY!...
The white plebs are not allowed the same luxury...feed them struggle sessions!
The liberal wants the rest of us to give up our wealth, because we are "lucky enough to be in a position where we can". I have news for her: Our ancestors built this great, free, prosperous country with their great sacrifices so their children and grandchildren could enjoy it and continue it. They didn't build it hoping that we would give it away and essentially destroy it for some stupid ideal.
The end result is: if you are responsible for everyone else in the world to have X before you can have X+1, you will drag the world down into the socialist/communist hellholes that from which these people are escaping. What is the root cause of people coming here illegally? Socialist "paradise" type countries where the populace has tried to vote themselves something for nothing.
The UK has been destroyed already by immigration. So has most of the EU. They took in millions of "refugees". These refugees did not assimilate. Some do not respect British law. Crime has gone up. Countries with generous social programs are struggling because of the influx. How can she not see this? I agree with you, Alex we can not save every person from a poor country nor is it our responsibility. We give an enormous amount of foreign aid to these countries to improve life there.
"We give an enormous amount of foreign aid to these countries to improve life there."
It should be mentioned that vast amounts of our foreign aid are stolen by the criminal leaders of the countries we are supposedly "helping". They just live in luxury while their people continue to suffer same as before. There is one African leader who I heard state "Please stop giving us foreign aid." He wanted people to learn to help themselves since all the money was being diverted from true aid anyway.
Teaching backwards people to help themselves is a good thing, but just handing out money doesn't necessarily help, although many do-gooders think it does.
Not to mention the Muslim “groomer gangs” ( really rapist & murder gangs) that came with that liberal, do gooder attitude where so called leaders ignored the carnage.
And the only ones that have to live with the consequences of the rape and murder gangs living near them are the middle and lower classes that cannot retreat to their gated communities in which the rich, elite ones that make these insane "rules for thee, but not for me"; can live in peace while the country burns around them!! It truly is infuriating.
Deb, those liberal women appear to have an abundance of feelings for others, but they also appear to apply those feelings selectively.
For example, they feel deeply for illegal immigrants, but not so much for people like Laken Riley, an American whose head was bashed in by an illegal immigrant with a criminal record.
Similarly, they feel deeply for transgendered males (i.e., biological males who identify as females), but not so much for (1) biological females whose communal spaces (such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers) are invaded and occupied by transgendered females, or (2) biological female athletes who in competition are commonly dominated (and even brutalized) by transgendered females, and thereby deprived of opportunities to which they should be entitled under Title VII.
Finally, they have no feelings for working class Americans (which, I note, includes naturalized Americans who immigrated to the U.S.) whose incomes have been reduced, or whose jobs have been lost, because of the 10 million-plus aliens who are in the U.S. illegally (that is, in violation of Title 8 of the U.S. Code).
It therefore looks like those “feelings” are also combined with heavy doses of hypocrisy and irrationality.
Well-written, Deb. People like Alison never jump to the front of the line to offer to fund the healthcare and benefits of someone like Maura and her children her own personal funds. It's always the problem of someone else--or a collective "someone else". She just wants to feel good about it at someone else's expense.
I believe that Rush said something similar years ago while explaining why so many rich people vote democrat. While democrats routinely cry to "tax the rich", the rich know that their personal accountants can mitigate most of the damage while not having to spend their own money to support these welfare programs and can thus exclaim their moral superiority.
Exactly - also it seems like the more wealth some people have the more GUILT they have for some reason and then the virtue signalling gets crazy. In the end its the middle class that pays - the more guilty they feel the more we pay
Kinda like the rich California residents who voted for weak laws. Now the looters are striking THEIR homes & neighborhoods, they demand these people are punished.
rational thinking is probably the line of demarcation between liberal and conservative women, as women are inherently compassionate for the most part.*
allow me to mansplain for a moment - living in a fantasy world is all well and good if you can afford it, but detrimental if you have to deal with reality on reality's terms.
i think having children is a grounding force. religion is another. these combinations lead to wonderful compassion which the world needs.
i think one of the larger ungrounding forces out there for women is being ugly. they just want the world to be different than it is. abuse is another one that can be difficult to overcome.
