Racism is a polemc used by both sides of an argument... it's a current buzz word

However, America is still a racist country despite decades of struggle to change or remove

For example, republican obstruction of the current administration is simply based upon the fact that Obama is not white

The solution starts with an id system for US citizens that can not be counterfitted.

Then require all employers to use E-verify.

Then have madatory jail time and large fines for business owners using illegal labor.

And put in place a high tech zone that is impassable.

ct

If you look at some of the terrain along the border, a continuous 20-foot high wall would be akin to the Great Wall of China and probably visible from space when finished. Then people would just be smuggled in boats like people from Cuba and drugs from Colombia have been for decades. It would be a $multi-billion farce, but I think we all knew that all along. The reason the Chaney-Rove administration proposed a 700-mile fence to "protect" a 2000-mile border was because the oligarchy, who own the United States, make a lot of money off of the availability of illegal (read: barely more than slave) labor. It's the trained-to-be-xenophobic low-information voters in the rural Midwest and rust belt and maybe the south who want a wall. But they only want a wall symbolically; they wouldn't actually want or apply for any of the jobs traditionally done by illegals. The oligarchy has never wanted a wall and they knew they weren't getting one with Trump. Promising stuff that you have no intention of delivering is part of the Art of the Deal, akin to Hillary's assertion that sometimes you need to have a public platform and a separate private one. We voted for Trump's public platform, but we'll be getting his private one---if that.

The United States of America has never been a full employment society. The reason is simple. Our systems of law and taxation are of Old World (i.e., British) origins. Although the founding generation discarded the ideas of hereditary power, aristocracy and titles, the source of that power -- landed privilege -- remained. In fact, most of the founding leaders engaged extensively in land speculation and acquired landed estates dwarfing those of their Old World counterparts. And, as the population increased and moved westward, those who entered the Federal Congress and state governments followed in the footsteps of Washington and so many others who sought their fortunes by acquiring huge tracts of the public domain at very low cost, expecting to sell to settlers at a huge profit. Politicians also profited by giving away even more land to the railroads and other corporations.

By the time the frontier closed at the end of the 19th century, the basis for many of the fortunes gained during the "gilded age" of unbridled capitalism was deeply entrenched. The law secured and protected monopoly privileges for the few.

The one writer with sufficient courage and intestinal fortitude to take on this system directly was the newspaper editor and political economist Henry George. George attacked monopoly and landed privilege with a vengeance. While he came to head a potent social and political movement, his early death at age 58 in 1897 removed the movement's charasmatic leader. Although thousands continued the struggle in the U.S., in the U.K., in Australia and other countries, the power of landed interests has only increased. Landed privilege survived and survives to this day as the primary cause of poverty and the concentration of income and wealth that plagues our society. Henry George put forward a solution that was both peaceful and effective, but it never acquired sufficient public support to be widely adopted. In fact, at least in the U.S. land speculation seems to be hard-wired in the DNA of our behavior, despite the fact that this very behavior is destructive.

Well said ct. most of the employers are not wealthy white guys. They are middle class guys taking advantage of cheap labour. America is the only country in the world that allows this, I don't get it. Illegals just drive down wages and take jobs away from Americans. Not to mention what it costs tax payers to educate their children and take care of there medical needs. Trump is right "America first".

I run guns south and drugs north in an old Willys Jeep, so a wall is really gonna suck big league! It's already hard enough trying to crawl through the damn arroyos! Although, just barbwire would be cool -- an Army jeep can get through that, no problem. Surveillance cameras? Easy -- just shoot 'em out. Might have a few extra guards to shoot at too, but that's normal nowadays, no big deal. Hey, I ain't no rapist though!

Republicans and billionaires ... always screwing with small businesses and hard-working little people!

Could be some advantages, I suppose. If it's made out of cement, can you imagine the miles and miles of really cool gang graffiti? And maybe it'll make it harder to move factories and such. Trying to tow a big 'ol factory building down south and -- WHAM -- a gawdam wall! That rascally Trumpy dummy dude might be just a tad bit smarter than the whole entire world gives him credit for.

Of course, I'll probably lose my Odamnbamacare, Medi-aides, Medi-scare, and Socialism Suckurity, and what not, to pay for the head twit's wall/fence/whatever. But then, hell, ya don't live all that long in this business anyway. At least my taxes won't be paying for the stupid thing -- ha ha, because I don't pay any f--king taxes! Just like my man, Trumpster the Dumbster.

He's got a really good sense of humor too. Get this ... he said ... no wait, let me get the punch line out before you start laughing. He said ... ha ha ... he said ... damn this is funny! He said ... MEXICO is gonna pay for it! Hotdamn, that's good!

He needs to go on SNL. Oh wait ... Alec Baldwin already has that gig. Too bad, Trump would be super funny playing himself.

It appears this is going to be a eight year boom for therapists. It is interesting how every sentence uttered by yet to take office Trump is being explained and interpreted by the leftie/socialist media, that same group of talking heads that claimed Trump got elected by too much coverage by the leftie/socialist media.

Go Donald, turn twitter into short fireside chats followed only by those idiots who are too stupid to turn their twitter account off.

(Dianereynolds - #14)

"It appears this is going to be a eight year boom for the rapists."

..., odd, I was thinking the same thing ....

I had to share that - not to be clever - up all night working, that's what I saw when I glanced at the page ... I picked my jaw up off the floor, did a triple-take, and realized I had misread. Still, that was my reaction (( couldn't believe you actually said _that_ !! ))

I have _no_ doubt "that Trump's Supreme Court nominees, the 14 Federal Appeals court appointments, and the 90 or so appointed Federal Judges will 'spare not the rod' - in the extreme.

