Another Incredible Failure of Vision
Although the speech has not yet been given as I write this, George W. Bush has presaged another incredible failure to grasp problems and envision their solutions. Kneeling to whatever is left of his ‘core conservative lunatic base,’ he’s going to militarize the border with Mexico.
It must be genetic. His daddy used to refer to ‘the vision thing’ as if it were an alien state of mind. Yet daddy did a credible job, all things considered. Republican presidencies will for decades to come be judged against this one as ‘really not so bad at all, compared to George the Second.’
Movements of people in this world are evidence of dissatisfactions that run so deep, that leaving family, friends and home for certain danger and probable imprisonment is preferable to staying put. The poor moved north from the deep south, the Oakies fled the dust-bowl of the thirties. The civilized, business-wise answer to that condition isn’t barbed-wire and weaponry, but to change the condition.
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