To Let Them In, or To Keep Them Out, Or To Put Us All Out Of Our Misery

HILLARY CLINTON AND OBAMA are arguing in favor of taking in the Syrian refugees, on the basis that such action is in the true spirit of America, because America is the land of the compassionate. And now, suddenly, their conservative haters are pointing out that keeping refugees out is much more in the nature of America, which of course is quite correct. Damn, those america hating conservatives, revising our history, making America look bad, just like they often accuse liberals of doing. Fact is, America is both; a land where foreigners are not wanted, and a land of compassionate generosity which, once in a blue moon, does what the statue of liberty wrongly accuses it of - gladly taking in low value (economically) people. Of course, if you catch the conservatives in a patriotic state of mind, arguing with some America hating liberal who thinks America is mean spirited, the conservatives are gonna point to America's history of immigration acceptance in an Ellis Island heartbeat. But at the present, in the real world, the liberals want to bring in the Syrian refugees, and the conservative don't, so....our true way is to keep them out so say the right wingers. Well, whatever. This only goes to show that for every argument and point of view there is an equal and opposite one, that every viewpoint has merit, that we all embody all possible characteristics. Right now, they say, there are more Mexicans leaving the land of freedom than coming in. Go figure. Maybe they decided to go somewhere where opportunity isn't illusory. Goethe once said that Germany would be better off if all Germans left Germany, and scattered randomly around the world. He said this in the early 1800s. Based on subsequent history, he may very well have been right. Maybe we'll all leave the United States, ex-patriot ourselves, and put us out of our culturally diverse, economically and politically polarized national misery.