I wonder how they will decide around the obstruction of all those unconfirmed Supreme Court nominees, Federal Appeals court appointments, and appointed Federal Judges nominated by President Obama over the last 8 years?

Oh, it probably won't come up ....

I really don't want to see judges that can be relied on to take one side or another in controversial cases. I want them to exercise conscience and integrity, and judge fairly, according to _all_ the facts pertaining to any one decision.

I know it doesn't always work that way, but hey, what can I say ... I'm off the grid, and out of the loop ... my only choice is to stand on the truth in my own life, and trust the wisdom that guides - full spectrum.

Still, I trust many are earnest individuals, sincere in their beliefs who have put in their time in the field and will do their best to hold the line in these changing times. I suspect this won't be easy for anyone - even those smooth operators who make it look so good (they think.)

I can't get into all these arguments. I have other work to do. I agree, the excuse making on one hand, and blaming on the other is like a dog chasing its tail.

It goes nowhere.

Still, far be it from me to cap a volcano. It's better to get it out of your system ... once the lava cools, it will fertilize the landscape of today.

Anyway, I can see why people are upset, and scared.

Why mock them? What does it accomplish?

k.allen: Why mock them? What does it accomplish?

Easy answer. The hundreds of excuses for their losses in the election aside, they won't stop telling anyone who will listen that the sky is falling. By that I mean scaring seniors with 50% cuts in their SS benefits, the total elimination of Medicare, etc. All BS and all made to divide and delegitimize the incoming Trump presidency. The more crying I hear the more energized I become.

I realize it accomplishes little but it gives many a punching bag and diverts their eating potato chips in their parents basement to key pounding.

You being off grid makes good sense. Peaceful and in control. Good for you.

@ 2 Hephaestus:

You verify my conclusion that progressives are racists. There are thousands of reasons someone could oppose Obama. Maybe they don't like his ideas, maybe it's because he's from Illinois, maybe, because he's a democrat, etc. etc. But you choose to pick the color of his skin as the reason for the opposition. Interesting, how it all comes down to skin color with you lefties.

The low-intelligent, self-absorbed, juvenile Twitter troll about to soil the seat in the Oval Office is an old sweaty, puffy, out-of-shape, puss-gut man-child with the putrid stench of Tic Tacs and Kentucky Fried chicken on his breath, who openly loves to walk in on half-naked teenage girls in their locker room, to push married women up against the wall against their will, to stick his slimy tongue in their mouths, to grab pussies and fondle tits at will because that's his privilege as a wealthy white man, and to sexually rate his own daughter with the desire to date her.

This is the damn fool who can send armies anywhere in the world with his conflicted business interests at stake or launch nukes within minutes without any countervailing oversight whatsoever. This is the Commander in Chief who surrounds himself with "advisors" who tiptoe around, afraid of damaging his fragile ego.

This is the smarmy creep that Republican grannies -- who love to mock others, who maybe are only rated 2 or 3 at best on Trump's scale, who like their phalanx-symbol AR's, who probably secretly wish big-daddy Trump would grab their pussies, who are undoubtedly deluded by their own self-righteousness and false religious hypocrisy -- think is the great Saviour of the free world and God's gift to humanity.

This is the predatory sexual pervert they and their like-minded compatriots voted for, someone who sits in his underwear at three in the morning eating junk food, pounding on his greasy keyboard, insulting celebrities or anyone else who mocks or tries to constructively criticize him, tweeting inane, childish, misspelled comebacks that he thinks are sooo clever.

The 2016 election says more about the starry-eyed sycophants who voted for this degenerate than it does about him.

Or is all this a little too descriptive and overly politically incorrect for the delicate sensibilities of right-wingers who get (sexually?) energized by other people crying? Sorry, these are just the facts, ma'am. I report; you decide.

Happily, there's a helluva lot more fodder in the right-wing swamp ripe for irreverent mockery than there is in the real world. The Usurper to the Toy Throne and his naive blind followers should keep comedians and truth-tellers humming for the next four years, certainly not eight.

@ Dianereynolds

"...yesterdays press conference where he called out the phonies that pushed known BS stories onto the front page or lead story..."

Unbelievable! Does your hypocrisy have no bounds, ma'am?

How convenient that you've forgotten that your favorite Big Daddy pervert is the immature liar who earned his political bones with like-minded white bigots and racists by constantly hyping the "known BS" birther conspiracy theory every chance he got, keeping it on the front page of corporate media for years.

For a so-called "master" manipulator of promotional press coverage, your self-absorbed pathological narcissist sure seems awfully thin-skinned when asked the hard questions. Virtually everyone in the world with a brain knows your sexual predator with stunted emotional and mental development has no business being in that job.

Putin's poodle is completely out of his depth on the world stage, and his fragile ego melts away under the bright klieg lights for all to witness. That's why he doesn't like to hold press conferences, preferring instead to sit in his underwear at three in the morning, tweeting out disjointed, juvenile musings. It would all be quite laughable, if it weren't so sad.

This bigoted knucklehead and his groupie losers deserve the same respect that they have accorded Obama and the Democrats for the last eight years ... and every bit of name-calling that they themselves so adeptly heap on anyone who dares to challenge their pitiable idiocy.

Don't mistake a proper disgust for liars and hypocrites for despair and depression, as you so often do. Those are the projections from your own subconscious awareness, as the truth of who this man-child really is slowly dawns on you. Putin figured out your fool a long time ago, as have most other sentient beings. You and your fellow clueless trolls are way behind the curve.

Shrill cackling and clucking is not the same as laughing.