America the Ugly
President Trump might have inadvertently come up with the perfect solution to America’s decades-old, ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration crisis. That solution entails making America so ugly that foreigners will longer want to come here.
After all, that’s what North Korea did. Like the United States, North Korea militarized and sealed its southern border, established a police state, and isolated itself from the rest of the world. Today, no one is striving to get into North Korea because the government has made the country so ugly.
Many foreigners are cancelling vacation plans in the United States. Others are selling American vacation homes. They are wise to do so. Otherwise, they could suddenly find themselves on a U.S. military transport plane carting them to the maximum-security, anti-terrorist torture and brutality camp in El Salvador. As U.S. Justice Department officials are telling federal judges, once people have been delivered to El Salvador, as compared to the Pentagon/CIA torture and brutality camp at Gitmo, U.S. officials are powerless to get them released. What foreigner wants to take that chance by coming to the United States, legally or illegally?
Of course, the ugliness does not just extend to the mistreatment of people here in the United States. With Trump’s tariffs and trade-war antics, it now extends to harming people all over the world by bankrupting and impoverishing foreign citizens. The victims include extremely poor people, who supposedly have been taking advantage of college-educated Americans by selling goods and services to them. Who wants to visit a country that adopts economic policies that wreak destruction among innocent foreigners who aren’t even trying to get into the United States?
No doubt operating under a deportation quota, U.S. immigration officials are now revoking student visas for foreigners studying in colleges and universities across the land. The reason? They are foreigners. Some of them are college seniors, which means they don’t get to graduate. That’s ugly.
But the fact is that President Trump is not the root cause of America the ugly. He’s just a manifestation of very bad, rotten systems under which Americans live today. It’s those systems that have made America ugly. There are nine systems to which I am referring, all of which work in tandem:
- The welfare-state system;
- The regulated/managed economy system;
- The income tax/IRS system;
- The paper-money/Federal Re
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