It was posted by a conservative friend, and my initial read was it was black humor in keeping with the rage many of us feel at the violence, duplicity, continual attack, and continual interference Trump and his supporters have had to deal with for many months now.
But I thought about it, and realized that this is much too well funded for home bloggers, and, more importantly, that nobody–certainly not Trump–is calling for the deportation of people here legally, which is what a green card means.
It is creative and clever, but ultimately intended to demean Trump through humor, and to insinuate manifestly wrong ideas–again, such as the idea that he opposes either legal immigration, or people who are here legally–into people’s consciousnesses.
But then I kept thinking about it, and it hit me that anger IS an appropriate response to what the Mexicans have done to us. Let us say it is 10 million people here illegally. Is it not perfectly reasonable for ordinary Americans to find this infuriating, the same way we would find it infuriating if we woke up one morning and a stranger, having broken in in the night, were sleeping on our couch?
We have become so used to being attacked and demeaned for ordinary, healthy, reasonable reactions to provocations that many of us have become emotionally numb, and been rendered helpless to respond according to righteous and reasonable instincts.
We are not only supposed to feel no anger that our hospitality has been so abused, but to welcome a nearly unlimited amount of it, which is what the No Borders crowd are calling for. This is insanity.
As I keep saying, JFK could have been, and in large measure WAS, elected on the platform Trump ran on. From this, we get accusations of being “literally Hitler”.
And my GOD, if you want to talk abuse of women, Trump does not hold a candle to Kennedy.
How is it so many people are so fucking insane?
It’s our TV culture, where people consume opinions, internalize them, own them, then flaunt them as their own.
It’s mass society, where belonging trumps thinking, and conforming trumps trusting your own instincts.
Its conditioned herd responses.
It is a failed educational system, which breeds inbreds as a matter of policy, fails to teach any form of adult responsibility and accountability, and encourages infantile rage, fatuous thinking when combined with strong emotion, and places the kids in charge of the madhouse.