RE: The Immigration Conundrum
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Division is the easiest form of control and it’s unfortunate that people don’t realize it for what it is.
Oh yes. Politicians play us like a fiddle..if we let them. They do this by appealing to the baser parts of our nature.
We need people of all stripes, backgrounds and abilities to keep this thing going.
Yes! Immigration made this nation great. Anyway, go back far enough in any country's history and you will not find a homogeneous past. People have wandered across the face of the earth from the very beginning.
And of course there have to be rules. Who will make them? Just another political football.
I'm so tired of the different sides...liberals, conservatives. Right, left. Soros, Koch. Red flags, waved to get our attention, to mold us, direct us, get from us what they need.
I'm tired of the anger and the hate.
To go back to immigration. We need the labor. We need the ideas. We need the diversity. We also need to show compassion. Again I say, there have to be rules, but whose rules? Which races, which nationalities, which occupations, which socioeconomic classes will be favored?
I don't have any solutions because I don't think our country is in the mood for mending. I see trouble ahead. Even more than we have experienced lately.
Yeah the solutions part is the hardest one. We know that we need a way forward that is fair for those who are good citizens and will keep those who are criminals and convicts who have no true intention of reform, away.
Indeed countries are meant to be homogenous! We have always been like that in history I feel. America is one of the most beautiful melting pots but because it is one of the most radical experiments in self government, and our system allows for such liberties with the law, it has been twisted and manipulated for many decades. I've read some decent history about how after the Revolutionary War, one of the business giants of the time (I forget his name, Robert Morris I believe?) was trying to levy taxes hardcore, the same way England was. The elitism has always been there, sadly.