I got on the Michael Medved show once and said basically what you did, only on a subject other than illegal immigration.
He was shocked that I wanted to “see the country destroyed”.
What these guys don’t get is that there is teeth in the phrase, “you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette.” Our founding fathers knew this. One of the phrases I loved from the mini-series on John Adams was regarding sacrifice. It was along the lines of people being willing to sacrifice their life for freedom, but not willing to sacrifice their comfort.
This is the problem we have. Any real solution to our country’s woes (and really every 1st world country today) is going to cause a great deal of REAL pain to the average citizen - at first. Unfortunately, not enough are willing to make that sacrifice so we will simply ride this train to the end. And the farther we go, the more it will hurt when the train does stop.
If you have been listening to Medved, it’s no wonder you are confused. He has been a propagandist for the Cheap Labor Express for years.
Illegal aliens are destroying the country.
Removing them will save it.
US population in 1940 was 131 million people.
US casualties because of the war were 419,000.
The loss of these people didn’t destroy the country.
Not even close.
Then look what happened to the country in the following decades.
If we take 20 Million illegals.
Figure one fourth of them are productively employed.
The loss of them would be replaced by those now considered out of the labor force.
With the population decrease and the return of rightful citizens working, our labor participation would be back to peak levels.
U-6 unemployment would virtually match U-3 enemployment.
PLUS, if there was a shortage of labor in this country, THEN we could always open our legal immigration, allowing people to legally come into this country. But ONLY at OUR needs.
Nope, we are not willing go give up our comfort and the political elite know that and take advantage of it. We will keep voting for them because they “let” us keep just enough of our comforts to keep voting for the lesser of two terrible choices. Meanwhile they tax us to keep the others satisfied and voting for them as well.
I had a job once I should have left but I was just comfortable enough and just risk adverse enough to suffer on. Leaving was maybe one of the hardest and best things I ever did. I did leave so I can only conjecture what life would have been like had I stayed.