“I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others.’”… “Instead of building walls we can help build bridges. Instead of dividing people we can connect people. We do it one person at a time, one connection at time.”-Mark Zuckerberg
The pacifists. The emotional. The scientists? The liberals.
I love these emotional appeals that say “Oh, we need to connect everybody!” as if the global community could be compared to a second-grade classroom. It’s interesting that we don’t hear much talk about “connecting everybody” in neighborhoods with high crime rates. Until there is no crime, there will always be a need for security. “Build bridges instead of walls”. OK Mark, you go to North Korea and say that- what’s that? Oh yeah, that would be stupid.
Walls that divide have frightened people for years. It’s certainly not something good, but if you ask China, Korea, and the White House, sometimes it’s necessary.
Those who are opposed to the Trump Wall demonstrate a core concept of liberalism- a removal of consequences. We see this in so many political issues. Death penalty- “Oh no! That’s too harsh of a consequence.” Abortion- “Oh no! The consequence of your unprotected sex? Just dispose of it! Anything but having people face the equal and opposite reactions of their decisions. Illegal immigration- “Oh no! It would be too harsh to send them back or stop them from entering initially” Too harsh- we’re starting to treat law-breaking as if it were… a second-grade classroom. Yes, walls that divide have frightened people for years- and as a result of that, we are now experiencing a new fear: the fear of consequence.
If you’ve ever yelled at an employee for what you deemed an unfair execution of policy, you’ve noticed that good employees will get a supervisor who tries to explain the policy in more detail, and why it was enacted in the first place. It’s obvious that the customer is angry, but who are they truly angry with? The employee or the policy?
You can yell at the employee all you want, but nothing will change until you talk to the people who have actually made the policy. The employee is not responsible for making the policies; he is only responsible for enforcing them. So getting mad at Donald Trump for wanting to enforce legislation that has already been in place is completely pointless. He didn’t make the law, Congress did. Technically, any president that is not enforcing laws already enacted by Congress is not fulfilling his job properly. (Yes, I’m looking at you, B. Hussein.)
America is the only country that people expect the government to accept illegals. You’ll notice that immigration from North to South Korea isn’t a huge problem. South Korea doesn’t get called racist for not treating illegal North Korean immigrants as legal citizens.
So many people focus on the latter word of this two word issue: immigration. Not accepting immigrants does sound incredibly insensitive and racist. Wanting to deport all people who aren’t of a certain color or race does sound Hitleresque. But what conservatives focus on is the first word of the issue: illegal. There are so few people who have a genuine hate for legal immigrants trying to make a better life for themselves- Donald Trump included. His stance on immigration is not one of hatred, intolerance, or white supremacy. His stance is based on a simple, fundamental concept that because of liberals, America has disregarded:
Don’t break the law.
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