No doubt. There is no clearer sign of a declining civilization than when you have open borders and a welfare state. One is bad enough. Adding both together is like dumping gas on a forest fire.
That said, imo, the most daunting tasks is not cleaning up the mess created by politicians trying to win the Woke Olympics. Rather it's to clean up the mess that "created" these types of politicians.
It's not even worth debating.
These people are just a bunch of anoetic automatons that eat up their shrink-wrappped curated propaganda provided to justify feelings - no matter how detached from reality their daily serving is.
We're better of unrelentingly mocking them.
They don't understand logic because they've never reached a conclusion/position based on anything other than emotions....usually fed to them in a constant main-line drip feed.
I mean it might be tough to get someone who took an experimental vaccine, without questions, for a donut to see the seen and unseen, etc.etc.
And the individuals shooting the loudest "guns" are the ones who are going to have the biggest "buck". It will be devastating for them when their worldview is exposed as a delusional hallucination.
They're empty vessels. They are weak. Their bloodlines are weak. And history will forget them.
There's nothing like a midwit holding onto a dead position. They're not even aware the zeitgeist has changed because they derive their ego externally.
I say don't let the pendulum hit you on the way out the door
Spot on. These people have the critical-thinking skills of 5-year-olds, and can't fathom the idea (repellent in their eyes) that there are evil people in the world, or at the very least, that, not everyone has honest motives. It's the "Believe Her" crowd, unable to grasp that someone, anyone, would lie to achieve a goal (unless he's called Trump). To just trust everyone is SO much easier, and lets them avoid the messy, complicated business of actual thinking.
Until it slaps them upside the head like the uber-rich in L.A. who are experiencing pain...all at the same time...at the same place...and all about the same thing...
I have personally declared the word "anoetic" the word of the year. My autocorrect doesn't know it, so underlines it; I did not know its meaning until I looked it up this morning; and I've seen this word used in several Substacks and comments (at least four).
The foundational issue that is always missed in these discussions or rants is the role of the failed states from which immigrants are migrating. Why are these woke complainers not getting involved in reforming the nations that place their populations in poverty? Why are they not using their political power to shine a spotlight on the people who created the poverty migrants seek to escape. Most of the time, the failed nations operate under left wing tyrants who do not serve their people. Maybe that issue could be addressed.
I'm convinced we're in a battle between those who want a collective society and those who want an individualistic society.
And just like every socialist/fascist/communists regime the collective responsibility boils down to the method and process being one in the same. It's a very similar method and process as the "shock-workers" (a devised scheme, ostensibly, for the common good) from the Russian gulags where prisoners who attained "shock" status would get a slightly reduced sentence (the motivation) ...but refused to leave the camp because...wait for it....THE COLLECTIVE.
And that my friends was the purpose of the process and the method being the same. What they really want is a collective organism, living, working, eating, sleeping, and suffering together in pitiless and forced symbiosis.
In other words they do not believe in the individual and that is the source of their contempt, blindness, cruelty and worldview towards us peasants.
It's almost like late stage Marxism. When you look at it in that light it's not hard to understand how you go from "the good of collective" to "shock- fetishism" of identifying as a barn yard animal replete with a tail sticking out their ass
True. And beneath the surface or "worldly" level is a spiritual level in which souls are "packaged" to seek collective states of being that are nothing more than traps. Christianity is based in the freedom of the individual soul to willingly collaborate and seek divine unity, which ends up being the opposite of Communist collectivism. Ultimately, we will need spiritual solutions that address our "worldly" condition.
Great comments, I often wonder at the reasons for the failure of the Church. Imo it is that they are not following in the foot steps of Christ by seeking the Father for leading. Rather they model the church often on an American business model. Maybe this relates to Evangelical churches mostly. The Church ought to be counter-cultural. The Episcopal Budde that lectured Trump is anything but counter-cultural. She is lockstep with the world!
