Spewing the Nationalist Line

FINDING INFORMATIVE FACEBOOK POSTS can be a bit like extracting diamonds from a dung heap, to borrow Jefferson's elegant quote. An old schoolmate of mine, an ardent online Christian, posted a video of a young, gorgeous (aren't they all) television reporter, microphone in hand, standing under a highway overpass, with a couple dozen sleeping homeless rolled up in tarps and tents in the background. With an aggressive, strident Sarah Huckabee Sanders voice, the intelligent looking young lady invited the audience to behold the scene behind her, reminding viewers that if American can't even take care of its own people, then it has no room for a caravan of impoverished, jobless immigrants. America simply doesn't "have room" for them. The report, or ad, or Trump propaganda byte, or whatever it was intended to be, might be effective at convincing the undiscerning conservative mind. If you can convince yourself that the United State is bursting at the seems with so many unproductive people that it cannot afford to feed itself, you might fall for this bit of right wing propaganda coming from a gorgeous young female face. If, however, you understand basic economics, you dismiss this ploy with an eye roll and a shrug. America needs prosperity, and it needs to distribute that prosperity throughout society by manufacturing wealth with productive jobs, good jobs for many people. We are raising minimum wage at the city and state level, a good start. Now, all we need are workers; young, healthy, hungry workers to fill the jobs, fuel the economy, and produce the prosperity while not earning huge, just fair salaries themselves. And there they are, heading straight for us, just south of the border. My fellow Americans, we don't have enough young working people; our birth rate is too low, ans has been, for some time. We need people, young, smart, hard working, people, to work and produce our way out of poverty, and here they are, a godsend, sent from God, to help us save America.