Mistaking Crap For Policy

POLITICIANS HAVE ALWAYS been posers, but cameras in Congress, watch out, its turned up a notch. Now America's rulers truly strut and fret, for them all the world's a stage, demagogues playing chicken and do you dare. Up the avenue, President Trump swears to high heaven that, much though he regrets it, there simply isn't a thing he can do to remedy the regrettable refugee problem, wherein children are being kidnapped by the U.S. government and hidden from their parents. Whether this is actually happening, and if so, why, has been the subject of no inconsiderable amount of disputation across the fruited plain; suffice it to say that it is happening, and we could stop it, if we wanted to. Trump could act, but he won't, instead insisting that Congress must. Congressional Democrats say otherwise; it is Trump who must act, because it is Trump who caused the problem in the first place, by allowing it to happen. Trump is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't; maybe we all are. A majority of republicans, and most of his base, supports the kidnapping, incredibly. Trump once said that the United States is not a migrant camp, nor a refugee holding center, and never will be. He left out the part where the United States, since it isn't a safe place for strangers, is not a Christian country, or at least, does not practice Christian values. One livid Trump supporter spewed: "they're trying to blame it all on Trump! I'm fed up with that crap! We're taking care of those kids".... Indeed we are, but....should WE be? Shouldn't their parents be taking care of them? And it you're "fed up" with crap, perhaps its because you're taking in too much of it, mistaking it for something else, like good policy.