Keep the Problem Open, So That We Can Bang the Drum!

The Republican party has kept immigration open as an issue for a long time. Who killed e-verify?


House Republicans have gotten so used to killing immigration deals, they thought that by tying Ukrainian aid to an immigration deal, it would kill it. Amazingly, Senate Republicans got an awesome bill. Mike Johnson killed the bill. He had to keep immigration open as a wedge issue for the upcoming presidential election. (Or, I suppose it is possible that he killed the bill to benefit Putin, who exerted influence over Johnson via Trump. The latter possibility would mean that a foreign interest controlled American policy for two months.)


I have to admit, it is remarkably effective! Prevent reasonable solutions through legislation by obstruction, make absurd demands, and when election season comes, the Democrats are to blame for the ‘problems of immigration.’


I could imagine using it, but I am not a demagogue. If I were, then imagine the sway I could wield! To be king, simply to be king! The minds of the dimwitted, already enslaved—ready channels of grievance to be used for my election! So many simple problems, my friends, my citizens! American citizens should be the fundamental political unit! Only I can make you so!


Yeah, I suppose I can imagine that. But I wouldn’t need to, and neither would you, Dear Reader. We have simple reason, and a just cause. Complex problems exist that can never be solved, they must be managed. Effecting real change is like finding a great item at a yard sale. You have to take the opportunity when it comes, and no matter how much you want it, an opportunity may never arise. We apply our motivation, the love of life, to the wisest policy we can create to maximize benefit to the American citizen. Not a great soundbite, but we don’t need demagoguery.


By banging the political drum of immigration, and preventing solutions to our border problems, the Republican party has acted inhumanely. I have had friends from Mexico, and I have been treated kindly by their mothers. One family from Jalisco, and another from Zacatecas. A wonderful woman teaches me comedy from the Lexicon de Absurdia, she is from La Guajira, Columbia. How terrible I would feel if they thought I hated them.


The United States benefits from immigration. We do need serious legislation to address the integrity of our border, but I beg my empathetic Americans, let’s not use the grievances of the past, to rationalize new injustices against our fellow human beings. 

 

 

 

 

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