Yes. Key point. If the clergy had been doing their jobs we would not have suffered so greatly. An organized effort was made to neuter the churches with bribes, with pay-offs. On my Stack I speak to protocols for bringing the clergy back into line. Tough task. They are so uneducated.
I also think that those with a collectivist bent are somewhat like frightened children and they are appalled and scared by the idea of individualism and individualist thinking. They much prefer someone "higher and more powerful" to tell them what to think and do about virtually everything. They find great security in that approach. It looks like such a scary world if you are individualist....something BAD might happen.
Exactly. Look at the UK where the email author seems to be. Pretty much all of Europe is headed that way while the UK had a brief reprieve with brexit. Perhaps they can recover, but when you have the "socialist/fascist/communist/authoritarian paradises" failing year after year around the world and then people voting for more of it (they want a free lunch), and then fleeing here when it fails, the root of the problem isn't here, but there. We need to treat both the symptoms here and the root there. Or let the people who are living in those paradises fix them themselves.
Yeah, what we need is just a few more NGOs to go out and spread American know-how and taxpayer dollars to these failed states to help them to be more like us.
Of course the NGOs are responsible for so many adverse conditions. And, as well, corporate entities that undermine governments (with or without the help of our CIA) are part of the mix. Not an easy problem to solve, but, nonetheless, one that must be solved.
For all the people like myself who spent the time and money legally filing all the paperwork to bring a spouse into this country, it is a slap in the face to have a completely separate system where people can just jump the line and get credit cards for $1400 to help them start out here in this country. Which happened btw. My friend runs a landscaping company and his employees son crossed illegally last summer. He was approached by an immigration officer at work and offered a credit card with $1400, offered assistance with getting onto food stamps and welfare and given a card to call when he needed more help. If this wasn’t first hand knowledge i wouldn’t have believed it.
What about the illegals who work and claim 7 exemptions and they are 20 years old......they pay no taxes but the American citizen in the same job claims 0 exemptions because he doesn’t want to get in trouble with the IRS. Most have 2 names - the name and social security number they “purchased” and their real birth name. We have Social Security verification in this country but most companies do not use it. What about all the fraud associated with the “Earned Income Credit” thousands and thousands of our hard earned tax dollars paid out to people who use fake names and social security numbers . Don’t get me wrong there are many good people who work hard, are good honest people that are working on their citizenship. The people who abuse our laws are not stupid they know exactly how to play the system.
I would ask the woman who commented, "What, specifically, would YOU be willing to give up to help that immigrant woman and her children?" It's so easy to be "compassionate" when it costs you absolutely nothing. We are to be compassionate to others in our personal lives, but the government's #1 top priority is to protect us, and then to keep society functioning in an orderly manner through laws.
I think you are partially correct on this one. I think you have the people at the top of the Democrat party that want open borders in order to help them maintain power. If they could they would make them all citizens they would. That is really what it is all about. Once they are here for a period of time they say: "we can't send them back to their country because this is their home now". or something similar. On the other hand you have all of the useful idiots that you talk about like the lady who emailed you. They are all heart over brain and can't understand the realities of the world and that if you do not have a border you do not have a country.
Maura Hernandez is just an avatar to the Left, much as George Floyd was. Nobody tried to help Floyd with his real problems, drug abuse and criminal behavior. And leftists aren't taking people like Maura Hernandez into their homes.
Nope.
This is why the war on poverty ended up with more poverty, and the war on drugs ended up with more people on drugs. Because to a Leftist, the point isn't to help, it is to be seen trying to help.
And if one can do so while contributing other people's money (and safety) to the cause, so much the better.
We need to be prepared for 4 years of cherry-picked tragic stories (real and fake), of people either not getting in or being forced to leave the U.S. These stories will generally feature children and tug at one's heartstrings. I agree with your statement that, of course, the US can afford to help Maura and her 4 children, but not millions like her. (And where is the baby daddy in all this?)
