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Where Do You Want The Refugees To Go?
There are members of my own family that feel our nation, the USA, is full. No more. Close the door. Lose the key.
They are not crazy for the idea of snake and alligator filled moats, nor do they even support the idea of family separation, but after their opinions on “security” are out, that’s the end of it. Close the mind. Shut the door.
In politics, too, we hear about the “invasion” the drugs dealers (never Big Pharma) and rapists, those who hate America who are desperate to get in (must be some nefarious reason), and of course, all of those other sketchy types from Sketch hole countries.
Climate scientists and biologists agree that we are losing our ability to reliably produce food in storm-tossed, and fire and/or flooded times. War is at least as easy to spark as fire, and global politics itself has ripped open Pacific Garbage Patch size world stages, where populists proliferate and offer confirmation of whatever bigotry needs supporting.
There are so many people to hate, and we are told to look at them rather than at more critically at those who hold the actual power that got us into this garbage patch. Then, there is pestilence and drought, since without wildlife and plants, carbon sinks, or reefs, we are on our own.