My Sister the Liberal

I'm sure that my sister picked up her liberalism in college. I remember her saying, "In elementary school they taught us that American was always right. In High school they taught us that America was sometimes right and sometimes wrong. In college they taught us that America was always wrong." I never regretted not going to college, and that's one of the reasons why. I have mellowed out over the years, mostly because of the internet but, judging from her Face Book posts, I don't think that my sister has.

Now that you mention it, I think I do remember that hammer murder, but I don't remember any of the details. I doubt that the Cornell Park thing ever made the national news, but it was big news in our neighborhood for awhile. I don't think there were any guns involved, just knives and the usual assortment of home made weapons.

Of course I'm no fan of the United Nations, or any other kind of global government. A global government would likely be staffed by the same people who are now running the various national governments, only they would have more power. How would that be an improvement?

Of course there is a racial component to the immigration issue, but I think it goes both ways, they don't like us any more than we like them. They're not coming here because they like us, they just want our money which, when you think about it, is the same reason our own ancestors came here. All those Irish immigrants that came over in the 19th Century didn't come here for political reasons, they were refugees from the Great Potato Famine. People resented them at least as much as they resent the Mexican immigrants today, and the Irish are White people. It might be all lovey dovey in your upscale North Side culture, but I'm sure you know that it's not like that in some of the other Chicago neighborhoods. I don't think the people around Cheboygan have anything against Hispanics, mainly because there aren't any Hispanics around here. The few Blacks we have seem to be well assimilated and nobody pays them any mind. Many of the Whites who moved here in the 60s and 70s were refugees from Detroit, and there was some concern that the Blacks might follow them here in droves and try to take over, but that never materialized, and you seldom hear people trashing the Blacks anymore. If we had any Islamic people here, they wouldn't be very popular, but we don't, so it's not an issue. There was that thing with the Indians back in the 80s, but everybody seems to have gotten over that by now, at last partly because a lot of people around here found out that they were Indians when they had always thought they were Frenchmen.

This thing with Mexico has been going on for a long time, maybe ever since the Mexican-American War. That's why I thought it might be solved if we gave them their land back. Silly me! It's never that simple, is it? This thing with the children puts a new twist on things. If we turn them away, we're a bunch of mean pricks because they're poor helpless children. If we accept them, they will just keep sending more of them and overwhelm the system. Eventually, there will be pressure to accept their families as well, because who can deny that children belong with their families? That's why I became interested in the idea of annexing the whole territory and making them all instant Americans, which is what happened after the Mexican-American War. You're probably right, though, it will never pass.

Maybe you're right that there is really no solution to this one. We can't keep them out, and we can't send them back, it's too late for that. Maybe what we need to do is just surrender the country and all move to Mexico ourselves. It's not really our country anymore anyway, it's been pretty well taken over by gays and colored people. With Mexico abandoned, we could go there and make a fresh start in the wilderness, just like Daniel Boone and Davey Crocket. Only let's try to do it right this time, okay?