Reading from their canned script, a script whose essence _never_ changes even when the _word_ “change” is their slogan, leftists shout at me: “You’re a racist! You’re against all immigration because you hate everyone who’s different!”
Sighing, I resort to actual facts: “I don’t need to be told the value of immigrants. My own patrilineal ancestry only came to America a few generations ago. I have an adopted daughter who was brought in from Korea. I have been a sponsor to other immigrants from Laos. And-- racist? In the Sixties, I got mocked by _actual_ white supremacists for _supporting_ racial immigration. Also, the first woman I ever proposed marriage to was black.”
With impressive sophistication and insight, the leftists reply: “You’re a racist! You’re against all immigration because you hate everyone who’s different!”
Trying to select only words which are simple enough for the leftists to understand, I say: “All of you already know that you are purposely avoiding the real point. Past generations of immigrants came to the United States intending to be _loyal_ to it and _contribute_ something to society. As every one of you already knows, my problem is not with people being born someplace else; my problem is with people coming in and _refusing_ to give any loyalty, _refusing_ to adjust to our existing customs, demanding that we make all the concessions to them…and spreading gang violence.”
Rising to lofty heights of idealistic inspiration, the leftists declare: “You’re a racist! You’re against all immigration because you hate everyone who’s different!”
Shrugging, I tell them: “Well, at least you haven’t played the Native American card yet. Maybe that’s because you’re a _little_ embarrassed about _white_ leftist Elizabeth Warren getting away with pretending to be a Native American?
“But in case you do pull the Native American card: at the time European settlers began coming over, the land area now known as the United States _wasn’t_ all governed by one clearly defined, unified government with legislated laws and complex infrastructure. It _looked_ to the Europeans as if much of the land was _without_ any stable pre-existing society. Thus, the Europeans did not come with expectations of being able to feed at the trough of an established welfare state. Nor could they look forward to anyone paying them to cast fraudulent votes in rigged elections. What’s more, horrible though the deeds of many colonizers were, the wrongdoers in our own time are not doing what they do _because_ of what happened to the Native Americans. If all of the genocide inflicted on the Native Americans had been avoided, and if somehow a modern society had grown here anyway with no major injustices, parasites like the Mara Salvatrucha gang from Latin America would _still_ be just as eager now to prey upon honest people.”
To which the leftists cry: “You’re a racist! You’re against all immigration because you hate everyone who’s different!” And they congratulate themselves on their skillful debating.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump affirmed that he would make substantial concessions to illegal alien "dreamers.” But he was so politically incorrect as to want them in turn to be _loyal_ to the United States. He was so “hateful” as to insist that the United States had merit in itself, stating: “Americans are dreamers, too.” And he was so “racist” as to pay respect to _nonwhite_ couples whose daughters had been murdered by Latino gangsters. His “bigotry” even extended to honoring the _Latino_ crimefighter C.J. Martinez for striving to protect this nation against predatory invaders.
Oh, and he was also so “Islamophobic” as to wish success to the Iranian people in breaking free from the rule of the same tyrannical ayatollahs against whom Obama refused to help them.
The first predigested, script-following Democrat response came from Joe Kennedy III in Massachussetts. He kicked off by speaking ever so grandly and (in his own mind) point-scoringly, about “a city built by immigrants.” In other words, he stuck to the same old cobwebbed lie, which he knows to be a lie, that any objection to _illegal_ immigration is one and the same thing as wanting to prohibit ALL immigration entirely.
Kennedy went on to rant about Mister Trump threatening to undo “laws that protect us all.” Hmm, which laws would those be? Something like the Obamacare individual mandate, that forced many Americans to pay for medical coverage which they did not need and would never use? Or maybe the crushing of America’s coal industry, done in spite of the fact that modern energy technology makes coal use far safer and cleaner than leftists will admit that it does?
Not wanting to omit anything that would resonate with the extreme-left base, Kennedy also put in a plug for same-sex marriage…even though Mister Trump _hadn’t_ even spoken against same-sex marriage in his address.
The same-old same-old script relied on by leftists has been threadbare for a long time; but Tuesday night made it still more self-evident just _how_ threadbare the script is by now.
