Originally Posted by Mule
(Post 3636174)
The reason they don't see our border as anything more than an unpleasant impediment is because that's all we made it.
I fully agree with you and that is, in my opinion, to put it mildly, unconscionable and is OUR fault for not enforcing the laws that have been on the books for years before this invasion (which it has become, analogous to an annual number of flu cases increasing to become an epidemic) reached the level that it has.
If it was an actual barrier, things would change. I understand you guys in CA have been dealing with this for years.
Yes we have, as have all our border states.
If you're happy with it, great!
If you suspect that I (and probably 99.9% of U.S. citizens and others who are in this country legally) am, you are ignorantly mistaken.
There are many Americans who see our culture as a major benefit of living in America...
And I suspect that probably 99.9% of U.S. citizens and others who in this country legally certainly do.
Incidentally (and CERTAINLY you MUST know this!), "our culture" always has been, is now, and always will be, a "melting pot" of many cultures, third world and otherwise.
Assimilation of these cultures into the overall fabric of OUR multifaceted culture has always taken time, and always will. And it is often a painfully unpleasant process - but, and this is but one example of why this country of ours is great, it has ALWAYS worked in the end.
...and don't care for the illegal influence...
Of course not - that's stating the obvious, don't you think?
of the third world and their culture.
Again, bear in mind, other cultures, third world cultures included, eventually melt into and become part of ours. "Third World" is defined as
1. The developing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin American.
2. Minority groups as a whole within a larger prevailing culture.,
neither of which is intrinsically "bad".
When I was a kid in Ohio most people railed against the dirt poor "goddamn dumb, dirty hillbillies" who emigrated there from W. Virginia, Kentucky and yes, Tennessee, for factory jobs and a better life. And they railed against the "filthy spics' from Puerta Rica who came to work the flower fields for less than minimum wage and lived in obscenely substandard shacks provided by the wealthy growers on their property. I was disturbed by the racism and bigotry as a child (I must have been precocious because the family I grew up in had the same racist and bigotted perspective as others) and I'm disturbed by it now.
But those were "simpler" times and eventually acculturization occured.
These are indeed much more complicated times and common sense dictates that things are out of control and must be dealt with for the benefit of all. Simply railing against the victims of our lack of border enforcement is ineffective and unhealthy for our national psyche. Rather we should vent our spleen on our own elected government officials to get off their overpaid fat asses and take care of our country's business.
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