Being Bad Asses, Again

DONALD J. TRUMP wants to be a bad ass at the border, but its too late for that. The proverbial cow is out of the barn, the eleven million and counting are already here, just as its too late to enact strict gun control in a country which over three hundred million firearms are already in private hands. But, I digress. For decades millions of Mexicans have crossed the border, largely with impunity, just as many Americana regularly go back and forth, unhampered, for various nefarious reasons, including running drugs, running guns, fleeing justice, fleeing child support payments, and the like. The Mexicans, many of them claim, and their claim is quite correct, are merely reentering the occupied territories, the land stolen by James K. Polk in 1846-1848, one of america's quaint wars of aggression and acquisition. Every few decades some American president fancying himself a bad ass and strict border enforcement guy, makes a show of driving some illegals back across the Rio. Roosevelt did it in the nineteen thirties, Eisenhower did it in the nineteen fifties, and now, its Trump's turn to look, act, and feel bad. Trump is not a racist, be damned sure of that, because he says he isn't, when he informs us that three thousand Puerto Ricans did not actually die in their devastating hurricane, the number was more like twelve, because that's what they told him when he landed, then quickly took off down there. The three thousand bit is another Democratic party hoax, intended only to make our leader look bad. This incredible chief executive twitter tweet in itself is sufficient to warrant confinement in a mental institution for the president, with extensive therapy and medication. His (Trump's) assertion that the illegal Mexicans are disproportionately criminals and rapists might, to give the president the benefit of the doubt, be neither racist nor psychotic, but it certainly qualifies as identity confusion, in which the president thinks he is talking about Mexican criminals, but in fact is talking about himself. Projection, I believe its called. Zero tolerance no longer involves kidnapping children, so we the American people may breathe a sigh of relief that we are no longer accomplices to a monstrously immoral federal government policy, a policy no less monstrous than Indian removal, slavery, or torture of P.O.W.s.. Zero tolerance now seems to mean something perfunctory, impotent, and purely theatrical; detaining apprehended border crossers for two days, and subjecting them to cue card interrogation and giving them a strict lecture on the impropriety of trespassing. Give America credit, bless its little schizophrenic heart; if it isn't doing something monstrous, it at least is doing something of a meaningless, token nature, and, all things considered, we are much better off as a nation, morally and geopolitically, as well as economically, when we choose to take the tokenism approach.