If one of them gets into power, Canada might just pay for that wall.
You can’t have a new border wall until you finish your old one.
I’m good with this. Especially when the US devolves into full-blown christofascism as seems inevitable at this point.
If I ever run for office, I’m gonna propose building walls around all Republican states. They can feel nice and safe and free in there and the rest of us can just live our lives.
I took a boat ride in the Detroit River right up next to Windsor. All the people over there with their happy faces and free healthcare, you can’t trust them!
Did you wave to the Queen on the way past? :-D
Aw crap. Their beating us to it, eh.
Focusing on the important things, I see
All this irrational fear and hatred of others - where does it end. Why do we need to “wall off” Canada or any other country? America was never meant to be an isolationist, walled off country - in fact, just the opposite. I can see why some border security is sometimes important - but we do not need more walls, barbed wire, and dobermans at the border waiting to chew up immigrant kids. I say we welcome Canada and we open our doors to Mexico - thousands of people flock there every day across the border to work and to shop - why not just get rid of the walls? We do not need them.
To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.
Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”
Amazing, and the US is even gonna pay for it !
Because that’s where the cold air comes from?
