I’ve only watched Fox News so far this morning (TMEW wanted to watch the Green Lantern movie first) but I am betting that the rest of the shows are going to also comment on the streaming of folks from the Middle East and Africa up to and through Europe as well. They wailed and waxed about the humanitarian crisis and the plight of these folks – and that the US must do more to help and take more of these folks in.
Yet, NONE of them mentioned our southern border and the tens of millions of illegal aliens that have streamed across Central America and Mexico (and many of the mass of children and mothers with children that flooded the border the last year) demanding refugee and asylum status.
Yet, these Smart people bemoaned that we should
put aside our fear of terrorism, our weak economy that has been negatively affecting our citizens at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder, and take more in.
Sidenote: I dryly note that NONE of these folks, mostly in the Beltway Bubble and/or top 1% didn’t offer to take any of these folks into their own homes to show either solidarity with their bon mots or to show “leading from in front”. Instead, they transpose individual charity (go figure!) with governmental taxes and redistribution of other peoples’ wealth.
Not a single mention, I heared, of the lack of assimilation that we have lately seen (re: Dearbornistan when Christian preachers were singled out for their attempts to evangelize and the muslim crowds turned on them against their First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech – except to get them arrested (videos here on the ‘Grok).
Perhaps if the spector of multiculturialism didn’t loom so large today – that foreign notion that all cultures are equal (they’re not) and that those cultures often should remain separate analogous of tossed salad instead of the mixing pot of the past. How’s that working out in Europe where many are starting to realize that they are past the tipping point where their national culture (oft much more homogenous than the US) which was their nation(s) are being altered to resemble that of the transplants’ former homes. Assimilation should be additive to a core belief – those nations, especially the smaller ones, are starting to wonder when they will be, as we saw this week, when the Hungarian Prime Minister wonders if his nation would become Hungary-In-Name-Only? There is one thing to be compassionate and helpful – but at the cost of one’s nation?
Or is this the point?