Exactly! They have been conditioned to believe that all leftist positions are compassionate, and to be against them is to be a bad person. Abortion is compassionate, euthanasia is compassionate, unrestricted immigration is compassionate. The results of this conditioning have been disastrous.
The same person has no idea what to do about 30 years of gang rape by Muslim who invaded her country helped by a tacit hands-off law enforcement and woke Brits who are terrified of free speech, lockdowns, self defense and ever widening fiscal deficit.
Emotional appeals, with sorrowful lamentations, earnest intentions, and impassioned sentimentality, should not serve as the foundation for policymaking. Instead, decisions must be guided by reason, evidence, and objective analysis.
In other words, these moaning, sad-eyed, bleeding-heart cries are tiresome and are a sure way to destroy any culture. "Let them in" because we cry otherwise - well, lady, there are a lot of people who will take advantage of your excessive moral largesse.
We actually do need immigrants, and we should have easier policies to let them in (we are too restrictive). But laws matter. Illegal entry, wide open borders, loose policies, don't help us in the end.
We are not too restrictive in legal immigration. Not in the least. At this point I want the border closed completely, no legal immigration, no H1-B5 visas, nothing. We need a pause for at least a year. And we need to start looking at countries with 'cultures' that are antithetical to ours and ban them. We have millions people, brought in by Obama and sent to red cities and towns that have been destroyed.
This kind of thinking is what I call " This makes me feel good, so I must be right" So sorry, just look at the big picture and see how it affects our citizens. And I do apologize, I don't care that it makes you feel good.
Like all liberal women everything is about “feelings” it’s all fine and dandy until it affects her directly. If she feels so bad why doesn’t she take in the women and her four kids. Oh that’s right it’s not really her problem!
Exactly, I'd ask Alison: exactly how many of these immigrants is she housing right now? Is it in the low double digits or more?
I wonder off Alison lives on Martha's Vineyard? Immigrants for the rest of us...but not on their island!
Yes it's quite simple. Don't look at our neighborhoods - clean, safe upper to high income. Look at the racist Walmart smelling middle classes - they are the racists and don't want to share their communities with the migrants - "they" meaning us means racist, greedy, smelly, bigots, ignorant - that is how they see us and they are more than happy to send whole armies of migrants into our communities.
Exactly.
This is why we can't have nice things. It's also why projection and irony are tightly correlated.
The real white privilege is the privilege to deport migrants within 24 hours of their arrival, like on Martha's Vineyard, without fear or reprisal. Undocumented, Unvaccinated, Unmasked....OH MY!...
The white plebs are not allowed the same luxury...feed them struggle sessions!
Oh but we hugged them and got them a nice bus to leave the island!
well they did cover their "Hyannis" by shipping them out the next day....
The liberal wants the rest of us to give up our wealth, because we are "lucky enough to be in a position where we can". I have news for her: Our ancestors built this great, free, prosperous country with their great sacrifices so their children and grandchildren could enjoy it and continue it. They didn't build it hoping that we would give it away and essentially destroy it for some stupid ideal.
The rest of us but not them, of course.
Exactly!
The end result is: if you are responsible for everyone else in the world to have X before you can have X+1, you will drag the world down into the socialist/communist hellholes that from which these people are escaping. What is the root cause of people coming here illegally? Socialist "paradise" type countries where the populace has tried to vote themselves something for nothing.
The UK has been destroyed already by immigration. So has most of the EU. They took in millions of "refugees". These refugees did not assimilate. Some do not respect British law. Crime has gone up. Countries with generous social programs are struggling because of the influx. How can she not see this? I agree with you, Alex we can not save every person from a poor country nor is it our responsibility. We give an enormous amount of foreign aid to these countries to improve life there.
"We give an enormous amount of foreign aid to these countries to improve life there."
