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I've been leaning on this horn for years--a lot of the muddle-headedness on illegal immigration comes from a patronizing "noblesse oblige" from our elites.

The elite rich are different from you and me. They don't make their own beds. They don't wipe the noses (or other body parts) of their kids. They don't cook for their families (remember how Bar Bush used to boast that she never cooked?) and certainly don't mow their own lawns.

There's a reason why Bush speaks better Spanish than English. His NANNY taught him.

And they can't imagine life ever being different--but they do feel a little guilty about paying Manuela nickles and dimes to scrub their toilets. So, how do they stop feeling guilty?

Well, they decide to hand over American sovereignty to their servants!

That way, they feel noble and charitable. That's why they're always calling us bigots--because they just feel so warm and runny about their slaves. We ought to be kind and gracious to THEIR slaves, too, and stop griping that we have to pay for their social services. Shades of Scarlett O'Hara!!

They get to be noblessed, while we get to be obliged.

It is their "Charity by Proxy" hypocrisy coupled with senseless white guilt and self-hatred that propels these people to give away our country.

I can't understand them.

But with the Senate, was it not a part of the Constitutional plan that Senators were NOT popularly elected; they were supposed to be elected by the various state legislatures?

We got away from this with some cockamamie Amendment in the early 20th Century.

We should return to the original way, because the state legislatures, IMHO, tend to be more conservative than our national legislature.

At any rate, we need less mob rule and need to restore the Constitution, especially this key aspect to legislation.

They get to be noblessed, while we get to be obliged.

It's a joy to read your prose !

It's not only the Upper Class who are operating out of guilt.

It is now the upper-middle class, two-earner households who rely on nannies and landscapers to mitigate their lifestyles. More and more houseplans here in California include a first floor bed-and-bath for the servant, and the Professional Classes here who spend hours on the road commuting, have turned to live-in help to make life work.

I doubt they pay Social Security or purchase Health Care Plans for their Spanish-speaking help.