Seriously? What is it with these people and their walls?
It creates an “us vs. Them” narrative. Like christians and muslims or arians and jews. Oldest trick in the book to get your people to comply with anything.
It does create that us vs. them mentality which is a falsehood and the diametrical opposite of what christians, jews, or any one is supposed to be all about. We’re not above, beyond, or “better than.” We’re all in the same boat and we’re all totally alike (yes, totally). It’s time to stop being paranoid and hateful to others.
Oh you’re in a boat are ya? Probably one of those librul foreign commies comin over here on your banana boats tryina climb our great trump wall (one of the wonders of the world, everyone’s jealous) to spread your ungodly socialist abortion heresy and “education” to our sweet young wives. You won’t get away with this! God will protect us from your heretic allah or my name isn’t cleetus junior the fifth!
Uhh well I was comin in a boat - maybe I’ll turn around and go back after all. I just can’t compete with Cleetus the Fifth and his cadre of sweet young wives.
I agree wholeheartedly
Simple, easy dumb way to transfer money from public federal funds to private contractors you are leeching off of.
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As someone living in the U.S., yes please, let the floods take me, I am tired of existing.
I took a boat ride in the Detroit River right up next to Windsor. All the people over there with their happy faces and free healthcare, you can’t trust them!
Did you wave to the Queen on the way past? :-D
All this irrational fear and hatred of others - where does it end. Why do we need to “wall off” Canada or any other country? America was never meant to be an isolationist, walled off country - in fact, just the opposite. I can see why some border security is sometimes important - but we do not need more walls, barbed wire, and dobermans at the border waiting to chew up immigrant kids. I say we welcome Canada and we open our doors to Mexico - thousands of people flock there every day across the border to work and to shop - why not just get rid of the walls? We do not need them.
To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.
Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”
Because that’s where the cold air comes from?