It should be mentioned that vast amounts of our foreign aid are stolen by the criminal leaders of the countries we are supposedly "helping". They just live in luxury while their people continue to suffer same as before. There is one African leader who I heard state "Please stop giving us foreign aid." He wanted people to learn to help themselves since all the money was being diverted from true aid anyway.
Teaching backwards people to help themselves is a good thing, but just handing out money doesn't necessarily help, although many do-gooders think it does.
The leaders are pocketing aid money, that's true. They couldn't care less about the plight of their own people.
Not to mention the Muslim “groomer gangs” ( really rapist & murder gangs) that came with that liberal, do gooder attitude where so called leaders ignored the carnage.
And the only ones that have to live with the consequences of the rape and murder gangs living near them are the middle and lower classes that cannot retreat to their gated communities in which the rich, elite ones that make these insane "rules for thee, but not for me"; can live in peace while the country burns around them!! It truly is infuriating.
Exactly. For a long time these crimes were not made public.
Then comes "car control" since as we have seen in the German Christmas market and in New Orleans, cars are effective weapons.
Deb, those liberal women appear to have an abundance of feelings for others, but they also appear to apply those feelings selectively.
For example, they feel deeply for illegal immigrants, but not so much for people like Laken Riley, an American whose head was bashed in by an illegal immigrant with a criminal record.
Similarly, they feel deeply for transgendered males (i.e., biological males who identify as females), but not so much for (1) biological females whose communal spaces (such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers) are invaded and occupied by transgendered females, or (2) biological female athletes who in competition are commonly dominated (and even brutalized) by transgendered females, and thereby deprived of opportunities to which they should be entitled under Title VII.
Finally, they have no feelings for working class Americans (which, I note, includes naturalized Americans who immigrated to the U.S.) whose incomes have been reduced, or whose jobs have been lost, because of the 10 million-plus aliens who are in the U.S. illegally (that is, in violation of Title 8 of the U.S. Code).
It therefore looks like those “feelings” are also combined with heavy doses of hypocrisy and irrationality.
Well-written, Deb. People like Alison never jump to the front of the line to offer to fund the healthcare and benefits of someone like Maura and her children her own personal funds. It's always the problem of someone else--or a collective "someone else". She just wants to feel good about it at someone else's expense.
I believe that Rush said something similar years ago while explaining why so many rich people vote democrat. While democrats routinely cry to "tax the rich", the rich know that their personal accountants can mitigate most of the damage while not having to spend their own money to support these welfare programs and can thus exclaim their moral superiority.
Exactly - also it seems like the more wealth some people have the more GUILT they have for some reason and then the virtue signalling gets crazy. In the end its the middle class that pays - the more guilty they feel the more we pay
Kinda like the rich California residents who voted for weak laws. Now the looters are striking THEIR homes & neighborhoods, they demand these people are punished.
rational thinking is probably the line of demarcation between liberal and conservative women, as women are inherently compassionate for the most part.*
allow me to mansplain for a moment - living in a fantasy world is all well and good if you can afford it, but detrimental if you have to deal with reality on reality's terms.
i think having children is a grounding force. religion is another. these combinations lead to wonderful compassion which the world needs.
i think one of the larger ungrounding forces out there for women is being ugly. they just want the world to be different than it is. abuse is another one that can be difficult to overcome.
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*there will always be exceptions like hillary clinton
Reflects an inability to reason past one specific example.
Stage ONE thinking, as Thomas Sowell would say,
No doubt. There is no clearer sign of a declining civilization than when you have open borders and a welfare state. One is bad enough. Adding both together is like dumping gas on a forest fire.
That said, imo, the most daunting tasks is not cleaning up the mess created by politicians trying to win the Woke Olympics. Rather it's to clean up the mess that "created" these types of politicians.
It's not even worth debating.
These people are just a bunch of anoetic automatons that eat up their shrink-wrappped curated propaganda provided to justify feelings - no matter how detached from reality their daily serving is.
