The crisis at the border is only worsening, with U.S. Border Patrol encounters reaching an over two-decade-high again, at more than 180,000 in May.
The collective insanity that’s rapidly erasing America
Many of us older than half a century no longer recognize the country we grew up in. We have a hard time reconciling that past America with what we see happening today. America, to our view, was predominantly a place of light, freedom, and joy. Now, as we witness a massing storm of iniquity, we either don’t understand what we’re seeing or we choke back the language to describe it because the words all sound too harsh or politically incorrect. We look for other demons to blame such as Socialism, and Marxism, and while they are definitely part of the problem, what now haunts us is even darker than those malignancies.
This baleful presence has been gathering over the American landscape for some time and the pandemic provided just the right catalyst for it to become a clear and present danger. It would now take an act of will to ignore its existence but we still, too often, turn our faces away.
The individuals who make up the component parts of this devilry may believe that they act out of good intentions, but the sum of those parts empowers an evil system of racism, corruption, and violence. It is an evil that is largely driven by a lust for absolute political power and complete control over the individual. The modern world has seen this storm before and we ignore it to our great peril.
This plague on our society has pushed us to many forms of mass hysteria:
- We shun those who do not comply with outrageous and unconstitutional mandates.
- We blindly believe government officials and their allies in the media, though they have proven time and again that they lie and should not be trusted.
- We’re emptying our jails of violent offenders while imprisoning law-abiding citizens -- sometimes for simply exercising their rights.
- We’re taking political prisoners like any third-world dictatorship.
- We allow our cities to be torched and looted with few repercussions.
- We’re tearing down our history, our culture, and our traditions in the name of progressivism.
- We invite seemingly anyone who wants to enter the country illegally to take our jobs, receive public services, and drag down wages.
- Our national debt reaches into the stratosphere while politicians go whistling past the graveyard.
- We abort the innocent and defenseless while vigorously defending the guiltiest among us.
- We scare our children into radicalism with tales of impending doom due to climate changes that are as old as the earth.
- We’re wrecking entire industries to “protect the earth” while propping up those same endeavors for our enemies.
- We deny biological realities and allow men to use women’s facilities and participate in women’s activities, provided that they “self-identify” as women.
- We subject the military to ideological litmus tests.
- We fraudulently change election results while casting those who push for transparency as “conspiracy advocates” and add their names to a list of domestic terrorists.
- We allow the government to censor those who oppose the lunacy that passes for public policy.
- We teach dependency and hatred at many school districts across the country, and within our colleges and universities.
- We accuse, disarm, and punish the law-abiding while acquitting the guilty.
This is the short list of our collective insanity. We deny science in the name of science. We obfuscate truth for the purpose of compliance, conformity, and profit. We have forsaken the Constitution to silence and disarm our population. We deny God and accommodate evil.
This darkness will continue to spread until people inside the government are willing to identify and confront it. There are a few brave souls who are standing against the madness but most still shrink from that responsibility. If they do not act, this burden will eventually fall to the American people but by that time, and at immense cost to all, the world’s great experiment in freedom and self-government will likely be teetering on the brink of extinction.
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” -- Edmund Burke
VP Harris Tempers ‘Do Not Come’ Message to Migrants, Vows to Make U.S. ‘Safe Haven’
Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly “softened” her “do not come” to the U.S. border message to migrants Monday in interviews with Spanish-language news outlets later this week.
During a press conference in Guatemala, Harris urged potential migrants not to come to the U.S. amid the worsening border crisis because they “will be turned back,” offending leading progressives in her party who suggested the warning was insensitive.
The Spanish wire service EFE reported Friday that the VP tempered her remarks in an exclusive interview after her trip to Guatemala and Mexico early this week, marking her first foreign journey since taking office.
EFE noted:
The vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, softened on Thursday the harsh message that she had sent to potential migrants during her trip this week to Guatemala and Mexico, assuring that she is “committed” to ensuring that her country will be a “safe haven “for those seeking asylum.”
Via Twitter, Sabrina Rodriguez from Politico highlighted Harris’s change of tune with EFE and U.S.-based Univision, a Spanish-language media outlet.
The Univision anchor told Harris it is hard to hear the “do not come” message to potential migrants, including those seeking a better future, coming from a VP who is herself a daughter of immigrants.
In responding, the VP reportedly indicated that she made that request so that people who are looking to travel to the U.S. “for reasons of violence or hunger, can stay in their country.”
Harris explicitly replied:
I have worked on this issue for almost my entire career and have always been an advocate for documented and undocumented immigrants in terms of the need to make sure they are safe, free from violence and damages, and that they are treated with dignity and that those seeking citizenship are provided meaningful pathways.
Therefore, this is a long-standing part of my job and as an advocate and ally to those seeking protection from violence. On the issue of asylum, I will tell you that we are very committed as an administration. I am very committed to ensuring that we provide a safe haven for those seeking asylum, period.
Harris’s “do not come” remarks drew the ire of leading progressives in her party with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (NY) condemning her warnings as “disappointing” on Twitter.
“This whole ‘stay there and die’ approach is not how our country will promote a more humane and just immigration system,” Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), an AOC ally, added via Twitter.
Harris also caught flak from Republicans and White House sources cited by Democrat-allied CNN, who believe her trip may have been a failure.
President Joe Biden is deploying U.S. Department of Homeland (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to Mexico days after Harris’s visit in a possible attempt at damage control.
Harris and her team insist that President Biden “mischaracterized” her mission as one having to do with the border crisis, CNN learned from unnamed White House officials.
The VP has repeatedly stressed that she is solely responsible for addressing the “root causes” of migration from the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, the primary source of the increasing surge of migrants.
The pro-Democrat Slate Magazine published an article Thursday indicating Biden wants Harris to fail by putting her in charge of a seemingly intractable border crisis hurting the administration.
Democrats and their allies often blasted former President Donald Trump, whose rigid border security policies limited migration to the United States, for allegedly failing to tackle the complex problems.
Besides CNN, the Democrat-allied media outlet Daily Beast published an editorial that also threw shade on Harris’s visit to Latin America, noting that she “may have made matters worse.”
It added, “First, this root-causes business is horse crap. The spinners within the Biden administration concocted that line to skirt the embarrassing fact that Harris is tasked with solving the border crisis but can’t find her way to the border ….”
Despite a bipartisan push, Harris refuses to visit the border, with sources quoted by CNN saying it is because the VP and her team believe being linked to that crisis could be politically harmful to her chances of becoming president.
The crisis at the border is only worsening, with U.S. Border Patrol encounters reaching an over two-decade-high again, at more than 180,000 in May.
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