Yes, it was. Thank you to most of you for the reasoned responses.
And thank you cowboyway, for the hilarious response.
So what did you learn from your little exercise here?
Do you understand why? Do you have any arguments against the positions written here? What is your stance on illegal (non-legal) immigration?
I am a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and nearly everyone I interact with daily is as well.
Will you have conversations with your liberal friends about what you have gleaned from this thread besides talking about the cute pictures?
Seriously, amid the lightning bolts, kittens, mushroom clouds and so forth there have been a number of good replies as you have acknowledged.
So it is your turn. From your leftist perspective (which is not necessarily liberal, and indeed I bet I am more liberal than you and I am certainly too liberal to live at a place like S.F.), what are the counterpoints?