The decision on immigration is too important to leave to the politicians who have enormous pressures on them.
The decision belongs to the people.
The people MUST vote on this.
Ain't gonna happen.
The decision on immigration is too important to leave to the politicians who have enormous pressures on them.The decision belongs to the people.
The people MUST vote on this.
You're telling the 800 lb. Gorilla to put down the fruit bowl and "share". He's not gonna be inclined to cooperate!
They hold all the cards, and they're making sure we know it. The past few days (and weeks, but mostly days, as things speed up at an exponential rate) have been remarkable. In the face of staggering, overwhelmening public opposition to a series of foundational travesties against the Constitution, The People, the Nation, and, their "core" constituents -- they thumb their noses at us, and issue a series of obscene decrees that accrue to the direct benefit of our adversaries, at our expense, to our detriment.
This would be surreal if not for the fact that it's so incredibly in-your-face obscene.
NO ONE pulls a stunt like that if they aren't holding ALL the cards.
I think we're looking at "end-game" consolidation of power, and shift of influence. We're being washed overboard. We've served our purpose, and now it's on to bigger and better -- or, to nothing at all. Once sufficient power has been accumulated, a political "base" becomes superfluous.
Who among us would have accepted the idea that we'd be confronted with a government that handed over a series of rights and privileges to foreign national criminals? Rights and privileges that are denied to Americans?
Who would have imagined it even remotely possible to see the government making it legal for criminal foreign nationals to engage in a series of felonies -- crimes having nothing to do with there status as "illegal aliens"? (Things like identity theft, document forgery, financial fraud, etc., etc., etc.)
Who would have thought that...
Aw, hell, I'll stop there. By now y'all eiher get the point, or you don't. Or won't. (This isn't directed to you, tkathy, I'm addressing "the crowd.")
It's obvious that SOMETHING has changed -- something major, and something recent. We're watching a consolidation, a mopping-up operation. Things are being hastily RAMMED into place, and we simply have NO say in the matter.
And I repeat, it's not exactly like they don't KNOW what we think, what we want, what we DON'T want.
It's just that we don't MATTER.
We did matter -- a little -- a little while ago. That's when we were sold a bill of goods. We were hammered with the idea -- until we finally caved -- the idea of letting them set up a "Guest Worker Program", to allow lettuce and grape pickers to come into the country for seasonal work, and then LEAVE at the end of the season.
Once we finally stopped bitching against that "Guest Worker" deal, they quickly hoisted it into Congress. And from the instant it arrived there, it magically morphed into a fast-track CITIZENSHIP and AMNESTY program! They rarely even bothered to mention the phrase "guest workers" once they got their hands on the throttle!
We were sold a bill of goods. We were maneuvered so that we'd let them get "the situation" into Congress, and once there, they have been totally dedicated to ramrodding through something that bears ZERO resemblance to any "guest worker" program. It's amnesty "by any name", with the added bonus of a major citizenship component -- and, an EXTRA amnesty, for a litany of felonies that would land any American in the "hard time" wing of the state pen.
Truly mind boggling.
And it seems quite obvious that they're NOT going to "hand over the car keys" in the form of a "vote" by "We, The People."
They KNOW what would be the outcome of any such vote.
If they were going to allow a vote, they might as well just hang it up, and give up on their agenda -- because that would surely be the result of a "vote".
And they know it.
Nope, I just can't see it happening. They are going to do what they PLAN on doing. They're so close to fruition, they are within a few more votes (of theirs, and a signature from the executive, and then they can rest easy, knowing that they've finally pulled it off.
Telling them to stop for a vote at this point, would be like trying to pull over a racecar driver as he's closing in on the final lap, because you want to do a pollution check on his engine. What you will get from him will be a dirty look, perhaps an obscene gesture, and then he'll just ignore you, so he can keep his eyes on the road.
After he's won the race, he might look at you and ask, "Now what was it you wanted back then?" -- to which you'll reply, "Oh, nevermind."
Probably not a perfect metaphor (I'm falling asleep, real hard day, real hard week, looking ahead to a real hard month. I despise MRI machines...)