We're better of unrelentingly mocking them.
They don't understand logic because they've never reached a conclusion/position based on anything other than emotions....usually fed to them in a constant main-line drip feed.
I mean it might be tough to get someone who took an experimental vaccine, without questions, for a donut to see the seen and unseen, etc.etc.
And the individuals shooting the loudest "guns" are the ones who are going to have the biggest "buck". It will be devastating for them when their worldview is exposed as a delusional hallucination.
They're empty vessels. They are weak. Their bloodlines are weak. And history will forget them.
There's nothing like a midwit holding onto a dead position. They're not even aware the zeitgeist has changed because they derive their ego externally.
I say don't let the pendulum hit you on the way out the door
"There is no clearer sign of a declining civilization than when you have open borders and a welfare state."
Ask the Roman Senate and People (SQPR)... oh, that is right they are not around anymore.
spot on.
exactly what i said yesterday.
"we could learn a lot about how ancient Rome suffered death by mass migration".
Spot on. These people have the critical-thinking skills of 5-year-olds, and can't fathom the idea (repellent in their eyes) that there are evil people in the world, or at the very least, that, not everyone has honest motives. It's the "Believe Her" crowd, unable to grasp that someone, anyone, would lie to achieve a goal (unless he's called Trump). To just trust everyone is SO much easier, and lets them avoid the messy, complicated business of actual thinking.
Until it slaps them upside the head like the uber-rich in L.A. who are experiencing pain...all at the same time...at the same place...and all about the same thing...
Make Sanity Great Again!
I almost feel a barely perceptible twinge of guilt over my deep enjoyment in watching the L.A. elite's pain....I said "almost".
Anoetic. This is the second time I've seen that word today. You borrowed that word from Brad, didn't you? ;-)
No. From eugyppius about a year ago
When did Brad use it. He is a master wordsmith.
I think Taibbi has used it before.
Nonetheless a great word that neatly covers a lot of ground in just 7 letters.
This morning. I missed eugyppius and Matt. So glad to be constantly learning new things. The MSM provides us pablum; Substack delivers gold.
I’m just glad I learned a new, and as you said, really expressive word! My thanks to whomever.
im giving Brad credit. very suspicious!! LOL
Ha. Give the dictionary credit and his mastery of the English language.
But pass it around to Taibbi and Gato as well.
Would you like me to change it?...;)
I have personally declared the word "anoetic" the word of the year. My autocorrect doesn't know it, so underlines it; I did not know its meaning until I looked it up this morning; and I've seen this word used in several Substacks and comments (at least four).
That's how we learn! I love it
The foundational issue that is always missed in these discussions or rants is the role of the failed states from which immigrants are migrating. Why are these woke complainers not getting involved in reforming the nations that place their populations in poverty? Why are they not using their political power to shine a spotlight on the people who created the poverty migrants seek to escape. Most of the time, the failed nations operate under left wing tyrants who do not serve their people. Maybe that issue could be addressed.
I'm convinced we're in a battle between those who want a collective society and those who want an individualistic society.
And just like every socialist/fascist/communists regime the collective responsibility boils down to the method and process being one in the same. It's a very similar method and process as the "shock-workers" (a devised scheme, ostensibly, for the common good) from the Russian gulags where prisoners who attained "shock" status would get a slightly reduced sentence (the motivation) ...but refused to leave the camp because...wait for it....THE COLLECTIVE.
And that my friends was the purpose of the process and the method being the same. What they really want is a collective organism, living, working, eating, sleeping, and suffering together in pitiless and forced symbiosis.
In other words they do not believe in the individual and that is the source of their contempt, blindness, cruelty and worldview towards us peasants.
It's almost like late stage Marxism. When you look at it in that light it's not hard to understand how you go from "the good of collective" to "shock- fetishism" of identifying as a barn yard animal replete with a tail sticking out their ass
True. And beneath the surface or "worldly" level is a spiritual level in which souls are "packaged" to seek collective states of being that are nothing more than traps. Christianity is based in the freedom of the individual soul to willingly collaborate and seek divine unity, which ends up being the opposite of Communist collectivism. Ultimately, we will need spiritual solutions that address our "worldly" condition.
