Posted on 08/26/2016 10:31:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump has no choice but to soften his view on deporting eleven million illegal immigrants. I'm not disagreeing with the idea of deporting these illegals. I'm simply explaining why he has to alter his position.
Over the last two decades we have allowed our country to become overwhelmed by Third World values. What are these values? Third World values are a complete distrust of the system - so much in fact that you believe you should overrun it. It’s not just a movement of restoring the democracy, it’s an arrogance of vanity and self-interest that puts one’s interests above everyone else.
We are seeing this with the civil unrest created by #blacklivesmatter - the burning of the American flag by immigrants at Trump campaign rallies and via white-collar crimes across the country. Moreover, many minority groups have created a ‘them against the rest of us’ culture.
Hillary Clinton is a perfect example of Third World values. Regardless of the intent of our laws, she finds a way to take advantage of her position of power and maximize her benefit no matter what the collateral damage. African, South American and Middle Eastern governments abuse their people and overpower opposition. In America, we have already seen nearly 8 years of lawlessness. This is the first step in becoming like these Third World governments.
Trump skyrocketed in the Republican primary by playing to the anger and disgust of many voters who were tired of watching our country behave like these nations. However, he underestimated how much backlash he would encounter from the media and ‘the left’ on the idea of deportations. He has no choice but to accept the reality that this country has been overwhelmed by values that are inconsistent with our Constitution. These values prevail over common sense, logic and the rule of law.
We have allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees, many who believe in Sharia Law or other ideals that are antithetical to our constitution, to enter this country. We have allowed a steady influx of gang members, drug dealers and political refugees from Mexico, Central and South America. We are transforming communities across this country into a hodgepodge of competing cultural values with no common thread of unity.
We have lost our greatest strength: a dominant culture built upon trust, faith, fairness and honesty. Instead, we have created a culture segregated into sections of competing values (which manifested the very conditions the refugees fled). In addition, of the 11 million illegal immigrants, there are millions more family and friends who would be affected by their deportation. In this case: When a single person’s interests/desires is put ahead of the rest, it destroys our culture.
When we create unrealistic expectations, we suffer extreme consequences. I’m reminded of an accounting disaster in my housing company many years ago. For several months, my accounting department failed to bill a $39 monthly fee to my independent contractors for Internet services. When this was discovered in an audit, the total sum was in excess of $30,000. We had accidentally created a pattern and a culture which developed an ‘expectation’ that that service was free. Needless to say, there was outrage when we began billing that fee again. Our country has created several financial and social expectations that are very dangerous to our future.
For years, we have avoided the enforcement of our immigration and community laws. Tens of thousands of criminal, gun violations avoid prosecution. Millions of immigrants pour across the borders without being deported. Leftist politicians have been given an unfettered platform to attack our police force. Liberal indoctrination has penetrated our schools and universities. Affirmative-action policy has created a double standard (and reversal back to segregation). Anyone who dares challenge these destructive dereliction of American duties is labeled racist, xenophobic or bigoted. As a result, there is silence - no conversation.
Enter Donald Trump. He created a firestorm of outrage and pushback which catapulted him to the Republican nomination for president. For a moment, it appeared that all of this political correctness was being systematically destroyed. As usual, the left and the media amped up the pressure and went on a full assault against Trump for attempting to return us to the values that were instrumental in our success: logic, reason and candor.
I never believed Trump would be able to deport eleven million immigrants. I'm in favor of the policy, but I did not think Congress would ever support such a move. Clearly, he has had a moment of awakening. He realizes that this nation, now overwhelmed with Third World values, must be coddled into agreement and not forced. His answer? “Enforce the laws.” The laws are clear: If you are not a citizen, you are to be deported. This is the new ‘politically astute’ Donald Trump - teleprompter in tow.
Emotional people, lacking logic and business sense, now overwhelm our population. They are uninformed about how issues and policy can directly affect them. They are easily manipulated by emotional pleas of the left, and they do not have the resolve to fight for greatness as did the generations that preceded us.
There are only two ways to re-shape this nation in such a way that it can realize its potential. A president Trump must initiate policy which creates economic-lift with prosperity that benefits everyone (who works hard). When the money flows, they’ll finally understand. The alternative is that we must face a financial or military calamity that forces us to wake up to reality (through intense pain).
I pray it doesn’t come to the latter.
He said no citizenship which part did you miss Mister NeverTrump?
Even after Jim’s post, they still post the gutter of American Media Clinton Campaign material...never read a thing...
Those NeverTrump people are either devoid of all logic, or Hillary Trolls.
Trump Isn’t Shifting On Immigration, He’s Just Using Different Words.
Kaslin only posted the article. He didn’t write it.
Wait....I thought he *wasn’t* softening his stance?
Don’t have to deport them. Just cut off the free stuff. They’ll know what to do.
Time will only tell how close Trump stays with his initial plan.
He does not need to change that initial plan, and Town Hall is wrong to suggest he does.
No new laws benefitting those breaking them.
That is a complete turnaround from every politician.
When illegal aliens find out that current law will mean 10 years to apply for proper entry after deportation they will leave on their own.
I never believed Trump would be able to deport eleven million immigrants. I’m in favor of the policy, but I did not think Congress would ever support such a move. Clearly, he has had a moment of awakening. He realizes that this nation, now overwhelmed with Third World values, must be coddled into agreement and not forced. His answer? “Enforce the laws.” The laws are clear: If you are not a citizen, you are to be deported. This is the new ‘politically astute’ Donald Trump - teleprompter in tow.
Bingo. I have no doubt Trump is genuinely shocked by the lack of support for his campaign is getting from Amnesty Ryan and the rest of the beltway GOP. He can see now they will not support his agenda at all as POTUS.
Propagandist for the Cheap Labor Express.
Hillary is their only hope of staying in business.
That would be my take as well.
I never supported rounding people up, but workplace raids and checking out the people the police come into contact with is appropriate.
I would also suggest any other public entity should be a part of the process.
Medical facilities, schools, government services...
Illegals need to go. When they bump into us, they need to be bumped out of the nation.
We did that for decades. We need to return to it.
Such efforts that this writer says in the article (third world values) is GOING to BACKFIRE BIGTIME because many, many Americans have had ENOUGH.
TownHall has been a Cheap Labor Express propaganda organ for years.
I used to comment over there 2006-2009.
Man how I despise entities like that.
In the immortal words of The Gipper, There you go again!
I don’t have an inherent problem with what this guy wrote here - it is a valid, and mostly correct viewpoint. We Have become immersed in Third World values as we walk down the road to civilization all suicide. His approach to Trump’s position is generally OK, if incorrect in particulars (Trump has not nuanced his position to the extent this writer believes he has). And he is too simplistic in his solution - yes, economic strength would be a great help to our society but would not be a panacea for the immigration issue, short of implementing the law and controls, as Trump has set forth. He is not a Paul Ryan type traitor - he’s light-years better than that. 80% friend and so forth...
But his analysis of why America (and the West as a whole) is faltering and lurching toward suicide. We have a powerful, dominant force (personified today by Hillary) propelling us toward globalist values that require the masses to live in the Third World conditions while the middle class is destroyed and our elite betters live in their cloistered Dacha societies.
Yet with so much support for Mr. Trump being so high is because there is a growing anger over the course of the direction of the USA in a special way and the west in general.
You ate correct that Ryan et al will not help Trump with his immigration policy.
BUT. All Trump has to do to save the country from the accurately described recent wave of immigrants and their enablers is to rescind Obama’s executive orders and use his Constitutional executive power to enforce current law and untie BP hands.
Rule of Law can save the Republic.
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