Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "AOC’s First Speech Breaks CSPAN Record For Views" video.
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Trump also has a responsibility to the working poor, whose jobs are threatened by illegal immigration, the poor in the neighborhoods that are taken over by Mexican drug cartels, and the middle class workers who are footing the bill for Democrats' supposedly well-intended vote-buying machine. Build That Wall.
And if you're old as dirt, like I am, you've seen the Democrats pull this kind of shit every time we try to pass meaningful immigration reform that shows RESPECT to the people who come in the front door and RESPECT for the American citizen. But it's been bait and switch for as long as I've been watching it. "Give us amnesty and we'll get you border security, later" . Well, "later" never comes. For DECADES.
Finally a president with the balls (AND THE MANDATE) to stand up to them and say we're proceeding no further until we secure our nation's borders. Securing the borders was and IS government's #1 job, and government wants to stick its nose in, EVERYwhere, except into the very first job they were constituted to perform.
Democrats insist government do everything except its job. Sick of it. Trump needs to wait the bastards out.
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: Religious faith is a tonic to the soul and psyche. And the fact is that BILLIONS of people follow one religion or another. So, in the world in which we find ourselves, try to be tolerant, but don't give up what's right because some dogmatist, who insists on literal interpretations of books written by men.
Overall, I think Judeo-Christianity has operated on principles that push society ahead. Guided by Love and Reason, people naturally re-interpret was pre-written-word shepherds thought about their world. They were probably among the most enlightened of their time, and the written word really got going largely because of religious institutions. Sure, organized religion is fraught with corruption, and will be twisted by destroyers to do destruction. But there are still underlying principles. The power of literacy.
That hick up in the sticks, living in a hovel, up in the high Appalachian mountains got his first reading lesson out of a Holy Bible. Malcolm X went from street hustler to thinking (and reading and writing) man, because he fell in with the Muslims in prison. The Catholic Church kept the light of Classical Greece and Rome alive through the Dark Ages. The wisdom and learning of centuries was kept alive.
They also browbeat a lot of good scientists, whose facts contradicted Church Doctrine. The parallel in the current era is Leftist Orthodoxy in the role of Catholic Church, ignoring and suppressing any facts or arguments that go against The Collectivist Narrative. It's OK for people to be crazy, except these people want my freedom and all the fruits of my labor and my childrens' and grandchildrens' labor (Skyrocketing national debt. Fiat currency.). There's no end to the damage the libtard orthodoxy can do, especially now that it seems to be all tied up with the Military Industrial Complex, keeping us on a permanent war footing by keeping us frightened of all the evildoers around the planet. So that makes it OK for us to kill foreigners.
What could go wrong?
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@yarweiss : How bad do you feel about slavery? How far back do you need to go to see the day when the state of Israel was destroyed? And which time? And by whom? Fact is, the Allies re-drew the map after World War II, going from one extreme (The Holocaust) to another (Creation of a Zionist state by force, in 1947).
Fucked-up deal, no matter how you slice it. And the question becomes "What do we do about it, now?" Are you a "From the river to the sea" person or a "Here we are. Can't we try to get along?"
I think for every atrocity by Israel, I can count about 10 committed against them. In some ways, they're like the kid who gets in trouble, because he finally snapped and beat the living tar out of the playground bully, and put him in the hospital after months of torment . Since '47, their neighbors have tried to destroy them, many times. Israel has always out-thought and out-fought them. "It's terrible that they seized and hold the Golan Heights." Well, what would YOU do if people were sitting on the ridge right next to your town and lobbing mortar shells and missiles at you?
I can't say I know ALL the in's and out's. I definitely don't have a religious dog in this fight. What is, is. The question is always what is the best move to make, next.
As far as BDS goes, I would love it if more Americans did more research on where the stuff they buy comes from. I think it's a growing movement. Myself, I try to buy American on everything, when possible, and avoid Chinese, because I just don't trust them. Besides, it ain't right to buy products made in a factory that has to use suicide nets to keep its workers from committing suicide. If they think they can make a buck by poisoning me with formaldehyde, they won't hesitate. And I wouldn't mind one bit paying an extra penny (or pennies) a pound to get migrant workers a better wage for the backbreaking labor they do, while most of the money goes to middlemen.
But as far as targeting Israel, I'm not so sure. It's hard for me to judge. The Jews were shocked, BIG-time by pogroms of the early-mid 20th century and then had an instant country made that it's been all they could do to defend, since its creation. They've been on a war footing since Day 1. It's like the USA walked in and told Syria, "From now on, SE Turkey and NE Syria are KURDLAND. We declare Kurdish Homeland." Should the Kurds turn that down, or make the best of it? And wouldn't Turkey and Syria be at their throats from Day 1? How might they behave? I expect a lot like Israel's behaving.
It's an artificiality created by outsiders driven by guilt and religion. Toxic stuff.
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