Trump’s advisers came up with the “Wall” as a memory device to keep him from forgetting immigration in his campaign speeches. Now it is boxing in his entire presidency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/us/politics/donald-trump-border-wall.html
@bluesbaby @WeThePeople It’s fear. Fear the country is being taken over by people who don’t have pale skin. They say the wall is all about national security. I say it’s all about Conservative insecurity.
I fear you are right. I hadn't realised just how much racism was in the GOP before.
@bluesbaby @WeThePeople Sadly, I see this in my conservative parents. As they get older, they blame more and more of the country’s problems on “minorities” (that’s my dad’s old-school word). The reality is they are afraid of becoming the minority themselves. I’ve lived my whole life in the tri-state area, my dad did a lot of business in NYC. He is well aware that Trump is a liar, cheat, failed business person and crook. But he still voted for him.
My parents were less Republicans than being victims of the Jesus pill,...
They joined the Evangelical Lemmings and slipped in to march step with Jerry Falwells 'Prosperity Gospel' which basically translated in to,.. if you have money your chosen,... if your poor your ungodly and should be shunned
Ah yes. The moral majority. Did anyone predict that empowering the religious right would have the consequences it did?
My very first letter to the editor that was published in the St Louis Post was back in 1987,......
It was entitled "How the new Right will take us in to Theocracy"
I got death threats, I was almost fired from my job, and my mother threatened to disown me
Whoa!! That's crazy. And now you've had all these years to see your pov proven right. Must make you furious.
@bluesbaby @redbarchetta3
I live in Missouri, I have enough I see daily to get furious over, I forgot that issues decades ago,... its been a waste of breath to say anything