Sharing Opinions, Albeit Uninformed Ones

A NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM was interviewing your average American citizen concerning questions related to Hillary Trump, and the state of the nation generally. You get the drift. Everyone agreed that the country is divided. That aint the latest news. One respondent cited immigration as an important issue, and a problem. This person evidently hadn't consulted Doug Mathews of Princeton University, considered the world's leading authority on human migration. Mathews has pointed out, or tried to, that the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico is at a virtual standstill, and has been since 2007, when President Bush significantly increased border security during his last two years in office. With regard to Mexicans illegally flooding across the Rio Grande, the cow, as they say, is long out of the barn. Actually, the trend currently consists in illegal Mexicans going back to Mexico of their own volition, looking for better opportunities. Plus, anyone who thinks that people legally entering the country are not being properly "vetted", to use a currently popular word, ought to rethink. Everyone is being checked out, to the very best of our capabilities. Another interviewee mentioned that racism in America is worse now than before Obama took office, and laid the blame directly at the feet of the president. Perhaps someone might respectfully point out that if the racial divide in America has indeed worsened since Obama took office, the blame and responsibility might best be given to we the American people ourselves, rather than to a single individual who seems to very successfully combine the white race and the black race quite well within a single human mind, body, and spirit. But that might be a bit too obvious. We are dealing with an electorate half of which seems to believe that by building yet another barricade between the U.S. and Mexico, a problem will be solved, a problem which no longer actually exists. Wasn't it H.L. Mencken, or maybe P.T. Barnum who said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people?........PLEASE SHARE THIS WEBSITE WITH OTHERS TO ENCOURAGE FREE EXPRESSION.THANKS!