Yes. But The Church has its own problems.
In my mind, here's what's wrong with The Church these days imo. And it was made abundantly clear during the plandemic
1: Absence of Trust
2: Fear of Conflict
3: Lack of Commitment
4: Avoidance of Accountability
5: Inattention to Results
Great comments, I often wonder at the reasons for the failure of the Church. Imo it is that they are not following in the foot steps of Christ by seeking the Father for leading. Rather they model the church often on an American business model. Maybe this relates to Evangelical churches mostly. The Church ought to be counter-cultural. The Episcopal Budde that lectured Trump is anything but counter-cultural. She is lockstep with the world!
Yes. Key point. If the clergy had been doing their jobs we would not have suffered so greatly. An organized effort was made to neuter the churches with bribes, with pay-offs. On my Stack I speak to protocols for bringing the clergy back into line. Tough task. They are so uneducated.
I also think that those with a collectivist bent are somewhat like frightened children and they are appalled and scared by the idea of individualism and individualist thinking. They much prefer someone "higher and more powerful" to tell them what to think and do about virtually everything. They find great security in that approach. It looks like such a scary world if you are individualist....something BAD might happen.
Exactly. Look at the UK where the email author seems to be. Pretty much all of Europe is headed that way while the UK had a brief reprieve with brexit. Perhaps they can recover, but when you have the "socialist/fascist/communist/authoritarian paradises" failing year after year around the world and then people voting for more of it (they want a free lunch), and then fleeing here when it fails, the root of the problem isn't here, but there. We need to treat both the symptoms here and the root there. Or let the people who are living in those paradises fix them themselves.
Yeah, what we need is just a few more NGOs to go out and spread American know-how and taxpayer dollars to these failed states to help them to be more like us.
They're just cutouts for globalization and to spy on us.
At least Trump ditched the WHO. Next up NATO and The UN, imo.
If he does that, for the most part, the NGOs and their influence through propaganda will be cauterized.
Just my two cents.
Agreed. NGOs have exported toxic woke ideology. Example: "Fact Checkers" that had been hired by tech companies like Meta are NGOs.
Of course the NGOs are responsible for so many adverse conditions. And, as well, corporate entities that undermine governments (with or without the help of our CIA) are part of the mix. Not an easy problem to solve, but, nonetheless, one that must be solved.
For all the people like myself who spent the time and money legally filing all the paperwork to bring a spouse into this country, it is a slap in the face to have a completely separate system where people can just jump the line and get credit cards for $1400 to help them start out here in this country. Which happened btw. My friend runs a landscaping company and his employees son crossed illegally last summer. He was approached by an immigration officer at work and offered a credit card with $1400, offered assistance with getting onto food stamps and welfare and given a card to call when he needed more help. If this wasn’t first hand knowledge i wouldn’t have believed it.
What about the illegals who work and claim 7 exemptions and they are 20 years old......they pay no taxes but the American citizen in the same job claims 0 exemptions because he doesn’t want to get in trouble with the IRS. Most have 2 names - the name and social security number they “purchased” and their real birth name. We have Social Security verification in this country but most companies do not use it. What about all the fraud associated with the “Earned Income Credit” thousands and thousands of our hard earned tax dollars paid out to people who use fake names and social security numbers . Don’t get me wrong there are many good people who work hard, are good honest people that are working on their citizenship. The people who abuse our laws are not stupid they know exactly how to play the system.
I believe it.
I would ask the woman who commented, "What, specifically, would YOU be willing to give up to help that immigrant woman and her children?" It's so easy to be "compassionate" when it costs you absolutely nothing. We are to be compassionate to others in our personal lives, but the government's #1 top priority is to protect us, and then to keep society functioning in an orderly manner through laws.
