I'm seeing this immigration issue like a flood. The water is rising, irrevocably. People have lived with a complacent trust that the small surges would be controlled at the dam, the Federal Government. Now, here comes the rapidly rising level of immigrants, wiping out whole communities of staid thought. People are sandbagging with lawsuits, and new laws. They are railing at the govenment's failure to close the floodgates. They are inundated regardless.
Dams are subject to pressure. when there is too much pressure behind to dam, the floodgates have to be opened to protect the dam. This leads me to question where the pressure is originating. Where is the pressure to open the floodgates coming from? What kind of pressure is so dangerous that it supercedes the inevitable downstream catastrophe? is it geo-political? Is it some kind of global-socio-tectonic shift? I suspect I do not know enough to draw a cogent conclusion, but I got my 'spicions.
Isn't it curious though, that, with the exception of Isreal, nobody is immigrating to the Middle East, or Africa, or Mexico? At least not in any comparable numbers with what's going on in England, France, Germany, the U.S.? "There's somethin' happenin' here, and what it is ain't exactly clear", but it tends to make me uneasy. The fact that the last four administrations have bowed to this "pressure" gives me more than mere pause. The Government seems willing to sacrifice the entire base, but to what end? Other than protecting the dam, of course.
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