Well, we covered the ID theft, the far Rights view, the far Left's view, and even a student opinion. We even got the "I don't care and I'm going to post that I don't care so folks will see that I don't care" post.
I look at this like so many things we have allowed the electorate to get away with over the last, say, 35 years. When we went through the last oil crisis, we reformed and vowed never to be under control of those "Towel Heads" (period statement) again. We explored homebrew, hydrogen, and corn oil, then we went back to gas and built our cars big again. When the second oil crisis came about, we did the same thing again, and we mandated the arrival of hybrid vehicles as a majority sell by this year- then Bush torpedo'd it and resurected the flawed Hydrogen scheme so that again, we would not be able to stop our reliance on oil (where do you think we get Hydrogen from?) AND would need to rebuild our infustructure to accomidate it. Back in the 70's people were wading across the border and we called them "Wetbacks". We errected a wall, and someone else put loop holes in the law which allowed caught Mexican's to be set free to wait for a court date - like they were going to suddenly obey the law so they could get deported.
Now both of these are coming to a crisis again, and we have interfered in the internal workings of sovern governments in the name of "freedom". What was the object? To cause us to look somewhere else besides right here at home.
You want to see what the politicians don't want us to see? Look around you - it has always been all around you. The decay of a "Great Society" happens with the mortar, not the bricks.
We say "it is illegal" for Mexicans to come to this country, but we don't stop it. We say they are dragging down our social systems, but again, we do not enforce the existing laws against being here illegally. We say "It is illegal to them to get welfare", yet we freely give it. Illegal's move into our neighborhoods though "clearing houses" - generally relatives, we do not report it. When we do report it, we get "They have done nothing wrong". Illegal's take construction, cleaning, AG jobs, which they say we don't want, but infact, they are willing to take lower wages than the locals and this causes businesses to hire them despite the laws against it and which are largely un-enforced. There was a scandal in the 80's about Politicians and Stars who knowingly hired Illegals to work in their homes and yards. They all got a slapped wrist at most.
Same thing has happened with Gay "rights". When did a lifestyle choice that is still illegal in many States become something normal, even celebrated in the media as a legal choice and a role model for children? Gay "Marriage" legal? Not even legal in their home in their bed.
We say we are a nation of Laws. Those laws are our mortar. When we fail as a society to enforce those laws, when we allow the fringe few to cloud us into thinking that what we agreed is wrong, is now right; will will fail as a society because there will be nothing to hold us together.
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