“Saying
that President Trump has ‘fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation,’
Democratic presidential primary front-runner Joe Biden on Wednesday will
directly link the president to the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.”
~Fox
News, August 7, 2019
Long ago I concluded
that the lowest form of criminal is the person who tries to pin his crime on
another innocent person. A lot of people
are capable of doing the wrong thing, but it takes a special kind of corruption
– a person devoid of conscience – to watch innocent people suffer for your own
crimes. That’s what’s on my mind with
respect to the mass killings that took place in El Paso last week, and the Left’s mad rush
to try and direct blame onto Donald Trump.
Democrats
say it was Trump’s anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric that stirred the El Paso
shooter’s anger towards illegal immigrants (actually if democrats were
telling this story they would have deceitfully left out the word “illegal,”
but for the sake of brevity we’ll have to ignore their duplicity for a moment). What they’ve argued, in a nutshell, is that anger
inspired the shooter’s actions, therefore whoever inspired that anger is to
blame for his crimes. I wonder if the
finger-pointers would stand by their self-serving logic after I’ve adeptly explained
why it is they, not Trump, who are responsible for the rage that the
shooter was feeling.
Frustration:
a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs
~Merriam-Webster Dictionary
First, let’s
understand something about the relationship between anger and frustration. Frustration, “a deep chronic sense or
state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or
unfulfilled needs,” leads to anger.
Consider the example of the child who is treated differently from a favored
sibling, i.e., held to a higher standard of behavior, punished for behaviors
that the favored child is allowed to get away with, deprived of nice things
that are offered to the favored child. Imagine
that child’s frustration due to his impotence over his situation. What kind of feelings do you suppose this
engenders in the mistreated child towards the favored sibling? One would imagine that he must harbor great
resentment, especially if the favored child wallows in the favoritism and is
indifferent to his sibling’s pain. Who
is ultimately responsible for the child’s frustration and anger? “The parents” is the logical answer. They are the ones who have created this sick
situation over which the child has no control, and that responsibility doesn’t shift
if an outside observer points out to the mistreated child that he has every
reason to be angry.
Now let’s
look at who is responsible for the sick situation of illegal immigration in
this nation that has frustrated most Americans.
The ILLEGAL
immigration problem in this country has been continuously worsening since after
WWII, when labor shortages (real or perceived) led millions of Mexican workers
to come to the U.S., some illegally and some on temporary work permits. When the Immigration
and Nationality Act of 1965 was passed and led to a wave of legal
immigration as well as a huge shift in the origins of immigrants, the U.S. put
a halt to the temporary worker permits for Mexican laborers, but migrants in
search of work continued to come illegally.
We all know that the growing problem of illegal immigration ultimately
led to the Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1986 under which Ronald Reagan, in a deal with
the devil (Ted Kennedy) infamously granted amnesty for nearly three million
illegal immigrants. Thus began the age
of the Left’s recognition of the value of immigration as a political weapon and
as a source of division among Americans that proved helpful to Team Democrat. The power to frustrate conservatives is an
intoxicating drug to the Left; consequently, in the pursuant years they have added
fuel to our frustration by heaping one reward after another onto those who trespass
here. We are forced by law to educate
the children of those who trespass here illegally, and the doors of our hospitals
must be opened to illegals, regardless of how it increases the cost – or the wait
– for those of us who pay the bills; if illegals commit crimes or their children
become gang
members who threaten the safety of Americans, that’s too bad.
Press one for English…..
Then came
the Left’s typical sly strategy of linguistic slight-of-hand. The illegals have become the “undocumented.” This is supposed to make us forget that we
are talking about criminals - people who disrespect our sovereignty, ignore our
laws and take advantage of us. And because
the Left is enjoying our frustration so much, they will show us who’s boss by
declaring our cities to be places of “sanctuary”
for illegals, reject any attempt to secure
our borders, give driver’s
licenses to illegals, allow illegals to vote
in our elections, denounce the men and women who enforce our borders, and suggest
that illegals, too, will get “free” healthcare under their socialist schemes. Though we have been told for more than a
decade that the illegal population here is “11 million,” a joint
study last year by researchers at Yale and MIT estimated the actual figure
to likely be in excess of 22 million, or almost twice what the MSM has been
deceitfully reporting for more than a decade; yet we cannot ascertain what the
truth is because leftist groups like the ACLU, using our own courts against us,
won’t allow it.
Yet it is
Donald Trump, we are told, who is to blame for the anger that ravaged El Paso,
because Trump dared to object out loud to what has happened in this
country. If the source of the shooter’s
anger is to blame for his heinous act, then I’ll let you be the judge of who has created the conditions for that anger.
~CW
