I’ve noticed that everything in politics is a reaction to something else. Usually, it’s a direct opposition to something. The World Trade Center is destroyed, we go to war. Somebody attempts to shoe bomb a plane, we all have to take our shoes off before entering. Republicans run the country for awhile, people get disaffected, then we flop back to Democrats. Democrats run the country, people get disaffected and we flop back to Republicans. But this time the president’s invitation to bring us your young, your sick yearning for free medical care, your criminals, may actually result in a permanent (for any given value of “permanent”) militarized border.
Although pollster’s lament Obama’s poor polling I’m astonished that 37% or so see him as doing a good job. What shade of colored glasses must you wear to see that image?
Once Republicans have been totally demonized, anything they say is interpreted by the Rats as politically motivated and hateful. That is our quandary. Nothing we say--or indeed, nothing that happens--is taken seriously. It is all shoved instantly into the "racist" box.