Monday, November 5, 2018

Defining People Poorly, and Somewhat Inaccurately

SURVEYS INDICATE that seventy five percent or republicans consider the approaching caravan of refugee presumed asylum seekers to be an "invasion", borrowing the term from president Trump. Whether they also believe that the refugees are being paid by George Soros and the Democratic National committee to feign poverty and spend weeks walking hundreds of miles remains unclear, although many republicans would most likely say they do. Whether they actually believe this nonsense, or are merely pretending to for political expediency also remains unclear, though one might suspect them of feigning their beliefs for some perceived political advantage. If they truly believe what they say they believe, they are either seriously misguided, or, as Noam Chomsky suggests, criminally insane. If they do not, they are perniciously dishonest.An invasion is an act carried out with malevolent intent. Not a shred of evidence has surfaced indicating any such intent; the only visible motive being an urgent desire to escape unrelenting violence and poverty in their home countries. Among democrats, seventy five percent believe the refugees to be harmless, desperate people, as they appear to be. Democrats further believe that the migrants should be given a chance for asylum, and whatever assistance they require, which obviously is food, water, clothing, shoes, and shelter. If there are any organized groups planning on helping these people, their existence is unknown, and although an such an organization would be acting in the manner of good Christians, it is probably not a conservative republican Christian organization. As many as one in five Americans is unaware of neither the very existence of the approaching caravan, nor of its humanitarian moral, or political implications. Whether this ignorance, or the republican consensus is more alarming and dangerous is a matter of opinion. The republican party is predominantly white, conservative, and christian. Christian doctrine is clear: strangers are to be welcomed, not as invaders, but as guests, and are to be accorded whatever assistance they require. IN this instance the requirements are obvious; food, water, clothing, shoes, shelter, and the opportunity to earn a decent living through gainful employment in the United States. President Trump, a self proclaimed "good Christian", instead offers them barbed wire, rejection, and military opposition. Are there any good conservative Christians in America attempting to do what Jesus would do?

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