Sultan Knish: America is full of visible and invisible walls. In the first half of the last century, our politics had been dedicated to tearing down the walls between classes, races and genders. And then in the second half of the century, radicals terrified of what that meant for their plans, began building them up again while adding new divisions until every city, workplace and even family is divided by many invisible walls.
Walls represent divisions. Whether you support or oppose a particular wall depends on whether you believe a division is legally, morally or philosophically legitimate. The walls that the radicals want to tear down are the walls distinguishing and defining concepts that they don’t believe in, such as nations and genders, while building walls of segregation to separate races and classes.
When Speaker Pelosi calls a border wall immoral, it’s not because she believes that physical structures of steel and stone are immoral, but that the concept that a wall protects, that of the nation and its citizenry, is immoral to the radical mind.
That’s an important debate worth having because the rejection of America as a distinct nation, as opposed to a distinct idea, gets at the heart of the opposition to so much of Trump’s agenda from both parties.
Unfortunately neither Pelosi nor her media allies are willing to honestly put forward their views and debate them. Instead they make false claims of supporting border security in principle, while opposing it at every turn in practice.
Politicians who claim to support a popular idea in principle while resolutely opposing every attempt to implement it are actually its unprincipled opponents. And the best way to expose them is by forcing them to live up to the principles that they don’t have. MORE HERE
h/t Forcibly Deranged.
‘forcing them to live up to the principles that they don’t have.’
Sadder they won’t live up to the oath they swear to,
I guess the dems way without a wall could work. When the rest of the world realizes how fucked up this country is with these dems who THINK they are in control or could be in control, NO one in their right mind, will want to come here! PUCK FELOSI!!!!!
It’s all a game…UNTIL THEY LOSE:
https://twitter.com/PolishPatriotTM/status/1088938014896803840
America’s side
https://twitter.com/ClandestineRos1/status/1089066950565789697
or the Dems’….
Trump opens the government to pay Americans and take dems up on their claim they’d come to the table if he opened gov. Pelosi, Schumer immediately gloat, state no wall funds, Pelosi says still no SOTU and makes a production of mocking Trump at America’s security expense. We will eventually see how it plays out and what voters think of the dems tactics.
America became divided into irreconcilable groups long before the wall became a major issue.
It started under Clinton, became more widespread under Bush, and became permanently irreconcilable under Obama.
Before it’s over there will be blood on the saddle, the question being whose saddle will have the most on it and who will still be riding.
The wall is a symbol. Of course Trump has many legal ways of getting illegals out of the country, but with the numbers there are it is an enormous cost. Building a high-tech wall in strategic locations can save enormous costs on manpower.
Meanwhile, my leftist friends are insisting that Trump is an idiot (well they always say that) because he wants to build a concrete wall. I don’t know how they manage to tie their shoes in the morning if they are able to convince themselves, despite watching Trump reviewing the different high-tech options, that he wants another Great Wall of China.
They probably use Velcro straps.
Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA) is the Patron Saint of Sanctuary Cities. She also says she wants “Border Security”. Since those 2 statements are incompatible, she must be LYING, again. And Nancy will also pull the football away.