I think you are partially correct on this one. I think you have the people at the top of the Democrat party that want open borders in order to help them maintain power. If they could they would make them all citizens they would. That is really what it is all about. Once they are here for a period of time they say: "we can't send them back to their country because this is their home now". or something similar. On the other hand you have all of the useful idiots that you talk about like the lady who emailed you. They are all heart over brain and can't understand the realities of the world and that if you do not have a border you do not have a country.
it's not even a secret that they were trying to get "a path to citizenship" for illegal aliens!
it's well documented!
like here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/biden-immigration-legislation-pathway-to-citizenship/index.html
and here:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-and-congressional-democrats-to-unveil-immigration-bill
and here:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/promise/1610/create-pathway-citizenship-nearly-11-million-peopl/
Maura Hernandez is just an avatar to the Left, much as George Floyd was. Nobody tried to help Floyd with his real problems, drug abuse and criminal behavior. And leftists aren't taking people like Maura Hernandez into their homes.
Nope.
This is why the war on poverty ended up with more poverty, and the war on drugs ended up with more people on drugs. Because to a Leftist, the point isn't to help, it is to be seen trying to help.
And if one can do so while contributing other people's money (and safety) to the cause, so much the better.
Bingo!
What a phenomenal response!!! You put into words all the thoughts I have in my head but cannot put down on paper. Thank you sir.
I agree , perfectly and concisely stated
We need to be prepared for 4 years of cherry-picked tragic stories (real and fake), of people either not getting in or being forced to leave the U.S. These stories will generally feature children and tug at one's heartstrings. I agree with your statement that, of course, the US can afford to help Maura and her 4 children, but not millions like her. (And where is the baby daddy in all this?)
Also...why does a woman in such dire economic condition have FOUR children?!!
Many women have been socialized in a way that encourages irrationality. This is the thinking and behavior that we get as a result.
Exactly! They have been conditioned to believe that all leftist positions are compassionate, and to be against them is to be a bad person. Abortion is compassionate, euthanasia is compassionate, unrestricted immigration is compassionate. The results of this conditioning have been disastrous.
The same person has no idea what to do about 30 years of gang rape by Muslim who invaded her country helped by a tacit hands-off law enforcement and woke Brits who are terrified of free speech, lockdowns, self defense and ever widening fiscal deficit.
Go home. Fix your own country.
"(honey, have we ever taken Jasper to that Laotian place? We should! He’s four, it’s time!)'
Funniest piece of humor ("humour" to our dear Brit) I've read all day!
I don’t think she is really a Brit. “Gross“ as an insult is used largely by Americans.
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️some people are just too ignorant one cannot argue with them.
Emotional appeals, with sorrowful lamentations, earnest intentions, and impassioned sentimentality, should not serve as the foundation for policymaking. Instead, decisions must be guided by reason, evidence, and objective analysis.
In other words, these moaning, sad-eyed, bleeding-heart cries are tiresome and are a sure way to destroy any culture. "Let them in" because we cry otherwise - well, lady, there are a lot of people who will take advantage of your excessive moral largesse.
We actually do need immigrants, and we should have easier policies to let them in (we are too restrictive). But laws matter. Illegal entry, wide open borders, loose policies, don't help us in the end.
We are not too restrictive in legal immigration. Not in the least. At this point I want the border closed completely, no legal immigration, no H1-B5 visas, nothing. We need a pause for at least a year. And we need to start looking at countries with 'cultures' that are antithetical to ours and ban them. We have millions people, brought in by Obama and sent to red cities and towns that have been destroyed.
Agreed, Lynne. And I’m an immigrant!
Wise and pragmatic observations, Lynne...but of course that is exactly why they would never actually do as you have suggested!
This kind of thinking is what I call " This makes me feel good, so I must be right" So sorry, just look at the big picture and see how it affects our citizens. And I do apologize, I don't care that it makes you feel good.
I hate Laotian food