SH wrote:
BLeP wrote:
SH wrote:
OK. Between you and burnthesheep, I guess it's over. There was a group here that supported Trump and viewed the wall largely as a metaphor.That's all well and good but Trump 100% disagrees that it's a metaphor and wants an actual wall.
Good point. Obama got to build his wall on the border, but Trump's having problems because he's such a dickhead about it.
I can't say that isn't part of it. It is kind of like in my family. My next two older siblings were fucking brats. Just mean to our mom. Me on the other hand was nice, didn't talk back. I don't recall my brother and sister ever getting into serious trouble but mom was pretty hard on them. When the cops showed up at our house about midnight because someone gave me a case of beer to do donuts in a teacher's yard nothing happened. Didn't even lose the car for a day.
Now think if Trump had not started his campaign talking about Mexican rapists and then spent 3 years dehumanizing illegal immigrants at every turn using them as political pawns in the most cynical way.
Instead he could have talked about the need for comprehensive reform and the need to meet our labor needs while making sure that the rights of workers and people already in the country need to be respected. And pointed out that in order for our immigration system to work we need to follow an orderly process within the framework of our laws. And part of that orderly process is controlling who does and does not enter the country and when.
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.